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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" Introduction
Attempts to denigrate Judaism by quoting from classical rabbinic works are on record
from as early as the twelfth century. By selectively citing various passages from the
Talmud and Midrash, polemicists have sought to demonstrate that Judaism espouses
hatred for non-Jews (and specifically for Christians), and promotes obscenity, sexual
perversion, and other immoral behavior. To make these passages serve their purposes,
these polemicists frequently mistranslate them or cite them out of context (wholesale
fabrication of passages is not unknown). They usually dismiss attempts to correct their
misreadings as “hairsplitting” or dishonest attempts to portray Judaism in a favorable
light.
In distorting the normative meanings of rabbinic texts, anti-Talmud writers frequently
remove passages from their textual and historical contexts. Even when they present their
citations accurately, they judge the passages based on contemporary moral standards,
ignoring the fact that the majority of these passages were composed close to two
thousand years ago by people living in cultures radically different from our own. They
are thus able to ignore Judaism’s long history of social progress and paint it instead as a
primitive and parochial religion.
Those who attack the Talmud frequently cite ancient rabbinic sources without noting
subsequent developments in Jewish thought, and without making a good-faith effort to
consult with contemporary Jewish authorities who can explain the role of these sources in
normative Jewish thought and practice. Even the more traditional Orthodox stream of
Judaism has developed and changed over two thousand years, and despite the
unquestioned importance that the Talmud and early rabbinic literature continue to play in
contemporary Jewish education, law and thought, the Jewish approach to that literature is
more nuanced than the literalist readings which polemicists portray as the standard
Jewish interpretations"
and continues
"Are the polemicists anti-Semites? This is a charged term that should not be used lightly,
but the answer, by and large, is yes. Now and then a polemicist of this type may himself
have been born Jewish, but their systematic distortions of the ancient texts, always in the
direction of portraying Judaism negatively, their lack of interest in good-faith efforts to
understand contemporary Judaism from contemporary Jews, and their dismissal of any
voices opposing their own, suggests that their goal in reading ancient rabbinic literature is
to produce the Frankenstein version of Judaism that they invariably claim to have
uncovered. Their tendentious argumentation, participation in extremist groups and
espousal of extremist ideologies, when present, tend to support such suspicions; the
invocation of classic anti-Semitic stereotypes, nearly universal among the polemicists we
describe, confirms them.
In fact many anti-Talmud polemicists have never studied the Talmud at all. The
consistent manner in which the same gross errors (both in citation and analysis) are
passed down through successive literary generations of anti-Talmud crusaders suggests
that individual writers often merely recycle old attacks. Trying to impress their readers
with their purported knowledge of the Talmud, they betray their ignorance. "
and continues
"II. The Charges
A. Non-Jews as Non-Human
Probably the most far-reaching claim made by anti-Talmud polemicists is that Judaism
views non-Jews as a subhuman species deserving only hatred and contempt from its
Jewish superiors.1
The visceral hatred that Jews are alleged to bear for non-Jews is
proven, they claim, by a variety of statements in the Talmud and by Jewish law itself,
which purportedly encourages Jews to exploit their non-Jewish neighbors and engage in
criminal activities against them. Many go so far as to claim that Jews are intent on
subjugating non-Jews around the world and even on committing genocide against them.
1
Dilling (1964) p. 10, 54; Shahak (1994) p. 94; Hoffman (2000) p. 43; Duke (2002) p. 62.
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In its long history, Judaism has had its share of bigots, racists and xenophobes, some of
whom expressed their prejudices in religious terms. In certain historical periods there
have even been Jewish sects whose worldview placed Jews higher than non-Jews in
inherent value. But normative Judaism has never diminished the essential humanity—
and the concomitant holiness, derived from the doctrine of creation in imago Dei—shared
by Jews and non-Jews alike. Based on verses in the biblical verses in Genesis 1:26-28,
the principle that all men and women are created in the image of God is codified in the
Mishnah (Avoth 3:14) and Talmud (Avoth 9b):
[רבי עקיבא] היה אומר: חביב אדם שנברא בצלם. חיבה יתרה נודעת לו שנברא בצלם,
שנאמר (בראשית ט:ו), "כי בצלם אלקים עשה את האדם."
[Rabbi Akiva] used to say, “Beloved is man, for he was created in God’s image; and the
fact that God made it known that man was created in His image is indicative of an even
greater love. As the verse states (Genesis 9:6), ‘In the image of God, man was created.’)”
and continues
"This doctrine is echoed by one of the great rabbis of the twentieth century, Rabbi Joseph
B. Soloveitchik (Man of Faith in the Modern World, p. 74):
Even as the Jew is moved by his private Sinaitic Covenant with God to embody
and preserve the teachings of the Torah, he is committed to the belief that all
mankind, of whatever color or creed, is “in His image” and is possessed of an
inherent human dignity and worthiness. Man’s singularity is derived from the
breath “He [God] breathed into his nostrils at the moment of creation” (Genesis
2:7). Thus, we do share in the universal historical experience, and God’s
providential concern does embrace all of humanity.
In the face of these Jewish doctrines expressing concern for men and women of all
religions, the attempts of anti-Semites to portray normative Judaism as bigoted and
hateful are revealed as thorough distortions of Jewish ethics. They claim, for example,
that the Hebrew term goy (pl. goyim), which refers to non-Jews, means “cow” or
“animal.” In fact, however, the term means “a member of a nation” (see e.g. Genesis
35:11, Isaiah 2:4) and has no derogatory connotation. The Bible even refers to the Jewish
people as ‘goy’ (Exodus 19:6) but through the millennia has become a generic term for
“gentile.” Of course, like terms used for any other ethnic group, the context and tone in
which it is spoken or written can render it pejorative (think of the history of the word
“Jew”), but that should hardly prejudice someone to the appearance of the term in
classical Jewish literature.
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A far more serious accusation than name-calling is made when anti-Semites echo the
blood libel and claim that Jewish law enjoins or permits Jews to murder non-Jews
whenever feasible. To support this allegation polemicists cite a passage in the Jerusalem
Talmud2
stating in the name of R. Simeon b. Yochai (mid-second century C.E.) that “The
best of the non-Jews should be killed.” But Jewish tradition has always understood this
statement as referring only to a situation in which Jews are at war; at such times, R.
Simeon says, the status of a non-Jewish opponent should not be taken into account, for
war cannot be waged with half-measures. That R. Simeon referred to wartime may be
gleaned from his life story, for he lived amidst the Hadrianic persecutions of the second
century C.E. and participated in the Bar Kochba revolt against Rome. More importantly,
however, every subsequent citation of R. Simeon’s statement in Jewish legal literature
has appended the words “מלחמה בשעת”—“in times of war.”3
Yet polemicists continue to
cite the unqualified passage from the Jerusalem Talmud in an effort to raise suspicions
that contemporary Jews are secretly commanded to murder their non-Jewish neighbors.
Such propagandizing is a purposeful misrepresentation. "
and continues
"B. Child Molestation
One of the more horrifying charges leveled at Judaism is that it condones the sexual
molestation of young girls. This charge was made in 1892 by the Russian Catholic cleric
Reverend I.B. Pranaitis in his Latin book, Christianus in Talmude Iudaeorum. Despite
Pranaitis’ humiliation at the Beilis blood libel trial in 1913, where as an “expert” witness
for the prosecution he demonstrated during cross-examination that he could not answer
even simple questions about the Talmud, his book was translated into English in 1939,
and the charge has been making the rounds in anti-Semitic circles ever since.4
2
There are two editions of the Talmud; one was composed by Babylonian Jews and one by Jews who lived
in ancient Jerusalem. Generally a citation from the Talmud refers to the Babylonian version, which is
considered authoritative. The Jerusalem Talmud is not generally taught in even the most Orthodox Jewish
schools today, though advanced Talmud scholars sometimes study it.
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See e.g. Tractate Soferim 15:7; Machzor Vitri 527; Beit Yosef Y.D. 158:1. 4
For more information on Pranaitis, see: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8815/pranaitis.html.
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The source for the charge that Judaism permits child molestation is a passage from the
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ketubot, pg. 11b:
אמר רבא הכי קאמר, גדול הבא על הקטנה ולא כלום
דפחות מכאן כנותן אצבע בעין דמי.
Rava [a fourth century Rabbinic authority] said: If an adult has sex with a
girl under the age of three, it is ignored, for it is like putting a finger in
someone’s eye [i.e., tears may drip from the eye but there will always be
more tears to replace them; so too the hymen of a girl so young may break
but it will heal].
From this quote, anti-Semites argue that Judaism permits the sexual molestation of young
girls. This, however, is not true. In fact, in several places the Talmud makes clear that
Judaism possesses its own version of the American law of statutory rape. A formulation
of this law may be found in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Yevamot, pg. 33b: "
and continues
"
פיתוי קטנה אונס נינהו.
One who seduces an underage girl is considered as if he had raped her [i.e.,
the laws applicable to rapists would apply to the molester].
An honest reading of the passage from Ketubot shows that it is part of a technical
discussion regarding the evaluation of a woman’s ketubah – a reverse dowry that Jewish
law requires a man to pay his wife in the event of divorce. A major factor in the
determination of the ketubah in traditional Jewish law is whether the woman had been a
virgin at the time of the marriage; virginity is considered a positive value that would
enable the woman to claim a higher ketubah. The quoted passage indicates that if a girl
had been molested before the age of three, she is still considered a virgin and is entitled to
the higher ketubah. In no way does the passage or the discussion in Ketubot imply that it
is permissible for Jewish men to molest young girls.
8
That anti-Semites have taken the passage from Ketubot out of context and ignored
Judaism’s law against statutory rape demonstrates their true agenda: to instill others with
hatred for Judaism and Jewish people.
C. Kol Nidrei and Jewish Truthfulness
An equally baseless attack on Jewish tradition is sometimes made regarding “Kol
Nidrei,” a ritualistic formula which, some polemicists allege, allows those Jews who
recite it to lie without moral or religious compunction. (One recent anti-Semite cited Kol
Nidrei as proof that Judaism is “more of a crime syndicate than a religion.”) In fact there
is a prayer called Kol Nidrei that many Jews recite on the Jewish Day of Atonement
(Yom Kippur)—though some congregations, sensitive to the fact that the prayer is
sometimes misconstrued, have excised it from the prayer book. Far from any “license to
lie,” however, Kol Nidrei constitutes only a declaration in advance that any voluntary
religious obligations a Jew may take upon himself (while inspired by a sermon, for
example), should not be binding if it subsequently becomes clear that those additional
obligations were unrealistic or unnecessary. The Code of Jewish Law (Shulhan Arukh),
considered authoritative by all traditional Jews, makes clear that the Kol Nidrei prayer’s
potency is limited to personal vows of religious obligation (Y.D. 211:4): "
and continues
"
אין דברים הללו אמורים אלא בשבועה או נדר שנשבע ונדר לעצמו, אבל
מי שהשביעו חבירו או הדירו, אין ביטול זה מועיל לו כלום.
This [prayer] refers to a vow or oath promised to one’s self; if the oath
was sworn at the behest of someone else, however, the [Kol Nidrei]
nullification does not work at all.
Thus an innocuous prayer that frees Jews from ill-conceived personal religious vows is
distorted by haters into a fiendish component of some Jewish conspiracy to deceive
others or that Judaism allows Jews to lie at will.
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D. Non-Jews and the Study of Torah
To substantiate their depiction of Jews as conspirators and plotters against their nonJewish neighbors, anti-Semitic polemicists often cite a passage found in several places in
the talmudic and midrashic literature stating that non-Jews who study Torah are
deserving of death; in their minds, this statement amounts to a secrecy pact among Jews
to prevent news of their nefarious creed from reaching the rest of the world. In his
autobiography My Awakening, David Duke dramatizes his encounter with this Talmudic
statement when he first read selections from the Talmud:
One of the first passages I read really surprised me. It said,
“A heathen [Gentile] who pries into the Torah [and other Jewish Scriptures] is
condemned to death, for it is written, ‘It is our inheritance, not theirs.’”
(Sanhedrin 59a)
If a 16-year-old boy reads something forbidden like that, he is certain to read on.
The passage was completely alien to everything I had always understood about
religion. Why would they not want all men to read the holy word the same way
Christians want to “spread the good news?” Just what is in these scriptures that
would oblige the Jews to kill a Gentile that read them? Why would public
knowledge of Jewish scriptures be dangerous to Jews? (My Awakening, p. 241)
Duke apparently did not read on, however, or he would have seen another Talmudic
opinion on the matter. The entire passage reads:"
the article continues
"opinion on the matter. The entire passage reads:
ואמר ר' יוחנן, עובד כוכבים שעוסק בתורה חייב מיתה שנאמר 'תורה צוה לנו משה
מורשה' – לנו מורשה ולא להם... ר' מאיר אומר מניין שאפילו עובד כוכבים ועוסק
בתורה שהוא ככהן גדול שנאמר 'אשר יעשה אותם האדם וחי בהם' – כהנים לויים
וישראלים לא נאמר אלא 'האדם,' הא למדת שאפילו עובד כוכבים ועוסק בתורה הרי
הוא ככהן גדול.
R. Yohanan said, “A non-Jew who studies Torah is worthy of death, as the verse states
(Deuteronomy 33:4), ‘Moses commanded us the Torah as an inheritance’ – implying that
it is for us but not for them [non-Jews]”… R. Meir said, “How do we know that a nonJew who studies Torah is like a High Priest? From the verse which states (Leviticus
18:5), ‘…that a man shall carry out these laws by which he shall live.’ The verse does
not refer to Jews but to the generic ‘Man’ – thereby teaching that even a non-Jew who
studies Torah is like a High Priest.”
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In its larger context, it is clear that neither R. Yohanan nor R. Meir is speaking literally—
a non-Jew who studies Torah would neither be put to death nor be permitted to perform
the Temple services of the High Priest (a job which is reserved for descendants of Aaron,
the brother of Moses). Rather, in the classic style of Talmudic dialectic the two are
presenting alternative perspectives on the question of non-Jews learning Torah, both of
which are to be respected, and ultimately harmonized by later authorities into a coherent
approach to the subject. R. Yohanan’s forceful statement stresses that in some essential
way, the study of Torah is reserved for believers only, those to whom the dictates of the
Torah possess binding authority. To treat Torah as the subject of detached, academic
study would be akin to studying mysticism without being able to take the mystical
journeys of the true practitioner, or to studying medicine while denying the efficacy of
the treatments. Indeed, the dispassionate, detached study of Torah, the Word of the
Living God, is viewed by R. Yohanan as bordering on blasphemy.
As developed by later rabbinic commentators, R. Meir does not disagree with the point
made by R. Yohanan about the sanctity of Torah study. Yet he stresses that Torah has
relevance even to the detached, non-Jewish reader. Like the ancient prophets of Israel,
whose exhortations on righteousness and belief in God have inspired both Jews and nonJews throughout history, Torah offers essential truths to Jews and non-Jews alike; indeed,
on his or her own level, the non-Jew may also be elevated by the study of Torah to the
stature of the High Priest in his or her service of God.
Far from Duke's depiction of Judaism as being unwilling to "spread the good news," an
essential aspect of Jewish doctrine has been to spread God's light to the non-Jewish
nations of the world. Though R. Yohanan's exhortations are never discounted, this
mission is reflected in the Jewish legal tradition on the teaching of Torah to non-Jews,
which is permitted far more often than it is prohibited.5"
the article continues
"5
For an extensive survey of the literature on the subject, see J. David Bleich, Contemporary Halakhic
Problems vol. 2 (New York: Ktav, 1983), pp. 311-340.
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E. Jesus and Balaam
To agitate Christian readers, anti-Talmud writers often attempt to portray the Talmud as
demeaning the figure of Jesus. In the opinion of most scholars, the Talmud only refers to
Jesus in a handful of places, and though these references may not reflect the courteous
ecumenicism of the modern world, neither are they particularly inflammatory.6
But the
Talmud bears much harsher animus towards the biblical figure of Balaam, the pagan
magician who sought to curse the Jews as they traveled through the desert after the
Exodus from Egypt.7
Rabbinic tradition ascribes other crimes to Balaam as well, and in
various places describes some of the punishments he may have suffered after his death.
In the nineteenth century, when the field of academic Jewish studies was in its infancy, a
small group of Jewish scholars suggested that in some cases the term Balaam in the
Talmud may be a codeword for Jesus. Though later scholars showed that this suggestion
could not be true (for reasons pertaining to the context of the Balaam references and the
lack of manuscript variants substituting Jesus for Balaam),8
anti-Semites have ever since
claimed that the true hatred that Judaism possesses for Christianity is expressed in these
coded expressions against Balaam found in the Talmud.9
This is not to say that historically Jews have historically borne no animus towards Jesus
and the Apostles, or to Christianity as a whole. In the two-thousand year relationship
between Judaism and Christianity, many of them marred by anti-Jewish polemic and
Christian persecution of Jews, some rabbis have fulminated against the church, and in
some places Jews developed a folk literature that demeaned Christianity. But
contemporary anti-Semitic polemicists are not interested in learning or reporting about
the historical development of Jewish-Christian relations. Their goal is to incite hatred
against Judaism and Jews by portraying them as bigoted and hateful. Their use of the
long-discredited Balaam hypothesis is another example of this phenomenon.
6
For an exhaustive analysis of the references to Jesus in the Talmud, see Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Rabbinic
Essays (Cincinnatti: HUC Press, 1951; reprinted by Ktav, 1973), pp. 473-570. 7
See Numbers chapters 22-25.
8
See Lauterbach, p. 509.
9
See Dilling (1983), p. 14; Duke (1998), p. 244-245; Hoffman (2000), p. 48. "
and continues
"III. Conclusion
It is impossible in this context to deal with all of the quotes from Jewish literature cited
by anti-Semites in their effort to denigrate Judaism and spread their own vile views. The
above examples characterize how anti-Semites are able to mangle and distort rabbinic
and Talmudic passages. Nearly every other explanation of passages cited by anti-Talmud
polemicists contain similar ignorance, distortion or tendentious interpretation.
A more important point needs to be made on role of the Talmud in Judaism in general.
The Talmud is more than simply a legal code; it is a twenty-volume compilation of
explorations of Jewish history, philosophy, folklore, and theology, as well as law. Its
final redaction took place in the fifth century, shortly after the fall of Rome. It was
written in a style and within a culture that seem bizarre or alien to contemporary readers.
It does indeed contain statements that many today—Jews and non-Jews—would find
offensive. But many of the comments we would deem offensive are recorded not as
statements of law, but as the suggestions of individual rabbis in their continuing
discussions on the myriad of subjects of interest to the Jews of the first centuries of the
Common Era. Jews today venerate the Talmud as one of the first great Jewish texts, but
it would be wrong to view each statement it contains as expressing the “position” of
contemporary Judaism.
A similar point should be made with respect to the Talmud’s legal sections. These
sections comprise the foundation of Jewish law, and are consulted today as the starting
point for Jewish legal research. But Jewish law has developed significantly—sometimes
radically—in the fifteen centuries since the Talmud was redacted, even for Orthodox
Jews. Anti-Semites use selective quotes from the Talmud in an attempt to portray
contemporary Jews as bigoted, hateful, and conspiratorial, but to anyone who understands
the role of the Talmud in contemporary Judaism, their efforts are disingenuous and belie
an agenda far removed from genuine historical or ecumenical research. The relevance of
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the literal Talmudic texts to Jewish practice today is far smaller than anti-Semites would
have us believe.
To truly understand contemporary Judaism, one need only consult with a rabbi or scholar,
or go to a bookstore or library to peruse any introduction to Judaism. The Talmud itself
is available in two English translations. One is the Soncino edition, which was gradually
produced by a team of scholars between 1934 and the early 1960s. The other is the
Artscroll edition, a contemporary project that is not yet complete.10 For those who
actually consult the Talmud, it is well to remember that it is a historical document rather
than a modern code. "
and lastly says
"IV. Works Cited
Bleich, David J. Contemporary Halakhic Problems vol. 2 (New York: Ktav, 1983).
Lauterbach, Jacob Z. Rabbinic Essays (Cincinnati: HUC Press, 1951; reprinted by Ktav,
1973).
Polemics:
Dilling, Elizabeth. The Plot Against Christianity (Lincoln, Nebraska: The Elizabeth
Dilling Foundation, 1964). Revised and reprinted as The Jewish Religion: Its Influence
Today (Torrance, CA: The Noontide Press, 1983).
Duke, David. My Awakening (Covington, LA: Free Speech Press, 1998).
Hoffman, Michael A. II. Judaism’s Strange Gods (Coer d’Alene, Idaho: The
Independent History and Research Co., 2000).
Shahak, Israel. Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years
(Boulder, Colorado: Pluto Press, 1994).
10 Those with no knowledge of Hebrew and Aramaic may prefer the Soncino edition; although its English
is sometimes stilted, it takes care to include few Hebrew or Aramaic technical terms in the translation itself
(a difficult task for the legal sections). The Artscroll edition contains a more modern translation, but
assumes that its reader is somewhat comfortable with these two ancient languages. "
The article "The Talmud in Anti-Semitic Polemics" can be found here,
https://web.archive.org/web/20100805220714/http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/the_talmud.pdf
And again, the article on the website angelfire.com/mt/talmud Titled
"Talmud: The Real Truth About the Talmud" is also good, links to many other Articles that refute lies against the Talmud, Anti-Semites & Anti-Israel people are such
Losers,Liars & Troublemakers
It's Just Terrible, how in 2019, The Whole World Unjustly Hates the State of Israel with a Passion, while Israel gives so much to the World,
Terrible how in 2019, Jewish Israelis live in Constant Fear, Every Single Day, 24/7
Jewish Israelis live in Constant Fear & Anxiety, constant Fear of Arab & Islamic Terrorism, even in their own Houses, Homes & Apartments Jewish Israelis live in Constant Fear of Arab Terrorism, Even in their own Homes Jewish Israelis, Jewish Israeli Civilians live in constant Fear of Arab Terrorism, at times in the past Jewish Israelis have been murdered in cold blood in their own Homes & Apartments by Arab Terrorists, even in their own homes Jewish Israelis are Targets of Arab Terrorism, Every Day in Israel is a Possible 9/11, Very Sad
From the website jns.org an article is titled
"Boris Johnson, Britain’s newest leader, once described himself as a ‘passionate Zionist’" the article says
On a visit to Israel in 2015, he praised the country for the “audacity, the bravery, the willingness to take risks with feats of outrageous derring-do.”
BY YOSSI LEMPKOWICZ
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London in 2017. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London in 2017. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
the article says -
(July 23, 2019 / EJP) LONDON—In August 2014, Boris Johnson, who was then mayor of London, described himself as a “passionate Zionist” and declared Israel as a “great country.”
Speaking on LBC radio, Johnson, who on Tuesday won the race to lead Britain’s governing Conservative Party and to become the country’s next prime minister, said: “I am a passionate Zionist. I am a supporter of Israel. I believe in its existence. I’ve been on a kibbutz for heaven’s sake.”
In 2015, on a visit to Israel, he praised the country for “the audacity, the bravery, the willingness to take risks with feats of outrageous derring-do.”
Speaking in the House of Commons on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Johnson said in 2015: “A century after those words were written, I believe that the Balfour Declaration paved the way for the birth of a great nation. The State of Israel has prevailed over every obstacle, from the harshness of nature to the visceral hostility of its enemies, to become a free society with a thriving and innovative economy and the same essential values that we in Britain hold dear.”
His strong pro-Israel comments led to part of his visit to Ramallah to be cut short. In 2015, Johnson had been expected to meet with a Palestinian youth group, which cancelled its invitation after his comments on the BDS movement. He repeatedly criticized calls for a boycott of Israeli goods, describing the campaign as “completely crazy” and promoted by a “few lefty academics” in corduroy jackets pursuing a cause.
The victory is a triumph for the 55-year-old Johnson, an ambitious but erratic politician whose political career has veered between periods in high office and spells on the sidelines.
However, as foreign minister, Johnson has been critical of Israel’s military action in Gaza. In 2014, he described “Operation Protective Edge” against Hamas as being “disproportionate.”
He said then: “Israel has a right to respond. Israel has a right to defend itself. Israel has a right to meet force with force. I absolutely agree with that, but all I was saying is I believe in Israel. I support Israel. I will always support Israel. I just joined with those who say ‘I want the Israeli response to be proportionate.’ ”
Johnson supports the British government and the European Union’s long-standing policy of a ‘’two states for two peoples’ solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Regarding Iran, Johnson has emphasized that the United Kingdom believes that the 2015 nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed by world powers with Tehran is the best vehicle to deal with Iran’s regional activities, regretting the U.S. withdrawal from the deal in May 2018.
But he recently told the London Jewish News that he was prepared to restart sanctions on Iran and, as prime minister, he would do everything in his power to “constrain Iran’s conflicdisruptive behaviour in the region.” Johnson also said the Western allies should focus on diplomacy to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon.
He will be installed as prime minister in a formal handover from Theresa May on Wednesday.
The victory is a triumph for the 55-year-old Johnson, an ambitious but erratic politician whose political career has veered between periods in high office and spells on the sidelines.
He has vowed that Britain will quit the European Union on the scheduled date of Oct. 31, even if it means leaving without a divorce deal."
A good book people can order from Amazon.com or from Bookstores is the book titled
"The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the
Middle East" by Mitchell Bard, published in 2010 , 436 pages
From Amazon.com it says
"
From Publishers Weekly
Bard, the head of nonprofit advocacy group American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, takes a historical look at the relationship between the United States and the lobbying efforts of Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. Bard examines these relations over time and argues that many of the political actions taken by the U.S. have been aimed at appeasing this lobby; even decisions surrounding the establishment of Palestine, he suggests, were influenced by lobbyist complaints. To Bard, there's no mistaking the main motivation behind U.S. interest in Arab lands, and as far back as the mid '30s, the U.S. recognized the strategic importance of Arabian peninsula oil. Bard examines the lobby's beginnings, going back to 1917 when England's call for a Jewish homeland in Palestine sparked opposition, to their current "brainwashing" of children ("American taxpayers... subsidize... K-12 education materials on the Middle East that have been created under Saudi auspices") to the "conspiracy theory" woven by the authors of The Israeli Lobby. A subject this intrinsic to U.S. foreign policy deserves a more rigorous examination than what Bard can undertake, given his position of advocacy.
From the Back Cover
The so-called Israel lobby has been widely denounced and demonized in the global media, but as Mitchell Bard reveals, its power pales in comparison to the decades-long corruption of American interests by Arab governments. Indeed, for more than seventy years, U.S. policy in the Middle East has been shaped not by the power of a nefarious “Israel lobby” but by a misguided emphasis on pleasing and placating the Arab states. This outlook has ensured that the United States pays disproportionate attention to their demands, assisting Arab countries—all of them dictatorial regimes with abysmal human rights records—that do not share our values and often work to subvert our interests.
In this authoritative history, Bard provides a timely and valuable corrective to the unbalanced view of Middle East affairs that is so widely promoted today. Bard shows that the Arab Lobby’s goals include feeding America’s oil addiction, obtaining more sophisticated weaponry, and weakening our alliance with a democratic Israel. It also seeks to influence public opinion through a well-funded publicity campaign and by injecting distorted views of the Middle East into high school and college textbooks. Bard’s valuable book brings a much-needed balance to a debate fraught with ignorance and propaganda.
The Amazon.com description of "The Arab Lobby" book by Mitchell Bard says
"While critics claim that a nefarious Israel Lobby dictates U.S. policy in the Middle East, the Arab Lobby in this country is older, richer, and more powerful than the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The Arab Lobby is the first book in more than 25 years to investigate the scope and activities of this diffuse yet powerful network. Author Mitchell Bard courageously explores the invisible alliance that threatens Israel and undermines America’s interests in the Middle East."
From the website jewishweek.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"‘G.I. Jews’ Fought Bigotry At Home, As Well"
By GARY ROSENBLATT
April 3, 2018, 4:40 pm 1
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Shot of Jewish soldiers from the documentary.
Courtesy of Turquoise Films
Shot of Jewish soldiers from the documentary. Courtesy of Turquoise Films
the article says
"Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of American Jewish participation in the U.S. military during World War II is the number of men and women who served. Historian Elihu Rose estimates that “half of all Jewish men old enough” to serve in the various branches of the military did so. It is believed that more than 550,000 American Jews, including about 10,000 women, were part of the war effort, motivated not only out of patriotism but a commitment to save their fellow Jews overseas from being slaughtered.
“We went to reclaim who we were, and not to forget who we were and where we came from,” said former Army mapmaker Leonard Everett Fisher, who, like most Jews fighting in the war, was a child of immigrants who fled persecution in Europe.
The war effort was a transformative moment in Jewish — and American — history, and the story is told movingly and with great sensitivity in a new 90-minute documentary, “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II,” airing nationally on PBS on April 11 (Channel 13/WNET, 10 p.m.) in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day."
the article continues
"“As a child in Hebrew school in the early 1970s, I saw ‘Night and Fog’ [Alain Resnais’ 1956 French documentary of Auschwitz, with grisly footage], and I was absolutely shocked and disturbed by it,” said Lisa Ades, an Emmy-winning filmmaker who produced and directed the documentary, based on a 2004 book by historian Deborah Dash Moore (“GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation”). “‘Night and Fog’ had a profound effect on me and made me rethink my own Judaism,” said Ades.
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She set out several years ago to tell the story of the American Jewish military experience in World War II. Through the use of extensive footage — including a poignant clip of a religious service conducted by David Max Eichhorn, a rabbinic chaplain, after the liberation of Dachau — and on-camera interviews with more than two dozen Jewish veterans, Ades chronicled the grim challenges faced by Jews who served. The troubles began with boot camp, where they endured harsh anti-Semitism from fellow soldiers, many of whom had never met a Jew. The Jews felt the need to prove they were “true Americans,” and some recounted taking extraordinary risks on the battlefield to show they were not cowards.
shots of Jewish soldiers from the documentary. Courtesy of Turquoise Films
Among those featured are famous figures like Henry Kissinger, Robert Morgenthau, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, whose humor helps lighten the mood. But some of the most powerful remembrances come from “regular” soldiers like Lester Tanner, who recounts how Master Sgt. Roddy Edmonds, a Protestant, risked his own life to save the lives of 200 Jews, fellow prisoners of war in a German POW camp. Edmonds, despite having a gun put to his head by the Nazi commandant, refused an order to single out the Jews among the 1,275 Americans held captive.
“We’re all Jews here,” Edmonds told the Nazi officer. (Years later Edmonds was honored by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Gentile for his bravery.)"
the article lastly says
"Many Jews who served came back from the war with a renewed commitment to fight the kind of racism, bigotry and bias they encountered in the U.S. military and that, most dramatically, led to the Holocaust in Europe. Alan Moskin, an Army infantryman who survived serious wounds on D-Day, traveled the South to promote civil rights, and Sid Shankin, a pilot who dropped bombs on the Germans on Yom Kippur, became a rabbi.
At a full-house screening of the film on March 25 at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, N.Y., Moskin and the former Army mapmaker Leonard Everett Fisher received a standing ovation when they were introduced by Ades. (The screening was part of the annual Westchester AJC-sponsored Jewish Film Festival; The Jewish Week was a co-sponsor.)
The film is especially timely, Ades said. “With the rise of anti-Semitism, racism sentiment in the U.S. and around the world, these stories of the children of Jewish immigrants fighting anti-Semitism at home and abroad resonates profoundly for me — and hopefully, for others when they see it.”
From the website, tabletmag.com an article is titled
"G.I. JEW" and it says
In Israel, the ‘real American hero’ was a different kind of soldier
By Liel Leibovitz
August 18, 2009 • 1:11 PM
The article says-
"This weekend, I’m looking forward to seeing G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. For most, it may be just a silly action flick. But for me, it’s a strange bit of nostalgia, a memento from my childhood days, when cartoons helped make sense of the world around me.
I grew up in Israel, which meant that, as a kid, I idolized soldiers. How could I not? My homeland, after all, gained its independence thanks to the sheer bravery of a few armed men, an army, we were told repeatedly, dedicated to self-defense and deeply beholden to ethical standards.
But I grew up in the 1980s, which meant that the objects of my infatuation shifted, along with popular culture, from the Israel Defense Forces to the crafty commandoes of that most awesome military outfit, G.I. Joe. How could they not? The action figures were the ultimate status symbols for every self-aware 10-year-old out to make a good impression at recess, and the cartoons they inspired were followed and analyzed more closely than most reality-based events.
And although we didn’t know it at the time, there might have been one more element drawing me and my friends to the world of Joe: known stateside as real American heroes, the cartoon characters, dubbed into Hebrew, sounded suspiciously like native sons of the IDF.
Consider this: in 1987, at the peak of the G.I. Joe craze, Hasbro produced a feature-length animated film to promote its miniscule plastic warriors. Far from a towering cinematic achievement, the film relied heavily on a musical credit sequence, which showed Cobra, the evil organization bent on world domination, trying to blow up the Statue of Liberty.
In its original English, the sequence sounded like this. By the time the film made it to Israel, however, the significantly altered theme song instead sounded like this.
Some changes are immediately evident. As the notion of G.I.’s made little sense outside the United States, some international editions of the popular cartoon went by the more universal title Action Force. Similarly, the Israeli theme song presents Joe not as America’s saviors but rather as the world’s top-secret, top-notch counter-terrorism team."
the article continues
"But Joe’s conversion into the particular world of Israeli military lore didn’t end there. Here’s how the theme song, in its Hebrew version, begins:
Action Force fights a just war for mankind
For peace!
There are no equivalent lines in the English version. In America, G.I. Joe is
Fighting for freedom
Wherever there’s trouble
Over land and sea and air
The Hebrew version includes a direct translation of these lines, but they appear much later in the sequence. For us Israelis, the important concepts were always these: a just war, a fight for peace.
It’s hard to overstate the centrality of these ideas, at least in theory, to the IDF’s understanding of itself. Even as children, we could all effortlessly parrot our parents, teachers, and older relatives in reciting what many Israelis still take to be the army’s mantra: we never fight if there’s another way. We adhere to the just war theory, picking our battles carefully. The ultimate goal of conflict is to bring about peace. Israeli Joe expressed these values elegantly and succinctly. The animated soldiers might’ve been named Gung Ho, Hardball, and Backblust, but we saw in them every Ariel, Ehud, and Yitzhak we ever revered. In the American-exported action figures, we saw the best of ourselves.
This verse, however, wasn’t Israeli Joe’s sole departure from the American original. An even more daring feat of cultural conversion occurred regarding that dastardly nemesis, Cobra. Both the American and the Israeli versions present Cobra as an evil terrorist organization trying to take over the world. But whereas the American version begins with a menacing montage of Cobra’s faceless soldiers parachuting over New York (“Armies of the night / Evil taking flight / Cobra! Cobra!”), the Israeli version eliminates nearly every mention of the enemy.
This, again, was art imitating life: in the 1980s, mere mention of the PLO, Israel’s most bitter foe at the time, was considered taboo. Israel’s soldiers, therefore, were brave men who fought against a shadowy rival best left unmentioned, and Israeli children watching G.I. Joe were immersed in a similar reality, a world of concrete heroes and amorphous villains with unclear goals and aspirations.
When Cobra was mentioned, however, the Israeli translators chose a telling adjective to describe the organization. It wasn’t simply an evil terrorist organization: it was nifsha, a Hebrew word connoting criminality that is still reserved, in the national vocabulary, for describing terrorists and other villains posing an existential threat to the Jewish state.
Unsurprisingly, the word has biblical origins. It is first mentioned in the book of Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 19, translated into English as rebellious. “A nifsha [rebellious] brother,” the book tells us, “is deprived of a strong city.”
By describing Cobra not only as evil but as rebellious, the theme song’s translators assigned Destro, the Baroness and their cabal of no-goodniks not only worldly malice but celestial blame. Because they rebelled against justice, and waged war on God’s chosen people, they’re forever doomed. It’s a potent theology for a cartoon, and even more so in real life." Again anyone can look up this article "G.I. JEW"
on the website tabletmag.com by Liel Leibovitz
From the website, blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"
"Do the Jews control Hollywood? No, but…" the article says
No, the Jews don't own the movie biz, but many of the very best flicks have a clear Jewish message
JAN 6, 2017, 10:27 PM
the article states
"This Sunday’s Golden Globes brings us to the heart of the awards season. See the nominees here. So this is as good a time as any to reflect on some of the films that have come out recently. In between funerals, services and brisses, I’ve managed to have seen a number of good ones and feel a need to add one more category to the awards mix, one emphasizing the Jewish content of the film.
I call these the “Jos-car Nominations.” Combines my name with “Oscar.” Get it?
By “Jewish content,” I’m not necessarily pointing to the contribution of particular Members of the Tribe, as stars, producers, directors, writers or, for that matter, gaffers of any given film.
Incidentally, have you noticed just how many gaffers, grips and best boys are Jewish?
Neither have I.
The criteria for a Jos-car nomination is simple: the Jewish aspect of a film can include Jewish subject matter, Jewish values, or Jewish participation. With these criteria, you can find something “Jewish” in almost every film.
Every film? Jewish? This brings to mind the classic anti-Semitic claim that “the Jews own Hollywood.” Of course that is ridiculous, but not for the reason you might think.
If the claim is that Jews are significantly represented at all levels in the production and dissemination of culture, which includes movies, books, music, drama, journalism, dance, the visual arts and the humanities, my response is “guilty as charged.” Jews have been disproportionately involved in these areas for a number of reasons, including the traditional values of inquiry and curiosity (think “Four Questions”), and an age-old preoccupation with social change, justice and engagement with this world (as opposed to a preoccupation with the afterlife). Add to that our unique historical position at the margins of society and our trans-national mobility, which has enabled us to bridge cultures across the world."
the article continues
"The ridiculous part is the use of the world “the” in relation to “Jews,” as if to imply that Jews are a single, coherent, conspiratorial group. If only Jews were united enough to smoothly conspire to run a lemonade stand, much less an entire cultural industrial complex! Anyone who tries to lump all Jews into one unified group clearly doesn’t know Jews. And you know, that’s precisely the problem.
Those who subscribe to grand Jewish conspiracy theories are typically those who have the least familiarity with real live Jews. The ADL’s Global survey of 100 nations discovered that people living in countries with larger Jewish populations are less likely to hold anti-Semitic views than people living in countries with smaller Jewish populations. The same is true of places in America. It’s true with other groups too: familiarity reduces bigotry. In this case, absence makes the heart grow hateful.
But I will say this — proudly. The influence of Jewish values, those principles Jews have long held sacred, has been most profound on the American cultural scene. If you want to see what values I’m talking about, see my Mensch Marks listing, based on the character traits (middot) found in the Talmud (Pirke Avot 6:6)
These values, which are neither exclusively left nor right, but Jewish through and through, include humility, love and freedom and dignity. They clash markedly against the “values” of the “traditional” anti-Semite, who, as defined by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, tends to be xenophobic, anti-intellectual, populist, racist, brutish and, if unchecked, ultimately genocidal.
And here’s the rub — the part that drives anti-Semites absolutely bananas. The influence of popular culture, in the US and throughout most of the world, continues to be far, far more pervasive than that of any government or branch of government. When Chief Justice Roberts (who is decidedly not an anti-Semite) wrote about the “undeniable appeal” of arguments of social fairness and equality in the 2015 same-sex marriage case, he was speaking of the undeniable influence of TV programs like “American Family” and current films like “Loving,” whose impact on the culture continue to be profound."
the article lastly says
"So when anti-Semites say “The Jews control Hollywood,” or “The Jews control the media,” they are really cursing the fact that their agenda can never achieve the ultimate triumph they seek until the instruments of culture are co-opted. And, yes, I can proudly say that Jews are continuing to hold up our end of the bargain, not by owning Hollywood, or by propagating any particular agenda, but by driving haters crazy.
Which brings me to my Jos-car nominations for 2016.
My nominees for “most Jewish film,” in no particular order are:
1) Loving
2) Jackie
3) Denial
4) Arrival
5) Sand Storm (Israel’s best picture winner this year — a Bedouin version of “Gett”)
6) Moana
7) Lion
8) La-la-land
9) Moonlight
10) A Tale of Love and Darkness (Israeli)
I recommend them all — several are top Oscar contenders. I also left out a number of movies that I really liked (e.g. “Fences,”) that just couldn’t make the cut from my subjective Jewish perspective. I’d also have loved to include “Woman in Gold,” and “Gett,” but they aren’t recent enough. But hey, that’s why they make Top Ten Lists — to force some hard choices.
I’ll explain what I found to be “Jewish” about these films as the Oscars approach. In the meantime, I invite you to share which film you think is the best — and the most Jewish — film of 2016. Israeli films like “Sand Storm,” BTW, are now plentiful on Netflix. And I reserve the right to alter this list, whether because I see another film that should be there (haven’t seen “Miss Sloan” or “Hidden Figures” yet) or because you convince me that I left something worthy out.
Enjoy the Golden Globes!"
From the website for the Committee For Accuracy in the Middle East Reporting And Analysis an article is titled
"JAMES ZOGBY’S ARAB VOICES SUPPORT ONE MESSAGE ONLY"
BY: MYRON KAPLAN MARCH 24, 2011
the article says-
"As James Zogby says, what the Arab voices are saying to us certainly matters. However, Zogby’s Arab Voices largely ignores the most ominous Arab (and other Muslim) voices – those of crowds from London to Aden screaming in unison “Jihad, Jihad” and “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”– including those on Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. This book purports to be aimed at clarifying Arab and Muslim attitudes regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, and the War on Terror including the Iraq war. But it ignores the voices of the Arab/Islamic world’s majority proclaiming the erroneous belief that the 9/11 attacks were actually perpetrated by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, not Arab terrorists. Arab Voices is based on approximately twenty Zogby International polls of Arab world respondents mainly about attitudes toward the United States and Israel.
