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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"God Has Not Rejected the Jews"
by Loren Jacobs | Mar 1, 1985
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"Have you ever heard someone say, The Jews rejected Christ, so God has rejected the Jews”? That statement contradicts the teaching of Scripture. In the 11th chapter of Romans, starting with verse one, the Apostle Paul gives a seven-fold rebuttal of this “rejection idea” when he writes, “…Hath God cast away his people? God forbid…”
The Covenantal Argument
The first refutation of the “rejection idea” appears in Romans 11:1 in the use of the word “his.” Paul refers to Israel as still being God’s people. Since Paul obviously wrote Romans after the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this indicates that there remains a special covenantal relationship between God and Israel, even though Israel as a nation did not recognize her Messiah. God’s promises do not fail. In Jeremiah 31:35-37 God promises that as long as the sun, moon and stars continue to exist, the seed of Israel will remain a special nation before him.
The Biographical Argument
Paul writes further in Romans 11:1, “…For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.” Here Paul argues that his own encounter as a Jew with the living Christ, and his subsequent calling to preach the gospel are evidence that the Jews are still God’s people.
The Theological Argument
Paul’s third refutation, based on the foreknowledge of God, is found in Romans 11:2a: “God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew.” It came as no surprise to the Almighty that all Israel did not accept his Messiah. In fact it was predicted in the Old Testament. Isaiah wrote, “He is despised and rejected…he was despised, and we esteemed him not” (53:3). God knew that this would happen, and Israel’s rejection of the Messiah was part of his universal plan. (Read Acts 2:23 and 4:28 and Romans 11:11 and 25.)
The Historical Argument
The fourth refutation is historical, from Romans 11:2b-10. Paul argues here that it has always been just a minority within Israel that has been faithful to God. This minority is called the “remnant.” Paul gives four examples of this remnant: in Elijah’s day, in Paul’s own day (the Apostles and early church up to Acts 10), in Moses’ day and in David’s day.
The Argument of Origins
Paul’s fifth refutation appears in Romans 11:16. Paul argues that good beginnings result in good endings: the Jewish people and the promises and covenants to the fathers were good; they will eventually result in a good conclusion.
The Botanical Argument
The sixth refutation of the idea that God has rejected Israel as his people is found in Romans 11:17-24. Paul here argues “botanically.” He says that it is natural for the natural branch (the Jews) to be grafted back into the original olive tree. If God can graft a wild olive branch (the Gentiles) into a cultivated olive tree, it’s easy to expect him to graft back the natural branches.
The Prophetic Argument
The seventh refutation is found in Romans 11:25-27. Here Paul (undoubtedly from his knowledge of Hebrew Scripture) argues that Israel’s hardening is only partial and temporary, for there is coming a time when God will once again resume his dealing with Israel—when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and all Israel will be saved (see Zechariah 12:10). Who is the Israel of Romans 11:26? It is the same Israel of verse 25 which has been partially blinded."
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"Conclusion
From these seven arguments in Romans 11, we draw the following conclusions to state that God has not rejected the Jewish people:
Covenantally: Israel is still God’s earthly people.
Biographically: Paul, himself an Israelite, was called and used mightily of God.
Theologically: Israel’s general unbelief was in God’s foreknowledge and part of his universal plan of salvation.
Historically: there has always been just a faithful minority within Israel, the “remnant.”
The logic of origins: grace beginnings result in grace endings; Israel’s ultimate destiny is to be in God’s grace.
The botanical metaphor: we can expect that Israel, the natural branch, will be grafted back into the olive tree.
Prophetically: all Israel eventually will be saved in the end times (Romans 11:15) because the entire nation of Israel will then turn to her Savior according to Zechariah, chapter 12"
an online article is titled
"What Happened to Jewish Believers in Jesus in Nazi Germany?"
by Judith Rood
Judith Mendelsohn Rood is Professor of History and Middle East Studies, Department of History , Biola University.
the article says
"My father and his family escaped from the Holocaust. Growing up, I eavesdropped on my grandmother’s conversations with my father about those dark days, and their powerful memories began to transform my dreams. My grandmother told and retold her stories about the event known as Kristallnacht throughout her life. So unforgettable were her memories, so inconceivable these events, that they became my own.
Only following the death of his mother in 2006 at the age of 97, did my father begin telling his own recollections of the night that he and my grandmother fled Europe under fire from the embattled port of Rotterdam.
Jews and Jewish Christians in Modern German History
Until I began teaching about the Holocaust at Christian colleges and universities, I had no idea that many of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were professing Christians. I was aware that many German Jews had converted to Christianity, especially beginning in the eighteenth century. I knew this because of my family’s name—Mendelsohn—and my own family history. The famed Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn initiated and epitomized the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah, which marked the beginning of Jewish emancipation and assimilation into German society. However, three of his children became Christians, as did his most illustrious grandson, composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
I have often thought of Jewish believers in Jesus sitting in the pews with their church friends in Nazi Germany, suddenly expelled from their seats because they were labeled “Jewish.” I wondered, How did they feel?
Generally, the topic of Jewish Christians and the Holocaust has been neglected in Holocaust Studies. The study of this field is essential for Christians and Jews to understand this dimension of the Holocaust."
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"The Churches and German Nationalism
On September 27, 1817, Frederick William III (1797-1840) unified the Reformed and Lutheran churches. This ecumenical, liberal church was universalist, romantic, and nationalist—the highest expression of the German people and Western civilization. Many modern thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, found this universalist message very attractive. During the eighteenth century, led by philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, a new movement of Jews embraced the Enlightenment view that faith is a private matter and that religious identity should play no part in civil society. This Reform view enabled “enlightened” Jews to become modern “Germans.”
Assimilation into the Church was the Jewish convert’s expectation, based upon the universalism preached by liberal Protestant theology in the nineteenth century. However, Jews were forced to surrender their ethnic identity and cultural distinctiveness in order to gain admittance into the Church.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews turned to Jesus as Jewish redeemer and the universal savior, intermarrying with non-Jews, and assimilating into the German nation. At the same time, many Germans, reacting against the hated “Jewish” influences on the Church and German nation, had begun to relocate the origins of German Christianity in pagan, not Jewish, culture.[1] During the post-World War I era, Germany’s state church—the Evangelical Church—was increasingly influenced by German nationalist ideologies.
Historian Victoria Barnett explains that in the popular mind, “[T]he Jews were blamed for a number of crises, even when their purported role in one would logically eliminate their role in another.”[2] Eventually, the “German Christians” cut the Old Testament out of their Bibles and excised the “Hebraisms” out of the New Testament. Yet all the while, even in this poisoned theological atmosphere, Jews continued to profess faith in Jesus.
Beginning in 1933, most Protestant clergy willingly accepted Hitler’s racist views. The Nazi regime issued the Edict of April 1933 called the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.” Many Protestant clergy consequently agreed with the Nazi policy and chose to eject all pastors who had Jewish parents, grandparents or great-grandparents. The Church voluntarily “Aryanized” itself, immediately firing all pastors of Jewish descent in 1933; by 1935, all congregants of Jewish descent were expelled."
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"Barnett points out that Hitler and other leading Nazis, despite their opportunist claims to the contrary, “were hardly religious,” but used Luther’s anti-Semitic writings “with scarcely a word of protest or contradiction from the leaders of the Protestant Church.”[3]
Theologically and politically, the fates of Christians and Jews were bound together. But the tendency of most Germans, including those within the church, was to put an even greater distance between themselves and the Jews. Left to themselves, Jewish Christians formed their own groups.
Theresienstadt
Professor Kai Kjaer-Hansen has written about some of these groups in Theresienstadt, a small city in the German-occupied part of the Czech Republic. During the war, Theresienstadt was a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. My great-grandparents, Jenny Mendel Moses and Alexander Moses, died in that ghetto of dysentery and starvation in 1942.
Here is a portion of Kjaer-Hansen’s account:
From the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1945, more than 140,000 Jews were sent to this ghetto, which for many, about 88,000, became a transit camp to the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Approximately 33,000 died in this ghetto. When it was all over and the ghetto had been liberated on May 8, 1945, there were about 19,000 survivors.
Among those who died in Theresienstadt, or were deported from Theresienstadt to the death camp Auschwitz or survived the horrors in Theresienstadt, were individuals who were Christians of Jewish descent. It is tempting today to call them “Messianic Jews”, but this would not correspond with their self-perception. Like most other Jews in Germany they saw themselves as Germans; unlike most other German Jews they were Jews who had embraced the Christian faith, some by conviction, others for pragmatic reasons. But in Theresienstadt they shared the fate of “Mosaic” Jews. In the eyes of the Nazis, their Christian faith did not obliterate their Jewishness."
and continues
"Hans Werner Hirschberg arrived at Theresiendstadt on February 10, 1944. He survived and later wrote,
One tenth of the Jews who had been interned there belonged to a Christian confession. Some were Protestants, some Catholics. Among these Jews, there was a group of Evangelical Jewish Christians from Holland, four hundred in number that distinguished themselves. They even had a Jewish Christian pastor with them. Many of our ‘church members’ had, although they had been baptized, never really considered being followers of Jesus until they came to Theresienstadt. But here, under the influence of God’s word, many of them were truly converted. Jews who had been Christians in name only became true Christians. Many Mosaic Jews and Jews who had no faith whatsoever found Jesus and were saved in Theresienstadt I am one of the few survivors from the concentration camp in Theresienstadt. Most of my brothers went home to be with the Lord. But my Saviour saved me out of this camp so that I might proclaim the wonderful things that He performed among those who were in “the valley of the shadow of death”
Arthur Goldschmidt’s parents had converted to Christianity in 1858. After Goldschmidt, born in 1873, had to resign his post as a judge in Hamburg in 1933, he devoted himself to his hobby as a painter. His wife Kitty, who was a baptized Jew, died in June 1942.
One month later Goldschmidt was deported to Theresienstadt. Here he founded an evangelical congregation where he preached and administered pastoral care. He survived in the ghetto. Before his death on February 9, 1947, he wrote down an account of the evangelical congregation in Theresienstadt. Here are a few glimpses from the account that was published in 1948.
On the first Sunday in the ghetto, Goldschmidt and another man get together in an attic and read the New Testament which he has brought. The word gets about, and others join them the following Sundays. No more than twenty persons can assemble without permission. “What was I to do?” He realizes that the administration was not likely to appreciate the formation of a Christian congregation in a Jewish town, and without the consent of the Jewish council of elders he could not proceed.
Goldschmidt continues: “So I turned, nonetheless, to Mr. Edelstein, who was then the leader of the Jewish council, and described the state of affairs to him. When he was informed of the fact that an evangelical congregation had already been founded, he was astonished but also full of understanding. The good God is ultimately the same, and to him, Edelstein, it is the same in which way he is honoured.” Both sides realize that the room where the Mosaic Jews worship cannot be used."
the article lastly says
"On October 18, 1942, they get the first and semi-official recognition of the congregation as a room with electrical light, used as a variety theatre and a lecture hall, is made available for them by the council of elders. And the congregation grows. Between 150 and 200 attend the services, at the festivals there are even more.
Goldschmidt does not hide that, from time to time, there were some difficulties with the council of elders. But the following words are nevertheless remarkable: “In retrospect it must be admitted that this administration of what was intended as a pure Jewish society, which naturally would see a Christian congregation as a foreign body, in general has been very obliging.” Here is an example: Christian German Jews cannot celebrate Christmas without a Christmas tree, which is difficult to come by. Again in Goldschmidt’s words: “Finally the SS permitted us to have a small tree, which would be decorated by the women; not even candles, a much desired rarity donated from all sides, were missing.” But then listen to how Goldschmidt continues: “The last year the Christmas tree was cynically forbidden by the SS man who had to make the decision. But then, fortunately, the Jewish administration saw to it that an artificial tree with inserted branches and with multicoloured electrical lamps was made for the service!”[4]
Theresienstadt serves as a window into what happened to Christians of Jewish descent during the Holocaust. It is estimated that as many as ten percent of the Jews in Nazi Germany believed in Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. And they suffered and went to their deaths along with their fellow Jews."
From the website, www.algemeiner.com an article is titled
"Red Cross Official: Israel Not an ‘Apartheid State’" on April 26, 2017
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the article says
"JNS.org – An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official said in a rare interview with an Israeli newspaper this week that Israel is not an “apartheid state.”
Jacques de Maio — head of the ICRC delegation to Israel and the Palestinian Authority — told Yedioth Ahronoth, “There isn’t a regime here that is based on the superiority of one race over another; there is no disenfranchisement of basic human rights based on so-called racial inferiority.”
He added that the ICRC “was very familiar with the regime in South Africa during Apartheid” and he could attest to there being very different circumstances in Israel.
The ICRC official also detailed the Palestinian Authority’s attempts at political manipulation, including the lobbing of accusations that Israel carries out “extrajudicial killings.”
Another Day in Berlin: Rabbi Attacked, Spat Upon and Insulted in Arabic
According to de Maio, the ICRC has worked with the IDF to clarify “the issue of shooting assailants who carry out terror attacks, and we reached an unequivocal conclusion that there is no IDF order to shoot suspects to kill.”
De Maio said that when the ICRC rejected this Palestinian charge against the IDF, there were “immediately those who claimed we were covering up war crimes committed by the IDF, and that we were serving the Zionists.”
Also from www.algemeiner.com an article is titled
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"Israel Is Not an ‘Apartheid’ State — Here’s the Proof" on August 13, 2019
by Melissa Landa
the article says
"Since the claim that Israel is an apartheid state was broadcast in 2001 in Durban, South Africa — the land where I was born and raised — pro-BDS scholars have purposefully misused the word to describe Israeli society. As a result, we are seeing growing numbers of professors and policymakers who have been subjected to this educational malpractice, and who are now influencing the next generation with these lies about the Jewish state.
In an effort to stop the proliferation of the “Israeli apartheid” myth, here are some corrective facts:
1. Two million Arab Israelis are citizens of Israel, with full rights as citizens. There are Israeli Arabs in the Knesset and on Israel’s Supreme Court. Arab and Jewish professors work side by side in Israeli universities, and doctors and nurses work in integrated settings in Israel’s hospitals, including the world-famous Hadassah Hospital. The same is true of every business and profession in Israel.
2. Most Palestinians living in the disputed territories do not wish to become Israeli citizens.
According to a 2017 poll by The Washington Institute, there has been a dramatic drop in the proportion of Palestinians in East Jerusalem who say they would choose Israeli citizenship over Palestinian citizenship. Furthermore, many Palestinians do not want their own state alongside Israel, but an independent state that includes the land comprised of present-day Israel.
Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, reports that Palestinian support for a two-state solution is at its lowest since the Oslo Accords in 1993, with only 43 percent of Palestinians living in the West Bank endorsing the idea, and violence against Israel being viewed as appropriate by more and more younger Palestinians.
Indeed, based on data gathered by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Since September 2015, Israel has experienced a wave of terror perpetrated by individuals, many of them very young.” The Ministry cites 76 Israelis killed and 1,187 wounded by Palestinian terrorists since September 2015 in stabbings, shootings, and vehicular attacks."
the article continues
"3. BDS proponents describe the checkpoints and the wall/fence dividing the West Bank from Israel as an “apartheid wall.” However, unlike the apartheid era Group Areas Act, which kept black South Africans separate from white citizens as a means of oppressing them, the wall/fence was not built to serve as a structure of oppression.
Instead, it was created as an act of self-defense and containment against Palestinian terrorism. Israel constructed the barrier only after several years of suicide and mass murder bombings killed more than 1,000 Israelis in restaurants, hotels, teenage nightclubs, and synagogues. The structure has succeeded in reducing the number of mass murders of Israeli civilians by approximately 96 percent.
4. Despite their fear and understandable bitterness toward Palestinians — many of whom wish to see them destroyed — most Israelis continue to seek ways to ease the suffering of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. For example, tens of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals each year. In most cases, they are cancer or heart patients, and often, they are children.
To help facilitate their medical treatment, more than 1,000 Israeli volunteers transport patients and their family members from border checkpoints in Gaza and the West Bank to Israeli hospitals. Israel also helps Palestinians with basic needs, such as electricity and water.
5. Israel provides its Palestinian citizens with freedom of speech and freedom of movement. Whereas black South African students were shot in the streets of Soweto, and Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) arrest Palestinian students for speaking out, Palestinians in Israel can peacefully protest against the government without fear of violent reprisal or other punishment."
the article lastly says
"And, as in all democracies, real incidents of discrimination can be challenged effectively in the courts. For example, in 2013, when Palestinians from the village of Burka petitioned the courts to reclaim land they had lost to Israeli settlers in the West Bank, the courts ruled in their favor.
6. In South Africa, blacks, whites, and all other designated racial groups were forced to live in assigned segregated areas. In Israel, residential segregation is a result of language, culture, religion, and economic and educational disparities between Jews and Arabs — not a reflection of the law. In fact, over the last two decades, there has been an increase in “mixed” cities, which, based on the definition established by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, is one where at least 10 percent of the residents identify as Arabs. In Beersheva, the population of Arabs is 15 percent. Other cities considered mixed include Haifa and Jaffa.
7. Unlike in South Africa, where black children were confined to segregated schooling that ensured their continued subjugation under apartheid, there are schools in Israel that serve both Arab and Jewish children. However, most schools serve either one group or the other, because most Arab Israelis choose for their children to learn in Arabic and within an environment reflecting their culture at home. As a result, universities across Israel offer Hebrew instruction for first year Palestinian students to help them prepare for their coursework in Hebrew — one of several initiatives implemented in recent years to help enroll larger percentages of Arab students in these institutions.
8. Whereas South African apartheid laws were designed to oppress black South Africans and prevent their social upward mobility by ensuring that only a tiny percentage of blacks attended low quality “tribal” universities, one can find numerous examples and educational initiatives in Israel aimed at improving opportunities for Arab Israelis.
For example, before the State of Israel was established in 1948, only 25 percent of the Arab population of Palestine was literate. As of today, the vast majority of the Arab population is literate. Another major improvement in the lives of Palestinians has occurred since 1967, involving the creation of large public universities in areas controlled by the PA.
Twenty-two percent of all medical students in Israel are Palestinian, which is equal to their proportion of Israel’s total population, and Palestinians chair academic departments in universities across the country.
People who promote the “apartheid” lie rely heavily on the ignorance of most Americans, who know little about South Africa and remarkably little about Israel. It is time we start changing that by presenting the truth about both countries."
Melissa Landa PhD has been addressing the pernicious tactics and goals of the BDS campaign for four years. Most recently, she founded and directs the new anti-BDS organization Alliance for Israel.
From the website www.spiegel.de an article is titled
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"Swastikas and Tinsel: How the Nazis Stole Christmas" on December 13, 2009
Swastika Christmas tree ornaments, "Germanic" cookies and made-up traditions: A new exhibition highlights how the Nazis tried to take Christ out of Christmas. But their attempts to hijack a festival that began with the birth of a Jewish child weren't entirely successful.
By David Gordon Smith
November 13, 2009 05:32 PM
the article says
"It all started innocently enough. Back in the mid-1970s, Rita Breuer began collecting old German Christmas ornaments after her husband expressed the desire for a good old-fashioned Christmas tree like his grandmother used to have. Breuer, who hails from the small town of Olpe, 60 kilometers from Cologne, scoured flea markets and raided friends' attics in the search for baubles and came to accumulate quite a collection which included not only tree ornaments, but also Advent calendars, cribs and Christmas cards.
But then something strange happened. Breuer, who was now being helped in her quest by her daughter Judith, came across more and more objects that didn't fit with the usual peaceful image of Christmas, such as World War I-era miniature soldiers, bombs and hand grenades designed to hang on the tree. The Breuers started to get interested in how Christmas had been abused for propaganda purposes over the years, most blatantly by the Nazis. Their hobby turned into a full-fledged amateur research project.
Now, more than 30 years after Rita Breuer first began collecting Christmas knickknacks, selected objects from the family collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Center in Cologne. The exhibition, which looks at the history of Christmas and propaganda from the 19th century until the present day, focuses on how the Nazis misused Christmas for their own foul purposes and tried to turn it into a "Germanic" winter solstice festival.
"Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis -- after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child," Judith Breuer, who helped prepare the exhibition and co-authored the accompanying book with her mother, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "The most important celebration in the year didn't fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian."
The exhibition, which includes such peculiar objects from the Breuers' massive collection as swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles emblazoned with the Nazi symbol, shows the bizarre ways the Nazis came up with to try to take the Christ out of Christmas. They tried to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of a sun wheel, a form similar to the swastika, and they attempted to replace the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on Dec. 6, with the figure of Odin, the Norse god."
the article continues
"One symbol posed a particular problem for the Nazis, namely the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees. "Either it was a six-pointed star, which was a symbol of the Jews, or it was a five-pointed star, which represented the Soviets," Breuer says. Either way, the star had to go.
The Changing Face of Christmas
The exhibition also details how the Nazi approach to Christmas changed over the years. In the 1930s, their efforts were aimed mainly at changing the ideology of Christmas, Breuer explains. But when World War II started, the focus became more practical. The state encouraged those at home to send Christmas cards to the soldiers at the front and gave tips on how to make Christmas cookies in the face of food shortages. Then in 1944-1945, as the tide of the war turned against Germany, the Nazi apparatus tried to reinvent the festival once again as a day to commemorate the dead, in particular fallen soldiers. "By then nobody felt like celebrating," Breuer says.
However Breuer points out that, despite the Nazis' best efforts, habits among the population were not so easy to change. "People largely continued with the same traditions as before," she says.
But the legacy of the Nazi Christmas is more long-lasting than might be suspected. The Nazi-era version of the traditional Christmas carol "Es ist für uns eine Zeit angekommen" ("Unto us a time has come") is still sung in Germany today, for example. "The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song about walking through the snow," Breuer says.
Of course the festival of Christmas has been largely secularized in much of the world over since the start of the 20th century, but the Nazi treatment was different. This had nothing to do with commercialism or growing secularism, but was based on their racist ideology and a yearning for a mythical Germanic past.
One particular sinister example of the Nazi Christmas tradition is the Julleuchter ("Yule lantern"), a kind of candlestick which can also be seen in the exhibition. Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, had the supposedly "Germanic" lantern produced by inmates in the Dachau and Neuengamme concentration camps to give as a present to members of the SS. The same version of the Julleuchter that Himmler had made is still sold today in certain shops with a New Age bent as a traditional Christmas decoration.
And many of the myths that the Nazis invented are still circulating. "You can still read in places about how Christmas is really an ancient Germanic festival of the winter solstice," Breuer says, pointing out that there is little evidence of any such celebration.
Keeping Quiet
One of the most surprising aspects of the Nazi hijacking of Christmas is the lack of reaction from the German churches at the time. "You would have expected them to protest loudly and insist that it was a Christian festival," says Breuer. "But instead they largely kept quiet, out of fear."
an article is titled "The Nazis Fought the Original War on Christmas" | History | Smithsonian
from the website,
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/.../nazis-fought-original-war-christmas-1...
Dec 20, 2016 - The Nazis Fought the Original War on Christmas. As they rose to power, party leaders sought to redefine the holiday to suit their own political needs
More Facts, "Some Palestinians say bluntly that Israel treats them better than anyone in the region "At least they won't bother you unless you bother them" says Hanifi Younes (a Palestinian living in Kuwait "Their democratic ideals protect us, but in Arab countries, they'll mistreat us as lower life forms" from USA Today, International Edition
March 8, 1991 Section A, page 2
Another fact, "Under Israeli Control, quality of life for the Palestinians living in the so-called Occupied territories(Judea/Samaria and the Gaza District) has greatly improved.
Life expectancy has increased from 48 years to 62 years, infant mortality has dropped sharply(especially in Judea/Samaria) overcrowding has been reduced, and even modern conveniences are much more readily available. To give just two examples, in 1967 only 3% of those in the Gaza District had refrigerators or cooking ranges, by the mid 1980's, 77% had refrigerators and 87% had cooking ranges" as documented in
"Judea Samaria and the Gaza District since 1967" from
Jerusalem: Israel Information Centre, 1986 &
"Myths and Facts 1989 A Concise Record of the Arab Israeli Conflict" by Leonard J. Davis
pages 178 f, 181-189
From the website of the New York Post, www.nypost.com an article by
Michael Goodwin is titled
"Omar and Tlaib rightly blocked from visiting ‘non-existent’ country Palestine"
By Michael Goodwin August 17, 2019 | 10:56pm | Updated
the article says
"At first blush, Israel’s decision to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib looked like a mistake. My gut reaction was that the move would simultaneously make Israel appear weak and allow critics to claim the incident proves the Jewish state has no interest in peace with the Palestinians.
It didn’t help that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had initially signaled the two Democrats could visit despite their support for the BDS movement, which Israel has outlawed. When it became clear that Netanyahu reversed his decision at President Trump’s urging, the situation appeared to go from bad to worse.
Both the United States and Israel looked to have blundered. Or so I thought.
Then facts and history had their say. Now, I believe Trump and Netanyahu made the right move.
They had no good options and chose the lesser of two evils.
First, the facts are becoming more clear. Omar and Tlaib, we now know, rejected invitations to travel with other congressional members of both parties. Trips were organized by AIPAC to give new members briefings on security issues and include political perspectives from the government as well as critics."
the article continues
"The congressional groups there last week, for example, met with Israeli leaders and Palestinians in the West Bank. Why wasn’t that good enough for Tlaib and Omar, the first two Muslim women elected to Congress?
In addition to wanting to go alone, they reportedly refused any government briefings and Netanyahu said their itinerary mentioned only “Palestine,” a country that doesn’t exist and a word often used to deny Israel’s right to exist.
According to National Review, the group that planned Omar and Tlaib’s trip, MIFTAH, runs a Web site that publishes anti-Semitic articles and celebrates Palestinian terrorists, several of whom murdered Jewish children. The link guarantees that the trip would have been a nonstop assault on Israel.
It also could have led to violence. The two planned to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque, located atop the compound known as the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims and Temple Mount to Jews, where there were clashes last week between Israeli security forces and Palestinians.
Omar and Tlaib likely would have made provocative statements there, leading some Israelis to fear a larger round of violence. Why take that chance?
A final fact that colors the entire incident was the odd behavior by Tlaib regarding her supposed desire to visit relatives in the West Bank.
After Netanyahu’s rejection, she appealed to Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri for permission to visit on humanitarian grounds, citing her elderly grandmother. “This could be my last opportunity to see her,” Tlaib wrote. “I will respect any restrictions and not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit.”
On those terms, Israel granted Tlaib permission to visit her family.
But when news of the agreement became public, some on the left accused her of caving in to Israel. Immediately Tlaib backed out and attacked Israel, tweeting that the conditions she agreed to were “humiliating” and adding, “I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in — fighting against racism, oppression & injustice.”
Deri got it exactly right when he concluded that Tlaib’s “hatred of Israel outweighs her love for her grandmother.”
History proves that Israel is often held to a double standard, and this case is no different. Virtually every nation bars entry to those who wish it harm, yet it’s an international incident when Israel does it."
the article by Michael Goodwin lastly says
"Denunciations from the usual suspects are a reminder that Israel would have gotten no credit if it had opened its doors. Tlaib and Omar were not going in good faith.
Why is the burden on Israel to welcome them? Put another way, when did suicide become a virtue?
The fact that the two are members of Congress adds a complication, but not one big enough to overcome their long virulence and the potential for violence. They hate Israel and have made anti-Semitic statements.
Moreover, the BDS movement they support is not ultimately about borders. It’s about Israel’s existence.
None of this is to suggest that politics isn’t a factor. Trump wants to make Tlaib and Omar the face of Democrats and saw the planned visit as a chance to draw a contrast and highlight how Dems are afraid to confront them.
And he succeeded, as evidenced by how Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the bait by condemning Trump and Netanyahu over the incident.
Once again, Pelosi has it backward. She should be denouncing Tlaib and Omar for partnering with anti-Semites instead of taking their side. Maybe for once she could put principle over party.
It’s possible the ban will hurt Netanyahu in Israel’s upcoming election, which is expected to be razor-close. Domestic critics are objecting, saying the move undercuts Israel’s efforts to take a bipartisan approach to America so that the relationship does not depend on which party holds power in Washington.
Yet the ban does not create a problem for Israel as much as reflect the existence of one. The careful balancing act is being undone by shifts in both American parties that predate this incident.
Dems, following the lead of former President Barack Obama, are harshly critical of Israel, silent about Palestinian attacks and believe in wooing Iran, which threatens to wipe Israel off the map.
Trump, on the other hand, has taken unprecedented moves that favor Israel. He moved our embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights. He is confronting Iran after withdrawing from the nuclear pact and is preparing a plan that aims to settle the Palestinian issues.
In the face of all this, the Palestinians refuse to talk to the administration and curse the president and his family. That’s the side Tlaib and Omar have chosen, and they have only themselves to blame for the consequences." good article by Michael Goodwin, this same article also appeared in the Print Edition of the New York Post for Sunday August 18, 2019 on page 11, where the article was titled "Israel is right about them"
but we all know Israel is Right about everything about 99.9 percent of the time !!! The two ugly female losers couldn't go on their little Playdate to Israel together, boo hoo , Let's all Hope and Pray they don't Get Re-elected, that if they run for re-election they will lose, and that a Pro-Israel Christian or Pro-Israel Jewish person is Elected, Nothing wrong with Female Politicians, but sadly in America & Other Nations some female Politicians are Toxic Losers and ugly on both the inside and outside, just like some male politicians are horrible losers also
The Article by Michael Goodwin can be found here,
https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/omar-and-tlaib-rightly-blocked-from-visiting-imaginary-country-palestine/, Plus it is important to Point out that when the Arabs invaded the newly created Israel in 1948, when the Arab nations started that War, Israel and the Jews did NOT Kick out the Arabs, living in Israel, the Arab Leaders told the Arabs to Leave and Return Later,
In fact many Jews pleaded with the Arabs to stay where they are and NOT leave, but many Arabs Voluntarily Left in 1948
The website kobi5.com has an article titled
"President Trump featured on Israeli coin" News Politics Top Stories U.S. & World May 9, 2018 Newsroom Staff
the article says
"JERUSALEM (NBCNC) – An Israeli organization has minted a coin bearing President Donald Trump’s image to honor his decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem.
The Mikdash Educational Center said Wednesday that the “Temple Coin” featured Trump alongside King Cyrus, who 2,500 years ago allowed Jews to return to Jerusalem from their exile in Babylon.
A representative from the center said that they wanted to honor President Trump on the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence.
The Mikdash Educational Center has minted 1,000 biblical half-shekel coins that can be purchased with a minimum donation of $50. The coin can’t be used as currency. It has a diameter of two inches.
The standard coin, made from pewter and plated with about a third-of-an-ounce of silver, and will be sold for $50.
There is also a limited series of gold-plated coins which will sell for $70.
Mikdash calls itself a non-profit educational and religious organization. Rabbi Mordechai Persoff said, “We are very happy to announce that the Mikdash Educational Center just produced a new Cyrus-Trump Temple coin. This special coin was produced and minted for the 70 years of the independence of the State of Israel and to honor and praise President Donald Trump who promised, but not only promised, also fulfilled his promise and next week will move the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
“President Trump is starting a prophetic process by moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Just like King Cyrus 2,500 years ago said: ‘he charged me to build a house in Jerusalem’, here again, President Trump is building a house in Jerusalem.”
From the website www.israelnationalnews.com an article is titled
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"Trump Temple coins that changed the world – now in silver"
15 months after Trump's historic declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, silver coins minted in honor of the bold move.
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The Trump Temple
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An Historic Declaration.
the article says
"A little more than a year ago, President Donald Trump made an historic declaration that Jerusalem is the “One and Only Capital of the Jewish State of Israel.”
Soon after, Trump proved to the world that he not only makes declarations, but also acts upon his beliefs: He transferred the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And following this historic event, the TRUMP TEMPLE COINS were minted.
The concept was conceived by Professor Hillel Weiss and the coins were produced by the Mikdash Educational Center in Jerusalem. In the past year, these unique coins have found their way to thousands of people worldwide- from North and South America, China, to Australia, all around Europe and even to Iran - all who support Israel, the Holy Temple, and Trump’s declaration. Now they can be obtained in solid silver too!!
The Themes Displayed on the Coins.
The Trump Temple Coins are not just medallions or souvenirs. They are precious coins that have an entire story to tell. The main idea conveyed by these coins is that President Trump is initiating a prophetic process that will eventually facilitate, when the time comes, the rebuilding of the Third Temple. His actions mirror those of King Cyrus who declared to the Jewish people, in exile for 70 years, that "Hashem, The Lord of the World, charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem."
On Monday, March 5, 2018, in Washington D.C., shortly after the Temple Coins were produced, Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed President Trump and also compared the President to King Cyrus.
"I want to tell you that the Jewish people have a long memory; so we remember the proclamation of the great king, Cyrus the Great, the Persian king, 2,500 years ago. He proclaimed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon could come back and rebuild our Temple in Jerusalem. We remember a hundred years ago, Lord Balfour, who issued the Balfour Proclamation that recognized the rights of the Jewish people in our ancestral homeland. We remember that seventy years ago, President Harry S. Truman was the first leader to recognize the Jewish state. And we remember how a few weeks ago, President Donald J. Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Mr. President, this will be remembered by our people through the ages"
the article continues
"The message on the coin is addressed to all the “Seventy Nations”: They are called upon to accompany the Jewish People on their journey to establish the Holy Temple as a place of peace.
The Menorah on the Coin. The Menorah was always the symbol of the Jewish Nation. It represents the light of the Temple spreading out to the world, as stated in Isaiah 60:3, "Nations shall walk at Your light, and kings at the brightness of Your rising".
On the Arch of Titus is an engraving of the Menorah, carried by Jewish slaves, that essentially depicts the exile and the destruction of the Second Temple. Seventy years later, as foretold by the prophets, the people of Israel came back to their homeland and rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem.
After the Declaration of the State of Israel, the Menorah was chosen to be the emblem of The State of Israel, to show that now, as then, the people of Israel came back from exile to their land.
The Menorah, the symbol of the State of Israel, stands in the center of the coin, together with the ancient Persian emblem and the seal of the United States of America.
THE TRUMP TEMPLE
The Ingathering of the Exiles. The coin calls for the continuation of the in-gathering of the Jewish exiles from all corners of the globe – ”Like doves coming back to their nests.” They will come to the Land of Israel, to Jerusalem and the Temple, and to the fulfillment of peace in the world, through the establishment of the Third Temple and the realization of the prophetic vision.
You too Can Spread the Light
These special coins come plated with 10 grams of silver, or made of solid silver are also considered to be like the “Half Shekel” coins that contributed to the upkeep of the Temple in ancient times. Thus, purchase of the TRUMP TEMPLE COINS today can be seen as a donation that helps spread the light of Jerusalem and the spirit of the Holy Temple throughout the World to all seventy nations. In the meantime, these donations are used exclusively for holy productions, such as the World Creation Concert, and for the preparation of individuals and Temple appurtenances for the Temple service"
Also from the website, www.israelnationalnews.com an article is titled
"Israel got it right, finally, on Tlaib and Omar" the article says
"Such are the antisemitic “lawmakers” Michigan and Minnesota sent to Congress…and gift wrapped them as a “minority” and therefore untouchable."
by Jack Engelhard, 16/08/19 11:30 | updated: 14:24
the article says
"Their hearts were never in the right place. Their motives were always false.
Between the two of them, it was always intended to be a media event…a media circus…a media extravaganza…a media frenzy all of it aimed to scandalize the Jewish State.
Otherwise they would have joined the 41 House Democrats who visited Israel some days ago in a spirit of friendship.
But Tlaib and Omar had other business in mind. Friendship was not the focus. President Trump said it in his usual style, plainly, “They hate all Jews.”
There is plenty of evidence for that, here, here, and here just for starters.
Trump figured them harmful for Israel from the beginning, and he kept warning the Israelis to keep them out, until Israel finally acted accordingly. But it was a close call.
Israel had to consider the fact that these two busybodies are members of Congress as well, and nobody wants to rock that boat.
But BDS – which is organized for no other reason except to destroy the Jewish State – is a different story altogether, and these two support a boycott against Israel.
Yes, such are the “lawmakers” Michigan and Minnesota sent to Congress…and giftwrapped them as a “minority” and therefore untouchable.
The New York Times clocked it front page and had it as “Trump’s extraordinary step to punish his political rivals,” as if their anti-Semitism counts for nothing.
Also reacting swiftly to Israel’s ban meant for BDS and its chums, was Omar, who called it an “insult to Democratic values.”
All the way from Mogadishu, this one knows Democratic values.
Next, she called it a “Muslim ban.” Nearly two million Muslims live in Israel in complete freedom. Some Muslim ban this is.
You have to wonder what the people in Minnesota and Michigan think of these two. Because the citizens are not getting the attention they deserve.
They must feel awfully snubbed….and in both places, there must be sloth, potholes, poverty and crime enough to warrant half the attention Israel is getting from these two fully.
It’s called bait and switch when you pitch one product and then substitute it for another.
That’s like the peace process, familiar to Tlaib, a self-styled proud Palestinian American, where from Gaza and Ramallah they talk peace at the same time they commit murder against Israelis.
Cameras are always rolling for the four of them…AOC, Pressley, Tlaib and Omar…the Four Ingrates…and they know how to put on a show.
Knowing them as we do, they had it all planned out to create an incident; cameras rolling to catch any Israeli reacting incautiously at any provocation.
The fear is, that they may decide to go uninvited, in order to provoke.
Beware of this. It could happen. This kind never stops. There is no choice but to stay a step ahead of them before they conjure up their next trick. " The 4 of them are truly "The Squad" of stupidity , let's all hope and pray they don't win re-election , If these 4 Losers in "The Squad" do have hearts, they are hearts of Stone, not hearts of Flesh
From the website of the New York Post Newspaper, www.nypost.com
an article by Dennis Prager is titled
"Criticizing Israel is fine, but anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic"
By Dennis Prager
August 20, 2019 | 8:21pm
the article says
"Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the countries in the world, only Italy is illegitimate. And then imagine that these people vigorously deny they are in any way anti-Italian. Would you believe them?