Dr. Zogby, who has a Ph.D. in comparative religions from Temple University, is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), co-founder of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and writes a weekly column appearing in several Arab newspapers. He was born in 1945 in Utica, New York, to Lebanese Maronite (Catholic) immigrant parents. Zogby, seemingly perpetually aggrieved by U.S. Middle East policy (he has long lobbied against what he perceives as the country’s Israel-centric policy) and Israel’s responses to Arab aggression and terrorism, here utilizes opinion polling performed in the Arab world and the United States by Zogby International which is headed up by his brother and colleague, John.
James Zogby’s powers of persuasion have served him well in effectively advocating for his Middle East positions as a member of various important national advisory boards and the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Zogby also has a twice-weekly television program Viewpoint with James Zogby, a live call-in discussion broadcast on the left-wing advocacy TV channel, Link TV (via satellite providers), and throughout the Middle East by Abu Dhabi Television."
the article continues
"But persuasion in this book weakens under scrutiny. The work begins with Zogby recalling, as an Arab-American leader, his angst in 2001 confronting the fact of the horrific September 11 terrorist attacks on America perpetrated by Arabs. He recalls telling American audiences that there was “no, justification, period” for the attacks. “I was angry at the terrorists who had violated the openness and freedom of my country,” wrote Zogby. He was occupied with additional concerns in the wake of 9/11: “I catalogued hundreds of documented hate crimes against Arab Americans, Muslims, and those thought to be Arabs and Muslims … This backlash was profoundly disturbing and quite frightening to Arab Americans.” But Zogby’s assertion deserves to be put into perspective. Official FBI statistics show that for anti-religious hate crimes, anti-Jewish incidents consistently and significantly outnumber anti-Muslim incidents. For example, the FBI Website tabulation of anti-religious hate crimes for 2009 shows that 72 percent of the victims were Jews, only 8 percent were Muslims. Even in 2001, the worst year for anti-Muslim hate crimes, there were still more than twice as many anti-Jewish incidents as anti-Islamic incidents. FBI statistics for anti-religious hate crimes in 2001 show that 56 percent (1,196) of the 2,118 victims were Jews, 26 percent (554) were Muslims.
Themes
Zogby’s themes in the book center around what he perceives as America’s five sometimes contradictory myths about the Arab world: that it’s monolithic; that there is no Arab world; that Arabs are angry (“single-minded focus on attacking America and the West.”); that Islam’s “intolerant religious beliefs” dominates the world view of Muslims (he blames this myth largely on “pro-Israel advocates.”) (page 97); and that Arabs fear modernization and progress."
the article continues
"Zogby tries to discredit these alleged myths through use of polling results, anecdotal incidents and statements of opinion. For example, to disprove the notion that there exists a “single-minded focus on attacking America and the West,” he resorts to an anecdote aimed at softening the image of Islamic fundamentalists. On page 81, he writes that while visiting a Tunisian friend and debating his college-age nephews, who are members of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, the “idealist” nephews “were looking over my shoulder at the television in the next room. While arguing (about politics, morality, and the U.S.) with me, they were also trying to watch a bawdy Italian game show.” But this anecdote proves nothing except that Zogby believes he can use it to persuade some Americans to believe that the Muslim Brothers might just be regular guys.
These five myths, according to Zogby, have led to a harmful fear of Arabs reinforced by negative portrayals in American TV and movies. The myths have also led, Zogby argues (page 47), to a U.S. “penchant for ignoring Arab concern.” But here, he ignores significant evidence to the contrary, such as the fact that due largely to Arab pressure, the United States refuses to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital city of Jerusalem. Among all of the U.S. embassies throughout the world, this is the only instance in which the U.S. government locates its embassy in other than a capital city.
Opinion Polling
Arab Voices cites approximately 20 polls carried out by Zogby International, which is headed up by James’ brother and colleague, John. Most of the polling took place during either November 1-18, 2009 or April 21-May 11, 2009. Zogby concludes from the polling results that while it’s true “that many in the Arab world admire aspects of American life, U.S. policy in the region has increasingly undermined Arab attitudes toward America as a global model.” Zogby stresses in several places in the book, the paramount concerns that the Arab world has for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but th
e Zogby polls reproduced in Arab Voices show a mixed picture. For example, the Palestinian issue (page 78) is no more important than the Iraqi issue and in a ranking of issues by importance (page 114) – the Palestinian issue rates only 7th for Moroccan respondents, only 6th for Egyptians, 3rd for Lebanese, 3rd for Saudi Arabians and 2nd for respondents in the United Arab Emirates. Not surprisingly, the issue ranks first in Jordan where Palestinians constitute a majority of the population. While silent about considerable, well-known Arab – particularly Saudi – fear of Iran (as evidenced in the recent WikiLeaks documents), Zogby asserts that “the (Israeli-Palestinian) conflict also gives Iran influence in the Arab world.”
the article continues
"While conceding that “… much of it [Arab world] [is] backward in its dependence on conspiracy theories,” Zogby ignores polling showing that a majority in the Arab and Muslim world has for several years proclaimed 9/11 conspiracy theories claiming that the terrorist acts were secretly perpetrated by the U.S. government, CIA and Israel’s Mossad. The supposed purpose of this conspiracy and mass murder was to inculcate anti-Muslim hate in order to provide a pretext for attacking innocent Muslim countries. According to an authoritative study authored by Matthew A. Gentzkow & Jesse M. Shapiro, entitled “Media, Education and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World” published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives – Volume 18, Number 3 (pages 117–133), in a poll conducted in seven Muslim countries, 78 percent of respondents said that they do not believe the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Arabs. The most popular account, in these countries is that 9/11 was the work of the U.S. or Israeli governments. This belief, inculcated by Arab media, mosques and schools, is met essentially with silence from James Zogby.
Likewise, while mentioning that President Obama “urged the Palestinians to stop violence and verbal incitement against Israel,” Zogby does not elaborate about the voices in the Arab media and mosques urging violence against Israelis (for examples see here, here and here).
Different Christian Arab Perceptions
Other Christian Arab Americans hold views opposite to those of Zogby, for example, Brigitte Gabriel, who, like Zogby, is an American Arab of Lebanese Maronite Christian descent. Ms. Gabriel, an anti-terrorist activist, author of a book on the New York Times best seller list, President of the American Congress for Truth (ACT), was raised in Lebanon and immigrated to the U.S. in 1989. Ms. Gabriel spoke publicly in 2004:
I was raised in Lebanon where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea. When the Muslims and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started massacring the Christians city after city… It was Israel that came to help the Christians in Lebanon. My mother was wounded by a Muslim’s shell and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Muslims, Palestinians, Christian Lebanese and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injury. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn’t see religion. They didn’t see political affiliation. They saw people in need and they helped. (Duke University speech on October 14, 2004)."
the article lastly says
"Other Arab Americans who hold views dissimilar to Zogby’s include Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian-American human rights activist, and founder of Arabs For Israel.
Zogby’s anti-Israel bent is clearly seen in his Christmas day 2010 Huffington Post Website blog. Reflecting on the themes of the Christmas story, he claims: “Two thousand years ago, Palestine was subject to a harsh occupation, much as it is today.” Of course, it was not “Palestine” that Rome occupied harshly, it was Judea, renamed “Palestine” in echo of the long vanished, non-Arab Philistines by the Romans after the Jews’ bloody revolt. But this sort of anti-Israel manipulation is not unexpected during the Christmas season. Zogby, as a Christian, presumably is aware from his knowledge of the New Testament that the area at that time was called Judea. But Zogby evidently has bigger fish to fry. On Christmas themes, he seems unconcerned that since the Palestinian Authority took over civil control of West Bank cities such as Bethlehem, much of the Christian Arab population has fled due to Muslim persecution.
On the American Media
On page 209, Zogby praises and condemns various aspects of the American news media. It’s hard to argue with his observation that “major U.S. networks provide just a half hour of nightly news, with much of this domestically focused and too much of it soft human-interest stories. The three cable news networks in the United States (CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC) have become overly self-absorbed and partisan even when they cover global issues.”
But furthering his anti-Israel agenda, Zogby praises (on page 209) various reporters and media entities he considers to be “bright lights in the U.S. media,” especially Christiane Amanpour, extolling her CNN documentary “Generation Islam” (August 2009) as an “extraordinary series” (first hour on Afghanistan, second on Gaza). CAMERA exposed Amanpour’s report as manipulative, falsely implying that “[T]he bad guys were not the Islamists who rule Gaza, teaching hatred of Christians and Jews, and attacking Israeli civilians with suicide bombers and thousands of rockets. Instead, Amanpour’s bad guys were the Jews of Israel, for supposedly oppressing the Palestinians, and she offered not a single mention of the hate indo
ctrination that Hamas specializes in.”
James Zogby’s Arab Voices, a smooth but shallow apology for some unsettling views widespread in the Arab/Islamic world, is of little value to those seeking genuine understanding of the subject matter.
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Again It's Important to stress this Article, from the website,
www.jewishpress.com
"Arab Historian Admits there is No Palestinian People"
By
Judith Bergman -
– December 19, 2018
The Founding of Tel Aviv
{Originally posted to the MIDA website}
the article says
"One of the biggest, most stubborn and costliest untruths of our time is the notion that the jihad waged by Arabs in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Gaza against Jews in Israel is a national struggle of an indigenous people for independence.
No matter the facts, the lie persists to the tune of billions of dollars in international aid and political prestige, which makes it increasingly difficult for anyone involved to admit that the whole thing is nothing more than a propaganda stunt.
Unlike the fairy tale of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, everyone pretends to be blind and deaf when it is pointed out that the emperor is naked. In fact, if the emperor himself were to stand up and yell, ‘I am naked folks, go home!’ the crowd would go on complimenting his non-existent garments.
Last week the naked emperor did just that:
“Before the Balfour Promise, when the Ottoman rule [1517-1917] ended, Palestine’s political borders as we know them today did not exist, and there was nothing called a Palestinian people with a political identity as we know today”, historian Abd Al-Ghani admitted on official PA TV on November 1.
“Since Palestine’s lines of administrative division stretched from east to west and included Jordan and southern Lebanon, and like all peoples of the region [the Palestinians] were liberated from the Turkish rule and immediately moved to colonial rule, without forming a Palestinian people’s political identity.”
In 1917, says this Arab historian on official PA TV, there was no such thing as a Palestinian people. This statement amounts to saying that the whole narrative of an ‘indigenous Palestinian people’ was made up at a later point in time.
As Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad speaking on Al-Hekma TV said in March 2012: “Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians…”
There is a reason, why the “Palestinian National Museum” is empty of historical artifacts."
the article continues
"The Arab historian’s admission corroborates the observations of 19th century travelers to the region, who notably had no specific political agenda when they visited, unlike so many visitors to Israel today:
”Outside the gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound”, wrote French poet Alphonse de Lamartine about his visit in 1835.
”The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.” wrote British Consul James Finn in his 1857 description of the Holy Land.
”Palestine sits in a sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that withered its fields and fettered its energies. …Palestine is desolate and unlovely….It is a hopeless dreary, heartbroken land.” wrote American author Mark Twain in his description of his visit in 1867.
Nevertheless, the Arab propaganda machine gets away with publishing fantastic falsehoods, such as this one on the Palestinian Authority’s tourism website: “With a history that envelops more than one million years, Palestine has played an important role in human civilization. The crucible of prehistoric cultures, it is where settled society, the alphabet, religion, and literature developed, and would become a meeting place for diverse cultures and ideas that shaped the world we know today”.
The international community not only approves of these falsehoods, it happily pays for them.
Historian Abd Al-Ghani’s declaration on PA TV was a historic, highly newsworthy admission that ought to have made the headlines everywhere, considering the importance the issue is given by political leaders, diplomats, the media and other establishment figures all over the world.
After all, if the Arabs themselves admit that the ‘Palestinian people’ is an invented entity, should not the consequence be that the countless UN projects, billions of dollars in international aid, and the endless campaigns against Israel cease and be used for more noble purposes?
The answer is yes, but no one is paying attention.
We live in a post-factual world. Facts no longer have any currency, unlike feelings and ideological posturing. The truth has been reduced to a troublesome inconvenience and if it happens to stare you in the face, nothing could be easier than closing your eyes or simply looking away."
Also from the website www.jewishpress.com an article is titled
"Sderot Residents Say They Hear Sounds of Hammers and Tools Underground"
By
Hana Levi Julian -
– December 19, 2018
Photo Credit: IDF Spokesperson / Flash 90
View of a tunnel detected by the IDF meant for attacking Israel reaching from the southern part of the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.
the article says
"Residents in the southern Israeli city of Sderot say they’re hearing the sounds of hammers and other tools, “apparently from Hamas tunnels being dug,” according to a local source.
The Israel Defense Force responded immediately — Tuesday evening — to the concerns expressed by the residents, said the source.
Military personnel said “the matter will be evaluated and a technological team will be sent to the site.”
Israeli residents living in communities along the Gaza border have for years reported hearing digging noises beneath their homes, and vibrations that caused their homes and floors to tremble.
For a long time, the IDF attempted to verify the complaints but failed and said there were no tunnels below — until such time that the technology advanced to the point that new equipment was indeed able to identify Hamas terrorist attack tunnels reaching into Israeli territory from Gaza.
The Gaza Division of the Israel Defense Force’s special unit is dedicated specifically to the detection, mapping and destruction of terrorist tunnels.
Within that division, a unique technological laboratory was established in 2016 that uses innovative ground research to scan the earth, its orifices and dynamics, to probe its secrets and determine where terrorists are tunneling below.
In the past two years the IDF has improved its ability to detect and destroy Hamas terror tunnels. Its advanced technologies are continuing to improve, military personnel add."
From the website jta.org an article is titled
"Hamas and ISIS hate Israel — and each other""
By Marcy Oster August 30, 2019 2:16 pm
the article says
"JERUSALEM (JTA) — Explosions earlier this week at two Hamas police checkpoints in Gaza City left three policemen dead. But it wasn’t Israel that planted the explosives, as many might have suspected. Hamas says it was Islamic State suicide bombers.
A day after the deadly attacks, Hamas began mass arrests of supporters of Islamic State and other Salafist organizations in the Gaza Strip.
It’s not the first time that Hamas and members of the Islamic State, or ISIS, have clashed in recent years.
Israel and the United States consider both Hamas and ISIS to be terrorist organizations. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at the United Nations in 2014, “Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas.”
So why do the two Islamist groups consider each other enemies? Here’s a primer:
Islamist philosophies, different goals
The short answer is that Hamas, which is considered a part of the Muslim Brotherhood, is a national liberation movement, albeit with an Islamist bent, intent on forming an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
ISIS, which stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, belongs to the Salafist branch within Islam that wants to re-create the Islamic caliphate and impose Sharia law throughout the region. ISIS views Hamas and its supporters as “apostates.”
That is, in part, because Hamas participated in Palestinian democratic elections in the West Bank and Gaza, and worked to improve relations with Egypt, with which ISIS has been at war since at least 2013.
In January 2018, a video filmed by the Sinai branch of the Islamic State and released by ISIS called for attacks on Hamas members and institutions, and accused Hamas of betraying the Palestinians by imprisoning ISIS fighters and other extremists in Gaza, by not stopping the United States from recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and by accepting support from Iran. The video led many to say that ISIS was “declaring war” on Hamas, upping the enmity that had already been in place for many years.
The end of the video showed an Islamic State member originally from Gaza shooting execution-style a man who had been caught smuggling arms to Hamas"
the article continues
"The Sinai connection
The Islamic State’s branch in Sinai, the sparsely inhabited Egyptian desert region on Israel and Gaza’s southern borders, is considered one of the most effective local branches of ISIS and is the one that comes most into contact with Hamas next door in the Gaza Strip.
Among its achievements are shooting down a Russian jetliner in 2015, killing 224 people, and an attack on a Sufi mosque in the northern Sinai in November 2017, killing 311 in Egypt’s worst terrorist attack.
The enemy of my enemy …
It would appear that Israel and Hamas have a common enemy in the Islamic State.
As recently as 2017, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for firing long-range rockets at southern Israel.
In February 2018, The New York Times reported that over the course of two years, the Israeli military had carried out more than 100 airstrikes in Egypt’s northern Sinai against jihadist groups allied with the Islamic State with the approval of then-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt.
Israel’s intervention in Sinai helped the Egyptian military take a decisive lead in its years-long battle against the jihadists, while for Israel it brought more security to its borders. The article called Israel and Egypt “secret allies in a covert war against a common foe.”
… is hardly my friend
In 2014, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs published an article titled “Similarities between Hamas and ISIS.”
It said both terrorist organizations view jihad and suicide attacks as primary tools; persecute and oppress non-Muslim minorities; execute people who are suspected of supporting their opponents; plan to establish a state ruled by Muslim law; have seized territory by force; educate children to sanctify death and to die as martyrs in jihad; and strive to commit “genocide” against their opponents.
So much for “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Hamas regularly lobs missiles into Israel, and Israel has launched military operations and imposed economic sanctions on Hamas-run territory for years. Yet both sides often need each other, in part to keep matters from getting even worse.
“Destroying Hamas,” wrote Aaron David Miller, the veteran Middle East analyst at the Woodrow Wilson Center, “would create a vacuum that could be filled by even more dangerous jihadist groups, including affiliates of the Islamic State."
From the Associated Press website, www.apnews.com an article is titled
"Israel, Hezbollah engage in brief, intense fighting"
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE on August 31, 2019
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the article says
"JERUSALEM (AP) — Hezbollah militants on Sunday fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, prompting a reprisal of heavy Israeli artillery fire in a rare burst of fighting between the bitter enemies.
Although the shooting quickly subsided without casualties on either side, the situation remained volatile. The bitter enemies, which fought a monthlong war in 2006, have indicated they do not want to go to war but appeared on a collision course in recent days after a pair of Israeli strikes against Hezbollah. The militant group vowed it would retaliate.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri held telephone calls with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as an adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron urging the international community to calm the situation. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said it was in contact with all sides and urged restraint.
U.N. spokesman Andrea Tenenti said later that “calm has returned in the area” and the U.N. peacekeeping force is maintaining its presence on the ground together with the Lebanese army.
By nightfall, the fighting appeared to have halted. But Israeli officials said troops remained on high alert.
“We are consulting about the next steps,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “I have ordered that we be prepared for any scenario. We will decide on the next steps pending developments.”
Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Naim Kassem, said Sunday night that the group was committed to retaliating whenever it comes under attack. “Hezbollah wants to preserve deterrence and the rules of engagement in order to prevent something worse from happening,” he said.
Israel considers Iran to be its greatest enemy, and Iran-backed Hezbollah to be its most immediate military threat. Hezbollah has a battle-tested army that has been fighting alongside the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria’s civil war, and it is believed to possess an arsenal of some 130,000 missiles and rockets."
the article continues
"Throughout the Syrian war, Israel has acknowledged carrying out scores of airstrikes in Syria aimed at preventing alleged Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah. But in recent weeks, Israel is believed to have widened its campaign and struck Iranian or Hezbollah targets in Iraq and Lebanon as well.
Last weekend, Israeli warplanes thwarted what Israel said was an attempt by Iran to launch a squad of attack drones based in Syria. Two Hezbollah operatives were killed in the strike, and Hezbollah has sworn it will not let the killings go without a reply.
Hezbollah also promised to respond to what it says was an Israeli drone strike in Beirut last week. Israeli media have said the strike destroyed a “planetary mixer,” a sophisticated piece of equipment needed to manufacture guided missiles.
“The Islamic Resistance carried out the secretary general’s promise to retaliate for the two aggressions,” Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV presenter said Sunday, referring to the recent Israeli strikes.
The Israeli army believes that Iran and Hezbollah are racing to establish missile-production factories in Lebanon — a claim that Hezbollah denies.
In Sunday’s fighting, Israel said Hezbollah fired two or three anti-tank missiles at an Israeli military base along the border. The army said the base, as well as a military ambulance, suffered damage.
The military said it responded with about 100 artillery shells, as well as helicopter fire, toward the areas from where the missiles had been launched.
Israel has bolstered its forces along the Lebanese border, and Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman, said Sunday’s fighting was one of the “scenarios” Israel had anticipated. He said that while the current round of fighting appeared to be over, the deeper “strategic” situation remained the same and that forces remained on high alert.
In Lebanon, the Israeli shelling was concentrated on areas close to the border near the villages of Maroun el-Ras and Yaroun, triggering some fires.
Hezbollah said the unit that carried out the attack on Israel was named after two operatives who were killed in the Israeli airstrike on Syria on Aug. 24.
Earlier Sunday, the Lebanese army had claimed an Israeli drone violated the country’s airspace and dropped flammable material on fields, triggering a fire that was extinguished shortly afterward by residents.
Israel and Hezbollah fought a bruising, monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a stalemate. Despite their deep hostility, they have largely refrained from direct fighting for the past 13 years.
In January 2015, Israel launched an airstrike against a Hezbollah convoy in the Syrian Golan Heights, killing at least six militants and an Iranian general. Later that month Hezbollah retaliated by firing anti-tank missiles at an Israeli military convoy, killing two Israeli soldiers.
Over the past year, Israel uncovered and destroyed what it said was a network of cross-border Hezbollah attack tunnels.
During Sunday’s fighting, the military encouraged residents near the northern border with Lebanon to stay indoors and ordered public bomb shelters to open. By late Sunday, it lifted most restrictions, saying only that farmers should stay away from the immediate border area."
Mroue reported from Beirut. AP correspondent Ilan Ben Zion contributed reporting from Jerusalem. Terrible, More Arab Aggression towards Israel, I hope there can be Peace, but as usual Israel is the Victim of Arab Aggression and Israel is just legally defending itself , like any other nation would , I am NOT saying that
"Israel can do no Wrong" I'm not saying that, Israel isn't perfect, but Israel is FAR SUPERIOR & MORALLY SUPERIOR to it's Enemies,
From the website for Intercessors for Israel, www.ifi.org.il an article is titled
"Jacob's Trouble - Past or Future" the article says
"A Watchmen from Jerusalem Teaching
This study was written by Chuck and Karen Cohen, authors of the quarterly Watchmen from Jerusalem, a biblical perspective on the news, to help believers pray with understanding, primarily for God's goals surrounding Israel. Chuck is one of the directors and a board member of Intercessors for Israel, an indigenous Israeli prayer ministry.
Jacob's Trouble – the question
Why should believers pray for and help Jewish people in the nations to make aliyah – to return to the land of Israel – if two-thirds of them are going to get slaughtered there in Jacob's trouble (Jer. 30:7)?
There is a current teaching in many churches and ministries that God is gathering His people back to the land and then will allow a second Holocaust – some say it will even be worse than the first – to befall them. The basis of this teaching is the belief that once the Church is raptured, then a seven year tribulation period begins (the "pre-trib rapture" teaching). At the start of this seven year period, the Anti-Christ is revealed. He signs a peace treaty with Israel, even allowing them to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. Then in the middle of this period, after three and a-half years, he breaks his treaty with Israel and starts a war against them, in which two-thirds of them die. According to this teaching, this time period is referenced in Scripture as 'Jacob's trouble', a term found only in Jeremiah 30:7.
Why does God allow this? It is being taught that even after He brings His people home, they remain stubborn and stiff-necked, refuse to repent, or bow the knee to Jesus as their Savior. After, presumably, millions die, whoever remains alive finally accepts Christ and becomes a Christian. At the same time, the raptured Church is in heaven enjoying the marriage supper of the Lamb as the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. While there are many variations on the details of this teaching, this reflects the basic outline.
At Intercessors for Israel, we have often been asked why we pray for Jews to return to Israel if this is what the future holds for them. We can and do pray for them to return, for this teaching lines up with neither God's Word nor His nature.
We agree with the Apostle Paul that all of us know in part, and we prophesy in part (1 Cor. 13:9), and we see in a mirror dimly, not seeing the whole picture as clearly as we would like (1 Cor. 13:12). When God's Word prophesies, we see it clearly only after it comes to pass, and then we can say with the Apostle Peter, this is that which was spoken by the prophet (Acts 2:16). Based on that pattern, we can see that Jacob's trouble and the two-thirds cut off have already happened."
the article continues
"Jacob's trouble and the two-thirds cut off: context, context, context
When interpreting prophecy it is most important to look at the context of the verse or section before deciding what it means. Second in importance is to interpret the prophecy literally. Messiah Yeshua used the prophetic word literally – and we trust that He knows better than anyone else how His Word is to be handled. Yet there are prophetic revelations of a non-literal nature, and we will look at this later on.
There are two verses most often used to 'prove' that just before the Lord returns another holocaust awaits the children of Israel. While there are other verses, these two are the main sources feeding this particular teaching stream. As we will see, both of them have already been literally fulfilled.
Jeremiah, in chapters 30 to 33, speaks of the last days of this world system. At least nineteen times in these four chapters God either says or indicates He will bring Israel back to its land, bringing Jacob's descendants out of captivity/exile and settling them in their God-appointed homeland. The proof that this restoration occurs in the last days is found in the final verse of Jeremiah 30: The fierce anger of YHWH shall not return until He has done it, and until He has fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In the latter days [lit. in Hebrew = 'the last days'] you shall understand it. (Jeremiah 30:24)
As already mentioned, Jeremiah 30:7 is the only place in Scripture where the phrase Jacob's trouble appears. Here it is in context, And these are the Words that YHWH spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus says YHWH, We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see whether a man is giving birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. (Jeremiah 30:4-7)"
the article continues
"Chapter 30 continues, identifying the overall timeframe for this to occur: For it shall be in that day [the time of Jacob's trouble], says YHWH of Hosts that I will break his yoke from your neck and will burst your bonds. And strangers [gentiles] shall no longer enslave him, but they shall serve YHWH their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. And you, My servant Jacob, do not fear, says YHWH. Do not be terrified, O Israel. For behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. (Jer. 30:8-10)
Often in biblical prophecy, there is a partial fulfillment while we wait for the final fulfillment. The overriding evidence of end-time prophecy is that Israel as a nation returns to the land in unbelief and then, in the land, God reveals Messiah Yeshua to them. So the scripture above talking about Israel serving God and David – most likely David's greater Son, Yeshua – are still to come to pass, although the growth of the Israeli Messianic Body since 1967 is nothing short of miraculous.
According to those verses in Jeremiah, Jacob's trouble occurs before Israel comes back to the land and before Israel becomes an independent nation again. Israel became a nation again in 1948. Did anything occur to Jacob's descendants before 1948 that could qualify as Jacob’s trouble? While some believe that the whole 1,900 year exile can be seen as Jacob's trouble – and there can be a good argument made for this – still the event that seems to be the climactic fulfillment was the demonically inspired Nazi Holocaust. Jacob's trouble has been fulfilled."
the article continues
"As noted briefly before, there can also be a future fulfillment, based on a spiritual principle of 'now-and-not-yet' that applies to some prophetic passages. That principle, if we are being honest with the text, would indicate that if there was another wave of anti-Semitic hatred leading to the deaths of many Jews, it would happen in exile. Jews who refuse to return to Zion are – and will continue to be – in much more danger than those Jews who have come home.
This is being written at the end of the summer of 2015. Here is a question to the Jews still in exile, of which most are in North America and Europe. Do you really trust Obama, Merkel, Cameron, et al, to have your back? Thank God that PM Stephen Harper of Canada is a blessed exception among leaders! But the exception proves the rule. Should the Jewish people trust their children and grandchildren to compromising, appeasing politicians, some of whom will not even mention 'Islam' and 'terrorism' in the same breath? Or would it not be much better to have someone like Netanyahu, with all his faults, and the miraculously resurrected Israeli army (Ezek. 37:10) looking out for them and their future in a nation restored by God according to His promises?
The nasty "two-thirds" verse
The second verse often used by those who believe in the teaching under discussion is Zechariah 13:8-9:
And it shall be in all the land, says YHWH, two parts in it shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left in it. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, YHWH is my God.
Zechariah 13:8-9
IFI's annual Intercessors Prayer Conference in January 2015 included a message on Zechariah 12-14 that explained why its middle chapter refers to the period around the Lord's first coming and not to the one for which we are all still waiting. In short, Zechariah 12 ends with all Israel being saved, as they look upon the One whom they have pierced and mourn for Him as if He were their precious only child (12:10). In the Hebrew, the word in the KJV translated upon, should be to/toward as with spiritual sight. After all, if all Israel is saved when they see Yeshua return, then we are saying that gentiles get saved by faith, but Jews get saved by sight. Nowhere in the Bible, and especially not in the New Testament, are we taught this. In fact, Paul is emphatic that the gospel is meant for the Jews as well as the gentiles (Rom. 1:16) and that all are saved by grace through faith – an amazing gift from God (Eph. 2:8).
Then Zechariah 13:1 clarifies how all Israel will be saved, prophesying, In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. This fountain was opened at the Cross, which for Zechariah was still over 400 years in the future. But, if this was not fulfilled when Yeshua died, how have so many Jews been saved over the centuries since then? And if Jews have not been saved, how did gentiles ever hear the gospel? Recall that there were no gentiles at all in the Church until Acts 10. We thank God; this fountain was opened and remains open today.
The other proof that Zechariah 13 has already been fulfilled is found in verse 7: Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My companion, says YHWH of Hosts; strike the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones. "
the article continues
"Compare this to what Yeshua said as He and His disciples went out to the garden of Gethsemane: All of you will be offended because of Me this night. For it is written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad'. (Matt. 26:31; cp. Mark 14:27) So Yeshua Himself said this very verse would be fulfilled even before He went to the Cross.
The very next verse back in Zechariah says, And it shall be in all the land, says YHWH, two parts in it shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left in it. (Zech. 13:8) Did anything like this happen in the same general time period that this chapter is referring to? Remember, Yeshua wept over Jerusalem because He knew what was soon to come. And as He drew near, He beheld the city and wept over it, saying, 'If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours, the things for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come on you that your enemies will raise up a rampart to you, will surround you, and will keep you in on every side. And they will tear you down, and your children within you, and will not leave a stone on a stone because you did not know the time of your visitation'. (Luke 19:41-44)
The Trumpet Sounds website has this: "… in the tragic massacres at the hands of the Romans in AD 70 and 132, the total population of Jews declined from 4.5 million to 1.5 million. Indeed, this prophecy was fulfilled exactly as Zechariah had foretold. Two-thirds of the Jewish people died in this ghastly purge, and one-third was left alive, to be scattered among the nations."
This article goes on to state that many other Christian and even some Jewish writers and historians have said this, listing a few: Matthew Henry, Keil & Delitzsch, John Walvoord, John Wesley and Josephus."
and continues
"Even though Gog and Magog and Armageddon are other end-times events that do not apply to what we are clarifying here, note that in the Gog and Magog battle (Ezek. 38-39), those who come against this land are the ones in trouble with God! And Armageddon can be compared with Zechariah 14, since this appears to be the final battle as the Lord Yeshua comes to set up His Kingdom on earth. In fact, let us look briefly at this.
And His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives
Zechariah 14:1-4 describes the time period just before the Lord Yeshua's return. While these initial verses parallel what is said about the nations coming against Jerusalem in Chapter 12, here the intensity increases until the climax of His glorious return. Chapter 12 is taking place today – diplomatically and in a covert way, and physically as terror attacks increase. Almost all nations are challenging Israel's right to all of Jerusalem. As they go from this diplomatic stance to a more active military stance, actually sending troops to thrust Israel out of the land which God has promised to them, God will provide both divine and human protection (12:4-9). The human, earth-bound protection will be a result of God continuing to use the Israeli army as a mighty fighting machine (Isa. 41:14-16; Jer. 51:20; Ezek. 37:10; Mic. 4:11-13; Zech. 10:3-8, et al). The Hebrew translated 'governors' in 12:5-6 is allufim, which is the modern Hebrew word for 'generals', as in "army generals".
Yet there comes a time when God will allow Jerusalem to be divided again for a short period. For I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women raped. And half of the city shall go into exile, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (14:2) This verse was hard to understand until recently. How do the nations take the city of Jerusalem – yet only take half of it? Does this not describe exactly what the world wants in pressing for the creation of a Palestine with eastern Jerusalem as its capital? And the description of what happens to the Jews who are caught on the wrong side of this international divide is an apt description of what has happened to Jews historically whenever they have been left to the 'mercies' of their enemies – whether of the 'Church' in Europe or of the Muslims in the Middle East."
and continues
"Yet since this apparently triggers the return of Yeshua, it cannot be that this situation lasts for a long period of time. It is definitely not Jacob's trouble nor the two-thirds being cut off. So we suspect that we are much closer to the return of the Lord than many Christians in the West are considering. It seems that Christians in the deceptive comfort of the 'civilized' West are hoping, "Maybe after the children get married and we see our grandchildren – then it would be good for Jesus to return." For Christians now being severely persecuted, He cannot come soon enough.
To God be the Glory
God is bringing His people back, but not because the Jews are smarter, nicer, better looking, or more righteous than any other people group. No, it is to fulfill His promises to the Jews for the exaltation of His Holy name. Anything that leads to that should be the goal of the life and prayers and works of all God's regenerated children. Although these two verses – Jeremiah 30:7 and Zechariah 13:8 have already been fulfilled, they are being misused to caution Christians not to help the Jews return home. Of course the Adversary wants the Jews to remain easily accessible in exile, but God desires them to come home now! He has been sending the fishers for over one hundred and twenty years. He has been sending the hunters for seventy years, and now the time is short indeed (Jer. 16:16).
God’s judgment on Israel – the Exile
In the two Old Testament chapters listing the blessings and curses associated with God's covenant, the final curse/judgment is exile. These two chapters deal with His chosen people, Israel, as a nation, not as individuals, and the ultimate threat is declared to be exile from Israel's promised inheritance – the land – with the people being scattered among the gentiles/nations. Not only would this bring shame to the Jews, who would be forced to live among pagans in darkness, but they would also bring God's name into disrepute – or as He says in Ezekiel 36:20-23, by their exile, they profane His name.
Here are the relevant verses from Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28.
But if you will not listen to Me, and will not do all these commandments; if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul hates My judgments …so that you break My covenant, I will also do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, consumption, and burning fever, consuming the eyes and causing sorrow of heart… You shall perish among the gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. They that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in [exile]. Also they shall pine away with them in the iniquities of their fathers. Yet if they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me…If then [in exile] their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then accept the punishment for their iniquity, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham… And I will remember the land. The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths, while it lays waste without them…Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I hate them, to utterly destroy them and to break My covenant with them, for I am YHWH their God. But for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that I might be their God. I am YHWH.
Leviticus 26:14-16a; 38-45"
and continues
"It shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of YHWH your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, all these curses shall come on and overtake you…You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of YHWH your God. And it shall be, as YHWH rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so YHWH will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. You shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it, and YHWH shall scatter you among all people…There shall you serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known…Among these nations you shall find no ease…but YHWH shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind. Your life shall hang in doubt before you, and you shall fear day and night, and shall have no assurance of your life.
Deuteronomy 28:15, 62-68
As you can see, these verses are a prophetic portrayal of what happened to the Jewish nation after the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 AD, and the total scattering of the nation in 135 AD. This also matches the sense of Jacob's trouble mentioned in Jeremiah. We see that the worst curses/judgments waited for them in exile among the gentiles. The point is simply that for Israel as a nation – the ultimate judgment is exile. So should we expect God to change His method of dealing with Israel in the last days and save the worst, most horrific slaughter yet for when the Jews return home? For I am YHWH, I change not. Therefore, you sons of Jacob are not destroyed. (Mal. 3:6) God's prophetic promises to do better for His people after He has regathered them, is being seen and marveled at in Israel today."
and continues
"Regathering, Blessing and Salvation
Trying to prove an argument from the negative is difficult. So we want to look at a sample of His many promises of doing good to Israel when He returns Jacob from exile in the last days. What we will find is that the sheer number of these declarations far exceeds those few verses that are misused to come up with the 'Jacob's-trouble-is-yet-to-come' teaching.
Isaiah 40-66 contains many specific directives from God to His Church about Israel's end-time restoration. He tells His Body to cooperate with Him in the restoration of Israel to their land and to their Messiah. So even if it could possibly be a 'restoration to destruction', which we reject, the Church would still need to help because it is God's direct command to her. No way out of that one.
Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God. Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of YHWH's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 40:1-2
To whom is God speaking this? To a people who are not the Jews, yet a people who also declare that the God of Israel is their God. The only people in all of history to which this could possibly apply is the true Church. Now why would God ask the Church to comfort Israel if the worst is yet to come?
Fear not; for I am with you. I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth; everyone who is called by My name; for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yes, I have made him.
Isaiah 43:5-7
This was not fulfilled when the Jews returned from just Babylon because at best that return was only from the north and east. Here God is prophesying of a worldwide return – the one which we see today. Jews have been streaming back to this land since the early 1880s from over 100 different nations. Why is this important? Because it has to do with God's glory, His name and reputation. We will see this more clearly when we look at Ezekiel, yet in this chapter of Isaiah, in verse 21, God adds icing to the cake, stating, This people that I formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise. So how could God receive all this glory and praise from those He fulfills His promises to, if He is still going to allow them to be slaughtered for unbelief?"
and continues
"Thus says the Lord YHWH, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the gentiles, and set up My banner to the people; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Isaiah 49:22
In the Tanach, the hand of God is often symbolic of Yeshua who now sits at God's "right hand" in glory (Psa. 110:1; 118:15-16). Who would be the only non-Jews in all of history who would even be looking to the hand of Israel's God? Only the true Church – and they are tasked here with helping to carry the Jews back home. Yet how could this provoke Jews to jealousy (Rom. 11:11), if gentiles were helping them back while saying that destruction awaits most of them? Even now, Jews in the Israeli media are condemning Christianity for such a sick hypocrisy, and they are right to do so, since some Christians who have come here to "help", have shared this teaching with Israelis.
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, making peace heard; who brings good news, making salvation heard; who says to Zion, Your God reigns! Your watchmen shall lift up their voice! They lift up the voice together; they sing aloud, for they shall see eye to eye, when YHWH shall bring again Zion. Break out, sing together, waste places of Jerusalem; for YHWH has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. YHWH has bared His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 52:7-10
The Hebrew word for 'good tidings' and 'good news' is what we use in modern Hebrew for 'gospel', literally the same 'good news' in the Greek of the New Testament. God here speaks to a people who are not Jewish, a people who know the good news of salvation, and tells them to declare to unsaved Zion, Your God reigns! If a believer cannot, in total faith, say this to an unsaved Jew, then exactly in whom does that believer put his trust? The God of Israel is the only God there is. Can it be that many in the Church today actually believe in another Jesus and another gospel because they are infected with another spirit (2 Cor. 11:4; Gal. 1:6-9), one refusing to see Israel as still God's chosen people and the Jews as still beloved for the sake of the forefathers (Rom. 11:28)?
The rest of this Isaiah portion says when Jerusalem's waste places will be restored, God will comfort and redeem His people. And this will result in something else that is often mentioned in prophecy – that the restoration of Israel leads to multitudes of gentiles coming to know Israel's God."
and continues
"Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of YHWH has risen on you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but YHWH shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you. And nations/gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawning. Lift up your eyes all around, and see. All of them gather themselves; they come to you. Your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side. Then you shall fear…and your heart shall throb and swell for joy; because the abundance of the sea shall turn to you, the wealth of the nations/gentiles will come to you…All of them from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall proclaim the praises of YHWH…and I will glorify the house of My glory. Who are these who fly like a cloud, and as doves to their windows? Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of YHWH your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you. The sons of strangers will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I had mercy on you. Therefore your gates will always be open; they will not be shut day nor night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations…For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish. Yes, those nations will be completely wasted.
Isaiah 60:1-12
This prophecy occurs when the darkness, also called gross darkness, covers the earth and its people. Welcome to today's world! To live a lifestyle that God calls abominable is now the 'new righteousness', while all who oppose it are seen as enemies of mankind, enemies of love and peace, even enemies of God – who, as cheap grace tells us, "really just loves us so much, that like, no matter what we do, it like, really doesn't matter." That is, it doesn’t matter unless you insist that the Bible really is God's Word and He actually means what He says; then you will be seen by the world as part of the problem and not the solution. But at the same time, there is a people who see God fulfilling His promises with His chosen nation of Israel. These gentiles help carry the Jews home – even providing finances to do so. Who are they? They are gentiles who proclaim the praises of YHWH and bring the Jews home for the sake of the name of YHWH your God, and for the Holy One of Israel. Again, this can only mean the true Church. While there have been others who are not Christians who have aided the Jewish return, it is the true Church that in both England and Scotland started praying for Jewish return from exile in the 1700s and the true Church that has helped hundreds of thousands of Jews make aliyah since the 1990s. What we are seeing is that which was spoken of by the prophet."
and continues
"Of great weight is the above warning that God lays on the nations/gentiles who dare to interfere with His end-time restoration of His people: For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish. Yes, those nations will be completely wasted.
For Zion's sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation as a burning lamp. And the nations/gentiles will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of YHWH will name. You also will be a crown of glory in the hand of YHWH, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You will no more be called Forsaken; nor will your land any more be called Desolate; but you will be called 'My delight is in her', and your land 'Married'; for YHWH delights in you, and your land is married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so will your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so will your God rejoice over you. I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember YHWH [lit: YHWH's "reminders", from which we get the modern Hebrew for "secretaries"], do not be silent, and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isaiah 62:1-7
God declares His will in this passage. In order for His will to be accomplished, He raises up intercessors, called here 'watchmen', who ask God to do His revealed will. True intercession is God revealing His will to us and then we, by the anointing of His Spirit, persistently ask Him to do it (Luke 18:1). Has He raised up so many to pray for this nation at this time so that the Jews will come back to be massacred? Does that sound like the God you know?
Behold, the storm of YHWH goes forth with fury, an intense storm; it shall break upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of YHWH shall not return until He has done it, until He has fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In the last days you shall understand it. At that time, says YHWH, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people. Thus says YHWH, The people who were left of the sword [Jacob's trouble/the Holocaust of Jer. 30:7) found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to give him rest. YHWH has appeared to me from afar, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel…You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. For there shall be a day that the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to YHWH our God! For thus says YHWH, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations. Cry out, give praise and say, YHWH, save Your people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north and gather them from the far corners of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; a great company shall return there. They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn. Hear the Word of YHWH, O gentiles, and declare it in the coastlands afar off, saying, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep/guard him, as a shepherd keeps his flock.
Jeremiah 30:23-31:10"
and continues
"Recall that there are no chapter divisions in the original Hebrew or Greek texts. So at times a message is divided by man-made chapters – and that is the case here in Jeremiah. When a chapter starts with At that time says YHWH, one needs to look back to find out exactly what time this refers to. It is clear that this passage refers to 'the last days', and also to a time that is after Jacob's Trouble (30:7).
This portion is full of major implications. First, the God of the Tanach, whom many still only see as a God of judgment, anger and war, speaks one of the most loving and gracious messages to be found anywhere in Scripture, and He speaks it to a still unsaved Israel. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. (31:3b) The Hebrew for 'lovingkindness' is chesed, which can be defined as God's stubborn love based on His commitment to His covenant promises, or simply, His covenant-love. His drawing of Israel is because of who He is and not who Israel is – just as He saves us because of who He is and not because of who we are. Thank God for that!
The result of His covenant-love is a restoration of His people to His land. The specific area to which God declares He is settling them – Samaria – is part of the so-called 'occupied territories' today! One would think that God should have known how this would upset the rest of the world and settle His people somewhere else, but then our God has never been known to be 'politically correct'.
The Hebrew word used here for "watchmen" is notzrim, which is the modern Hebrew word for "Christians". Obviously, it did not mean that to Jeremiah, and there is another, more commonly used word for watchmen that could have been used, shomrim. Yet the Holy Spirit, writing through Jeremiah (2 Tim. 3:16), chose this specific word. And since this is a last days prophecy, it is obvious that God is speaking to the Church, directing us to pray for the salvation of the remnant of Israel (31:7).
Here is His answer to that prayer: I will bring them home from exile to Israel (vv. 8-9). Then in verse 10, God specifically states that in these last days, it is here in the land that Israel will be afforded His personal protection. He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep/guard him, as a shepherd keeps his flock. As Derek Prince used to point out, since God has scattered Israel and is now gathering them, why doubt that He Himself will guard them? So where does the 'slaughter-in-the-land-is-still-to-come' teaching fit into this clear picture?"
and continues
"Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath. I will bring them again to this place, and will cause them to dwell safely, and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for the good of their children after them, and I will cut an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good, but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me. Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will truly plant them in this land with all My heart and all My soul. For thus says YHWH: As I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them, and fields shall be bought in this land of which you say, It is a desert without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields for silver, and write it in a book, seal it, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south. For I will cause their captivity to return, says YHWH.
Jeremiah 32:37-44
At times in God's prophetic statements, there is a joining of near and far future, with a long time gap in the prophetic sentence itself. Of course, we can only see this after the fact, but Yeshua interpreted Isaiah 61:1-3 in this way. In a synagogue in Nazareth, He quoted the first part of this prophecy as being fulfilled before the eyes of those who were listening to Him. The Spirit of the Lord YHWH is on Me; because YHWH has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to preach the acceptable year of YHWH… (61:1-2a). Then He stopped in the middle of that sentence and sat down. The rest of that prophecy is being worked out in our day – before our eyes: … and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn [in Zion]; to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, that He might be glorified.
In the previous prophecy from Jeremiah 32, there is a brief mention of the Chaldean conquest of that day, but the final fulfillment is clearly for the days we live in. Again, God states that He will gather the Jews from all nations to which He has scattered them – and not just from Babylon. This is being fulfilled today. Also He says after He gathers them, then they will dwell safely and be saved as a nation – both of which we look forward to seeing before our eyes in the very near future.
Do you realize that verse 41 is the only place in all of God's Word where He says He will do something with all of His heart and all of His soul? And it has to do with the physical restoration of the Jews to the physical land of Israel – including all of the 'occupied territories'. If God is doing this openly before the world for His glory, does it make sense that after they are settled and buying properties and being saved – as we are seeing right now – that He would allow another Holocaust to happen? Plus reread what He promises in verse 42: Thus says YHWH: As I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. (Jer. 32:42) Good is not describing a genocide."
and continues
"Are you in a church that is actually resisting what Your God is doing with all of His heart and soul? God's land that He is giving to His people for His glory – does your congregation ignorantly call it 'the occupied territories'? [See Ezek. 35] Is your denomination considering, or already boycotting Israel? If you attend a church that is hindering what Your God is doing with all of His heart and soul, have you asked Him if He wants you to stay? Error breeds more error, and missing what God is doing with Israel in these days is one of the gravest errors/deceptions in the modern Church.
Ezekiel 36 deserves an in-depth study by itself. This message to Ezekiel starts in Chapter 35 and warns nations that speaking against God's land is heard in heaven as blasphemy! "Because you [who have eternal hatred against Israel (v.5)] have said, These two nations and these two lands shall be mine, and we shall possess it; yet YHWH was there; therefore, as I live, says the Lord YHWH, I will act according to your anger and your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them. And I will make Myself known among them [Israel] when I have judged you. And you shall know that I am YHWH, and I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, Desolation! They are given to us to consume. Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me, have multiplied your words against Me, and I have heard them. (35:10-13)
Those who speak against or falsely about Israel's mountains, God accuses of blasphemy/slander – of speaking lies and distortions against God's land and His nature. Why His nature? Because of the more than 200 times that He promises to give this land to His people, including 40 times when He swears to do it. As He says in Ezekiel 36, this restoration of His people to His land is for His holy name's sake (36:22-23). So if Israel's restoration could be prevented, it would prove our God both a liar and unable to do that which He has clearly promised."
and continues
"Does this mean that all the politicians and media people, even pastors and Christians, that call His mountains the 'occupied territories' are slandering God? He alone examines the hearts (Jer. 17:9-10) – but please understand that He takes this speaking against His land and His people very seriously (Gen. 12:3).
Ezekiel 36:8-12 God commands Ezekiel to speak to His mountains – symbolic for all of His land (v.4-5) – these words of incredible blessing: But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall put out your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they have drawn near to come home. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And cities shall have people, and wastes shall be built, and I will multiply men and beast on you, and they shall increase and be fruitful… and I will do better to you than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am YHWH. Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even My people Israel, and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and will not any more increase their bereavement.
While the complete fulfillment of this is still to come, this prophecy covers the time from the 1880s when the Jews started returning in large waves of aliyah until the time of their salvation, as the rest of this chapter points out. So where in these precious promises do we see another Holocaust? We don't; but just the opposite. Since God says that He is doing this for His holy name's sake – and not because Israel is such a righteous, holy nation (36:16-23, 31-32), why do people say He needs to allow His people to be slaughtered in great numbers just to save a few? Will that really bring Him glory? But God says despite who the Jews are, and what they have done, often profaning His name, He does this for Himself. He gathers them from the nations (v. 24), saves and cleanses them (v. 25-27) [the best description of being born-again in all of Scripture!], settles and blesses them in their land (v. 28-30), and after salvation they see their wrongdoing and repent (v. 31-32; cp. Zech. 12:10-14). The ultimate goal of Israel's restoration and salvation will be that many gentiles will see what God is doing in Israel and give Him the glory (v. 33-36)."
and continues
"A final note: in verse 37, we see the only thing that God is requiring from His people in order to do this is not repentance, not worship, not more congregational meetings, not an increase in finances – but that which He is always seeking for – intercession! He waits for us to ask Him to do that which He wants to do (Isa. 62:6-7; Ezek. 22:30; Matt. 6:9-10).
Thus says YHWH of Hosts: I was jealous/zealous for Zion with great jealousy/zeal, and I was jealous/zealous for her with great fury. Thus says YHWH: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called a City of Truth, and the mountain of YHWH of Hosts, the Holy Mountain … There shall yet be old men and old women living in the streets of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand because of their many days, and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing…If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes, says YHWH of Hosts? Thus says YHWH of Hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the east country, and from the west, and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
Zechariah 8:2-8
This word cannot be about the Babylonian captivity, as it was said originally to a people who had basically just returned from there! Also, God says He will regather His scattered people from the east and the west. West of Israel is the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. God adds that we will see old people and children in Jerusalem's streets. Living in Jerusalem, this is something we are seeing today, and it also lines up with Psalm 147:2, YHWH is building Jerusalem; He is gathering together the outcasts of Israel.
Again we see a general pattern that the Jews return and then Yeshua is revealed to them as a nation. After all, to be God's people in truth and righteousness can only mean to be found in Messiah (John 14:6; 2 Cor. 5:21).
We see Psalms 102:1-18 as a confirmation of all that we have said above. This chapter starts with a description of the Nazi Holocaust, then proceeds to the birth of modern Israel with an accompanying global revival and all of this gives the general timeframe of Messiah Yeshua's return."
and continues
"A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before YHWH. Hear my prayer, O YHWH; let my cry come to You. Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; bow down Your ear to me; in the day I call, answer me quickly. For my days are consumed like smoke, my bones are burned like a hearth.
vv.1-3
That last line is a clear picture of the end of the Jews in the concentration camp ovens.
My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.
vv.4-5
What an apt description of the concentration camp survivors.
…I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top.
vv.7
This symbolizes someone who has lost their spouse.
My enemies curse me all the day; and they who are mad against me are sworn against me.
vv.8
Some say the Hebrew can also be translated, "they…use my name against me", which is a perfect picture of the infamous 'yellow star' the Jews were forced to wear.
For I have eaten ashes like bread and have mixed my drink with weeping.
vv.9
With all of the bodies being burned, ash got into everything, including the food.
Because of Your anger and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up and cast me down.
vv.10
In Scripture, there are no second causes, as both writers and those they write about really believed that God was sovereign, with nothing happening unless He either ordained it or allowed it. While Christians today may be hesitant to think about God as the ultimate cause of everything, or the One who takes ultimate responsibility for it all, the Bible is not. YHWH reigns. (Psalm 93:1a; 96:10b; 97:1a; 99:1a); YHWH has prepared His throne in the heavens; His kingdom rules over all. (Psalms 103:19); If there is a calamity in a city, has YHWH not also done it? (Amos 3:6b); For God gave into their [the ten kings] hearts to do His mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast [the Anti-Christ] until the Words of God will be fulfilled. (Rev. 17:17)
My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.
vv.11
All of these verses, in spirit, line up with what is said about Jacob's trouble in Jeremiah 30. Yet now, as the Psalmist looks to the Lord Himself, he begins to prophesy a wondrous future.
But You, YHWH, shall endure forever; and Your memory to all generations. You shall arise, and have mercy [rachem – from the Heb. root word for a mother's womb] on Zion; for the time to favor [lit., 'grace'] her, yes, the set time [moed – a time divinely appointed], has come.
vv.12-13"
and continues
"What a description of the rebirth of the modern state of Israel – since it happened right after the Holocaust and only because of God's amazing covenant love and His perfect timing. After all, what other nations were ever born – let alone reborn – when they were at their weakest point in all of their history (Isa. 66:8-9)?
For Your servants take pleasure in its stones, and pity its dust.
vv.14
Israelis are so prone to do this – whether by collecting rocks, or archeological items, or just loving and working this land that God has graced us with.
So the nations/gentiles shall fear the name of YHWH, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.
vv.15
Many of those who believe in the 'Jacob's-trouble-is-still-to-come' teaching, say that after Israel – whomever is left – gets saved, then there will be a huge worldwide revival. Yet this Psalm says the worldwide revival occurs as Israel is being restored to its land. Missiologists have reported that since around 1900, [Jews started returning in significant numbers around the mid-1880s with the First Aliyah], more people have come into the Kingdom of God than all previous centuries combined! Recall that the modern Pentecostal movement started shortly after that First Aliyah. And around the same time when Jerusalem was recaptured by Israel in 1967, and no longer trampled down by the gentiles, the Jesus movement and the modern charismatic movement occurred. Since 1967, more Jews have come to know their Messiah than at any time since the beginning of the book of Acts. Also, Muslims, Chinese, Hindus, Mongolians, Africans, and other people groups have seen huge numbers being saved – all around the time of Israel's restoration. So that huge end-time revival so many are waiting for is actually happening today – just not in the West where much of the Church is under the curse that accompanies replacement theory (Gen. 12:3; cp. Gal. 3:17).
When YHWH shall build up Zion, He shall appear in His glory.
vv.16"
and continues
"Here is one of the clearest markers of the timing of Yeshua's return, as Zion is restored after the Holocaust. Yeshua came the first time in humility, riding on a donkey's colt (Zech. 9:9). This verse 16 refers to His soon return in glory – riding on a war horse (Rev. 19:11-16). Then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens, and then all the tribes of the earth [i.e., the land, Israel] shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory. (Matt. 24:30)
He will turn to the prayer of the forsaken and not despise their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come [literally, "the last generation"]; and the people who shall be created shall praise YHWH.
vv.17-18
What kind of God is He?
Is He lying to the Church when He tells them to do whatever He says to help restore (Isa. 49:22; 60:3-11, etc.) and comfort (Isa. 40:1-2) and save (Jer. 31:7; Rom. 11:11, 30-32) His Jewish people? They were enemies of the gospel for the sake of the gentiles, and while most Jews still remain in that state – God says they are still beloved for the sake of the forefathers (Rom. 11:28).
Would the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God whose very nature is best expressed in the incarnation as Yeshua the Jew (Isa. 7:14; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3), celebrate His marriage supper while His covenant people, who are still beloved for the fathers' sake, are being slaughtered? Yeshua Himself said, He who has seen Me has seen the Father, (John 14:9) – and shortly after that, He wept over Jerusalem because of what He knew was coming about 40 years later [70 AD]. Would He now rejoice at His Marriage as Jerusalem is surrounded? Not so! God has declared that He is YHWH who changes not, therefore the sons of Jacob are not consumed (Mal. 3:6). Whenever this particular aspect of this troubling teaching appears, it blasphemes the very nature of our God.
Conclusion
Prophecy would be so much easier to understand if it was not about the future! God can fulfill His word in all of its details because He alone knows the end from the beginning. Yes, we can see through a dark glass – but not clearly enough to be dogmatic about details. Yet when we look back, we see how faithful God is to literally fulfill that which He said – in those prophetic statements that are to be taken literally.
But some of God's prophetic declarations are not to be taken literally, particularly when they have been written down from dreams and visions. Visions and dreams use symbol and metaphor to express a reality beyond what we usually consider "real". We are not expecting the Anti-Christ to be a real beast with seven heads, ten horns, ten crowns, and the title 'Blasphemy' on its heads, who comes out of the sea (Rev. 13:1). And while there can be 144,000 virgin male Israelis who will follow the Lamb, that number might also be seen as symbolic. It is important to know that sections of the books of Daniel, Zechariah and Revelation, are part of the genre known as Jewish Apocalyptic literature, which emphasizes visions, dreams, symbols and metaphors to share deep truths in a non-literal, more pictorial manner. While there can be literal fulfillments of much of what is written in these books, there does not have to be, in order for God to faithfully fulfill what He meant in sharing His word with us."
and lastly says
"Does that bother us? Have we become so dogmatic in our end-time prophetic charts that if God fulfills what He said – but in a way that does not line up with what we have already decided – we would miss it even as it happens before our eyes? Are some so convinced that the rapture is pre-tribulation that if it is not, they would be unable to recognize the Anti-Christ, because according to their prophetic chart, the Church will be gone before he appears?
Do you who love Israel realize how the teaching dissected in this study comes across as total hypocrisy to many Israelis and Jews? They correctly understand it to mean that the Church wants the Jews to return home to Israel so that Jesus Christ will return – but only after the Jews are slaughtered. And, of course, the Church will be in glory – celebrating – while this happens here on earth. How does this even begin to provoke the Jews to jealousy? What Jew would even want to serve a God that allows His people to be slaughtered again – while saying He loves them? Jews have enough issues between them and their God because of the Nazi Holocaust. That did not draw them to Him. Rather it added some major question marks as to exactly what type of God He is – and for many Jews, to question if there even is a God. Also, does Paul not clearly say that it is the goodness of God which leads you to repentance (Rom. 2:4)?
We have laid out a more scriptural alternative to the teaching that Jacob's trouble and two-thirds being slaughtered in the land of Israel is still to come. We do not expect everyone who reads this to agree. In fact, we suspect this will anger some who have carelessly made this teaching a part of their 'prophetic' ministry.
Yet there is no doubt that God is bringing His people home today. And there is no doubt that He expects the Church to help. Therefore, you need to study and decide whether the God you serve, the One who tells the Jews, I have loved you with an eternal love, is really bringing the Jewish people back as lambs to the slaughter, or bringing them home for salvation. And if it is in order to meet their King, Messiah Yeshua, and if it is the goodness of God that leads one to repentance, and if He has promised His people a hope and a future, then maybe the prophecy charts we love to create need changing. It might be a good idea to start studying the Word contextually.
Try earnestly to present yourself approved to God,
a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
2 Tim. 2:15"
From the New York Daily News Website www.nydailynews.com an article on
September 5, 2019 is titled
"Teaching hate: Palestinian hatemongering gets a rebuke from an unlikely source"
By Daily News Editorial Board
New York Daily News |
Sep 05, 2019 | 4:05 AM
Textbooks as weapons. (HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images)
the article says
"In their first report card from an international panel of 18 human rights experts, the Palestinians got failing grades for “the existence of hate speech in certain media outlets, especially those controlled by Hamas, social media, public officials’ statements and school curricula and textbooks, which fuels hatred and may incite violence, particularly hate speech against Israelis, which at times also fuels anti-Semitism.”
This is official Palestinian Authority garbage demonizing Israelis and Jews, spewed to poison the minds of the population.
The well-deserved slap, from the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, also urges the PA to “combat hate speech and incitement to violence, including on the Internet and by public figures, politicians and media officials, and remove any derogatory comments and images from school curricula and textbooks that perpetuate prejudices and hatred.”
We’ll believe it when we see it; the problem has been in plain sight for decades now.
This formal rebuke, though, should carry special weight, as it comes from a UN that is always happy to hang Israel and absolve Palestinians. The long overdue comeuppance is because the PA joined the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and is now required under the treaty to submit reports every two years on how well it wiping away discrimination.
The PA laughably claimed it was doing a solid job. The Geneva-based watchdog barked loud"
From the website www.breakingisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Recent Wave of Anti-Semitism in U.S. Hinted by Prophet Jeremiah"
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz August 13, 2019 , 1:26 pm
the article says
“Thus said Hashem: Restrain your voice from weeping, Your eyes from shedding tears; For there is a reward for your labor —declares Hashem: They shall return from the enemy’s land.” Jeremiah 31:15 (The Israel Bible™)
Swastika spray painted on sidewalk (courtesy: Shutterstock)
the article states
"A report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) showed that anti-Semitic incidents increased by nearly 60 percent in 2017 marking the largest single-year increase on record. 2018 was even worse with a doubling of anti-Semitic assaults. The single deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history took place on October 2018 when a gunman entered the Tree of Life Synagogue outside of Pittsburgh, killing 11 and injuring seven. Last April, a shooter entered the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California, killing one and injuring several others.
A partial list of recent anti-Semitic attacks in the US and Canada shows that this disturbing trend is gaining momentum:
Three Hasidic Jews were violently mugged early Monday morning in two separate incidents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Police arrested a Las Vegas man on charges that he was planning an attack on a synagogue. An unregistered weapon and bomb-making materials were found in his home.
A Brooklyn resident allegedly sprayed a Hasidic man with an unknown substance last Friday in Crown Heights and made anti-Semitic remarks. The suspect was arrested and charged with a hate crime.
Tires on over 50 vehicles owned by Jews were slashed over the weekend in the predominantly Jewish town of Lakewood, New Jersey. All of the victims were Jewish. This is the second time this month that this type of attack has taken place in Lakewood. Police are treating it as a bias crime.
Unknown assailants fired BB guns at an LA yeshiva ten days ago.
An attack ten days ago on two Jewish boys in Toronto is being treated as a hate crime. This comes one week after two anti-Semitic incidents in Montreal. Though anti-Semitic incidents are considered rare in Canada, 2018 marked an all-time high."
the article continues
"Anti-Semitism as Precursor to Messiah
Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a well-known mystic rabbi in Israel, noted in his weekly sermon that this rise in anti-Semitism will only get worse as the Messiah approaches.
“Anti-Semitism in the world is terrifying,” Rabbi Ben Artzi said on Friday. “The non-Jews in the world feel that the Messiah needs to come out and they are going crazy. The anti-Semitism will continue to increase. Even when the non-Jews attack other non-Jews it is a warning to the Jews. This will not cease until the last Jew comes to Israel.”
“Golden Age of the Exile is Over”
Rabbi Nachman Kahana is personally invested in the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land as part of the geula (redemption) process. Born in Brooklyn, Rabbi Kahana, he is the spiritual leader of Hazon Yichezkeil Synagogue in the Old City. He is the Av Bet Din of the Sanhedrin and, as a Kohen (male descendant of Aaron the Priest), established the Center for Kohanim which keeps a database of reliable Kohanim in Israel. His brother, Rabbi Meir Kahane, founded the Jewish Defense League and the political party Kach. His nephew, Rabbi Baruch Kahane, instructs Kohanim in the Temple Service and frequently serves as the Kohen Gadol in Temple reenactments.
“You have to start from the premise that the on the fifth of Iyar that a heavenly ruling came down to earth on the fifth day of the Hebrew month of Iyar, 5708 years after the creation of the world, (14 May 1948) the Jewish State was declared and the exile was finished. The Jews are coming back home and the exile would vanish little by little.”
“The punishment was over and the anger was over, the final big case of anger being the Holocaust. Now is the era for God to make us great in the Land of Israel.”
“The flip side is that the end of the Golden Age of the Jews in Exile was finished. There will be economic pressures, anti-Semitism, and other factors. With assimilation the Jews in exile will eventually disappear. The Jews have no future outside of Israel. You can’t have Jews in Israel and Jews in exile at the same time. We are either here or there.”
the article continues
"Rabbi Kahana referred to two verses from the Prophet Jeremiah:
Thus said Hashem: Restrain your voice from weeping, Your eyes from shedding tears; For there is a reward for your labor —declares Hashem: They shall return from the enemy’s land. And there is hope for your future —declares Hashem: Your children shall return to their country. Jeremiah 31:15-16
“If the Jews come back ‘from the enemy’s land’, they are not described as God’s ‘children’. Everyone is welcome but if a Jew comes to Israel because of troubles in the exile, because of anti-Semitism, he is accepted like a stepson. You need to come here because you want to come back to the land of the Bible.”
“This is going to happen and Israel should be preparing for a huge aliya. There is plenty of space that is being taken up by the Arabs. The Arabs had a caretaker status. They will go away but it will be the Arabs that cause it. The Jews will not throw them out because that is not the Jewish way. The Arabs in Israel belong to seven clans who were it not for the common hatred of the Jews, they would have killed each other off a long time ago.”
“It is important to remember that anti-Semitism in America is only in certain sectors of America. We have good friends in America,” Rabbi Kahana said. He warned that having allies in America was only a partial solution and the danger was still very real. “In Germany before the war, only five percent of the Germans belonged to the Nazi party but they moved the silent majority to horrible extents. They controlled the country. This can happen in America.”
Jews are “Stupid” When it Comes to Anti-Semitism
This assessment that an era is ending was shared by Rabbi Pinchas Winston, a prolific end-of-days author.
“The Jews were spread around the world for the exile for a purpose: to spread the light of Torah,” Rabbi Winston told Breaking Israel News. “As God’s emissaries, they were afforded a certain level of protection. Now that the mission is over, or in a new stage, that blanket of protection is revoked.”
The rabbi noted that prophets usually preface their predictions by relating recent events that should have been known to everyone and their implications understood.
“Jeremiah actually refers to the Jewish people as stupid,” Rabbi Winston said.
For My people are stupid, They give Me no heed; They are foolish children, They are not intelligent. They are clever at doing wrong, But unable to do right. Jeremiah 4:22
“Stupid is not unintelligent or uninformed. God has patience for these,” Rabbi Winston said. “Stupid is when you know something but you ignore it.”
“The stupidest things the Jews do is downplaying the danger. Nothing has changed. A cursory look at history shows that anti-Semitism is the default, even in its most extreme forms. Nothing has changed but Jews in the U.S. think that that the Holocaust can never happen again so ‘Never Again’ now refers to the Mexican border.”
The New Anti-Semite: Not The Old-School Nazi
In a disturbing note, these attacks are intentionally being underreported by the media. An article in the New York Times in October 2018 documented this disturbing twist."
the article lastly says
"No other American city is more closely associated with Jewish identity than New York or more adamantly imagines itself as the capital of liberalism’s most cherished values of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity.”
“Anti-Semitic incidents have constituted half of all hate crimes in New York this year, according to the Police Department. To put that figure in context, there have been four times as many crimes motivated by bias against Jews — 142 in all — as there have against blacks. Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at transgender people by a factor of 20.”
The article goes on to note that unlike other hate crimes in other parts of the country, hate-crimes targeting Jews in New York are rarely perpetrated by aggressors associated with right-wing groups. These attacks are more commonly carried out by ethnic minorities. As a result, left-wing advocacy groups and the mainstream media do not react as strongly, if at all.
“It is to some extent because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative with a single ideological enemy,” the NY Times wrote. “When a Hasidic man or woman is attacked by anyone in New York City, mainstream progressive advocacy groups do not typically send out emails calling for concern and fellowship and candlelight vigils in Union Square, as they often do when individuals are harmed in New York because of their race or ethnicity or how they identify in terms of gender or sexual orientation.”
In short, because most of the attacks against Jews do not conform to a left-wing narrative and are, in fact, problematic to a narrative that portrays blacks and people-of-color as victims, they are sidelined by the media and politicians.
“Jews are busy looking for Nazis. Meanwhile, they are totally overlooking the new anti-Semites,” Rabbi Winston warned."
One person typed the following comment in response to the article from
breakingisraelnews.com regarding the Prophet Jeremiah & Anti-Semitism in America that
"The Greatest Exodus Ever
The greatest prophecy of the Bible is the prediction of the final ingathering and redemption of the nations of Israel and Judah in the latter years with the advent of Messiah son of David. This ‘Great Exodus’ of all 12 tribes of Israel will be much greater that the miraculous return of the Jews in 1948, even greater than the Exodus from Egypt in circa 1300BCE under Moses. All families of the House of Israel finally will be reunited under the leadership of the King of Israel, their Messiah son of David in one sinless, redeemed, God-obedient nation on the Mountains of Israel. They will truly become a Holy nation of priests, the light to the World. God’s knowledge will cover the Earth. All nations will serve the God of Israel. Justice and Peace, at last, will prevail. People will usher in the Golden Age of Humanity–the Messianic Era, and altogether will strive to merit life in the wonderful, spiritual, everlasting Kingdom of God – the World-To- Come, the ultimate purpose of Creation. With the redemption of the whole World and establishing of the Heavenly Kingdom of God, the mission of Israel on the planet Earth will have been successfully completed."
a man named
Julio Torres Montalvo typed the following comment in reply to the article on breakingisraelnews.com regarding the Prophet Jeremiah & Jew Hate in America, he typed
"As a christian reading these news I find it very sad that spiritually dead people do these things to a people that are chosen by God and blessed and that their blessings affect beneficially a non-Jewish nation like the United States. Have they no idea? Have they not read the tragedy that befalls an anti-semitic nation? Let's say the United States turns enemy to Israel and hurls nuclear missles to Israel, you think God is just going to sit back and watch Israel destroyed? America would no more exist as a nation if they do a thing that that. But thank God America is a strong friend to Israel. In the next world war and Holocaust Israel will survive. God Himself will come down to destroy the anti-semitic nations, He will spare those who have not the mark of the son of Satan(New World Order-Roman Empire world government) Billions of God-hating people will die because when He appears in His Glory many standing will have their flesh burning, their eyes consumed in their sockets and dry tongues.. God will establish His throne in Jerusalem and rule the world. Antisemitism will be completely abolished and Israel will be a World Power."
From the website www.christianheadlines.com an article is titled
"Netanyahu: New Philistine DNA Study Affirms That Israel Is Jewish Land"
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Monday, July 8, 2019
the article says
"New DNA research indicating the biblical Philistines originated from Europe bolsters the case that the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Scientists studied the DNA of skeletons from a 3,000-year-old Philistine cemetery and published their findings last week in the journal Science Advances. The study showed the DNA was related to the gene pool of southern Europe.
The Philistine cemetery was uncovered in 2016 in Ashkelon, in southern Israel. Ten of 108 skeletons had sufficient DNA to be used.
Netanyahu made his case on Twitter.
“A new study of DNA recovered from an ancient Philistine site in the Israeli city of Ashkelon confirms what we know from the Bible -- that the origin of the Philistines is in southern Europe,” Netanyahu wrote.
Netanyahu then referenced Amos 9:7 and Jeremiah 47:4, which say the Philistines came from Caphtor – modern-day Crete, the Greek island in southern Europe.
“The Bible mentions a place called Caphtor, which is probably modern-day Crete,” Netanyahu wrote. “There’s no connection between the ancient Philistines & the modern Palestinians, whose ancestors came from the Arabian Peninsula to the Land of Israel thousands of years later.”
Netanyahu concluded, “The Palestinians’ connection to the Land of Israel is nothing compared to the 4,000-year connection that the Jewish people have with the land.”
The word “Palestinian” is thought to have derived from “Philistine,” although modern-day Palestinians say they did not originate from that people group.
The Philistines often warred with the biblical Hebrews. Goliath, who was defeated and killed by David, was a Philistine.
“For more than a century, we have debated the question of where the Philistines came from,” archaeologist Eric Cline told National Geographic in an email. “Now we have the answer: Southern Europe, and probably more specifically mainland Greece, Crete, or Sardinia. This fits with what had seemed the most likely answer previously, especially judging from [the archaeological remains], and so this seems a logical finding.”
Another good article is from the jns.org website , the article is titled
"‘No,’ Mr. Schindler, there is no ‘occupation’" by Stephen M. Flatow
Educator Sam Schindler’s notions about Israel and the Palestinians seem to have been frozen in his adolescence. He’s so angry about having been “deprived” by his own teachers that he hasn’t noticed how much the Middle East has changed.
the article says
"(April 25, 2018 / JNS) A Pennsylvania high school teacher, who says he was deprived as a teenager, is now taking it out on his students—by lying to them about Israel.
Sam Schindler, co-founder and history teacher at the Stone Independent School, a private school in Lancaster, Pa., explains in The Forward this week how the “truth” about Israel was hidden from him. His teachers only taught him about the positive side Israel, he complains. “What was kept from me then were images of the occupation, of pulverized houses, of bloody civilians and of terrified children. … The occupation or lives of Palestinians never appeared.”
So now, Schindler is getting his revenge. He’s been teaching his students at Stone Independent all about “the occupation and oppression.”
And—big surprise—at the end of last semester’s course, Schindler is proud to laud their findings. He notes that “the class collectively reached a universal conclusion about Israel and Palestine: The oppression of Palestinians is not sustainable, nor is it justifiable.”
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Dear Stone students, I’m sorry to tell you that Mr. Schindler has been lying to you. Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians ended 23 years ago.
Here’s what Mr. Schindler didn’t tell you. When Yitzhak Rabin was elected prime minister of Israel in 1992, he faced a dilemma. On the one hand, he recognized that allowing the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), and in the Gaza Strip, would pose a grave threat to Israel’s existence. Israel would be just nine miles wide in its middle, living next to a state run by terrorists and fascist dictators.
But on the other hand, Rabin didn’t want Israel to continue ruling over the Palestinian Arabs who reside in those territories. So he and his aides devised the Oslo Accords, which ended Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians and gave them something close to statehood, but without endangering Israel.
In 1995, Prime Minister Rabin withdrew Israel’s forces from the cities in Judea-Samaria where 98 percent of the Palestinians reside. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon later withdrew from all of Gaza. The Israeli occupation of the Palestinians came to an end. The only “occupation” of the Palestinians currently in force is the 23-year occupation by the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, and the occupation of Gaza by Hamas, which is now entering its 11th year.
If any of you ever has the opportunity to visit the “occupied” Palestinians, you’ll be surprised to discover that the Israeli “occupiers” whom Mr. Schindler taught you about are nowhere to be found. There’s no Israeli military governor. The Israeli military administration that once ruled the Palestinian-inhabited areas was dismantled long ago.
The Palestinians’ schools are run by Palestinian principals and teachers. The courts have Palestinian judges. The streets are policed by the Palestinian police and security forces. When elections are held, the candidates and the voters are all Palestinians. Pretty much the only thing that the P.A. can’t do is import tanks, planes, Iranian “volunteers” or North Korean missiles."
the article continues
"The only time Israeli troops enter Palestinian-inhabited areas is when they are chasing down a terrorist. Going into some Palestinian town for an hour or two to catch a bomb-thrower or a sniper hardly constitutes an “occupation” of the Palestinians.
Yes, Israel has checkpoints set up along its border with the P.A., and it’s a shame if that inconveniences some Palestinian travelers. Just like it’s a shame that every one of us is inconvenienced every time we have to go through a security checkpoint at an American airport. But checkpoints are set up in Israel and in U.S. airports for the same good reason: to keep terrorists from blowing us up. That’s not an “occupation.” That’s called self-defense.
The current situation in the territories is not a perfect solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. But we live in an imperfect world. The current arrangements in the territories allow nearly all of the Palestinians to live under their own government. They live in an entity that is close to statehood in every respect except for the few aspects that would most endanger Israel’s existence.
Sam Schindler’s notions about Israel and the Palestinians seem to have been frozen in his adolescence. He’s so angry about having been “deprived” by his own teachers that he hasn’t noticed how much the Middle East has changed in the meantime. It’s a whole new world for Israel and the Palestinians, Mr. Schindler. It’s time you started telling your students the truth about it."
Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.
From the website israelshield.blogspot.com an article is titled
"5 Palestinian Artifacts That Prove Palestine NEVER Existed "
the article says
Yeah, I know what you're thinking but no,
I haven't lost my mind and no,I am not kidding.
The anti Israel folk along with the Arabs have completely fabricated a national history in order to justify attacking Israel and murdering Jews. They have not spared any lack of integrity to do so and the passport below is just one example.
Did you catch it?
They claim this was a passport of the Arab country called Palestine, then I Googled it and found the real passport which was a British document and not an Arab one. #AnotherPalestineLie
For those of you who have been following me (@israel_shield) on Twitter, you know that I spend a good part of my time battling and destroying anti-Israel propaganda and lies and this Palestine issue is at the top of my list. I know an area called Palestine existed; the Romans coined that name when they occupied Israel from the Jews long before Islam ever existed.
NEVER WAS PALESTINE AN ARAB COUNTRY AND NEVER WAS IT OCCUPIED FROM PALESTINIAN ARABS
Modern day Palestine was a geographical area that included what is today Jordan and was governed by the British Mandate. Palestine was NEVER an Arab State, country or national home for a people who call themselves Palestinians. A Palestinian nation is a farce, a bluff and a blatant lie. There was no such thing as a Palestinian nation and all the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are actually Arabs from surrounding countries. This is not just my opinion, this is what their own leaders say loud and clear!
Read Also - The REAL History Of Palestine ISRAEL
5 Palestinian Artifacts That Prove Palestine Never Existed
1. The Palestine Pound and Currency
The Palestine Pound was the currency used by the British Mandate from 1927 - 1948. Arabs and especially Palestinians have absolutely nothing to do with this bill.
Take a closer look at that bill.
1. The Palestine Currency Board was not Arab. In August 1948, new banknotes were issued by the Anglo Palestine Company which was owned by the Jewish Agency.
2. See the Hebrew writing there? E.Y. stands for Eretz Yisrael which in plain English means Land Of Israel!
3. Once again Hebrew writing on this bill proves this was NOT an Arab printed bill. Till today, Israeli currency has on it Hebrew, Arabic and English writing. "
the article continues
"These Palestinian BRITISH coins are sometimes used as well to try to prove the Palestine lie to be true. Once again, the coin was not minted by Arabs and what is written on the coin proves just how far Palestine was from being an Arab country.
The Hebrew writing on this coin says Land Of Israel.
2. The Palestine Post
Before the modern day State of Israel there was a newspaper called The Palestine Post. If The Palestine Post was an Arab Palestinian national newspaper, this May 16, 1948 headline might seem a bit strange.
The fact that the Palestine Post was a JEWISH publication later to be known as The Jerusalem Post might make it easier to understand why the paper above was reporting Israel's birth and not the fake Palestinian story.
3. The Palestine Brigade
There was a full platoon of soldiers who fought with the British against the Nazis and they were called the Palestine Brigade and this what they looked like - to the right is the pin they wore on their hats.
There was one small detail I forgot to disclose - the Palestine Brigade was a JEWISH British unit that helped the British fight the Nazis.
There were also Muslims who fought in WWII but they were on the Nazi side!
4. Palestinian Passport
I have been sent pictures of Palestinian passports and I am guessing those who sent me pictures like the one below thought they had me cornered. Unfortunately for them, a simple Google search helped expose their attempt at a very poor photo shop job!
Can you find the difference?
Once again this is a BRITISH Palestine passport and not one that belonged to an Arab country called Palestine.
5. The National Palestine Basketball team
This is definitely the most pathetic attempt to prove an Arab Palestine country existed before Israel. Someone tweeted me this picture and dared me to explain how I still do not accept the fact that Palestine existed before Israel occupied it from the Arabs.
Well, this certainly is the Palestine basketball team but they are not Arab, Jewish or British. This is a photograph of the Illinois Palestine high school basketball varsity team!
This is what the Palestine team looks like today.
For those of you still not convinced, I challenge you to find me a year when an Arab Palestine country ever existed before Israel. If you do, I take down the Israel Shield Blog! " Click on the article to view the Pictures
From the website gatestoneinstitute.org an article by Alan M. Dershowitz is titled
"Ten reasons why the BDS movement is immoral and hinders peace"
by Alan M. Dershowitz
February 12, 2014 at 12:00 pm
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4171/bds-immoral
the article says
"As a strong supporter of the two state solution and a critic of Israel's settlement policies, I am particularly appalled at efforts to impose divestment, boycotts and sanctions against Israel, and Israel alone, because BDS makes it more difficult to achieve a peaceful resolution of the Mid-East conflict that requires compromise on all sides.
The BDS movement is highly immoral, threatens the peace process and discourages the Palestinians from agreeing to any reasonable peace offer. Here are ten compelling reasons why the BDS movement is immoral and incompatible with current efforts to arrive at a compromise peace.
1. The BDS movement immorally imposes the entire blame for the continuing Israeli occupation and settlement policy on the Israelis. It refuses to acknowledge the historical reality that on at least three occasions, Israel offered to end the occupation and on all three occasions, the Palestinian leadership, supported by its people, refused to accept these offers. In 1967, I played a small role in drafting UN Security Council Resolution 242 that set out the formula for ending the occupation in exchange for recognition of Israel's right to exist in peace. Israel accepted that Resolution, while the Palestinians, along with all the Arab nations, gathered in Khartoum and issued their three famous "nos:" No peace, no negotiation, no recognition. There were no efforts to boycott, sanction or divest from these Arab naysayers. In 2000-2001, Israel's liberal Prime Minister Ehud Barak, along with American President Bill Clinton, offered the Palestinians statehood, and the end of the occupation. Yasser Arafat rejected this offer—a rejection that many Arab leaders considered a crime against the Palestinian people. In 2007, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians an even better deal, an offer to which they failed to respond. There were no BDS threats against those who rejected Israel's peace offers. Now there are ongoing peace negotiations in which both parties are making offers and imposing conditions. Under these circumstances, it is immoral to impose blame only on Israel and to direct a BDS movement only against the nation state of the Jewish people, that has thrice offered to end the occupation in exchange for peace."
the article continues
"2. The current BDS movement, especially in Europe and on some American university campuses, emboldens the Palestinians to reject compromise solutions to the conflict. Some within the Palestinian leadership have told me that the longer they hold out against making peace, the more powerful will be the BDS movement against Israel. Why not wait until the BDS strengthens their bargaining position so that they won't have to compromise by giving up the right of return, by agreeing to a demilitarized state and by making other concessions that are necessary to peace but difficult for some Palestinians to accept? The BDS movement is making a peaceful resolution harder.
3. The BDS movement is immoral because its leaders will never be satisfied with the kind of two state solution that is acceptable to Israel. Many of its leaders do not believe in the concept of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. (The major leader of the BDS movement, Marwan Barghouti, has repeatedly expressed his opposition to Israel's right to exist as the nation state of the Jewish people even within the 1967 borders.) At bottom, therefore, the leadership of the BDS movement is opposed not only to Israel's occupation and settlement policy but to its very existence."
and continues
"4. The BDS movement is immoral because it violates the core principle of human rights: namely, "the worst first." Israel is among the freest and most democratic nations in the world. It is certainly the freest and most democratic nation in the Middle East. Its Arab citizens enjoy more rights than Arabs anywhere else in the world. They serve in the Knesset, in the Judiciary, in the Foreign Service, in the academy and in business. They are free to criticize Israel and to support its enemies. Israeli universities are hot beds of anti-Israel rhetoric, advocacy and even teaching. Israel has a superb record on women's rights, gay rights, environmental rights and other rights that barely exist in most parts of the world. Moreover, Israel's record of avoiding civilian casualties, while fighting enemies who hide their soldiers among civilians, is unparalleled in the world today. The situation on the West Bank is obviously different because of the occupation, but even the Arabs of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Tulkarim have more human and political rights than the vast majority of Arabs in the world today. Moreover, anyone—Jew, Muslim or Christian—dissatisfied with Israeli actions can express that dissatisfaction in the courts, and in the media, both at home and abroad. That freedom does not exist in any Arab country, nor in many non-Arab countries. Yet Israel is the only country in the world today being threatened with BDS. When a sanction is directed against only a state with one of the best records of human rights, and that nation happens to be the state of the Jewish people, the suspicion of bigotry must be considered.