Substitute “Israel” for “Italy,” and you’ll understand the dishonesty and absurdity of the argument that one can be anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic.
But that is precisely what anti-Zionists say. They argue that the existence of a Jewish state in the geographic area known as Palestine — there was never an independent country known as Palestine — is illegitimate. They don’t believe any other country in the world is illegitimate, no matter how bloody its origins. And then they get offended when they’re accused of being anti-Semitic.
How can they make this argument?
First, they change the topic. They say it is unfair to charge those who merely “criticize” Israel with being anti-Semitic. But that’s a phony argument. Criticism of Israel is fine. Denying Israel’s right to exist isn’t. Anti-Zionism isn’t criticism of Israel. Anti-Zionism is opposition to Israel’s existence.
Zionism is the movement for the return of Jews to their homeland. Over the past 3,000 years, there were two independent Jewish states located in what is called Israel. Invaders destroyed both, and no Arab or Muslim or any other independent country ever existed in that land, which was only named Palestine by the Romans in an attempt to remove all memory of the Jewish state they destroyed in the year 70 AD"
the article continues
"Second, anti-Zionists claim they can’t be anti-Jewish because Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. That’s equally false. It is the same as saying that Italy has nothing to do with being Italian. Judaism has always consisted of three components: God, Torah and Israel. If Israel isn’t part of Judaism, neither is the Bible or God.
Third, anti-Zionists claim that Judaism is only a religion; therefore, Jews are only members of a religion, not a nation. But the Jews are called the “nation of Israel” repeatedly in the Bible. That is why there are irreligious, secular and even atheist Jews — because Jews are not only a religion. There are no atheist Christians because Christianity is only a religion.
Fourth, the anti-Zionists claim that Israel is illegitimate because it is racist. This is the fraudulent charge Israel- and America-haters make against two of the least racist societies in the world. Fact is, half of Israel’s Jews are not white, and anyone, of any race or ethnicity, can become a Jew.
Plus, 1 of 5 Israelis isn’t a Jew. And these Israeli citizens, mostly Arab Muslims, have the same rights as Jewish Israelis.
As for Israel’s control of the West Bank, that has nothing to do with race. Israel doesn’t control the West Bank because Palestinians are of another race — but because Palestinians tried to destroy Israel in 1967, and they lost the war.
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Palestinians have rejected offers to found their own state on five separate occasions since 1948. That’s the only reason they don’t have their own state. They have always rejected building a Palestinian state because they have always been more interested in destroying Israel.
Finally, the anti-Zionists claim that Israel’s origins are illegitimate.
Of all the world’s 200-plus countries, the only country anti-Zionists declare illegitimate is also the only Jewish one. That’s pretty much all you need to know about their motives. Why, for example, don’t they make this claim about Pakistan? In 1947, nine months before the establishment of Israel, India was partitioned into a Muslim state, Pakistan, and a Hindu state, India.
Unlike Israel, Pakistan had never existed before.
Unlike Israel’s founding, which created about 700,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands and 700,000 Arab refugees from what became Israel, the founding of Pakistan created about 7 million Muslim refugees from India and about 7 million Hindu refugees from Pakistan. And while the highest estimate of Arab deaths in the fighting that took place when Israel announced its establishment is 10,000, the number of deaths as a result of Pakistan’s creation is around 1 million.
So why is Israel’s legitimacy challenged while Pakistan’s isn’t? There’s only one answer: Israel is the one Jewish state. Of course, not all anti-Zionists hate all Jews. But if you seek to destroy Italy, you don’t have to hate every Italian to be anti-Italian. If you seek to destroy the one Jewish state, you don’t have to hate every Jew to be an anti-Semite."
Dennis Prager is a syndicated radio-talk-show host. His latest book is “The Rational Bible,” a commentary on Genesis.
Also from the website of the New York Post, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"De Blasio slams Ilhan Omar for remarks about Israel"
By Nolan Hicks
March 7, 2019 | 2:10pm | Updated
the article says
"In a sharp break with fellow progressives, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar’s remarks about Israel and compared them to offensive statements made about Italian-Americans in past generations.
“Let me be really clear, suggesting that support for Israel is beholden to a foreign power is absolutely unacceptable — and it’s illogical too,” the mayor said at an unrelated press conference at City Hall.
“I believe strongly in the state of Israel. I don’t feel beholden one bit to a foreign power. I’m a proud American who believes in the state of Israel and believes it must exist.”
He added: “I happen to be Italian-American. I never heard anyone suggest that because of my pride in my ancestral homeland, I’m beholden to a foreign government. It’s a really inappropriate comment.”
The freshman Minnesota congresswoman came under intense fire after she claimed that support for Israel in many political circles was “all about the Benjamins,” referencing the $100 bill, which features the face of inventor Benjamin Franklin.
“Unfortunately, it aligns with a history — for centuries — of that kind of negative comment being thrown at the Jewish community,” de Blasio added. “There’s a long anti-Semitic tradition associated with that kind of comment.”
He called on Omar to sit down with representatives of Jewish communities to learn why her remarks caused such pain.
“We need to fight anti-Semitism with the same energy we fight sexism or racism or Islamophobia or anti-LGBT bias,” he said. “It all goes together.”
Liberal Democrats have routinely criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative government.
But Omar’s remarks created a firestorm of their own for indulging in what critics described as anti-Semitic tropes by linking Democratic and Republican support for Israel to campaign contributions.
Progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have questioned why Omar is coming under such heavy attack when others have gotten a pass while attacking Latinos and other ethnic and racial groups.
“One of the things that is hurtful about the extent to which reprimand is sought of Ilhan is that no one seeks this level of reprimand when members make statements about Latinx + other communities (during the shutdown, a GOP member yelled ‘Go back to Puerto Rico!’ on the floor),” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Tuesday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that a planned House resolution that implicitly criticizes Omar was an effort aimed at “stifling debate” about the Netanyahu government."
From the website www.gatestoneinstitute.org an article is titled
"Is the Palestinian Authority Preparing for a New Intifada?"
by Bassam Tawil
August 16, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14730/palestinian-authority-new-intifada
the article says
"Needless to say, none of the Jews visiting the Temple Mount was involved in violence or any kind of "provocation." The only violence that took place at the holy site came from Palestinians, who attacked the policemen with stones and chairs and hurled insults at the Jewish visitors.
By calling the visits "incursions" and "raids," the Palestinians are trying to create the false impression that Jews are violently storming an Islamic holy site. The Arabic word Palestinians use to describe the visits: Iktiham (storm or break in). This rhetoric is meant to imply that the "extremist settlers" are carrying out a violent action against innocent Palestinians and their holy sites, thus signaling the Palestinians to rise to defend themselves and their mosque.
In the eyes of Palestinian leaders, Jews are always the "aggressors," while Palestinians are the perpetual "victims"... in the Palestinian lexicon, a Jew peacefully touring the Temple Mount is an "aggressor," while a Palestinian who throws stones and chairs at police officers and abuses the visitors is the real "victim." This is the image Abbas, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are seeking to create in the minds of their people and the rest of the world.
The total number of Palestinians killed in Syria since 2011 now stands at 3,989. Where is the outrage from Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip about that? It is reserved for a Jew peacefully visiting the Temple Mount. For them, such visits are far more important than 250 Palestinian children killed in any Arab country. This sums up the Palestinian leaders' attitude – ruinous disregard for the lives of their own children, and malign intentions for the Jews and their children"
the article continues
"The Palestinian Authority (PA) spent the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha this week inciting against Israel because of Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif in Arabic, in Jerusalem. The site is also sacred to Jews and Christians: it is where the First and Second Temples had stood before being destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BCE and by the Romans in 70 CE. (The Western Wall, or so-called Wailing Wall, sacred to Jews, an ancient retaining wall of the Temple Mount, is all that remains of them.)
Depicting the peaceful visits as "incursions by Jewish settlers and extremists," PA officials and media outlets accused the Israeli government of repeatedly carrying out "provocations and assaults against holy sites in Jerusalem, particularly Al-Aqsa Mosque."
Mahmoud Habbash, religious affairs adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, went as far as describing the Jews visiting the Temple Mount as "terrorists." Habbash, who also serves as Supreme Shari'a Judge, also accused the Jewish visitors of "defiling the Haram al-Sharif and provoking the feelings of Muslims." He further appealed to all Muslims to "defend Al-Aqsa Mosque against Israeli conspiracies and barbaric violations."
Habbash was echoing Abbas's notorious statement that Palestinians won't allow Jews with their "filthy feet" to "defile our Al-Aqsa Mosque."
Abbas's statement came during a meeting with a group of Palestinians from east Jerusalem in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas even encouraged Palestinians to engage in violence by saying:
"We bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem, which is clean and pure blood, blood spilled for Allah, Allah willing. Every shahid (martyr) will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah. We will do everything in our power to protect Jerusalem."
and continues
"A few days after Abbas made his statement in September 2015, Palestinians launched the "Knife Intifada" against Israel – which included a wave of terror perpetrated by individuals inspired by vicious incitement in the Palestinian media and urged on by Palestinian leaders. In the first 12 months of the terror attacks, mostly by stabbings and car-rammings, 40 Israelis were killed.
The PA government, headed by Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, has also joined the anti-Israel campaign of incitement and praised Palestinian rioters who clashed with Israeli security forces at the Temple Mount on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
The rioters, who were trying to stop Jews from touring the holy site, threw rocks and chairs at policemen guarding the visitors. Shtayyeh's government said that the rioters were seeking to thwart Israeli schemes to "Judaize Jerusalem in the face of organized state terrorism."
Needless to say, none of the Jews visiting the Temple Mount was involved in violence or any kind of "provocation." The only violence that took place at the holy site came from Palestinians, who attacked the policemen with stones and chairs and hurled insults at the Jewish visitors.
The PA's rivals, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which occupy the Gaza Strip, in response to the Jewish visits, called for "escalating the Intifada (uprising) against Israel. When Hamas and Islamic Jihad talk about "escalating the Intifada," they are actually urging Palestinians to carry out various forms of terror attacks against Israel. The two groups are responsible for thousands of terror attacks against Israel in the past few decades.
Let this be made unquestionably clear: the PA leadership's incitement and the threats by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to step up terror attacks against Israel could trigger another wave of terrorism like the "Knife Intifada." "
and continues
"By describing any Jew who visits the Temple Mount as an "extremist settler," the Palestinian leaders are sending a message to their people that the peaceful Jewish visitors are legitimate targets -- and that it is open season on them.
By calling the visits "incursions" and "raids," the Palestinians are trying to create the false impression that Jews are violently storming an Islamic holy site. The Arabic word Palestinians use to describe the visits: Iktiham (storm or break in). This rhetoric is meant to imply that the "extremist settlers" are carrying out a violent action against innocent Palestinians and their holy sites, thus signaling the Palestinians to rise to defend themselves and their mosque.
In the eyes of Palestinian leaders, Jews are always the "aggressors," while Palestinians are the perpetual "victims."
Consider this: in the Palestinian lexicon, a Jew peacefully touring the Temple Mount is an "aggressor," while a Palestinian who throws stones and chairs at police officers and abuses the visitors is the real "victim." This is the image Abbas, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are seeking to create in the minds of their people and the rest of the world.
Why do Palestinians always refer to the Jewish visitors as "settlers"? Because they falsely assume that most religious Jews live in West Bank settlements -- as opposed to Haifa, Ashdod or other Israeli cities, or are affiliated, in one way or another, with settlers.
Palestinians regularly refer to settlers as "illegal colonizers" and "herds of colonizers and extremists" as a way of delegitimizing them and justifying terror attacks against these Jews. It is the Palestinian way of saying: "We have the right to murder these Jews because they are illegal colonizers living on our land."
In the eyes of Palestinian leaders, the Jews visiting the Temple Mount are not only "extremists," but also "terrorists" -- supposedly like the Israeli government and its leaders -- and not like the Palestinians who attack the policemen and Jews during those visits.
Against this backdrop of whipped-up incitement, the next murder of a Jew is no longer a matter of whether it will take place, but rather when. It is this type of rabble-rousing and fabrications by Palestinian leaders that drives terrorists to set out on their mission of murdering the first Jew they see"
the article lastly says
"Palestinians leaders are masters in condemning and delegitimizing Israel and Jews. They have specialized in this behavior for decades. Yet, when it comes to denouncing crimes committed against their own people by their Arab brothers, Palestinian leaders are happy to look the other way.
As Abbas and his officials were busy issuing one poisonous statement after another against Israel in the past week, a report released by the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria revealed that 250 Palestinian children have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the civil war in 2011.
According to the report, 128 children died under shelling; 15 were fatally shot by snipers; 11 were gunned down; two children were tortured to death; 22 drowned at sea while fleeing Syria; 22 others were killed in car explosions, and 35 died due to the blockade and medical neglect. Another 14 children died of other causes, including burns, suffocation, run-over accidents, and abduction.
The group pointed out that the total number of Palestinians killed in Syria since 2011 now stands at 3,989.
Where is the outrage from Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip about that? It is reserved for a Jew peacefully visiting the Temple Mount. For them, such visits are far more important than 250 Palestinian children killed in any Arab country. this sums up the Palestinian leaders' attitude -- ruinous disregard for the lives of their own children, and malign intentions for the Jews and their children."
Bassam Tawil is an Arab Muslim based in the Middle East.
One person typed the following as a comment on Facebook
"Why would they possibly want to spend their time on useless things like building schools and hospitals? Roads? No one needs those. It’s a much better use of time to work to destroy whatever you can while crying “poor me”." That comment was typed in reply to the article
by Bassam Tawil
People have Joked that Israel would Boycott the so-called "Palestinians" but the "Palestinians" produce nothing of any value , absolutely nothing,
People have said Airbnb sucks, an online joke about Airbnb's dislike for Israel goes like this:
Why Did Mary and Joseph stay in a stable? Because Airbnb blocked all listings for
Jews in Judea"
The website www.sar-el.org has an article titled "Israel’s Highest Ranking Muslim Soldier Speaks Out"
the article says:
“Last week I was privileged to be at a Manchester ((UK) Zionist Council meeting where two IDF Officers were speaking about their experiences and what it means to be part of the ‘ most moral army in the world. They have been traveling and speaking in the UK, especially in some hostile environments such as University campuses” said Sar-El UK representative Jennie Goldstone.
In fact, we were asked not to publish their names or photos till they were back in Israel for their security. By now you may have seen newspaper/Facebook etc. Articles about their visit to the UK. I was attracted to the meeting because one of the Officers is a Medic -and had treated Palestinians in the field of combat. He gave a fascinating talk and when I spoke to him later it turned out that he knew our ‘ medical’ base well, took his trainee medics and paramedics there to work with volunteers and was so effusive in his praise of Sar-El. Captain Daniel Elbo- I am proud to have made your acquaintance!
Top that, thought I! And then I was bowled over by something right out of my comfort zone. I’m not writing about it but am letting Major Alaa Waheeb speak for himself.(from a recently published article). I consider it an honour to have met you, Major Waheeb,” Jennie Goldstone, Sar-El Uk representive.
the article continues
"the article continues
"Speaking Out
By Major Alaa Waheeb
In the last few weeks, students across the UK have been involved in Israeli Apartheid Week. Some have supported it. Others have opposed it. Invited by the ZF UK, last week I was able to attend campuses up and down the country specifically to address and counter some of the claims involved.
These fall into roughly three categories. First, that Israel is an inherently racist, and therefore unacceptable country, comparable to Apartheid South Africa. Second, that its army defends this racist status with acts of illegal and immoral violence. And third, that the only solution to this problem is through the isolation tactics of boycotts.
Like many I met during my visit, I oppose these views. But perhaps more than most people on either side of the debate, I am better placed to argue against them. Because I am an Israeli, an Arab, and the highest ranked Muslim in the IDF.
Is Israel inherently racist, an apartheid state? Well, do you think that such a country would tolerate a person like myself getting to the position I am today? Forget for a second (BDS supporters would like you to forget permanently!) that 20 percent of Israelis are non-Jewish, have full rights, and are represented throughout society. It’s one thing, after all, to have Arab politicians, Christian voters, and Muslim doctors – although we do have them, and quite a few at that.
On tour, meeting with Sar-El’s UK Representative, Jennie Goldstone.
But a non-Jewish army Major? Someone who has not only fought alongside Jewish soldiers, but now trains them too? Would a truly racist state allow me to play such an integral role in our nation’s defences?
And while we’re on the subject of those defences, let me tackle accusation two: that the Israel army is a particularly immoral one. I am not particularly religious, but as the Holy Quran says, “if anyone killed a person, it would be as if he killed the whole of mankind; and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole of mankind.”
I do not serve in the army to kill people – I serve in it to save people. When Hamas fires rockets, or Fatah encourages stabbings, we are here to protect the lives of all Israeli citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish.
And so on to the last point – that the best way to resolve violence and conflict is through the kind of tactics advocated by the Boycotts movement. Namely, isolation and intimidation. For me, this is the most important issue, and the one which makes me shake my head with anger and sadness the most."
and lastly says
"Like I said, I visited the UK to combat Israeli Apartheid Week, to challenge the lies and mistruths hurled at the country I am proud to call home. But what hurts me the most is not how unbelievable they are. The opposite, in fact. They are all too believable, and I should know – because I once believed them too.
The reality is that the town I grew up in did not recognise the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. While Arabic is an official language, I did not learn Hebrew until I was 17. I was raised to believe the worst things about Jews, and, had I not eventually met and worked alongside them, I might still believe those things today.
In my role as a soldier, I have met all kinds of people both in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Jews, Arabs, Religious, Secular, Left-wing and Right-wing. I have met Israelis who were prejudiced against me. But I have also met Palestinians who appreciate the work that I do to maintain some sort of peace and stability in the most dangerous part of the world.
Forget slogans and shouting. Peace – real peace – will only come when people talk to each other. Not necessarily agree – just agree to listen. But the irony of Israeli Apartheid Week is that it wants individuals to focus on differences, not similarities. Instead of building bridges between communities, it wants to build walls.
During my time in the UK, I spoke alongside a fellow soldier, a medic who has treated both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists without distinction. We were the Muslim who protects Jewish lives, and the Jew who saves Muslim lives. There’s only one country in the Middle East that could produce a couple like that – and it sure as hell isn’t an apartheid state."
From the website joshuapundit.blogspot.com an article is titled
"
"Pastor John Hagee: "Ani Yisreali - I Am An Israeli" on Friday August 13, 2010
the article says
"One of the definitions of courage is the willingness to stand up for principle and for what's right and be counted -regardless.
As my regular readers know, Pastor John Hagee of Christians United For Israel (CUFI) and the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas has epitomized that kind of courage for years.
Today, my old friend Jason Maoz of the Jewish Press, the largest Orthodox Jewish newspaper in in New York printed some remarks of Pastor Hagee's on the front page. They were made on the occasion of Pastor Hagee's address last month to the fifth annual Christians United For Israel Washington Summit....an annual event when the Pastor marshals thousands of his troops and goes forth to buttonhole Congressmen and defend Zion in the halls of Washington D.C.
Here is what Pastor Hagee had to say:
Our world is divided into two groups: those who support Israel and those who do not.
There is no middle ground.
Because the ghost of Hitler now walks the earth in a renaissance of anti-Semitism and because the enemies of Israel sense America's reluctance to defend Israel against a nuclear Iran, those who stand in solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people must send a loud and clear message to Israel, to Iran, to the UN and to the world:
We stand with Israel today, tomorrow, and forever.
There are several questions supporters of Israel must answer:
Can we sit in silence when the president tells Israel it cannot build homes in Jerusalem?
No we can't.
Can we support any peace process that rejects Israel's right to exist?
No we can't.
Peace is a two-way street. Israel cannot make all the concessions for peace; the Palestinians must make concessions also.
Can we support any treaty that does not recognize Israel's right to defend itself against all enemies?
No we can't.
Can we support toothless sanctions that allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons and risk the horror of a nuclear holocaust?
No we can't"
the article continues
"What do you do when Iran's leader denies the Holocaust? You do what you have to do to make sure there will never be another Holocaust.
Iran with nuclear weapons will give terrorists around the world an umbrella under which to operate - and that includes America.
When will Washington understand that Russia and China are on Iran's side? Didn't we just arrest 10 Russian spies?
Can "we the people" call this nest of spies an act of friendship?
No we can't.
America is at war with enemies who hate us more than they love life.
Can we continue stumbling through this politically correct fog without moral clarity and without an absolute commitment to victory?
No we can't.
Ronald Reagan (God bless his memory) was asked: "How does the cold war end?"
Reagan responded: "We win, they lose!"
We need to send a clear message to our friends in Israel:
We stand with you.
We are united. We are indivisible.
Our goal is victory - for without victory there is no survival.
Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
In the 1930s, America's leaders put their heads in the sand and ignored the threats of Adolf Hitler.
Hitler pledged to kill the Jews.
Washington: "He's just saber rattling!"
and continues
"Hitler called the Jews inhuman.
Washington: "He really doesn't mean that!"
Hitler said the Jews should be wiped off the face of the earth.
Washington: "He's having a bad day."
Now comes Ahmadinejad of Iran, leader of a violent theocratic dictatorship who has promised to "wipe Israel off the map" and declared that "the Zionist regime is doomed."
Can we put our heads in the sand and stupidly say, "He is just saber rattling; he really doesn't mean it"?
No we can't.
Can we ask Israel to make peace with Hezbollah and Hamas, two terrorist armies trained and funded by Iran that have stockpiled tens of thousands of missiles capable of hitting Israel's major cities?
No we can't.
We must also acknowledge a relatively new threat to Israel. This is not a military threat, but it is every bit as dangerous.
Today Israel faces a concerted campaign to deny its very legitimacy.
When this campaign first began years ago, it was confined to the political margins - the far left and the extreme right.
Unfortunately, the campaign to delegitimize Israel is going mainstream.
We see the effort to delegitimize Israel in our international bodies.
In 2001, the nations of the world gathered in Durban, South Africa to confront the evil of racism.
Yet this conference never actually got around to dealing with the very real racism present in so many nations around the world. Instead the representatives gathered in Durban condemned only one nation.
You guessed it - they condemned Israel, over and over, with no regard for truth and no connection to reality.
A memorandum issued in Durban called Israel a "racist, apartheid state."
This theme - that Israel is an apartheid state - has since become the mantra of those who hope to delegitimize Israel.
This lie was given a major boost in 2006 when former president Jimmy Carter released a book titled - Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
Carter's book helped to give legitimacy to this outrageous slander. He should be ashamed.
We see this campaign to delegitimize Israel on our college campuses. Every March, more and more campuses host a week of anti-Israel speakers and demonstrations during something called Israel Apartheid Week."
and continues
"This year, events marking Israel Apartheid Week were held on campuses in over 40 cities worldwide, including many right here in America.
At the University of Texas in Austin, students erected what they called an "apartheid wall" on campus, claiming it was a small replica of what Israel had built along the 1967 border.
Thus, in today's newspeak, Israel's effort to protect its citizens from deadly suicide bombings becomes "apartheid." Yes, it's a ridiculous lie. But for students who don't know better, it's reality.
In addition, America's campuses have become hostile territory for anyone with a pro-Israel message. Pro-Israel speakers are consistently disrupted and shouted down.
Earlier this year, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was invited to speak at the University of California, Irvine. Members of the Muslim Students Association at that school had other plans. They rose to disrupt the ambassador at timed intervals to ensure that no one would have the benefit of his insights.
The students then marched out of the hall together and had the nerve to claim their rights to free speech had been violated."
and continues
"Israel an apartheid state? Israel a racist state? Do facts matter any more? Does reality no longer count?
Israel has 1.5 million Arab citizens with full civil rights.
In Israel, incitement to racism is a serious crime.
In Israel, political parties promoting racism are banned.
There is an Arab justice on Israel's supreme court.
There are Arab members of the Israeli Knesset.
Arabs serve in high-ranking positions in Israel's army and foreign service.
And let us remember this: When Israel airlifted tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, it made the history books as the only time in human history a nation transported thousands of Africans to its shores not to condemn them to a lifetime of slavery but to welcome them as free men and full citizens.
Israel's cause is just. But if the people of the world don't know this truth, it is worthless. It is up to us to spread the truth so that it will be known.
At Christians United for Israel, we are doing our part to spread the truth. We are four and a half years old and already we have grown to become the largest pro-Israel organization in the world.
We have over 425,000 members, including thousands of America's top spiritual leaders. Through these leaders our message reaches millions of Christians in America and around the globe.
This year we have begun a Hispanic outreach to bring America's rapidly growing Hispanic churches into the pro-Israel camp.
We have begun an African American outreach to bring even more of America's black churches into the pro-Israel camp."
and continues
"Our CUFI on Campus has continued to grow and flourish, with student leaders working hard to teach the truth about Israel in the most difficult of circumstances.
CUFI conducts an average of 40 pro-Israel events in cities across America every month. In church after church across this country we are telling the truth about Israel. And our members then leave these churches and share that truth with their families, friends and neighbors.
Every year we gather in Washington to let Congress know that no matter how much noise Israel's opponents make, America's Christians stand with Israel through thick and thin.
Almost 50 years ago, President Kennedy flew into the divided city of Berlin at the height of the cold war. He flew there at a time when West Berlin was a tiny outpost of freedom surrounded by communist tyranny.
He flew there at a time when West Berlin was surrounded, hounded, boycotted, and hungry.
He flew there to send a strong message of solidarity and resolve to the brave West Berliners.
Here is what President Kennedy said in that place at that time: "Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was Civic romanus sum - I am a Roman citizen. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner - I am a Berliner."
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner."
We need to remember those words now more than ever.
Today, I stand in the capital of the greatest nation on earth, the United States of America, at a time when Israel is a tiny outpost of freedom and democracy in a sea of tyranny.
I stand here as Israel is surrounded and hounded, boycotted and threatened. I stand here with a strong message of solidarity with you, my Jewish brethren, the apple of God's eye."
and continues
"At this difficult juncture in our history, permit me to say something to you straight from the heart. Please know that what I say now is a sentiment shared by millions of Christians across America and around the world.
Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli."
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Israel. Therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli."
When international bodies ignore the world's genocides, massacres, and racism to attack Israel, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli.
When college professors teach lies about Israel and students loudly call for Israel's destruction, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli.
When hateful protesters try to shout you down, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli.
When flotillas filled with militants seek to turn Gaza into an Iranian port, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli.
When the world condemns Israel for defending its citizens from thousands of missile and mortar attacks, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli.
When terrorists threaten to kill Israelis, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli.
When madmen threaten to destroy Israel, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli.
When Israel's allies grow weary of fighting tyranny and oppression and seek an easy out that ultimately brings danger closer to our own door, we proudly proclaim: Ani Yisraeli - I am an Israeli."
and lastly states
"Israel and America share the same love of freedom.Israel and America share the same passion for democracy. Israel and America share the same Judeo-Christian values. Israel and America share the same love of life. Israel and America share the same enemies. Israel's enemies are our enemies. Israel's fight is our fight.
If a line has to be drawn, then let it be drawn around both of us - Christians and Jews, Americans and Israelis.
We are one. We are united. And we will not be discouraged and we will not be defeated.
In the end - when the last battle has been fought - the flag of Israel will still be flying over the ancient walls of Jerusalem. Israel will prevail.
These words deserve to be posted and repeated in every church and synagogue in America.
And this is the man, this Christian Tzaddick whom some leftist Jews labeled an anti-Semite."
I'll let my friend Ya'acov from Dry Bones have the last word on that nonsense:
From the website www.algemeiner.com an article by Todd Benjamin on February 13, 2015
is titled
"What Would Winston Churchill Say to Barack Obama?"
by Todd Benjamin
Opinion
the article says
"If Winston Churchill were alive today, this is probably the letter that he would send to President Obama.
Dear Mr. President,
As the leader of the free world, I am deeply perturbed by your constant haranguing of the only true ally the West has in the Middle East: Israel.
While I might admit that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s personality might leave some with a discernable dislike for him, I’d certainly choose to have him at my dinner table (the one you didn’t invite him to in March 2010) than the leaders that you parade around as friends and potential friends, such as Iranian President Rouhani, the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and President Erdogan of Turkey.
These people are not and will never be your friends, mainly because they do not share the core values that make America great. Do not be fooled; they want only to destroy everything we cherish and take for granted in the West.
Mr. Obama, you were elected to office in 2008 with great hope. You were awarded the Noble Prize for Peace only 37 weeks into your first term, based on nothing you did, but on what you said you would do. I’m certain that if the committee were to meet today, six years into your Presidency, not only would you not receive this honor – you probably wouldn’t even be nominated.
Mr. President, you are nothing if not a bully when it comes to dealing with Israel. You believe like my predecessor, Mr. Chamberlain, that appeasement of our enemies is better than support of our real friends like Israel. Fortunately, Israel has a very principled leader in Mr. Netanyahu who has done everything possible to protect his people. He might lack the grace and warmth of a false friend like the leaders of Iran and Turkey, but there is only one man that I would want standing by me in a time of crisis.
Mr. Obama, you refuse to listen to Mr. Netanyahu about Iran. You refuse to hear his warning of the real threats to freedom and security for the West and your people. Mr. President, the world did not listen to me until it was too late about the threat of Hitler – and tens of millions paid with their lives.
There is a book, the title of which is “Munich 1938,” by David Faber. You must read this book. I believe that President Rouhani of Iran has read it, and has learned the lessons of how Hitler fooled the West into believing that he was a partner for peace. Mr. Rouhani is obviously a good student, because he has applied Hitler’s tactics when dealing with you and the West.
Don’t be fooled by false friends bearing false gifts of peace. I beg you to swallow your pride and embrace Mr. Netanyahu. Please listen to him and believe him. He is a true friend of the West and of America
Mr. President, by attacking our friend and true ally Israel, and appeasing our real enemies like Iran, you’ve brought neither peace nor honor to America and the West. Unfortunately, you’ve brought dishonor and possibly war.
Sincerely yours,
Winston Churchill
P.S. By the way, why did you remove the bust of me from your office?"
From the New York Post website, www.nypost.com an article which explains why American Jews and all Israel Supporters should Leave the Democratic Party
the article is titled
"Dems are heading for a complete split with Israel"
By Post Editorial Board
August 20, 2019 | 7:52pm | Updated
the article says
"Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are forcing fellow Democrats to choose between them, on one hand, and standing up for America’s most important Middle East ally, Israel, on the other. Guess which side the Dems are taking?
Hint: Not Israel’s.
After the Jewish state nixed the two lawmakers’ anti-Israel publicity stunt last week, House Democrats began weighing retaliatory measures, including possible legislative action against Israel’s US ambassador, Ron Dermer, and the US envoy to Israel, David Friedman.
Meanwhile, Dems close their eyes to the pair’s blatant anti-Semitism, which is only growing after Israel’s decision. On Friday, for example, the two posted an anti-Israel cartoon by an artist known for drawings that mock Holocaust victims and feature anti-Semitic imagery. Outrage from Dems? Ha.
The pair also upped their “We Hate Israel” campaign. Tlaib teared up before the cameras over how her family members had to pass through “dehumanizing” checkpoints — with nary a word about how those stops are needed to prevent terrorism by Palestinians. Omar called for ending aid to Israel (which lets it buy US military equipment).
Where are the Dems who’ll stand up for the Jewish state against such attacks?
True, Democrats have been moving away from Israel for years now, a shift that makes little strategic — or moral — sense. If they continue to stick with Tlaib and Omar, the split will be complete" Two very ugly unattractive "women" are shown in this article , it's time for American Jews & All Israel supporters to leave the Democrat party
An article on the website www.jewishpress.com on May 29, 2014
is titled
""Do ADL Surveys Cause Anti-Semitism?" the article says
"The ADL's survey inadvertently reinforced prejudicial stereotypes against Jews by giving people concrete negative statements that apparently reflected public opinion and with which agreement was a clear choice.
By Sydney Ross Singer -
"The Anti-Defamation League recently announced to the world the shocking results of its international survey on anti-Semitism. It seems that, despite efforts to combat the disease of prejudice against Jews, this epidemic has spread, and now infects about a quarter of the world’s population.
Clearly, it’s time to rethink the approach that has been taken in treating this social disease, including the use of surveys like the one used to test the problem, which may actually be causing more anti-Semitism. In fact, basic social psychology would suggest that the survey used by the ADL can actually reinforce and spread anti-Semitic attitudes.
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According to the ADL website, the survey, which has been used repeatedly since the 1960s, focused on a series of 11 statements and respondents were asked to agree or disagree with them. Here are the statements.
Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/the countries they live in].
Jews have too much power in international financial markets.
Jews have too much control over global affairs.
Jews think they are better than other people.
Jews have too much control over the global media.
Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars.
Jews have too much power in the business world.
Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind.
People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.
Jews have too much control over the United States government. "
Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.
the article continues
"Note that each question is a negative statement about Jews. That is a major problem with this survey. When people hear a negative statement, it has power in their minds, even if they disagree with it. If they had no prior prejudice, this exposure to negative thoughts about Jews would be a bad first impression.
For example, imagine that someone named David wants to know what people think about him, so he hires someone to go around and ask people – even those who have no idea who David is – if they agree or disagree with statements about him. The first statement is, “David only cares about himself.” Do you agree or disagree?
Of course, you don’t know David, so you might honestly say you have no idea of the truth or falsehood of that statement. But it does give you a bad feeling about David, doesn’t it?
You are then told, “People hate David because of the way he behaves.” Do you agree or disagree? Now you’re thinking about why people hate David. So you must assume people do hate David, but since you don’t know him personally, you can’t honestly say why. But you now think David may be someone you would dislike, too.
Next you’re told, “David thinks he is better than everyone else, is responsible for causing trouble with his neighbors, and has too much power in society.” That makes you scratch your head; you don’t know David but clearly he’s some kind of character to have such negative things said about him.
And so, having been asked to agree or disagree with negative statements about David, a person whom you may never have met, you now have some ideas about David, and they’re all negative. This is how prejudice starts. You have developed anti-Davidism.
People tend to agree with the crowd. That’s a fact of social psychology. If a person is told the crowd dislikes something, that person is likely to go along with that feeling. In the ADL survey, most respondents had no exposure to actual Jewish people. They only thought what others thought. The ADL’s survey inadvertently reinforced prejudicial stereotypes against Jews by giving people concrete negative statements that apparently reflected public opinion and with which agreement was a clear choice"
and lastly says
"If we wanted to ask people their opinion of the Holocaust, we could ask them to agree or disagree with a true statement such as “Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.” Or we could ask them to agree or disagree with a false statement such as “The Holocaust is a Jewish fabrication to get international sympathy for Zionistic expansionism.” Are these questions equivalent in their impact? The first question reinforces the truth, the second creates doubt concerning the truth. Someone who may never have questioned the Holocaust as a real event may begin to do so by the false statement.
The bottom line is that survey questions are sources of information for those being surveyed. They teach and influence as well as detect. Negative surveys, like the one the ADL used, can create the very problem it is trying to assess.
Imagine if the questions asked were positive statements about Jews instead of the harmful stereotypes used. It could have asked, for example, if one agreed or disagreed with the following statements:
Jews are responsible members of society in every culture in which they live.
Jews are a proud people who have survived for thousands of years despite adversity.
Jews are known for their philanthropy and kindness toward the poor and suffering.
Jewish people feel a personal responsibility for creating world peace.
Jewish people are passionate, intelligent, and kind.
People admire Jews because of their rich heritage and high sense of morality and ethics.
I wish I were a Jew.
The Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed, was a loss for all of humanity.
If questions like these had been asked of non-Jews around the world, it may have produced a lasting positive impression. And that is what is needed to counter anti-Semitism.
Jews have to stop telling everyone why they hate us and start telling them why they like us. We need to be positive in a negative world. That is the Jewish way. We are a light in a world of darkness and shadows. Let’s shine our best on the world, instead of telling the world how dark it is."
From the website www.breibart.com an article is titled
"The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority"
by Ben Shapiro 4 Sep 2014 the article says
"Over the weekend, former President Jimmy Carter attended the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) conference in Detroit. There, he assured Muslims that the “principles of Allah” were designed to “bring peace and justice to all.” ISNA’s ties to terror-supporters are quite deep.
But Carter isn’t alone. For years, American leaders have lectured Muslims on the nature of Islam, in the fruitless hope that pooh-poohing Islamic extremism as a fringe element will somehow convince Muslims all over the world that America is more of a friend to them than Islamic radicals are. This week, Barack Obama said, “ISIL speaks for no religion” — which comes a shock to those who live in the world of reality, given that ISIL certainly speaks for a certain segment of a religion. Eric Holder has said that radical Islam is not consistent with the teachings of Islam. For years, George W. Bush assured Americans that Islamic extremists represented but a tiny minority of Muslims. Hillary Clinton wrote in her new memoir Hard Choices that “Not all Islamists are alike…it is in America’s interest to encourage all religiously based political parties and leaders to embrace inclusive democracy and reject violence.”
This may be true. Or it may not be true. What is certainly true is that American politicians, mostly Christian or atheist, know less about the nature of Islam and Islamic radicalism than members of ISIS. To suggest that a cursory examination of platitudes about the Koran provides enough knowledge to spout paternalistic expertise about the religion is insulting to Muslims of all stripes"
the article continues
"Here’s what we do know: the polls show that Islamic extremism is on the rise. That’s not because it’s a fringe element. It’s because the West has swallowed multiculturalism wholesale, to the point where it’s politically unpalatable to condemn Islamic extremism for the mass rape of children.
So, here is the evidence that the enemy we face is not a “tiny minority” of Muslims, let alone a rootless philosophy unconnected to Islam entirely. It’s not just the thousands of westerners now attempting to join ISIS. It’s millions of Muslims who support their general goals, even if they don’t support the group itself.
France. A new, widely-covered poll shows that a full 16% of French people have positive attitudes toward ISIS. That includes 27% of French between the ages of 18-24. Anne-Elizabeth Moutet of Newsweek wrote, “This is the ideology of young French Muslims from immigrant backgrounds…these are the same people who torch synagogues.”