5. The BDS movement is immoral because it would hurt the wrong people: it would hurt Palestinian workers who will lose their jobs if economic sanctions are directed against firms that employ them. It would hurt artists and academics, many of whom are the strongest voices for peace and an end to the occupation. It would hurt those suffering from illnesses all around the world who would be helped by Israeli medicine and the collaboration between Israeli scientists and other scientists. It would hurt the high tech industry around the world because Israel contributes disproportionally to the development of such life enhancing technology."
and continues
"6. The BDS movement is immoral because it would encourage Iran—the world's leading facilitator of international terrorism—to unleash its surrogates, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, against Israel, in the expectation that if Israel were to respond to rocket attacks, the pressure for BDS against Israel would increase, as it did when Israel responded to thousands of rockets from Gaza in 2008-2009.
7. The BDS movement is immoral because it focuses the world's attention away from far greater injustices, including genocide. By focusing disproportionately on Israel, the human rights community pays disproportionately less attention to the other occupations, such as those by China, Russia and Turkey, and to other humanitarian disasters such as that occurring in Syria.
8. The BDS movement is immoral because it promotes false views regarding the nation state of the Jewish people, exaggerates its flaws and thereby promotes a new variation on the world's oldest prejudice, namely anti-Semitism. It is not surprising therefore that the BDS movement is featured on neo-Nazi, Holocaust denial and other overtly anti-Semitic websites and is promoted by some of the world's most notorious haters such as David Duke.
9. The BDS movement is immoral because it reflects and encourages a double standard of judgment and response regarding human rights violations. By demanding more of Israel, the nation state of the Jewish people, it expects less of other states, people, cultures and religions, thereby reifying a form of colonial racism and reverse bigotry that hurts the victims of human rights violations inflicted by others."
and lastly says
"10. The BDS movement will never achieve its goals. Neither the Israeli government nor the Israeli people will ever capitulate to the extortionate means implicit in BDS. They will not and should not make important decisions regarding national security and the safety of their citizens on the basis of immoral threats. Moreover, were Israel to compromise its security in the face of such threats, the result would be more wars, more death and more suffering.
All decent people who seek peace in the Middle East should join together in opposing the immoral BDS movement. Use your moral voices to demand that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority accept a compromise peace that assures the security of Israel and the viability of a peaceful and democratic Palestinian state. The way forward is not by immoral extortionate threats that do more harm than good, but rather by negotiations, compromise and good will." we all know that BDS is Pure BS, BDS Sucks
From the Website of the New York Post Newspaper, www.nypost.com an article on
September 7, 2019 titled
"Orthodox Jews sick of being ‘photographed like animals’ by tourists"
By Melkorka Licea September 7, 2019 | 2:28pm
Enlarge ImageNYP Features - Bus Tour - Williamsburg
Crowds of tourists flock to Orthodox Jewish areas of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to take photos of locals.
-Anti-Semitic attacks are rising in Brooklyn and seems like no one cares
the article says
"Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents are fed up with tourists who swarm their insular neighborhoods by the busload — all to gawk at their clothing and customs.
“People snap pictures of you like you’re on some sort of display — like you’re in a zoo,” said Chaim, 42, who lives in Williamsburg’s Satmar community and asked that his last name be withheld. “We are people, not animals to be photographed.”
Sightseeing groups venture into Williamsburg and Crown Heights several times a week, some via tour-bus companies InterviajesNY, Tour America and Civitatis. The three offer so-called “contrast” tours of various cultural communities in Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx — with one touting the “numerous memorials to gang members who were killed in shootouts” in that borough.
The tours — which cost from $40 to $70 — have been going on for years, but locals say that this summer the throngs, and the tensions they cause, have reached a new high.
“Lately they’re out there every day by the hundreds, and it’s become a ‘must see’ for tourists,” said Max Hauer, 41, who lives in Williamsburg’s Satmar area. He added that he has been photographed many times without his consent.
“They see me as a freak,” said Hauer. “They see us as people from another world [and] if you’re not seen as human, then they think it’s OK” to take photos and stare.
Hauer blames the uptick on a recent cultural obsession with his way of life, thanks to the documentary “One of Us” and the Israeli series “Shtisel,” both popular on Netflix.
On Wednesday, The Post attended a Spanish-speaking tour with InterviajesNY. As the bus entered Williamsburg, the guide discussed the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle.
the article continues
"“It is considered wrong to touch bodies . . . how can they procreate?” he said. “There is a sheet, or fabric, with a strategically placed opening for — you all know what that is for.”
Later, he pointed out the window.
“Look at this woman, how many children she has and how young she is,” he said. In the past, he claimed, the community would “intermarry. The uncle married the niece, the cousin would marry the cousin.”
Enlarge ImageOne of the 'cultural' tour group buses that brings tourists to Orthodox sections of Williamsburg.
One of the ‘cultural’ tour group buses that brings tourists to Orthodox sections of Williamsburg.
The dissemination of outdated stereotypes has locals upset. “I’ve tried to engage with these visitors, but they aren’t interested to learn more about us,” said Hauer.
At 1 p.m., the bus, along with two others, parked along Lee Avenue in South Williamsburg and unloaded nearly 200 people — from countries including Spain, Argentina and Germany — outside Oneg Bakery.
One woman tapped herself in the sign of the cross before stepping off the bus. Another loudly asked, “Are they wearing wigs?” while pointing at a Hasidic woman.
A representative for InterviajesNY had no comment. Tour America spokeswoman Karen Dane told The Post: “Our tours are meant to show the diversity of New York, and Williamsburg is part of that fabric.”
Hauer said shutterbugs get extra excited on Saturdays — the Sabbath — when local men don large fur hats called shtreimels.
“Whenever I go to synagogue . . . they’ll all start snapping photos in front of my face,” said Hauer.
Some people do ask for permission before taking pictures, and “the answer will always be ‘no,’ ” said one Hasidic woman, who wished to remain anonymous because of her religion’s expectations of modesty.
Stops include a Hasidic toy store called Toys 4 U, and Kaff’s Bakery for a taste of challah bread.
In Crown Heights, a tour led by Rabbi Yoni Katz takes groups into an extremely intimate space: a shop that sells wigs, or sheitels, to women who are mandated by Jewish law to cover their heads. The Post observed as tourists were invited to touch the wigs.
The Hasidic woman said that her beef has been with the interlopers’ racy, flesh-baring summer get-ups.
“The levels of modesty are totally against our beliefs,” she said. “We have a right to request that they respect our customs . . . when they walk our narrow streets.”
Some stores have gone so far as to hang signs that say “Conservative Dress Appreciated” followed by “No Shirtless, No Shorts, No Tank Tops and No Barefoot.”
Even tours headed by people associated with the community — such as the ones Frieda Vizel leads in Williamsburg and Katz guides in Crown Heights — are controversial.
Vizel is “very respectful, and she knows the culture well,” said Hauer.
But Chaim said Vizel’s background as a former Satmar raises suspicion.
“Some people [who are Satmar] think because she left, she’s probably saying bad things about us,” he said. “We are an insular community. And we want to remain isolated."
From the website bibleabookoftruth.com an article is titled
"Anti-Semitism Is The Chilling New Normal"
the article says-
‘The Lord’s portion is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. God found him (Jacob) in a desert land,
in the waste-howling wilderness. God surrounded him (Jacob). God cared for him. God kept him as the apple
of His eye’ (Deuteronomy 32:9 & 10). Please note: The following text has been taken from Bridges For Peace magazine, ‘Dispatch From
Jerusalem’ dated August 2019, volume 44, number 4. www.bridgesforpeace.com . Your Israel Connection. Article written by Vice President, Cheryl Hauer. Used by permission from Bridges For Peace, Australia. Historian Paul Johnson has said, “What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more
than two millennia, is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or
meningitis make sense.” Anti-Semitism goes by many names; bigotry, discrimination, prejudice, intolerance. Most often it falls in that
broad category of ‘racism’, which has been defined as prejudice, discrimination or antagonism directed
against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Historically, victims
of racism have often been poor, those who as a collective were unable to defend themselves against
oppressors. Such hatred has insidiously infected populations all over the globe, resulting in persecution and
death to countless individuals whose ‘crime’ was that of being different. Peculiar Racism
The racism experienced by Jews however, is unique in many ways. In the Middle Ages they were vilified for
stubborn laziness, accused of living in self-inflicted poverty and filth, bearing a smell particular only to Jews. Yet at the same time, the myth of the wealthy money lender persisted together with the belief the rich Jewish
majority was involved in a conspiracy to take over the wealth of the nations. Jews were held in contempt as
weak and pathetic, less than human and unable to govern themselves, while another theory of a powerful
international Jewish conspiracy to control the governments of the world flourished at the same time. That
false accusation continues to this day. Today we live in a world where racism is widely discussed and condemned on every level, yet anti-Semitism
is becoming increasingly normalised and is on the rise worldwide. Paul Johnson says, “If anti-Semitism is a
variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety. In my view as an historian, it is so peculiar it deserves to be
placed in a different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely
infectious and massively destructive.”
and continues
"Irrational Hatred On The Rise Internationally
Regardless of which label we might apply, the irrational hatred of Jews is on the rise worldwide, surpassing
some of the highest levels on record. Dr Moshe Kantor, founder of the Moshe Kantor Database for the Study
of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University, has produced an exhaustive report on
global anti-Semitism since 2010, released each year on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The 2018
report reveals some alarming trends, so much so, Dr Kantor wrote an open letter to the European Union in
which he referenced the brutal killing and burning of a Jewish Holocaust survivor in France, a country which
has seen the murder of Jewish school children, a Jewish woman thrown from a window and a Jewish youth
savagely kidnapped and murdered. Dr Kantor reported, “Across Europe, extremists from the far-right are marching down the streets and into our
parliaments. The Holocaust is denied, minimised and relativised, even by some governing parties in Central
and Eastern Europe. Anti-Semitism, old and new, is clearly on the rise at the highest political echelons, in
religious institutions and on the streets. Even our homes are no longer safe. This is the reality of Jewish
existence in 2018 in Europe. It is the sign of a profound societal sickness.” France, which sees at least one report of anti-Semitic harassment or violence every single day is not the only
country with a problem. The United Kingdom saw an overall increase of 16% in violent attacks in 2018, with
100 incidents per month reported – the highest level in the history of the report. The United States reported
1,879 attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions. Violent acts against Jews doubled in America, with 59 reports
of physical attacks and of the nearly 100 Jews globally who lost their lives for their Jewishness in 2018, 11
were killed in one single incident in Pittsburgh – the largest number of such deaths in decades. Australia
witnessed a 59% increase in overall anti-Semitic activity, Canada 16.5% "
and continues
" and South Africa 25%. Countries
like Japan, South Korea and New Zealand who had no actual statistics on anti-Semitic activity, all reported
an increase in overall anti-Semitic attitudes, with Jews falsely accused of everything from arrogance to
plotting to destroy the world’s white population and being responsible for mosque shootings that resulted in
51 dead and dozens injured. Worldwide, campuses are rife with calls for death to the Jews, death to Israel
and death to Zionists. Chilling Echoes From The Holocaust
Many Jews liken today’s climate to that faced by their parents and grandparents in the 1930’s and 1940’s. European Jews are feeling an increased sense of emergency. Dr Kantor says, many are fearful they are no
longer an integral part of the societies in which they have lived for centuries. They ask, “Is there a place
where we will be truly safe?” Perhaps most alarming however, is the change in what anti-Semitism looks like. Today, graffiti on
synagogues and vandalised Jewish cemeteries are overshadowed by physical attacks, beatings, kidnappings and murder. Threats, harassments and insults have become more violent and more common. Globally, such attacks are no longer necessarily the work of the far left or the far right but are becoming
mainstream and socially acceptable. Dr Kantor reports, anti-Semitism is the new normal. Not since World War II has it been so imperative for Christians to raise our voices against this evil, the same
evil that destroyed six million Jews including 1,500,000 children while the church (of all denominations) stood
by silently. Newspapers, magazines, the Internet and even conversations at work or school are breeding
grounds for the spread of anti-Semitic propaganda and those who remain silent are complicit in what can
only be explained as a spiritual attack on the people of the Bible and the God Who says, they are the apple
of His eye. “For thus says the Lord God of Heavenly Armies, ‘For honour He has sent me to the nations
which plundered you, for those who touch you touches the apple of His eye’” (Zechariah 2:8). The blood of
the six million (Jewish Holocaust victims) cries out for those who would enter the battle against ultimate evil. Let us not let them down again. Thank you Bridges for Peace for allowing us to publish this important message. Let all Christians stand side
by side with our Jewish brothers and sisters, speak up when necessary, openly abhor anti-Semitism in any
form, support Israel, help Jews return to their rightful homeland Israel and wherever possible, financially
support Israel by giving to special charities like Bridges for Peace, who do a remarkable job of bring help to
Israeli’s wherever help is needed. Praise the Lord of Glory for them and for their dedicated workers and
supporters who work as a vast global team. Truly, they fulfil scriptural obligations. So what can we do? Pray for Israel (Psalm 122:6). Intercede intelligently with knowledge of the Word of God."
and continues
"‘I have set watchmen on your walls O Jerusalem, who will never hold their peace day or night. You who put
the Lord in remembrance, do not keep silent until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her a praise in the
earth’ (Isaiah 62:6 & 7). Every Christian and every church needs to pray and intercede for Israel. It has to be
a worldwide prayer network. That is why the scripture says they pray day and night. While some people are
sleeping at night, others on the other side of the earth are awake and praying. The second obligation we
have is to offer intelligent support to Israel. The Lord says to, “Comfort, comfort My people” (Isaiah 40:1). God is talking to the Bible believing Gentile Christians. We are to comfort or help the Jewish people because
Israel has now been pardoned (Isaiah 40:2). We owe it to the Jewish people. Every Spiritual blessing we
have received as well as our salvation has come via the Jews. We cannot change what Gentile Christians in
the past have done to the Jews, but we can change our attitude and show the Jews our gratitude from now
on. Some Christians are unaware of how God feels about His people, the Jews. We as Christians have a
part to play in shaping history and our part involves helping and praying for the Jews. "
and continues
"Some of the people who promote the most negative attitude towards the Jews are the media. They are
wickedly biased against the Jews. Shame on the media and shame on their organisations for allowing such
biased reporting. Jesus calls them, “My brothers” and there, He is referring to His biological family, the Jews.
If we give them (His brethren) as little as a glass of water, Jesus said it is as good as giving Him a drink. On
the flip side, if people refuse to help the Jews, it is as serious as refusing to help Jesus Himself. ‘The King
will reply to them, “Truly I tell you, when you did it for one of the least of these My brethren, you did it for
Me … Solemnly I declare to you, when you failed to do it for the least of these, you failed to do it for Me”
(Matthew 25:31 to 46). ‘Let all who hate Zion (Israel) be put to shame’ (Psalm 129:5). ‘For the nation and
kingdom that does not serve you (Jerusalem) in that day, will perish, yes, those nations will be utterly laid
waste’ (Isaiah 60:12). All nations will be judged according to their attitude to Israel. The whole of history is
littered with ‘wrecks’ of great nations and empires that have ignored God’s warnings. It is a sad but real
indictment on the Gentile Christian church, many are against Jews but will not admit they are anti-Semite. Just being passive towards Israel and Jews is enough to be an anti-Semite. Being passive is not standing up
for what is right; being passive is not interceding for Israel; being passive is to allow hundreds of Jewish
children to go hungry in the time of war; being passive is not comforting God’s people. If you are a Gentile
Christian and are passive in your attitude – you are an anti-Semite. We need to repent before God on behalf
of our nations and cry out to Him for mercy. We need to pray for the leadership of the Christian churches
around the world to begin to recognise their sin and repent. The hatred of Jews is not sociological, it is spiritual. That is the reason for anti-Semitism, or more accurately, anti-Judaism. There is a four-fold reason for the dislike of the Jews. Firstly: Salvation through Jesus our Messiah comes from the Jews and He has soundly defeated the devil. The devil has an overwhelming fear of the Messiah and has a terrible dread of being sent to the eternal lake
of fire in judgement. Secondly: Pride and jealousy. Jesus is a Jewish Man Who rules the entire universe when the devil wants to
but cannot. The devil’s pride, arrogance and sin had him cast out of heaven. God said, “How you have fallen
from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground! You said in your heart, ‘I
will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly
in the highest heaven! I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!’ But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit” (Isaiah 14:12 to 15)."
and continues
"Thirdly: Spiritual jealousy. The Jews were chosen because God loved them. ‘You are a holy people to the
Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself out of all the peoples
on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His love on you and choose you because you were more in
number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loves you and
because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your forefathers’ (Deuteronomy 7:6 to 8). The Jews
are a chosen and loved people, they will always be God’s people and He has mercy on them. ‘The Lord will
have mercy on Jacob and will again choose Israel and set them in their own land’ (Isaiah 14:1). Jacob is
another name for Israel (Genesis 35:10). The scriptures explain how the devil was filled with pride, rebelled
and was rejected from heaven and will end up suffering a horrible end in the lake of fire, with no mercy
shown to him or to his evil followers (Isaiah 14:9 to 20; Ezekiel 28:14 to 19; Revelation 20:10). Here we have
the two extremes. The devil was once loved by God, was the anointed and chosen cherub but rebelled and
was eternally rejected out of heaven, and will not be shown any mercy. Israel was later chosen and loved by
God, rebelled and after they have repented, will be shown mercy and welcomed back into fellowship with
God. The jealousy and anger felt by the devil towards Israel because the Jews have been pardoned, something that will never happen with the devil, explains why the devil uses people to hurt and kill the Jews, and because Christians have accepted Jesus Who is Jewish, as our Saviour, we too are often under attack
and suffer persecution. The devil is spiritually jealous of Israel because the devil has been eternally rejected, but God has shown mercy towards Israel. All of Abraham’s offspring were called Hebrews but only the
children of Jacob (Israel) and his son Judah went on to become known as Israelites and Jews. Most of the
Hebrew descendants of Abraham became known as Arabs as they assimilated with the multitudes of native
Arabah tribes living in the vast area now called the Middle East. Abraham had eight sons (Isaac, Ishmael
and six sons to his second wife Keturah) but only Isaac’s descendants were the children of promise, called
or chosen to carry the oracles of God to the whole earth and to bring forth our Messiah. Abraham’s nephew
Lot had two sons, Moab and Ben-Ammi. God rejected all of Abraham’s seven other sons, plus Lot’s two sons, plus Isaac’s son Esau. Those ten rejected sons and nephews produced many thousands of offspring who all
hated and became jealous of the sons of promise – the descendants of Isaac, and that hatred continues
today in the form of intense anti-Semitism."
and lastly says
"The fourth reason for anti-Semitism is worship. The devil desires to be worshipped and pleaded for Jesus
to worship him just once, and he would have given Jesus everything, but Jesus rebuked the devil instead
and quoted scripture. ‘The devil took Jesus to an exceedingly high mountain and showed Him all the
kingdoms of the world and their glory. The devil said to Jesus, "I will give You all of these things, if You will
fall down and worship me." Jesus replied, "Get behind Me Satan! For it is written, 'You will worship the Lord
your God and you will serve Him only’” (Matthew 4:8 to 10; Luke 4:7 & 8). So the fourth reason for the dislike
of Jews and Christians is this: we never worship the devil and nor will we, ever, and he hates that, hence the
persecution of Jews and genuine born-again Christians. The devil desires to be worshipped and the Jews
will never worship him. All of these spiritual reasons are played out in the natural earthly realm in the form of
anti-Semitism. The logical reality is, only those under the influence of the devil, hate the Jews. People who
truly love God and His Son Jesus, will genuinely love the Jews and will do all they can for them. Those who
bless the Jews will be blessed and those who curse, torment or persecute the Jews will themselves receive
the curses and torment (Genesis 12:3). Amen and God bless you. www.bibleabookoftruth.com
Also from the website, bibleabookoftruth.com an article is titled
"The Defensive Wall Israel Needs For Protection"
the article says:
‘Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely
grieved him, shot at him and persecute him but his bow remains strong. The arms of his hands were made
strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel’ (Genesis
49:22 to 24). Joseph (Israel – collectively the Jewish people) is a fruitful vine (there have been millions of descendents of
Abraham) by a spring (sustained by God). His branches (Children of Israel) run over the wall (walls of
Jerusalem). The archers (enemies of Israel and enemies of the Jewish people) have sorely grieved him, shot
at him and persecute him but his bow (inner resolve) remains strong. The arms of his hands (Defence Force)
were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (the Lord God Himself). From there is the
Shepherd, the Rock of Israel (the Messiah comes from Israel).
‘Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem … Day and night they (enemies of Israel)
prowl around the walls. Malice and abuse are also within them. Destructive forces are within them. Threats
and lies do not depart from their streets’ (Psalm 51:18; 55:10 & 11). Many lies and offensive accusations are made against Israel, mainly by the media. One of the targets of the
enemies’ accusations is the defensive wall and fences built around parts of Israel to protect the Jewish
people. The Geneva Convention allows the wall and fences to be built for passive defence so Israel is not
breaking any international law. The wall stops enemy terrorists from entering Israel to murder innocent
Jewish people going about their every day lives. If the wall was not there, Israel would have to arrest many
more aggressive hate-filled men and women who want to destroy any Jewish person they can, including
small children. The small percentage of the wall is in urban areas while the rural areas have a fence. The fence only stops
suicide bombers. The wall stops the suicide bombers and the enemies of Israel who shoot at Israeli houses
and vehicles. If the enemies of Israel would stop the killings and make genuine peace with Israel, the wall
could come down. If the enemies do not want the fence or wall, they should stop firing missiles at Israel, they
should stop shooting at Israeli Troops, they should stop wanting to annihilate the Land that is Israel, they
should stop sending flaming kites and other things to burn the fields, crops and native bushland, they should
stop the hatred and they should stop whinging about the wall. Israel has no choice but erect a wall and
fences to protect their people against violent attacks from their neighbours. When the enemy’s own leaders
refuse to stop the attacks, Israel has no choice but to arrest those evil people responsible for killing and
maiming innocent Israeli’s. "
and continues
"There was no fence or wall until the enemies of Israel started to bomb, stab, blow up, kill, kidnap and destroy
the lives of innocent Jewish people, including children. The security fence and wall is completely the fault of
the enemy neighbours who surround Israel with evil intent. If their leaders had stopped the attacks, the wall
would not have been necessary. The wall is actually helping the enemies of Israel because there are less
checkpoints resulting in more freedom of movement for the enemies who live near the wall and thus a better
standard of living. Israel has made it very clear – when the terrorism and enemy attacks cease there will be
no need for the fence or the wall. Remember this, the terrorism and attacks from Israel’s enemies came first, not the fence. When the enemy stops, the wall and fence will no longer be needed.
Israel has every right to exist and thrive as a people, a nation, a state and as an independent country. They
also have every right to feel safe and live in peace in their own land. God gave the land to the descendents
of Abraham thousands of years ago and the rest of the world needs to accept God’s choice of people and
His choice of land. God chose them, they did not choose themselves. ‘Love your God, obey His voice and
cleave to Him for He is your life and the length of your days so you may dwell in the land God promised to
Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob’ (Deuteronomy 30:20). ‘You (Israel) are a holy people to God. God has
chosen you to be a people for His own possession above all peoples on the face of the earth. He did not set
His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any people for you were the fewest
of all peoples. God loves you and because He will keep the oath He swore to your forefathers … Know
therefore your God, He is God, the Faithful God Who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who
love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations. (Listen to this all you enemies of Israel
who hate God.) God repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to those
who hate Him. He will repay them to their face’ (Deuteronomy 7:6 to 10). The enemies of Israel, whoever and
wherever they are will one day be strongly and decisively judged by God."
and lastly says
"Anti-Semitism has risen its ugly head all over the world but it is worst closest to Israel. The Israeli’s suffer
many casualties because of some evil people who want to do them harm. To the Jewish people, we genuine
believers say this, “You are not alone. We stand with Israel and pray for you. We pray for God’s wisdom as
you face and deal with evil neighbours every day that threaten your peace in the land that is rightfully yours. We stand with you unconditionally and support you in any way, we as individuals can. Prayer has no
geological boundaries. Be strong and know that He is God. He is on your side. ‘As for me, I know my
Redeemer lives. In the end He will stand on the earth. After my skin is destroyed, in my flesh I will see God, Whom I, even I, will see He is on my side. My eyes will see Him and not as a stranger’ (Job 19:25 to 27). ‘He
makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots
in the fire. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. God of Heavenly Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge’ (Psalm 46:9 to 11). Amen and God bless you" www.bibleabookoftruth.com
Another article from bibleabookoftruth.com is titled
"Israel Is God’s Land And Jews Are God’s People"
the article says:
‘The Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land; from the river
of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates’” (Genesis 15:18).
“I will make of you (Abraham) a great nation and I will bless you and make your name famous, and you will
be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse him who curses you. In you, will all the families of
the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2 & 3).
‘God said to Jacob, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel’” (Genesis 32:28). ‘Again God said to
Jacob, “You shall not be called Jacob any longer, but Israel shall be your name.” So the Lord God called him
Israel’ (Genesis 35:10).
When the Israelites accepted the Covenant of Moses, that marked their birth as a nation. They became a
separate people in the eyes of the Lord, and they knew they were special in God’s sight. ‘For what shall it be
known that Your people have found favour in Your sight? Is it not in Your going with us so that we are
distinguished from all other people upon the face of the earth?’ (Exodus 33:16). The Lord said, “You are a
holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself out of
all the nations on the earth. The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more
in number than any other nation, for you were the fewest in number, but because the Lord loves you and
because He would keep the oath which He swore to your forefathers” (Deuteronomy 7:6 to 8).
When the Lord God of Israel makes a statement, it always comes true because He has spoken it. God’s
covenant with Abraham guarantees that the boundaries stated in Genesis will one day hold true. God
promised to Abraham and his descendants, as a perpetual inheritance, the land between the Euphrates and
the Nile Rivers, and God cares about all of that land because it belongs to Him. ‘A land for which the Lord
your God cares. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end
of the year’ (Deuteronomy 11:12). The Lord promised Abraham a huge swathe of land for his descendants
and one day, as the Lord promised, Israel will include all of this land.
The land of Israel is deeply embedded in the hearts of the Jewish people. ‘For your servants take pleasure in
the stones and favour her dust’ (Psalm 102:14). Israel is their land, given to them by God and every nonJewish person needs to realise that. ”Yes, I (the Lord) will rejoice over them (the Jews) to do them good, and
I will plant them in this land assuredly with My whole heart and with My whole soul” (Jeremiah 32:41). We
can see that the Lord has indeed ‘planted’ His people back into the Holy Land and they will stay there. God
is calling Jews from all over the world to return to their land. Why is Israel the ‘Holy’ land? Because the Lord
has chosen to establish His holy name there. ‘I will gather them and will bring them to the place where I have
chosen as a dwelling for My Name’ (Nehemiah 1:9). ‘Your people (the Jews) shall all be righteous; they shall
possess the land forever, the branch of My (God’s) planting, the work of My hands, that I might be glorified.
The least of them shall become a tribe and the small one a strong nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it in its
appointed time’ (Isaiah 60:21 & 22). "
the article continues
"The Holy Land of Israel is not Palestine and the land has never ever belonged to Arabs, Moslems or the
descendents of Ishmael, so we should never call the land Palestine. In the Bible it is called the land of Israel
and that has never changed. Palestine means the land of the Philistines and it was named that by the
Romans. Israel and Judea had been nations for over 1,000 years but were defeated by the Roman Empire.
The Romans exiled or murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, then in order to obliterate any connection
of the Jewish people to their land, renamed it Palestine after the Jews’ Biblical enemy, the Philistines. For
the next 2,000 years no other national group developed in that land and no ruler ever chose Jerusalem as its
capital. Instead, different peoples came, colonised, ruled then disappeared. Jews remained a constant
presence throughout these changes, and always kept Jerusalem as their capital because Jews were always
the majority. The number of Jews slowly grew as exiled Jews returned in periodic waves of immigration; their
numbers growing and at times, falling. The region was an impoverished, barren and thinly populated area.
There was plenty of room for returning Jews to settle in Israel, without displacing the few Arabs who lived
there. It is important for people to know the facts about Israel, given the misinformation sent to us via the
media who are almost always biased in favour of Israel’s enemies. Some of the people who promote the
most negative attitude towards Israel are journalists with their own agenda. They are wickedly biased against
the Jews. Shame on the media and shame on their organisations for allowing such biased reporting. Now we
will read the truth about God’s promises to Abraham regarding Israel, and then we will look at the disputed
territories.
Abraham was the father and founder of the Jewish people and they are still God’s chosen people and always
will be. God planned for salvation to come to the Gentiles via the Jews (John 4:22). Gentiles are not terrible
people; they are simply non-Jews. ‘In you (Abraham and his descendants) will all the families of the earth be
blessed’ (Genesis 12:3) … all families – both Jews and Gentiles. Jesus was a Jewish Man descended
directly from Abraham, and the promise made to Abraham by God in that scripture was fulfilled 2,000 years
later when Paul took the Gospel message of salvation through the blood of Jesus to the Gentiles. Paul and "
& Continues
"Barnabas spoke out boldly saying, “It was necessary that God’s message should be spoken to you (the
Jews) first … and now we turn to the Gentiles” (Acts 13:46).
Israel was promised to Abraham and his descendants (the Jews) so it is their land and will always be their
land. It was originally known as Canaan (Genesis 11:31), then as the land of the Hebrews (Genesis 40:15).
What is now known as the West Bank, was once divided peacefully between the original tribes of Issachar,
Zebulun, Naphtali, Gad and Manasseh and was later called Judea and Samaria, which were cities within
ancient Israel. Gaza was known as Gaza way back in Genesis 10:19 and was owned by Noah’s son Ham,
Ham’s son Canaan and his descendants. The Canaanites became a wicked people and through the
judgement of God, were ejected from the land of Canaan by the Israelites (Deuteronomy 9:4 & 5). The land
allotted to Judah was from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea (Joshua 15:1 to 12). Gaza became part
of the territory owned by the tribe of Judah, so it was part of the land of Israel from the beginning. The Lord
changed Jacob’s name to Israel and his twelve sons, who fathered the twelve tribes and all of their
descendants, were known as the children of Israel.
Jewish habitation in the land of Israel has been continuous ever since the twelve tribes moved there. Even
after the Romans exiled or murdered much of the Jewish population, many remained in Israel and flourished
throughout the region. While in the Diaspora, Jews always promised to rejoin those who had never left Israel.
Judaism was the majority religion in Jerusalem. Throughout history, much has been written about the exiled
Jews, but little was known about the Jewish families who have lived continuously in Israel for thousands of
years. Only 160 years before the birth of Jesus, the Jews warred against the might of the Greek/Syrian
Empire (the War of the Maccabees) and won, securing Israel once again as the land belonging to the Jews.
That happened before the Roman Empire invaded Israel. No Arab Palestinian nation had ever existed in
Israel. After Rome fell, Israel became a minor district ruled by a succession of empires. Arabs living in Israel
were Syrians left over from the Greek/Syrian occupation prior to 160 BC. These Arabs did not have a distinct
Palestinian identity prior to the 1967 war, so until then, they never demanded their own land. Because the
Jewish settlements were built on uninhabited land, they did not displace Arab families. Over a million Arabs
currently and contentedly live in Jewish Israel, and most do not want a separate ‘Palestinian State’. "
& continues
"After the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Article 80 states that Israel’s only impediment to settlement building
was self-imposed. The territories of the West Bank and Gaza were never allocated to a sovereign nation nor
were they assigned any fixed boundaries. That means both Jews and Palestinian Arabs legally have equal
claim over all of that land and the Israeli’s can put their security fence wherever they want to. Israel’s
boundary once included all of what is now Jordan, which was the original ‘Palestinian State’. So we can see
that Israeli control of the disputed territories is not an ‘illegal occupation’ and Israeli settlements do not violate
any international laws. The media reporters who make such claims are lying, simply for reasons of antiIsrael/anti-Semitic political propaganda. Israel has given vast swathes of land to the Palestinians just to
make peace and that highlights Israel’s willingness to make significant compromises for the sake of peace in
their region. Every time Israel tries to make peace with the Palestinians, it is the Palestinians who reject it.
Palestinians are actually a ‘made up’ race. Today’s ‘Palestinians’ are actually Arabs, and are close relatives
of those living in neighbouring countries, and from where most of them or their ancestors came from. Until
recently, Arabs did not consider the land of Israel theirs and they refused to call themselves Palestinians.
During the British Peel Commission in 1937, an Arab leader said there was no such place as Palestine. In
the Anglo-American Committee during an inquiry in 1946, another Arab leader said there was no such thing
as Palestine in all of history. To the UN Security Council in 1956, yet another Arab leader Ahmed Shukairy,
said Palestine was nothing but southern Syria. Then eight years later, the very same man, Ahmed Shukairy
became the founding chairman of the PLO and said he would drive the Jews into the sea. The land of
Canaan was never promised to the Arabs nor did they live there in any great numbers until modern times
and they make a number of conflicting claims. The Arabs could not have descended from the original
Palestinians – the Philistines who were giants in stature; nor could they have descended from Abraham’s
eldest son, Ishmael. They make these claims to try to ‘prove’ they are the legitimate heirs of the land God
gave to Abraham. Arabs are a mixed race of several people from that region. They are made up of the
ancient descendants of Noah’s three sons. As we have already read, the people in the area were Ham’s
descendants. As they broke away into various family groups, they called themselves Kenites, Kenizites,
Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Jebusites or Egyptians but
never Palestinians. There is no direct genealogy tracing today’s Arabs back to Ishmael, and they could not
be descended from the land’s original inhabitants. God promised the land to Abraham before Ishmael was
born. Since it already had many Canaanite inhabitants, how could Arab descendants of Ishmael be at the
same time, descendants of the Canaanites? That is quite impossible! Further to that, Abraham was not from
Canaan, he was from Ur of the Chaldees and had immigrated to Canaan. Ishmael’s mother Hagar was an
Egyptian. Neither Abraham nor Hagar were among the original inhabitants of Canaan and are not even
remotely related to the Canaanite people. As we know, Hagar and Ishmael were banished from the
Promised Land to live permanently in the Wilderness of Paran (Genesis 21:21), which is near Beersheba
(Genesis 21:14). The Lord told Abraham to send Ishmael away so he would not be an heir with Isaac and
therefore could have no claim on the land (Genesis 21:10 & 12; Galatians 4:30). Ishmael’s descendants
never lived in Canaan but settled in the Arabian Peninsula. They did not live in Israel when it was called
Palestine so they cannot with any honesty claim to be the ‘original inhabitants’. Today’s so-called "
& continues
"‘Palestinians’ are promoting a lie but it is the lie, encouraged by the secular media that the world loves and
gladly uses as a ‘cudgel’ against Israel.
It wasn’t until about the seventh century AD, when the rather despicable false religion based on the demonic
‘dreams’ of a mentally sick man called Muhammad took hold in Mecca and Medina. If ‘Palestine’ is so
important to the Moslems, why is it not once mentioned in the Quran? The Bible talks about the peoples of
the area being afraid of the Israelites and they included the ‘inhabitants of Philistia’ and the ‘inhabitants of
Canaan’ who melted away (Exodus 15:14 to 16). The Prophets Isaiah and Joel also mention Philistia but
never refer to Philistia as the land of Canaan or Israel (Isaiah 14:29 & 31 and Joel 3:4). Philistia was where
the Philistines lived and it was where Gaza was then and is today. This is true history not mentioned in the
Quran. Even the Philistines were not the original inhabitants of the land; they were an Aegean race. Arabs
living in Israel today cannot claim ethnic, linguistic or an historical relationship to the Philistines and cannot
justify calling themselves ‘Palestinians’. Those who claim to be Palestinians are in fact Arabs by birth,
language, Islamic religion and culture and have emigrated from surrounding Arab countries. Most are
attracted by Israel’s prosperity, created by Jews returning to their Promised Land.
Even though a great deal of the Quran is plagiarised from the Bible, there is no mention of Jerusalem even
once. King David established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel more than 3,000 years ago. Islam has been
around for about 1,200 years, so it was the Jewish capital more then a thousand years before the religion of
Islam was invented. Even when Moslems controlled the Middle East, Jerusalem was not given any
importance and was largely ignored. The population of Jerusalem was mostly Jews, some were Christians
but only a very few were Arabs. As late as 1964, there was no reference to Jerusalem in the Palestinian
National Covenant. Suddenly and inexplicably, the Moslems began to insist that Jerusalem belonged to them
as much as the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and had always belonged to them. Moslem writers only very
recently began to pretend that Jerusalem was as holy as Mecca or Medina, and even call Jerusalem ‘our
most sacred place’. The Palestinians demand the ‘return’ of Jerusalem as their capital, when it has never in
history been their capital. Even when the mosque was built in Jerusalem, the area was not given any special
significance in Islam. Yasser Arafat’s grandfather, Amin Mohammed al-Husseini was a Jew-killing partner of
Hitler, was a terrorist in his own right and he was also Arafat’s mentor and guide. The PLO was formed in
1964, not in Israel but in Cairo by Egypt’s President, Nasser. The Moslems have invented a ‘history’ to suit
themselves. "
& continues
"False religions actually worship the devil and he loves that. Buddhists, Hindus, Islamists and other religions
that bow down are not worshipping God the Father – they are worshipping the devil and they will all end up
together in the lake of fire unless they turn to God for forgiveness, repent and are saved by the blood of
Jesus. The Islamist word Allah does not mean God at all … far from it. That is a lie perpetuated by the devil.
Allah was one of Muhammad’s 360 gods, and to fall in line with the ‘trend’ of monotheism back in the year
622, Muhammad simply chose the ‘chief god’ of their 360 gods and made it the main object of worship. It
had been the official god of Muhammad’s tribe for centuries before he was born. His so-called ‘revelations’
were so strange and terrifying to him, he knew they could only come from the devil; he knew he was
possessed by the devil and he acted like he was. Muhammad attempted suicide several times; he was a
false prophet; he married a little girl of just eight years old – and that makes him a paedophile. Most Islamists
are ignorant of these facts about their own religion and continue to be hopelessly deceived and continue to
worship their god, the devil. Jesus our Messiah is their only hope. However, the devil does not want these
false religions to stop worshipping him, so there is an immense struggle in the spiritual realm to keep these
people bound in their sin – hence the persecution of Jews and Christians. Moslems are sometimes murdered
if they turn away from worshipping the devil and desire to worship God.
Jerusalem is the capital of God’s chosen land. It is loved by God and was lamented over by Jesus. “O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I
have gathered your children together as a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you refused!
You would not! Behold, your house is forsaken. For I declare to you, you will not see Me again until you say,
‘Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord” (Matthew 23:37 to 39). "
& continues
"Jesus said He would not come back until the Jewish people could say of Him ‘Blessed is He Who comes in
the name of the Lord’. In other words – to acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah. The Jewish people have to be
made ready to welcome Him back. God is at present, preparing Israel for that great event. The way the Lord
gave Israel back to the Jews, and the gathering of the exiled Jewish people back to their own land is nothing
short of a miracle. Our Jewish Messiah will one day return to the Jewish capital, Jerusalem. Jerusalem does
not and never ever did belong to the Arabs. Moslems do not want the Messiah to come because He would
prove their religion to be false, and so they are resisting the return of Jews to Israel and they are resisting the
return of Jesus. Anybody who resists the regathering of the Lord’s people, resists the return of the Messiah.
This is God the Father speaking, “For behold, the days are coming when I will release from exile My people
Israel and Judah, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess
it … In the latter days you shall understand this” (Jeremiah 30:3 & 24). That verse makes it clear that this
prophecy is about the latter days, which is now. All of Jeremiah chapters 30 & 31 tell us all about the return
of the Jews to Israel, which precedes the return of the Lord Jesus.
The Jews have been exiled into different nations around the world for thousands of years, yet by a miracle,
they have remained Jews. There are Jews still living in Iran and Iraq who are the descendants of the Jews
that lived in Persia during the time of King Xerxes (Esther 2:6) after being forced there during the reign of
Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 1:1 & 2). They still live there and know their ancestry. If we took an ancient tribe
and exiled them to far away lands for only three generations, their bloodline, culture, religion and beliefs
would assimilate into the countries where they lived, but the Lord has shepherded His chosen people, the
Jews, and kept them as they are. They have always remained Jews in spite of terrible persecutions, vast
distances and thousands of years. They are still a distinct people with their own customs, language, culture
and music. That in itself is an amazing miracle and only the mighty hand of God could have achieved that.