Britain. In 2006, a poll for the Sunday Telegraph found that 40% of British Muslims wanted shariah law in the United Kingdom, and that 20% backed the 7/7 bombers. Another poll from that year showed that 45% of British Muslims said that 9/11 was an American/Israeli conspiracy; that poll showed that one-quarter of British Muslims believed that the 7/7 bombings were justified.
Palestinian Areas. A poll in 2011 showed that 32% of Palestinians supported the brutal murder of five Israeli family members, including a three-month-old baby. In 2009, a poll showed that 78% of Palestinians had positive or mixed feelings about Osama Bin Laden. A 2013 poll showed 40% of Palestinians supporting suicide bombings and attacks against civilians. 89% favored sharia law. Currently, 89% of Palestinians support terror attacks on Israel."
the article continues
"Pakistan. After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Gilani Foundation did a poll of Pakistanis and found that 51% of them grieved for the terrorist mastermind, with 44% of them stating that he was a martyr. In 2009, 26% of Pakistanis approved of attacks on US troops in Iraq. That number was 29% for troops in Afghanistan. Overall, 76% of Pakistanis wanted strict shariah law in every Islamic country.
Morocco. A 2009 poll showed that 68% of Moroccans approved of terrorist attacks on US troops in Iraq; 61% backed attacks on American troops in Afghanistan as of 2006. 76% said they wanted strict sharia law in every Islamic country.
Jordan. 72% of Jordanians backed terror attacks against US troops in Iraq as of 2009. In 2010, the terrorist group Hezbollah had a 55% approval rating; Hamas had a 60% approval rating.
Indonesia: In 2009, a poll demonstrated that 26% of Indonesians approved of attacks on US troops in Iraq; 22% backed attacks on American troops in Afghanistan. 65% said they agreed with Al Qaeda on pushing US troops out of the Middle East. 49% said they supported strict sharia law in every Islamic country. 70% of Indonesians blamed 9/11 on the United States, Israel, someone else, or didn’t know. Just 30% said Al Qaeda was responsible.
Egypt. As of 2009, 87% of Egyptians said they agreed with the goals of Al Qaeda in forcing the US to withdraw forces from the Middle East. 65% said they wanted strict sharia law in every Islamic country. As of that same date, 69% of Egyptians said they had either positive or mixed feelings about Osama Bin Laden. In 2010, 95% of Egyptians said it was good that Islam is playing a major role in politics."
the article lastly says
"United States. A 2013 poll from Pew showed that 13% of American Muslims said that violence against civilians is often, sometimes or rarely justified to defend Islam. A 2011 poll from Pew showed that 21 percent of Muslims are concerned about extremism among Muslim Americans. 19 percent of American Muslims as of 2011 said they were either favorable toward Al Qaeda or didn’t know.
In short, tens of millions of Muslims all over the world sympathize with the goals or tactics of terrorist groups – or both. That support is stronger outside the West, but it is present even in the West. Islamist extremism is not a passing or fading phenomenon – it is shockingly consistent over time. And the West’s attempts to brush off the ideology of fanaticism has been an overwhelming failure."
Ben Shapiro is Senior Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the new book, The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration (Threshold Editions, June 10, 2014). He is also Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org. Follow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro. Of course Not all Muslims are bad or evil people , I have personally known plenty of Decent Muslims, but as this article shows, Islamic Extremism is sadly on the Rise,
More about the Greatness of Israel, the website, nocamels.com
has an article titled
"Lifesize Lego Replica of SpaceIL’s Beresheet Lander To Open Lego Space Park"
By NoCamels Team July 25, 2019
the article says
"A lifesize Lego structure of SpaceIL’s Beresheet lunar spacecraft, created by Israeli artist Yuval Dvorin, will be unveiled by Morris Kahn, philanthropist and SpaceIL president, at the launch of the month-long Lego Space Park opening Thursday at the Tel Aviv Convention Center, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The structure is a replica of the SpaceIL lunar lander, launched into space earlier this year, and matches its size. Dvorin used 100,000 Lego bricks to make the structure, and weighs close to 400 pounds, according to The Jerusalem Post report.
In an interview with Israeli national daily Yediot Ahronot, Dvorin said the cost of the bricks came to more than 500,000 shekels (over $141,000.)
The Lego Space Park exhibition, held in partnership with Lego, the Israel Aerospace Industry, and SpaceIL will open in Tel Aviv on Saturday, July 26 and will run through the summer. The exhibition features large size Lego models associated with the world of space and science. Children are also given the chance to build their own Lego structures.
Dvorin, who currently lives in Holland with his family, only had a short time to complete the structure, before it was flown to Israel. He received full drawings of the Beresheet spacecraft and was asked to sign confidentiality agreements by SpaceIL and the IAI, according to the report.
The Beresheet (Hebrew for “Genesis’) lunar lander attempted to make Israel the fourth country in the world to complete a controlled moon landing this year. The spacecraft was launched on February 22 on the back of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and orbited the Earth and the moon, traveling 6.5 million km before attempting a landing that ended in a crash on April 11.
Despite the crash, Beresheet still broke ground on lunar initiatives. It was a largely privately-funded moon mission, operating on a relatively modest budget (for a space mission) of approximately $100 million. Beresheet was also the smallest spacecraft ever built and traveled the largest distance to the moon.
The moon mission was first conceived in 2011 by Israeli engineers Yariv Bash, Kfir Damar, and Yonatan Winetraub to enter the Google Lunar X Prize competition, a global contest challenging international engineers to create and send the first private lander to the moon. The three founded the non-profit organization SpaceIL and partnered with IAI to design and build the spacecraft. While the March 31, 2018 deadline for the contest passed and the $20 million prize went unclaimed, SpaceIL decided to surge forward on its own journey to launch the lander.
After the crash, SpaceIL president Morris Khan, the project’s main backer, vowed to launch a second spacecraft but canceled the plan late last month to focus on “another, significant objective.” The details of that objective are not yet known.
The groundbreaking design and tech behind the Beresheet lunar lander will serve as the basis for future lunar missions launched by Texas aerospace company Firefly Aerospace, as the company is set to create a new lunar lander based on the spacecraft’s blueprints as part of a NASA program.
NASA says the program is “one of the first steps toward long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and eventually Mars.”
Minister of Science, Technology and Space Ofir Akunis says the Lego space-themed initiative was chosen to encourage children to dream of their own futures in space and science"
More about the Greatness of Israel, The website for the Jerusalem Post,
www.jpost.com has an article titled
"
"Tel Aviv ranked world's 3rd hottest city for 2011"
Lonely Planet's Top Cities list describes Israel's most international city as hedonistic, tolerant, cultured, and a truly diverse 21st-century hub.
By JPOST.COM STAFF November 1, 2010 15:03
1 minute read.
the article says
"After scouring the globe for next year’s hottest cities, the editors at travel guide company Lonely Planet released their Top 10 Cities for 2011 on Sunday, listing what it called a “modern Sin City” – Tel Aviv – at No. 3.
Coming in behind New York City and Tangier, Tel Aviv is described as being unified by the religion of hedonism, yet tolerant, cultured and a truly diverse 21st-century hub.
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Touching on the city’s wellknown night life, Lonely Planet observes, “There are more bars than synagogues, God is a DJ and everyone’s body is a temple.”
Calling Tel Aviv the most international city in Israel, Lonely Planet points out that the city is home to a large gay community, calling it “a kind of San Francisco in the Middle East.”
On a cultural note, they credit the city’s university and museums with making it “the greenhouse for Israel’s growing art, film and music scenes.”
Lonely Planet recommends strolling down the pleasant tree-lined streets that reach to the Mediterranean Sea, and finding out why Tel Aviv’s residents call it the greatest city on earth.
Other cities that made the list were Valencia, the Peruvian Amazon city of Iquitos, Delhi, Newcastle, and the city the company describes as the spiritual heir to Bob Dylan, Chiang Mai.
Lonely Planet on Sunday also listed its Top 10 Countries for 2011. While Israel did not make the 2011 list, Syria did.
Coming in at No. 9, the guide lauds Syria’s slowly liberalizing economy and the newfound freedom of no longer having the “noose of the ‘Axis of Evil’ tag hanging around its neck” as some of the reasons for Syria making this year’s list.
The writers recommend the old cities of Aleppo and Damascus, exploring the open countryside “strewn with the abandoned playgrounds of fallen empires.”
Albania topped the list, with Brazil coming in second"
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article from 2013 by
Daniel Pomerantz is titled
"Why I started Playboy Israel"
A complex and beautiful magazine for a complex and beautiful country
Mar 4, 2013, 9:32 PM
the article says
"Last fall at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, California, Hugh Hefner, the Playmates and the staff were, davka! speaking Hebrew. I had brought my team to Playboy’s offices for training and during lunch at the Mansion we all took a moment to talk about ourselves. As a new oleh (immigrant) in Israel I still get excited about Hebrew words, and so I shared the word shfan-fana, which means Playboy Bunny. As far as I know, Hebrew is the only language in the world that has such a word, and everyone at Playboy was excited to learn it, and to repeat it over and over. Just a few years earlier I could not have imagined such an unusual situation.
I used to see Israel as an abstraction: home to cousins I’d never met, ancient artifacts, and that impossible language from my bar mitzvah. Yet from the first moment I arrived in Israel as an adult, I felt that I was at home. I don’t mean in a Leon Uris, dramatic Hollywood, lifelong dream kind of way: I mean that I just felt totally natural, as if I’d always been here. I didn’t know the language, I couldn’t find my way around (sometimes I still can’t!) but every time someone tried to make a shidduch for me (fix me up), invited me for Shabbat, or yelled in a public place, it all just felt familiar, and it felt “right.”
So I came back to visit: again and again and again. One day a friend in Israel asked me, “Don’t you ever feel homesick for Chicago?” I thought about her question and then answered honestly, “No I don’t, but sometimes when I’m in Chicago I feel homesick for Israel.” I understood in that moment that I had to make aliya, and three months later I moved to Israel."
the article continues
"During the many visits to Israel, I was working as a lawyer in Chicago. Many of my clients were entertainment and media entrepreneurs, and I was the head of the Chicago Bar Association’s “Creative Arts Committee.” At the time Playboy’s headquarters were in Chicago, so I came to know their lawyers and I even attended the annual shareholder meetings.
The Playboy company held a certain magic for me because of its contradictions: serious yet glamorous; a world of beautiful icons but also hard-working professionals; a logo so famous that it is recognized all over the planet, and yet hundreds of anonymous people work behind the scenes every day to make this phenomenon possible. I learned about Playboy’s history and it surprised me: interviews with heavyweights like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter and even Yasser Arafat; the fiction section where an unknown Ray Bradbury got his first big break alongside authors like Isaac Bashevis Singer. Here in Israel we are continuing this tradition of heavyweight quality: including our deep and personal interview with Avi Dichter, currently Israel’s Minister of Internal Security, and former head of the Shabak, as well as our feature story on the day that Steve Jobs met Andy Warhol (and showed him the world’s first Macintosh computer).
Of course I already knew that Playboy featured beautiful women, but I hadn’t fully appreciated the caliber: the first issue in 1953 featured Marilyn Monroe, and since then women like Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Madonna have posed, while artists like Salvador Dali and photographers like Mario Sorrenti have directed photo shoots. In our first issue we feature Israeli celebrity fashion model Natalie Dadon on our cover, and Israeli dancer Marin Teremets in our Playmate centerfold.
Given my familiarity with Playboy, I naturally kept an eye out when I visited Israel: Is there an Israeli edition? What’s it like? To my surprise I saw a variety of Playboy products but no magazine. So I spoke to my friends and colleagues in Chicago, and they put me in touch with Playboy’s international group. At first this was idle curiosity, but conversations became meetings, meetings led to research and plans, and one day Playboy’s international group asked me a life-changing question: would I like to bring Playboy Magazine to Israel?
I’ve seen a lot of surprising things in my first year of Aliya: Yom Kippur when the streets empty and children ride their bikes, and Yom HaZikaron when thousands of people stand and cry together because everyone has lost someone. I’ve voted, and seen the shape of our government change before our eyes, I’ve heard sirens and learned how it feels to run to a bomb shelter, I’ve walked through Yafo on peaceful evenings during the Muslim call to prayer, and joined in protests for social justice. I attended ulpan Hebrew classes with new Israelis from all over the world, and even volunteered in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), where I lived and worked on a base, side by side with our soldiers. Yet I’ve also seen Israel’s fashionable side: Tel Aviv Fashion Week, the Gay Pride parades, concerts, theaters, and coffee houses. And of course, I’ve visited the Playboy Headquarters as a representative of my country."
and continues
"Through these experiences, I’ve come to understand that Israel is a land of contradictions: of tradition and modernity; of pragmatism and style; a refuge from dangers of the past and present, but also a real home for our future. When I look at Playboy I see irresistible contradictions as well: a focal point for beauty and style yet also a forum for argument and serious thought; a story of tradition, but also of freedom and change. I believe that a magazine as complex and beautiful as Playboy is the perfect fit for a country as complex and beautiful as Israel, and I now work every day with a staff of talented, passionate professionals who feel the same. In the words of Ernest Hemmingway (another one of Playboy’s many famous authors), “The shortest answer is to do the thing.” My entire team and I are all very proud to say that after 60 years of success in 30 countries, Playboy has finally made aliya" there was never a "Playboy Palestine"
From the website of the New York Post Newspaper, www.nypost.com
an article titled
" Don’t toss our gains against ISIS down the drain"
By Post Editorial Board
August 22, 2019 | 8:19pm | Updated
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations.
the article says
"Uh-oh: ISIS is back — and it’s regaining strength in Iraq and Syria.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged that Tuesday, following a similar report by the inspector general for the US military campaign against the terror group.
According to the IG report, “ISIS remains a threat,” it has “continued its transition from a territory-holding force to an insurgency in Syria” and it has “intensified its insurgency in Iraq.”
The US-backed Syrian Defense Forces expelled ISIS from its last piece of Syrian-held territory in April, but Islamic State fighters fled to the northeast, where cells still exist. Between then and June, ISIS militants waged “targeted assassinations, ambushes, suicide bombings and the burning of crops.”
One key problem: The drop in US troops in the region has left the SDF and Iraqi Security Forces unable to maintain sufficient pressure on ISIS, which has “reorganized its leadership and established safe havens in rural Sunni-majority areas” in Iraq.
In Afghanistan, meanwhile, ISIS claimed credit for bombing a wedding in Kabul that claimed the lives of 80 guests last weekend.
Pompeo insists the caliphate is still dead and ISIS’ “capacity to conduct external attacks has been made much more difficult.” The US has “taken down significant risk,” he says — but “not all of it.”
President Trump has been eager to bring home all US troops there. Yet ISIS is like cancer: If you don’t eradicate it fully, it’ll come back — to kill. Americans should be proud of their military’s role in cutting the group down to size and freeing land it stole. How tragic if all that good work went down the drain with an ISIS comeback."
From the Jerusalem Post website, www.jpost.com an article is titled
" The Nazi-like boycott of Jews is a global menace" the article says
Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
By Adam Milstein
July 23, 2019 21:22
the article says
"The Nazi-like boycott of Jews is a global menace
Demonstrators in Herning, Denmark, on February 23 call for Denmark to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest because it was being hosted in Israel. (photo credit: HENNING BAGGER / RITZAU SCANPIX / REUTERS)
Since its establishment in 2001 by the major Palestinian terrorist organizations, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has masqueraded as a nonviolent grassroots human rights organization that aims to “improve” the well-being of Palestinians. Instead of protecting the Palestinians, however, the movement is laser focused on economically, culturally and politically isolating and eradicating the State of Israel, using the model that was applied previously to the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Until recently, the BDS movement was able to hide its true intentions, building alliances with global civil rights groups. It sought protection for its hateful ideas using claims of freedom of speech, notwithstanding that it openly uses antisemitic propaganda that demonizes Jews living in Israel, the only homeland of the Jewish people. This acceptance allowed BDS to promote hate and incitement to violence against Jews in Israel and everywhere.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” In recent years, it is become increasingly evident the BDS movement is – and always has been – a front of Palestinians terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah, which are still coordinating major global BDS activities and have close links to many of its members and groups.
Many have come to understand that BDS is antisemitic. The US State Department defines antisemitism as animus toward Jews and cites the specific example of “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” This definition is accepted by governments and organizations around the globe. Self-determination is recognized as a human right and Israel, the one and only Jewish state, is an inseparable part of the Jewish identity.
Thus, BDS by definition is antisemitic. But that’s not all. More and more evidence shows that the BDS movement’s antisemitism not only works to deny the Jewish people the right of self-determination, but also drives violence against Jews and others globally.
Late year, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) published a report about the BDS movement’s activities on college campuses, which revealed that Students for Justice in Palestine, the primary BDS organization on American campuses, associates with terrorist organizations while its members encourage intimidation and violence against Jewish students."
the article continues
"The JCPA report definitively shows that BDS promotes antisemitism and has been a primary driver of violence and hate crimes against Jews.
Earlier this year, the Israeli government issued a report called “Terrorists in Suits.” The report exposed the BDS movement’s links to terrorist organizations and demonstrated that BDS was established by Palestinian terrorist groups to eradicate the State of Israel and murder its Jewish citizens by using violent, “non-military” means.
It provided unprecedented details about how the BDS movement was established by and continues to be financially supported and run by members of US designated internationally recognized terrorist organizations. The terrorists leading the BDS movement are using military attacks against Jews in Israel while complementing these activities with non-military tactics to demonize and threaten Jews in Europe and the US
WHILE THE antisemitic and violent nature of BDS movement is just now becoming apparent in America, it is much clearer in Europe, where attacks on Jews have risen exponentially with the mainstreaming of BDS rhetoric. As a result, the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs Council unanimously approved a declaration denouncing antisemitism that focused explicitly on the denial of Israel’s right to exist that is passionately championed by adherents of BDS.
But BDS is even more dangerous than your run of the mill antisemitism. It radicalizes members of all hate movements and encourages violence. Two months ago, Germany adopted a bipartisan motion recognizing that BDS is antisemitic and its methods are reminiscent of Nazi-era calls to boycott Jews. What led Germany to realize the resemblance of the BDS movement to Nazis? "
the article lastly says
"The top German intelligence agency recently published its most comprehensive analysis of rising antisemitism by Islamist extremists in the country, addressing the rise in antisemitic attacks committed by migrants from Arab states. The antisemitism in the “early warning” report acknowledges that the vast majority of antisemitic crimes in Germany still come from right-wing extremists. However, it also suggests that Muslim communities – who are championing BDS in Germany – are a hotbed of hatred against Jews, infiltrated by Islamist organizations and movements and their propaganda. This type of propaganda is the kind that ferment antisemitic radicalization and “forms the breeding ground for violent escalations.”
This isn’t only in Germany. The New York Times recently published an article titled “They Spit When I Walk in the Street: ‘The New Antisemitism’ in France”. It detailed how French Jews are afraid to “look Jewish” when walking in parts of Paris. Some supporters of Marine Le Pen’s populist right-wing party engaged in antisemitic rhetoric, yet the main source of violence in France against Jews comes from Muslim immigrants, many of whom are engaged in extreme anti-Israel activity.
A 2018 Austrian report on antisemitism analyzed “Imported antisemitic narratives” and indicated that Muslims residents consistently agreed with antisemitic statements more than the general Austrian population. About 65% agreed with the statement, “If the state of Israel no longer exists, then peace prevails in the Middle East.”
Centrist and liberal opponents blame nationalist and populist parties in Western Europe for antisemitism. Ironically, Jews are far safer in Eastern European countries such as Hungary and Poland where governments are controlled by right-wing populists.
It’s not just that BDS has co-opted Nazi-era antisemitic tactics to perpetuate hate. The movement also bolsters other fringe antisemites, like white nationalists and radical leftists, as evidenced in the recent amicus brief filed at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the State of Arkansas’s anti-BDS law.
The BDS movement that promotes hate against Jews is not inclusive, peaceful or humane. It is an insidious push to legitimize antisemitism. This is the same hatred and bigotry that Europe and America have fought to destroy.
By cloaking itself in a veneer of “political criticism,” this terrorist-led movement conceals its violent roots and its goal of denying the Jewish people the same human rights afforded to other people around the world.
We must use anti-terrorist and anti-discrimination laws to defeat this vile BDS hatred."
The writer is an Israeli-American philanthropist. He can be reached at adam@milsteinff.org, on Twitter @AdamMilstein, and at facebook.com/AdamMilsteinCP.
Don't be Fooled by Anti-Israel Lies, Anti-Israel People are Ugly Loser Liars & Frauds who cowardly hide behind "Free Speech" to Spew their Hate, & Lies
They are Satanic Heartless Evil Liars, Truth is NOT on their Side ,
Anti-Israel People are stupid liars, they lack the intelligence of Pro-Israel People,
The website www.thetower.org has an article titled
"On Many Campuses, Hate is Spelled SJP" by Daniel Mael
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PA Doubles Pay-To-Slay Salary of Terrorist Behind Murder of Three Israeli Teens
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the article says
"They advocate for Israel’s destruction, admire terrorists, and are making Jewish students feel unsafe on campuses across the country. They’re Students for Justice in Palestine—and they’re a huge problem.
With summer behind us, students are returning to campuses across North America, and a new wave of student activism is taking up positions on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The two camps may look similar in terms of funding and fervor, but they differ dramatically in one especially fundamental way: While pro-Israel activism is diverse and defined by innumerable independent groups representing every shade of religious and political nuance, the Palestinian forces are dominated by a single group: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
SJP claims to stand for human rights, specifically the rights of the Palestinian people; and consistently portrays itself as an advocate for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and solidarity with the oppressed.
But a closer look at the group’s rhetoric and actions tells a different story.
Instead of promoting justice, SJP and/or its members spend almost all of their energy demonizing Israel, advocating for its eventual destruction, showing an unfortunate affinity for pro-terrorist figures, bullying and intimidating pro-Israel and Jewish students with vicious and sometimes anti-Semitic rhetoric, and even at times engaging in physical violence. While SJP may pay lip-service to peaceful aims, their rhetoric and actions make it hard to avoid the conclusion that a culture of hatred permeates nearly everything the group does—making the college experience increasingly uncomfortable, at times even dangerous, for Jewish or pro-Israel students. Perhaps equally disturbing is the limited response from university authorities that have an obligation to prevent such attacks and protect Jewish students.
And the risk to Jewish and pro-Israel students appears to be growing. Indeed, unless college administrators take a more active role in preventing it, SJP has a good chance of achieving its goal of turning venomous hatred of Israel and bullying of Jews and non-Jewish supporters—with all the violence and fear that inevitably accompany it—into a legitimate and accepted tactic on North American campuses"
SJP are also Cowards hiding behind "Free Speech" to spew their Hate & Lies, their Anti-Israel Hate & Lies
they are Heartless Evil & Satanic , Free Speech & Freedom of Expression is indeed Important but Jewish & Pro-Israel Students have a Right to NOT endure a Hostile Threatening Environment & Abuse , go on www.thetower.org to read the rest of this article by Daniel Mael
The late actor Comedian Jerry Lewis who died in 2017 had the following to say about
Syrian Refugees , the website www.washingtontimes.com had an article titled
"Jerry Lewis: Refugees 'should stay where the hell they are'"
the article said
"Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis asserted that Syrian refugees should “stay where the hell they are” and declared his support for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in a recent interview with Catholic journalist Raymond Arroyo. (YouTube/@Amanda Prestigiacomo) more >
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the article says
"Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis asserted that Syrian refugees should “stay where the hell they are” and declared his support for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in a recent interview with Catholic journalist Raymond Arroyo.
“ISIS has attacked the world. And all of a sudden I’m wondering, ‘Where are all of our NATO allies?’ Why don’t I have Germany, and Italy and Great Britain?” Mr. Lewis, 89, said in the wide-ranging Dec. 10 interview, first reported by the Gateway Pundit.
“Get all of your military together, bring that military to our military and wipe ‘em out!” he exclaimed. “They’re asking to be stopped. And we’re not stopping them, we’re just reporting what they’re doing. It’s ridiculous.”
Asked to weigh in on the Syrian refugee crisis, Mr. Lewis said bluntly: “Refugees should stay where the hell they are.”
“Hey, nobody has worked harder for the human condition than I have, but they’re not part of the human condition. If 11 guys in that group of 10,000 are ISIS—how can I take the chance? I don’t want to lose another Frenchman or another Englishman,” he said. “You can’t really knock the president, per se, because he was never prepared for it. And what I’m watching in him is uncertainty. And you don’t have uncertainty in a leader. A leader doesn’t give a s– what he does, but he gets it done.”
Mr. Arroyo then asked the comedian his thoughts on Mr. Trump.
“I think he’s great,” Mr. Lewis said. “He’s a showman and we’ve never had a showman in the president’s chair.”
“Well, we had Ronald Reagan,” Mr. Arroyo added.
“Well, that’s different,” Mr. Lewis said. “You can’t make a comparison with Ronald Reagan because I can do three hours on him with just praise, he was so good.”
Earlier in the interview, Mr. Lewis was asked to give his thoughts on several popular comedians.
“I don’t like him,” he said of Stephen Colbert. “I think he’s a snob. I think he’s elitist and a snob.”
He used the words “wonderful” and “brilliant” to describe Tina Fey"
Culture
In J.K. Rowling’s new novel, a villain is an Israel-hating anti-Semite
By Yvette Alt Miller September 21, 2018 1:23 pm
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) at Royal Albert Hall in London, Feb. 12, 2017. (John Phillips/Getty Images)
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(JTA) — For months author J.K. Rowling has been warning about the dangers of anti-Semitism in England, sparring on Twitter with critics who either downplay the phenomenon or say its proponents are confusing criticism of Israel with Jew hatred.
Now, in her newest book, she includes a character whose obsessive anti-Zionism morphs into anti-Semitism.
“Lethal White,” the fourth novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike mystery series, written under the pen name Robert Galbraith, features a pair of hard-left political activists who believe “Zionists” are evil and have a stranglehold on Western governments.
Extortionist Jimmy Knight’s extreme hatred of Israel has led him to hate Jews.
“I wouldn’t trust him if it was anything to do with Jews,” Knight’s ex-wife tells a detective. “He doesn’t like them. Israel’s the root of all evil, according to Jimmy. Zionism: I got sick of the bloody sound of the word. You’d think they’d suffered enough,” she says of Jews.
Rowling’s depiction of a far-left anti-Semite comes at a time of record high anti-Semitism in Britain, where she lives. Britain’s Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have been accused of insensitivity to Jews and condoning anti-Jewish sentiments within the party’s ranks. Corbyn previously defended a grotesquely anti-Semitic London mural depicting Jewish bankers, and referred to his “friends” in terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, though he’s said he now regrets these positions.
A September 2018 poll found that nearly 40 percent of British Jews would seriously consider emigrating if Corbyn became prime minister — as polls show he might.
The latest novel isn’t the first time the author of the Harry Potter series has commented on the dangers of anti-Semitism.
“Most UK Jews in my timeline are currently having to field this kind of crap, so perhaps some of us non-Jews should start shouldering the burden,” she wrote in April, in response to a critic who said Judaism is a religion, not a race. “Antisemites thinks this is a clever argument, so tell us, do: were atheist Jews exempted from wearing the yellow star?”
Rowling, who is not Jewish, also shared with her 14.4 million Twitter followers examples of posts she’d received that denied anti-Semitism was a problem.
To a commenter who posted that Arabs cannot possibly be anti-Semitic because Arabs are Semites too, Rowling tweeted a photo of a dictionary definition of anti-Semitism: “hostility to or prejudice against Jews.” She also included a spirited defense of Jews: “Split hairs. Debate etymology. Gloss over the abuse of your fellow citizens by attacking the actions of another country’s government. Would your response to any other form of racism or bigotry be to squirm, deflect or justify?”
When a Jewish mother tweeted Rowling to say her son had faced anti-Semitic bullies in school, Rowling tweeted back “so sorry” and wrote “Know that you aren’t alone and that a lot of us stand with you xx.”
A few months later, on Aug. 26, after a fellow mystery writer, Simon Maginn, tweeted that British Jews’ outrage over Corbyn’s views were “synthetic,” Rowling defended the Jews. “What other minority would you speak to this way?” she posted, before quoting from Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay “Anti-Semite and Jew.” "
the article continues
"In 2015, Rowling declined to endorse open letters calling for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel and signed by over 1,000 British authors and opinion leaders. Instead, she joined 150 other writers and artists in penning an alternative letter opposing singling out Israel for opprobrium.
“Israelis will be right to ask why cultural boycotts are not also being proposed against…North Korea,” her Oct. 23, 2015 letter declared. Instead of boycotts, the letter said, “Cultural engagement builds bridges, nurtures freedom and positive movement for change.”
Rowling has been critical of the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but is adamant that Israel, its people and its supporters should not be subjected to a double standard by their opponent" Anti-Israel people are such Obsessive Nutcase Loser Troublemakers , they need to Get a Life and Get Help
The Article titled
"In J.K. Rowling's new novel, a villain is an Israel-hating anti-Semite" is from the website www.jta.org Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the article can be found here,
https://www.jta.org/2018/09/21/culture/j-k-rowlings-new-novel-villain-israel-hating-anti-semite
From the website, www.bluestarpr.com an article is titled
"Pallywood Fiction: Lies About Israel" the article has a link to a video,
Produced by Write On For Israel/San Francisco teen participants
the article says
"As Bay Area high school students, we encounter people who hold many preconceived notions of Israel. Some of our teachers openly condemn Israel for being an apartheid state and engaging in other monstrosities; fellow students speak of Israelis as murderers; and many peers refuse even to acknowledge Israel’s legitimacy as a state. Therefore, my WOFI team chose to make our documentary about Israel’s public image and about how it is being demonized by falsified media in “Pallywood,” a widespread effort to present the Palestinians as hapless victims of Israeli aggression. While filming, we met people who gave us a great deal of insight into the topic and opened our minds to the dangers. Today, most people trust the media to always tell the truth, even when it lies. Anti-Israel forces use the international media as a powerful channel to spread disinformation. By exposing the lies of Pallywood we want to put a spotlight on their malicious efforts. Our goal is to reveal the damage that’s been done to Israel’s image by Pallywood and show Israel in a brighter light–because we feel that we must do our part to protect the only real democracy in the Middle East."
From the website www.israelforever.org an article is titled
"Ten Deadly Lies about Israel"
by Ambassador Ron Dermer
the article says
"As Israeli civilians are butchered by Palestinian terrorists, the truth about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is also being butchered by a campaign of vicious lies. Here are 10 of the most pernicious myths about the current attacks:
Israel is trying to change the status quo on the Temple Mount.
False. Israel stringently maintains the status quo on the Temple Mount. Last year some 3.5 million Muslims visited the Temple Mount alongside some 200,000 Christians and 12,000 Jews. Only Muslims are allowed to pray on the Mount, and non-Muslims may visit only at specified times, which have not changed. Though the Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site—where Solomon built his Temple some 3,000 years ago—Israel will not allow a change in the status quo. The ones trying to change the status quo are Palestinians, who are violently trying to prevent Jews and Christians from even visiting a site holy to all three faiths.
Israel seeks to destroy al-Aqsa mosque.
False: Since reuniting Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has vigorously protected the holy sites of all faiths, including al-Aqsa. In the Middle East, where militant Islamists desecrate and destroy churches, synagogues, world heritage sites, as well as each other's mosques, Israel is the only guarantor of Jerusalem's holy places. Palestinians have been propagating the “al-Aqsa is in danger” myth since at least 1929, when the Palestinian icon, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, used it to inspire the massacre of Jews in Hebron and elsewhere. Nearly a century later, the mosque remains unharmed, but the lie persists.
A recent surge in settlement construction has caused the current wave of violence.
False: Annual construction in the settlements has substantially decreased over the past 15 years. Under Prime Minister Ehud Barak (2000), 5,000 new units were built in the settlements; under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (2001-05) an average of 1,881; under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2005-08) 1,774. All three were hailed as peacemakers. What about under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2009-15)? Just 1,554. Some surge. Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/ten-deadly-lies-about-israel-213272#ixzz3ry9O9UBn
President Abbas says that Israel “executed” the innocent Palestinian Ahmed Manasra.
False: Manasra is neither innocent nor dead. He stabbed a 13-year-old Jewish boy who was riding his bicycle. Manasra has been discharged from the same hospital where his victim continues to fight for his life.
Israel uses excessive force in dealing with terrorist attacks.
False: Using force to stop an attack by a gun, knife, cleaver or ax-wielding terrorist is legitimate self-defense. Israeli police officers are subject to strict rules that govern the use of deadly force, which is permitted only in life-threatening situations. How would the American public expect its police to respond to terrorists stabbing passersby as well as police officers?
the article continues
" The current violence is the result of stagnation in the peace process.
False: Israel experienced some of the worst terrorism in its history when the peace process was at its peak. The reason for Palestinian terrorism is neither progress nor stagnation in the peace process, but the desire of the terrorists to destroy Israel.
President Abbas is a voice of moderation.
False: Abbas said on September 16 that he welcomes “every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem.” Abbas has not condemned a single one of the 30 terror attacks on Israelis over the past month. He and his Fatah movement continue to use the Web and the airwaves to incite the Palestinians to even more violence.
International action is required to enforce the status quo on the Temple Mount.
False. Israel enforces the status quo. The international community can help most effectively by telling the truth and affirming Israel's proven commitment to maintaining the status quo. It can also help by holding Abbas accountable for his mendacious rhetoric regarding the Temple Mount.
The reason the conflict and the violence persist is because the Palestinians don't have a state.
False: The Palestinians have repeatedly refused to accept a nation-state for themselves if it means accepting a nation-state for the Jewish people alongside it. In 1937, the Palestinians rejected the Peel Commission report that called for two states for two peoples; in 1947, they rejected the U.N. partition plan that did the same. In 2000 at Camp David and again in 2008 the Palestinians rejected new proposals that would have created a Palestinian state. The Palestinians rejected peace both before and after the creation of Israel, before Israel gained control of the territories in 1967 and after Israel vacated Gaza in 2005. The Palestinians have always been more concerned with destroying the Jewish state than with creating a state of their own. The core of the conflict remains the persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize the nation-state of the Jewish people in any borders.
Palestinian terrorism is the consequence of Palestinian frustration.
False: Palestinian terrorism is the product of incitement, which inculcates a culture of hatred and violence in successive generations. The biggest frustration of the terrorists is that they have failed to destroy Israel. They will continue to be frustrated."
Ron Dermer is Israel’s Ambassador to the United States.
From the website www.aish.com an article is titled
"Belgium's Anti-Jewish Parade Float"
Mar 5, 2019 | by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
Belgium's Anti-Jewish Parade Float
The grotesquely anti-Semitic float in Belgium reflects growing anti-Jewish feeling.
the article says
"The Belgian city of Aalst is only a short drive from the gleaming modern towers that house the European Union in central Brussels. But on Sunday, the picturesque town seemed to belong to a previous era, as a grotesque anti-Semitic parade float promenaded through the center of town, looking like something out of the Middle Ages or Nazi times.
The float depicted two huge, snarling Orthodox Jews with huge hook noses and beards, wearing shtreimels (the fur hats worn by some Hassidic Jews), standing amid gold coins and bags of money, One of the Jews has a rat on his shoulder. In the back is a synagogue with a mezuzah on the doorway. The title of the float was “Sabbath Year.”
A small group of locals was behind the float. The group calls themselves Vismooil’n and is made up of seemingly ordinary Belgians, including one former worker in the Department of Education. Each year, they create an elaborate carnival float. This year, they explained to journalists, they were worried about money, so they decided to express their economic anxiety by turning to age-old anti-Jewish stereotypes of Jews and money.
This isn’t the first time that Aalst’s annual carnival has featured extreme anti-Jewish floats. In 2013, a different community group designed an elaborate float featuring people dressed as Nazis and Hassidic Jews, standing on a train car like the type that brought Jews to their deaths during World War II. A poster on the float showed local politicians dressed up as Nazis holding canisters of Zyklon B, the poison used to murder Jews in gas chambers.
The day after the parade, condemnations poured in. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, the Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands, criticized the float for containing “anti-Semitic caricatures from 1939.” The main Jewish communal groups in Belgium complained to the federal anti-racism office: “In a democracy like Belgium, there is no room for such things, carnival or not.” The organizers of the parade apologized for the float."
the article continues
"Yet the fact remains that scores of people could look at these floats - workers could spend hours creating them, they could go home and describe them to their families, parade committees could review and approve the floats - and no one ever seemed to recognize that their expressions of venal hatred towards Jews was a problem.
When I read about the parade in Aalst, I was sitting next to my young son. “What is that?” he asked, leaning into my computer for a closer look. My heart sank; I shut my computer and suggested we play a game instead.
“Were they Jews?” my son asked a little while later.
I tried to explain that the grotesque caricatures were what some people thought Jews look like. My stomach tightened in a knot. My son is named after his great-grandmother, who fled Nazi Europe in the 1930s. She used to tell me about the raw hatred she’d experienced growing up in Vienna. It used to seem so far away. I couldn’t imagine experiencing such intense hatred. Yet in the past few years, these hostile attitudes towards Jews have resurfaced.
Belgium is a case in point. In 2014, Belgian authorities ruled that a Turkish-run cafe in the city of Liege had to remove a sign saying that dogs were allowed in the restaurant but Jews were not. That same year a Belgian doctor in Antwerp refused to treat an elderly Jewish woman for a fractured rib; he advised her to “go to Gaza” instead. A 2018 poll found that well over half of Belgian Jews report having been harassed for being Jewish.
Anti-Jewish feeling is rising across Europe and beyond. Britain, the United States and Canada have all seen record levels of anti-Jewish attacks in recent years. On a recent visit to London, a woman on the underground train stared at my son’s kippah and then said to her husband in a loud stage whisper, “That’s why I support Corbyn”, referring to the leader of Britain’s Labour party who has been widely accused of being anti-Semitic and allowing anti-Semitism to flourish in his party.
The outrageous float in Aalst isn't a wakeup call; it’s more like an alarm we’re hearing after hitting the snooze button a hundred times. In too many quarters, it’s become acceptable to make fun of Jews or to express blatant anti-Semitism. We’re far from the hell in which my grandmother found herself, but all these years later, one insight she used to share seems crucial."
the article lastly says
"When my grandmother was a child, Jews were so demonized that even Jews themselves had internalized their hatred. She recalls being ashamed of being a Jew and feeling that it was natural that others would think less of her if they knew she was Jewish. We Jews cannot be cowed; we must not be ashamed. When we see outrageous example of Jew-hatred, it’s our duty to protest and demand a change, and stand up for ourselves with pride and strength."
This Obscene Belgian anti-semetic parade float, reminds some people of the offensive
"Running of the Jew" scene in the 2006 Film "Borat" , the film "Borat" had many offensive anti-semetic stereotypes, From Wikipedia the entry for the 2006 Film "Borat" says -
"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Борат: Қазақстанның ұлы халқының игілігі үшін Америка мәдениетін оқыту) is a 2006 satirical mockumentary film co-written and produced by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen who also plays the title character, Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakh journalist travelling through the United States recording real-life interactions with Americans. The film was directed by Larry Charles and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with Americans, who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of American customs.[4] It is the second of three films built around Baron Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show (2000–04): the first, Ali G Indahouse, was released in 2002, and featured a cameo by Borat, and the third, Brüno, was released in 2009. The film is produced by Baron Cohen's production company, Four By Two Productions ("Four By Two" is Cockney rhyming slang for "Jew").[5]
While Sacha Baron Cohen is himself Jewish, and he plays the character of Borat in the film, still parts of the movie are very offensive , Evil Anti-Semetic Displays like the Belgian parade "float" were made possible in large part because of the so-called
"Palestinians" and the Rising Jew Hatred they caused Worldwide as a Result of the second Intifada they caused in the year 2000, which was 100 Percent Their Fault, Everything is their Fault
The website www.slate.com on November 3, 2006 has an article by Eric Weiner titled
"The Real Kazakhstan" What does Borat get right and wrong about his native land ,
the article discusses the 2006 film "Borat" and what Kazakhstan is like in real life, if you scroll down to where it says regarding Anti-Semitism it says
"
"Anti-Semitism
Borat is a raving anti-Semite, fond of such Kazakh traditions as “The Running of the Jew.” This is the characterization that most rankles the Kazakhs, and for good reason. When it comes to religion, Kazakhstan, a majority Muslim nation, is remarkably open and tolerant. Kazakhstan has several synagogues and diplomatic relations with Israel. Here’s what the National Conference on Soviet Jewry has to say about the country:
Anti-Semitism is not prevalent in Kazakhstan and rare incidents are reported in the press. None have been reported in the last two years.
And, for the record, there is no such event as “The Running of the Jew” in Kazakhstan."
From the Website of the New York Daily News www.nydailynews.com an article from
2002 is titled
"ARABS' NEW TV FARE: ANTI-SEMITISM"
By RICHARD CHESNOFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 09, 2002 | 12:00 AM
the article says
"CAIRO - Anwar Sadat must be turning over in his grave. The late Egyptian president dreamed Egypt would live in peace and prosperity with Israel. But 25 years after Sadat's historic peacemaking trip to Jerusalem - and 21 years after Islamic extremists assassinated him for his courageous effort - Sadat's dream is a shambles. Egypt's peace with Israel is little more than ice-cold diplomatic formality, and Egyptians, whose Islamic beliefs have become increasingly militant, treat Israel like the 11th plague. It's not just that they have scrubbed all economic, scientific and agricultural cooperation with Israel, or that Egyptian maps rarely show Israel. It goes deeper. Egypt's state-controlled media have become the region's prime purveyor of crude and old-fashioned anti-Semitism. The poisonous message: Jews, and especially Israelis, are not people to make peace with. That's from a nation the U.S. gives $2 billion a year to promote Mideast peace. Consider "Horseman Without a Horse," the 41-part TV series that was the rage in Egypt and on 14 Arab networks during the recent Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Based largely on the notorious "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a long-discredited anti-Semitic forgery, it charges that there's an international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. If your TV is on the blink, newsstands in Cairo sell cheap Nazi-style paperbacks accusing Jews of everything from committing ritual murder to purposely spreading AIDS in the Arab world. Even Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is available in an updated Arab translation. And Egyptian newspapers are filled with despicable cartoons of "the accursed Jews.
" As Israeli Arab-affairs analyst Ehud Yaari puts it, "Anti-Semitism has become the last word in the Arab entertainment industry.
" On Al-Manar, the Hezbollah TV station in Lebanon, Ghazi Hussein, a former adviser to the late Syrian President Hafez Assad, uses his program "The Spider's House" to attack Jews for their "lying, treachery and greed" and to promise that "Israel will be obliterated.
" In Syria, local TV is running a dramatic series, "The Collapse of Legends," whose central premise is that there is no archeological evidence to support the stories of the Old Testament - which itself is a forgery by rabbis to give the Jews a claim to the land of Israel. As for the Holocaust - well, that just never took place. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has jumped on this bandwagon. His Palestinian TV is running a series of phony documentaries to disprove the "myth" that any Jewish temple ever stood in Jerusalem. The message: The Jews have no business in the Holy City. In Saudi Arabia, school textbooks regularly malign both Jews and Christians as untrustworthy. The most frightening part of this pattern is that it is fomented in large measure not by medieval-minded theologians, but by younger, educated, so-called liberal Arabs. Their message, says Yaari, is that "there is no possibility of making peace with the Jews - not because of any political argument or clash over territory, but because that nation is . . . unfit to be counted among the human race.
" It is an excuse for a continued Arab war of extermination." The U. " Sadly the Arab Nations have behaved like the Fourth Reich , and most Arab nations sadly continue to do so, I want Peace, But True Peace means not just the absence of War , but Genuine Respect & Friendship & Cooperation between nations
From the website nydailynews.com an article from 2018 about Saudi Arabia titled
"Saudi textbooks still foment hate: The kingdom's education materials are rife with anti-Semitism and calls to hurt Shiites, gays, women and more"
By DAVID ANDREW WEINBERG
NOV 30, 2018 | 5:00 AM
the article says
"Saudi textbooks still foment hate: The kingdom's education materials are rife with anti-Semitism and calls to hurt Shiites, gays, women and more
In this May 20, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Evan Vucci / AP)
In the wake of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, America is reassessing its interests in Saudi Arabia. As U.S. officials consider the complexities of this relationship, they must not forget the importance of motivating Riyadh to remove incitement from its government-published textbooks.
Speaking to an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations this fall, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister declared that incitement in the kingdom’s textbooks was a “legacy issue” that had long since been resolved. Indeed, During the George W. Bush administration, Saudi Arabia’s government pledged to remove incitement from state textbooks by the start of the 2008 school year.
But a full decade later, we at the Anti-Defamation League have determined that prolific anti-Semitism and other intolerant material unfortunately still remains.
And thanks to Saudi Arabia’s tradition of religious proselytization, its vast petroleum wealth and its custodianship of Islam’s two holiest sites, Saudi textbooks have had an outsized impact beyond the Arabian Peninsula, spreading problematic messages to numerous other countries across Europe, Africa and Asia.
How bad is it? The kingdom’s new books for the 2018-2019 school year continue to teach hatred or even violence against Jews, Christians, Shiites, women, gay men and anybody who mocks or converts away from Islam.
This academic year, once again Saudi Arabia’s high school monotheism textbooks teach that infidels such as Jews and Christians are “the enemies of Islam and its people” and that proper observance of Islam requires “abhorring the infidels” and “enmity” toward them. These textbooks characterize Shiite Muslims — like those who make up the majority in Iran — as polytheists and declare that Jews, Christians, and polytheists are “the most evil of creatures.”
the article continues
"Saudi Arabia’s current high school religion textbooks also call for violence against such people.
One textbook urges “fighting the infidels and polytheists” except under limited extenuating circumstances. Another, this one on the subject of sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, calls for jihad through “battling with the infidels by proselytizing them and fighting them.”
Another teaches the importance of “exposing the People of the Book,” meaning Jews and Christians, and “urging to fight them.”
In addition to calling Christianity “an invalid and perverted religion,” the books teach incorrectly that the American Universities in Beirut and Cairo are among the top sources of Christian missionary work at the expense of Islam in the world today.
But Jews — who are described in the textbooks as devious, deceptive schemers — are an even greater target than Christians for false conspiracy theories in the current Saudi curriculum. For example, these books teach that “a main goal” for the vast majority of Jewish organizations today is to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque and that the ultimate objective of Zionism is a “global Jewish government to control the entire world.”
One Saudi textbook advocates the beating of women, teaching that it is “a means of discipline” and “permitted when necessary.”
The kingdom’s introductory high school textbook on Islamic jurisprudence teaches that the penalty for adultery is death by stoning and that people who engage in anal sex or who mock or convert away from Islam should also be killed.
Saudi Arabia’s leaders need to recognize how severe an impediment the bigotry and calls to violence in their textbooks are to the kingdom’s international agenda, stature and relationships.
But America has its own interests in seeing this hateful material urgently excised. If the Saudis continue to foment hate and violence, the problem will come back to bite us here at home." The Horrors of 9/11, September 11, 2001 was made possible in large part because of
Saudi Arabia, FACT: 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi Citizens, Saudi Arabia is still a Satanic Diabolical Criminal Evil Regime , The Saudi Government played a large part in making the Horrors of 9/11 possible,
From the website www.theatlantic.com an article is titled
"Socially Acceptable Anti-Semitism"
and it says
"It is the religion of people too lazy to accept the complexity of reality."
MAR 6, 2019
by Eliot A. Cohen
Dean of SAIS at Johns Hopkins University
A carnival float in Aalst, Belgium (L), and an archival image of an anti-Semitic float in Marburg, Germany (R)
the article says
"On Sunday, a float rolled down the streets of Aalst, a Belgian town, for carnival. It featured two grotesque caricatures of Hasidic Jews, hooked noses, hands reaching out for money, and a rat sitting on money bags. That’s 2019. A second float, pictured above—in Marburg, Germany, in 1936—featured celebrants dressed as Orthodox Jews. The only real difference is that the former was more elaborately and professionally executed, and if anything more grotesque.
Anti-Semitism, or, to speak more plainly, Jew hatred, is the animus that never dies. Like some malignant virus, it always lies dormant, ready to wake. Like other viruses, it may be, at various times, more or less virulent, more or less lethal. There probably will not be a massacre of Jews in Belgium in the next few years. What happened a few years after the float rolled down the streets of Marburg requires no elaboration.
In the wake of the Holocaust, the deliberate killing of Jewish, non-Israeli civilians is usually condemned across the political spectrum (butcheries of Israeli civilians being often excused as an understandable expression of Palestinian frustration). But those are easy sentiments, because it costs nothing to sympathize with dead Jews as opposed to standing up for live ones. The virus survives.
Ben Judah: Europe’s ubiquitous anti-Semitism
Some physical threats persist. A young male Jew wearing a yarmulke in the cities of so-tolerant Scandinavia (Malmö, for example), or even on some of the streets of Paris in laicized France, risks a beating or worse. And sometimes terrorists of the left or right decide to shoot up a supermarket, a community center, or a synagogue. When they do, the press usually describes them as lunatics rather than ideologues. After the bodies have been taken to the morgue and the blood has been mopped up, it is easier to rationalize the murders that way."
the article continues
"But in the West, no one is going to massacre Jews or send them to concentration camps. Other parts of the world—the Arab world most notably—have been subject to such thorough ethnic cleansing in the recent past that there are no Jews left to pummel or kill. To be sure, that does not stop virulent anti-Semitism without Jews, a phenomenon noted in Poland under communism in its later stages, and present today in countries such as Pakistan, whose press prints cartoons indistinguishable from those in the Nazi broadsheets of nearly a century back.
Social anti-Semitism, the kind permissible in polite society, continues. But even that has changed. Once upon a time, it was a kind of establishment or upper-crust disdain for pushy newcomers, the sons and daughters of immigrants on the make. Sometimes it was subtly expressed. “Well, there goes your Semite, Hugh. A different god, a different mountaintop,” said John Gielgud in Chariots of Fire, a movie about the 1924 Olympics. In the 20th century, it was usually just doors firmly shut at clubs and universities. Why were so many hospitals with names such as Beth Israel founded in the early 20th century? In part, to give Jewish doctors a place to practice the healing arts. But social anti-Semitism, in the sense of nonviolent Jew baiting, still exists in the West, even if some posh columnists for prestige publications on the left or right are more likely to drizzle their venom on “neoconservatives” than on “hawkish foreign-policy Jews.”
and continues
"Its ugliest forms have been most clearly on display in Britain of late, where the leader of the Labour Party refuses to acknowledge, and certainly act against, the persecution of Jewish members of his own party, a number of whose parliamentary members have now quit in disgust. Jeremy Corbyn’s friendship with terrorist groups, his willingness to pose near or under anti-Semitic caricatures, and his failure to do anything to suppress the vile attacks on fellow leftists who happen to be Jews are, at the moment, unique in liberal democracies. But other leaders in democracies or quasi-democracies play with Jew hatred: Why else does Viktor Orbán so insistently invoke the image of George Soros, a bogeyman that some American white nationalists have similarly summoned up? Jew hatred is of both left and right.
In the United States, anti-Semitism has taken many forms—whether it is nominally respectable professors insisting that a vast Israel Lobby controls American foreign policy, or clueless congressional representatives accusing American Jews of dual loyalties, or others speculating about diabolical financiers dominating the 2018 midterms. In each case, the unique feature of this kind of Jew hatred is the wild, aggrieved indignation that results when it is called out or rebuked.
And that takes us to the essence of anti-Semitism. It is not merely “the socialism of fools,” as the German social democrat August Bebel famously put it at the turn of the 20th century. It is a confession of weakness and fear, a belief in occult forces that explain why you or your group has failed in some way—whether it is in securing a foreign policy guided by realpolitik or justice for a group you feel for, or a lost election, or the fact that the bond markets occasionally go against you. Anti-Semitism is, in short, the religion of people too lazy to accept the complexity of reality, who hunger for enemies whose power excuses their own deficiencies, and who cannot take responsibility for why their side has not won. That is why it can be wildly contradictory: The Jews are either rootless globalist bankers or the agents of a tiny nation-state; they are either religious fanatics out to do in followers of the Prophet (in the old days, Christ killers) or godless atheists, the instruments either of bloody reaction or of no-less-bloody revolution. Either way, it is a creed for losers."
and continues
"For some period of time after the Holocaust, once Americans and Europeans could bring themselves to acknowledge what had happened, open Jew hatred went into retreat. That has changed. In the form of Israel hatred—to include a denial of that state’s right to exist, a complete disregard of the threats it has faced, and simple lies about what it has done—it is now acceptable in many places. But that channel of thought quickly merges into the larger sewer, because despite their protestations, Jew haters do not really distinguish between the Jewish state and the Jews of other countries. That float in Marburg, after all, had a card on it about heading to Palestine.
Anti-Semitism is out there even in the United States. In 2017, the FBI recorded more than three times as many anti-Jewish as anti-Muslim religious hate incidents, or almost 60 percent of the total. In Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has now published two comprehensive reports documenting the spread and worsening of anti-Semitism in Europe over the past five to 10 years.
There are some limits to how far this old hate can go. The Jewish state has mortal enemies; it also has a larger (and more effective) military than Germany does, and a fistful of nuclear weapons. The basic norms of civilized behavior in Europe and the United States have held, although what individual Jews experience may be different from what political leaders say they will tolerate. But what is particularly scary now is that Jew hatred seems to bring with it no real penalties—indeed, it feeds waves of indignation that haters can use to their advantage."
the article lastly says
"In the end, this is less of a problem for the Jews than for everybody else. The Jews are used to their enemies, and against all odds have survived them. As the saying goes, the basic story line of most Jewish holidays is, “They tried to kill us. They’re gone. We’re still here. Let’s eat.” So it will be now as well. But what the resurgent anti-Semitism of our times—and the numbers of incidents are growing—tells us is that our societies are more troubled than we think. Confident, thoughtful, and upright people do not go in for Jew hatred; it is, rather, sick souls who do. They can be defeated only by their own: the left by the left, the right by the right, the professors by the professors, and, in the Muslim world, by Muslims. And if good people of whatever stripe choose to say nothing and do nothing, who knows where those floats will take us?"
Another Article about the Coolness & Greatness of Israel, from the website
www.forward.com an article is titled
"How Playboy Came to Israel"
March 7, 2013 By Abra Cohen
Images of Israel usually conjure up holy monuments, the Mediterranean Sea and a land steeped in political turmoil. Now you can add Playboy bunnies to that list.
by the Forward
Natalie Dadon with the first Israeli Playboy cover.
the article says
"Playboy Magazine, which is printed in over 30 countries, recently added the Holy Land to its list. On newsstands March 6, and printed only in Hebrew, the magazine features images of beautiful women alongside articles and commentary, specifically selected for an Israeli audience.
Founder Daniel Pomerantz, a Chicago-born business attorney who immigrated to Israel last year, says that he believes Playboy will be a welcome addition to the country. “Israelis love to sit around the dinner table and debate social issues. It’s an integral part of life and is an integral part of Playboy,” Pomerantz said. The first issue features Israeli model Natalie Dadon and an interview with minister Avi Dichter.
The Arty Semite caught up with Pomerantz at the Brown Hotel in Tel Aviv. Decorated with retro-looking brown leather couches and a Motown-era color scheme, the Brown sports a larger-than-life Playboy cover poster from 1970 that reads, “The Girls of Israel.” Pomerantz came dressed in Israeli casual — jeans and a button-down — to talk about his admiration for Herzl, meeting Hugh Hefner, and how to say “bunny” in Hebrew."
the article continues
"Abra Cohen: How did you get the idea to launch Playboy in Israel?
Daniel Pomerantz: As a lawyer in Chicago, and a chairperson at the Illinois Bar Association, I knew a lot of lawyers in the entertainment industry, including Playboy. After coming to Israel for a legal conference, I noticed the country was modern, fashionable, open and had a rich culture. I also noticed that while there were other Playboy products, there was no Playboy Magazine. I was put in touch with the international division and I opened the conversation and they put the idea to me. We started making plans and putting together business models.
Parallel to that, I started making more and more trips to Israel and I realized that I love being here. One day a friend of mine asked if I ever get homesick for Chicago. That was the first I realized that not only do I not get homesick for Chicago, but when I was in Chicago, I get homesick for Israel. At that moment, I realized this was my home and everything kind of fell into place. I figured while I’m making Aliyah, I might as well have Playboy make Aliyah with me.
How do you think Playboy will impact Israel’s image?
A lot of the reaction I get is, “It’s about time.” Israel is a country that grew from a dream and an idea and into a place that’s a real home. It’s no longer just a refuge for people escaping from somewhere else; instead, it’s a place where people live life. Playboy is part of a rich and varied culture. Externally, Playboy is one of the ways that the world can relate to Israel and realize the people in Israel are just like us."
the article lastly says
"You took your staff to the Playboy Mansion in California and met Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. What was his reaction?
Hef was very excited that there’s a Playboy in Israel and for the magazine to be launching in Israel. I explained to Hef and to the staff that there’s a word for Playboy bunny that doesn’t exist in any other country in the world as far as I know. Even in English you have to indicate it’s a Playboy bunny, but in Hebrew there’s a specific word — shfanfana. This demonstrates that the deep culture connection between Playboy and Israel even impacts the language itself.
Out of all magazines, why made you pick Playboy?
It’s one of those things in life that just kind of happened. When I met the people from Playboy, they were wonderful: smart, dedicated and passionate. I responded to feeling. To me, there’s always been something very magical about the brand: It’s one of the few brands where you don’t need a word. Playboy is sexy, but not sex, and there is a difference.
Who is your male icon?
I very much admire Theodor Herzl. He saw something most people didn’t see. He worked at it, never took no for an answer and through sheer passion, found success on a scale most people didn’t even think was possible. When I see that particular quality in someone, I find it specifically inspiring.
You may have some Playboy Israel critics. What do you want people to know about this launch?
I want people to understand this is a serious project and it has a deep social and cultural connection. Doing this project makes me feel a part of the cultural life of Israel and it makes me feel like I’m helping Israel connect with the world."
From the New York Post Newspaper website, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"It’s time for Dems to make Israel an issue in their 2020 primary"
By David Marcus August 23, 2019 | 8:24pm
the article says
"The brouhaha over Reps. Ilhan Omar’s and Rashida Tlaib’s canceled trip to Israel has died down. Yet the uncomfortable problem raised by the episode still lingers, and leading Democrats are loath to confront it — namely: the inexorable drift of one of America’s two major parties toward anti-Israelism and, often, outright anti-Semitism.
Democrats like to focus their frustrations on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and they did so this time, as well. Yet Tlaib and Omar targeted Israel itself.
It is a standard progressive talking point that criticizing the government of Israel isn’t the same as anti-Semitism, criticizing Israel writ large or questioning its right to exist. But this is precisely where Tlaib, Omar and other far-left Democrats are changing the debate. When Omar uses air quotes while calling Israel a democracy, and Tlaib compares it to apartheid South Africa, they are questioning the very legitimacy of the Jewish state.
While Democrats point the finger at Netanyahu for making Israel a partisan issue, they should be taking stock of their own rhetoric and conduct. The constant condemnations of Israel from within their own caucus, with nary a mention of Palestinian terrorism, marks a new moment in Democratic politics.
Fact is, there is no possible Israeli government that would appease those on the Democratic hard-left and the base who are convinced that Israel is an evil nation.
What would have happened had Bibi let the congresswomen in?
As Tlaib and Omar made clear at their recent news conference, their intention all along was to expose Israel’s alleged wrongdoings. Tlaib was prepared to travel to Israel with MIFTAH, a group that has published Jewish blood libels and propaganda questioning the Holocaust."
the article continues
"Mainstream Democrats’ tacit acceptance of hateful rhetoric, and their refusal to call out Omar’s and Tlaib’s calls to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel, should trouble all Americans who value Israel as a safe haven for Jews and a strategic ally.
These are the same Democrats who rail against Republicans for failing to call out Trump’s allegedly racist rhetoric. But when their own members paint Israel as a cruel oppressor rather than a vulnerable nation threatened by an entire region dedicated to its destruction, they go silent. Somehow a handful of progressive congresswomen have instilled fear in the Democratic leadership on this and many other issues. This is shocking.
Thus far, Israel and the Middle East have not been major issues in the 2020 Democratic Primary. That has to change. With the progressive zeitgeist in America moving so strongly and swiftly against Israel, the American people need to know where these candidates stand on the issue.
It will not be enough to simply say that there are divergent opinions in the Democratic caucus; men and women who wish to be president must decisively back the right of Israel to defend itself and vociferously oppose any efforts to punish Israel economically.
They cannot in good faith criticize Israel for barring entry to politicians intent on deriding that nation, while tolerating the view that the United States should be actively punishing that nation, and placing it at risk.
Ideas about Israel and Jews were once well outside the mainstream of both parties but are now spreading like a dark shadow over the Democrats. Fewer than 20 years ago, then-President Democrat Bill Clinton said that if Israel were attacked he would “personally grab a rifle; get in a ditch, and fight and die.”
Today’s Democratic leaders don’t even have the courage to fire off a press release defending Israel.
The question facing the Democratic Party isn’t Netanyahu or this or that Israeli government or this or that Mideast development. The question facing Democrats is whether they will confront members of their own party whose disdain for Israel is worn like a badge of honor."
the article lastly says
"The question is whether Democrats will stand for democracy or theocracy, for freedom or the tyranny that besets the rest of the region.
If the Democrats bend the knee to these apologists for terrorist organizations just because they don’t like Bibi or Trump, they will be playing a dangerous game. They must make clear, now, that they stand with Israel and the Israeli people in their quest for peace and security."
David Marcus is The Federalist’s New York correspondent. Twitter: @BlueBoxDave
People have said that even on "The Simpsons" the 4 loser congresswomen known as
"The Squad" look ugly as hell, and sound ugly also
The website www.cnn.com has an article titled
"Trump's latest fight with the Squad is in a song on 'The Simpsons'"
By Faith Karimi, CNN
the article says
"(CNN)The creators of television show "The Simpsons" are trolling President Trump yet again. And this time, a bunch of Democratic lawmakers are along for the ride with a parody of the song "America" from "West Side Story."
In a clip titled the "West Wing Story" posted on the show's social media account this week, the President starts by complaining about his many problems and the need for a distraction. Then he grabs a group photo of Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib -- and breaks into song.
"They shouldn't be in America
No one but me in America
No taxes for me in America
This is my natural hair-ica," Trump sings.
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The lawmakers fire back
The women referred to as the Squad then step out of the photo and chase him through the White House as they sing along.
"We are more American than your wife
... You're Boris Johnson without the class
Can't wait to see you behind prison glass
Your nose is right up Putin's a**
We say it's time to impeach you fast," they croon.
The lawmakers eventually chase Trump outdoors, where the 2020 Democratic candidates are dancing. He joins in and tries to keep up with them.
"Can't be the first one to lose my breath," a panting Trump sings before tumbling down on the grass.
A grinning Joe Biden peers at Trump. "Who's an old man now?" he asks.
The show has been making fun of Trump long before he became President. In an episode in 2000, it predicted a Donald Trump presidency -- and the outlook was not bright. After the 2016 election, the show responded to Trump's victory with three words: "Being right sucks." I personally feel Trump is doing an OK Job in some ways, there is always room for Improvement in America & Other Nations
Do a Google Search, the website, www.foxnews.com has an article on
June 4, 2019 titled "John Hagee: Anti-Semitism has been dangerously rebranded- and it's not just a Jewish Problem" the article is by Pastor John Hagee,
within the article Pastor Hagee says
"Anti-Semitism is not just a Jewish problem, it’s everyone’s problem. And it is not just the world’s oldest hatred, it is sin, and Bible believing Christians must respond accordingly. We cannot sit idly by as this darkness casts a shadow over our society. We must shine a bright light on anti-Semitism wherever and whenever it rears its ugly head.
That is why we at Christians United for Israel have chosen to very publicly reemphasize the need for our members and Christians around the world to fulfill their God-given mandate to stand with their Jewish brothers and sisters, be they neighbors down the street or allies in Israel.
And that is why at our upcoming Washington Summit we will make the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act our top legislative priority. This bill, which focuses on anti-Semitic acts associated with the unlawful harassment of Jewish students, is an important first step, but it is by no means enough.
God and history will judge harshly those bigots who espouse hatred of Jews. But make no mistake, God and history will be no less kind to those who sit by and watch that ancient hatred spread once again. As Americans, as people of faith and conscience, we must be intolerant of intolerance. And regardless of how uncomfortable or hard we may find it, we must never hold our peace." Also on the website,
shop.jewishvoice.org there is a book titled
"Why Satan Hates the Jews: The Spiritual Roots of Anti-Semitism" by
Jonathan Bernis, anyone can order it
From the website israelunwired.com an article is titled
"The Most Powerful Israeli Revenge Against the Nazis On German Soil"
By
Avi Abelow -
May 1, 2019
the article says
"The backstory for the following song is the most powerful revenge against the Nazis by the State of Israel. This was the song performed by Israel at the 1983 Eurovision contest. Everything about it was symbolic, transferring the message that while the Nazis succeeded in annihilating 6 million Jews, they failed in their ultimate goal of destroying the Jewish people. Not only are the Jewish people still alive, we have a proud country of our own. Famous Israeli singer Ofra Haza was chosen to perform an amazing song written for the contest called “Alive”. The song came in second place in the contest.
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In 1983 Israel was preparing for the yearly Eurovision contest. Since Germany won the 1982 contest, the 1983 contest was to be hosted by Germany. This was just 38 years since the Holocaust, and 11 years since the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics by Muslim terrorists, financed by the leader of the Palestinian Authority today Mahmoud Abbas. The feelings in Israel at the time very extremely complex.
When Israel understood that the Eurovision contest was to take place on German soil, Israeli musician Ehud Manor decided to write the song “Chai”, or “Alive”, for Israeli singer Ofra Haza to perform. The State of Israel did not exist when the Nazis were in power implementing their heinous crime against our people. But Manor still came up with this amazing way of the ultimate Jewish revenge by the Jewish state – this song!
The song “Alive” expresses the continuity and the strength of the Jewish people. It represented a sort of victory anthem in which the powerful lines of “live, live, live – the people of Israel live,” “good that no more hope is lost” are all intertwined. Manor himself said it was great excitement to see Ofra Haza singing on the stage in Germany, 38 years after the end of World War II, the words “Am Yisrael Chai” – “The Jewish people live”.
Even the design of the clothing of the performers was thought out. Designer Dorin Frankfurt dressed the accompaniment singers in yellow clothes – the color of the Jewish Star of David badge that the Nazis forced all the Jews to wear in the ghettos and concentration camps. Ofra Haza, the main singer, was dressed in white, a color that symbolizes hope and peace.
Lyrics
Listen my brothers, I’m still alive
And both my eyes are still drawn to the light
A lot of thorny grass, but flowers too
And countless years ahead of me I ask and pray
I’m glad the hope is not yet lost
The chant passes on
Like an unending fountain
I ask and pray
I’m glad the hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive, yes, I’m still alive
This is the song that granddad sang to my dad and today I’m still alive, alive, alive, the Israel people are alive
This is the song that granddad sang to my dad and today I Will sing and won’t stop (alive, alive)
Spread my hands (alive, alive)
To all my friends across the sea
Will sing and won’t stop (alive, alive)
Spread my hands (alive, alive)
To all my friends across the sea I ask and pray
I’m glad the hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive, yes, I’m still alive
This is the song that granddad sang to my dad and today I’m still alive, alive, alive, the Israel people are alive
This is the song that granddad sang to my dad and today I Listen my brothers, I’m still alive
And both my eyes are still drawn to the light
So cheers to all my guests
And to my sons who wish to return I ask (I ask)And I pray (pray)
I’m glad the hope is not yet lost Alive, alive, alive, yes, I’m still alive
This is the song that granddad sang to my dad and today I’m still alive, alive, alive, the Israel people are alive
This is the song that granddad sang to my dad and today I
Alive, alive, alive
I’m still alive, alive, alive!"
Some Christians think the Anti-Christ will be Jewish, That is False, The website blueletterbible.org has an article titled
"An Interpretation of Matthew 24-25 by Thomas Ice, Part 5- Matthew
24:4-5 Be Not Deceived" part of the article says
"WHAT IS THE NATIONALITY OF THE ANTICHRIST?
A widely held belief throughout the history of the church has been the notion that Antichrist will be of Jewish origin. This view is still widely held in our own day. However, upon closer examination we find no real Scriptural basis for such a view.
Arguments for a Jewish Origin
Three reasons are often given in support of the argument that Antichrist will be Jewish. 11 First, it is argued that he will be a Jew since the Jews are responsible for the world’s problems. Thus, it follows that the greatest problem of history—Antichrist—will also be Jewish. This is the Anti-Semitic reason. It should be clear that since Anti-Semitism is unbiblical, and so is any logic that reasons upon such a premise.
Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum offers a refutation of the second reason, which he calls “The Logical Reason.” He writes:
Stated in a syllogism, this argument goes as follows:
MAJOR PREMISE: The Jews will accept the Antichrist as the Messiah.
MINOR PREMISE: The Jews will never accept a Gentile as the Messiah.
CONCLUSION: The Antichrist will be a Jew. 12
The difficulties of this argument are many, not the least of which are the two premises. Neither premise can be supported from the Bible. Just because the Jews make a covenant with the Antichrist (Daniel 9:27; Isaiah 28:15), it does not follow either textually or logically that they accept him as Messiah (or Antichrist). Second, since they are not accepting him as Messiah, the fact that he is a Gentile peacemaker is irrelevant. Thus, the conclusion does not follow.
An attempt at a Scriptural argument reasons that Antichrist will spring forth from the tribe of Dan. This has been a view that has been widely held throughout church history, from the earliest times to our modern day. Support for this view is inappropriately derived from Genesis 49:17; Deuteronomy 33:22; Jeremiah 8:16; Daniel 11:37; Revelation 7:4-8. Even though many passages are cited in support of this argument, none of them actually support the notion since they are all taken out of context. In reality, only Daniel 11:37 refers to the Antichrist. Even though some believe that the phrase in Daniel 11:37 “the God of his fathers” (KJV), implies a Jewish apostasy, the phrase is more accurately translated “the gods of his fathers” (NASB). Since Antichrist will be a Gentile, as will be shown, the argument is unfounded. Since the original Hebrew supports the NASB translation and not the KJV, Antichrist’s apostasy will be Christian and not Jewish."
The article from blueletterbible.org continues
" Arguments for a Gentile Origin
We have seen that the Bible does not teach that Antichrist will be Jewish; however, Scripture does teach that he will be of Gentile descent. This can first be seen from biblical typology. Most commentators agree that Daniel 11 speaks of Antiochus Epiphanes, a Gentile, who typifies the future Antichrist. Since Antiochus is a Gentile, then so will be Antichrist.
Secondly, biblical imagery supports a Gentile origin of Antichrist. Scripture pictures Antichrist as rising up out of the sea (Revelation 13:1; 17:15). In prophetic literature the sea is an image of the Gentile nations. Thus, Antichrist is seen as a Gentile progeny.
Thirdly, the nature of the “Times of the Gentiles” (Luke 21:24) supports a Gentile Antichrist. Fruchtenbaum notes:
It is agreed by all premillennialists that the period known as the Times of the Gentiles does not end until the second coming of Christ. It is further agreed that the Antichrist is the final ruler of the Times of the Gentiles.…
If this is so, how then can a Jew be the last ruler at a time when only Gentiles can have the preeminence? To say the Antichrist is to be a Jew would contradict the very nature of the Time of the Gentiles. 14
Finally, the Bible not only teaches that Antichrist will be Gentile, but it also implies that he will be of Roman descent. This is understood from Daniel 9:27, where the one cutting a covenant with Israel is said to represent the revived Roman Empire, since it was the Romans who destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D. 70. The revived Roman empire comes from a second phase of the Roman Empire, i.e., “feet partly of iron and partly of clay” (Daniel 2:33, 40-45).
The implications of the non-Jewishness of the antichrist has significant implications as noted by Gray:
Because the true Anti-Christ is not a Jew (cp. Daniel 7; 11; Revelation 13:1), therefore he will not claim to be a false Messiah. These false claimants will be contemporaneous with Antichrist and will likely oppose him. During this time Israel will have many options and opportunities to follow false Messiahs, yet, the Antichrist will not be one of them. He comes as a benefactor of Israel, a great world diplomat turned persecutor, but not a Messianic deliverer. He will be worshipped, not as Messiah, but as God" Again, According to the Bible, the
Anti-Christ will NOT be a Jew
The website focusonjerusalem.com has an article titled
" Is the Antichrist a Jew, Gentile, or Supernatural?" by Bill Salus
the article says
"When determining the true content of the false covenant of Daniel 9:27 it proves helpful to determine the origin of the Antichrist. Will he be a Jew, Gentile, or a Supernatural being like an Alien or Nephilim as some have recently proposed? Up until the time of Abraham there were no Jews, all of mankind was Gentile. Abraham, the ancient Hebrew patriarch, fathered the Jewish race through his son Isaac, grandson Jacob, and great grandsons Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.
According to Deuteronomy 7:6 the Lord formed this unique ethnicity from Abraham’s loins for His exclusive divine purposes. One of which, we are informed in Exekiel 38:8 and 39:7, is to uphold His holy name through; for the watchful eyes of the international community in the latter years. Many eschatologists believe the prophecies of Ezekiel 38 & 39 are about to find final fulfillment, making current events involving Israel and the Jewish people extremely important. If the Antichrist is Jewish, the content of the false covenant might favor Israeli covenantal claims made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These claims include Promised Land extending into Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia according to Genesis 15:18.
Additionally, the pages of the false covenant might grant Israel the ability to build their third Jewish Temple upon its former site in the world’s most controversial holy city of Jerusalem. Presently, the preponderance of Muslims vehemently opposes this prospect, claiming Jerusalem is Islam’s third holiest city behind Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. However, blueprints, Levite priests, and ceremonial religious instruments for the construction and operation of this prophesied coming Temple are already being assembled by several religious Jewish organizations.
Is the Antichrist a Jew?
One of the best research works addressing the subject of the origin of the Antichrist was performed by Dr. David Reagan of Lamb and Lion Ministries. He questioned eleven end time’s experts in a series of interviews, which aired on his Christ in Prophecy TV show in May of 2009, regarding this topic. The manuscript for the segment addressing whether or not the Antichrist is a Jew or Gentile can be obtained here:
In a nutshell the Reagan study concluded with seven no’s to the Antichrist being a Jew, one yes, one could be, one maybe, and one he will be a Jewish, Muslim. In Reagan’s closing summary, he concurred with the seven who suggested the Antichrist will be a Gentile rather than a Jew. Thus, there were eight out of twelve experts agreed upon the Gentile descent of the coming apocalyptic world leader called the Antichrist.
Had I been among those interviewed, I would have concurred with the eight favoring the Gentile Antichrist. Additionally I would have added an argument to theirs given below:"
the article continues
"
The Gentile Antichrist Arguments
1. Antichrist will be a Gentile of Roman origin. Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum brought this argument forward by quoting Daniel 9:26-27. Similarly, I wrote an article called, “Does Daniel Debunk the Assyrian Antichrist,” that agrees with his conclusion.
2. Antichrist will command worldwide attention. Don McGee states, “For a Jew to be in that position (commanding worldwide attention) would be a very, very long shot.” Don also suggests the Antichrist will not be associated with Judaism, Islam, or any other religion apart from the one he “institutes for himself.” This is determined by Daniel 11:37.
3. A Jew won’t make treaties with Jews. Ed Hindson points this out and goes on to remind us that the Antichrist will be an unbeliever according to Daniel 11:37.
4. Antichrist will lead the final great Gentile world empire. Dr. Mark Hitchcock firmly points this out. He declares this would be “inconsistent for a Jew.” Hitchcock argues this keeps in stride with “the other empires in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7, the leaders of those were all Gentiles.”