‘Hear the word of the Lord, O you nations … He Who scattered Israel will gather him and will guard him as a
shepherd guards his flock’ (Jeremiah 31:10). Another amazing miracle is their return to the land promised to
Abraham. Modern Israel is like a melting pot, blending the new arrivals into one people with one culture, one
language and their own unique holidays, feasts and celebrations. That verse is a message from God to
nations all over the earth, that He is gathering His people back to Israel. This prophetical scripture is being
fulfilled in our time. Despite all the pressure, opposition, wars and struggles, Israel will continue to be
populated by Jews in their own land. God has decreed it, spoken it, and is performing it, and there is nothing
anyone can do to stop God’s plan for His people. ‘Jerusalem shall not be plucked up or overthrown any
more, forever’ (Jeremiah 31:40). “‘I will bring back the exiles of My people Israel, and they shall build the
ruined cities and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine from them. They shall also
make gardens and eat of the fruit of them. I will plant them on their land and they shall no more be plucked
up out of their land which I have given them.” says the Lord your God’ (Amos 9:14 & 15). This prophecy from
Amos is being fulfilled right now. The Jews have made their deserts and wastelands profitable farmlands that
produce food for Israel in abundance, so they are able to export some of it. "
& continues
"When God set Israel apart, He set them apart as a nation, not as individuals. When God forgave them and
reconciled with them, He reconciled with them as a nation. God has reconciled with them in the exact same
land as He once disowned them, then once in their own land, they will appoint themselves a head or in
modern language, a Prime Minister, which they have done. ‘The number of the children of Israel shall be as
the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and instead of it being said to them, “You are
not My people” it shall be said to them “You are sons of the Living God.” Then shall the children of Judah
and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head, for they shall go up out of
the land, and great shall be the day for the reborn Israel’ (Hosea 1:10 & 11). ‘Just as the Lord says in Hosea,
“Those who were not My people I will call My people, and her who was not beloved I will call My beloved.
And it shall be in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people’ they shall be called Sons
of the living God’” (Romans 9:25 & 26). The regathering of Israel is one of the main themes of Biblical
prophecy. The above scriptures are just a few but there are many more following the same theme.
There is no place named Palestine: it is Israel, it has been Israel since the Israelites moved there and it will
always be Israel, occupied by Jewish people. Israel was erroneously and temporarily called Palestine by
pagans, who did not believe in God the Father or our Saviour Jesus. If there ever is a Palestinian state, it will
wither before it grows. ‘Let them all be put to shame and turned backward who hate Zion. Let them be as the
grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up’ (Psalm 129:5 & 6).
Through the sacrifice of Jesus Who was Jewish, we can have eternal life. There are hundreds of scriptures
mentioning our Messiah, in various ways, way back in the book of Genesis, right through to Malachi.
Through the writings of God-fearing, righteous Jews, we know we Gentiles can be adopted into the eternal
Kingdom of God, and therefore receive the same inheritance originally given to the Jewish people; and God
blesses us if we receive the word given to us. ‘Blessed are your eyes because they do see and your ears
because they do hear’ (Matthew 13:16). Jews are, and will always be God’s chosen people, just as Israel
was and always will be, God’s chosen land. "
and lastly says
"We non-Jewish people, have a lot to thank the Jews for. It can’t be stated strongly enough, how much we
need to appreciate Jewish people. God’s chosen people who live in His chosen land brought us our salvation
… our eternal life. Thank God for the Jews! Praise God for them! They brought us the whole Bible. The Lord
spoke to Moses face to face like a man speaks to his friend, and the Lord told Moses to write everything
down (Exodus 24:4; 33:11; Numbers 33:2). From that humble beginning in the desert, we have the wonderful
salvation message, written by Jews as they were inspired by God (2 Timothy 3:16). Other Jewish men, the
prophets and later the apostles, wrote more of God’s instructions down, which has been recorded for us to
learn the way of salvation so we can obey the Lord and be saved.
Amen and God bless you." www.bibleabookoftruth.com
Also from the website, bibleabookoftruth.com an article is titled
"Israelis Are Entitled To Live In Their Own Land Of Israel"
the article says:
‘The Lord God said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives and your father's house and go to the land
I will show you. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a
blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you. In you will all of the families
of the earth be blessed … I will give this land to your descendants" (Genesis 12:1 to 3 & 7). ‘The Lord said to
Abram after Lot was separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and from the place where you are, look north,
south, east and west, for all the land you can see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. I will make
your offspring as numerous as the dust of the earth … Arise, walk through the length and breadth of this land
for I will give it to you" (Genesis 13:14 to 17). ‘The Lord God made a covenant with Abram saying, "To your
descendents I have given this land (Israel), from the river of Egypt (Nile) to the great river Euphrates’”
(Genesis 15:18). ‘Behold, My covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. Your
name will no more be Abram but your name will be Abraham for I have made you the father of a multitude of
nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you. I will
establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for
an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you. I will give to you and to your
descendants after you, the land where you are travelling, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting
possession. I will be their God" (Genesis 17:4 to 8).
‘The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go to Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. Sojourn in
this land and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these
lands and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your descendants as
the stars of the sky and will give to your descendants all these lands. In your descendants will all the nations
of the earth be blessed because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My requirements, My commandments,
My statutes and My laws’" (Genesis 26:2 to 5). God said to Jacob, "I am YHWH, the God of Abraham and
Isaac. The land where you are resting, I will give to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be
as numerous as the dust of the earth and you will spread abroad to the west, east, north and south. In you
and in your descendants will all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you
wherever you go and will bring you again to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have
spoken of to you" (Genesis 28:13 to 15). God made it very clear, the land of Israel was given to the
descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob (who was renamed Israel, Genesis 35:10) and most
definitely not through Abraham’s other children (Genesis 21:10 to 13). "
the article continues
"These promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob sealed the land of Israel for the Hebrews, later known as the
children (descendants) of Israel then called Jews after Jacob’s son, Judah. ‘(Israel is) a land the Lord your
God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of
the year’ (Deuteronomy 11:12). Israel is a very special nation to God (Psalm 135:4), not only geographically
but also spiritually. Jesus lamented over Jerusalem (Luke 13:34 & 35). Just how important the land of Israel
and Jewish people are to God and indeed to all mankind, can be revealed through the scriptures. Before
Jews existed as a people, when their ancestors were still in Mesopotamia, the Lord set the borders of all
Gentile nations based solely on His future purposes for the Jewish people according to the numbers of Jews
that would be living around the world. Have a close study of this verse. ‘When the Most High gave allotments
(lands) to the sons of Adam (Gentiles) as their inheritance, when He separated the children of Adam, He
stationed boundaries of the (Gentile) peoples according to the number of the (future) children of Israel’
(Deuteronomy 32:8). That is absolutely incredible! This verse teaches us, in His foreknowledge God gave
Gentile nations their lands according to the future plans He had for a people yet unborn. Jewish people did
not yet exist when the Lord set the boundaries of each nation, yet He knew His future chosen people would
one day be scattered around the world. God knows the end from the beginning and knew He would one day
choose a race of people for His own possession to bring forth His oracles and our Saviour to the world. At
the time the Lord God revealed this fact to Moses, the children of Israel were still one cohesive nation, long
before they were scattered. This verse is both historical and prophetic. If we can comprehend the enormity of
these amazing facts and the vast length of time since the Lord first decided to create His special land and
His special people for His own special purposes, we should be able to fully cooperate with the Lord as His
plans and purposes for Israel are brought to pass. Numerous prophecies given to us by God’s prophets
inform us what His plans are, and the plans He made thousands of years ago are being fulfilled in our
lifetime. How privileged we are to be part of God’s eternal plan! It is both exciting and breathtaking to see the
events written about thousands of years ago, happening before our eyes!
About two thousand years after creation, God chose Abraham from the Hebrew race to fulfil His eternal
purposes. The Hebrews were the descendants of Shem and Eber (from where we get the name Hebrew and
their language) and Peleg was Eber’s son. It was during the days of Peleg (his name means ‘divided’) when
the Lord divided up the lands on the earth (Genesis 10:25; 1 Chronicles 1:19). All the dry land on earth after
Noah’s flood was one vast land mass. In a cataclysmic event that took place during the days of Peleg, the "
and continues
"Spirit of Wisdom divided up that land mass into what we have today, divided into oceans, seas, mountains,
dry land and islands (Proverbs 8:23 to 29). It was after the tower of Babel when the Lord scattered and
separated all Gentile people on earth, giving them new languages (Genesis 11:8 & 9). This was when the
Lord set the boundaries of all nations on earth as an inheritance to each group of people as they settled
around the world. The dividing of the land on earth, then the separating of all people on earth after Babel,
was part of God’s eternal master plan. God kept the descendants of Eber in Mesopotamia where Abraham
was born, then He moved Abraham and his family to the land that would later be named Israel. Over a
thousand years later, the Lord Himself set the borders of Israel in detail according to the size of the individual
tribes of the children of Israel. It is the Lord Who is in charge of Israel’s borders, not the Israeli leaders and
certainly not any outside government body. It was the Lord Himself Who set the borders of Israel and when
world leaders move those borders, they will be held accountable (Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 22:28). We
can see by reading these Bible verses, the Lord had plans and purposes for Israel and the Jewish people
long before they existed as a nation.
Before the Lord laid the foundation of the earth, that is before creation, He had in mind the salvation
message that was to come through His chosen people who lived in His chosen land. Salvation to all nations
began with the Jews in Israel (John 4:22), making the holy land the house of God and the only gateway to
heaven, and it was Jacob who realised that fact. “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the
house of God and this is the gateway of heaven" (Genesis 28:17). ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus, Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in the Messiah, as God
chose us in Jesus before the foundation of the world, so we would be holy and without blemish before Him in
love, having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus to Himself according to the good pleasure
of His desire’ (Ephesians 1:3 to 5). ‘We who have believed (in the Messiah) will enter into the heavenly rest
as God has said, "I swore in My wrath they will not enter into My rest," although the work (of salvation) was
complete from the foundation of the world’ (Hebrews 4:3). "
& continues
"The children of Israel fought long and hard for their Promised Land. Tribe by tribe they entered into their own
territories, filling the land God had promised to them but only after everyone who had left Egypt had died – all
except Joshua and Caleb. The judgement of God falls on all who slander the land of Israel. It is a holy land
chosen by God and when people slander it, they are slandering the Lord’s choice of location for His future
habitation with His people. ‘I (John) saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from
God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold,
God's home is with people and He will dwell with them. They will be His people and God Himself will be with
them as their God’” (Revelation 21:2 & 3). ‘The spies brought an evil report to the children of Israel, of the
land they had spied out saying, “The land is a land that devours its inhabitants’” (Numbers 13:32). What
happened to people who slandered Israel? The Lord threatened to wipe out the entire population of all
twelve tribes but Moses pleaded for their lives (Numbers 14:12 & 19). Then the Lord said He would destroy
everyone except Joshua and Caleb. Their descendants would inherit the land along with only the children of
the original tribes (Numbers 14:23 to 38). We must be very careful not to slander the land of Israel.
When the Lord said, “In you will all the families on earth be blessed,” and “I am with you and will keep you
wherever you go and will bring you again into this land,” the Lord was not talking about Abraham, Isaac or
Jacob. He was talking about their descendants, hundreds of years into the future. For example, “In you
(Abraham’s bloodline) will all the families on earth be blessed,” God meant through the sacrifice of Jesus, a
Descendant of Abraham, all people on earth have the opportunity of the blessing of salvation, although as
we know most people choose to reject the salvation message. God was not only talking about salvation, He
was also talking about the way the Lord blesses any country where Jews are. They are exceptionally
innovative and have blessed the whole world with their clever inventions, with their compassion during times
of crisis and in many other ways. Jewish people everywhere and Israel really are God’s Light to the nations,
and Gentiles the world over should wake up and realise that and not persecute them. “I am with you (all of
Abraham’s descendants) and will keep you (the Hebrew/Jewish people) wherever you (the Jews) go, and I
will bring you (the descendants of Jacob) again into this land,” was a spoken miracle and future prophecy.
Throughout the thousands of years the Jews have been scattered all over the world, they have maintained
their religion, culture, feasts, calendar and in many cases, their own language of Hebrew. That would have
been impossible if the Lord had not miraculously kept them as Jews wherever they went in the world. The
Lord told Jacob, He would bring him (meaning the Jewish people) back to the land called Canaan long
before it was renamed Israel and long before Jacob’s family ever left there. That prophecy has been fulfilled
three times; the first time was when Jacob returned to Canaan from Haran (Genesis 31:13). The second time
was when the Israelites left Egypt and returned to Canaan, and again in our modern times as they return to
Israel from all over the world. Isaac was told not to go to Egypt. Abraham’s Egyptian mistress Hagar and her
son Ishmael went to live in Paran, Egypt and Assyria (Genesis 21:21; 25:18). Abraham’s other six children
born to his second wife Keturah were all sent away to the Far East (Genesis 25:6) so the whole of Canaan
was to be inherited by Isaac, Jacob and their numerous descendants. "
& continues
"The Lord’s description of Ishmael fits the enemies of Israel perfectly. ‘Ishmael will be like a wild donkey
among men. His hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all
of his brothers’ (Genesis 16:12) ‘Ishmael lived opposite all of his relatives’ (Genesis 25:18). Living opposite
all his brothers and relatives means to oppose them all; not only Isaac’s offspring but all of Keturah’s
offspring too and we can see the conflict in the Middle East is not just between Israel (Jacob) and one other
nation (Ishmael), but some Middle Eastern nations are at war with each other and some have internal
conflict. Sunni, Shia, Turkmen, Kurds and other Arab ethnic groups constantly fight amongst themselves and
so the wild donkey Ishmael was, has influenced all his descendants, plus all the offspring of his relatives’
descendants, the six sons of Keturah. They most certainly are the aggressive wild donkeys who oppose
each other, raising their hands against each other, just as the Lord said they would be.
It is not only Ishmael’s descendants and Keturah’s descendants who are at war with Israel but Esau’s
offspring became enemies of Israel too. Ishmael and Isaac were half-brothers who seemed to reconcile their
differences when Abraham died but it was only superficial and temporary (Genesis 25:7 to 10). After
Abraham died, the twin sons of Isaac (Jacob and Esau) had a disagreement and they began a feud that
lasted for twenty-one years. Afterwards they too seemed to reconcile and once again it was superficial and
temporary (Genesis 25:21 to 33:20). Esau’s nickname was Edom, which means ‘Red and hairy’. From
Esau/Edom came the Edomites who were enemies of Jacob. It is the descendants of Esau/Edom who want
the Promised Land of Israel for themselves but God will never allow that to happen again. They had their
chance when the Ottoman Empire took control of the land but it has been wrested from the descendants of
Esau and given back to the descendants of Jacob. ‘Thus says the Lord God, “In the fire of My jealousy I
have spoken against the nations and against all Edom that have appointed My land to themselves for a
possession … But you mountains of Israel, you will shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My
people Israel for they are at hand to come home’” (Ezekiel 36:5 & 8). Lot was the nephew of Abraham and
the two sons of Lot, Moab and Ben Ammi also became enemies of Israel. Lot had two very wicked daughters
who had survived the destruction of Sodom only to produce a son each in the vilest possible way (Genesis
19:30 to 38). Moab and Ben Ammi grew up to become leaders, produced two evil tribes, the Moabites and
the Ammonites and claimed lands of their own. From their beginning, the Moabites and the Ammonites were
always jealous of the children of Israel. "
& continues
"Modern Israel has enemies on five fronts due to family feuds and jealousy that happened thousands of years
ago. The area called Arabia was first called Arabia and the people, Arabians during the reign of King
Solomon (2 Chronicles 9:14; 17:11). They were a troublesome peoples even back then, and they formed
alliances with the Philistines and other neighbouring tribes, all collectively called Arabs. The descendants of
Keturah, Esau, Moab, Ben Ammi and Hagar’s son Ishmael, plus the other Arabs, all resent the descendants
of Jacob (the Jews). These peoples (excluding the Jews) are called ‘Hagar in Arabia’, they have to answer to
Jerusalem and are all in spiritual bondage. ‘This Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answers to the
Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children (descendants)’ (Galatians 4:25). The
Arabs were in spiritual bondage before the false religion called Islam ever began about 1,500 years ago and
obviously they are not all descendants of Abraham, although most of them claim to be. It is foolish for Arabs
who want to be proud of their connection to Abraham, to deny the promises made to Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. The Lord God spoke audibly to each of these three men, promising the land to them and their
descendants indefinately, and the Lord made it very clear the land was not to go to Ishmael, the six sons of
Keturah or to Esau, but solely to Isaac and his descendants, and because of that promise, the land belongs
to them. Also because of that same promise, we have been blessed with eternal salvation through
Abraham’s Descendant, Jesus. This is more than an earthly story. It is a long parable of ‘types’. Abraham
represents the Father. Isaac represents the promised Son. Jacob and Esau represent Jews and Gentiles
growing up in this world together. The battle over Israel is a spiritual battle. We as Bible believing Christians
must stand with Israel as they fight for their own land. If we are prepared to accept the blessing of salvation
through Abraham’s Descendant, then we must also accept the rest of the promise and help Abraham’s
current descendants keep their land. We must stand with Israel and especially Jerusalem. This is how we
ought to pray for Israel as written in Psalm 122:1 to 9. ‘I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the
house of God!” Our feet are standing within your gates Jerusalem. Jerusalem is built as a city compact
together and where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to
the name of YHWH. There are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house. Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. Peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces.
For my brothers' and my companions' sakes I will now say, "Peace be within you." For the sake of the house
of the Lord our God, I will seek your good’.
We must seek the good of Israel. There is a call being heard throughout the nations of the earth from the
voice of God Himself, calling for a dedicated Body of Believers who truly believe His promises to Israel will
be fulfilled and who believe His covenant relationship with the descendants of Abraham is eternal (Luke "
& continues
"1:55). It is a directive from God for genuine believers to accept the reality, Jews are God’s chosen people
(Deuteronomy 7:6), Israel is His chosen land and God has promised to restore the Jews to their Promised
Land where they will stay (Amos 9:14 & 15). We must stand in solidarity with those He loves. The Lord is
calling genuine believers to, "Comfort, comfort My people. Speak comfortably (kindly) to Jerusalem and call
out to her, her warfare is accomplished and her iniquity is pardoned” (Isaiah 40:1 & 2). Gentile people within
the nations have been called to help bring the sons and daughters of Abraham home to Israel. Many
Christians really love the Jewish people and will do all they can to help Jews return to Israel and the
following prophecy reveals the love we have for the Jews. ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will lift up My
hand to the (Gentile) nations and set up My banner to the peoples. They (the Gentiles) will bring your sons in
their hearts and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders’” (Isaiah 49:22). ‘The Lord remembered His
holy Word and His servant Abraham … He gave them the lands of the pagan nations’ (Psalm 105:42 & 44).
Over three thousand years ago (circa 1320 BC), Israel was recognised as a legitimate independent nation
and three hundred years later (circa 1020 BC), had its own royal family from whom Jesus has descended as
the Son of David. The whole of the Old Testament is the history and the prophesied future of Israel, the Jews
and their eternal destiny. All Christians have a common origin with the Jews. Christianity came out of
Judaism and we owe them a debt for what we have gained through them. ‘If the Gentiles have been made
partakers of the Jews’ spiritual things, they (the Gentiles) owe it to them (the Jews) to serve them in earthly
things’ (Romans 15:27). Christianity was started by Jesus Who was Jewish, then continued and was spread
around the world by the Jewish apostles (Romans 1:8) before any Gentiles became involved (Acts 11:18).
Abraham was the Jews’ biological forefather but when Gentiles accept Jesus, Abraham becomes our
spiritual father in the faith (Romans 4:16). Just like the Hebrews were a holy nation, a kingdom of priests, a
chosen race and His own possession (Exodus 19:5 & 6; Deuteronomy 14:2) so the Gentiles who accept
Jesus are individual parts of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation and God’s own possession (1
Peter 2:9) as we are grafted into the olive tree (Romans 11:17).
The Bible is full is references to Israel and God often speaks of Himself as the God of Israel or the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who were the ancestors of all modern Israelis. There have been Hebrews/Jews
living in Israel consistently since the days of Abraham and for most of that time, were the largest population
(except when they went to Egypt for 430 years). Even during the exile to Babylon, many Jews remained in
Israel to tend the farms and produce food (Jeremiah 52:17). After the sacking of Jerusalem in 70 AD some
Jews stayed there. Census records show towns that were considered to be mostly Arab were in fact mostly
Jewish. In April 1920 the San Remo Peace Conference recognised the continuous, unbroken Jewish
possession of Israel (then called Palestine) for aeons. The Jews could not possibly have ‘stolen’ the land
from the Arabs because they already own it and have done for thousands of years. The lost ‘ten tribes’ have
never been lost. The dedicated Jews from the ten tribes moved south during Israel’s civil war, strengthening
the tribes of Judah and Benjamin with their numbers (2 Chronicles 11:16 & 17). By doing that, the Lord has
miraculously preserved Jews from each of the twelve tribes except the tribe of Dan who has been replaced
by Manasseh and their whereabouts will be revealed in God’s time (Revelation 7:4 to 8)"
& continues
"‘The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable’ (Romans 11:29) and when the Lord called the Jews, it was
forever. Many Jews have not yet accepted Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) as their Saviour but that is because the
Lord has partially closed their hearts until the last of the Gentiles has been saved, then all Israel will be
saved (Romans 11:25 to 27). In 70 AD Jerusalem fell to the Gentiles just as Jesus prophesied. “Jerusalem
will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled” (Luke 21:24). That meant
Jerusalem would be overruled by Gentiles until the time came for the Lord to intervene and return Jerusalem
to the Jews and that happened in three stages last century (1917, 1948 & 1967) as part of God’s plan for
Israel. God’s plan is world peace and He will achieve that from Jerusalem when Jesus returns to earth.
Weapons will be made into farm tools and there will be no more wars. ‘Many (Gentile) peoples will say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of God, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us of His ways
and we will walk in His paths." Out of Zion the law will go forth and the Word of God from Jerusalem. He will
judge between the nations and will decide concerning many peoples. They will beat their swords into
ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will
they war any more. House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the Light of the Lord’ (Isaiah 2:3 to 5).
Christians need to study the Bible to read for themselves what the Lord says about Israel’s future. Pastors
need to teach their congregations about God’s plans for Israel, His love for His Biblical people and His love
for Jerusalem. We all need to share the Gospel with our Jewish friends wherever they are in the world and
show them the scriptures that reveal their God-ordained destiny, including the fulfilled prophecies that fit
Messiah Jesus perfectly. Jesus considers the Jewish people His biological family and nothing will ever
change that. When people persecute the Jews, Jesus takes that persecution personally. When Saul/Paul
was persecuting the Jews who had accepted Jesus He said, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting ME?”
(Acts 22:7). ‘Those who touch you (the Jews) touch the apple of His eye’ (Zechariah 2:8). When people
persecute the Jews, it is as irritating to God as though someone is poking Him in the eye. All Christians
should refuse to support any anti-Semitic talk or actions. Where possible, we should inform our politicians
about the promises of God regarding the Jews, from the promises spoken to Abraham which are still
relevant, right through to the prophecies regarding the land of Israel today. "
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"Christians need to make reparation for two thousand years of cruel anti-Semitism where people have made
terribly disparaging remarks, ridiculed, mocked, discriminated and even killed millions of Jews for no reason.
People who claim to be Christian and followers of our Jewish Messiah are sometimes the worst perpetrators.
This is the reason many devoted Jews reject Jesus. When Jews realise there are two very different kinds of
Christians, they come to realise the genuine believers in Jesus love them, embrace them, help them, support
Israel and pray for them. It is the people who are Christian in name only, ‘religious’ people who reject the
Jews. They are the ones who teach the unscriptural lie about the church replacing Israel. The church will
never replace Israel. Wicked people who do not believe in God also persecute Jewish people. Opposition to
Israel’s right to live in their Promised Land and to fulfil their God-ordained purposes is one of the worst forms
of anti-Semitism in the world at this time. The Lord said, “Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the
roaring of the seas and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters … but God will
rebuke them and they will flee afar off and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains in the wind and like
the whirling dust before a storm. At evening behold, terror! Before the morning they are gone. This is the lot
of those who plunder us (Israel) and the lot of those who rob us’ (Isaiah 17:12 to 14). The phrases ‘people
roaring like the seas’ and ‘rushing of many waters’ is often used to describe the sound of many voices of
dissent and today many nations are stirred up by Israel as anti-Semitism grows louder around the world but
their lot in the end will not be good.
Gentile leaders who are trying to give Israel back to the Arabs are at odds with the Lord. All those who seek
to divide Israel up will be judged. ‘All those who devour you (Israel) will be devoured. All your adversaries,
every one of them will go into captivity. Those who despoil you will be a spoil and all who prey on you will I
give for a prey … I will punish all who oppress you’ (Jeremiah 30:16 & 20). For the leaders of the nations
who demand Israel be divided so there can be a Palestinian state, God has a special judgement set aside for
them. The whole land of Israel belongs to God and He does not want it divided up. ‘Behold, in those days
and in that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I (the Lord) will gather all nations and
will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat and I will execute judgment on them there for My people
and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided My land and
have cast lots for My people and have given them as slaves’ (Joel 3:1 to 3). The Lord has never changed His
mind about Israel and Jerusalem. For Christians to think it is all right to carve up Israel, reveals their lack of
knowledge of scripture. It is not merely a difference of opinion, it is the spoken words of God Himself as He
made the covenant with the Hebrew people solely through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants
forever and God told them, the all of the Promised Land is for them. "
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"Any Christian who wants the land to continue to be called Palestine needs to read their Bible to see what the
Lord is saying about Israel. Not one verse in the Bible ever calls Israel, Palestine! The Roman Emperor
Hadrian named the land Syria Palaestina after the enemies of Israel, the Philistines, who were an
exceedingly evil tribe. The people who call themselves Palestinians have accepted the name of that very evil
tribe of ancient people and should be ashamed of wanting to take that name, not proud of it. Hadrian
changed the name of the holy land in an attempt to sever all connection Jews had to their land which they
love (Psalm 102:14). The area called Syria Palaestina, then shortened to Palestine was overcome,
conquered, sacked, pillaged, captured and burned by numerous marauding empires but not one of these
empires established the region as their own nor did any empire want Jerusalem as their capital. Apart from
Jews who have always been in Israel, the non-Jews who lived there were Arabs. When Israel was reestablished as the Promised Land, the Jews did not displace any Arabs, they were told to leave by their own
Arab Higher Committee. Two forms of media stated; “Advice was given to Arabs to leave the land (Israel),
homes and property and go to stay in neighbouring States, lest the guns of the Arab armies mow them
down.” … “It must not be forgotten the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the Arabs’ flight from their homes
(in Israel).” Jews are still being blamed for the exodus of Arabs since 1948 but they are not to blame. The
Arab families who chose to ignore the directive of the Arab Committee to leave Israel, have been accepted
and treated well by the Israelis and Arabs prefer to live in Israel than any Arab nation.
There are many lies and false propaganda being repeated about Israel, mostly through the media but also by
the enemies of Israel. Around the world in Middle Eastern countries, Asian countries, African countries and
even in both North and South America, terrible crimes against humanity are being perpetrated every day and
those crimes seldom rate a mention in the media, but all Israel has to do is place a few caravans on a hilltop
or take the tiniest action to defend itself and the whole world condemns them in the strongest possible terms.
Despotic leaders around the world can murder thousands of innocent civilians and nobody does anything but
if Israel defends itself against enemies who are trying to kill Israeli civilians, we can be sure they will be
immediately vilified and the global protests would be loud and vociferous. Israel has even been accused of "
& continues
"apartheid, which is utterly ludicrous. Israel was condemned for carrying out archaeological work in East
Jerusalem and their enemies tried to stop Israeli restoration of ancient Jewish mosaics on their own land.
They want to make sure Israel does not rebuild their own Mughrabi Bridge up to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
There have only ever been ten ‘Emergency Special Sessions’ in the UN General Assembly – five were
against Israel and one was to condemn Israel, but the despots around the world who murder and maim
children go unpunished. Israel was condemned when they tried to destroy Hamas’ missile bases and arms
depots in Gaza to defend itself against years of relentless attacks. During the six-day war, there were many
Arab reports on television and radio, diametrically opposite to the reports from Israel. The Arabs boasted
about ongoing victories while the Jews reported about defeating the enemies. At the end of the war it
became clear the Arabs had used the lowest form of propaganda to boost the morale of their soldiers but
there was no truth in their reports. We all know in six amazing days, Israel decisively defeated five Arab
armies. Israel has enemies on five fronts due to the ancient feuding of the descendants of Abraham as
mentioned above and in the six-day war Israel defeated five armies. Was the number ‘five’ a coincidence or
was God telling the other descendants of Abraham He meant what He said when He told Abraham, Israel is
solely for the offspring of Isaac, not for the offspring of Ishmael, Esau, Moab, Ben Ammi or the six sons of
Keturah?"
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"Today, lies are still being spoken as truth. The Arabs make up silly stories and broadcast their lies around
the world. Media manipulation is evident, but journalists the world over are sticking to their false stories in an
effort to delegitimise Israel and to accuse the IDF of war crimes. Truth is irrelevant to some people in the
media. Some misguided people believe as fact, moslems have always been good to Jews. That is untrue.
Certainly, there are some individual moslems and some individual Jewish people who superficially get along
well together, but if it came down to war, they would soon forget their friendship. Some people believe the
two sides got along well until the Zionist movement began in earnest. That is untrue. Moslems murdered
Jews in acts of terrorism from the time Islam got a foothold about 1,500 years ago and that continues today.
Around the year 1,000 AD, so many Jews and other people living in Jerusalem were massacred by moslem
hoards, the blood flowed down some streets of Jerusalem as deep as the bridles of the horses. Another
massacre of Jews by moslems took place in Hebron in 1929. During the time of the Ottoman Empire and all
over the world, moslems have treated Jews like second-class citizens, sometimes violently. People believe
Jews forced moslems out of Jerusalem. That is untrue as we read earlier. The Arabs told them to leave.
Jews are forbidden to enter their own holy places in Jerusalem and Hebron. It is not just moslems who attack
Jews. There has been a terrible increase of anti-Semitism all over Europe where violence against Jewish
people is commonplace. There is a new kind of international warfare against Jews and Israel. It is called
‘lawfare’. It includes spurious lawsuits against Jews by moslems for a variety of false ‘war crimes’ all over the
world. Incidences that either never happened and have been staged, or incidences where the truth is
completely corrupted, are causing IDF soldiers to be sued. That could never happen with any other army,
anywhere in the world. These spurious and false accusations against the IDF should always be thrown out of
court. This is what Israel is being subjected to all over the world. The IDF consistently goes out of its way to
avoid civilian casualties. Sadly, it is well known, many moslems cowardly use civilians like women, children,
the elderly and the disabled as human shields. Israel has been accused of withholding medical treatment
from patients in Gaza. That is untrue. Israeli doctors treat everyone in their hospitals, and that includes the
terrorists who recover, only to attack the very people who saved their lives. "
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"For years Israel has been attempting to create peace in their land. They have suffered painful withdrawals
and concessions with patience but instead of peace they have received nothing but terrorism, bombs,
abductions, international condemnation, international isolation, media lies and propaganda. International
condemnation has focused incessantly on settlers in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), but these areas
belong to Israel. The areas are central to Biblical Israel. They did what the scriptures said they would do
(Ezekiel 36:1 to 12), make that arid, empty, mountainous land bloom again. They have built schools,
businesses, factories, libraries, universities, synagogues, medical clinics and shopping centres. Many
international leaders are calling for withdrawal from Judea and Samaria but Israel knows what would happen
if they did withdraw. After Israel withdrew from Gaza in an attempt to appease their critics and bring peace,
Hamas launched hundreds of attacks from the areas in Gaza killing many Jewish people. If Israel withdrew
from Judea and Samaria the same thing would happen again because the moslems do not want peace.
They only ever want to destroy every person that is not moslem, and especially the Jews. That is the basis of
their religion – to steal, kill or destroy (John 10:10). The moslems pretend to want peace to deceive the
world’s leaders and to cause Israel to be blamed when peace does not happen. It is in the moslem code of
conduct to allow seducing, marauding, trickery and lying to ‘fake peace’ so they can wait for a better time to
conquer their enemies. The Oslo Peace Accord was signed nearly twenty years ago. The PLO agreed to
conduct negotiations with Israel that would lead to a peaceful resolution to end the conflict. In twenty years,
the PLO is yet to keep one of its obligations. The PLO used the accord to gain control over some of Israel’s
land then launched aggressive attacks against Israel. Their aim is to obliterate the nation of Israel
completely. We must identify evil and fight against it and we must turn to God to help us in our battle. We
need to stand up for Israel as an Egyptian woman recently said, “What is so difficult about accepting only five
million Jews in an ocean of 1½ billion moslems?” Jordan was created to be a ‘Palestinian State’ so they
certainly do not need another one. Due to terrorism from missile attacks sent by Hamas, offering sovereignty
to another terrorist state is ridiculous and would be suicidal for Israel. Israel cannot compromise on their
security. The Palestinians never had legal claim over any land in the first place and besides that, their claims
have been forfeited by their actions over the last twenty years. The Palestinians are Arabs and the Arabs
already have twenty-two states. Let them go to one of them instead of playing the poor victims and continue
to live in camps. They are free to leave the camps at any time but choose to stay there to make Israel look
incompassionate. Many Arabs carry Jordanian passports, refusing Israeli citizenship. "
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"Truth has become a rare commodity in Israel’s fight for survival. Twisting the truth, ignoring evidence to the
contrary, fabricating incidences, withholding facts, making horrific accusations against highly moral people
have become a touchstone of the moslem/Arab propaganda war against Israel and Jews everywhere. Just a
few decades ago, these lies were seen for what they were – lies, and they were largely ignored by the
general public. Today however, through the media’s constant bombarding these lies to the public, the filthy
muddy lies are beginning to stick to the detriment of Israel. All supporters of Israel must fight this any way
that is open to us. We must get involved in the battle for the truth and do our best to make a difference. If
hostility against Israel is not countered with the truth, the ‘cancer’ of anti-Semitism will continue to grow. The
Lord said, “These are the things you will do; speak every man the truth with his neighbour. Execute the
judgment of truth and peace in your gates and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his
neighbour and do not love a false oath, for all these are things I hate," says The Lord God of Israel”
(Zechariah 8:16 & 17). There are many reasons why we should stand with Israel and one of the main
reasons, is we will all be judged according to how we regard Israel and its people. To support Israel is
considered to be a righteous act but to ignore Israel is considered to be wicked, and Jesus takes our actions
personally. Jesus said, “The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you (the righteous)
did good things for one of the least of these My brothers (the Jews), you did it for ME” … “Most certainly I tell
you, inasmuch as you did not do good things for one of the least of these (Jews), you did not do it for ME.
These (wicked) will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life” (Matthew 25:40, 45 &
46). If we bless the Jews we will be blessed but if people curse or dismiss the Jews, they will be cursed
(Genesis 12:3). If we stand with Israel and bless the descendants of Abraham through Isaac’s bloodline,
then we will be blessed. If we ignore Israel in her time of need, then God will turn against us. However, we
should support Israel, not just to receive blessing from God, but because it is RIGHT. It is right to support the
people who gave us our Messiah and thus our salvation. The Jews have given us so much. We have been
grafted into their olive tree and are sustained by their Hebraic roots. It is right to support people who are
being hurt, victimised, marginalised, persecuted and harassed, and to bathe their wounds as Jesus told us to
do (Luke 10:30 to 37). It is right to love and be kind to our neighbours (Leviticus 19:18; Mark 12:31; Romans
13:8; Galatians 5:14; James 2:8). It is right to lay hold of God’s people, to aim to be a blessing to them, not
just receive blessings from them (Zechariah 8:23). We have been adopted by the Lord in a spiritual adoption
(Romans 8:15) and because of them, we are part of the eternal triangle of God, His people and His land. We
must raise our voices both in prayer and to educate the ignorant of God’s eternal plan for His people"
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"Although the enemies of Israel have the weaponry that could destroy Israel and possibly most of the earth,
we must feel secure in the knowledge God will not allow that to happen. The destruction of this earth will not
happen for over a thousand years in the future, after which time God’s people will live forever on a newly
created heaven and earth where only righteous dwells (2 Peter 3:7 to 13). Jesus will rule on this earth from
Jerusalem for one thousand years bringing peace and prosperity to the earth. God has plans for the good of
Israel and although they need tight security because of their enemies, they know God will never again let
them be plucked out of Israel now that He has called them home once again. “Fear not, nor be afraid (in the
coming violent upheavals). Have I (the Lord God) not told it to you from of old and declared it? You are My
witnesses! Is there a God besides Me? There is no other. I know not any other Rock” (Isaiah 44:8). “I (the
Lord) will set My eyes on them for good and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them up and not
pull them down. I will plant them and not pluck them up again” (Jeremiah 24:6). “I know the plans I have in
mind for you (Israel). Plans for your well-being and peace and not for evil, to give you hope and a future”
(Jeremiah 29:11). “Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good and I will truly plant them in this land with My
whole heart and soul” (Jeremiah 32:41). It is imperative, Jews must return to their homeland to receive the
full blessings and the future God intends for them.
Many Jewish people feel strongly about not being perpetual victims of anti-Semitism. It makes them feel as
though they are an endangered species instead of being the specially chosen children of the Most High God.
All Jews are the apple of His eye and the object of His deep love. Jews are not a pitiable, helpless group of
people about to become extinct. They have God on their side and if He was able to keep them holy, pure
and separate after thousands of years of exile, then He is fully able to keep them now. Judaism is the most
divinely powerful and creative idea this world has ever had because God Himself ordained it. Religion is "
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"man-made; Judaism is God-made. Jews will survive because they have a message the world needs to hear.
The Lord trusted His oracles only to the Jews and to no other nation. Many Jewish people want to define
themselves the way God sees them, not the way the world sees them. They want to be loved and accepted
for who they are as individuals, not tokens to be used as show ponies. They dislike being persecuted, hated
and threatened just like anyone would dislike being persecuted and hated. They do not want to be
assimilated into a Gentile world, they just do not want to be persecuted. They want to remain Jewish, in their
own land, speaking their own language, worshipping and obeying God without anti-Semitism always being
there. Judaism is a revolutionary force, able to transform lost lives into lives with meaning. Humans are much
more than mere animals living on instinct to feed our every whim and desire. Humans were created to live for
a higher purpose. The Jewish feeling is they have a humble pride in their great standing with God, His
mission and their confidence to fulfil it. Every person was created in the exact image and likeness of God
and is therefore valuable and unique. Humans are in partnership with God to bring His holiness to earth.
These bold ideas are more relevant than ever before and bold Jewish ideas need bold Jews to implement
them. They feel, they can only bring God to earth if they are prepared to start with their own home, Israel.
Judaism has already changed the world for the better. Without Judaism and the Law, how would we know
what sin is? We need to keep on applying the commandments of Judaism to make the world an even better
and more peaceful place. The Jewish feeling is, they need to develop in themselves and teach to their
children, the humble pride and joy of the children of Israel when they succeeded. We all, Jews and Gentiles
alike, need to remember the greatness of the Jewish mission. No other nation was given the mandate God
gave them. When we are clear about their mission on this earth, no circumstance can shake them or us. "
& continues
"Some Rabbis living in Israel face another dilemma. There is a deep concern amongst some Rabbis, Jews
living in Gentile nations, especially in Western nations are too comfortable to move to Israel. They are
wealthy, educated, feel safe and do not have to till the soil to plant trees and gardens, nor do they have to
endure bombings and open persecution from neighbouring countries. In Western countries, if the Jews suffer
violent persecution, the laws of the countries bring the persecutors to justice. The concern some Rabbis
have, is that was the situation in Europe before the Second World War. The Jewish people were wealthy,
comfortable, educated and felt safe. They did not believe they were in any danger and sadly, we all know
what happened. The Lord’s ‘fishermen’ went all through Europe encouraging the Jews to go back to their
homeland, helping them as much as they could and many did go back. After several years the fishermen
themselves knew they had to leave Europe for their own safety. Tragically, many European Jews refused to
return to Israel because they were so comfortable, and as the Lord warned through prophecy, the evil Nazi
hunters came. When the Jews realised they were in grave danger and wanted to get out of Europe, it was
too late; they were trapped. The Lord God said, “Behold, I will send for many fishermen and they will fish
them up, but afterward I will send for many hunters and they will hunt them from every mountain and from
every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks” (Jeremiah 16:16). The Lord is once again calling all Jewish
people to return to the Promised Land and the Rabbis are very afraid of what will happened to them if they
refuse because they are so comfortable. Anti-Semitism is on the rise all through Europe. The Rabbis feel it is
time for all Jewish people to make plans to get out of the Gentile nations and return to their homeland before
it is too late. They should also take their elderly parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends with them
to Israel, so the older ones do not have to remain in countries where they face increasing persecution.
Europe has many older Jewish people who have been left behind by their adult children and these poor
vulnerable people face persecution and poverty. On a day-to-day basis, Israel is peaceful, vibrant, joyful and
thriving. Moreover, when Messiah comes to the Jewish people, He will be coming to Jerusalem in Israel and
not to any other city or nation. Jerusalem is the place where the Lord will set up His headquarters and He will
rule the earth from there. All Jews are waiting for Messiah Jesus to arrive but He will not come until the last
of the Gentiles has been saved. It is up to the Christian church to preach the Gospel with urgency to hasten
the return of Jesus.
To support Israel, you can contact any of the following organisations that faithfully and lovingly support our
Jewish brothers and sisters. ‘Christian Friends of Israel Communities’ or ‘Bridges for Peace’ or ‘the
International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem’ or ‘Christians for Israel’. We encourage anyone who wants to
support Israel to visit, enjoy and walk around the places where the prophets, Jesus and the apostles walked,
where the original children of Israel built their cities and where ancient Israelites were buried. The Lord
encourages people to visit Israel, an area He calls Zion. ‘Walk around Zion. Number the towers, mark her
ramparts, consider her palaces so you may tell the next generation. This God is our God forever and ever.
He will be our guide even to death’ (Psalm 48:12 to 14).