5. The Antichrist prototype was Antiochus Epiphanes, a Gentile. Dr. Mark Hitchcock aptly points this commonly taught fact out. Epiphanes was the ruler of the Greek, Seleucid Empire that oppressed the Jews between 171-164 BC.
6. The Antichrist rises out of the Gentile world. Several of the experts interviewed, including Hitchcock, brought forward the Revelation 13:1 argument, which identifies the Antichrist as the “Beast” rising out of the “Sea.” The scholarly consensus is the Sea in Revelation 13:1 represents the Gentile world.
7. The Jews will never accept the Antichrist as their Messiah. Dr. Reagan makes this statement in his closing arguments. He qualifies this by stating “In fact we are specifically told that when the Antichrist reveals himself in the middle of the Tribulation and claims to be god the Jews will be horrified and will totally reject him causing him to turn on them in fury and launch an attempt to annihilate them.” He goes on to distinguish between the possibility that the Antichrist may become the ‘Political Savior” of the Jews, but never their “Spiritual Savior.”
8. The Jews will never be offered the “Mark of the Beast.” This point was not brought up in the Reagan interviews; however, Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum makes this important point elsewhere in his teachings available though Ariel Ministries. This fact also identifies the Antichrist as a Gentile. One can safely conclude that if the Antichrist was a Jew, the Jews would be among the recipients of the benefits of his cashless Mark of the Beast program alluded to in Revelation 13:14-18."
the article lastly says
" The Antichrist Seeks Jewish Genocide Making Him a Gentile
Although the arguments above strongly suggest the Antichrist will be a Gentile, the one not listed that I believe most compelling is that he orchestrates the final genocidal campaign against the Jewish Race. Zechariah 13:8 points out the Antichrist will be responsible for the deaths of two-thirds of the Jewish population in the land of Israel during the Tribulation period. Many scholars suggest that totals several million more than were killed by Hitler during the Holocaust.
The repeated Gentile genocidal attempts targeted at the Jews remain atop the list of humanities worst historical crimes against the will of God. The Egyptians, Persians, Romans, and Germans all attempted to destroy the Jewish Race. Deuteronomy 32:10 and Zechariah 2:8 identify the Jews as the “apple of God’s eye.” The destruction of the Jews is the scheming of Satan and the Antichrist is his seed according to Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 13:4.
The plan of Satan is to prove God is a promise breaker, a liar, with a flawed covenant making character. If Satan can accomplish this he justifies his and his fallen angelic cohorts' rebellious campaign against God and His perfect divine will. Satan has clearly evidenced throughout human history that his modus operandi is to discredit God by killing Abraham’s Jewish descendants.
In Genesis 13:15, 22:17 and elsewhere God promised Abraham descendants forever. If there are no more Jews, then God is in breach of His covenant with Abraham. Furthermore, the promise of eternal security for all believers, justified by the similar faith of Abraham can be questioned. (Romans 4 and Galatians 3)
Therefore the Antichrist will be a Gentile; otherwise Satan must also execute him alongside his Jewish brethren. I’ve often wondered why Satan, supposedly so cunning, decided to even have a “seed.” Had he not, he could have discredited God right out the Genesis 3:15 garden gate. The Lord prophesied the coming of Satan’s seed and the bruising of Messiah’s heel by that seed. Should no satanic seed come, then the God of the Bible would be an obvious liar for prophesying such a future fictitious event. To the contrary, the satanic seed is coming and may be birthed already.
The Jewish Antichrist Arguments
The arguments for the Antichrist being a Jew can be found in the Reagan project referenced above. There are a few who believe that John 5:43 and Daniel 11:37 point to the Antichrist being a Jew. However, the Reagan study evidences that the arguments for a Gentile Antichrist far outweigh those of a Jewish Antichrist.
The Supernatural Alien (Nephilim) Antichrist Argument
Interestingly, there are some scholars suggesting since the Antichrist is the “seed of Satan,” who according to II Thessalonians 2:9-10 rises to power supernaturally, that he might not be human at all. They, suggest Christ’s prophecy in Matthew 24:37 and Luke 17:26 comparing the end time’s to the “days of Noah,” should be taken literally.
Genesis 6:4 informs us that there were unnatural offspring called the Nephilim, inhabiting the earth during the days of Noah. If this relatively new argument has merit it adds an interesting twist to what the true content of the false covenant may be." All Articles given on this Blog, can be found using Internet Search Engines, Such as Google or Bing.com
Actual Quote from Pastor Charles Stanley than anyone can look up online
"Charles Stanley: I think about one the most disastrous decisions we’re gonna make and you mark it down. When we turn back on Israel we will not his escape the judgment of God. We will not. That is exactly the tone we are hearing out of Washington. You say, “While Israel is just that little piece of land over there. You ask, “What is so significant about that”? God. He said, “I’ll bless those who bless you and I will punish those to do otherwise.”
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The website commentarymagazine.com has an article from June 2014 by Melanie Phillips
titled "Jesus was a Palestinian: The Return of Christian Anti-Semitism" the article can be found here, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jesus-was-a-palestinian-the-return-of-christian-anti-semitism/
And let us Remember, Jesus Was NOT a "Palestinian" Jesus Was and IS a JEW !!!!
There are no "Palestinians" or a "Palestine", that's the Truth, these false prophet fake "Christians" who support Israel's enemies are losers liars & Heretics & who practice Idolatry & make false gods out of so-called "Palestinians" & "Palestine" that never existed, they don't even truly care about "Palestinians" but just use them as Pawns to get at the Jews & Israel, For any Christian to hate Jews and/or the State of Israel, is like an American Citizen saying that they love America yet hate the Founding Fathers of the United States,
The Jewish People & The Land of Israel, are the Founding Fathers & Birthplace of the
Christian Faith
See Also the 2005 book "The Return of Anti-Semitism" by Gabriel Schoenfeld , anyone can order it from Amazon.com
From the Wikipedia Article
"Founding Fathers of the United States}
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
it says -
"The Founding Fathers refers to certain men who lived during the American Revolutionary War era. These men signed the Declaration of Independence, helped write the Constitution of the United States, or helped win the American Revolutionary War. Many of these men were members of the Continental Congress at some point. The term was first applied to these people in 1916.
There were many people who were Founding Fathers. Some scholars like to limit them to a small number, such as seven: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison."
Another Article from the website, thejewishnews.com on 11/26/2018 by Jackie Headapohl is titled "Op-ed: The Return of Christian Anti-Semitism" it can be found here,
https://thejewishnews.com/2018/11/26/op-ed-the-return-of-christian-anti-semitism/
Fake "Christians" who support Israel's enemies are Spiritually Blind,
Unbelievable, a Crazy Hate Filled Egyptian wants to sue the State of Israel over the
10 Biblical Plagues , from the website, www.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Israel to pay for 10 Plagues?"- the article says
Egyptian journalist demands that his government sue Jewish state for heavenly punishments described in Exodus
By ARON DÓNZIS
31 March 2014, 12:07 pm
the article says
"Bible study meets modern litigiousness in a story that may one day yield a riveting courtroom drama.
Ahmad al-Gamal, an Egyptian columnist for Egyptian daily Al-Yawm Al-Sabi, advocated in the newspaper on March 11 that Egypt sue the State of Israel for damages caused by the 10 Biblical plagues,
“We want compensation for the plagues that were inflicted upon [us] as a result of the curses that the Jews’ ancient forefathers [cast] upon our ancient forefathers, who did not deserve to pay for the mistake that Egypt’s ruler at the time, Pharaoh, committed,” the cranky journalist wrote, according to a translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
According to the Biblical Book of Exodus, the Egyptian king prevented Moses from liberating the Jews and leading them out of Egypt.
The plagues that summarily struck Egypt in consequence included the Nile turning into blood, an outbreak of lice, diseased livestock, boils, and so on, culminating in darkness and the deaths of all Egyptian firstborn males. The telling of the tale features prominently in the Jewish observance of the spring holiday of Passover.
“For what is written in the Torah proves that it was Pharaoh who oppressed the children of Israel, rather than the Egyptian people,” Gamal continued, “[But] they inflicted upon us the plague of locusts that didn’t leave anything behind them; the plague that transformed the Nile’s waters into blood, so nobody could drink of them for a long time; the plague of darkness that kept the world dark day and night; the plague of frogs; and the plague of the killing of the firstborn, namely every first offspring born to woman or beast, and so on.”
Gamal also pressed suing Israel for the “precious materials” used by the ancient Israelites in order to construct their desert tabernacle.
“We want compensation for the gold, silver, copper, precious stones, fabrics, hides and lumber, and for [all] animal meat, hair, hides and wool, and for other materials that I will mention [below], when quoting the language of the Torah. All these are materials that the Jews used in their rituals. These are resources that cannot be found among desert wanderers unless they took them before their departure.”
Israel isn’t the only country that finds itself in Gamal’s cross-hairs. In the same column he also demanded reparations from Turkey for damage caused by the Ottoman Empire during its invasion of Egypt in the 16th century, and from France for Napoleon’s invasion in 1798.
He also wants Britain to pay for 72 years of occupation.
The courts are unpredictable these days, but Gamal may need to wait for an “act of God” for his requests to become reality."
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Many Israel Supporters liked the 2008 Adam Sandler comedy film
"You Don't Mess with the Zohan" from the Wikipedia entry for the film it says
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the entry says
"You Don't Mess with the Zohan is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by Adam Sandler, who also starred in the film. It was the fourth film that included a collaboration of Sandler as actor and Dugan as director. The film revolves around Zohan Dvir (Hebrew: זוהן דביר), an Israeli counterterrorist army commando who fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream of becoming a hairstylist in New York City. The story was written by Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel. It was released on June 6, 2008, in the US and on August 15, 2008, in the UK. The film grossed $199.9 million worldwide from a $90 million budget.[2]
Plot
Zohan Dvir (Adam Sandler) is a superhuman Israeli counter-terrorist for the IDF who has grown tired of the everlasting conflicts in his country and dreams of becoming a hairstylist at Paul Mitchell's in the United States. During his next mission against a Palestinian terrorist group led by his arch-enemy, superhuman Fatoush "Phantom" Hakbarah (John Turturro), Zohan fakes his own death and smuggles himself onto a plane to New York City, cuts his hair, and adopts the alias "Scrappy Coco" after two dogs (Scrappy and Coco respectively) whom he shared the flight with. Following his "success" at killing Zohan, Phantom opens a muchentuchen restaurant chain.
After his arrival in the American States, Zohan befriends Michael (Nick Swardson) by helping him against a bullying motorist, and is taken in by him and his mother, Gail (Lainie Kazan). He also meets a fellow Israeli named Oori (Ido Mosseri), who owns an electronics store, at a disco; Oori recognizes Zohan but vows to keep his identity a secret. After being refused by Paul Mitchell's and other hairstyling salons due to his lack of experience, Zohan is taken by Oori to an area in lower Manhattan populated with Middle Eastern immigrants, including Palestinians and Israelis. Zohan attempts to land a job in a struggling salon of a Palestinian woman named Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui). Dalia initially allows Zohan to sweep the floors, but after losing one of her employees, she allows him to be a stylist when he pleases a senior lady with an exceptional haircut and back room sexual service. Zohan's reputation spreads rapidly among the elderly women of lower Manhattan, causing Dalia's business to prosper, which upsets Grant Walbridge (Michael Buffer), a corporate magnate who has been trying to buy out all the local tenants on the block so that he can build a rollercoaster mall."
the Wikipedia entry continues
"Zohan is eventually identified by a Palestinian cab driver named Salim (Rob Schneider), who bears a grudge against Zohan for having taken his goat away in Palestine because Salim spat on him. Salim convinces his friends, Hamdi and Nasi, to help him kill Zohan, but after several failed attempts they are forced to contact Phantom and convince him to visit New York to find Zohan. Meanwhile, Zohan has fallen in love with Dalia and comes clean to her, Michael and Gail about his true identity. After Dalia rejects Zohan for his counterterrorist background, Zohan decides to leave her to protect her, and confronts Phantom in a championship Hacky Sack game sponsored by Walbridge. Zohan's fight is cut short with sudden news of the Middle Eastern block being attacked, and he quickly departs.
At the scene of the fire, Zohan calms the Israelis and Palestinians, who each blame the other for the violence, and makes peace with Salim. Phantom then appears and confronts Zohan, but Zohan refuses to fight. Dalia appears, revealing that she is Phantom's sister, and convinces her brother to cooperate with Zohan against the arsonists, revealed to be racist rednecks hired by Walbridge to instigate an interethnic riot so he can get his new mall in the aftermath. As Zohan and Phantom work to save the block, Phantom admits that he always wanted to be a shoe salesman rather than a terrorist. Although the rednecks are defeated and Walbridge is jailed, the overexcited Phantom accidentally destroys all of the shops on the block with his powers.
With the Israelis and Palestinians united, the block is rebuilt and transformed into a collectively owned mall. Phantom opens a shoe shop there; Oori relocates his electronics shop to the mall; Salim gets back his goat; and Zohan and Dalia, having now married, open a beauty salon together. In the end, Zohan's parents, initially unsupportive of his dream to be a hairdresser, show up, approving of his new job and lifestyle before his father requests that he cut his hair, which Zohan happily does."
In the "Family Guy" episode titled "No Chris Left Behind" which first aired on
May 6, 2007 in one scene Lois Griffin holds up an old history textbook from 1948 and says the name of the Chapter is called "Israel: The Hip New Country Everyone's Gonna Love"
see this link, familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/No_Chris_Left_Behind/Notes/Trivia
That episode of "Family Guy" was trying to make a joke, yet it's really very sad & disturbing how Israel is the #1 most Hated Nation in World History
The website activechristianity.org has an article titled
"What does the Bible say about the Second Coming of Christ?" part of the Article says -
"Christ will set foot on the Mount of Olives, which will split in two to create a valley. Living waters will begin to flow out from the Jerusalem. This signifies the start of the glorious new time of peace and plenty known as the Millennium! The lands South of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain and Jerusalem itself will be raised up. (Zechariah 14:4-11) Jerusalem then becomes the capital city of the world, from which Christ will rule over the whole earth. (Isaiah 2:2-4, Micah 4:1-3)"
The website carleton.ca has an article titled "Israel Fun Facts" and it says
"Did you know…?
"Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic
Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East (Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan).
Golda Meir was the 3rd woman in history to serve as a country’s prime minister.
Israel’s population has reached 8 million as of Independence Day 2013!
Israel has won five bronze Olympic medals, one silver and one gold.
Developed by Major Uzi Gaf, more than 10 million Uzi machine guns have been build since 1948.
34 political parties participated in Israel’s 2013 elections.
Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world.
The Dead Sea in Israel is the lowest point on earth, at 1,315 feet below sea level at its lowest point.
Israel is the only liberal democracy in the middle east.
Ever wondered if the glue on Israel’s stamps are kosher? It is.
There are also kosher McDonald’s.
In many Israeli bus stops, you can find a box for tzedakah (charitable giving).
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).
Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice mail technology was also developed in Israel.
Four young Israelis developed the technology for AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ.
For more information: http://www.goisrael.com/
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The website for First Fruits of Zion, ffoz.org has an article on
December 18, 2017 titled "Miss Iraq Takes a Selfie and Other Israel News"
and the article says
"How a selfie from the Miss Universe beauty pageant ignited Arab rage against Israel"
Scroll down and it says
"Miss Iraq Flees after Selfie with Miss Israel
A seemingly innocent selfie an Iraqi beauty queen took with Miss Israel turned into a nightmare for her and her family after receiving death threats for taking the photo.
The selfie was snapped during a Miss Universe event in November when Sarah Idan, Miss Iraq, took a photo with Adar Gandelsman, Miss Israel, and shared it on Instagram with the caption “Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel.” It received well over 5,000 likes but also death threats.
Shortly after sharing it, Gandelsman told Israeli TV that Idan began receiving threats against her and her family saying they would be killed if the photo was not removed. Now, her family and relatives have fled Iraq fearing for their lives.
Idan, who lives in the U.S., confirmed the threats with a tweet saying “I’m not the first nor the last person to face prosecution over a matter of personal freedom. Millions of Iraqi women live in fear. #freeiraqiwomen.”
Idan went on to defend her friendship with the Israeli model in another post.
“I want to stress that the purpose of the picture was only to express hope and desire for peace between the two countries,” she said, adding that the photo “does not signal support for the government of Israel and does not mean I agree with or accept its policies in the Arab homeland.”
Many Arab countries including Iraq do not have diplomatic relations with Israel." Anyone can look up these Articles on Internet Search Engines such as Google or Bing.com
From the Christian Broadcasting Network Website, www.1.cbn.com an article is titled
"'This is the Deed to Our Land': Israel's Ambassador Takes Out Bible at UN to Prove Jewish People's Claim to Israel"
05-01-2019
Emily Jones
the article says
"Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon used the Bible to defend the Jewish people's claim to the land of Israel during a special session at the United Nations Security Council on Monday.
Danon was tasked with the job of proving the case for Jews' connection to the Holy Land during the session. He outlined four reasons, "the Bible, history, international law, and the pursuit of international peace and security."
In a dramatic moment, Danon opened the Bible and read aloud God's covenant with Abraham from Genesis 17: "And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout the generations for an everlasting covenant. And I will give to you and your descendants after you all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession and I will be their God."
Danon then raised up the Bible, turned to attendees and said, "This is the deed to our land."
"From the book of Genesis to the Jews' exodus, from Egypt to receiving the Torah on Mt. Sinai, and to the realization of God's covenant in the holy land of Israel, the Bible paints a consistent picture. The entire history of our people and our connection to Eretz Israel begins right here," he continued while lifting up the Bible once again.
Danon argued that all of the Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – affirm the Jewish people's connection to Israel.
"The Qur'an itself accepts the divine deed of the Jewish people to the land of Israel," he said.
'The #Koran itself accepts the divine deed of the #Jewish people to the land of #Israel,' says Israeli Ambassador @dannydanon in his address to the UN Security Council:
Danon then told the group how the Jews were expelled from Israel.
"In 70 CE, Roman Emperor Titus destroyed our Second Temple, expelled the Jewish people, and renamed the land nestled between Egypt and Lebanon 'Syria-Palestina, as a southern province of Syria. THAT is where the name Palestine comes from, though Jews still lived in Jerusalem," he argued.
2/4 In 70 CE, Roman Emperor Titus destroyed our Second Temple, expelled the Jewish people, and renamed the land nestled between Egypt and Lebanon "Syria-Palestina," as a southern province of Syria. THAT is where the name Palestine comes from, though Jews still lived in Jerusalem.
He also placed blame for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the feet of Palestinian leaders.
Ambassador Danny Danon | דני דנון
✔
@dannydanon
3/4 To blame Jewish communities in Judea/Samaria for lack of peace misreads history. The Arabs have rejected:
1937 Peel Commission Report
1947 UN Partition Plan
1948 Israel truce
2000 Camp David Summit
2001 Taba Summit
2007 Annapolis Conference#UNSC
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Danon said in order for peace to be possible, four things must happen, starting with the Palestinians recognizing Israel's right to exist.
4/4 Real peace will be possible when these four pillars are realized.
1. The Palestinians must accept and recognize the JEWISH State of Israel
2. The Palestinians must end their campaign of incitement
3. Regional cooperation
4. Israel will never compromise our security #UNSC " Other online articles detail this
Danny Danon Speech , so-called "Palestinians" have no valid legitimate historical claim to the land
Anyone can look up online how New Jersey Senator Cory Booker recently said that
"there’s no ‘greater moral vandalism’ than abandoning Israel" and that he said would cut off his right hand before abandoning Israel, I want Peace, but Many have truthfully said that
The "Palestinian Authority" is a terrible government,corrupt,uses money for Terrorism,
- That Israel has every right to Defeat Terrorists, never negotiate with them,
and that Palestinians have no moral authority
From the website unitedwithisrael.org which calls itself the world's largest pro-Israel community an article is titled
"Palestinian riot
Jerusalem: Arab Rioters Attack Police Forces with Firebombs and Rocks" On August 29, 2019
the article says
“These Molotovs, rocks, fireworks, and other attack devices are aimed at civilians as well as police forces, who attempt to thwart and minimize these violent riots,” a police spokesperson said.
By Arye Green, TPS
A mob of Arab rioters on Wednesday night attacked police forces during an operation in the Arab neighborhood of Issawiya in eastern Jerusalem. The rioters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at the police forces and media crews present on site.
The media crews were asked by the police to clear the area, out of concern for their safety, given the violent circumstances. The police spokesperson said the police “allows members of the media to operate in Issawiya and will continue to do so while keeping them safe and preventing the loss of human life.”
Violent riots against police forces are frequent in Issawiya, threatening the lives of law enforcement personnel as well as civilians. Police say that recently they have been dealing with riots on a daily basis.
On Monday, Arab terrorists threw a pipe bomb at Border Police forces operating in the neighborhood, and elsewhere security forces were attacked with stones and fireworks.
A police spokesperson stated that the police forces are not the only ones targeted by rioters. “These Molotovs, rocks, fireworks, and other attack devices are aimed at civilians as well as police forces, who attempt to thwart and minimize these violent riots.”
He added that “thanks to police activity in the area in recent months, there has been a sharp decline in violent incidents such as rock and Molotov throwing, and other crimes against innocent civilians.”
Rock-throwing by Arab terrorists has been a common form of terror throughout the years, causing numerous injuries and, in some cases, death.
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Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Palestinians Take Money from Israel, But Lie to Save Face" On August 29, 2019
the article says
"The Palestinian Authority talks out of both sides of its mouth, vowing publicly not to accept tax transfers from Israel and then concocting absurd excuses to explain their acceptance of the cash.
By Maurice Hirsch, Adv., Palestinian Media Watch
Months after intentionally plunging the Palestinian economy into financial crisis, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has finally agreed to accept two billion shekels from Israel. In order to justify the move to its domestic audience, the PA had to invent an alternative reality, assuming that its population and potentially even the international community would never know the truth.
When Israel implemented its anti-pay-for-slay law in February 2019 and started deducting from the tax revenues Israel collects and transfers to the PA, 41 million shekels/month amounting to 502 million shekels/year, which is the amount the PA admitted it had spent in 2018 to pay salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorists, the PA responded by refusing to accept all the remaining tax revenues.
Since making that decision, hundreds of millions of shekels that Israel has collected and was willing to transfer to the PA have been sitting in Israel’s coffers, just waiting for the PA to accept them.
At the time, the PA claimed that accepting the deducted funds would be equivalent to accepting that the arrested Palestinians are terrorists and that the move would have “ominous political consequences, and it will have legal implications for us as an authority, and on the banking sector, and on the beneficiaries and such.”
the article continues
"Now the PA has suddenly agreed to accept two billion shekels from Israel. While making the announcement, PA Civil Affairs Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh, already sowed the seeds of the PA’s alternative reality claiming that the funds were received “after exhausting negotiations” and that the PA would be importing petroleum “without the ‘blu’ tax retroactively for the past 7 months.”
In an interview with AFP, Al-Sheikh added the two billion shekel figure.
This alternative narrative suffers from three major inaccuracies.
First, no “exhausting negotiations” were needed. Israel has been willing for months to transfer the taxes it had collected, but the PA was unwilling to accept the deducted amounts. The only “exhausting negotiations” required were internal PA negotiations on how to spin the decision to accept the funds without being openly seen as abandoning the PA posturing.
Second, Israeli law requires that “blu” tax be collected on all gas and fuel sold within Israel. A separate provision of the law permits the Israeli Authorities to transfer to the PA any “blu” collected on gas and fuel destined for the areas under PA control. Since the Israeli Knesset has not functioned for several months (as a result of elections and return elections) it is impossible that any changes in these laws that would allow the PA to import “petroleum without ‘blu’ tax retroactively for the past 7 months” could have been passed.
Third, statistics published by the PA Ministry of Finance (and independently verified by Palestinian Media Watch) show that in the first half of 2019, the income from “blu” taxes was 1.27 billion shekels – reflecting a monthly average of approximately 211 million shekels.
Lying to Their Own People, and the World
Which means, that by accepting 2 billion shekels (which is hundreds of millions more than the “blu” taxes revenue), the PA has de facto given in to Israel’s demand to accept the tax money minus the terror money deduction. To save face, the PA is lying to its own people and to the international community claiming it is only agreeing to receive the “blu” tax money.
While this is perfectly clear to those familiar with the both PA finances and Israel’s legislative process, it is not entirely unlikely that many of the Palestinian population and the international community accepted Al-Sheikh’s explanations, assuming that he was telling the truth.
Israel’s anti-pay-for-slay law was passed in July 2018. The law instructs the state to deduct and freeze the amount of money the PA pays in salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of “Martyrs” in one year from the tax money Israel collects and transfers to the PA in the following year.
Should the PA stop these payments for a full year, the Israeli government would have the option of giving all or part of the frozen money to the PA. The law was first implemented in February 2019, shortly after the murder of Ori Ansbacher, when Israel’s Security Cabinet decided to withhold 502,697,000 Israeli shekels (approximately $138 million) from the PA to be deducted in 12 monthly parts.
In response to the decision, the PA announced that if Israel implemented the law and deducted the funds, the PA would refuse to accept any of the funds.
Ostensibly as a result of the decision to refuse the tax income after the deduction, the PA decided to cut the salaries of all its public employees and for months, has been paying them only 50% of their salaries. During this period, the terrorist prisoners continued to receive their full salaries.
It also decided to stop the referrals of Palestinians to Israeli hospitals to receive medical treatment claiming, falsely, that Israel was charging the PA $100 million/year"
The website unitedwithisrael.org has another article titled
"Palestinians: Why Allow Facts to Get in the Way?" on August 29, 2019
the article says
"Rina Shnerb, the 17-year-old teenager who was killed by Palestinian terrorists, never lived in a “settlement” in Samaria and she never served in the IDF or any security agency, contrary to the lies spread by the Palestinian media.
By Bassam Tawil, The Gatestone Institute
Why are the details about Rina’s hometown and her age worth mentioning? Because the Palestinian media has again engaged in a campaign of fabrications and lies to justify the terror attack and the murder of an innocent Jewish teenager.
Lod is not a settlement. It is a city located in the Central District of Israel, and even has an Arab population of 30%.
The Palestinian media, however, does not feel comfortable reporting the facts about the terror attack. In the eyes of Palestinian news editors and journalists, Rina was a “settler” and a “soldier.” By using such terms, the Palestinians are trying to create the impression that she was not an innocent teenager, but a Jew who lived in a settlement and was even serving in the IDF.
This type of misinformation is aimed at sending a message that Rina was a legitimate target because she was one of hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers living in Judea and Samaria and an active member of the IDF. The Palestinian public, for its part, is often quick to endorse such lies to justify terror attacks against Jews.
What is particularly disturbing is that even the media controlled by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chose to spread the lie that the murdered teenager was a “settler” and “soldier.”
Reporting on the terror attack, Abbas’s official news agency, Wafa, said in an August 23 dispatch:
“The Israeli occupation forces on Friday sealed off main roads to villages west of Ramallah and beefed up their military presence in the Ramallah area on the pretext that a female settler was killed and others injured near the Dolev settlement that was built on the lands of [Palestinian] residents west of Ramallah.”
Inventing an Alternate Reality
The term “pretext” is aimed at casting doubt about the Israeli authorities’ version concerning the circumstances surrounding the murder of the teenager. It is as if Abbas’s news agency is telling its readers that there is no proof that the Jewish teenager was murdered in a terror attack and it is only a claim being made by the Israeli authorities."
the article continues
"Although the agency was aware that Rina was from an Israeli city located near Israel’s main international airport (Ben Gurion Airport), it still chose to refer to her as a “female settler.” Why? Because, in the eyes of Abbas’s news agency, it is permissible to murder settlers because they are living “on Palestinian residents’ land.” Abbas’s official news agency, in other words, is saying that this Jewish woman deserved a horrible death because she was living in an “illegal settlement.”
Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction also joined the Palestinian campaign of lies by describing the murdered Jewish teenager as a “settler” and her father and brother as “settlers.” Again, by spreading such lies Fatah is implying that Rina was not just an ordinary teenager who was on a picnic with her family.
While Abbas’s official media and faction continue to describe Rina as a “settler,” other popular Palestinian media outlets have been spreading the other lie that she was a “female soldier” — creating the false impression that she was targeted in a “legitimate resistance operation against an armed Jew in military uniform.
The Palestinian news agency Ma’an, which is closely associated with the Palestinian Authority and Abbas, was among the first media organizations to publish the fake news that Rina was a “female soldier.” The agency even had the audacity to tell its readers that “Israeli media reported that a female soldier” was killed in a bomb explosion.
Needless to say, the Israeli media never referred to Rina as a “female soldier” or “settler.” Ma’an and the rest of the Palestinian media, however, will not allow the facts to get in their way because the truth can be “inconvenient.”
Inconvenient Truths
Speaking of inconvenient truths, here is another: Abbas and his Palestinian Authority have refrained from condemning the murder of the Jewish teenager. Their silence actually thunders their approval of such terror attacks, especially when, as they claim, the victim is a “settler” or “soldier.” How can Abbas condemn the murder of a Jewish girl when he is telling his people, through his media, that Rina was not an innocent teenager?"
the article continues
"While one considers disturbing facts, it might be mentioned that whenever a Jew is murdered or injured in a terror attack, Palestinians break out in mass celebration. Shortly after Rina’s slaying, several Palestinian groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and various PLO factions like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) were quick to issue statements praising the murder of the teenager and calling on Palestinians to step up their “qualitative” attacks against Israel.
Not one Palestinian has dared to speak out against the slaughter; this silence, of course, does not come as a surprise. Given the continued anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian media, no Palestinian will dare to go against the tide by condemning a terror attack out of fear of being labeled a traitor. On the contrary, any Palestinian who praises a terror attack against Israel earns respect and is hailed as a hero.
Finally, it is important to note that many Palestinian media outlets and officials continue to refer to Israel as “occupied Palestine.” They see zero difference between a Jew living in Judea and Samaria and a Jew living inside Israel. For them, all Jews are settlers and colonizers, and all cities inside Israel — Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Eilat, as well as Lod, the hometown of Rina — are “occupied.” In the eyes of Palestinians, all of Israel is “occupied” and a “settlement”
They also consider any Jew visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem a “settler,” even if he or she does not live in a settlement. The goal is to depict the Jewish visitors as hostile colonizers on a mission to “defile” a mosque. Again, this type of rhetoric aims to encourage Palestinians to launch terror attacks against Jewish “aggressors.”
When Palestinian terrorists fired three rockets at Sderot on August 25, Palestinian media outlets reported that Sderot is a “settlement.” In case anyone had doubts, Sderot is an Israeli city in the Negev Desert, not a “settlement.” By using the term “settlement,” the Palestinians are again trying to create the impression that a city it is a legitimate target for rocket attacks because it is an “illegal settlement.”
The rhetoric and fabrications of the Palestinian media are simply part of a longstanding Palestinian campaign of incitement against Israel and Jews. For this media ensemble, truth is just another word for nothing left to lie about."
Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East." As usual everything is the fault of the so-called "Palestinians" everything is their fault as always, it's always their fault, they are always to blame , while Israel is Always Morally Right & Superior Compared to it's Enemies which crave another Holocaust, don't believe "Palestinian" Fake News & Lies, the "Palestinians" & other Arabs do Not live with the Constant 24/7 fear,terror & anxiety that the Jewish Israelis have to endure every single day, every single day Jewish Israelis have to live in fear of "Palestinian" and other Arab/Islamic Terrorism, while "Palestinians" & Other Arabs don't know the Living Hell, the Living Hell & Nightmare that they force upon innocent Peace Loving Jewish Israelis , Every Day in Israel is a Possible
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The website haaretz.com has an article from 2016 titled
"Reagan's Secretary of State Reminds Us of Israel's Greatness" the article says
George Shultz, who will go down in history as one of America’s great secretaries of state, spoke in Jerusalem last and served to instill pride in our great country.
Moshe Arens Feb 21, 2016 7:15 PM
the article says
"I wish all of Israel could have heard George Shultz speak in Jerusalem last week at a dinner given in his honor by the Israel Democracy Institute. It was a pleasant respite from the unending self-flagellation to which we are subjected day by day. In a few sentences he managed to capture an image of Israel as seen from afar, which many of us miss, being so close to everyday events. His words served to instill pride in our great country and its people.
In his speech he recalled the first contact he had had with Israel – his Israeli graduate student in Economics at the University of Chicago, Yossi Levy. Levy, a brilliant student, surprised him when on the eve of the Six-Day War informed him that he would have to interrupt his studies and return to Israel to join his army unit. A week later he learned that Levy had fallen in battle.
“I asked myself,” Shultz said, “what kind of a country is this that commands such loyalty from such talented people, and what kind of a region is this that has conflicts that take the lives of such talented people”. Levy’s wife, son and the son’s wife were in the audience.
I was ambassador in Washington during the time that Shultz served as United States secretary of state. I got to know him and O’Bie, his wife at the time. They symbolized to me the best of America – principles, integrity, courage. No wonder he was and continues to be a great friend of Israel, seeing in Israel these very qualities.
During his many years as U.S. secretary of state he came to know Israel and the conflicts dominating the region. A number of times he tried his hand at resolving some of these conflicts, only to learn how intractable they were. It did not temper his admiration for Israel. On returning to Jerusalem after one of his missions to Middle Eastern capitals, he confided to me, “It feels like coming home.”
the haaretz.com article continues
"Shultz as secretary of state took up the cause of Soviet Jewry. He knew the names of the refuseniks denied the right to go to Israel, many of them languishing in Soviet prisons. In his negotiations with Soviet leaders attempting to wind down the Cold War, he would always bring up their names pleading for their release. Avital Sharansky had gone around the world demanding that her husband, Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, be released from jail and allowed to go to Israel. She had been to see Shultz, and he tried to arrange for Sharansky’s release. He put together a deal with the Soviets for Sharansky to be released in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the Americans.
When Sharansky was informed that he would be released in such a U.S.-Soviet arrangement, he refused to be part of it. “I am not a spy,” he insisted. Shultz related that the pleas for him to accept his release under these terms were of no avail.
“The integrity of the man is just stunning,” Shultz said in his speech at the dinner. Turning to Sharansky, who was in the audience, he said “Thank you Natan for your integrity.”
Shultz will go down in history as one of America’s great secretaries of state. During the over six years that he was secretary of state, he had many achievements to his credit. He was part of President Ronald Reagan’s diplomatic offensive that led to the crumbling of the Soviet Union. But the fight for Soviet Jewry was always on his mind.
He recalled that one day he received a telephone call in the State Department. “When I picked up the phone, there was a little voice on the other end. ‘This is Ida Nudel, I am in Jerusalem, I’m home.’” It was one of the high points of his career, he told the dinner audience.
One wonders why does it take a visitor from San Francisco to arouse us from interminable debates and mutual recriminations, to make us realize what we really are. A nation, surrounded by enemies, overcoming great odds, fighting back aggression and waves of terror, establishing itself in its ancient homeland" Terrible how the U.N. & much of the World gives "Palestinians" so much money in Aid each and every year, Billions of Dollars are Given to "Palestinians" every year, and the "Palestinians" instead of using the Money to better themselves, by building Schools, Hospitals, Homes, etc they use the Money for Terrorism against Israel and to buy weapons to attack Israeli Civilians, they waste the money in their Unholy sick desire to destroy the Jewish state
From the Wikipedia entry - "List of National Founders", which lists the names of Famous People who founded the various nations in the World, if you scroll down to Israel on the list it says
"Abraham is the founding father of the Jewish nation, Jacob and Judah are the founding fathers of the Jewish tribe, and of the ancient Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. Theodor Herzl is considered the founder of the modern Jewish state. David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel, and considered an important figure in the rebuilding of the Jewish state."
The website, letusreason.org has an article titled
"Who killed Jesus?"
the article says-
"The Bible says Jesus voluntarily gave up his life and allowed himself to be crucified to have our sins forgiven. This was foreordained by the Father, to send his Son to earth and die on Passover as the lamb of God for our sins (as John first introduced him to Israel) As Scripture says in Jn.4:14 “the Father sent the son as savior.”
Jesus explained to his disciples "saying, 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.'" (Luke 24:7)
God had a plan from the time of creation Peter 1:20: “He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” That the Son would be the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev 13:8) By our believing in the gospel we will “inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:” (Matt 25:34).
At the trial before Caesar in the early morning they denied his release and in his place asked for the murderer Barabbas. They called for him to be crucified. The religious leaders knew of his pre trial with Rome and woke people up to voice their condemnation of Jesus to make sure of the outcome (Lk.23:23).
Even if the Jews did not solicit Caesar to have him crucified he would have had to die this day, in this manner; it was ordained in the Scripture, as prophecy.
What can we learn from Peter's Pentecost sermon? There was more to Christ's crucifixion than meets the eyes of those who witnessed it. The cross was prefigured by hundreds of thousands of animal sacrifices before it happened. Peter points out that Jesus was nailed to the cross by “the hands of godless men,” yet He was “delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). He was taking our place and suffering the wrath of God for our sins, fulfilling God's preordained plan, by the many predictions of the prophets. All of history led up to this event.
Acts 2:23-24 "Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;" whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.” V. 36-37 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
the article continues
""The Jews who repented broke with the leadership of Israel and were baptized, receiving the same Holy Spirit.
The crucifixion recorded in the New Testament does not put the blame solely on ‘the Jews’ and certainly never even hints that succeeding generations of Jews should be held accountable and persecuted because of it. John’s Gospel use of the term ‘the Jews’ is often used to describe the opposition to Jesus. As does Peter when he addresses the leadership Acts 4:10 "let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.”
Paul later writes, 1 Cor. 2:8: “which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
Then there is Rome that also had an equal part, for without Pilate Jesus could not have been crucified.
Mark 15:15 “So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.”
Jesus in John’s Gospel made it clear who is responsible for his death: ‘Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from my Father.’ (Jn. 10.17-18)
Jesus is responsible for his own death. He chose the time and manner fulfilling the Scripture (the Passover lamb) by dying as our sacrifice for sin and rising again from the dead to give eternal life to those who receive him. The prophecy of Isaiah 53, which describes the sufferings of the Messiah, ‘It pleased the Lord to bruise him, He has put him to grief.’ Isaiah 53. 10. For God himself says ‘It pleased the Lord to bruise him.’ Jesus death fulfilled the will of God.
We see Jesus submitting himself to the will of God when He prayed in Gethsemane: ‘O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.’ (Mt. 26.39)"
and lastly says
"‘This cup’ refers to the suffering he knew he would go through that would separate him from the eternal fellowship he had with the Father.
Jesus prayed from the cross, ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they do,’ (Luke 21.34) expressing God’s forgiveness extends to those who were responsible for His death. There were certain people who called for the death of Jesus and made a kangaroo court to accomplish it, breaking twenty-two of their own laws in the course of Jesus’ trial.
The outstretched arm of forgiveness continues to the Jewish people after the resurrection of the Jesus. Peter said, “Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did your rulers. But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that the Messiah would suffer, he has thus fulfilled. Repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3.17-19) They were ignorant of the spiritual meaning of it, the Apostles reminded them exhorting them to believe in his name.
The Jewish people, beginning at Pentecost heard this message thousands responded to it. The book of Acts shows us the first ones to be in the church were Jews. Jesus’ prayer on the cross for the forgiveness was answered, and still is.
Who was responsible for the death of Jesus is portrayed by the apostles in Acts 4.24-28: “They raised their voice to God with one accord and said: "Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them," who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: 'Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ.' "For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together" to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.”
Hatred from both the Leadership of the Saducees and Pharisees became a conspiracy against the Messiah, headed up by Caiaphas, the High priest. His intention was to arrest Jesus in secret, and have him killed before the people became aware of what had happened (Mt. 26:14-16; Mk. 14:11; Lk. 22:5)
All this took place ‘to do whatever your hand and your purpose determined before to be done,’ to fulfill the predetermined plan of God. The responsibility for the death of Jesus is with God who had the Son who willingly died to fulfill his purposes.
Heb 12:2-3: “who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.”
That joy cam by the greatest suffering so that He might rescue you. The message of the Gospel is ‘the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek (Gentile)’ (Rom. 1.16)"
The website thegospelcoalition.org has an article titled
"Who Killed Jesus?"
MARCH 20, 2007 | by Trevin Wax
the article says
"The question of Jesus’ death is haunting to modern ears today. Any attempt to pin blame on the Jews for being complicit in Jesus’ death will cause people to call you anti-Semitic (though the fact that Christians worship a God who came in Jewish flesh is hard to totally ignore). Many people don’t even think about the historical reasons Jesus died, whether or not it was the Romans or Jews. They automatically think of the theological reasons for his death, mainly their sins. But the question remains: Who put Jesus on the cross?
THE ROMANS The Romans killed Jesus by actually being the people who put Jesus on the cross. Pontius Pilate, acting under the authority of Caesar, committed Jesus to crucifixion. The Romans scourged him, tortured and beat him, and crucified him. In the most important historical sense, the Romans (I believe representing all of the pagan peoples of the world) were responsible for Jesus’ death.
THE JEWISH LEADERS The Jews were God’s chosen people, the ones God commissioned to be a light to the pagan nations around them. They were to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth. But more times than not, they failed at this task. Though the Romans were the ones who actually, officially, put Jesus on the cross, the Jewish leaders were the ones who handed Jesus over to Rome and demanded his execution. Many of the Jewish leaders believed Jesus to be a threat to their traditions. Ironically, the very people who were called to lead the world to God joined forces with the pagans to crucify God’s Son.
I must mention, however, that saying the Jewish leaders had a hand in Jesus’ death does not implicate the entire Jewish nation. Nor should this be a reason for anti-Jewish rhetoric. After all, most all of the early Christians were Jews, not to mention Jesus Himself."
the article continues
"ALL OF US Because historically, the Romans (representing all the Gentile nations) and the Jews (God’s chosen people) put Jesus on the cross, we can then move to the theological implication that the whole world killed Jesus. We all killed Jesus. In a real sense, we were all there in the crowd yelling “Crucify Him!” His death was to pay for our sins. We are like Barrabas. Jesus dies and Barrabas goes free. Jesus dies, and we go free. Though we are the ones deserving death, the sentence for our sin, Jesus takes our punishment upon himself. He goes to the cross in our place. Our rebellion against God, beginning with Adam in the Garden of Eden and continuing to the present, put Jesus on the cross.
GOD There’s one more person responsible for Jesus’ death. And this is the most important answer. Who killed Jesus? The Romans, The Jews, We all did… but here’s the clincher. God killed Jesus. I know that might sound harsh and it is, indeed, hard to wrap your mind around. But it’s true. God the Father sacrificed his Son. He killed his Son in order to spare us His righteous wrath.
Now don’t think this is a picture of some vindictive God up there throwing down lightning bolts. He’s not a God who enjoyed seeing Jesus suffer. He does not delight in the wages of sin. God killed Jesus because this is what it would take for sin to be forgiven. This is what it would take for death to be no more. This is what it would take for God to remain just and holy in dealing with sin and loving and merciful in accepting sinners."
The website hope4israel.org has an article titled
"FALSE CLAIMS OF THE BDS MOVEMENT"
the article says
"Hope for Israel has published a series of articles that outline the basis of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement by providing detailed information and evidence about their primary campaign platforms – academic boycott, consumer boycott, cultural boycott, divestment and sanctions. The BDS movement has proved itself to be discriminatory, divisive and in many ways anti-Semitic at its core. It is a movement that uses a rights-based discourse to ultimately deny the rights and legitimacy of one people, the Jewish people, to establish themselves in their historical homeland. Under the guise of promoting peace in the Middle East, the boycott movement, in reality, does not seek peace. Unfortunately, its leaders and many of its advocates are misleading large numbers of its supporters across the globe by spreading lies and propaganda about the State of Israel.
The purpose here is to refute some of the core, foundational lies and distortions claimed by the BDS movement, and in response, provide a more factual understanding of the specific issues and controversies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Lie: Zionism is a colonialist movement, which conquered and stole land from the Palestinians[1] with no rightful claim to it.
The Truth: Zionism is a national liberation movement of the Jewish people whose belief holds that the Jews, like any other nation, are entitled to a homeland. Zionism was one of many national liberation movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. As a result of the persecution of Jews and anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East, Jewish individuals and families began to make their way to the Land of their forefathers, a place with which the Jewish people have maintained ties for more than 3,700 years, including a national language and distinct civilization.
Theodor Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, appealed to the Ottomans to request permission for the allocation of land for the fleeing Jews. In 1917, due to growing support for Zionism within Britain’s parliament and the presumed defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Balfour Declaration was written creating, “A national home for the Jewish people.” This declaration was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922. Zionists, or Jews who sought to make a new home in their historic homeland, did not conquer or colonize “Palestine.” In fact, there was never a nation or state called Palestine. It was a region on the eastern Mediterranean that received its name from the Romans referred to as Palaestina, given in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The British Mandate divided up the region between the Jews and Arabs and, with the support of the United Nations and the international community, a Jewish State was established in 1948.
the article continues
"The Lie: The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was achieved through the ruthless and well-planned ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians.
The Truth: For the sake of perspective, it is crucial to clarify what was happening in the first half of the 20th century across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. These regions witnessed incredible waves of population exchanges for the purpose of establishing nation-states. In this wave, approximately 60 million people were uprooted or transferred from their homeland. By 1947, Jews constituted over half of the population in Palaestina. After the wreckage of WWII, the British powers gave over the region to the United Nations to decide how to divide up the land. The United Nations declared two states between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea – one Arab and one Jewish. While the Jewish community jumped at the opportunity, the Arabs denied the offer and declared a war of annihilation. Had the Arabs accepted the UN Partition Plan, not a single Palestinian Arab would have become a refugee.
In the months leading up to the war, Arabs either fled or were driven out of their homes for various reasons. Thousands left in anticipation of war; thousands more left at the request of the Arab armies; some were expelled by the Israeli army, but the majority fled in order to escape being caught in the crossfire. Many assumed – or were promised – that the Arab armies would quickly defeat the Jews and expected to return to their homes after the war. However, when the Israeli army defeated the five Arab armies from the nations of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, and Iraq, it was clear that the Jewish State would remain. The more than 700,000 Arabs who fled then became refugees. It is important to note, as a result of this conflict, approximately 850,000 Jews were forced to leave their countries in the Middle East and Europe, and became refugees; they ended up finding refuge in the new State of Israel and were gladly welcomed and integrated into Israeli society. Out of tens of millions of refugees worldwide during this time period, it is only the Palestinian Arabs who are still considered refugees, and that is predominantly due to the fact that Arab countries refused to absorb these populations (even until today) as a way to continually perpetuate the conflict. Unlike the Arabs’ very clear purpose of annihilating the Jews, the Jewish people never intended nor carried out any form of genocide or ethnic cleansing. Historical records prove this to be true."
the article continues
"The Lie: Israel is committing war crimes and violating international law through the military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
The Truth: During the 1948 War of Independence, Jordan illegally captured and occupied Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem and changed the name to the “West Bank,” as it is commonly referred to today. Jordan expelled all of the Jews from that area, including the holy sites in Jerusalem. In the years leading up to the 1967 Six-Day War, neighboring Arab states continued to completely deny the existence of the State of Israel and carried out acts of terror and aggression towards Israel; this ultimately led to threats of war. During the Six-Day War, Israel seized control of the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria from Jordan in an act of self-defense, after Jordan joined military forces with Egypt and Syria in another attempt to destroy Israel. When East Jerusalem came under the Israeli rule, Arabs living there were given permanent residency status with the option of becoming Israeli citizens (although most chose not to take this option for political reasons) and the right to vote and run for the city council. To this day, residents of East Jerusalem have the freedom of movement, the right to live and work anywhere in Israel and are entitled to social benefits, including national health insurance.
The often-quoted UN Security Council Resolution 242, adopted in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, has been largely misinterpreted by opponents of Israel to say that Israel’s acquisition of territory in 1967 is ‘inadmissible’ and requires Israel to return to its pre-1967 boundaries. However, Resolution 242 did not demand a unilateral Israeli withdrawal, rather, it was meant to guide the negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement, which would leave Israel with “secure and recognized boundaries.” This is why the presence and construction of Israeli settlements should not be considered illegal. A more accurate understanding is to refer to the land acquired in 1967 as disputed territory, until an agreement is reached that determines sovereign legal borders.
The 1967 border that marks the Green Line and is often referred to as “occupied territory,” was never an international border; it was the Armistice Line of 1949 where the Arab and Israeli forces drew a ceasefire at the end of the War of Independence. According to Arab leaders, this line had no political significance. A more exact and legal definition according to international law is to call the West Bank “disputed territory” because there was no previous legal sovereignty over the area. Israel has since used this territory captured in 1967 as a wager for negotiating peace with neighboring Arab states, as it did with Egypt in trading the Sinai Peninsula in 1979. In 2005, in yet another effort to make peace with the Palestinian Arabs, Israel completely withdrew all troops and military presence, along with more than 9,000 Israeli citizens from 25 settlements from within the Gaza Strip and handed over total control to the Palestinian Authority. Two years later, an internationally recognized terrorist organization called Hamas, whose main charter expresses the group’s devout commitment to the complete destruction of the State of Israel, gained control over the Gaza Strip by vote of the people. Intense factional fighting broke out in the Gaza Strip between the two main political parties Fatah and Hamas, including the killing of civilians, public executions of political opponents, throwing prisoners off high-rise buildings and expelling all Fatah members from Gaza, practices that Hamas continues until today. Purely for the sake of defending its citizens from terror attacks, Israel does maintain surveillance and a strong hold on its border with Gaza in order to ensure that weapons or equipment for building rockets are not smuggled inside."
and continues
"The Lie: Jewish settlements are an obstacle to peace.
The Truth: Settlements have never been an obstacle to peace. The first 18 years in the life of the State of Israel, when Jews were forbidden to live in East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, the Arabs refused to make peace with Israel. The Israeli settlements that existed in the Sinai after 1967 did not prevent a peace agreement with Egypt, but they were removed as part of the terms of the negotiations. In the 1994 peace treaty with Jordan, Israeli settlements were not an issue. In 2005, in hopes of moving forward in negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel evacuated all of its settlements from the Gaza Strip. In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to withdrawal from approximately 94 percent of Judea and Samaria, but the Palestinians rejected the offer. In 2010, Benjamin Netanyahu froze settlement construction for ten months, but Palestinian leaders refused to come to the negotiating table until the period was nearly over. Time and time again, Israel has made clear that it is willing to make concessions when it comes to settlements. The truth is that the existence of a Jewish State is an obstacle to peace in the eyes of the Arabs.
Even though settlements are not an obstacle to peace, their expansion in size and number do require large numbers of Israeli troops to defend the residents from threats by surrounding Arab neighborhoods. For many years and even in recent weeks, settlers are oftentimes the targets of repeated Palestinian terror attacks. The question of settlements is a matter of any final status agreement."
and continues
"The Lie: Palestinian people live inside Israel as third-class citizens. They are subjected to a system of racial discrimination and racist laws that are tantamount to Apartheid, as defined by the United Nations.
The Truth: Israel is one of the most diverse and open societies in the world, and most definitely in the Middle East. Of Israel’s more than 8 million inhabitants, 1.8 million are non-Jews comprised of Muslims, Christians, and Druze. This Arab minority has equal voting rights for both men and women, unlike many Middle Eastern countries that forbid women from voting. Arabs occupy senior positions in the Israeli police force, the Knesset and the Israeli judiciary. Arabic is an official language in Israel. Israeli law prohibits discrimination in employment.
Under apartheid, black South Africans could not vote and were not citizens of the country. They could not eat in the same restaurant as whites, or go to the same schools, they were treated at black-only hospitals, and they could not even walk on the same side of the street as the white South Africans. In Israel, every day you see Arabs and Jews interacting together in shared spaces in public, at school, doing business together and being treated by both Arab and Israeli doctors. The sole legal distinction between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is that Arabs are not required to serve in the Israeli army. Even so, many Arabs have volunteered themselves to serve at their own will.
It cannot be denied that within Israeli society there are cases of discrimination, not only between Jews and Arabs, but also within the Jewish community. There are problems of discrimination between religious Jews and secular Jews, between Ashkenazi and Sephardic, with Ethiopian Jews and Russian Jews. Every society that has such a large amount of ethnic and cultural diversity struggles to cultivate tolerance and uniformity. Fifty years after the civil rights movement in the United States, discrimination has still not been eradicated. Europe today is struggling to integrate its ever-growing immigrant population. However, from a legal and judiciary standpoint, the rights of all citizens, including minorities, are protected under Israeli law.
In conclusion, Israel is not perfect, and is not exempt from criticism. Not every decision the Israeli government makes is the proper one, nor are all of her actions blameless. There is a robust amount of criticism towards Israel, even among its citizens, in most every sector of society, which makes for a thriving and healthy democracy. Israel is still a very young country and has many areas to grow and improve for its citizens, including its minority populations. Any conflict between two peoples creates a difficult situation; self-defense is oftentimes accompanied by injustice and harm to innocent people. There is a difference, however, in having legitimate and constructive criticism of Israeli policy, versus creating an international campaign that tries to delegitimize Israel’s existence and make fictitious claims of genocide, apartheid, and crimes against humanity, as does the BDS campaign. We hope that by presenting historical and on-the-ground facts and information about Israel, more people will be able to refute the lies of the boycott movement and start to move towards a better world for all of the inhabitants in the Land.
[1] All references in this article to the term “Palestinian” is with an historical understanding that Arabs did not refer to themselves as Palestinians during the Mandate period, and no Arab institution called itself Palestinian. The collective identity in the pre-1967 era was overwhelmingly Arab; a Palestinian identity did not exist within the general population. A self-defined, Palestinian national identity is a fairly new creation and did not develop until after the Six Day War in 1967."
From the website, thetower.org there is an article titled
"The Mendacious Maps of Palestinian "Loss" , the article can be found here,
http://www.thetower.org/article/the-mendacious-maps-of-palestinian-loss/ This Article details Arab & "Palestinian" Lies, their Evil Satanic Lies Exposed, Don't be fooled by their Propaganda & Lies, The Anti-Israel people are Dishonest Frauds, Liars & Losers , don't be fooled by their Anti-Israel Lies
From the Wall Street Journal Website, wsj.com an article is titled
"Refute Palestinian Lies to Promote Mideast Peace" and it says -
There’s no ‘occupied’ territory, and the Jews have been in Israel for thousands of years.
By Max Singer
Dec. 6, 2018 6:39 pm ET
‘Our demand for fairness for Israel is actually a demand for peace,” declared Nikki Haley in July. It’s important for the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to stress fairness, and above all truth, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because Palestinian rejection of peace frequently hides behind falsehoods. Ending the acceptance of these falsehoods is critical to putting Middle East diplomacy on a path toward peace.
A good book for Pro-Israel people to order from Amazon.com is titled
"Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict" Paperback 2017 by
Ben-Dror Yemini , the description of the book from Amazon.com says
"The Industry of Lies is one of the greatest frauds of recent decades - a fraud of historic, even epic, proportions. When almost half of all Europeans believe that Israel treats the Palestinians just like the Nazis treated the Jews, when leading politicians assert that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the central cause of violence in the world, and when prominent intellectuals argue that Israel is an apartheid state, the unfortunate reality is that the lies are winning.
As a result, Israel has become the devil incarnate in the eyes of many otherwise good and reasonable people - people who genuinely want to see peace but inadvertently contribute to the continuation of the Israeli-Arab conflict. The tragedy is that they are neither helping the Palestinians nor promoting agreement or reconciliation. Instead, they lend legitimacy to the most fallacious claims of the most extreme activists, empowering not moderates but the worst of the radicals who have no interest in attaining peace.
Israel is not free from flaws. However, this book draws a clear distinction between legitimate criticism and the industry of lies that has emerged from two unlikely sources - the media and academia - undermining their reputation as bastions of truth and knowledge. Ben-Dror Yemini presents an in-depth analysis of the many inaccurate and malicious accusations leveled against Israel and refutes them one by one in this thought-provoking and well-researched volume that invites us to rethink the causes and consequences of the Israeli-Arab conflict." Anti-Israel people are such pathetic Satanic Evil Diabolical Demonic Liars & Frauds, such worthless losers
Anyone can order from Amazon.com another book titled
"Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight"
by Lyn Julius, Published in 2018
the book description from Amazon.com says
""Lyn Julius provides a riveting account of a fascinating, but disgracefully overlooked subject. Anyone who really wants to understand the Middle East, Israel and world history, should read it." —Tom Gross, former Middle East correspondent, Sunday Telegraph; contributor to The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal
Now available in paperback! Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave countries where they had been settled for thousands of years? What lessons can we learn from the mass exodus of minorities from the Middle East? Lyn Julius undertakes to answer all these questions and more in Uprooted, the culmination of ten years of work studying these issues. Jews lived continuously in the Middle East and North Africa for almost 3,000 years. Yet, in just 50 years, their indigenous communities outside Palestine almost totally disappeared as more than 99 percent of the Jewish population fled. Some 650,000—including a minority of ideological Zionists—went to Israel. Before the Holocaust they constituted ten percent of the world's Jewish population, and now over 50 percent of Israel's Jews are refugees from Arab and Muslim countries, or their descendants. This same process is now repeating in Christian and other minority communities across the Middle East. This book assesses how well these Jews have integrated into Israel and how their struggles have been politicized. It charts the growing clamour for recognition, redress and memorialization for these Jewish refugees, and looks at how their cause can contribute to peace and reconciliation between Israel and the Muslim world. " The Arab nations need to Pay Up for Throwing their Jews out in 1948, They owe Israel
Trillions upon Trillions of Dollars in Compensation & Reparations for Throwing their Peaceful Law-Abiding Jewish Residents & Citizens out in 1948, They should also Give Israel a large portion of their Arab Oil, so Israel can share it with the World,
Even if the Jews were allowed to Return to those Arab nations, I doubt anyone would want to return to those crappy desert nations
From the Wikipedia entry for the "Second Intifada" started and Pre-Planned by
Yasser Arafat in the year 2000, if you scroll down on the Wikipedia entry for the Second Intifada it says
"Palestinians killed by Palestinians
B'Tselem reports that through 30 April 2008, there were 577 Palestinians killed by Palestinians. Of those, 120 were "Palestinians killed by Palestinians for suspected collaboration with Israel".[173] B'Tselem maintains a list of deaths of Palestinians killed by Palestinians with details about the circumstances of the deaths. Some of the many causes of death are crossfire, factional fighting, kidnappings, collaboration, etc.[188]
Concerning the killing of Palestinians by other Palestinians, a January 2003 The Humanist magazine article reports:[189]
For over a decade the PA has violated Palestinian human rights and civil liberties by routinely killing civilians—including collaborators, demonstrators, journalists, and others—without charge or fair trial. Of the total number of Palestinian civilians killed during this period by both Israeli and Palestinian security forces, 16 percent were the victims of Palestinian security forces.
... According to Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World 2001–2002, the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-administered areas. The survey states:
Civil liberties declined due to: shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians by Palestinian security personnel; the summary trial and executions of alleged collaborators by the Palestinian Authority (PA); extra-judicial killings of suspected collaborators by militias; and the apparent official encouragement of Palestinian youth to confront Israeli soldiers, thus placing them directly in harm's way.
Internal Palestinian violence has been called an 'Intra'fada during this Intifada and the previous one.[190]" In the History of the Arab World, you see countless Examples of Arabs Killing other Arabs in cold blood, and "Palestinians" Killing other "Palestinians" in cold blood, while Many Jews hate being Jewish because of all the Jew-Hate & Anti-Semitism in the World, at least Jews don't go around Killing other Jews, at least Jews don't go around killing their own people in cold blood, Even Self-Hating Jews & outright Jewish anti-semites don't go around killing their own people,
An article about How Yasser Arafat pre-planned the Second Intifada
from the website mafhoum.com an article is titled
"How the war began" on September 19, 2002
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
the article says
"A chronology of Palestinian moves leading up to the outbreak of violence two years ago shows it was planned in advance and ignited over the Jerusalem issue
A few days after the failure of the Camp David summit in July 2000, the Palestinian Authority's monthly magazine, Al-Shuhada ("The Martyrs"), published the following letter on July 25: "From the negotiating delegation [At Camp David,] led by the commander and symbol, Abu Ammar (Yasser Arafat) to the brave Palestinian people, be prepared. The Battle for Jerusalem has begun."
The letter appeared in the aftermath of reports emanating from Camp David suggesting that the summit had failed because of Arafat's intransigence. According to PA sources, the letter was written by a senior Arafat adviser and approved by the PA chairman beforehand.
The letter was published in a magazine distributed only among PA security personnel. It did not appear in any of the daily newspapers published in Jerusalem or Ramallah. Hence the message Arafat was sending to his armed men was clear: "Be prepared for an all-out confrontation with Israel, because I refuse to accept Israeli and American dictates."
One month later - long after Arafat had returned to Gaza - the PA's (former) police commissioner, Gen. Ghazi Jabali, told the official Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida on August 14: "The Palestinian police will lead together with the noble sons of the Palestinian people, when the hour of confrontation arrives."
Freih Abu Middein, the PA Justice Minister, said he could see the writing on the wall. In an interview with the same newspaper published on August 24, 2000, he warned: "Violence is near and the Palestinian people are willing to sacrifice even 5,000 casualties." The statement came after a series of meetings that Arafat had held with his cabinet ministers.
Another official publication of the PA, Al-Sabah ("The Morning"), on August 30, 2000, echoed the tone of escalation when it declared a few days later: "We will advance and declare a general intifada for Jerusalem. The time for the intifada has arrived, the time for jihad has arrived."
The rhetorical escalation started even before Arafat and his entourage left Camp David. A PA official who was with Arafat said the PA Chairman was furious with Israel and the US because they had accused him of being responsible for the botched summit. He felt that both prime minister Ehud Barak and US president Bill Clinton were now seeking to isolate him by declaring that the Palestinian people deserved a better leadership.
Upon his return from Camp David, Arafat received a hero's welcome from his people because he was being portrayed as the Arab and Muslim leader who refused to compromise on their historic, national and religious rights. Public-opinion polls showed a dramatic rise in his popularity, and even his secular and religious rivals were now heaping praise on him for not compromising. Arafat told well-wishers who came to see him in Ramallah that he refused to become [Egyptian president Anwar] "Sadat No. 2," who was denounced by many Arabs for signing a separate peace treaty with Israel."
the article continues
""Welcome Arafat - the hero of war and hero of peace," said one banner in the streets of Gaza as Arafat's motorcade made its way from the local airport to his office. Another read: "Jerusalem is in our eyes, tomorrow it will be in our hands."
Earlier in the day, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the city demanding a return to the intifada against Israel. Buoyed by the failure of Camp David, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued statements urging Arafat to abandon the peace talks with Israel and return to the armed struggle.
The two radical Islamic groups regarded the breakdown of Camp David as further evidence that Israel was not serious about reaching a just and comprehensive peace with the Palestinians. Their spokesmen also told Arafat that if the summit proved anything, it was the fact that the US remains fully biased toward Israel.
After the failure of Camp David, Arafat visited almost all the Arab states, except for Syria and Iraq, asking their leaders for their support for his position. He also visited a number of European countries in an effort to explain his stance.
"Jerusalem and its holy sites, especially al-Aksa mosque, belong to one billion Muslims and I don't have the right to give them up to anyone," he reportedly told the Arab kings and presidents.
The Arab leaders assured Arafat that they stand behind him, but his tour of other world capitals after Camp David highlighted the fact that, for the first time in years, international sympathies were now on the side of Israel. For Arafat, this signaled the beginning of his isolation in the international arena.
For nearly three decades the PLO leader became accustomed to receiving a red-carpet welcome by kings and heads of state all over the world. He also became used to hearing sympathetic words for him and the cause he represents from his hosts. Now things were beginning to look different for Arafat in the West."
and continues
"US assistant secretary of state Edward Walker was dispatched on a 14-stop regional tour in a last-minute attempt to persuade its Arab allies to withdraw their support for Arafat's position, but by then it was too late.
AS the pressure on him mounted, Arafat became even more defiant when he declared that he would go ahead with plans to announce the creation of the State of Palestine on September 13, 2000. In an interview with a Saudi newspaper on August 1, Arafat said: "There is no retreat on the fixed timetable of the declaration of the state. It will be declared on the fixed time which is September 13, God willing, regardless of those who agree or disagree."
Almost all the Arab states gave Arafat their blessing for the state idea. The PA chairman also received a commitment of diplomatic recognition from South African President Thabo Mbeki, whose country then had a big impact on the decisions of many other Third World states. Arafat was so confident that he would obtain widespread support that he ordered the PA Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation to start training Palestinians for diplomatic jobs overseas.
But on September 10 Arafat and the central committee of the PLO were forced to postpone, yet again, the planned declaration of statehood. The decision only increased the sense of bitterness among top PA officials who accused the US of blindly backing Israel and misleading the rest of the world on the reasons for the failure of the Camp David summit."
and continues
"In conjunction with the political offensive, which began almost immediately after Camp David, the PA was also preparing for a possible military confrontation with Israel. PA security officials interviewed in the local media openly talked about a looming armed confrontation. Some even warned that the PA areas would be turned into a "graveyard" for the IDF if Israel decided to reoccupy the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Their statements came in response to remarks made by former IDF chief of General Staff Shaul Mofaz, who warned that Israel would use tanks and jets if the Palestinians launched an armed offensive.
According to reports from Gaza in mid-August, some of the PA's paramilitary forces were holding battalion-level training exercises.
Moreover, many senior PA security officers were being sent to attend military training courses in countries such as Egypt, Yemen, Algeria and Pakistan. On the ground, Palestinians started feeling the tension when members of Force 17, Arafat's elite presidential guard, were seen digging trenches and heavily reinforcing their positions with sandbags. Within days, most of the PA police stations and bases looked like military fortresses.
As the Camp David summit was under way, Arafat's Fatah organization, the biggest faction of the PLO, started training Palestinian teenagers for the upcoming violence in 40 training camps throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip."
and continues
"Some PA officials and newspaper commentators also started calling for the adoption of the Hizbullah strategy, which, they believed, led to the withdrawal of the IDF from southern Lebanon a few months earlier. Hizbullah leaders, including secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, appeared on Arab satellite television networks to mock Arafat and his negotiators, arguing that Palestine could be liberated only through the use of force, and not at summits like the one held in Camp David.
BY NOW the atmosphere in the Palestinian street was one of "the eve of war." PA ministers and representatives stepped up their criticism of Israel and the US as part of the PA's efforts to refute accusations that it was responsible for the collapse of the Camp David talks and that the Palestinians had missed yet another historic opportunity.
PA-appointed imams in West Bank and Gaza Strip mosques began referring to Israel as "the Zionist enemy" and urged all Muslims to mobilize for the war against the "infidels." In the words of one Gazan preacher, "All weapons must be aimed at the Jews, at the enemies of Allah, the cursed nation in the Koran, whom the Koran describes as monkeys and pigs, worshipers of the calf and idol worshipers."
Other imams spoke of the need and duty to liberate Palestine from the Zionist aggressors. This time the talk was not only about liberating the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Now the demand was for Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa and Ashkelon.
Israel was also being accused of distributing drugs among young Palestinian men and women in order to corrupt them and bring about the disintegration of Palestinian society. In addition to the drugs, the Israelis were also believed to be behind sexually-arousing chewing gum found in Palestinian shops. The alleged goal: to turn Palestinian women into prostitutes.
As the tensions intensified, PA officials this time accused Israel of spreading "radioactive belts" that cause cancer.
An August 3 poll conducted by the independent Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research indicated that two-thirds of Palestinians supported a new intifada against Israel. This was the first time since the signing of the Oslo Accords that a majority of Palestinians said they supported violence against Israel.
In an attempt to avoid the inevitable clash, senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, including PA Secretary-General Tayeb Abdel Rahim and Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh met to reduce tensions and prevent the outbreak of violence following the breakdown of the Camp David talks. The meetings were authorized by Arafat under pressure from Washington.
More than a year later, on the first anniversary of the intifada, West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti gave an interview on October 22 to the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat in which he admitted that he had played a direct role in igniting the intifada."
and continues
"He said: "I knew that the end of September was the last period [of time] before the explosion, but when Sharon reached al-Aksa Mosque, this was the most appropriate moment for the outbreak of the intifada... The night prior to Sharon's visit, I participated in a panel on a local television station and I seized the opportunity to call on the public to go to al-Aksa Mosque in the morning, for it was not possible that Sharon would reach al-Haram al-Sharif [the Temple Mount] just so, and walk away peacefully. I finished and went to al-Aksa in the morning.... We tried to create clashes without success because of the differences of opinion that emerged with others in al-Aksa compound at the time.... After Sharon left, I remained for two hours in the presence of other people, we discussed the manner of response and how it was possible to react in all the cities and not just in Jerusalem. We contacted all [the Palestinian] factions."
Barghouti traveled to the Triangle area inside Israel later that day where he was to participate in a conference. He explained: "While we were in the car on the way to the Triangle, I prepared a leaflet in the name of the Higher Committee of Fatah, coordinated with the brothers [e.g., Hamas], in which we called for a reaction to what happened in Jerusalem."
and continues
"Imad Faluji, the PA communications minister, admitted on October 11, 2001, that the violence had been planned in July, far in advance of Sharon's "provocation." He said: "Whoever thinks that the intifada broke out because of the despised Sharon's visit to Al-Aksa Mosque, is wrong, even if this visit was the straw that broke the back of the Palestinian people. This intifada was planned in advance, ever since President Arafat's return from the Camp David negotiations, where he turned the table upside down on President Clinton. [Arafat] remained steadfast and challenged [Clinton]. He rejected the American terms and he did it in the heart of the US."
Sakher Habash, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, said in an interview with the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on December 7, 2000: "After the Camp David Summit it became clear to the Fatah movement, as brother Abu Ammar [Arafat] had warned, that the next phase requires us to prepare for conflict [with Israel], because Prime Minister Barak is not a partner capable of complying with our people's aspirations. In light of this estimation, Fatah was the most prepared for a conflict among all other [Palestinian] national movements. [At the Camp David Summit] we thought that President Clinton would be able to put pressure on the Israeli government before leaving the White House so that Barak would agree to a political solution acceptable to us. But it became clear that the American position coincides with the Israeli position: sharing sovereignty over al-Haram al-Sharif with us, and dividing east Jerusalem into four or five parts in order to guarantee Israeli control there.
"In light of the information, [after] analyzing the political positions following the Camp David summit, and in accordance with what brother Abu Ammar said, it became clear to the Fatah movement that the next stage necessitates preparation for confrontation, because Prime Minister Barak is not a partner who can respond to our people's aspirations. Based on these assessments, Fatah was more prepared than the other movements for this confrontation. In order to play the role given to it, Fatah coordinated its administrative, civilian and sovereign apparatuses, and was not surprised by the outbreak of the current intifada... The Fatah movement believed that the phenomenon of comprehensive struggle would appear at the final settlement stage."
and lastly says
"In October, almost two months after the intifada began, Arafat went to the Sharm e-Sheikh summit against the will of most of the Palestinian factions and some of his cabinet ministers. PA sources said Arafat's decision to go to the summit came largely in response to pressure from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which feared that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was spinning out of control. As far as Arafat was concerned, prime minister Ehud Barak and his government were no longer peace partners.
As expected, the "cease-fire agreement" reached at Sharm e-Sheikh drew fire from many Palestinians, who believed Arafat was under immense pressure from Washington to comply. PA officials told Palestinian journalists that Arafat's acceptance of the agreement "was more out of courtesy for president Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who hosted the summit." Arafat himself later denied that he made any agreement with Barak. He rejected an Israeli and American request to call directly and personally on the Palestinians in the streets to show restraint and restore calm. "Arafat was really offended by the accusations that he was responsible for the failure of the Camp David talks," explained a Palestinian negotiator. "That's why he wasn't prepared to humiliate himself by calling for an end to the violence."
The intifada was actually the best thing that could have happened to Arafat. It came at the right time, because it turned the fury of the Palestinians away from the corrupt and inept regime that he had established in 1994. Moreover, the violence united Palestinian factions against the common enemy, Israel, and rallied the people behind Arafat's leadership. In a sense, the intifada saved Arafat and his self-rule government because it directed the anger and frustration towards Israel instead of the PA.
Another reason why Arafat didn't move quickly to end the violence in the first days of the intifada is the fact that he believed that it would enhance his position in any future peace negotiations. Arafat hoped to use the intifada, which he expected would last for a number of days or, at the most, a few weeks, to tell Israel and the world that this is one of the results of the breakdown of the peace talks.
One of Arafat's conclusions following Camp David is that the best way to extract more concessions from Israel would be to involve more countries in the peace process. One of his main goals now was to drag the Arab countries into the conflict with Israel. He repeatedly reminded the Arab and Muslim countries that Jerusalem and its holy sites were their responsibility too.
Arafat and the Palestinians were once again greatly disappointed by the lack of support from the Arab League Summit, held in Cairo in October 2000. There was plenty of lip-service but an unwillingness to do anything practical on the ground.
It is now clear that the past two years of violence were unleashed as part of a strategy to internationalize the conflict and force Israel into making further concessions. But the violent tactics spiraled out of control taking on a deadly momentum of their own. What remains to be seen is whether there is a way out" The Second Intifada that began in the year 2000 was 100 percent Arafat's fault, everything was the fault of that ugly little worthless turd Arafat
From the Jerusalem Post website, www.jpost.com an article is titled
"'SUHA ARAFAT ADMITS HUSBAND PREMEDITATED INTIFADA" the article says
In interview, Palestinian leader's widow says Arafat decided to launch Intifada after Camp David, according to research institute.
BY JPOST.COM STAFF DECEMBER 29, 2012 07:33
1 minute read.
the article says
"Yasser Arafat’s widow, Suha, admitted that the late Palestinian leader planned the second intifada, in an interview with Dubai TV earlier this month, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“Immediately after the failure of the Camp David [negotiations], I met him in Paris upon his return.... Camp David had failed, and he said to me, ‘You should remain in Paris.’ I asked him why, and he said, ‘Because I am going to start an intifada. They want me to betray the Palestinian cause. They want me to give up on our principles, and I will not do so,’” the research institute translated Suha as saying.
“‘I do not want Zahwa’s [Arafat’s daughter’s] friends in the future to say that Yasser Arafat abandoned the Palestinian cause and principles. I might be martyred, but I shall bequeath our historical heritage to Zahwa and to the children of Palestine,’” Suha, 49, quoted her late husband as saying.
Her comments run contrary to claims that former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s infamous visit to the Temple Mount triggered the intifada, which was launched in September 2000.
Yasser Arafat died in a Paris military hospital in 2004, and earlier this year, Suha requested an autopsy to search for traces of a poisonous substance.
She told Al Jazeera in July that a Swiss laboratory had detected high levels of the radioactive isotope polonium in Arafat’s clothes, which have been in storage since his death in 2004. Palestinians have accused Israel of causing Arafat’s death, though no conclusive evidence has been presented publicly. Israel denies killing him.
Arafat, who founded the Palestine Liberation Organization, died in a French hospital at the age of 75. Doctors at the Percy military hospital in Clamart, France, said he suffered from a brain hemorrhage and fell into a coma before he died. He is buried beneath a glass tomb adjacent to the offices of his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah.
Last month, forensic experts took samples of Arafat’s remains in an effort to determine if he was murdered using the hard-to-trace radioactive poison. They said the process would take several months." Sadly Israel didn't kill Arafat, Arafat died of AIDS in 2004, and it was indeed AIDS that Killed Arafat, we all know how he got infected with it !!!!