Amen and God bless you." www.bibleabookoftruth.com
Another good article from the Intercessors for Israel website, ifi.org.il is titled
"WHY GOD JUDGES NATIONS"
the article says:
At Intercessors for Israel's 2013 International Prayer Conference in Jerusalem, I shared a message called "The Judgments of God" - with an emphasis on His judgments on nations today. God has used Israel in the Old Testament as an example of how He deals with national sin, especially when a nation based upon His laws rebels against Him. However, the Bible plainly states that Israel's miraculous end time restoration brings into play another factor: in the last days God judges nations according to their leaders' attitudes and actions regarding His promise to restore Israel. God has staked His reputation, His Name, on this. His whole redemptive plan now focuses on Israel being in the land that He promised to them.
As intercessors, we stand in the gap for our nations, pleading for mercy because of sins such as abortion, sexual perversions, violence, corruption, etc. Yet, are intercessors dealing with the one root issue that brings God's ever increasing judgments today? Praying against unrighteousness is good, but in some cases the wrong actions of a people do not bring God's judgment on a nation - they are a sign that God is already judging that nation! That one root issue is Israel. We are not talking about a few bible verses concerning this - but literally dozens. During the message, I only had time to share a few of those verses, but because of its urgency, I offer many of the relevant verses here.
A biblical understanding of how and why God judges nations has been hijacked from the Church. The intercessor willing to stand in the gap for his nation and for God's kingdom purposes may have already gotten it backward. Let's build on what God Himself says about it.
Most intercessors are familiar with the scriptures showing how intercession moves God to have mercy in the midst of His judgments."
the article continues
"And I sought for a man among them who should make up the hedge for the land, and stand in the gap before me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one.
Ezekiel 22:30
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.
Jeremiah 5:1
He said that He would destroy them, if Moses His chosen had not stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He should not destroy them.
Psalm 106:23
God's revealed way of judging nations
Often, God's judgments are like labor pains of a woman in childbirth. The pains start small and far between - yet get more intense, painful and closer together as the time of the actual birth approaches.
Leviticus 26:18, 21, 23-24, 27-28 In these verses, God warns Israel four times of His judgments, each one a seven-fold increase of the previous one. Compare this with Revelation's seven seals, seven trumpets, seven thunders and seven bowls, which equal a four times seven-fold judgment on the nations.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles. These things are the beginnings of sorrows[Greek - lit. birth-pains]"
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"Mark 13:8
But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write to you. For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. For when they shall say, 'Peace and safety,' then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
The results of judgment are not the cause of judgment.
The Body of Messiah becomes less effective in intercession by mistaking the results for the cause of judgment. This limits us to the lesser target, treating the symptoms and not providing the cure. Here are some results of God's judgment which we might mistake for the cause:
Romans 1:18-32 Paul says that one of the ways God judges is to remove His restraining grace, giving people over to what they really desire, allowing society to implode as God removes His protection. Note especially v.24 - Therefore God also gave them up [delivered/surrendered them] to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.; v.26a- For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections; v.28 - And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right;
Hosea 4:6 Again, God threatens to remove Himself from society. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 Here, Paul says that because people do not accept a sacrificial love [Gk. agape] for the truth (like actually spending time and energy reading His unedited Word), God sends deceptive practices for them to believe falsehoods. Then the lawless one will be revealed… whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power, signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion [Gk. deceptive activities/actions/practices], that they should believe a lie, so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned."
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"The increase of sin in nations is often a result of God's judgment - His removing His restraining grace - but the cause is…?
It is what it has always been, down through history, in nation after nation, empire after empire. God describes the cause as not believing what He has promised to His people, leading to nations poking Him in the eye by stripping Israel (see Zech. 2 below). Even some of the people of Israel can be guilty of this! Yes, the mother of all heresies, replacement theology, states that the Church has replaced Israel as the people of God, implying that God Himself is either fickle, forgetful or the father of lies. Woe, woe, woe to that nation whose Church acts from this belief! The Church within it is any nation's only real protection against God's righteous judgments, because it is the Church that stands together in intercession, praying for leaders, pleading for mercy on their people, and for the fulfillment of all God's promises to Jacob
And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses [makes light of; despises; sees as vile] you.
Genesis 12:3a
(cp. 27:29; 30:27 Laban was blessed for Jacob's sake; 39:5 Potiphar was blessed for the sake of Joseph, Jacob's son)
Genesis 27:29 Through Isaac, God proclaims this blessing upon Isaac's son Jacob: Let people serve you and nations bow down to you: be lord over your brethren…Cursed be every one that curses you, and blessed is he that blesses you (Gen 27:29). Regardless of how Jacob obtained his father's blessing, and without approving in any way of Jacob's actions, God promised this blessing to Jacob. Remember that YHWH said to Rebecca while she was still pregnant with Jacob and Esau that the older shall serve the younger (Gen 25:23b). And even after Isaac realized what happened, he himself confirmed that this was God's will (Gen 27:33; 28:1-4), and this was confirmed by God Himself in Genesis 28:13-15.
Numbers 24:8-9 Balaam declares: God brought him forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of an ox. He shall eat up the nations, his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. He crouched. He lay down as a lion, and as a great lion. Who shall stir him up?Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.
Isaiah 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish. Yes, those nations will be completely wasted. In context, after being scattered among the nations, Israel is being restored by God. (note: the Church is prophesied to help. See Isa. 60:6,9)
Joel 3:1-2 Again, the prophetic context is Israel's regathering and end-time restoration. This is one of the most relevant verses relating to the current 'two-states, land for peace' political process that much of the world wants to force Israel to accept. Yet these verses are a clear threat by God to judge any and all nations that divide His land. For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem [Jews living in the nations are described by God as living in captivity or exile], I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat ["YHWH has judged"], and will plead with [judge; pronounce sentence on] them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided [and/or plundered] My land. We have seen Israel herself judged for dividing God's land - in giving up Gaza and ceding areas to the Palestinian Authority for peace. Israel's judgment: terrorism and missiles."
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"Zechariah 2:8 Warning His people to flee Babylon, God describes how He 'sees' His relationship with Israel using a very interesting metaphor. Zion, escape, you who live with the daughter of Babylon. For thus says YHWH of Hosts: after glory He has sent Me to the nations who stripped [spoiled; plundered] you; for he who touches you touches the apple [pupil] of His eye. Consider that we see the world through the pupil of our eye. God views the world through His chosen filter, His people and His land.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, when they shall come against Judah and Jerusalem. And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples. All who lift it shall be cut to pieces, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it… And it shall be in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:2-3, 9
Keeping these scriptural principles in mind
Here are other verses that I did not have time to share at the conference. Obviously, the Holy Spirit can bring scriptures to mind for intercessors to pray into, but it helps to know them to begin with.
Numbers 23:19-20 Balaam says to Balak, who hired him to curse Israel, God is not a man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent. Has He said it and shall He not do it? Has He spoken and shall He not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless. He hasblessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Joshua 23:3 At the end of his life, Joshua says to the tribes of Israel, You have seen all that YHWH your God has done unto all these nations because of you, for YHWH your God is He that has fought for you.
Psalms 79:6-7 Based on God's promises, Aspah asks God to judge some nations based on how they have dealt with Israel. Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You, and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name. For they have eaten up Jacob, and wasted his dwelling-place.
Isaiah 41:10-14 God says to 'worm' Jacob, Fear not, for I am with you: be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness. Behold, all they that are incensed [extremely angry] against you shall be ashamed and confounded[humiliated and confused]. They shall be as nothing, and they that strive with you shall perish. You shall seek them, and not find them, even them that contend with you. They that war against you shall be as nothing… For I YHWH your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, fear not, I will help you. Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel - I will help you, says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 47:6 God's judgment on the 'virgin daughter of Babylon' [v.1] is a result of how they have treated Israel. While Israel was given over to them for judgment's sake, still God held Babylon responsible for how they treated Israel without mercy. I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged. (Isaiah 47:6) Much of this chapter is repeated in the book of Revelation - where the final judgment of spiritual Babylon occurs. Therefore, it is biblical to say that the end-of-days judgment on the whole Babylonian system is linked to how the nations deal with Israel. And this is what the Apostle John, author of Revelation, must have thought because his frame of reference for what he was receiving from the Lord Yeshua was the Tanach. See below under Jeremiah 50 and 51 for other verses on this."
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"Isaiah 49:24-26 The context of these verses is the return of the Jewish people to the land (see verses 22-23). At that time, God says to Jacob/Israel: Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive [Heb: the prey of the terrible, ruthless] delivered? But thus says YHWH, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the fearful ones shall escape. For I will contend [strive] with him who contends with you [or, 'is your adversary'], and I will save your sons. And I will feed those who oppress [deal violently with] you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunk [intoxicated]with their own blood, as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I YHWH am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. We have seen this literally come to pass as over and over Muslims rejoice when their sons and daughters die trying to murder Jews. Also note that the ultimate goal God has for defending Israel is that which is proclaimed in Ezekiel 36 -the sanctification of His name - that all the nations will know that YHWH, God of Israel, is God.
Jeremiah 2:3 In this verse, most English translations add a word that makes it seem like God is talking about past history. But the Hebrew reads, Israel - holiness unto YHWH! It is a statement of present fact. The Hebraic concept of 'holiness' basically means being separate. God separated Israel from all other nations to be His own possession. Therefore, she remains His even when her conduct is not pleasing to Him. Here is the verse as it would read in the Hebrew: Israel - holiness unto YHWH, and the first fruits of His increase: all that devour him [Israel] shall offend [be guilty]; evil shall come upon them, says YHWH.
Jeremiah 30:11-17 These verses demonstrate the absolute necessity to read the Bible in context. First God asks Israel why she is complaining for being disciplined. Why cry over your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of your [iniquities and sins]…I have done these things unto you (30:15). Then God changes His target. It is like a parent who disciplines the children, but woe to any strangers who dare touch those kids! Therefore all that devour you shall be devoured, and all your adversaries [enemies; oppressors], every one of them, shall go into captivity. They that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey (30:16, see also v. 17)."
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"Jeremiah 50 and 51 Recalling what was said above for Isaiah 47:6 read the following selection of verses from these two chapters concerning God's rage against Babylon and all that she stands for. Even though God had raised Babylon up to be His instrument of judgment on His wayward people, the Babylonians' attitude, ruthlessness and lack of mercy on those whom God placed in their hands - as well as their leaders giving glory to their gods as opposed to Israel's God - all added up to God's heavy hand of judgment.
Jeremiah 50:6-7 My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray… they have forgotten their resting place. All who have found them have devoured them. All their enemies said, We do not offend, because they have sinned against YHWH, the habitation of righteousness, even YHWH, the hope of their fathers. Is this not also a picture of the Church over the past 1800 years - persecuting the Jewish people, yet excusing it by saying that this is not sin because the Jews rejected and killed the Christ, the Messiah?
Jeremiah 50:8, 10-11 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans… For, behold, I am stirring up and bringing up against Babylon a company of great nations from a northern land, and they shall array themselves against her…Chaldea shall be a prize; all who plunder her shall be satisfied, says YHWH. Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O destroyers of My inheritance… This sounds very much like many Muslims today - especially, but by no means exclusively, Palestinian Muslims - many of whom rejoice whenever terror attacks against Israeli civilians succeed."
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"Jeremiah 50:14-15 Here God declares that He takes personally how the nations treat Israel, labeling His judgment as His vengeance! Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around; all you who bend the bow, shoot at her. Hold back no arrows, for she has sinned against YHWH. Shout against her all around…her foundations have fallen, her walls have been thrown down; for it is the vengeance of YHWH. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her. [Isaiah 34:8 For it is the day of YHWH's vengeance, the year to repay for the controversy against Zion.]
Jeremiah 51:24 And I will repay unto Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says YHWH. Verses 19-23 seem to indicate that at some time in the future, possibly in these last days, God repays the servants of the spirit of Babylon by using Israel as His war club, and as His weapons of war.
The violence done to me and to my flesh shall be on Babylon, the dweller in Zion shall say; and my blood shall be on the people of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say. So YHWH says this: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:35-37
As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.
Jeremiah 51:49
Ezekiel 25-28 In these chapters Ammon (25:2-7), Moab (25:8-11), Edom (25:12-14, cp. Obad. 1:10-16), the Philistines (25:15), Tyre (26:2-3), and Sidon (28:21-24) are all judged specifically because of what they did to God's nation. God sums this up with an encouraging prophecy (Ezek. 25:25-26), which links the salvation of Israel with His judgment on Israel's enemies: So says the Lord YHWH:When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and have been sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to My servant Jacob. And they shall dwell safely in it, and shall build houses and plant vineyards. Yes, they shall dwell safely when I have executed judgments on all those who despise them all around them; and they shall know that I am YHWH their God."
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"Ezekiel 29:6-7 Finally, in a warning to all of Israel's so-called friends - like America and the EU - Egypt is judged because she was Israel's unreliable ally! All the people of Egypt shall know that I am YHWH, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took you by your hand, you broke and tore off all their shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you shattered and made all their loins shake. So the Lord YHWH says, Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and cut off man and beast from you.
Zechariah 1:14b-15 As already mentioned concerning Babylon, while God does at times use nations to render His judgment on Israel, He rages when they take matters into their own hands and think they have free reign to destroy His people. Thus says YHWH of Hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. And with great anger I am angry at the nations at ease[arrogantly think that they have peace and safety]; in that I was but a little angry, and they helped for evil.
Other verses also reveal this theological truth that God judges nations based on how they deal with Israel. Here are a few more references: Isaiah 17:12-14; 43:14;47:1-6; 54:14-17; 60:12; Jeremiah 10:24-25; Joel 3:19; Zephaniah 2:8-10.
Yet there is hope!"
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"In the midst of God's current judgments, the hope of your nation is you - standing in the gap, pleading for His mercy and confessing the sin for which your nation is being judged. In your nation, is that root sin found in resisting God's promised restoration of His people to His land for His Name's sake?
After all, for Messiah Yeshua to return and set-up God's Kingdom on earth, a saved Israel is prophesied to welcome Him back to a Jerusalem no longer under gentile rule (Matt. 23:37-39). This is why God is so zealous to see Israel's restoration come to pass. It is also a result of a 2,000 year-old prayer from Messiah's Body to the Father: May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen."
Chuck & Karen Cohen
Another good book to order from Amazon.com is titled
"Why Israel? God's Heart for a People, His Plan for a Nation" by Derek Prince
the Amazon.com description says
"As Christians, we need to acknowledge our unfathomable debt to Israel and to always pray on the basis of that total indebtedness. The identification of Jesus with the Jewish people was not just for the few years of His earthly life and ministry. It is eternal.
The word Jew occurs eighty-four times in the Old Testament, and one hundred ninety-two times in the New Testament. On the other hand, the word Christian occurs only three times in the New Testament.
You cannot fully understand the Bible unless you know something about Israel. And if you’re confused about Israel, you’re confused about the Bible."
See also the Amazon.com video titled "Israel, Islam, and Armageddon"
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5.6
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the description says
"With more than 3000 years of history, Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times in the Bible, and prophesied to play a key role in world destiny. Many of these prophecies have already come to pass, with some yet to be fulfilled. This video shows how the current peace process is fraught with peril, why it is impossible for Jerusalem to know true peace in our age, and the Palestinian myth."
Genres
Faith and Spirituality, Documentary
Director
Ken Klein
From the website bbc.co.uk an article is titled
"Churchill and the Holocaust"
By Sir Martin Gilbert
Last updated 2011-02-17
Photograph showing Winston Churchill in war time uniform, the article says :
The Allied governments and their leaders have often been accused of failing to respond quickly enough to Nazi persecution of the Jews. In this article, Martin Gilbert focuses on the attempts made by Winston Churchill to respond to the crisis, both in private and as Britain's Prime Minister.
Unspeakable evils
From the start of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, Churchill took the Jewish side of supporting a boycott of German goods, writing in 1937 of 'a perfectly legitimate use of their influence throughout the world to bring pressure, economic and financial, to bear upon the governments which persecute them'. After he became Prime Minister in 1940, Churchill opposed the prevention of Jewish refugees reaching Palestine, telling the Colonial office that the government had 'to be guided by sentiments of humanity towards those fleeing from the cruellest forms of persecution'. When his son Randolph drew his attention to the imminent deportation to Mauritius of 793 illegal refugees intercepted off Palestine, he immediately instructed his officials to allow them to remain there.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 was the start of the Holocaust as we know it. Messages reaching Churchill through his intelligence services told of the murder, in groups, of thousands of Jews. He made powerful reference to these killings when he broadcast on November 14 1941:
'None has suffered more cruelly than the Jew the unspeakable evils wrought upon the bodies and spirits of men by Hitler and his vile regime. The Jew bore the brunt of the Nazi's first onslaught upon the citadels of freedom and human dignity. He has borne and continued to bear a burden that might have seen beyond endurance. He has not allowed it to break his spirit; he has never lost the will to resist. Assuredly in the day of victory the Jew's suffering and his part in the struggle will not be forgotten.'
... 4000 Jewish children had been deported.
The deportations from France to Auschwitz began in the summer of 1942. Their destination was unknown at the time, but the fact that the deportations were taking place was reported from Paris, The Times reporting in September that 4000 Jewish children had been deported. On the next day Churchill, speaking about the Nazi regime in the House of Commons, castigated:
'... the most bestial, the most squalid and the most senseless of all their offences, namely, the mass deportation of Jews from France, with the pitiful horrors attendant upon the calculated and final scattering of families. This tragedy fills me with astonishment as well as with indignation, and it illustrates as nothing else can the utter degradation of the Nazi nature and theme, and degradation of all who lend themselves to its unnatural and perverted passions.'
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The Moscow Declaration
Photograph showing US President Roosevelt sitting down President Roosevelt © Churchill was vigilant in trying to help those Jews who could get out of Europe to be allowed a safe haven. Learning in December 1942 of the successful rescue of 4500 Jewish children and 50 accompanying adults from the Balkans, a plan which he himself had earlier approved, he wrote 'Bravo!' In February 1943, while he was in Algiers, Churchill discovered that the Vichy laws against Algerian Jews were still in force there. He insisted they be repealed. In April 1943 he opposed the Spanish closure of the French frontier to Jewish refugees, telling the Spanish ambassador that if his government:"
the article continues
"'... went to the length of preventing these unfortunate people seeking safety from the horrors of Nazi domination, and if they went farther and committed the offence of actually handing them back to the German authorities, that was a thing which could never be forgotten and would poison the relations between the Spanish and British peoples'.
At the Bermuda Conference on Refugees in May 1943 it was proposed to allow all Jewish refugees who reached Spain to cross to Allied-controlled North Africa. When the Americans opposed this, Churchill told Roosevelt:
'Our immediate facilities for helping the victims of Hitler's anti-Jewish drive are so limited at present that the opening of the small camp proposed for the purpose of removing some of them to safety seems all the more incumbent on us.'
Churchill sought a means of halting German atrocities. It might, he told the War Cabinet, have a 'salutary effect' on the Germans if Britain, America and the Soviet Union announced, "that a number of German officers or members of the Nazi Party, equal to those put to death by the Germans in the various countries, would be returned to those countries after the war for judgement". All those responsible for, or having taken a consenting part 'in atrocities, massacres and executions' were to be sent back to the countries 'in which their abominable deeds were done in order that they might be judged and punished according to the laws of those liberated countries'.
The Allies would pursue the ranks of the guilty to the uttermost ends of the earth.
On November 1 1943 the Allies issued the Moscow Declaration, which followed almost exactly the wording of Churchill's proposal. The Allies would pursue 'the ranks of the guilty to the uttermost ends of the earth' and would deliver them to their accusers 'in order that justice may be done'.
To help refugees, in March 1944 Churchill by-passed the pre-war British government's restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine. The new rules made it possible for any Jewish refugee who reached Istanbul to be sent on by train to Palestine, irrespective of the quota. Thousands of Jews benefited by this agreement."
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"The biggest outcry
In March 1944 German troops occupied Hungary. Three quarters of a million Hungarian Jews were at risk. Churchill asked Marshall Tito to protect any Jews who escaped Hungary to partisan-held Yugoslavia. That July, Jewish leaders brought Churchill an horrific account of Auschwitz. It had been smuggled out by two escapees, and revealed for the first time the nature of the gas chambers there. Asked to bomb the railway lines to Auschwitz, Churchill instructed Eden: 'Get anything out of the Air Force you can, and invoke me if necessary.' A few days later, when it was learned that the deportations from Hungary had stopped, the Jewish request changed from bombing to protective documents. This too Churchill supported.
... this is the most horrible crime ever committed ...
With regard to how the British should react to a Jewish appeal for publicity of the atrocities, Churchill replied: 'I am entirely in accord with making the biggest outcry possible.' This too was done.
Reading in July 1944 the first detailed account of Auschwitz, Churchill wrote:
'There is no doubt this is the most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world, and it has been done by scientific machinery by nominally civilised men in the name of a great State and one of the leading races of Europe. It is quite clear that all concerned in this crime who may fall into our hands, including the people who only obeyed orders by carrying out the butcheries, should be put to death after their association with the murders has been proved.'
In London, Churchill continued to press the War Office to agree to an all-Jewish military force to join the Allied armies, writing on July 26: 'I like the idea of the Jews trying to get the murderers of their fellow countrymen in Central Europe, and I think it would give a great deal of satisfaction to the United States.'
In October 1944, as further news about the killings at Auschwitz reached the West, the Polish government in exile asked for an official protest. The foreign Office was reluctant to respond, but Churchill was not. 'Surely,' he wrote, 'publicity given about this might have a chance of saving the multitudes concerned.'"
and lastly says
"Liberation of the camps
Photograph showing Dauchau prisoners greeting their liberators Dachau prisoners cheer the liberating US Army © On April 18 1945 General Eisenhower telephoned Churchill about the entry of his troops into a number of concentration camps in Western and Central Germany. That afternoon Churchill told the House of Commons of the 'horror' felt by the government at "the proofs of these frightful crimes now coming into view", and he added:
'The matter is of urgency, as of course, it is not possible to arrest the processes of decay in many cases. In view of this urgency, I have come to the conclusion that eight members of this House and two members of the House of Lords should form a Parliamentary Delegation and should travel out at once to the Supreme Headquarters, where General Eisenhower will make all necessary arrangements for their inspection of the scenes, whether in American or British sectors.'
'People are profoundly shocked here,' Churchill telegraphed to Eisenhower that evening.
From the first to the last day of the war, the fate of the Jews was something on which Churchill took immediate and positive action whenever he was asked to do so. In addition, in 1940 he refused to contemplate making peace with Hitler, and for the next four years used every fibre of his being to devise means of defeating Hitler. Even when the Gestapo system was in the ascendant over much of Europe, at the very time when most Jews were being murdered, Churchill had faith that it would one day be possible to defeat Nazism altogether. This faith communicated itself to the ghettos and was itself a potent factor for morale behind German lines."
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Find out more
Books
The Holocaust : A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert (Henry Holt, 1987)
Final Solution : Origins and Implementation edited by David Cesarani (Routledge, 1997)
The Nazis: A Warning from History by Laurence Rees (New Press, 1999) , Terrible how during the Holocaust, there were very sad disturbing stories, of Jewish children coming home from School, and when the children came home, their homes were empty because their parents had been taken away, shipped off to Death camps, the children wondered what happened to their parents,
From the Los Angeles Times website, www.latimes.com an article is titled
"TV Review : ‘Writing on the Wall’ Teaches Compassion"
By LYNNE HEFFLEY
OCT. 11, 1994 12 AM
TIMES STAFF WRITER, the article says
"Can you teach empathy and compassion? A new season of the “CBS Schoolbreak Specials” opens today with an edu-drama that makes a valiant try. “The Writing on the Wall” is about three youths who earn an unexpected sentence for spray-painting anti-Semitic slurs and symbols on a synagogue and on the homes of a rabbi and his neighbor.
Instead of jail time, the teen-agers are ordered to perform community service under the guidance of Rabbi Markovitz (Hal Linden), who tries to make the boys understand why their “just-for-fun” prank, coinciding with the anniversary of Krystallnacht , created so much outrage and pain.
Knowing that humanization of the subject will spark an emotional identification, the rabbi has the teens research three Holocaust victims, boys their age. He shows them photographs, books and filmed documentation, takes them to see “Schindler’s List” and to visit the Museum of Tolerance.
It’s a foregone conclusion that the three--Jason Allen, Peter Billingsley and Aeryk Egan--will quickly feel the lessons resonate and that the rabbi will be infinitely patient and wise. Afternoon message dramas aren’t subtle.
But Carol Starr Schneider’s script, directed by David J. Eagle, is not a one-note polemic. Religious beliefs in general are treated with dignity as the rabbi joins forces with a Catholic bishop (William Schallert) to show the common ground between Judaism and other faiths; it is stressed, too, how many millions of non-Jews were Holocaust victims.
While the message of understanding is clear, however, a question remains: Why are afternoon specials such as this always broadcast at a time when most of the target audience is not home to see them?"
The website washingtonpost.com also has an article about the CBS Schoolbreak Special
the article is titled
"CBS SCHOOLBREAK SPECIAL'S HOLOCAUST LESSON"
By Scott Moore October 9, 1994, the article says
"Six years ago this month, on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht -- the shattering of Jewish property in Germany and Austria that marked the start of the Holocaust -- a group of teenage pranksters spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic sentiments on the Clifton, N.J., home and synagogue of Rabbi Eugene Markovitz.
A neighbor whose car also was vandalized led the call for the boys to pay for the crime with two years in juvenile prison. But Markovitz had another idea: restitution and 25 hours of classes on Jewish culture, taught by the prominent Orthodox rabbi.
"One must never give up on young people. In Judaism, it's literally a crime to do so," Markovitz said.
An account of this remarkable tale of tolerance and education is told this week on a one-hour CBS Schoolbreak Special, "The Writing on the Wall" (Saturday at 2 p.m. on WUSA).
Hal Linden stars as Markovitz, whose lessons include an intense film about the Holocaust and an emotional tour of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance.
Markovitz said Carol Starr Schneider's script is "very faithful" to what happened, with only a few exceptions. For example, he said, "The Writing on the Wall" portrays three boys; the actual events involved four.
"Not everyone agreed with me on this project," Markovitz said. In fact, many of his Jewish friends expressed their displeasure with a Yiddish phrase, Es vet helfen vi a-toiten bonkes, meaning the classes would help as much as if you applied suction cups to a deaf person.
"I don't agree with them, obviously," Markovitz said. "I feel, up to a certain age -- 14, 15, 16 -- that you can still do certain things" in education and rehabilitation.
Markovitz's success, as detailed in this show and a 1990 Time magazine article, has led to a host a imitators (New Jersey has more than 100 reports of anti-Semitic vandalism per year). But Markovitz said most other community-service programs embrace the "powder-puff aspect. They don't actually make them do what I did."
Markovitz put the boys (portrayed by Jason Allen, Peter Billingsley and Aeryk Egan) through a strenuous, thought-provoking regimen. They learned about the similarities of Christianity and Judaism from the bishop of their diocese. They were required to present reports on teenagers whose families were destroyed by the Nazis' Master Plan. And, in response to their spray-painted message, "Go back to your country," they were required to research their own family histories, leading one boy to discover that his grandfather was responsible for saving 10 Jewish families in Holland.
The classes also proved enlightening to the then-66-year-old rabbi, who was shocked to discover that the boys knew almost nothing about the Holocaust and what swastikas represent to Jews" The CBS Schoolbreak Special "The Writing on the Wall" first aired on
October 11, 1994, and the whole special can be viewed on the website, daillymotion.com , It's worth watching
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"A First: Rock-Throwing Terrorists Forced to Compensate Victims"
Sep 10, 2019
Related:
Honenu
Judea and Samaria
Palestinian rock-throwing
Palestinian terror
the article says
“The terrorists’ paying out of their pocket to their victims constitutes a strong message,” says attorney Chaim Bleicher.
By Arye Green, TPS
the article also states
"Arab terrorists who threw rocks at three Israeli women will pay compensation to their victims for the damage they caused.
The direct compensation of victims is unprecedented in cases of rock-throwing attacks, which are commonplace across Judea and Samaria and in Jerusalem.
The rock-throwing ambush took place two years ago near the Arab town of Sinjil in the Binyamin region. The terrorists took part in riots that occurred in response to the hunger strike of terrorists imprisoned in Israeli jails.
The terrorists took massive rocks and threw them at Israeli vehicles driving on route 60, a major road that passes near the Arab town.
The three terrorists were convicted in a plea bargain of throwing rocks at a moving vehicle, were sentenced to prison terms and were ordered to monetary compensation to the victims.
Tamar Nizri and her daughters, who were hit by the rocks, described the moments of horror.
“We can’t forget that Friday afternoon, we were so excited to drive to the beach, the children wore bathing suits and had snacks, when suddenly the windshield was smashed and Arab terrorists surrounded the car, throwing rocks at us,” she recounted.
“I don’t know how I carried on driving and got out of the ambush… My nine-year-old was hurt from the glass and is still terrified every time we take a drive, asking if we will drive near Sinjil,” she said.
Honenu, an Israeli legal aid organization, represented the victims against the terrorists and helped them obtain the compensation. Chaim Bleicher, the Nizri family’s attorney, explained the importance of monetary compensation as a tool for deterring further violence and attacks.
“It is extremely important that victims be involved in the indictment of a terrorist. Their involvement brings a harsher outcome for the terrorists… The terrorists’ paying out of their pocket to their victims constitutes a strong message. We see the effect the punishment has in deterring potential terror, though we are still at the beginning of this process,” he said"
In reply to the unitedwithisrael.org article about Arab Terrorists being Forced to Compensate their victims
one person typed as a comment in reply to the article
"כל רבדין Shlomo Elspas • 2 hours ago typed
"Another first decision of the high court was published today, allowing to keep bodies of killed terrorists for bargain, until we receive the bodies of our 2 dead soldiers kept in Gaza for years. It is so annoying that Palestinians are treated in Israel with more mercy than Israeli victims. The Israeli Judges are wretched, including the Supreme Court"
I Know it's Sickening,insane and evil that the Arab & so-called "Palestinian" Terrorists are treated more humanely than the Israeli victims , that is Truly Messed Up,
Truly F--KED Up beyond belief, no other nation in the World treats it's enemies with the mercy that Israel treats it's enemies, it's sickening & disgusting,
Myself & Other People want Peace in the Mideast, but there needs to be Harsher Punishment for Arab & "Palestinian" Terrorists, Many Jewish Israelis would agree, the Israeli Government is too soft on Arab & so-called "Palestinian" Terrorism
The website, sareltours.com has an article by Gary M. Fisher titled
"Israel in Bible Prophecy God's Greatest Sign to This Generation"
part of the article says
"Regathered
According to the Bible, after a time of being preserved in all the countries of the world, the Jewish people would begin to return to their own land in the last days. One of the prophecies that states this is Isaiah 11:11-12. It says, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” (KJV).
Other scriptures that affirm this return include Isaiah 43: 4-7; Jeremiah 16: 14-16; Jeremiah 23: 7-8; Jeremiah 29:14; Jeremiah 30: 3; Ezekiel 39: 25-29; and Amos 9:14- 15. There is some very interesting history concerning the fulfillment of these prophecies.
There were only about 40,000 Jewish people in what was known as Palestine at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1948, when Israel declared their independence and statehood, there were about 500,000. Today there are about 7 million and the number is still growing. Why? Because the Jewish people from all over the world are becoming more and more interested in going back to Israel! They are going home, if you will, in fulfillment of this prophecy. Some teach today that the regathering of the Jewish people from Babylon was the fulfillment of this Isaiah 11 prophecy. However, Isaiah 11:11 says they will be gathered the “second time”. The regathering from Babylon was the first time they were gathered back to the Land.
Also, Isaiah 11:12 says that they would be gathered from the “four corners of the earth”. The gathering from Babylon was from one country, Babylon. There is only one time in history that the Jewish people have been gathered the “second time” and from the “four corners of the earth”. That time is now."
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"Regathered in Unbelief
Many of the prophecies calling for the Jewish people to be regathered to the land of Israel also call for them to be gathered there without faith in their God. It is very unfortunate, but today in Israel there are so many who do not have a practicing faith in Jehovah God. In fact, many in Israel today are either atheist or agnostic.
This is the scenario that is called for in Ezekiel 37:1-28 known as the “valley of dry bones” chapter. Ezekiel 37:11- 14 leaves no question that Jewish people will be gathered from all over the world to the land of Israel before the Spirit is placed within them. Therefore, lack of faith in God in Israel today is in perfect harmony with the condition called for in Ezekiel 37.
However, Ezekiel goes on to declare that a bright day is coming for the people of Israel, spiritually and physically, a day when she will be redeemed from all of her wanderings and floundering (Ezekiel 11:17-21; 36:24-28). Her focus on her Lord will return, and the purpose for which she was originally set apart as a nation, to lead the nations in the knowledge of the Lord, will take center stage (Zechariah 12:10). Those days are just ahead of us.
Restoration of the Land
The land of Israel lay desolate for almost two thousand years. Her people were dispersed by the Romans all over the world in 70 A.D. By the turn of the twentieth century, the whole land of Israel was desolate! The part that was not desert was mostly malaria-infested swamps.
Mark Twain visited Israel in 1867 and wrote in his resulting diary, Innocence Abroad, “There was hardly a tree or a shrub any where. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. No landscape exists that is more tiresome to the eye than that which bounds the approaches to Jerusalem. The only difference between the roads and the surrounding country, perhaps, is that there are rather more rocks in the roads than in the surrounding country”. (Innocence Abroad, chapter LII, page 555).
Since the return of the Jewish people, the swamps have been drained and some of the best agriculture technology has been applied. Today, one can drive through the valleys and hills of Israel and see something very different than Mark Twain saw in 1867. Much of the land today has some of the most beautiful crops growing. The variety of crops is astounding!
Isaiah tells us the day would come when Israel would “blossom and sprout” and “fill the whole world with fruit” (Isaiah 27:6). This prophecy is definitely being fulfilled as Israel has become one of few net food-exporting countries in the world, which means they export more than they import. As of the writing of this booklet in 2016, Israel is exporting food products to over ninety countries.
Writing about Israel, Amos 9:14-15 calls for the plowman to overtake the reaper. In other words, Israel would become a land of thriving agriculture. In spite of
much political turmoil, and against all odds, Israel today is an agricultural wonder! One of my favorite things to do while on one of our ministry-sponsored tours to Israel is to review these Scriptures, then take the tour group to a roadside farmer’s market to see all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables being grown in Israel. To say that Israel is experiencing a restoration of their land is an understatement!"
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"Israel Rises in World Attention
There is not a day that goes by that Israel is not in the news. The world is very focused on Israel and especially Jerusalem. The world is wondering what to do about the problems between Israel and her neighboring Arab countries. There is also concern about the problems between Israel and the unhappy Arabs who live today inside her borders.
Over the past few decades the United Nations has tried to answer this “Middle East problem”. Many heads of state have tried to tackle the problem. Every United States administration since the re-establishment of Israel in 1948 has made some attempt to resolve the abrasions between Arab and Israel. Failure and frustration has abounded. The “peace process” has especially failed when the subject of who will control Jerusalem is entertained.
It is ironic that as large as the world is and as diverse as the world’s problems are, there is so much focus on this tiny country. At its widest point, Israel is only 85 miles wide and is 290 miles long! The population is close to 8 million compared to the world’s almost 7 billion. It is seemingly insignificant compared to the rest of the world both in size and population. Yet, Israel remains much of the focus of the United Nations and the world.
The prophet Zechariah prophesied the world’s attention would be focused on not just Israel, but Jerusalem in the end times (Zechariah 12:2-3). Jerusalem seems to be the “crown jewel” in the heart of the Jewish people of Israel. As the “peace talks” convene between Israel and her Arab neighbors, compromises have been considered on just about anything except Jerusalem.
As the restored nation of Israel seems unwilling to compromise concerning Jerusalem, resentment toward Israel is on the rise. This resentment will eventually turn to military involvement according to Zechariah, as every nation of the earth will turn against Jerusalem. When the world is convinced the “peace talks” have completely collapsed, they will start sending their armies to force “peace”. This will be the fulfillment of Zechariah 14:2 which states that a day is coming when all nations will be gathered against Jerusalem to battle.
The world, in fulfillment of Bible prophecy, is focusing on Jerusalem today. Diplomatic efforts will not solve the problems and, probably sooner than later, the armies will start to march toward Israel. When they do, the scenario will be set up for the fulfillment of the greatest event of all of human history, the return of Jesus!
Zechariah 14:4 says in the day that all nations are gathered together against Jerusalem, the Lord will come and stand on the Mount of Olives! He will take a stand against all the armies gathered there and defeat them. At that point He will begin to rule this earth for 1000 years. The “Middle East problem” will be over! Praise the Lord! What an exciting time to live and see these things beginning to take place!"
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"Israel’s Military Restored
Zechariah 12:6-8 states in the days when the armies of the world will come against Israel, the clans of Judah would be “like a flaming torch among sheaves”. This is more than a suggestion that there will be an Israeli military in place in those days.
In keeping with this prophecy, the Israeli military of today is one of the best trained in the world. It has proven itself several times in the last sixty-eight years to be a very effective fighting force. They have emerged victorious against incredible odds from every major military campaign launched against them since the country was re- established in 1948.
Five Arab armies attacked the new Jewish State on May 15, 1948 and were defeated by January 1949. An Egyptian- Syrian alliance was defeated over the Sinai area in 1956. The combined efforts to overrun Israel by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Algeria, and Lebanon were defeated by the Israelis in 1967 in six days, known as the famous Six-Day War. The Israelis put down another combined effort in 1973 in what is known as the Yom Kippur War. In this war, the Egyptians and Syrians, with just under 1000 warplanes, over 4,000 tanks, and 800,000 troops, challenged Israel. Before the bitter fighting was over, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Kuwait had joined the Egyptian and Syrian force. The outnumbered Israeli army again was able to be victorious; this time with less than 500 warplanes, 1700 tanks, and 300,000 men, outnumbered almost 3 to 1.
Today, Israel, more than ever, has a very powerful fighting force with an arsenal that includes nuclear, and some believe hydrogen weaponry. Their Air Force, Navy, and Army are highly rated among the most technologically advanced in the world. “Pilot to pilot, airframe to airframe, the Israeli Air Force is the best in the world,” said Chris Harmer, a senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War (http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/israeli-air- force-is-best-in-the-world/2014/10/28/, paragraph 9).
A relevant prophecy to be considered in this context is found in Zechariah 12. It is a prophecy that visits the military skill of David and declares that the most “feeble” among the Jewish military in the last days would be like David (Zechariah 12:8). In this regard, it was said of David, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands” (I Samuel 18:7). It was also David who defeated Goliath (I Samuel 17:48-51). The weakest of the last-days military of Israel would be like David.
Against the incredible odds they have faced over the last 1900 years, Israel is back in the Land with a powerful restored military just as Bible prophecy has predicted and has proven to be “like David” "
the article also says
"Israel In Messiah’s Kingdom Headquarters of World Government and Religion
Immediately following these times of Gentile power would come the time predicted in Scripture when Jesus Himself will take His position as King, and rule and reign on earth for 1,000 years (Zechariah 14:9, Revelation 20:1- 6). He will rule with peace, righteousness, and justice! He will reign from Mount Zion, which is located in Jerusalem (Micah 4:6). Zechariah 14:11 says at that time, “people will live in it, and there will be no more curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security”. The curse on the earth that was introduced at the fall of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 will be removed. Among other blessings, the earth will not require strenuous labor to make the earth yield fruit and flowers. Can we imagine the beauty?
Also describing this time, Micah says the nations will send ambassadors to Jerusalem to seek the favor and wisdom of the Lord (Micah 4:2; Isaiah 62:7). What a switch from the present-day political world this will be! Today the world is shouting for the Lord to get out of government, out of our schools and public places. In that day, however, according to Micah, the world will embrace the Lord at all levels and seek to be taught by Him.
There will not be the outcry of separation of church and state that is heard so much in today’s world. Jerusalem will be the religious and political capital of the world. Jesus will be present there to preside over all politics and religion. Jerusalem will finally become what has long been in the mind of the Lord and His prophets. One of those prophets, Isaiah, says we are to give God “no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:7).
Israel will finally become what she was called out and separated to do; be the world’s teacher in what it means to know the Lord and His righteousness. After so many centuries of enduring the world’s hatred and disrespect, many long to see Israel rise to this glorious time of respect and admiration from around the world. Israel’s Messiah, Jesus, will lead the world into the greatest time of peace and righteousness ever known on earth.
Zechariah recognizes this time when he states, in that day, ten men will grasp the garment of the Jew saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you” (Zechariah 8:23). What a welcome time this will be!"
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"A Closing Summary
The stage is being set for the return of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. A pre-requisite for His return is for the nation of Israel to be re-established back to their homeland. This is a signal that Jesus is returning soon! When He returns, Israel will then lead the world in the greatest revival of repentance the world has ever known., Zechariah 8 declares Israel will become the most respected and revered nation the world has ever known with her Messiah as King over all the earth. We are told in Scripture to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem…” (Psalm 122:6). In so doing, we should know that we are actually praying for the time when Jesus Christ will come and establish Jerusalem as the capital of the world. He then will rule from there over the whole earth (Zechariah 14:9).
The curse that was placed on the earth at the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden will be removed (Zechariah 14:11). The earth at that time will be flooded with peace, righteousness, and justice. The Bible has promised the “knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea,” as (Isaiah 11:9). This is what the world is looking for!
The greatest question that remains is not so much is Israel ready, but are you? You can know by observing the words found in Romans 10:9: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (KJV). And even so, “Come Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:20)."
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"Scripture References
All scripture references are from the New American Standard translation unless otherwise designated.
Nation Dispersed
Deuteronomy 28: 58-68 (Scattered all around the world). Jer. 16:15 and Jer. 23:8 (Banished to all countries).
Preserved in Dispersion
Jeremiah 31: 35-37 (Sun, moon, and stars would not pass before restoration).
Genesis 18:18 (All nations bless through Abraham).
Regathered
Isaiah 11: 11-12 (Regathered second time from four corners of earth ).