People have said that for Israel to have allowed Arafat to die of AIDS was a
Crime Against Humanity, that Arafat didn't deserve a natural death, even if it was from AIDS, which it Was ! Israel supporters have pointed out that over the decades Israel had Countless Opportunities & Chances to Kill Arafat, Israel could have easily Killed Arafat on Many Occasions , easily, but sadly Israel's leaders didn't have the balls to do it, other nations would have killed Arafat decades ago, other Sane Normal Nations with Self-Respect & Pride would have killed Arafat decades ago , Arafat was an ugly worthless troublemaker and parasite , his face was covered with ugly ass hairs , Israel never harmed a single ass hair on Arafat's ugly face
The God of The Old Testament was NOT a Genocidal Monster or Mass Murderer
from the website reasonsforjesus.com an article is titled
"Did God Commit Genocide In The Old Testament?"
By Clark Bates - March 14, 2018
the article says
" In the books of Deuteronomy, chapter 20 and Joshua, chapters 11 and onward, we read that the people of Israel are commanded to go into the land possessed by the Canaanites and “devote them to destruction.” With varying degrees of success, the Israelites do this very thing. When engaging with skeptics, this act of extermination is often used to point out the clear immorality of the God of the Old Testament. God is a genocidal, immoral, murderer, to paraphrase the eloquence of Richard Dawkins.
As Christians, our pride would have us dismiss such a claim immediately, but we must be honest and consider how passages such as these, sound. After all, it is also claimed, if God can just arbitrarily command his people to kill another group of people, what’s to say he won’t tell you to do the same thing? It really sounds no different than the beliefs that caused men to fly airplanes into buildings in 2001 and commit constant acts of mass murder in all the years since.
In response, a few preliminary points should be made. First, as human beings, we are often guilty of remembering a story differently than it is actually written. This is especially true when it comes to stories in the Bible. Second, the large portion of objections against the morality in the Old Testament stem from a reaction to how a particular action is remembered, verses how it is depicted.
This is how Joshua’s campaign against the Canaanites becomes likened to Hitler’s campaign across Europe. With that in mind, let’s look at the Dawkinsian charge that God is a genocidal murderer, using the destruction of the Canaanites as an example.
What is Genocide?
According to the United Nations, the word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race or tribe, and the Latin suffix cide, meaning killing.
Lemkin developed the term partly in response to the Nazi policies of systematic murder of Jewish people during the Holocaust, but also in response to previous instances in history of targeted actions aimed at the destruction of particular groups of people. Later on, Raphäel Lemkin led the campaign to have genocide recognized and codified as an international crime.[1]"
the article continues
"Based on Lemkin’s work, the recognized definition of Genocide by the United Nations is as follows:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
1.Killing members of the group;
2.Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3.Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4.Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Now, for many, if we’re honest, the action against the Canaanites seems to fit some of these definitions. However, there are some elements that we perceive to fit based on our memory of the incident rather than its actual depiction.
Who were the Canaanites?
Multiple passages from the Old Testament point out that the “Canaanites” as we often refer to them, were actually a conglomeration of various ethnic groups known as the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.[2] The name “Canaanites is often used as a type of catch-all for each group, but only for literary purposes. The campaign of Israel against Canaan was not against a singular ethnic group, but several.
Next, and this is one area that many believers fail to accentuate when responding to the argument at hand, is the reason why the Canaanites were killed. Popular secular depiction would have you believe that the people groups living in Canaan were peaceful settlers, minding their own business, when the theocratic, warmongering Israelites came through ravaging every city in sight."
the article continues
"But again, if we’re critiquing the morality of this story in the Bible, we can’t critique it on the basis of how we perceive it or even how we might think of it. It must be critiqued on the basis of how it is depicted and the worldview within which it occurs.
According to the biblical depiction of the events, many centuries prior to the time of Joshua, God told Abraham that the land would belong to his descendants. However, it would not be immediately. In fact, the people of Canaan were to be given four hundred years to repent of their wickedness and turn back to God.[3]
The wickedness of these nations has been discussed at length in many places, but it can be summarized by pointing out that a careful examination of the Israelite moral code in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy reveal exactly what these groups were like. Chief among most is the practice of burning live children on a fiery altar to pagan gods, but to this could be added, the sexual abuse of children, relatives, and animal, as well as the permission to murder those who wrong you in the slightest way and the consistent murder and abuse of servants. In short, the Canaanites are killed for their sinfulness, not their ethnicity.
The only way the campaign of Joshua could mirror that of Hitler, would be if the Nazis spent centuries, warning the nations they were coming and offering peaceful solutions to the invasion.
Even today, on its very face, we might be less inclined to negatively judge a military campaign against a group if that group were known to be committing unspeakable atrocities against its own people and those around them (consider Syria, Aleppo, the actions of ISIS, etc.). But one question still remains,"
the article continues
"“Could the people of Canaan actually have changed?”
After all, if they couldn’t have repented, then four hundred years of patience on the part of God is really nothing more than lip service. The answer is, yes, they could have. We know this from the example of the woman named Rahab.[4] When Joshua sent spies into the land of Canaan, a local woman hides them from her own people because, according to her,
“I know the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you came into Egypt. . .”[5]
The end result of Rahab’s decision to follow the God of Israel is her and her family being spared the destruction that befalls the rest of the community. If this were possible for her, it must have been possible for others.
Lastly, we know once more that this campaign against the Canaanites was not ethnically or racially motivated, as is the case with genocide. This is demonstrated God’s treatment of the Israelites themselves. The Israelites are warned to not follow in the ways and practices of the people in Canaan, and when they do, the judgment that befell Canaan through the Israelites, also falls upon Israel through the nations of Assyria, Babylon and Persia.
How do we know the Canaanite judgment wasn’t genocide? Because the Jews are punished in the same way when they start acting like the Canaanites. The punishment of Canaan was a result of moral behavior, not ethnicity, and therefore not genocide."
and continues
"Is God a Murderer?
Ok, well maybe God didn’t commit genocide in the strictest sense, but certainly he’s guilty of murder. Here again though, as with genocide, we must consider the definition of murder. I will concede that if I were critiquing this story from a naturalistic worldview it could be construed as murder, because it is nothing more than one group of people acting autonomously against another. But this narrative is not related within a naturalistic worldview, but a theistic worldview, and therefore its continuity must be judged on its own worldview.
Murder, in the context of taking a life, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought. From this, the key values of murder are:
Taking a human life unlawfully
With premediated malice
The difficulty with applying this definition to the actions taken by God on the Canaanites, or any people for that matter, is that it cannot logically follow. The second point requires that the perpetrator be acting with malice, which is defined as a desire to do evil. The biblical depiction of God is one that cannot do evil, for his very nature is good.
But in tandem with this is the first point, that murder requires the unlawful taking of a human life. The biblical worldview also teaches that God is the ultimate creator and source for all human life. It is his possession. If all of human life is his possession, it logically follows that he cannot unlawfully take it.
Don’t believe me? Try this exercise. Steal your own wallet. Be as crafty as you like. Devise any complicated set of plans that you desire, and attempt to steal your wallet. You might be able to trick yourself into believing it was stolen by another, but ultimately if it is taken by you, it cannot be stolen. Why? Because you cannot unlawfully take that which already belongs to you."
and continues
"In the same way, all life belongs to God and therefore to accuse him of committing murder is a category error on par with accusing me of stealing my own wallet. This may not be an appealing thought for a secularist, but they must object on naturalistic grounds, not theistic grounds, and this would be applying a foreign worldview onto the text in question, something they would likely reject immediately if the roles were reversed.
When we read stories like Harry Potter, we must believe that magic is real for the story to make sense. If we read The Lord of the Rings, we must believe in Elves and Dwarves and the like for the story to make sense. Likewise, if we are to read the biblical story, we must accept that in the story God exists, and this determines the moral outlook of the actions that take place.
Can God make the Immoral, Moral?
We are then left with the very natural question of morality. How can something that would be immoral on naturalistic grounds, somehow become moral on theistic grounds? The answer involves authority. Take for example, a CFO of a corporation. A CFO is in the position to determine where money is sent and to whom checks are made out.
However, the CFO doesn’t normally write the checks themselves, they have a secretary do that for them. The secretary is then given authority, by the CFO to write these checks and disperse the money appropriately.
When acting within their capacity as secretary, following the instructions of the CFO, the secretary is acting morally by assigning the money properly. However, if that same secretary were to decide to start writing checks on their own, using the money of the CFO, but giving it to themselves or family members, they’ve moved from acting morally to immorally."
and continues
"But what has changed? In both instances, the secretary is writing checks and dispersing money? What’s changed is the authority from which they are acting. It’s the CFO’s authority over the money that allows him to prescribe where it goes, therefore a moral action can become immoral when it ceases to operate under the necessary authority.
This is how the biblical worldview depicts the actions against Canaan, and why it would be inconsistent to claim that God makes the immoral, moral in an unjustified way. God possesses the authority over life itself, and only when acting under that authority, could what Israel does in the Old Testament be considered moral. We cannot judge them apart from this authority, for that is not how they are acting, and what results is not the attack of the Old Testament but one’s perceived version of the Old Testament.
How do you know God won’t tell you to kill people again?
Finally, we should respond to the question of whether God would command Christians to arbitrarily kill another people group as Israel did with Canaan. Putting aside what we’ve already mentioned about it not being arbitrary, the question is still valid. The first response should be that it’s fairly simple for the average reader of the Bible to see that the nation of Israel in the Old Testament is not functioning in the same position as the church of the New.
This is why we don’t find Christians, en masse killing other people (to bring up the crusades at this point would only demonstrate a lack of awareness regarding their history and purpose, let alone ignoring what has been written up to this point).
In the Old Testament the nation of Israel acted as a sort of judicial representative for God. This was not because there was anything particularly special about them as a people, but merely because God had chosen them for this function.[6]
In a court of law, a representative of a judge can issue a sentence upon a convicted person that has been decreed by the judge. In such a case, the sentence is perfectly lawful. This is the position of the nation of Israel as depicted in the Old Testament and not once depicted of the church in the New Testament."
and continues
"Secondly, the commands for Israel to perform this act, were accompanied by great miracles. The people were spoken to directly by God, both through Moses and on Mount Sinai. God parted the Red Sea to give them passage. He fed them with food from heaven while they wandered.
He provided water for them from rocks and granted them victory over those who tried to stop them, even though they were not a race of trained warriors. This is far different than any one person saying that God spoke to them, or claiming that God is on their side without any epistemic warrant (i.e. reason to believe something is true).
To close, if we examine the action of Israel against the Canaanites from within the context and worldview of the biblical narrative, several points are discovered:
1.God cannot be accused of genocide given the criteria for genocide and the actual reasons for the destruction of Canaan.
2.God cannot be accused of murder given the criteria for murder and God’s possession of all life.
3.The destruction of Canaan was on the basis of morality rather than ethnicity, with centuries of opportunity for the people to change and avoid the destruction.
4.What would be immoral under naturalism can be moral under theism, given proper authority.
5.The actions of Israel against Canaan should not be expected to be repeated by the New Testament believers, given the different functions clearly displayed within the Bible."
and lastly says
"In the end, what many are quick to jump to as evidence for the immorality of God, is actually evidence of his patience. If God were a short-tempered God, the story of Canaan would never have arrived, for He would have annihilated them four hundred year earlier! When God reveals himself to Moses on Mt. Sinai, the first statement he makes is “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness…” [7]
Rather than being immoral, the God of the Old Testament acts more like an over-indulgent parent, providing warning after warning to an obstinate child, until the only option that remains is corporal punishment. In such a case, we should be grateful for his patience, rather than spiteful over his judgment.
“God could no more unlawfully take a life than you could steal your own wallet.
Why?
Because it is impossible to unlawfully take that which already belongs to you.”
[1] http://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.html
[2] Gen. 10:16; 15:21; Deut. 7:1; Josh. 3:10; 24:11; 1 Chron. 1:14
[3] Gen. 15:12-21.
[4] Josh. 2
[5] Josh. 2:8-10
[6] Deut. 7
[7] Ex. 34:6
And Once Again, The State of Israel Today in 2019 is NOT committing
"Genocide" or "Apartheid" or "Ethnic Cleansing" or "Occupation" or
"War Crimes" or "Discrimination" or "Excessive Force" those are all Anti-Israel LIES , LIES, The State of Israel is Also NOT "Racist" , The Enemies of Israel & The Jewish People are the REAL Racists,
From the website thegospelcoalition.org an article is titled
"How Could God Command Genocide in the Old Testament?"
FEBRUARY 13, 2013 | Justin Taylor SHARE
the article says
"This is a good, hard question. The way we answer it will both reflect and inform our understanding of justice and mercy.
In the book of Joshua God commands Israel to slaughter the Canaanites in order to occupy the Promised Land. It was a bloody war of total destruction where God used his people to execute his moral judgment against his wicked enemies. In moving toward an answer it will be helpful to think carefully about the building blocks of a Christian worldview related to God’s justice and mercy.
1. As the maker of all things and the ruler of all people, God has absolute rights of ownership over all people and places.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1) “and the sea and all that is in them” (Act 14:15). This means that “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein” (Ps. 24:1). As God says, “All the earth is mine” (Ex. 19:5) and “every beast of the forest is mine” (Ps. 50:10). God’s ownership of all means that he is also free to do as he wishes over all things. “Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases” (Ps. 115:3). Within this free sovereignty God “determined allotted periods and the boundaries of [each nation’s] dwelling place” (Acts 17:26). God has Creator rights, and no one can say to him, “What are you doing?” (Job 9:12)."
the article continues
"2. God is not only the ultimate maker, ruler, and owner, but he is just and righteous in all that he does.
Abraham asks God the same question that we are asking, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” (Gen. 18:25). The implied answer is, “By all means!” This is the flip side of Paul’s question in Romans 9:14: “Is there injustice on God’s part?” Paul’s answer: “By no means!” Moses will later proclaim, “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he” (Deut. 32:4).
It is commonplace in our culture to ask whether this or that was fair or just for God to do. But if you stop to think about it, the question itself is actually illegitimate. Merely asking it presupposes that we are the judge; we will put “God in the dock” and examine him; God must conform to our sense of fairness and rightness and justice—if God passes the test, well and good, but if he doesn’t, we’ll be upset and become the accuser. Perish the thought. As Deuteronomy 32:4 says, “all God’s ways are justice”—by definition. If God does it, it is just. (And since the triune God is inherently relational, the Bible says that God is love—and therefore all of his justice is ultimately born from and aiming toward love.) To think otherwise is the ultimate act of arrogance, putting your own mind and opinions and conceptions as the ultimate standard of the universe.
This does not, however, preclude humble questioning and seeking in order to gain greater understanding. While it is ultimately illegitimate to ask if God’s ways are just in securing the Promised Land, it is perfectly appropriate and edifying to seek understanding on how God’s ways are just—whether in commissioning the destruction of the Canaanites or in any other action. This is the task of theology—seeing how various aspects of God’s truth and revelation cohere."
and continues
"3. All of us deserve God’s justice; none of us deserve God’s mercy.
As noted above, God is absolutely just in all that he does. The only thing that any of us deserve from God is his justice. We have broken his law, rebelling against him and his ways, and divine justice demands that we receive divine punishment in proportion to our traitorous, treasonous rebellion. It is fully within God’s rights to give mercy, but he need not give it to all—or to any. It is also helpful to note that in biblical history, an act of judgment on one is often an act of mercy for another (e.g., the flood was judgment on the world but a means of saving Noah; the plagues were judgment on the Pharaoh but a means of liberating Israel). Likewise, the destruction of the Canaanites was an act of mercy for Israel.
4. The Canaanites were enemies of God who deserved to be punished.
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”—”None is righteous, no, not one”—and “the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 3:23; 3:10; 6:23). Therefore if God destroyed Adam and Eve after the fall he would have been entirely just. When he wiped out over 99.99% of the human race during the time of Noah, he was being just.
Sometimes we can mistakenly think that God just wanted to give his people land and kicked out the innocent people who were already there. But in reality, the Canaanites were full of iniquity and wickedness, and God speaks of the land vomiting them out for this reason (cf. Gen. 15:6; Lev. 18:24-30; Deut. 9:5). All of this is consistent with the fact that God “avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people’s land” (Deut. 32:43).
It’s also important to note Deuteronomy 9:5, which says that Israel’s possession of the land and the Canaanites’ being kicked out would not be due to Israel’s righteousness, but would rather be on account of the Canaanites’ wickedness. God very pointedly tells Israel that if they do not follow the Lord and his law, then they will suffer the same fate as the nations being vomited out of their land (cf. Lev. 18:28; Deut. 28:25-68; cf. also Ex. 22:20; Josh. 7:11-12; Mal. 4:6). God gave his special electing love to Israel (cf. Deut. 7:6-9), but his threats and promises of punishment for unfaithfulness show his fairness and his commitment to justice."
and continues
"5. God’s actions were not an example of ethnic cleansing.
The Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy) provides laws for two types of warfare: (1) battles fought against cities outside the Promise Land (see Deut. 20:10-15), and (2) battles fought against cities within the Promised Land (Deut. 20:16-18). The first type allowed for Israel to spare people; the second type did not. This herem practice (the second type of warfare) meant “devotion/consecration to destruction.” As a sacred act fulfilling divine judgment, it is outside our own categories for thinking about warfare. Even though the destruction is commanded in terms of totality, there seems to have been an exception for those who repented, turning to the one true and living God (e.g., Rahab and her family [Josh. 2:9], and the Gibeonites [Josh. 11:19]). What this means is that the reason for the destruction of God’s wicked enemies was precisely because of their rebellion and according to God’s special purposes—not because of their ethnicity. “Ethnic cleansing” and genocide refer to destruction of a people due to their ethnicity, and therefore this would be an inappropriate category for the destruction of the Canaanites."
and continues
"6. Why was it necessary to remove the Canaanites from the land?
In America we talk about the separation of “church” and “state.” But Israel was a “theocracy,” where church and state were inseparably joined and indistinguishable, such that members of God’s people had both political and religious obligations. To be a citizen of Israel required being faithful to God’s covenant and vice-versa.
The covenant community demanded purity, and egregious violations meant removal (e.g., see Deut. 13:5; 17:7, etc). This also entailed the purity of the land in which they were living as God’s people, and failure to remove the unrepentant from the land meant that the entire nation would be pulled down with the rebellious, resulting in idolatry, injustice, and evil (e.g., Deut. 7:4; 12:29-31)—which sadly proved to be the case all too often under the old covenant.
Christians today are not in a theocracy. We are “sojourners and exiles” (1 Pet. 2:11) with no sacred land in this age. We live in the overlap of the old age and the age to come—”between two places” (in the creation that groans—after the holy-but-temporary Promised Land and awaiting the holy-and-permanent New Heavens and the New Earth). In this age and place we are to respect and submit to the governing authorities placed over us by God (Rom. 13:1-5)—but they are not, and should not be, a part of the church (God’s people called and gathered for Word and sacrament). Furthermore, God’s gift of specific, special revelation to the whole church has now ended (cf. Heb. 1:1-2: “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son”). These factors combine to ensure that nothing like the destruction of the Canaanites—required for the theocracy of Israel to possess the physical land—is commissioned by God or is permissible for his people today."
and lastly says
"7. The destruction of the Canaanites is a picture of the final judgment.
At the end of the age, Christ will come to judge the living and the dead (Acts 10:42; 2 Tim. 4:1; 1 Pet. 4:5), expelling them from the land (the whole earth). That judgment will be just, and it will be complete. That is the day “the Lord Jesus [will be] revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might (2 Thess. 1:8-9). Amazingly enough, Paul asks the Corinthians something they seem to have forgotten, if they once knew it: “Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? (1 Cor. 6:2).
How does this work? What will it look like? We don’t know for sure. But God’s Word tells us that God’s people will be part of God’s judgment against God’s enemies. In that way, God’s command of the Israelites to carry out his moral judgment against the Canaanites becomes a foreshadowing—a preview, if you will—of the final judgment.
Read in this light, the terrible destruction recorded on the pages of Joshua in God’s Holy Word become not a “problem to solve,” but a wake-up call to all of us—to remain “pure and undefiled before God” (James 1:27), seeking him and his ways, and to faithfully share the gospel with our unbelieving neighbors and the unreached nations. Like Job, we must ultimately refrain from calling God’s goodness and justice into question, putting a hand over our mouth (Job 40:4) and marveling instead at the richness and the mystery of God’s great inscrutable mercy (Eph. 2:4). At the end of the day we will join Moses and the Lamb in singing this song of praise:
“Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.” (Rev. 15:3-4)"
Another Fascinating Article from the website, thegospelcoalition.org is titled
"Stop Saying the Ancient Israelites Believed the Sky Was a Big Solid Dome with a Heavenly Sea Above It"
MAY 8, 2019 | Justin Taylor
the article says
"We all know that:
Ancient Near Eastern people believed that the sky was a strong solid dome or firmament, holding up heavenly waters above it.
This teaching is reflected in Genesis 1:6–8:
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven.
In his new book, Interpreting Eden, Vern Poythress argues that both of these premises are wrong.
We have no good evidence that people of the ancient Near East actually held this view.
And Genesis 1:6–8 does not teach or presuppose it."
the article continues
"Here’s a summary of his positive interpretation of that passage:
The “expanse” (רָקִיעַ) in Gen. 1:6-8 is the same as “heaven” (שָׁמַיִם, verse 8). Both words refer flexibly to what it above us. (The word heaven can also refer to the invisible dwelling of God with his angels.) Depending on the context and the weather and the time of day or night, we may see clouds (by day), sun in a blue sky, stars and sometimes the moon in a black night sky, and black sky when there is a cloud cover at night. In many contexts the word heaven (שָׁמַיִם) is roughly equivalent to our modern English word sky. We can comfortably speak of a cloudy sky, a blue sky, a fiery sky (at sunset), and a night sky. Likewise, the Hebrew term for heaven covers the same spectrum (1 Kings 18:45; Gen. 1:14-15).
The expression “waters that were above the expanse” primarily designates water above a cloudy sky, that is, water inside clouds, whose lower side is the sky. (But it is left open whether there is also invisible water.)
All this makes sense to an ancient Israelite as well as a modern reader with appropriate understanding of the point of view and kind of description that Gen. 1:6-8 offers. Gen. 1:6-8 gives us an ordinary description, a phenomenal description, a description of appearances, and does not offer any detailed “theory” about the expanse (“heaven”) or the water above it.
Genesis 1:6-8 becomes intelligible when we realize that it works with analogies between creation and our present experience of God’s providence in bringing rain.
From there he goes on to examine in some detailed the proffered parallel texts in ANE literature that supposedly show what the ancients believed, and shows how a physicalistic interpretation has been anachronistically imported into them, especially Genesis."
and continues
"If a person expects physicalistic information in ancient mythic texts or in the Bible, he can “find” what he expects. But if we are not expecting an explanation in terms of physical mechanisms, we can approach the same passages in a different way: they are imagistic, colorful pictures. They are part of a larger pattern, according to which the Old Testament uses analogies between the cosmos and a house or a tent.
Poythress then offers nine principles that are at play in guiding how we should interpret a phrase like “the waters above”:
Israelites could be expected to have some knowledge about rain.
Old Testament passages show that Israelites knew that rain came from clouds.
Other materials from the ancient Near East confirm that people of that time were familiar with the idea of rain coming from clouds.
The Bible sometimes describes rain as coming from “heaven.”
The Bible uses language about the heavens being “shut” to describe a situation with lack of rain.
In a manner analogous to the heavens being “shut,” the Old Testament may describe rain as coming when the heavens are “opened.”
Israelites thought of dew as another form of provision of moisture “from heaven,” more or less parallel to rain.
In general, the Old Testament instructs Israelites about things that affect their lives.
Genesis 1 speaks about things relevant to Israelites.
Poythress concludes:
In Genesis 1 as a whole and in Genesis 1:6-8 in particular God speaks about acts of creation that not only evoke praise but have practical interest to human beings. Thus Genesis 1:6-8 is speaking about water above, such as Israelites received from clouds. The alleged heavenly sea is irrelevant, and so it must be rejected as not pertinent to interpreting 1:6-8.
In fact, introducing a heavenly sea creates interpretive problems rather than solving them. Once we acknowledge that Israelites knew that rain comes from clouds, a modern theory about the heavenly sea has to postulate not two bodies of water, but three: the sea on earth, the water inside the clouds, and the heavenly sea. It has to say, in effect, that Gen. 1:6-8 mentions the first and the third, even though the third is irrelevant, while leaving out the second, which is continually relevant for crops and for herds. May we ask whether this interpretation is plausible?"
the article lastly says
"Finally, we may observe that an interpretation of Gen. 1:6-8 as a reference to a heavenly sea violates the key principle that Gen. 1 teaches about creation using analogies from providential experience. There is no providential experience of a heavenly sea, whereas there is providential experience of rain descending from clouds. The implausibility of the heavenly-sea interpretation increases because of its lack of contact with ordinary experience. In reality, the heavenly-sea interpretation imposes an alleged ancient quasi-scientific physicalistic theory of the heavenly sea on the text, which is just as bad as imposing on the text the expectation for modern scientific-technical precision.
Since we cannot go back and interview ancient Israelites, modern interpreters can always postulate that the Israelites had strange beliefs about a heavenly sea. Such postulates are likely to be around for a long time. The postulates have become embedded in the tradition of Old Testament scholarship. They seem at first glance to be supported by various ancient Near Eastern texts, at least if the texts are read physicalistically. The postulates are further sustained by the modern myths that make us complacent about our superiority to the ancients and patronizing toward their alleged primitive naiveté. But, if we are alert, we may entertain doubts. Whether or not the Israelites had strange beliefs, God does not address such beliefs directly, and neither does he presuppose them. He teaches that there is water above, separated from water beneath by an expanse. The language is sparse. If any ancient Israelites or modern interpreters do not realize that rain does indeed come from water above, that is their problem."
From the website gotquestions.org an article is titled
"Question: "Did the Bible copy some of its stories from other religious myths and legends?"
Answer: There are many stories in the Bible that have remarkable similarities with stories from other religions, legends, and myths. For the purposes of this article, we will examine two of the more prominent examples. For a detailed comparison of Noah's Flood and the Gilgamesh Epic, see - Did the Bible copy the Flood account from other myths and legends?
First, let’s consider the account of the Fall of mankind (Genesis 3). There is a Greek legend, that of Pandora’s Box, whose details differ so dramatically from the biblical account of the Fall that one might never suspect a relationship. But they may actually attest to the same historical event. Both stories tell how the very first woman unleashed sin, sickness, and suffering upon the world which had been, up to that point, an Edenic paradise. Both stories end with the emergence of hope, hope in a promised Redeemer in the case of Genesis, and “hope” as a thing having been released from the box at the very end of the Pandora legend.
Like the world’s copious flood legends, Pandora's Box demonstrates how the Bible might parallel pagan myths at times simply because they all speak of an historical core truth that has over the years manifested itself in ancient histories (as in the case of the Bible) and in poetic allegories (as in the case of Pandora, whose story was told in many different ways by the Greeks but whose core truth remained fairly constant). The similarities do not point to one account copying from the other, but to the fact that both stories point back to the same historical event.
Finally, there are cases of borrowing, but in these cases the Bible was the source, not the pagan myths (despite pseudo-academic claims to the contrary). Consider the case of Sargon’s birth. Legend has it that Sargon was placed in a reed basket and sent down the river by his mother. He was rescued by Aqqi, who then adopted him as his own son. That sounds a lot like the story of Moses in Exodus 2. And Sargon lived about 800 years before Moses was born. So the Moses baby-sent-down-the-river-only-to-be-rescued-and-adopted story must have been borrowed from Sargon, right?
That sounds reasonable, but what is known of Sargon comes almost entirely from legends written many hundreds of years after his death. There are very few contemporary records of Sargon’s life. The legend of Sargon’s childhood, how he was placed in a basket and sent down a river, comes from two 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablets (from the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, who reigned from 668 to 627 B.C.), written hundreds of years after the book of Exodus. If someone wants to argue that one account was borrowed from another, it would have to be the other way around: the Sargon legend appears to have borrowed from the Exodus account of Moses.
The Bible is clear as to its authorship. Although many different men wrote, the Holy Spirit of God is the actual author. Second Timothy 3:16-17 tells us that Scripture is inspired by God, which means it is literally “God-breathed.” He wrote it, He preserved it down through the centuries, He lives within its very pages and His power is manifest in our lives through it."
Another Good Article about the Bible is from the website,
crossway.org, the article titled "5 Myths About the Bible" on December 10, 2018 by
Chris Bruno, the article is here, https://www.crossway.org/articles/5-myths-about-the-bible/
Another Good Article I suggest we all read is from the website
thecreationclub.com , the article titled
"Are Biblical Accounts copied from Pagan Religions? Part 1 The God of Creation" by
Duane Caldwell on December 2, 2016, the article can be found here,
https://thecreationclub.com/are-biblical-accounts-copied-from-pagan-religions-part-1-the-god-of-creation/
see also the article from the website creation.com titled
"Is Genesis 1 Just Reworked Babylonian Myth:" by Murray Adamthwaite on 4 June 2013, the
article can be found here, https://creation.com/is-genesis-1-just-reworked-babylonian-myth
From the website lifesitenews.com an article is titled
"Muslim takeover of Europe is ‘biggest story of our time’ and nobody knows it"
by Pete Baklinski on August 11, 2017
the article says
"August 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Historian Arnold Toynbee once famously said that “civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Using this as a springboard, commentator Mark Steyn shows in a new video how Western Europe is already in the death throes of “demographic suicide” because couples are no longer having enough children. He then shows how a thriving Muslim population in Western Europe is well on its way to filling all the empty space.
Steyn explained how given the divergent birth rate between Muslims and post-Christian secularists, it will take only two generations for the current Muslim population (sitting at about 10-percent) to have as many grandchildren as post-Christian secularists (who currently make up the other 90 percent). This is due, he said, to Muslims having on average 3.5 children per couple compared to post-Christian secularists who have only 1.3 children per couple.
“People think this is a slow process…It happens very fast. The catching up is well under way,” he said.
Steyn said that the takeover of Western Europe by Muslims is “not a prediction.” He noted that some elementary schools, such as in Antwerp, Belgium, already have a majority of Muslim students.
“Nobody is predicting anything. We’re talking about who are the kids in the grade school right now, which means they are going to be the guys entering the workforce in fifteen years time,” he said.
“That’s not a prediction. We’re not looking at trends. We’re looking at the actual warm bodies sitting in the elementary classes now,” he added.
Steyn quoted statistics from the Vienna Institute of Demography which he said predict that by mid-century a majority of Austrians under the age of 15 will be Muslim."
the article continues
"This was a country that not so long ago was 90 percent Catholic,” he said.
Steyn said that some of his American followers might remember Austria as the setting for the film Sound of Music about a large family that fled the country in 1938 in the face of a Nazi takeover. Steyn said that by 2038, Austrians will no longer be singing “how do you solve a problem like Maria,” but “how do you solve a problem like Sharia.”
“This is the biggest story of our time, and yet hardly anyone ever writes about it,” he said.
“This is the biggest demographic movement/transformation in history, and it’s about to accelerate,” he added.
Steyn said that the demographic suicide of the West highlights the importance of U.S. President Trump’s July message in Warsaw, Poland about faith and family.
In his July 6 rousing speech, Trump issued a clear call for the defense of Christianity that underpins all of Western Civilization, along with all the culture and traditions that arise from that source. He urged Europeans to put “faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, at the center of our lives.”
But for Steyn, it is likely already too late for most Western European countries to turn the boat around.
“A post-Christian Europe doesn’t really have any faith and it doesn’t have any families either. They are fading into the past. They have essentially broken the compact of human societies,” he said.
“The people who built the modern world are going out of business, voluntarily,” he added.
Steyn is not the only one warning of the pending demographic crisis.
Last month Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that “The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.”
Earlier in March Musk told CNNMoney that the world “should be concerned about demographic implosion.”
“So if you look at countries like Japan, most of Europe, China,” Musk said, “and you look at the birth rates, in a lot of those places it is only at about half of the sustaining rate.”
Musk described an up-side-down demographic pyramid, where the elderly are now the new flat top that is supposed to be held up by a shrinking younger base.
“So it will sort of fall over,” he said. “It will not stand.” of course not all Muslims are Bad or Evil, or violent, but with Islamic Extremism sadly on the Rise in America, Europe & Worldwide, there is indeed cause for alarm
For More Information, See also the article on the website onenewsnow.com titled
"Muslim European takeover no prediction: It's already happening" by
Michael F. Haverluck on August 15, 2017 the article can be found here,
https://onenewsnow.com/national-security/2017/08/15/muslim-european-takeover-no-prediction-its-already-happening
From the Jerusalem Post website, jpost.com an article is titled
"WHY IS EUROPE TURNING A BLIND EYE TO ISLAMIC OCCUPATION?" the article says-
National and religious minorities in the Arab region have not been given independence or autonomy; They are still trying to overthrow their Arab-Muslim occupiers.
BY ZVI MAZEL NOVEMBER 26, 2016 07:43
ISIS TERRORISTS pose on a Libyan beach in February 2015 with 21 captured Egyptian Christians they are about to behead. (photo credit: REUTERS)
the article says
"IN A world beset by terrorism and humanitarian disasters, the international community remains fixated on the State of Israel.
The one and only state of the Jewish people, back in their historical homeland, is a beacon of democracy in the Muslim-Arab sphere devoid of human rights, left behind by social and economic progress and subject to frequent bouts of bloody unrest. Yet Israel is singled out, again and again, for condemnation.
The European Union, self-appointed human rights watchdog, is at the forefront of the attacks. This is a puzzling phenomenon.
Why is Europe turning a blind eye to the deadly legacy of violence, chaos and backwardness left by the Islamic occupation of the Middle East and North Africa? Why, indeed, is the old continent wooing the Arab world, forgetting its own history and past Islamic takeover attempts? Why is it so reluctant to see that Islam is threatening its future through massive immigration and terrorist attacks? And why is there no such compunction regarding Israel, branded as the last colonial power occupying a land belonging to others? After all, here the focus is on the wrong occupier. From the 7th century onward, the Middle East and North Africa have been forcibly conquered and occupied by Muslim-Arab forces that have oppressed its populations and pillaged their riches. The so-called “guilt” of Israel is having successfully fought the Arab occupiers after 1,308 years and restoring its independence, a feat only one other country, South Sudan, has been able to accomplish in modern times, but at a terrible price – more than two million dead over the 40-year fight for independence from its Islamic rulers.
Europe apparently has forgotten that Muslims once came to ravage and plunder and impose their faith. Of course, it threw them off much earlier.
France defeated a massive Islamic army at the Battle of Poitiers in 732, driving back the invaders all the way to Spain and stopping their advance into Europe. Spain would need another eight centuries to achieve its Reconquista and regain full sovereignty over all its territory."
the article continues
"Sicily threw the invaders back into the sea in the 11th century, after 100 years of occupation.
Ottoman Muslims were defeated in 1683 at the battle of Vienna. A number of Central European countries and the Balkan States were under Ottoman Islamic rule for 350 years, until the middle of the 19th century.
It’s always useful to go back to history and hard facts to remind ourselves how and why Islam has prevailed while all other old empires disappeared, and what the resulting disastrous consequences are to the world at present.
Muslim-Arab rulers rode roughshod over ancient civilizations. With the beginning of their conquest and expansion in 640, they encountered established centers of culture, products of centuries and even millennia- old civilizations. Populations in the land of Israel and in Mesopotamia (today Iraq and Syria) were monotheist, and lived under the rule of Byzantium and/or the Sassanian empire, with strong Greek and Roman influences.
Jews, with 3,000 years of history behind them, spoke Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek; Christians, with a past of “only” 600 years, were the descendants of Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations and spoke Aramaic and Greek. Jews and Christians thus represented highly developed cultural traditions and boasted of advanced institutions of higher learning.
In Persia, the Sassanid dynasty perpetuated the 2,000-year-old Zoroastrian religion and civilization. In Egypt, Islam fought to overcome the brilliant pharaonic and Greek cultures as well as the Coptic faith. In North Africa, Islam met Berbers, ancient Phoenician peoples, as well as Jews and Christians who had developed a thriving agriculture and had commercial ties with Europe and Africa.
Special attention should be paid to the constant attacks on Aramaic-speaking Christian populations throughout the centuries."
the article continues
"In the Middle East in the 1st century, Assyrians had been the first to adopt Christianity, though their claim is disputed by Copts who also claim to have been the first. Gradually, Assyrian Christian civilization disappeared from the Middle East. By the 14th century, Arabic had thoroughly replaced Aramaic in Mesopotamia, parts of present day Turkey and even the former Persian Empire, where it was introduced to the Hebrews during the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE. The famed Babylonian Talmud was partly written in Aramaic.
Persecution of Christians has never stopped, even in modern times. During World War I, Ottoman Turks massacred more than 1,000,000 Christian Armenians, and also killed 300,000 Assyrian Christians.
There was another massacre in the 1930s in northern Iraq, in which tens of thousands of Assyrian Christians were killed before Great Britain managed to stop the murder.
Very few speakers of Aramaic are now left in the Middle East, probably no more than half a million, living in Iraq and southern Syria. Another million have settled in the United States. In Israel, where there is a small community of some 1,500 Aramaic speakers, efforts are made to help them promote a revival of their ancient language.
Pagan empires such as Assyria, Babylon, Greece and Rome launched wars to demonstrate power, assert their dominance and accumulate wealth. Not so Islam: its avowed aim was, and still is, to impose the religion of Muhammad on the world, and convert infidels by persuasion or force and make them pledge allegiance to Allah."
and continues
"WHILE ANCIENT empires withered and disappeared, Islam imposed its faith on conquered peoples, turning them into believers and thus also changing their culture. With time, Arabic superseded the many languages of the ancient world, and a new Muslim- Arab space was born through coercion.
The vast territories conquered by Islamic armies in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain were slowly turned into religious and cultural centers that were intended to be united in one vast Islamic caliphate, as had been preached by the Prophet Muhammad who used to say that all Muslims would be brothers.
It never happened. There was incessant fighting between Islamic rulers as competing caliphates were established in Damascus, Bagdad, Cairo, North Africa and Spain.
There never was one Caliphate that would have united all the peoples and let them develop and progress, affording them gender equality and basic human rights, and letting them live their lives according to their religions and traditions. On the contrary, Islam, presented today by the faithful and by many Western academics as a religion of peace, is claiming superiority over the other religions, and, in accordance with the shari’a, imposing itself forcibly – which it continues to do to this day.