Regathered in Unbelief
Ezekiel 37:1-28 (Regathered back to land, but have no “spirit”).
Ezekiel 11:17-21 (A new heart given when restored to land).
Ezekiel 36:24-28 (Desolate land will be like Garden of Eden).
Zechariah 12:10 (Messiah accepted after all nations come against Jerusalem).
Restoration of Land of Israel
Isaiah 32:15 (The Spirit will be poured out when wilderness becomes fertile field).
Isaiah 27: 6 (Israel will blossom and feed the world).
Amos 9:14-15 (Israel yields unprecedented produce).
Twain, Mark. (1869). Innocence Abroad.
Hartford Connecticut: American Publishing Company.
Israel Rises in World Attention
Zechariah 12:2-3 (Jerusalem and Judah will be under siege).
Zechariah 14:2,4 (Lord will gather all nations against Jerusalem).
Israeli Military Restored
Zechariah 12:6-8 (Israel will become like flaming torch among sheaves).
Reclamation of Jerusalem
Luke 21:24 (Jerusalem trampled until times of Gentiles is over).
Matthew 24:21 (then shall be great tribulation).
Israel in “Great Tribulation”
Daniel 9:27 (Antichrist ceases daily sacrifice)
II Thessalonians 2:4 (Antichrist claims himself to be God).
Matthew 24:15, 21 (Horror of Antichrist rule).
Jerusalem Trampled until Times of Gentiles Fulfilled
Zechariah 14:2 (All nations gathered against Jerusalem).
Revelation 19:14 (All saints accompany Lord to Mt. Of Olives)
Zechariah 12:10 (Look on Him whom they have pierced).
Zechariah 14:9 (Jesus becomes King over whole earth).
Romans 11:26 (All Israel will be saved).
Luke 21:24 (Jerusalem trampled until times of Gentiles is over).
Israel in Messiah’s Kingdom
(Headquarters of World Government and Religion)
Zechariah 14:9 (Jesus becomes King over whole earth).
Revelation 20:1-6 (Jesus reigns for 1,00 years).
Micah 4:2, 6 (Ambassadors come and seek wisdom of Lord)
Isaiah 62:7 (give God no rest until makes Jerusalem a praise)
Zechariah 8:23 (Israel most respected among nations)
A Closing Summary
Psalm 122:6 (pray for peace of Jerusalem).
Zechariah 14:9,11 (Curse on earth removed)
Isaiah 11:9 (knowledge of Lord will cover earth). Romans 10:9 (confess with your mouth, believe in heart) Revelation 22:20 (Come Lord Jesus)."
From the website bridgesforpeace.com an article is titled
"Israel Rewards Palestinian Man for Saving Family of Murdered Rabbi"
August 9, 2019
by: Ilse Strauss
The aftermath of the shooting attack that killed Rabbi Miki Mark
the article says
"Friday, 9 August 2019 | Any normal society would have lauded him as a hero. A person who risks his life to rush to the aid of the survivors of a brutal attack is, after all, a hero by most definitions. However, the situation—and the society—can hardly be considered normal. The victims of the bloody attack were Jewish; the perpetrators Palestinian—and so too was the man who helped those who survived the carnage. The result? Instead of being lauded as a hero, the Palestinian rescuer was forced to flee for his life—and has found a safe haven in Israel.
On July 1, 2016, the 28-year-old Palestinian man who requested to remain anonymous was traveling with his wife near their hometown of Hebron when the couple happened on a horrific find: an overturned car that crashed after being riddled with bullets in a bloody terror attack. The Jewish victims clearly needed help, and despite the repercussions of a Palestinian coming to the aid of Jews, the couple pulled over to do what they could.
The driver, Rabbi Miki Mark, had died in the hail of bullets. His wife, Chava, was seriously injured. Two children—a boy and a girl—were trapped in the backseat, bleeding and petrified after seeing their father murdered.
The Palestinian couple pulled the children from the car, administered first aid and remained by their side until first responders arrived on the scene.
“I took the boy and I hugged him,” the man recalled. “I gave him some water and applied iodine, and just kept telling him that everything was going to be OK.”
“The girl told me, ‘God sent an Arab to help us,’” he continued.
The situation soon took a turn for the worse. Other Palestinians arrived on the scene, threatening to finish what the terrorists started. The Palestinian rescuer intervened, warning the mob that if they dared touch his charges, they would “see what I am capable of. They are under my protection,” Breaking Israel News reported.
The Palestinian man faced a terrible backlash for his heroism. Denounced as a traitor and a collaborator, he was fired from his job and received death threats. Fearing for his life, he fled to Israel, while his wife and young child remained near Hebron.
Israel’s Channel 12 news recently shared the story of the heroic Palestinian man’s plight, prompting a number of Jewish leaders to rally behind him in a push for Israeli residency.
Their efforts paid off. This week, the Palestinian hero, his wife and child received their official identity papers as Israeli residents from Interior Minister Aryeh Deri. Enfolding him in a hug, Deri lauded him as “selfless” and “noble.” Head of the Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan, who led the campaign to obtain their residency, echoed Deri’s praise, calling the cause a “moral and righteous thing to do for a man who risked his life to save Jews.”
It took nearly three years, but finally, in Israel, the man who risked his life to rush to the aid of the survivors of a brutal attack is being lauded as the hero he is."
An article from 2016 on the website globalcitizen.org is titled
"Palestinians risk lives to save wounded Israelis after attack" the article says:
“It doesn’t matter if somebody is...a Jew or an Arab...my first priority is providing needed aid"
Most days, we wake up to headlines touting stories of conflict and violence between Israelis and Palestinians, but today, we are sharing a heartwarming story about a group of citizens rising above their differences to help people in need.
Last week, Rabbi Michael Mark was driving in the West Bank with his family when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on his car. While Mark was killed, his wife and daughter were injured, and his son left unwounded.
While this happens sadly with some frequency, this story takes a different turn. Rather than driving on and minding their own business, a group of Palestinians and Israelis came together to help the victims.
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The New York Times tells the story of Dr. Ali Shrouk, a Palestinian doctor who was driving to Jerusalem to take part in Ramadan prayers. He noticed his brother Mahmoud directing traffic around Mark’s overturned vehicle. They worked quickly to pull the wife and daughter from the car and treated them while waiting for a medic to arrive.
“I instantly stopped my car and rushed toward it to provide aid to the wounded. I didn’t care that my life, and the lives of my family members who were with me, could be at risk. I am a doctor and my first priority is providing needed aid,” Ali told the Maan News Agency.
The Associated Press tells the story of al-Bayed, another Palestinian who helped at the scene. Al-Bayed told the AP he and his wife were driving by when they spotted the overturned car with fuel spilling out."
the article continues
"“I heard kids' voices inside the car, screaming for help in Hebrew. It was heartbreaking...this was a very human moment. I didn't think of the occupation or the conflict. I thought only of human beings, children who needed my help," he said in an interview.
Despite language and cultural barriers, this group of people stood up to do what was right — they helped their fellow man in a time of need.
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“It doesn’t matter if somebody is a settler, a Jew or an Arab,” Ali told the Times. He and his brother left only when they were certain the victims were being helped, putting themselves at risk.
Their kindness was not quickly forgotten. At Rabbi Mark’s funeral, his son asked mourners who called for revenge to leave. Comments on his daughter-in-law's Facebook page referred to Arabs as “murderous” and “scum of the earth.” “I think you should write terrorist, and not Arabs,” she responded, clarifying that Palestinians had been some of the first to help her family after the attack.
As he sat shiva for his uncle, Rabbi Menachem Kelmanson asked after Ali, saying, “Tell him thank you, thank you, from all my heart.”
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Dr. Shroukh is not the only doctor who has risen above religious and political divides to treat the wounded. Last fall, a Jewish doctor and a Muslim doctor made news for their combined efforts to treat any patient that comes in — regardless of their religious or political beliefs.
When it comes to medicine and health, these doctors are showing up to save lives, because all lives are equal. The fact that these are news stories is a sign of how accustomed we’ve become to sectarian attacks — the attack itself isn’t news, but humans helping each other in a time of need is."
The website jcpa.org has an article titled
"Palestinian Christian Abuse of Christian Organizations in the West"
by Dexter van Zile, the article can be found here,
http://jcpa.org/overview_palestinian_manipulation/palestinian_christian_abuse/
Another good article from the jcpa.org website is titled
"Palestinian Crimes against Christian Arabs and Their Manipulation against Israel" by
Justus Reid Weiner, the article can be found here,
http://jcpa.org/article/palestinian-crimes-against-christian-arabs-and-their-manipulation-against-israel/ It is NOT Israel or Jews that is persecuting Christians, but Arab & Muslim Extremists who are guilty of Persecuting Christian Arabs
Also from jcpa.org an article by Robbie Sabel is titled
"Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli "Lawfare" "
the article can be found here,
http://jcpa.org/article/manipulating-international-law-as-part-of-anti-israeli-lawfare/
The Facts show Israel has a Superb Record of Compliance with International Law, while it's Enemies don't, Israel's enemies are complete hypocrites & liars who are complete losers & troublemakers
From the website azlyrics.com the song "Never Again" by the Wu-Tang Clan performed by
Remedy , the Jewish rapper who was born Ross Filler
the song "Never Again" about the Holocaust goes like this
"Wu-Tang Clan Lyrics
"Never Again"
(performed by Remedy)
[man praying in Hebrew during intro]
[Intro: Remedy]
Feel this,
To all those races, colors, and creeds, every man bleeds for the
countless victims and all their families of
the murdered, tortured and slaved, raped, robbed and persecuted
Never Again, To the men, women, and children.
Who died in their struggle to survive, never to be forgotten.
Reuven Ben Menachum, yo..
[Remedy]
Yo my own blood, dragged through the mud
Perished in my heart still cherished and loved
Stripped of our pride, everything we lived for
Families cried, there's no where to run to, no where to hide
Tossed to the side, Access denied
6 million died for what? Yo a man shot dead in his back
Helpless women and children under constant attack
For no reason, till the next season, and we still bleeding
Yo it's freezing, And men burn in hell, some for squeezing
No hope for a remedy, nothing to believe
Moving targets who walk with the star in their sleeve
Forever marked wit a number, tattooed to your body
Late night, eyes closed, clutched to my shotty
Having visions, flashes of death camps and prisons, no provisions
Deceived by the devils decisions, forced into a slave
Death before dishonour for those men who were brave
Shot and sent to their grave, can't awaken, it's too late
Everything's been taken, I'm shaken, family, history, the making
[Chorus: Remedy w/ Israel's anthem]
Never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter
Never again shall we sit and take orders
Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name
Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames
Forced from our families, taken from our homes
Moved from our God then burned of our bones
Never again, never again, shall we march like sheep to the slaughter
Leave our sons and daughters, stripped of our culture
Robbed of our name
Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames
Forced from our families, taken from our homes
Moved from our God and everything we own
[Remedy]
Some fled through the rumors of wars
But most left were dead, few escaped to the shores
With just one loaf of bread, banished, hold in for questioning
And vanished, Never to be seen again, I can't express the pain
That was felt in the train to Auschwitz, tears poured down like rain
Naked face to face, with the master race, Hatred blood and David
My heart belongs to God and stay sacred
Rabbi's and priests, Disabled individuals
The poor, the scholars all labeled common criminals
Mass extermination, total annihilation
Shipped into the ghetto and prepared for liquidation
Tortured and starved, innocent experiments
Stripped down and carved up or gassed to death
The last hour, I smelled the flowers
Flashbacks of family then sent to the showers
Powerless undressed, women with babies clumped tight to their chest
Crying, who would've guessed -- dying, another life lost
Count the cost, another body gas burned and tossed in the holocaust
[Chorus]
[Outro: Remedy]
Never Again, Never Again
The final solution is now retribution
Remedy, Wu-Tang." This song "Never Again" about the Holocaust can also be found on
YouTube , the words "Deceived by the devils decisions" refer to Adolf Hitler, on the YouTube videos of this song, Hitler is shown when the those words
"Deceived by the devils decisions" are spoken in the song
Another Good Article worth reading is titled
"God's Enduring Love for Israel" from the website, www.ucg.org
the article can be found here,
https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/beyond-today-magazine/gods-enduring-love-for-israel
From the New York Daily News website nydailynews.com on September 12, 2019 titled
The article is titled
"Hate crimes: A pogrom is coming" and it says
"Brooklyn: There’s a cynical joke told in Jewish communities: “In an old Eastern European village, news spread that a Christian girl had been murdered. The Jewish community, fearing they would be blamed by their anti-Semitic neighbors, and the possibility of a pogrom, gathered in the synagogue to discuss what to do. In the middle of the discussion, the doors swung open and in ran a member of the congregation. ‘Great news!’ he shouted. ‘The murdered girl was actually Jewish.’ ”
A startling statistic has gone mostly unmentioned: In New York City, more than 50% of hate crimes reported are against Jewish people.
The only thing more shocking is the media’s lack of coverage of what can only be called a pogrom in the making. If there is coverage, it is presented as a general increase in the number of hate crimes and fails to mention the Jewish profile of the victims. This behavior echoes Soviet post-war propaganda that described Nazi victims as Soviet citizens without alluding to the fact that most of the victims were selected because they were Jews.
Adding to the abuse is that many of the reporters and leaders of organizations that fight against hate crimes are themselves Jewish. This brings us back to the crude joke from earlier. For over a century, Jews in the U.S. have been at the forefront of fighting racism, hate and discrimination. Yet they are mostly silent about attacks on New York City’s Jewish population. I find it paradoxical that progressive Jews who march against injustices happening halfway around the world will not speak up when hate and violence plagues the Jews of Crown Heights, Borough Park, Williamsburg or Flushing. Gennady Favel" sadly as usual everyone unjustly hates the Jews, Jews are always the Victims of Hate Crimes, you NEVER see Jews in Brooklyn or Anywhere else committing hate crimes , Jews are sadly Victims as usual, I wish all the Hatred would Stop , How many years before a Holocaust in America, 20, 25 ?
The website desiringgod.org has a superb article by John Piper titled
"If we Love Jesus, We Will Love the Jews" and the article gives 12 Reasons to NOT be Anti-Semitic, the article can be found here,
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/if-we-love-jesus-we-will-love-the-jews the article was written after the horrific shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in October 2018
Some good news, from the website , jewishpress.com an article is titled
"Israel, Japan Sign Defense Agreement in Tokyo"
By
Hana Levi Julian -
11 Elul 5779 – September 10, 2019
Photo Credit: Flash 90
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
the article says
"Israel and Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding Tuesday morning at the headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defense in Tokyo.
Israel’s Director of Security for Defense Nir Ben Moshe was accompanied at the ceremony by Ambassador to Japan Mrs. Yafa Ben Ari. Japan’s Director-General for International Affairs, Mr. Suzuki was accompanied by Japanese Equipment Policy ATLA Director-General Mr. Aoyagi.
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“I applaud the important agreement that was signed this morning with the Japanese Ministry of Defense,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement following the signing. “The agreement will deepen and strengthen security relations between the countries. We have brought Israel-Japan relations to an all-time high.”
The agreement is expected to strengthen and deepen defense cooperation and relations between Israel and Japan.
Sun D’Or to Begin Direct Flights from Israel to Japan
El Al subsidiary Sun D’Or is set to launch its new direct route between Ben Gurion International Airport and Narita Airport in Japan beginning this week.
Israel, Japan Sign Digital Health Tech, Cybersecurity Deals
Earlier this year, the two countries signed a series of six partnership deals in the fields of cybersecurity, digital health technologies and the automotive industry, along with a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of digital health during a visit to Israel by a senior Japanese government and business delegation." Other Articles online also talk about this Defense Agreement between Israel & Japan , sadly Japan still has a Severe Anti-Semitism & Jew-Hatred Problem
From the website algemeiner.com an article is titled
"On 18th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks, Israel Voices Solidarity With US in Ongoing Fight Against Global Terrorism" on September 11, 2019
avatar by Algemeiner Staff
The 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero in Manhattan. Photo: Chris Pedota / NorthJersey.com via USA TODAY NETWORK.
the article says
"As Americans marked the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday, the State of Israel expressed its solidarity with the US in the ongoing war against global terrorism."
“Israel stands shoulder to shoulder with America in the fight against terrorism, and grieves with families of the victims of the #September11 attacks,” the Jewish state’s Foreign Ministry tweeted. “In commemoration, two gigantic torches were lit, symbolizing the Twin Towers at Israel’s 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem.”
Israel stands shoulder to shoulder with America in the fight against terrorism, and grieves with families of the victims of the #September11 attacks.
In commemoration, two gigantic torches were lit, symbolizing the Twin Towers at Israel’s 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem.🇮🇱🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/KxQQchy3TG
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) September 11, 2019
The Israel Defense Forces tweeted, “Today, we stand united with America in remembering the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks. May their memory be a blessing.”
Today, we stand united with America in remembering the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks. May their memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/PlqvEmTilk
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 11, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted, “We remember 9/11. We stand together with the United States of America in our common struggle against barbarism and terrorism.”
We remember 9/11.
We stand together with the United States of America in our common struggle against barbarism and terrorism. pic.twitter.com/LlkiAmABDm
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) September 11, 2019
Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer tweeted, “On 9/11, Israel mourns with the American people, remembers the victims and renews its commitment to always stand with America to fight terrorism and defend freedom.”
On 9/11, Israel mourns with the American people, remembers the victims and renews its commitment to always stand with America to fight terrorism and defend freedom. pic.twitter.com/6auiAeRoEX
— Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) September 11, 2019
Israel’s UN envoy, Danny Danon, tweeted, “Today, we remember the 2,977 innocent victims horrifically murdered in the 9/11 terror attacks. Israel stood with the US through that dark period & will continue to stand with her as the evil that motivated the attacks in 2001 still remains with us in 2019. Remember #September11.”
Today, we remember the 2,977 innocent victims horrifically murdered in the 9/11 terror attacks. Israel stood with the US through that dark period & will continue to stand with her as the evil that motivated the attacks in 2001 still remains with us in 2019. Remember #September11 pic.twitter.com/jKFS9afNrj
— Ambassador Danny Danon | דני דנון (@dannydanon) September 11, 2019
The Tel Aviv municipality tweeted, “Tonight, we light up the City Hall building in #TelAviv in honor of the lives that were lost in the 9/11 attacks in #NewYork City. We send our thoughts and prayers out to the USA and we will #NeverForget.”
Tonight, we light up the City Hall building in #TelAviv in honor of the lives that were lost in the 9/11 attacks in #NewYork City. We send our thoughts and prayers out to the USA and we will #NeverForget 🇮🇱❤🇺🇸#September11 pic.twitter.com/5vqBuU8gkI
— Tel Aviv (@TelAviv) September 11, 2019
Also from the website algemeiner.com an article is titled
"More Human Rights Hypocrisy" on September 13, 2019
by Gidon Ben-zvi
Indian soldiers examine the debris after an explosion in Lethpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, Feb. 14, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Younis Khaliq.
the article says
"What’s striking about the international community’s reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pledge to apply sovereignty to Jewish communities in the West Bank, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to revoke the autonomy of Indian-administered Kashmir, is the sound of crickets.
A United Nations diplomat called the UN Security Council session that was convened to deal with Kashmir the “lowest level of council action,” and stated that members hadn’t even issued a press release about the proceedings. Governments around the world are largely treating the Kashmir issue as an internal Indian matter, the result of a lengthy and complicated democratic process.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s latest annexation proclamation is widely perceived as the Israeli premiere’s latest last minute attempt to capture a few more votes days before an election. Notwithstanding perfunctory Arab League and UN condemnations, the cause of human rights for Palestinians seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Between the threats posed by ISIS and Iran, Arab leaders are scrambling to hold on to power. At most, Palestinian independence is paid occasional lip service.
But are the human rights of Kashmiris and Palestinians being ignored as a result? The most vocal proponent of Kashmiri self-determination is Pakistan. But this Islamic republic is itself an egregious human rights violator. The part of Kashmir administered by Pakistan denies people their most fundamental political and human rights. And you can forget about self-determination: pro-independence groups such as JKLF are routinely targeted and repressed by the government in Islamabad.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights recently released a report on human rights in Kashmir. It noted that human rights abuses in Pakistani Kashmir were of a “different caliber or magnitude” to those in Indian Kashmir, and included misuse of anti-terrorism laws to target dissent, and restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and opinion, peaceful assembly, and association.
Back in Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to apply Israeli sovereignty to large swathes of the West Bank has fanned the sacred fire of liberty. Turkey, Syria, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are among a rogues gallery of human rights villains who are lining up to support Palestinian liberation. Yet the same Middle East governments extolling the virtues of freedom are cracking down on civil society actors and political opponents at an increasing rate.
And what of the Palestinian Authority (PA) — tasked with the responsibility of midwifing the political and economic reforms needed to usher in independence? More than 25 years after the Oslo Accords granted Palestinians a degree of self-rule over the West Bank, systematic arbitrary arrests and torture perpetrated by the PA are in gross violation of the human rights treaties it has signed.
It’s hard to not become disheartened when the very concept of human rights has been hijacked by the world’s worst human rights violators. Palestinians, Kashmiris and stateless people everywhere will only taste the sweet nectar of freedom once they demand, protest and fight for a transparent, accountable and democratic form of government that respects and guarantees their inalienable human rights.
Their cause would be best served by taking their destiny into their own hands and allowing their ostensible supporters to quietly rot on the ash heap of history"
From the website theguardian.com an article is titled
"Nazi blueprint for North American Holocaust acquired by Canada archive"
the article says
German researcher’s 1944 book, once owned by Adolf Hitler, lists Jewish residents of US and Canada
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Fri 25 Jan 2019 02.00 ESTLast modified on Tue 5 Feb 2019 15.27 EST
the article says
"The 137-page book was compiled in 1944 by Heinz Kloss, a German researcher and Linguist.
A book once owned by Adolf Hitler, which scholars suspect was a blueprint for a Holocaust in North America, has been acquired by Canada’s national archive.
The rare book, of which only a handful of copies remain, was bought online by government librarians last year and unveiled for the first time in Ottawa on Wednesday. The acquisition, which curators say will preserve a critical piece of history, comes at a time of growing antisemitism and Holocaust denial in Canada.
Published in 1944 by the German researcher and linguist Heinz Kloss, Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada is a disturbingly thorough catalogue of Jewish residents in the two countries and reflects Nazi plans in the event they gained control over the continent.
“[The book] demonstrates that the Holocaust wasn’t a European event – it was an event that didn’t have the opportunity to spread out of Europe,” Michael Kent, a curator at Library and Archives Canada, told the Guardian. “It reminds us that conflicts and human tragedies that seemed far away could find their way to North America.”
Experts believe the book was once part of Hitler’s extensive library at his alpine hideaway and was probably removed by Allied soldiers or dignitaries who visited the complex following the defeat of the Nazis.
Kloss, who frequently worked for the Third Reich, used 1930s data, drawn from his extensive contact network of Nazi sympathizers, to sort Jewish residents in Canada by language and ethnic origins.
“I think that’s part of the horrors of world war two and the Holocaust – recognizing how much intellectual effort went into work of the perpetrators,” said Kent."
the article continues
"Acquired by a private collector in the US at a cost of US$4,500, the book will go on public display on Saturday, in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The item will become a permanent addition to archive’s collection of more than 22m books.
The book highlights Nazi plans for an eventual presence in North America. They made larger strides than is often realized: in 1943, the year before Kloss’s book was published, the Germans established an automated weather station in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. There are also numerous wartime stories in eastern Canada of German U-boats making headway up the St Lawrence river.
Kent likens the library’s recent acquisition to the Black Book, a list of prominent British residents identified as potential targets, in the event of a successful Nazi invasion of the United Kingdom.
While many Holocaust memorials in the US refuse to acquire Nazi memorabilia – including the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC – the library’s mandate is to preserve and document historical items that are important to Canadian history, said Kent.
“Obviously, given the provenance and given the subject matter of the book, there had to be a larger reflection than just our standard operating procedures,” he said.
The acquisition by the national archive comes at a time when scholars have warned of rising ignorance among Canadians about the Holocaust.
On Thursday, editors of a Toronto-based publication, Your Ward News, were found guilty of hate crimes for its depiction of women and Jewish figures. The judge called the paper’s views an “unrelenting promotion of hate”.
The verdict follows a study that found more than half of Canadian adults were unaware that more than 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and as many as two-thirds of young respondents failed to demonstrate knowledge of the event.
“I’m still fighting Nazis and white supremacists in ways that I never dreamed I’d be doing in retirement,” said Bernie Farber, chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. “When I go into schools I see young people who have not been taught the lessons of the past.”
He hopes that better education – including the archive’s acquisition of the book – can combat the “absolutely horrendous” trend of ignorance among young Canadians.
“I don’t want Nazi memorabilia falling into the hands of neo-Nazis. I do want Nazi memorabilia falling into the hands of Holocaust centres, museums and archives,” he said. “That’s where they belong, that’s where they can be studied and that’s where lessons will be learned."
From the website bbc.com an article is titled
"Hitler-owned book hints at Nazi plans for North America"
24 January 2019
the article says
"The bookplate contains a stylized eagle, swastika, and the words "Ex Libris Adolf Hitler" - a sign it came from Hitler's personal library
A book once owned by Adolf Hitler provides a chilling look at what may have been his interest in extending the "Final Solution" to North America.
The book was written by a Nazi researcher who spent time in the US before the outbreak of World War Two.
It has been acquired by the Library and Archives of Canada, and was once owned by a Holocaust survivor.
The Final Solution was a code name for the Nazi's goal of committing genocide against the Jewish people.
The Nazis killed about 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, mostly from Europe.
The book - Statistik, Presse und Organisationen des Judentums in den Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada (Statistics, Media, and Organisations of Jewry in the United States and Canada) - provides details on the Jewish population of large cities such as New York and Montreal, as well as small Jewish communities throughout North America.
"This invaluable report offers a documented confirmation of the fears felt so acutely and expressed by so many Canadian Jews during the Second World War: that the Nazis would land on our shores and with them, the annihilation of Jewish life here," said Rebecca Margolis, who is president of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.
"While these fears may seem unfounded given the geographic distance of Nazi Europe to Canada, this handbook offering detailed statistics of Jewish populations across North America underlines their nightmarish potential."
The book was compiled in 1944 by Heinz Kloss.
Kloss was a Nazi researcher who lived in the US between 1936-1937, and it likely his research on American and Canadian Jews was aided by Nazi sympathisers living in North America.
Hitler is said to have had a vast library containing anywhere from 6,000 to 16,000 books.
Written by Heinz Kloss, the book was part of a "confidential" series and was for official use only
The Library believes the book was brought to the US as a war souvenir by a soldier who raided Hitler's alpine retreat outside of Berchtesgaden in 1945.
It was acquired from a respected Judaica dealer, who obtained it from the personal collection of a Holocaust survivor.
There is much debate over the ethics of purchasing Nazi artefacts.
In an interview with the CBC, Library and Archives of Canada curator Michael Kent discussed the moral dilemma of purchasing a book once owned by Hitler.
"While this is certainly a creepy item, the decision to acquire it was simple," he told the CBC. "The chance to acquire an item like this reminds us of ... the role we play in ensuring the memory of the Holocaust is preserved."
From the website cnn.com an article is titled
"Hitler-owned book hints at plans for North American Holocaust"
By Matthew Robinson, CNN
Updated 6:24 AM ET, Sat January 26, 2019
What Hitler's Jewish neighbor saw (2016)
A 1944 Nazi book on North America's Jewish population has been acquired by Canada's national archive.
(CNN)
the article says
"A rare book owned by Adolf Hitler, which is believed to detail the blueprint for a North American Holocaust, has been acquired by Canada's national archive.
Library and Archives Canada purchased the document last year for $4,500, and it was unveiled for the first time Wednesday, just days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday.
The 137-page report -- titled "Statistics, Media and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada" -- was compiled in 1944 by German linguist and researcher Heinz Kloss. He was responsible for conducting key research for the Nazi regime on issues such as nationality, with a particular focus on the United States.
Kloss -- who visited the United States in 1936-7 and maintained a network of Nazi sympathizers -- used 1930s population data to produce a personalized census of the Jewish population in North America, along with information about Jewish organizations and newspapers.
Library and Archives Canada purchased the book last year for $4,500.
Michael Kent, curator of the Jacob M. Lowy Collection, which is preserving the book, told CNN that the report would have likely played "an important role" in any implementation of the Final Solution -- the term used by Nazi leaders to describe the extermination of the Jewish population -- had the Third Reich successfully invaded the United States and Canada.
Kent described the report as "quite shocking," and noted that it included detailed analysis not only of cities with large Jewish populations such as Toronto and Winnipeg, Manitoba, but also of small urban areas."
the article continues
"While other Holocaust memorial organizations have opted not to acquire or display any Nazi memorabilia, Kent told CNN that it was important for the archive to do so due to the "rise in xenophobia, dwindling knowledge of the Holocaust, and rise of Holocaust denial."
The book will go on public display Saturday before portions of it are made available online.
Rebecca Margolis of the University of Ottawa noted in a statement that the report offers a "documented confirmation of the fears felt so acutely" by Canadian Jews during World War II -- that the Nazis intended to invade North America.
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Experts believe the report was part of a confidential series of research commissioned by Hitler and stored at his mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. The bookplate bears a stylized eagle, swastika and the words "ex libris Adolf Hitler," which suggest that it came from the Nazi leader's personal library.
The report, along with other books owned by Hitler, is believed to have been brought to the United States as a souvenir by American soldiers after they raided his property at the end of the war in the spring of 1945.
The Holocaust Education Trust expressed shock over the finding. "This story highlights Hitler's obsessive anti-Semitism and the chilling Nazi ambition to murder Jewish people wherever they were in the world," a representative for the trust told CNN.
"It reminds us of the need to remain resolute in standing up to anti-Semitism, defending historical truth and educating the next generation."
Steven Wilson, chief executive of the UK's United Synagogue, told CNN: "Last Sunday the British Jewish community carried out an extraordinary funeral as we buried the remains of six Holocaust victims murdered at Auschwitz. It was a stark reminder the Holocaust is not ancient history but still in living memory. This ... is a reminder of the continued importance of the fight against anti-Semitism ... and the ongoing importance of Holocaust education, particularly for younger generations."
The book will be stored in the Jacob M. Lowy Collection at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. Other libraries in North America to store books owned by Hitler include the Library of Congress and Brown University Library."
Some good News, American Nazi Bastard Harold Covington died on July 14, 2018 at the age of
64, good that he's dead, the loser was 64, he can rot in hell, at least he didn't live to be a ripe old age like 80 or 90, or 95 , Covington stated on the "Tomorrow" show in February 1981 that
"all Jews should be gassed" such a sick evil man, from the website idavox.com
an article about Covington is titled
"Neo-Nazi Leader Harold Covington Died A Coward"
July 27, 2018 Idavox U.S.
the article says
"Harold Covington was pretty much a laughing stock for much of the past few decades, so there isn’t a lot of people mourning his passing. Of course those who aren’t boneheads are getting a kick out of it!
Yesterday the website for the Northwest Front confirmed the death of its founder, 64-year-old Neo-Nazi Harold Covington. “It is with a heavy heart I must inform you all that Harold Armstead Covington, founder of the Northwest Front, passed away last week in his apartment in Bremerton, WA,” wrote NF member Andy Donner. “Thankfully, preparations were made and the Party continues to operate in service of the Northwest Imperative,” he added.
This so-called “Northwest Imperative” was Covington’s dream: A white ethnostate carved out of territory in the northwest United States. Known as the “Butler Plan,” it proposed that white supremacists flock to a “core territory” made up of “Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and the western part of Montana with Interstate 15 being the approximate eastern border.” That means alt-right leader Richard Spencer could just stay in his hometown of Whitefish, which would be super convenient.
Unfortunately for Covington, he will never get a chance to see this plan come to fruition, and not just because it’s ridiculous and even few white supremacists take it seriously. Covington died days before that blog post, on July 14, 2018 — an end to a lifetime of hatred and grifting. Covington spent the majority of his life devoted to the tenets of National Socialism, a poisonous ideology that destroyed all of his closest relationships.
In his younger days Covington wanted to be an Army Ranger, but couldn’t pass the entrance requirements. Instead, he was assigned to the 14th Infantry Division and sent to Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Although other members of his infantry division ended up in Vietnam, Covington never saw combat. Instead, he was caught distributing pro-Nazi pamphlets and ordered to see the base psychiatrist. He was discharged in 1972 after being diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder.
After the short stint in the U.S. Army he set his sights on aiding the military of white-ruled Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The thought of being a mercenary in a white supremacist African nation must have been tantalizing to Covington, but according to contemporaneous letters he sent his parents he was assigned work as a file clerk. Eventually even the Rhodesian military had their fill of Covington, and he was eventually kicked out.
In the late ’70s Covington, back in the states, led the North Carolina chapter of the National Socialist Party of America. It was members of that chapter who, in 1979, murdered five anti-Klan protesters in what became known as the Greensboro Massacre. Covington would later boast of “greasing Communists” in Greensboro even though, as usual, he never participated in any fighting. Fighting, it would seem, was for other people."
the article continues
"But that didn’t stop him from lying about himself in order to project an imageof a fighter. In a 2008 interview with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Harold’s brother Ben Covington said that Harold exaggerated details about his time in Rhodesia. “In different blogs and writings, he was always bragging, ‘Oh, I was a mercenary in Rhodesia and I went out and did all this fighting,’” Ben said.
This was entirely typical of Harold. He even lied about a grade school fight that he turned into his Neo-Nazi origin story. According to Ben, Harold would tell “a story about when he had his great racial epiphany,” which was when two or three black students cornered him in the bathroom. “According to him, the black kids were up to thuggery and he, bravely, of course, grabbed a Pepsi bottle, smashed it, and fought his way out, bloodying his foes and covering himself in glory,” Ben told the SPLC.
“He learned from this, of course, that he could stand up righteously and defend himself as a free white man.”
In reality, Harold, when confronted by these students after “mouthing off” to them in the school courtyard, never smashed a bottle and fought back. Instead he urinated in his pants, forcing their parents to pick him up from school. Their father called the principal, but when the principal was adamant that Harold was at fault, their father told Harold that “if he was going to get into a fight, then do so, but if he was going to just shoot his mouth off and then act like a coward, then he got what he deserved.”
And Harold’s troubles didn’t end there. For years he fought with their parents, refusing their help in getting into a university in the U.S. because he had his heart set on the University of South Africa in Cape Town. At the time, South Africa was ruled by a brutal apartheid regime, which likely explains this choice. In the ’80s he moved to Ireland to manage a bookstore with his father’s financial backing. The bookstore floundered and shut down."
the article continues
"He married an Irish woman named Louise and had two children. He was still dependent on his father’s money as he was unable to gain Irish citizenship or find gainful employment. He moved his family to the Isle of Man and purchased a house with money sent from his father, but was warned that he would eventually have to find a real job to support his wife and children. Eventually he decided to move back to the United States, but his father refused to pay for this.
As Ben recalled, their father told Harold he was not going to “foot the bill for you to come back to Raleigh to take up your life as a Nazi.”
Their father eventually offered to pay for Harold and his family to fly to the states, on the condition they live somewhere east of the Mississippi. Harold refused, which was the last straw for his father who finally stopped subsidizing his son’s lifestyle. Ben said that Harold “cut and ran,” abandoning his wife and children and cleaning out their bank account. He moved back to the U.S. to take up his life as a Nazi, and founded the National Socialist White People’s Party (NSWPP) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
In that time span he would send his father letters and cards accusing him of ruining his life and depriving him of his family. He baselessly claimed that his father murdered his mother, who passed away in 1984. Ben called this “delusional,” and pointed out that their mother was a two-time cancer survivor with heart arrhythmia.
Eventually Harold founded the Northwest Front and settled out west, as he initially refused to do when asked by his father. He advocated for “racial migrants” to settle and eventually take over a large portion of the United States. According to the NF’s FAQ section, “If you refrain from shooting up restaurants with an automatic rifle, if you blend in, pay your bills, make friends and show people you are a normal human being, you won’t have much trouble with the locals [in the northwest U.S.].”
From 2010 until his death he hosted a podcast called Radio Free Northwest, which was hosted on the website Radio Aryan alongside shows like Grandpa Lampshade’s Thoughts of the Day, Sven Longshanks’ The Daily Traditionalist, and Dennis Wise’s Truth Will Out Radio."
& lastly says
"For a time the program was co-hosted by Corinna Burt, a body builder who had a brief stint in the adult industry, under the alias “Axis Sally.” By 2013 she had left white nationalism behind, and, in an interview with the SPLC, explained that Covington’s goal was “to get a thousand alpha Aryan males to move to his neighborhood and then basically just start shooting everyone who isn’t white.”
Indeed, Burt painted a portrait of a man who was unstable and paranoid. He “called nearly everyone in the [white supremacist] movement a homosexual,” was petrified of the thought that black men wanted to rape him, and his apartment was “filthy” with “layers of grime” on the walls. In her words, Covington was “pretty much the most horrible person ever.”
His final years were spent making YouTube videos and podcasts for NF, much of which failed to gain traction even among other white nationalists. In the age of the alt-right, troll storms, racist memes, and torch marches, Harold’s influence had waned to practically nothing. When he was in the news, it was for calling Dylann Roof’s Charleston bloodbath “a preview of coming attractions” and speculating that The Right Stuff’s Mike Enoch was secretly Jewish.
He had already alienated his family, turning his back on his parents, brother, wife, and children. His kids, after reading about Harold online, decided they wanted nothing to do with him. White nationalists who once supported him had abandoned him over his paranoid belief that everyone else in the movement was compromised or out to get him.
Even Occidental Dissent’s Brad Griffin wrote that Harold “was a difficult person to get along with” and “clashed over the years with nearly everyone in the White Nationalist movement.”
I had only ever written about this curmudgeonly racist once, but decided that he didn’t seem important enough to merit further attention. Looking back I stand by that calculation. His brother Ben probably summed it up the best, however, stating that “the bottom line here is that my brother is a coward. He has always been a coward and he will die a coward.” On July 14, 2018, Harold Armstead Covington died a coward at the age of 64. He will not be missed." Covington lived as a Cowardly Creep and died as a Cowardly Creep
Another Good Pro-Israel website is ifcj.org the website of the
"International Fellowship of Christians and Jews" the website Discusses Arab &
"Palestinian" Lies , and the Truth about Islamic Terrorism
Sadly More Evil hate is coming out of Lebanon , from the website www.apnews.com
an article is titled
"Arrest warrant for Lebanese-American who worked for Israel"
By BASSEM MROUE
September 17, 2019
the article says
"BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for a Lebanese American who confessed he’d worked for Israel during its occupation of Lebanon for nearly two decades, Lebanese judicial officials said.
The officials said acting military investigative judge Najat Abu Shakra postponed the questioning of Amer Fakhoury at the Military Court in Beirut pending permission from Lebanon’s Bar Association for an American lawyer to attend.
The officials said Fakhoury told the judge he wants the American lawyer to be present and since she had no permission from the Bar Association, the judge decided to postpone the questioning. No date has been set for the next session, said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Fakhoury was detained after returning to his native Lebanon from the U.S. earlier this month. He had worked as a senior warden at the Khiam Prison in southern Lebanon that was run by an Israeli-backed militia, known as the South Lebanon Army, until Israel ended an 18-year occupation of the area in 2000.
“The Department of State does not comment on cases involving American citizens due to privacy considerations,” a State Department official said.
Outside the court, scores of people gathered, including former Khiam prison detainees, some of whom demanded the death penalty for Fakhoury.
“First of all we want the military court to deliver the death sentence by hanging for Amer Fakhoury and all those like him, whether they are inside Lebanon or outside, who are trying to erase their history and to return to Lebanon,” said Firyal Hammoud, former inmate of Khiam prison. “We do not accept less than a public death sentence.”
Lebanon and Israel have been officially at war since Israel’s creation in 1948.
Human rights groups have said in the past that Khiam prison was a site of torture and detention without trial before it was abandoned in 2000. Israel denies the allegations.
Hundreds of former Lebanese members of the militia had fled to Israel, fearing reprisals if they remained in Lebanon. Others stayed and faced trial, receiving lenient sentences.
Fakhoury was living in Dover, New Hampshire and local media reported that the family owns a restaurant there. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu once met them at a grape leaves-making contest and talked about their shared Lebanese heritage, according to local media."
From the website israelforever.org an article is titled
"TODAY, I AM PROUD TO CALL MYSELF A ZIONIST."
by Arielle Mokhtarzadeh the article says
"To be quite honest, growing up, I always shied away from calling myself a “Zionist.” I found the word to be archaic and oftentimes irrelevant. Only now do I realize how deeply mistaken I was.
Zionism is the movement which advocates for the rights of the Jewish people, chief among them the right of self-determination. It is a word, which sometime in the last 60 years has been tainted by those who seek to deprive the Jewish people of that basic human right. And today is the day we take it back.
Today is the day that we remind the world that Judaism is more than a religion, it is a nation, an ethnicity, and a people.
Today is the day we tell the world that Zionism was a thing long before the creation of the Jewish state and it will remain a thing long after.
Today is the day that we, as Zionists, reclaim our narrative.
To me, being a Zionist, doesn’t mean blindly standing behind all the decisions of the Israeli government. It doesn’t mean pretending Israel is perfect. It is not synonymous with the denial of Palestinian self-determination.
In actuality, being a Zionist means wrestling with the complexities of the Jewish state and of the conflict in general, being a link in the chain of the history of Zionism and most importantly, maintaining that all peoples, like the Jewish people, deserve the right to self-determination.
To be honest, it really frustrates me when I hear the phrase, “Zionism is Racism.” Zionism is the movement which maintains that the Jewish people have the right to self-determination, nothing more and nothing less. And it is truly disheartening when people condemn that movement, denying the Jewish right to self-determination, while simultaneously advocating for the self-determination of other peoples.