There is discrimination toward non-Arab minorities everywhere, and even toward Christian Arabs. In Saudi Arabia, keeper of the two holy cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina, building churches or synagogues is forbidden. Foreign nationals who are not Muslim cannot become citizens and are prohibited to enter Mecca. In short, this is a failed civilization that brought nothing but violence and lack of progress to the territories it occupied by force. For centuries, Jews were at the mercy of their Islamic rulers who afforded them a measure of protection as long as they paid a head tax and submitted to humiliating regulations. Woe to the Jew who entered into a conflict with a Muslim, as courts always found for the Muslim against the infidel."
and continues
"In the 20th century, in the wake of World War I, the awakening of the colonized and oppressed peoples spread to the Ottoman Empire. The consequences were the formation, through the Sykes-Picot agreement, of Arab nation-states such as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and one Jewish state – Israel. Most of those states imploded or dissolved under the pressure of Arab- Islamic internecine conflicts dating back to the dawn of Islam and Arab tribal traditions.
National and religious minorities in the Arab region have not been given independence or autonomy.
They are still trying to overthrow their Arab-Muslim occupiers.
PROMINENT AMONG them are the Kurds.
They are not Arabs, but are indigenous to the area. Conquered and forcibly Islamized, they were disposed to ally themselves with their new rulers.
Salah al-Din ‒ Saladin – the legendary warrior who defeated the Crusaders and “freed Jerusalem” was a Kurd. Yet they steadfastly refused to relinquish their identity, their language and their customs. Today, they number an estimated 30 million to 40 million and are spread among four countries: Iran, Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
They have long fought for their independence, or at least for a large measure of autonomy. Indeed, a Kurdish autonomous zone was created with the help of the allied coalition in northern Iraq in the wake of the first Gulf war, intended to protect the Kurds from Saddam Hussein. He had led a vigorous policy of forced Arabization against them, deporting tens of thousands of peasants to other areas with a view to replacing them by “ethnic” Arabs, and even gassing a number of villages. That Kurdish zone proclaimed its right to independence in 2011, but it was not recognized by other countries."
and continues
"In Syria, the civil war made it possible for the Kurds to establish several semi-autonomous zones. Recently, Turkey penetrated into northwest Syria under pretext of fighting ISIS, but they are using the opportunity to push back Syrian Kurds and declaring that it will never permit the installation of a Kurdish zone along its border. The long-running Kurdish rebellion, led by the PKK – Kurdish Workers Party ‒ in Turkey so far has claimed tens of thousands of victims on both sides. There is a legal Kurdish party authorized by Ankara that, nevertheless, refuses to discuss granting autonomy, let alone independence, to its significant Kurd minority.
In Iran, the Kurdish democratic party fought long and hard for independence in the 1970s and ’80s, but was decimated by a savage repression.
Tens of thousands died, leaving a scared and enfeebled community unwilling to fight anymore. Yet there remains a small Kurdish movement that still launches minor guerrilla actions against the regime. Ayatollahs ruling Iran with an iron hand will not hear of even limited autonomy. World media has largely ignored the plight of Kurds in Iran.
The indigenous peoples of North Africa, disparagingly called Barbarians or Berbers by Greeks and Romans because they spoke neither Greek nor Latin, were forcibly Islamized by the Arab conquest, but they kept their identity and their own language throughout the centuries.
They, too, fought alongside their conquerors, and Berbers who converted to Islam founded the Almoravid and Almoads dynasties, which adhered to a stringent brand of Islam and were among the rulers of Spain.
Today, there are some 38 million Berbers scattered between Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Their language and culture were never recognized by the Arab regimes in North Africa, which largely oppressed them. Of late they have launched a campaign to promote their independence or gain autonomous status, and have established common institutions such as the world Amazigh Congress – Amazigh being the name of their language – founded in France in 1995, and the Union of North African Peoples established in 2011, in Tangiers, as the so-called Arab Spring resonated throughout the Middle East and North Africa."
and continues
"In Algeria, Berbers make up 33 percent of the population, and can be found mostly in the Kabylie region in the country’s northeast. Oppressed for centuries, they set up a government in exile in Paris in 2010.
Here again, Western media remain silent.
Although the amended Algerian constitution recognized the Amazigh language in February 2016, it did not bring about needed changes on the ground, and oppression went on unabated.
There are some 20 million Berbers in Morocco – an impressive 60 percent of the population.
Here too, as a result of the Arab Spring, Mohammed VI granted recognition to their language, and gave his approval to a more liberal constitution in order to defuse social tension in the country and avoid the fate of the leaders of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.
In Libya, the Berber minority makes up 12 percent of the population. Even though it was at the forefront of the battle to topple Muammar Gaddafi, it did not receive any recognition in the new government, and undoubtedly will ask for a measure of cultural autonomy if and when the situation in the country is stable again.
The fact that Berbers are living in so many different countries with no territorial contiguity makes it difficult for them to wage a united campaign against their Arab rulers.
What Kurds and Berbers have in common is that they are both indigenous, non-Arab populations; have both been forcibly Islamized; and even participated with their new rulers in conquests fought in the name of Islam. Yet neither was treated as equals by the Arabs, who boast of their prophet and of the divine apparition of the Koran in Arabic, and look down on those who embraced their religion but remained “foreigners.”
Then there are the Copts, the indigenous population of Egypt. They converted to Christianity in the 1st century, and stubbornly refused to relinquish their faith through 1,400 years of Arab-Islamic occupation and repression. The Coptic church is Orthodox, autonomous and independent, and led by a pope. Today, Copts make up 10 percent of the population of Egypt."
and continues
"They do not look for autonomy and feel an integral part of the country, but would like to be treated as equals. It is not likely to happen soon.
The first article of the 2014 constitution stipulates that Egypt is part of the Arab and Muslim nations. According to Article 2, Islam is the religion of the state and shari’a is the primary source of legislation. Article 3 recognizes the right of Copts and Jews to administer personal and religious affairs according to their faith, but Islam and Arab nationalism dominate Egypt, and Copts do not enjoy equal rights. Jews, once a vibrant part of the country’s economic and cultural life, have been forcibly driven away and only a handful are left.
In other words, the Middle East and North Africa are still under a continued repressive, illegitimate and unjust Arab-Islamic occupation, and no one in the West is ready to tackle the issue.
All those varied populations evolved into the substratum of what became known as Muslim-Arab civilization.
There had been what is dubbed now the “golden age of Islam” loosely from the 8th to 12th centuries, essentially in the 10th and the 11th centuries during the rule of Harun al-Rashid in Bagdad and Abd ar-Rahman III in Cordoba. At that time, the famous House of Wisdom in Bagdad was created, and the study of philosophy, mathematics and medicine blossomed. Arabs brought the decimal system from India, learned from the Chinese the secret to producing paper, and mainly from Christians of the East translated from Latin into Arabic the writings of Greek philosophers. However, in spite of this exceptional contribution, that civilization remained stagnant and was left behind. The shari’a overcame the budding of development.
The West, meanwhile, welcomed the age of enlightenment that ushered in industrialization and the establishment of democratic regimes."
and continues
"Today, Daesh – the self-proclaimed Islamic State ‒ has taken upon itself to eliminate the last surviving minorities, focusing on the pitiful remnants of Assyrian Christianity and on the Yazidis (followers of a religion loosely based on the teachings of Zarathustra) in northern Iraq. It is also systematically smashing all remaining monuments and vestiges that testify to the past glory of cultures destroyed by Islam – churches, ancient cemeteries and monuments such as Palmyra.
AT PRESENT, Arab conquest and Islamization are not being taught in the West, and no research is being carried out since it might lead to some unwelcome conclusions that contradict prevalent trends in academic circles and the media.
Western thinkers have adopted a so-called “Post-postmodernism” approach based on political correctness and multiculturalism.
These are the tools applied by leading academics and international media to deal with Islam and the problems it presents in the form of millions of Muslim migrants coming to Europe, and the rising tide of Islamic terrorist attacks.
They deliberately ignore historical reality and the fundamental tenets of Islam as a religion.
Such willful ignorance can only lead to increasingly weakened democratic regimes unable or unwilling to fight militant Islam and its religious intolerance – including blatant anti-Semitism – aspiring to impose its rule on the whole world.
Interestingly, the Western world, and more specifically Europeans, see in Islam one of the three monotheist religions rooted in the Bible, the other two being Judaism and Christianity.
They believe, or pretend to believe, that by patiently attempting to blunt the more radical elements of Islam they can reach an understanding leading to peaceful coexistence. They do not see that there are some insuperable obstacles due to the very nature of Islam.
There are fundamental theological differences between Islam and Christianity. The very principle of the Trinity – which is at the core of Christianity – is abhorrent to Islam, where the oneness of Allah cannot be disputed, and merely adding another element is tantamount to blasphemy and punishable by death.
Regarding Judaism, Islam in the beginning was a biblical religion, and a third of the verses of the Koran deal with Jews. The direction of prayer – Kibla in Arabic – for the first faithful was Jerusalem. But since Jews – and Christians – of the Arab Peninsula refused to recognize him as a prophet coming after Moses and Jesus and superseding both, Muhammad distanced himself more and more from the Scriptures. He changed the direction of prayer to Mecca, and told his believers that it was not Isaac that Abraham was about to sacrifice on Mount Moriah but Ishmael, the son of Hagar his concubine. He also proclaimed that Adam and Noah had both been precursors of Islam. This was intended to distance Islam from the Covenant between God and the People of Israel, and later from Jesus as the Christian Messiah."
and continues
"ISLAM THUS became a separate and very different religion, so there is no basis for a fruitful dialogue with Christianity and Judaism leading to some form of understanding.
Europe cannot or will not face the historical truth about the Arab-Muslim conquest and occupation of the Middle East, and the dire consequences for the peoples of the region. Israel cannot afford that luxury. It was forced to fight it in order to survive, and its efforts were crowned with success.
A small community of 650,000 men, women and children defeated the armies of five Arab states that invaded its territory in order to destroy the fledgling state in May 1948. This was a devastating blow for the Arabs, who had grown accustomed to the undisputed rule of Islam throughout the Middle East and to the inferiority of the Jews who lived as second-class citizens.
Jews who had settled for centuries in Arab countries were expelled “in retaliation,” and nearly a million of them found themselves stateless and robbed of their property. Strangely, there was no outrage and no outcry in the West.
The Arab world could not accept its defeat and still refuses to recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people, showing its hostility through a ceaseless diplomatic campaign and boycotts while supporting constant terrorist attacks against its citizens. What makes it even more galling for Arab minds is that in spite of all that warfare, the Jewish state has been transformed in just a few dozen years into a thriving and successful country, a world leader in the fields of agriculture, industry and hi-tech.
It was in response to the sudden and unwarranted attack by Jordanian forces upon western Jerusalem in 1967 that Israel conquered Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Since the Arab world refused again and again to agree to a comprehensive settlement, Israel, which returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in the wake of the 1979 peace agreement, and subsequently made peace with Jordan and evacuated the whole of the Gaza Strip, sees itself as the custodian of the territories until such time as real peace can be achieved.
Why should the Jewish state bow to the Arab pretension that the whole Middle East must be ruled by Arabs? What if Caliph Omar stated that a land once conquered by the armies of Islam would forever be part of the Islamic world, a thought echoed by the Muslim Brotherhood and seconded by militant Islamic terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and Daesh? Europe has apparently forgotten that they also eye Cyprus, Spain, Sicily and the south of France."
and continues
"Jews never bowed to the Arab conquest and never renounced the land of Israel, which remained the lodestar of their cultural and religious aspirations. Religious and secular literature were linked to the land of Israel. The word geula – salvation or deliverance – always meant return to Israel, and that hope kept the Jewish People and preserved their identity. Some messianic Jews even made impossible attempts at coming back to the land of their forefathers, such as Dom Joseph Nasi and Shabtai Zvi.
They all failed because they were unrealistic ‒ at the time, Jews were a persecuted minority, with no political support and no military force.
YET, THERE was always a Jewish presence in the land of Israel, and it never disappeared even after the Arab conquest of 640, which dealt a blow to the Jewish community that numbered half a million at the time.
Some converted to Islam, others were killed or fled, but until the middle of the 18th century there was a substantial Jewish presence in many Galilean villages, as well as in Safed, Tiberias, Jerusalem and Jaffa. Jewish and Christian travelers attest to the fact in their accounts.
Jewish researchers found clear proof of that continuous Jewish presence in the archives of the Ottoman Empire, where there are detailed reports of taxes paid according to the religious affiliation of the taxpayers.
By the second half of the 18th century, Jews in the Galilee faced with ceaseless vexations and pogroms from their Arab neighbors could no longer resist, and had to leave. When the State of Israel was born, only a few Jewish families were left in the town of Peki’in. Nevertheless, one can still see in Arab villages a Star of David or a menorah on a door frame or a roof, ruined synagogues, and Jewish cemeteries.
Many, if not most, Arab villages in the Galilee were Jewish villages whose population had been driven away to make room for the Arabs.
Arrabe, Sakhnin, Bir’am, Mrar, Achbra, Sepphoris, Kafr Kana, Nazareth and many others were all Jewish towns mentioned in the Bible or Talmud, and some figure prominently in the New Testament."
and continues
"Jewish historian Josephus Flavius mentions by name 200 Jewish villages in the Galilee.
These inconvertible facts are conveniently glossed over by Arab members of the Knesset and their supporters, who ludicrously claim that Jews have nothing to do with Palestine, “which was Arab since the dawn of time.” Yet the families of these Knesset members settled here a mere century or two ago.
Indeed Palestine is not an Arab word, and there is no Arab connotation to such a country. The word was coined by Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BCE to describe a part of Israel that was populated at the time by Philistines, members of some Greek tribes who had settled there in the second millennium BCE and were to be found on the coast until they were driven off or chose to leave.
Emperor Hadrian, having defeated the Bar Kokhba revolt in 132 CE and killed an estimated 1.5 million Judean Jews, decided to obliterate the name Judea forever and chose to resurrect the Greek appellation. Henceforth Palestine was used to describe the land of Israel – Eretz Israel – perhaps because it was easier to pronounce and never referred to an Arab entity.
In fact, European anti-Semites in the late 19th century and early 20th were wont to tell Jews, “Go back to your country, Palestine.”
There was no such thing as a Palestinian Arab entity; Palestine is not mentioned in the Koran because it was known as Jewish. Arabs arrived as conquerors and never thought to establish a country. They never settled in great numbers until the second half of the 19th century, when the Zionist movement brought progress and development, and more workers were needed.
Arabs arrived by the tens of thousands in the land of Israel, still called Palestine, from the Maghreb, Egypt, the Arab Peninsula and Syria looking for work. Such are the facts about the nonexistent history of a so-called Palestinian people, and they were well known and not disputed until the Six Day War, when Arabs suddenly began calling themselves Palestinians with “historical rights to the land.” "
and lastly says
"It was not taken seriously at first, but then Arab propaganda decided it would make an excellent weapon and adopted it. Slowly, the liberal Israeli Left came to accept this definition, in the mistaken belief that it would encourage Arabs to make peace. It turned out to be a colossal mistake that helped to distort the situation. Arab leaders now wax lyrical on an Arab presence “which began 5,000 years ago” and left no room for any Jewish claim.
SOMEHOW, THERE are Europeans who go along with that fantasy, forgetting the Bible and world history. They are convinced that Israel conquered large tracts of a ‒ wholly imaginary – Arab Palestinian state belonging to the ‒ equally imaginary ‒ ancient Palestinian people. Apparently, no one wants to remember that there is an Israeli-Arab conflict born of the Islamic conquest and Arab nationalism, and all deny any legitimacy to the Jewish state in the land of Israel.
Needless to say, this leaves no room for a solution, as can be seen from a review of the 100 years that followed the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Vainly did Israel propose one compromise after another. They were rejected, and the Arabs never made a counterproposal since doing so would have meant accepting that Israel is here to stay.
Yet one has only to turn back to the history books to realize that Arab-Islamic conquest and occupation of the Middle East and North Africa led to whole-scale destruction without bringing any hope, and that it is not Israel that is at the root of the problem.
Unfortunately, Europe is not interested in historical facts. It pursues its endless carping about Israel, isolating and weakening the Jewish state, which is confronted by an Arab-Islamic world bent on destroying it. Europe is conferring upon the Arabs the legitimacy it denies to Israel, and does not understand that by so doing it is perpetuating the conflict, sowing the seeds of more and more wars and ultimately undermining its very own existence."
From the website mosaicmagazine.com an article is titled
"The Theory That Ashkenazi Jews Are Descended from Khazars Is Junk Science"
the article says-
"At some point in the 19th century, a number of scholars tried to trace the lineage of East European Jewry not to German Jews who settled there in the late medieval period but to the survivors of the Khazar empire, which ruled over a large area in what is now eastern Ukraine and southwest Russia in the 8th through 10th centuries CE. This hypothesis, popularized by the Hungarian-British writer Arthur Koestler in the 1970s, claims that the Turkic-speaking Khazars converted to Judaism en masse and, after their empire was destroyed, settled throughout Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, where their descendants came to constitute the bulk of the Jewish population. From this it allegedly follows that most modern Ashkenazim are unrelated to biblical Israelites, and that the historical Jewish connection to the land of Israel is attenuated if not false. Long discredited, the theory has recently been revived by a handful of academics. But the evidence against it is greater than ever, as the linguist and onomastician Alexander Beider explains:
[A]rchaeological evidence about the widespread existence of Jews in Khazaria is almost nonexistent. While a series of independent sources does testify to the existence in the 10th century of Jews in the kingdom of Khazaria, and while some of these sources also indicate that the ruling elite of Khazaria embraced Judaism, . . . we can be confident that Judaism was not particularly widespread in that kingdom."
the article lastly says
"The next historical record of Jews [in the region]—in a few cities that today belong to western Ukraine and western Belarus—shows up in the 14th century, when Jews are regularly referred to in numerous documents. And yet, no direct historiographical data are available to connect the Jews who lived in Eastern Europe in the 14th century with their coreligionists from 10th-century Khazaria. . . .
Looking at names, both first names and surnames, gives us a sense of how a community would see itself, its language, and its origins. And in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe over the past six centuries, not a single Turkic name can be found in documents listing Jewish names. Even documents from the 15th and 16th centuries dealing with Jews who lived in the territories of modern Ukraine and Belarus have no such names.
In the corpus of given names used by Jews of Eastern Europe during the last centuries, we find the same linguistic layers as in the lexicon of Yiddish. There are numerous Germanic and Hebrew names and some Aramaic names. There are also Greek names (Todros from Theodoros, Kalmen from Kalonymos), Old French names (Beyle, Bunem, Yentl), Old Czech names (Khlavne, Slave, Zlate), and Polish names (Basye, Tsile), and very few East Slavic [i.e., Belarusian, Ukrainian, or Russian] names (Badane, Vikhne). There are no Turkic names. . . .
Globally speaking, all arguments suggested by proponents of the Khazarian theory are either highly speculative or simply wrong. They cannot be taken seriously. This has never stopped the theory from being popular. The ideological reasons for this are material for another occasion." See also the article on the website forward.com
titled "Ashkenazi Jews are Not Khazars, Here's the Proof" by Alexander Beider on
September 25, 2017, the whole "Khazar Theory" is Non-Sense, Genetics,Linguistics,Names, and all other Evidence Refute & Debunk this "Khazar Theory" nonsense used by
Anti-Semites & Anti-Zionists, Never Forget Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism are the SAME THING, some Claim Anti-Zionism is even Worst than Anti-Semitism
Also on the website forward.com another article by Alexander Beider is titled
"The Khazarian hypothesis is not the only junk science origin story of Jews" on
October 23, 2017 , History, Linguistics,Genetics,Names, etc, all Refute & Debunk the
"Khazar Theory" and other Non-Sense Theories
From the website, angelfire.com/mt/talmud/ an article titled
"Talmud: The Real Truth About The Talmud" and it says:
Talmud: Statement of Purpose
There are many lies circulating the internet about the Jewish Talmud. These allegations are supported by "direct quotations" from the Talmud that are frequently wrong or taken out of context. However, most people lack the scholarly background to verify these claims. Most people have no way of knowing that these accusation are false and malicious. What we are attempting is to demonstrate in detail how these accusations are both wrong and intentionally misleading. We are trying to show to the world the real truth about the Talmud.
Written by Gil Student
Recommended book:
The Complete Idiot's Guide to
Understanding the Talmud
"Our philosophy asserts that every human being is created in the image of the Lord and the primacy of integrity and honesty in all dealings without exception. I strongly repudiate any assertions in the name of Judaism that do not represent and reflect this philosophy."
- Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, dean of the world-renowned Lakewood Yeshiva, Dec. 16, 2003
Table Of Contents
About The Talmud
The Real Truth About The Talmud: Why does this site exist?
What Is The Talmud?: An explanation of the history and content of the Talmud
Talmud and Bible: Is the Talmud holier than the Bible?
Jewish People: Is Judaism a religion or a race?
To Tell The Truth: Are Jews commanded to lie about the Talmud?
Gentiles In Judaism: Where do gentiles fit into the Jewish world view?
What is a Jew? (Wikipedia entry)
Alleged Racism In The Talmud
Gentiles Are Human: The Talmud does not consider gentiles to be sub-human
Gentiles Are Human 2: The Talmud does not consider gentiles to be animals
Stealing From Gentiles: The Talmud forbids stealing from gentiles
Paying A Gentile's Wages: The Talmud prohibits Jews from withholding a gentile's wages
Tricking Gentiles: The Talmud forbids lying to gentiles
Killing Gentiles: The Talmud prohibits killing gentiles
Various Accusations: Refuting various accusations against the Talmud
Christianity In The Talmud
Introduction
Jesus In The Talmud: What, if anything, does the Talmud say about Jesus?
The Jesus Narrative: Does the Talmud's narrative of events correspond or differ from the Gospels'?
Christianity: What does the Talmud have to say about Christianity in general?
Jewish Holidays
Blood Libel: Jews never eat blood
Passover: The Passover Haggadah is not racist
Kol Nidrei: Permission to deceive?
Immorality In The Talmud
The Talmud Does Not Permit Sex With A Three Year Old
Sexual Morality in the Talmud: The Talmud's prudence
Rabbi Eleazar and the Prostitutes: The Full Story
Miscellaneous
Schindler's List: The source of the disputed quotation
Israel Shahak's Lie: "A Modern Blood Libel" by Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits, former Chief Rabbi of the British Empire (Offsite)
"In The Image Of G-d": Gentiles are created in the image of G-d
"Goy": Is it a derogatory term used by Jews about gentiles?
Rabbi Soloveitchik: Refuting the slander against him
Ethics Of The Fathers: The section of the Mishnah dedicated to the favorite ethical sayings of the sages
Related Links
Recommended Reading
The website freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/van-hyning.html has an article titled
"Falsifiers of the Talmud" Anti-Semites often distort the Talmud
the article "Falsifiers of the Talmud" states
"Antisemites such as Van Hyning, Nesta Webster, Benjamin H. Freedman and Wesley Swift have claimed that the Talmud has been systematically hidden from non-Jews, and that it is the supreme authority of Jewish law, philosophy and ethics. In truth, it is available in most good public libraries and most Jews regard it as simply one branch of Jewish theology, of limited interest outside of rabbinical seminaries.
The Talmud consists of two parts: the Mishnah, and its commentary, the Gemara. The Mishnah, compiled and edited by Judah Hanasi about 200 C.E., was the first Jewish code of laws since the Torah. There are two Gemaras, known as the Babylonian and the Palestinian. The former, completed about 500 C.E., is the record of the discussions of the Palestinian scholars. The Mishnah plus the Babylonian Gemara is known as the Babylonian Talmud; the Mishnah plus the Palestinian Gemara is known as the Palestinian Talmud. The two Talmuds have always been printed separately, and never together.
Van Hyning’s leaflet was widely reprinted, excerpted, added to and quoted from or referenced throughout the 1950s and 1960s by such publications as The Cross and the Flag, Common Sense, and Thunderbolt. In the early 1970s the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith continued to distribute a free tract quoting most of these lies. Rarely quoted today, these fabrications continue to be the foundation of many claims that Judaism is anti-Christian.
The following is Van Hyning’s list. Both Pranaitøis and Freedman claim a longer list but the following list and refutations dispels the whole."
ACCUSATIONS FACTS
Accusation: "The Talmud refers to Jesus Christ as the bastard son of a harlot (Kallah, 1b, 18b)" Kallah, 1b, 18b. The quotation does not exist in this volume. This is a complete fabrication, and even the reference numbers are fabricated.
Accusation: "Jesus is blasphemed as a fool (Schabbath, 104b), a conjurer (Toldoth Jeshu), and idolater. (Sanhedrin 103a) and a seducer (Sanhedrin 107b)." Schabbath, 104b. The correct spelling of this volume is Shabbath. It does not make an evaluation of anyone, but rather reports a dialogue; "It was taught, Rabbi Eliezer said to the Sages: But did not Ben Stada bring forth witchcraft from Egypt by means of scratches (in the form of charms) upon his flesh? He was a fool, answered they, and proof cannot be adduced from fools." The professional antisemites are relying on the theory that the Talmudic scholars meant Jesus when they referred to Ben Stada. A British scholar, R. Travers Herford, gives it as his opinion in "Christianity in Talmud and Midrash" (p. 37) that Ben Stada means Jesus of Nazareth. Further on, however, he says "...The Talmud has preserved only a very vague and confused recollection of Jesus" (p. 83). And he points out that some people argue "that there are in the Talmud two persons called Jesus, neither of whom is the historical Jesus of Nazareth" (p. 347).
Facts:
Toldoth Jeshu is a book from the Middle Ages. It is not a part of the Talmud. [The Toledoth Yeshu is a polemic work written in about the 10th century. The Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion says of it, "..the work is an expression of vulgar polemics written in reaction to the no less vulgar attacks on Judaism in popular Christian teaching and writing [of that time]".]
Sanhedrin 103a. Van Hyning’s claim that it calls Jesus an idolator is a complete fabrication.
Sanhedrin 107b. This is a distortion of the truth by Van Hyning based upon a legendary story in this portion of the Talmud. As it is actually related, Jesus and his teacher met a woman at a wayside inn; Jesus admired her extreme beauty. For this the teacher severely admonished him and dismissed him as a pupil. The rabbis in the Talmud sharply criticized the teacher for his harshness and severity towards Jesus.
and continues
Accusation: "The Talmud teaches that Jesus died like a beast and was buried in that 'dirt heap'...where they throw the dead bodies of dogs and asses and where the sons of Ssau (the Christians) and of Ismael (the Turks), also Jesus and Mohammed, uncircumsized and unclean like dead dogs are buried (Zobar, III, 282).
Fact: Zohar, III, 282. This is a cabalistic work that came into being during the Middle Ages [13th c.]. It is not a part of the Talmud. This entire "quotation" is a complete fabrication.
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Accusation: "One of the basic doctrines of the Talmud is that all non-Talmudists rank as non-humans, that they are not like men, but beasts. (Kerithuth, 6b, p. 78)".
Fact - Kerithuth, 6b, p. 78. Even the numbering system is a fabrication. 6b means page 6, side 2. Consequently, page 78 can have no relationship to 6b. This claim is based upon a particular dialogue in which reference is made specifically to heathens in a fashion comparable to that of many Christian preachers who today still thunder away with the doctrine that only those who accept Jesus Christ will be "saved." Obviously no sane person with a semblance of decency would condemn present-day Jews for the dialogue of some individual religious philosophers 1700 years ago.
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Accusation -"A JEW WHO KILLS A CHRISTIAN COMMITS NO SIN, BUT OFFERS AN ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE TO GOD. 'Even the best of the non-Jews should be killed.' (Abhodah Zarah, 26b Tosepoth)."
Fact - Abhodah Zarah, 26b, Tosepoth. Tosepoth is not a part of the Talmud. It is a collection of commentaries on the Talmud. In a passage alluded to by Van Hyning, Tosepoth quotes a Talmudic source as stating that the command of killing all Canaanites was applicable only during the war against them.
Accusation: "The following quotation from and about the Talmud should be of interest to all Christians. Note: 'GOY' means non-Jews; 'GOYIM' is plural for Goy."
"Jehovah Himself studies the Talmud standing, he has such respect for that book (Tract Mechilla)."
Fact: Tract Mechilla. No such book exists in the Talmud. Furthermore, the internal evidence in the alleged quotation suggests crude fabrication. The Talmud is not "that book"; it is a collection of volumes."
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Accusation "Every goy who studies the Talmud and every Jew who helps him in it, ought to die. (Sanhedrin, 59a Abhodah Zarah 8-6)."
Fact - Abhodah Zarah 8-6. Insofar as this volume is concerned the quotation is a complete fabrication. Even the reference number is incorrect. It should read "Abhodah Zarah 8a or 8b." A number such as 8-6 can never exist in the Talmud.
Sanhedrin, 59a. Here is reported a dialogue between two Rabbis, the first of whom does indeed fanatically advocate death for a heathen who studies the Torah (the Pentateuch, not the Talmud), The second Rabbi effectively demolishes his colleague’s argument by pointing out that the heathen who studies the Torah succeeds in elevating himself to the status of a High Priest."
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Accusation: "To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the goyim knew what we teach about them they would kill us openly. (Libbre David 37)." Fact: Libbre David 37. This is a complete fabrication. No such book exists in the Talmud or in the entire Jewish literature.
Accusation: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the goyim asks if our books contain anything against them. (Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17)." Fact - The Book of Jore Dia 17. No such statement appears, This is a complete fabrication.
Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17. There is no such book in the Talmud. These two words are part of the title of some 1500 books, but by themselves they mean only "responses."
Accusation "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts. (Baba Mecia 114-6)."
Fact: Baba Mecia 114-6. This quotation is a complete fabrication. Even the numbering is incorrect. There can be no 114-6; it has to be 114a or 114b.
Accusation: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves. (Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56D)."
Fact :Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56D. There is no such book in the Talmud. It is actually the name of a 10th century Bible commentator. The "fol. 56D" is an invention."
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Accusation:""Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night. (Midrash Talpioth, 225-L)."
Fact -Midrash Talpioth, 225-L. This is not a volume of the Talmud. It is something composed by a Turkish Jew in the 18th century. His name was Elijah ben Solomom Abraham, ha-Kohen.
Accusation: "As soon as the King Messiah will declare himself, He will destroy Rome and make a wilderness of it. Thorns and weeds will grow in the Pope’s palace. Then he will start a merciless war on non-Jews and will overpower them. He will slay them in masses, kill their kings and lay waste the whole Roman land. He will say to the Jews: 'I am the King Messiah for whom you have been waiting. Take the silver and the gold from the goyim.' (Josiah 60, Rabbi Abarbanel to Daniel 7, 13)." Fact: Josiah 60. This is not a volume from the Talmud. There is no book of that title in existence.
Accusation: "A Jew may do to a non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he treats a piece of meat. (Nadarine, 20, B; Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348)." Fact: Nadarine 20. The actual quotation is: "The Rabbis say: That whatever a man wants to do with his wife he may do; just as he can prepare meat to suit his fancy." This concept of male superiority of 1700 years ago bears no relationship to the philosophy and conduct of present-day Jewry. To represent this as the teachings of Judaism in the twentieth century is to perpetuate a palpable fraud. Van Hyning perpetrated the additional fraud of twisting it into a Jew vs. Gentile problem.
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Accusation ""A Jew may rob a goy--that is, he may cheat him in a bill, if unlikely to be perceived by him. (Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348)."
Fact- Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348. This is not a part of the Talmud. It is actually a part of a collection of Biblical commentaries in the sixteenth century. The actual text in this volume says that it is forbidden to steal even a small item from a Jew or non-Jew, from children or from adults. One of the commentators remarks that in dealing with an idolator it would be permissible to use artifice or stratagem to effect repayment of a loan. He then adds that others say that to do it intentionally is forbidden, but if the idolator makes a mistake in one’s favor, it is proper to accept the advantage that accrues. However it is pointed out that the famous Rabbi Maimonedes is vigorously opposed to such procedures.
Accusation "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general. (Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348)." Fact- Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348. This is a complete fabrication.
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Accusation "On the house of the goy one looks as on the fold of cattle. (Tosefta, Erubin VIII, I)." Tosefta, Erubin VIII, I. Fact - This is a complete fabrication. Tosefta is not part of the Talmud.
Accusation :"How to interpret the word 'robbery'. A goy is forbidden to steal, rob or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or Jew. But the Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy. (Tosefta, Abhodah Zarah VIII, 5)." Fact - Tosefta, Abhodah Zarah VIII, 5. This is a complete fabrication. Tosefta is not part of the Talmud.
Accusation: "All vows, oaths, promises, engagements, and swearing, which, beginning this very day of reconciliation, we intend to vow, promise, swear, and bind ourselves to fulfill, we repent of beforehand; let them be illegalized, acquitted, annihilated, abolished, valueless, unimportant. Our vows shall be no vows, and our oaths no oaths at all. (Schulchan Aruch, Edit. 1, 136)."
Fact- Schulchan Aruch, Edit. 1, 136. This is not from the Talmud. This is actually a garbled version of the Kon Nidre prayer. The reference to "Edit. 1, 136" is completely meaningless. [The Kon Nidre prayer, from the 8th century CE, did not release anyone from a judicial oath or obligation between people. It was intended to release a Jew from a vow made to God, specifically those made under duress to accept another faith.]
Accusation -"At the time of the Cholhamoed the transaction of any kind of business is forbidden. But it is permitted to cheat a goy, because cheating of goyim at any time pleases the Lord. (Schulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 539)." Fact -Schulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 539. This is a complete fabrication.
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Accusation "If a Jew be called upon to explain any part of the rabbinic books, he ought to give only a false explanation. Who ever will violate this order shall be put to death. (Libbre David 37)." Fact - Libbre David 37. There is no such book, as previously noted.
Excerpted from: The Hoaxers, Plain Liars, Fancy Liars and Damned Liars. Morris Kominsky. Boston: Branden Press, Inc. 1970. SBN 8283-1288-5 LCCCN 76-109134. HC 735pp. pp. 169-176. [leaflet reprinted on p. 166-176]
The following is taken from a 06 Feb 1999 newsgroup thread archived at http://crnews.pastornet.net.au/jmm/aasi/aasi0151.htm with rebuttal provided by Nigel B. Mitchell nbm@echidna.id.au
Accusation -Abhodah Zarah (22a): Christians have intercourse with animals. Fact : This fabrication is not in the text.
Accusation: Sanhedrin 67a: Jesus referred to as the son of Pandira, a soldier. Mother a prostitute.
Fact - According to a footnote in the Talmud, this passage refers to a Jewish revolutionary named Ben Stada or Ben Padira who came from Egypt, claimed to be a prophet, led his followers to Mount Zion, and was executed by the Romans, about 100 years after the time of Jesus. The footnote also says that Christians have long misunderstood this passage as a reference to Jesus and tried to censor it or condemn the Jews because of it. Note the legend put about by Celsus, the Greek philosopher, who argued with Justin martyr in the 2nd century, and who repeated a tale that Jesus was the son of a Roman centurion called Panthera.
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Accusation _ Kelhubath (11a-11b): "When a grown-up man has had intercourse with a little girl... It means this: When a grown up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this [see footnote] three years old it is as if one puts the finger into the eye [again see footnote] tears come to the eye again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl three years old."
FACT -This is probably the most insidious quote in the whole list. The words are correctly quoted but completely out of context. All the words after [see footnote] actually appear in the footnote, and are therefore not part of the Talmud itself. This passage is a discussion of the penalties and consequences of adult-child sexual relations. The point being made is that if a man has sexual relations with a little girl, that is to be punished less harshly than if it is with an older child or an adult woman. Importantly, when she grows up, the child is to regarded as still having her virginity for legal and marriage purposes. She is not to suffer. In modern times it is quite shocking to think that the fine or reparation for raping an infant should be less than that for raping or seducing an older child, but that is the relative judgement that some of the rabbis made, and which is recorded in the Talmud. The following paragraphs continue to discuss this issue, and there does not seem to be a strong consensus on the issue. The important thing, though, is that whilst from a modern standpoint we (whether Christian, Jew or atheist) might deplore the medical and psychological ignorance which seems to inform this decision, it must be stressed that the Talmud in no sense condones such behaviour. The discussion is about how it should be punished."
the article also said
"Mrs. Lyrl Van Hyning, author of Key to the Mystery and editor/publisher of the 1950s antisemitic periodical Women’s Voice, also published a leaflet accusing the Jews of hiding their secret anti-Christianity in the Talmud. Directly or indirectly, Van Hyning and Nesta Webster base their claims on the Rev. IUstøin Bonaventura Pranaitøis (d. 1917?) and his Christianus in Talmude Iudaeorum : sive, Rabbinicae doctrinae de Christianis secreta (The Secret Jewish Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians). Petropoli : Officina typographica Academiae Caesareae Scientiarum, 1892. [130 p ; 26 cm], and Wesley Swift’s 1939 translation entitled The Talmud Unmasked.
These fabrications are of interest to students of Freemasonry primarily because anti-Semites are often also anti-masons, and will use similar methods of deception and falsehood in their attacks." I personally would never become a mason
Another online Article About the Talmud was published in 2003 by the
Anti-Defamation League titled
"The Talmud in Anti-Semitic Polemics" and it said
Preface
Recently there has been a renewal of attacks on Judaism and Jews through
recycling of old accusations and distortions about the Talmud. AntiTalmud tracts were originally developed in the Middle Ages as Christian
polemics against Judaism, but today they emanate from a variety of
Christian, Moslem and secular sources. Sometimes such “studies” have
blatantly anti-Semitic tones; sometimes they are more subtle. Yet all of
them remain as false and pernicious today as they did in the Middle Ages.
Because of their unfortunate frequent reappearance, there is a need to
formally rebut these accusations and canards. The Anti-Defamation
League developed the following essay that explains in an honest and
scholarly way the Talmudic teachings as understood by Jewish religious
authorities. "
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