Zionism has a past, a present and a future. Zionism of the past sought to revive, renew and liberate the Jewish state. Zionism of the present seeks to defend the Jewish right to self-determination. And Zionism of the future involves constructively criticizing that Jewish state to enable it to fulfill all that it is destined to be.
Today, I am proud to call myself a Zionist"
Also from the website israelforever.org an article is titled
"UNLEASH THE ZIONIST WITHIN YOU"
By Tricia Schwitzer
the article says
"I am a Zionist. I will shout it from the rooftops and I have no time, nor patience for those who walk among us who don’t admit to their own Zionism, as if it were a bad habit to be kept under wraps. My goodness, if diversity can come out of the cupboard in all its rainbow colours, well why not Zionism with her flag of blue and white? And if our Christian friends care to stand up for Israel, then what excuse have we for keeping shtum in a world that turns the volume ever higher so our detractors can be heard loud and proud?
We are so few and our voices are muted by a baying crowd who would have our guts for garters in schools, universities, on the streets and on social media. Now is really not the time to hide our Magen Davids. We’ve done that, been there and what good did that ever do us?
There is no justification for inaction when it comes to facing off a bully. And, again, the bullies are out in force on Europe’s streets, in British cities, with their angst turned against Israel and against you, against the Jew, against me and against the principles that we all hold dear.
“Yes, we are Jewish but we don’t want to make a fuss, don’t want to invite trouble.” I’ve heard that more than once and it does not wash with me. “I met some lovely people on holiday, but I didn’t tell them I lived in Israel.” Heard that one, too. Tut, tut.
Peeling back the benevolent shrouds under which hides the United Nations, global NGOs such as Amnesty International, War on Want, Save the Children and many others, an anti-Israel stance on every front will be revealed. The latest debacle, Obama’s submission to Iranian aspirations to become a nuclear super power, hammers home the nails in Israel’s coffin. The consequences for Israel’s security, indeed Israel’s survival are dire. The BDS movement a rapidly growing yet entirely moronic cooperative of diligent stupidity works tirelessly to compliment all the other mud-throwing opportunists who have an unfathomable distaste for that (sic) ‘shitty little country’ Israel. Throw mud at the word ‘Zionism’ and it sticks.
Israel’s reputation is besmirched by those who peddle double standards, ignorance and prejudice Oh come on, why sugar coat the pill? It is Jew-hatred. Add to this, the left-leaning Israeli academics who bleat on about human rights violations ignoring facts on the ground – that Israel is the only democracy in the region where they could possibly have such unpatriotic opinions and not be stoned, hung, drawn and quartered for outing their opinions and that Israel’s army is lauded for its code of conduct, an ethical code of humanitarianism.
As the far right and far left extremists unite ever closer to create a twisted alliance of Jew-hatred in Europe, fuelled by a convenient loathing for Israel, the word Zionism is demonized. The State of Israel suffers the slings and arrows (not to mention more damaging missiles) of the new anti-Semite who has been drip fed shocking images of babies in rags and weeping mothers, all victims of the ‘occupation of Palestine’ – which shows Israel as a mighty Goliath and the poor Palestinians as little brave David hurling rockets. Oops, sorry. I meant rocks."
the article continues
"And now, in the aftermath of Protective Edge and with radical Islam’s venomous tentacles whipping through Europe, a different brand of Jew-hatred is unfurled. Call it anti-Zionism and you get approval and a pat on the back for your political-correctness. Yeah right. Call it what it is and you are the bad one. You are a trouble maker.
The legitimacy of the word Zionism has suffered by its own hand of late, with far-right Israeli extremists pouring burning fat on the fire (somewhat literally with the recent arson attack that left a Palestinian baby and his father dead), but there is one fundamental distinction between the Zionists and those who run, kicking and screaming, to burn Israel’s flag and beat down its door. And that difference comes from a mindset, which is poles apart. There is more likelihood of falling into one of Hamas’s tunnels than bridging the gaping hole that divides the two ideologies – one that sanctifies life and the other? Something to do with martyrdom and the ravishing of 72 virgins in heaven (but don’t get too carried away with that thought).
While Israelis gather in their thousands in the town square in silent vigil for a dead Palestinian baby and pray for peace, for tolerance, for an end to mindless violence, the Palestinians who embrace the indoctrination of Hamas and other known terrorist organizations take to the streets, running riot, shooting rifles in the air.
They pound their chests and shriek to Allah – asking him (her?) for the power to retaliate. And when he/she answers their prayers rewarding them with the murder of an Israeli man, woman or child (the more the merrier), their children dance in the streets, receiving sweets in celebration of what is not perceived by them to be a crime but their god-given right. And as the terrorist regime Hamas calls for more attacks against settlers to avenge the death of the father of the Palestinian baby killed in the Duma attack, Israelis continue to gather in peaceful protest and point the finger, the Israeli finger, at the ‘settlers’ – their Israeli brothers and sisters.
There is something fundamentally wrong with this. Don’t they realize that the presumably Jewish perpetrator of this terrorist act will be dealt with in the harshest manner according to the law? He will have the book thrown at him and nobody will celebrate by handing out sweets to the kids. That is for sure. We, Israelis, are collectively ashamed that ‘one of us’ and that includes the settlers in my opinion, should dare to act with such a disdain for his fellow Israeli, knowing the implications. As if we needed any more reasons to be vilified.
Yet, apart from a handful of grass roots pro-Israel organizations who take to the streets in their own localities to identify with Israel and to stamp out the defamers while defending their own way of life against Islam’s more warped supporters, and a few lone voices who speak their truths against a popular army of Jew-bating, Israel hating bigots, there are many among us for whom wearing our Zionism with pride is just not an option.
“We don’t want to get involved,” they say. “We don’t want to offend anyone. We are scared.” Wrong, wrong, wrong. Lose the victim mentality. Stand your ground and stand up for Israel.. A very good friend of mine who is a staunch defender of Israel put it well, when she said, ‘Be a warrior not a worrier.’ I subscribe to that wisdom.
Get out there, armed with facts, fight lies with truth and wave your Israeli flag as if your life depended on it because, actually, it just might." I However Urge all Jewish, Christian & Other Israel Supporters to be Peaceful & Non-Confrontational at all times, always be Law-Abiding & Take Safety Precautions , there are sadly many crazy evil Jew-haters out there,
From the website israelforever.org another article is titled
"IN DEFENSE OF ZIONISM"
By Michael B. Oren the article says
"The often reviled ideology that gave rise to Israel has been an astonishing historical success.
They come from every corner of the country - investment bankers, farmers, computer geeks, jazz drummers, botany professors, car mechanics - leaving their jobs and their families.
They put on uniforms that are invariably too tight or too baggy, sign out their gear and guns. Then, scrambling onto military vehicles, 70,000 reservists - women and men - join the young conscripts of what is proportionally the world's largest citizen army.
They all know that some of them will return maimed or not at all. And yet, without hesitation or (for the most part) complaint, proudly responding to the call-up, Israelis stand ready to defend their nation.
They risk their lives for an idea. The idea is Zionism
It is the belief that the Jewish people should have their own sovereign state in the Land of Israel.
Though founded less than 150 years ago, the Zionist movement sprung from a 4,000-year-long bond between the Jewish people and its historic homeland, an attachment sustained throughout 20 centuries of exile. This is why Zionism achieved its goals and remains relevant and rigorous today. It is why citizens of Israel - the state that Zionism created - willingly take up arms. They believe their idea is worth fighting for.
Yet Zionism, arguably more than any other contemporary ideology, is demonized.
"All Zionists are legitimate targets everywhere in the world!" declared a banner recently paraded by anti-Israel protesters in Denmark. "Dogs are allowed in this establishment but Zionists are not under any circumstances," warned a sign in the window of a Belgian cafe. A Jewish demonstrator in Iceland was accosted and told, "You Zionist pig, I'm going to behead you."
In certain academic and media circles, Zionism is synonymous with colonialism and imperialism.
Critics on the radical right and left have likened it to racism or, worse, Nazism. And that is in the West.
In the Middle East, Zionism is the ultimate abomination - the product of a Holocaust that many in the region deny ever happened while maintaining nevertheless that the Zionists deserved it."
the article continues
"What is it about Zionism that elicits such loathing?
After all, the longing of a dispersed people for a state of their own cannot possibly be so repugnant, especially after that people endured centuries of massacres and expulsions, culminating in history's largest mass murder.
Perhaps revulsion toward Zionism stems from its unusual blend of national identity, religion and loyalty to a land. Japan offers the closest parallel, but despite its rapacious past, Japanese nationalism doesn't evoke the abhorrence aroused by Zionism.
Clearly anti-Semitism, of both the European and Muslim varieties, plays a role. Cabals, money grubbing, plots to take over the world and murder babies - all the libels historically leveled at Jews are regularly hurled at Zionists. And like the anti-Semitic capitalists who saw all Jews as communists and the communists who painted capitalism as inherently Jewish, the opponents of Zionism portray it as the abominable Other.
But not all of Zionism's critics are bigoted, and not a few of them are Jewish.
For a growing number of progressive Jews, Zionism is too militantly nationalist, while for many ultra-Orthodox Jews, the movement is insufficiently pious - even heretical.
How can an idea so universally reviled retain its legitimacy, much less lay claim to success?
The answer is simple: Zionism worked."
& continues
"The chances were infinitesimal that a scattered national group could be assembled from some 70 countries into a sliver-sized territory shorn of resources and rich in adversaries and somehow survive, much less prosper. The odds that those immigrants would forge a national identity capable of producing a vibrant literature, pace-setting arts and six of the world's leading universities approximated zero.
Elsewhere in the world, indigenous languages are dying out, forests are being decimated, and the populations of industrialized nations are plummeting. Yet Zionism revived the Hebrew language, which is now more widely spoken than Danish and Finnish and will soon surpass Swedish.
Zionist organizations planted hundreds of forests, enabling the land of Israel to enter the 21st century with more trees than it had at the end of the 19th. And the family values that Zionism fostered have produced the fastest natural growth rate in the modernized world and history's largest Jewish community. The average secular couple in Israel has at least three children, each a reaffirmation of confidence in Zionism's future.
Indeed, by just about any international criteria, Israel is not only successful but flourishing.
The population is annually rated among the happiest, healthiest and most educated in the world. Life expectancy in Israel, reflecting its superb universal health-care system, significantly exceeds America's and that of most European countries. Unemployment is low, the economy robust. A global leader in innovation, Israel is home to R&D centers of some 300 high-tech companies, including Apple, Intel and Motorola. Not to mention, the beaches are teeming, the rock music is awesome, and the food is off the Zagat charts.
The democratic ideals integral to Zionist thought have withstood pressures that have precipitated coups and revolutions in numerous other nations.
Today, Israel is one of the few states - along with Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. - that has never known a second of nondemocratic governance.
These accomplishments would be sufficiently astonishing if attained in North America or Northern Europe. But Zionism has prospered in the supremely inhospitable - indeed, lethal - environment of the Middle East.
Two hours' drive east of the bustling nightclubs of Tel Aviv - less than the distance between New York and Philadelphia - is Jordan, home to more than a half million refugees from Syria's civil war.
Traveling north from Tel Aviv for four hours would bring that driver to war-ravaged Damascus or, heading east, to the carnage in western Iraq. Turning south, in the time it takes to reach San Francisco from Los Angeles, the traveler would find himself in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
In a region reeling with ethnic strife and religious bloodshed, Zionism has engendered a multiethnic, multiracial and religiously diverse society."
& continues
"Arabs serve in the Israel Defense Forces, in the Knesset and on the Supreme Court. While Christian communities of the Middle East are steadily eradicated, Israel's continues to grow. Israeli Arab Christians are, in fact, on average better educated and more affluent than Israeli Jews.
In view of these monumental achievements, one might think that Zionism would be admired rather than deplored. Rather, Zionism stands accused of thwarting the national aspirations of Palestine's indigenous inhabitants, of oppressing and dispossessing them.
Never mind that the Jews were natives of the land - its Arabic place names reveal Hebrew palimpsests - millennia before the Palestinians or the rise of Palestinian nationalism.
Never mind that in 1937, 1947, 2000 and 2008, the Palestinians received offers to divide the land and rejected them, usually with violence.
Never mind that the majority of Zionism's adherents today still stand ready to share their patrimony in return for recognition of Jewish statehood and peace.
The response to date has been, at best, a refusal to remain at the negotiating table or, at worst, war.
But Israelis refuse to relinquish the hope of resuming negotiations with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority.
To live in peace and security with our Palestinian neighbors remains the Zionist dream.
Still, for all of its triumphs, its resilience and openness to peace, Zionism fell short of some of its original goals.
Democracy in Action: Social Protests of 2011
The agrarian, egalitarian society created by Zionist pioneers has been replaced by a dynamic, largely capitalist economy with yawning gaps between rich and poor.
Mostly secular at its inception, Zionism has also spawned a rapidly expanding religious sector, some elements of which eschew the Jewish state."
& continues
"About a fifth of Israel's population is non-Jewish, and though some communities (such as the Druse) are intensely patriotic and often serve in the army, others are much less so, and some even call for Israel's dissolution. And there is the issue of Judea and Samaria - what most of the world calls the West Bank - an area twice used to launch wars of national destruction against Israel but which, since its capture in 1967, has proved painfully divisive.
Many Zionists insist that these territories represent the cradle of Jewish civilization and must, by right, be settled. But others warn that continued rule over the West Bank's Palestinian population erodes Israel's moral foundation and will eventually force it to choose between being Jewish and remaining democratic.
Yet the most searing of Zionism's unfulfilled visions was that of a state in which Jews could be free from the fear of annihilation.
The army imagined by Theodor Herzl, Zionism's founding father, marched in parades and saluted flag-waving crowds. The Israel Defense Forces, by contrast, with no time for marching, much less saluting, has remained in active combat mode since its founding in 1948.
With the exception of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the ideological forbear of today's Likud Party, none of Zionism's early thinkers anticipated circumstances in which Jews would be permanently at arms. Few envisaged a state that would face multiple existential threats on a daily basis just because it is Jewish.
Confronted with such monumental threats, Israelis might be expected to flee abroad and prospective immigrants discouraged.
But Israel has one of the lower emigration rates among developed countries while Jews continue to make aliyah - literally, in Hebrew, "to ascend" - to Israel.
Surveys show that Israelis remain stubbornly optimistic about their country's future. And Jews keep on arriving, especially from Europe, where their security is swiftly eroding, a poignant example being the incidents over the summer when Parisians went on an anti-Semitic rants, looting Jewish shops and attempting to ransack synagogues.
American Jews face no comparable threat, and yet numbers of them continue to make aliyah. They come not in search of refuge but to take up the Zionist challenge - to be, as the Israeli national anthem pledges, "a free people in our land, the Land of Zion and Jerusalem."
& continues
"American Jews have held every high office, from prime minister to Supreme Court chief justice to head of Israel's equivalent of the Federal Reserve, and are disproportionately prominent in Israel's civil society.
Hundreds of young Americans serve as "Lone Soldiers," without families in the country, and volunteer for front-line combat units. One of them, Max Steinberg from Los Angeles, fell in the first days of the latest round of fighting in Gaza. His funeral, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, was attended by 30,000 people, most of them strangers, who came out of respect for this intrepid and selfless Zionist.
I also paid my respects to Max, whose Zionist journey was much like mine.
After working on a kibbutz - a communal farm - I made aliyah and trained as a paratrooper. I participated in several wars, and my children have served as well, sometimes in battle. Our family has taken shelter from Iraqi Scuds and Hamas M-75s, and a suicide bomber killed one of our closest relatives.
Despite these trials, my Zionist life has been immensely fulfilling.
And the reason wasn't Zionism's successes—not the Nobel Prizes gleaned by Israeli scholars, not the Israeli cures for chronic diseases or the breakthroughs in alternative energy. The reason—paradoxically, perhaps—was Zionism's failures.
Failure is the price of sovereignty.
Statehood means making hard and often agonizing choices - whether to attack Hamas in Palestinian neighborhoods, for example, or to suffer rocket strikes on our own territory.
It requires reconciling our desire to be enlightened with our longing to remain alive. Most onerously, sovereignty involves assuming responsibility.
Hermann Struck's portrait of Theodor Herzl (1903).
Zionism, in my definition, means Jewish responsibility.
It means taking responsibility for our infrastructure, our defense, our society and the soul of our state. It is easy to claim responsibility for victories; setbacks are far harder to embrace."
& lastly says
"But that is precisely the lure of Zionism - growing up in America, I felt grateful to be born in a time when Jews could assume sovereign responsibilities. Statehood is messy, but I regarded that mess as a blessing denied to my forefathers for 2,000 years.
I still feel privileged today, even as Israel grapples with circumstances that are at once perilous, painful and unjust. Fighting terrorists who shoot at us from behind their own children, our children in uniform continue to be killed and wounded while much of the world brands them as war criminals.
Zionism, nevertheless, will prevail. Deriving its energy from a people that refuses to disappear and its ethos from historically tested ideas, the Zionist project will thrive.
We will be vilified, we will find ourselves increasingly alone, but we will defend the homes that Zionism inspired us to build.
Mr. Oren was Israel's ambassador to the U.S. from 2009 to 2013. He holds the chair in international diplomacy at IDC Herzliya in Israel and is a fellow at the Atlantic Council. His books include "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East" and "Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present."
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From the website of the New York Post, nypost.com an article is titled
"Hezbollah terrorist scouted NYC-area locations: feds"
By Ben Cohn, Emily Saul, Larry Celona and Laura Italiano September 19, 2019 | 3:54pm |
Alexei Saab allegations highlight disturbing pattern at CUNY
the article says
"A New Jersey man has spent the past 22 years training with and scouting terror-attack locations for Hezbollah — and provided the group with intelligence on the Port Authority, Grand Central Terminal, the New York Stock Exchange and the city’s two airports, according to a new federal indictment against him.
Alexei Saab, 42, of Morristown — also known as Ali Hassan Saab, Alex Saab, or “Rachid” — was charged Thursday in a nine-count indictment for allegedly providing material support to the deadly organization.
Saab was arrested in July, and remains in federal custody, officials said.
As far back as in 2003, he gave Hezbollah photos and other detailed intel on New York City landmarks and transportation hubs.
Saab surveilled dozens of locations in New York City—including the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building, the federal offices at 26 Federal Plaza, and local airports, tunnels, and bridges, including the George Washington Bridge.
The detailed information recovered from his computers included photographs and details on the structural weaknesses — or “soft spots” — of these locations, officials alleged.
He has also surveilled sites in cities around the US — including the Washington Monument and Boston’s Fenway Park, The Post has learned.
The charges do not allege that Saab conducted any recent surveillance.
“According to the allegations, while living in the United States, Saab served as an operative of Hezbollah and conducted surveillance of possible target locations in order to help the foreign terrorist organization prepare for potential future attacks against the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a press statement.
“Such covert activities conducted on U.S. soil are a clear threat to our national security and I applaud the agents, analysts, and prosecutors who are responsible for this investigation and prosecution.”
Saab joined Hezbollah in 1996, and his earliest activities with the group include spying in Lebanon on the movements of Israeli and Southern Lebanese Army soldiers, and intelligence-gathering in Istanbul, the indictment alleges.
He trained in the use of firearms, including AK-47s, and in 2000 he received extensive training in military tactics, including how to construct bombs and other explosive devices, the indictment alleges.
In 2005, Saab attempted to murder a suspected Israeli spy, pointing a firearm at close range and twice pulling the trigger, only to have the gun malfunction both times, officials said.
In 2004 and 2005, Saab attended explosives training in Lebanon during which he received detailed instruction in, among other things, triggering mechanisms, explosive substances, detonators and the assembly of circuits, the indictment alleges.
In 2000, Saab lawfully entered the United States using a Lebanese passport, and he became a naturalized US citizen in 2008, the indictment alleges.
His former neighbors in Jersey City were stunned by the news.
“He was a nice guy, but quiet, private,” said a neighbor who lives across from Saab’s former rental apartment on the top floor of a two-story house. She asked not to be identified by name.
“He said hi to me and my baby."
From the website abcnews.go.com an article is titled
"NJ man who said he wanted to ‘bomb Trump Tower’ arrested on charges of providing support to Hamas"
By AARON KATERSKY May 22, 2019, 5:21 PM ET
PHOTO: This is a breaking news story please check back for updates.ABC News
WATCH NJ man arrested for allegedly supporting Hamas
the article says
"A New Jersey man who threatened to shoot everyone at a pro-Israel rally and said he wanted to “bomb Trump Tower,” was arrested Wednesday on charges of trying to provide support to Hamas.
Jonathan Xie, 20, of Basking Ridge, allegedly had social media accounts loaded with terror propaganda, according to the FBI. The agency said he had also declared support for Syrian leader Bashar al Assad, former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein and North Korea.
(MORE: Russian lobbyist at Trump Tower meeting 'happy and relieved' Mueller probe over)
In April, Xie allegedly appeared in an Instagram Live video in which he said he was against Zionism and the neo-liberal establishment. In the same video he displayed a Hamas flag, retrieved a handgun and stated “I’m gonna go to the [expletive] pro-Israel march and I’m going to shoot everybody.”
In another Instagram post quoted in court documents, Xie said, “I want to shoot the pro-Israel demonstrators…you can get a gun and shoot your way through or use a vehicle and ram people…all you need is a gun or a vehicle to go on a rampage.”
(MORE: House panel opens inquiry into claims Trump legal team edited Michael Cohen's testimony)
FBI surveillance observed Xie outside of the Trump Tower building in New York City around April 20 of this year. Shortly thereafter, Xie posted two photos to his Instagram account, according to Instagram records.
One photo had the words “I want to bomb Trump Tower" imposed over the building image, and the other photo had the words “[S]hould I bomb Trump Tower,” a “Yes/No” poll, and an emoji of a bomb imposed over an image of the Trump Tower building.
Xie subsequently posted on Instagram, “Okay, so I went to NYC today and passed by Trump Tower and then I started laughing hysterically...I forgot to visit the Israeli embassy in NYC...i want to bomb this place along with trump tower.”
He was arrested without incident on Wednesday morning. Xie was ordered held without bail at a hearing Wednesday afternoon in Newark.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates" Terrible how screwed up the World is, God Bless President Trump for Supporting Israel !!! Anyone can do a Google Search for this Article, This article by Aaron Katersky shows that people who are anti-Israel are also Anti-America
Another Good Website
"The Beauty of Israel and Its People | Enjoy Israel | TalknSave
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Let us take you through a truly Zionist adventure with our Israel blog. We talk about the Beauty of Israel and its People free of politics and controversy."
From the website international.ucla.edu the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
an article is titled
"Finding the beauty of Israel"
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the article says
"Valerie Braaten traveled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Fall 2015 to continue her dance studies thanks to the Mudie-Glaser Scholarship for Study.
It’s difficult to recall my initial perceptions of Israel when I first stepped off the plane in Tel Aviv; even more difficult to wrap my head around how this foreign and at times frightening land so quickly became my second home. Four months in Jerusalem flew by and now I am back at UCLA, profoundly changed yet finding difficulty in articulating to friends my genuineness when I state the cliché “Israel was life-changing”. A Nelson Mandela quote encompasses my experience of return: “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
It took returning to my old environment to realize I am not the same Valerie. Of course there are the little things: My expectations of seeing stray cats at every turn, asking “?זה מה” and not understanding why no one acknowledges my question, my constant craving for Sufganiyot, etc. However, there are larger, more abstract changes within myself. They are harder to explain. My hope is through writing this I can at least brush the surface of how special Israel is to me.
Many of my friends have gone to Israel and returned sharing how Israel is the ideal place. They felt completely safe their whole trip and have nothing but unconditional praise for the country. This was not my experience. Israel is imperfect to me. Israel is not a fantasy land. Israel is much more because it is real. Terror and pain are felt at concentrated rates by the residents; terror and pain to extents I cannot relate to or fathom. However, there is a multifaceted beauty that seeps through moments of darkness in this land. This beauty has changed me. This beauty is why I love Israel.
Beauty can be seen in many different forms. There is beauty in the hospitality of the people. Countless times I was welcomed into strangers’ homes for Shabbat. I was even invited to a stranger’s wedding. After a bride-to-be witnessed her father and brother murdered, she decided to combat hate with love. The engaged couple sent an open invitation to everyone in Israel to attend their wedding ceremony. The guest list reached the thousands.
There is beauty in the small, daily interactions -- whether my taxi driver giving me free Hebrew lessons as he drives me home or the quick chats with workers within the Old City walls. For me, the most potent beauty was found within Israeli art, specifically dance. There is an air about the dancers in Israel that sets them apart from dancers anywhere else in the world. There is rawness in the emotional depth of their performances. I received the amazing opportunity to train in the Gaga dance language. Gaga, developed by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, emphasizes pleasure found through physical pain. This dance language has no doubt altered my perception of not only dance but also the way in which I hope to conduct my life. Gaga utilizes pain as a tool for creation. Eventually the pain subsides and all that remains is the beauty.
Valerie Braaten was a Dance major in the department of World Arts and Cultures, as well as a Music History & Music Industry double minor at UCLA. In the Fall of her senior year, Valerie had the opportunity to study dance, Hebrew, philosophy, and religion in Jerusalem. She participated in a dual program between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance for four months."
From the website theculturetrip.com an article is titled
"15 Reasons Why You Should Visit Israel at Least Once in Your Lifetime"
From the website thetravel.com an article is titled
"10 Best Things To Do in Israel"
BY EVAN ALEXANDER – ON AUG 31, 2019 IN DESTINATIONS
the article says
"Despite its often-controversial portrayal in the media, the truth of the matter is that Israel is a place like no other; overflowing with vibrant and eccentric culture, food that’ll tantalize your taste buds, and landscapes from desert to forest and everything in between. For such a relatively small country - for comparison, it’s almost exactly the same size as the state of New Jersey - Israel knows how to pack in an abundance of beauty.
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So, don your Source Sandals, make room for some of the world’s best hummus, practice you haggling tactics for the inevitable shuk (market) visits, and let’s make our way over to this beautiful, often-misunderstood state.
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HIKE YAM-L'YAM
It’s not often that you can boast about hiking across an entire country - that is, unless you’ve walked the 3-5 day Yam-L’yam trek. Spanning from one side of the nation to the other, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sea of Galilee (known locally as the Kinneret), Yam-L'yam is one of the most well-known and popular hiking trails in Israel.
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Compared to a number of other hikes such as Shvil Yisrael (the 1000km+ Israel National Trail that runs north to south), Yam-L'yam isn’t actually all too difficult - and you’ll be blessed with varying stunning landscapes throughout.
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WALK THROUGH THE SHUK HACARMEL
It wouldn’t be a trip to Israel without a little wander through one of its world-famous markets. With 250+ vendors, Jerusalem boasts the Mahane Yehuda Market, while over in the progressive, hipster city of Tel Aviv further east, all the hype is about the Shuk haCarmel (Carmel Market).
With everything from freshly picked fruit and vegetables to authentic local spices, cheap-as-chips falafel, and every piece of (knock-off) fancy-pants clothing imaginable, you could easily spend a couple of hours getting lost in the chaos and beauty of it all."
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ASCEND MASADA
Down in the Judean Desert - one of the world’s smallest yet most diverse desert regions on the planet - another A-grade hike is waiting for any adventurers to conquer it. Masada itself is actually the ancient fortress that sits atop the mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, and, as expected, the views from the peak are second to none.
For those leaning a little more toward the lazy lifestyle, there’s always the option to take the cable car to the top. It might be less rewarding but the views are equally magnificent, regardless of how you get there.
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FLOAT IN THE DEAD SEA
Considering that we’re already in the Masada area, it makes perfect sense to take a quick detour and make a stop at one of Israel’s undisputed highlights - the Dead Sea. What makes this body of water so special is two things - one, that its surface and its shoreline sits about 430 meters below sea level, making it officially the lowest elevation on land on the planet - and two, that its salt concentration is so high that nothing can live within its waters.
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The immense salt levels are also the reason why we can float with ease, making for some unforgettable photo opportunities.
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TRY SOME WATER SPORTS IN EILAT
When it comes to the cities scattered across Israel, it’s usually the vibrant Tel Aviv and the historically-significant Jerusalem that attract all the attention. As impressive as each of them are, they’re not the be-all and end-all of elite Israeli locales.
Situated at the southernmost tip of the country on the Red Sea, bordering Jordan to the east and Egypt to the west, Eilat is a popular port and resort city, welcoming tourists from near and far in search of a refreshing getaway. Thanks to its proximity to the flat water, there are a number of thrilling water-sports tours that depart from Eilat.
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GET A TASTE OF THE IDF WITH MARVA
In Israel, upon finishing high school, it’s mandatory for locals (both males and females) to enlist in the IDF (the Israeli Defence Force). Joining the army is a routine part of the local culture.
Many people are completely unaware of this. However, there’s a unique program by the name of Marva which gives tourists an accurate, tough, but incredibly rewarding insight into the life of a soldier during the six weeks of basic training.
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VISIT THE WESTERN WALL
This ancient limestone wall in Jerusalem’s Old City is undisputedly the most spiritual site in the world for the Jewish people. Despite the fact that the current Wall is only a small segment of what it once was, it hasn’t stopped people - locals and tourists - visiting this sacred and iconic monument.
It’s not the only thing to see in the Old City either - there are four quarters to explore (the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter and the Jewish Quarter), each dotted with historical sights, cobblestoned streets and providing a unique ambiance."
and lastly says
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ABSEIL DOWN ROCKFACES ON NAHAL DRAGOT
After tackling Yam-L’Yam and Masada, just in case you haven’t quite satisfied the urge to hike, the locally infamous yet internationally unknown Nahal Dragot journey will do the trick. Make no mistake though - this is no walk in the park whatsoever.
Those who are brave enough need to carry a 30-foot rope with them to loop along D-rings built into rock faces, before abseiling down into crevasses or pools of water, depending on the recent rainfall. This hike, albeit relatively short, is touted as one of the most difficult hikes in the country, so make sure you know what you’re signing up for.
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POP INTO HAIFA
Once again, we’ll sway away from the spotlit areas of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, moving north this time to the underrated, aesthetically impressive coastal city of Haifa. While the city offers a great science museum, glistening views of the Mediterranean, top-class eats, and the beloved Louis Promenade, its main attraction is without a doubt the pristine Baha'i Gardens - representing the holiest site of the Baha'i people.
These colorful gardens, spanning across multiple levels, welcome hundreds of thousands of tourists, year after year, who come to snap some photos in front of the stunning facade.
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SAVOR THE FOOD
To this point, our journey has been mostly focused on activities - walking, hiking, floating, and the like. However, we are in Israel, home to one of the most delectable cuisines on the planet, so we couldn’t complete this list without mentioning some of the essential foods. Of course, we can sample all we like at the various markets, but there are also infinite sit-down eateries ready to satisfy.
Take one bite of a fresh plate of falafel, hummus, shawarma or shakshuka and you’ll be ordering a second before you can even count your shekels. Yes, it really is that good."
From the website telanganatoday.com an article is titled
"Israel, the land of adventure"
Tourists are taking notice of Israel’s diverse landscape and the adventurous activities it
By AuthorTelanganaToday | Published: 22nd Sep 2019 12:25 amUpdated: 21st Sep 2019 8:17 pm
the article says
"Beyond Israel’s most popular tourist attractions – such as Jerusalem’s Old City, the Dead Sea and Tel Aviv’s White City – the diverse country has lush forests to the north and a vibrant desert to the south, offering ample opportunities for adventure travellers to explore. Whether visitors are looking to rappel off an arch into a great and beautiful abyss, hike cross country or swim among the dolphins, adventure tourism in Israel is booming.
Spanning only 263 miles, adventure-seekers will appreciate Israel’s offerings for adventurers of every level and interest, whether they are traveling north, south, east or west.
• Rappelling at Keshet Cave: Keshet Cave, one of the lesser-known rappelling sites in Israel, offers a beautiful view of Israel from the highest point in the Western Galilee, with a vista that extends to the Mediterranean Sea, Akko, Haifa and the entire Galilee. Travellers will rappel off the high natural stone arch through the air and down 130 – 165 feet with an amazing panoramic view.
• Skiing in Golan Heights: Israel isn’t known for having snow, but during the winter months, avid skiers have the opportunity to enjoy their favourite sport and jump slopes at the Mount Hermon Ski Resort in the Golan Heights. Mount Hermon has 14 ski runs and 5 chair lifts attracting about 3,00,000 visitors between January and March.
• Bird Watching: Bird-watching enthusiasts will love this nature reserve, as 500 million migrating birds pass through Hula Valley Nature Reserve wetlands each year. In the springtime, you can find more than 390 different species of birds passing through and stopping in this valley, which truly makes for a magical site to see.
• Hot air balloon ride: If adrenaline isn’t calling out to you, enjoy a leisurely Hot air balloon ride in the Jazreel Valley as you watch the sun rise over the horizon with champagne breakfast.
• Sand Boarding: With a significant part of Israel being covered by desert, travellers can jeep across the dunes in the Negev Desert. Throughout the area are a variety of clear and suitable sand dunes that are perfect for sand surfing.
• Swimming with Dolphins: The famous Dolphin Reef in Eilat is an ecological site that is a natural habitat for dolphins, allowing animal lovers to get up close and swim along with the dolphins as they enjoy the beautiful coral reef.
• Snorkelling and Scuba Diving: Known for its crystal-clear waters and vibrant marine life, Eilat’s coral reef is one of Israel’s most popular areas for snorkelling and scuba diving. Home to over 250 coral species and more than 1,200 fish species, travellers can expect to see a variety of turtles, rays, butterfly fish, parrotfish, octopus, lionfish and more.
• Tandem skydiving: Enjoy a birds’ eye view of the Mediterranean, Dead or Red Sea when you go skydiving in Israel.
• Rappelling on the cliffs: The Ramon Crater in Israel’s Negev Desert is the world’s largest natural erosion crater or makhtesh. Go rappelling on the cliffs of the crater, camel ride or horseback ride along its rim or hop on a jeep tour and head to Bio Ramon, home to 40 species of desert wildlife. Sleep beneath the stars at the only campsite in the makhtesh, Be’erot campground, to experience Bedouin hospitality in its true spirit."
the article continues
"• Hiking the Israel National Trail: Covering Israel from top to bottom, hikers will traverse a wide range of landscapes as they trek roughly 683 miles from north to south and east to west. From the green hills of the Galilee to the orange desert in the Negev, backpackers will enjoy all the beauty Israel has to offer. Wadis are magnets for hikers and bikers alike and canyons are ideal for wild ibex and gazelle sightings. Alternatively, cycle on the Dead Sea shore or the Nahal Pratzim River Valley Trail that offers stunning mountain scenery and a possible stop in the Flour Cave, a definite thrill as it is spookily white inside.
• ATV or Jeep Tours: ATV and Jeep tours offer thrill-seekers the opportunity to explore Israel in style, whether they want to explore the Golan, the Galilee, the Judean or Negev deserts. Each tour is custom tailored to leave every traveler speechless as they explore the adventurous side of Israel. Take a jeep tour to Timna Park in Eilat, home to the world’s first copper mine, with beautiful hikes in the Red Canyon.
• Windsurfing and Kitesurfing: A popular activity in Tel Aviv, Eilat and the Sea of Galilee, travellers have the opportunity to experience this favourite sport in different conditions. Beginners can take a course at the prestigious windsurfing and Kitesurfing School north of Tel Aviv.
• White water rafting: True adrenaline rush can be experienced while rafting on the River Jordan with incredible rapids that have narrow passages bordered by overhanging trees. If the rapids are too intense, one can go water-skiing, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing, parasailing or enjoy a number of water activities all year round in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Sea of Galilee"
From the website dailywire.com an article is titled
"HAMMER: How Pro-Israel Students On Campus Can Fight Back Against Jew-Hatred"
Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images
By JOSH HAMMER
@JOSH_HAMMER
September 19, 2019
the article says
"In a truly saddening but by no means unpredictable development, the AMCHA Initiative, which is a watchdog organization dedicated to investigating and combating anti-Semitism on university campuses across America, reported this week an astonishing 70% rise over the past year in anti-Semitic incidents directed against pro-Israel students on college campuses. As reported by Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon, AMCHA noted a drop in "classical" white supremacist-inspired Jew-hatred targeted against Jews on university campuses, but a huge spike in Israel-related acts of harassment against Jews and other non-Jewish Zionists who stand in solidarity with the Jewish state.
The trend is hardly new, and The Daily Wire has extensively covered the years-long development of escalating anti-Semitic incidents on the American campus. Indeed, the problem has been so bad that a group wholly distinct from AMCHA but similarly dedicated to combating on-campus anti-Semitism was founded in 2015: Maccabee Task Force. The question now facing the American Jewish and pro-Israel communities is simple: How can we begin to shift the on-campus narrative away from anti-Semitism and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and back toward a pro-Jewish, pro-Israel stance?
I have personally observed this ongoing fight across numerous college campuses and have been a part of more than one pro-Israel university event that was protested and/or forcibly shouted down by the Jew-hating miscreants of the misnamed hate group "Students for Justice in Palestine." I have seen the vicious faces of those who yell "Nakba!" and the genocidal eliminationist phrase, "from the river to the sea, 'Palestine' shall be free." (One must wonder whether these people feel similarly about liberating other legally fictitious locales, such as Mordor or Narnia.) I also have seen many Israeli flag-wielding students push back with hapless pleas for "peace!," "tolerance!," and (unfortunately) "two states!"
the article continues
"Do my fellow proud Zionists see the problem here? The Palestinian-Arab side of the argument may be genocidal and jihad-loving, but at least they present a morally framed narrative (no matter how grossly immoral that narrative actually is). The pro-Jewish/pro-Israel side, by contrast, tends toward an AIPAC-inspired, overly defensive posture that relies on a non-substantive, purely procedural narrative.
Interestingly, then, the fight against Israel-inspired Jew-hatred on the university campus can actually learn much from the ongoing conservative dialogue between the New York Post’s Sohrab Ahmari and National Review’s David French. Procedure-based arguments, especially when confronted with a substance-based argumentative opposition, are unlikely to be sufficient; the only way to truly make a dialectic dent is to argue on the substantive merits of an issue and argue in overtly moral terms. I wrote as much in June: "Advocates for Israel on the American university campus must transition away from pleas for 'peace' and 'tolerance' and toward arguments grounded in the inherent, biblically derived morality of a Jewish state existing between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea."
This simply must be the path forward for Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus who are invested in helping to turn back the tide of rising on-campus anti-Semitism. Jewish and Zionist students must make the moral, historically informed case that Zionism — which is simply the Jewish right to self-determination in the Jews' biblical, ancestral homeland — is an inherently beautiful phenomenon. These courageous students must argue that the culmination of Herzl's Zionist vision, the establishment in 1948 of a sovereign Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael for the very first time in millennia, represents one of the most profoundly beautiful developments in human civilization over the course of the last century. These students must advance direct, overt, morally based arguments that defend the beauty of that Zionism. These students must also advance historically and legally informed arguments that rebut the utter mendacity that is "Nakba" and other purported Palestinian-Arab "national" humiliations.
Appeasement and unilateral disarmament — here, in terms of the use of overt moral terminology — never work. The students who take the lead on this initiative will necessarily be bold. They will be valiant. And they will face mighty resistance from the leftist/Islamist alliance all across the nation. But these students will have the benefit of standing for truth, morality, and, fundamentally, justice. It's time to get the ball rolling and begin to defeat on-campus Jew-hatred in America."
A Good YouTube video to watch is :
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From the website www.washingtoninstitute.org an article is titled
" New Polls Show Most Gazans Want Israeli Jobs, Not Hamas Mobs"
by David Pollock
David Pollock is the Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on regional political dynamics and related issues.
October 29, 2018
the article says
"Over the past weekend, the Hamas rulers of Gaza took one old and two new steps. They launched more incendiary balloons at Israeli villages; they condemned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s official visit to Sultan Qaboos in Oman; and they equated the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre to the “terror” of “Israeli occupation.” Behind these headlines, however, the reality on the ground among ordinary Palestinians in Gaza looks very different.
The proof for this assertion lies in two new, reliable Palestinian opinion polls taken inside Gaza this month. The data demonstrate that the majority of its people actually oppose the violent Hamas border protests -- and at least half would even support a formal cease-fire with Israel. Based on these and related findings outlined below, U.S. policymakers would be well advised to take two steps of their own. First, understand that Hamas has only minority support in Gaza, so it will likely fail in launching mass popular action against Israel. Second, pursue an approach that promises practical economic and humanitarian help to the people of Gaza, not to their Hamas overlords.
Equally surprising, especially compared to the usual media narrative, most Gazans say they want direct personal dialogue with Israelis. Most would like Israeli companies to provide jobs for them inside their Hamas-ruled territory. Most also blame Hamas, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, the UN, or Egypt – rather than Israel -- for their economic woes. Moreover, remarkably, a plurality of Palestinians in Gaza say they want Hamas to change its rejectionist position and agree to make peace with Israel.
More specifically, regarding the weekly Hamas-led border protests, just 36 percent of Gazans support this tactic, while 62 percent say they oppose it. Conversely, a formal cease-fire with Israel garners more support than opposition: 73 to 25 percent in one poll; 51 to 45 percent in the other. On the harder question of full peace with Israel, notably, both polls likewise show more popular support than opposition. The question wording is crystal clear: should Hamas “stop calling for Israel’s destruction, and instead accept a permanent two-state solution based on the 1967 borders”? One poll shows Gazans say yes by a margin of 53 to 45 percent; the other poll yields a slightly narrower margin, 48 to 44 percent.
Regarding contacts with Israel, even without a peace agreement, the evidence is yet clearer. Despite the official anti-normalization policies and demonization propaganda of their Hamas rulers, both polls show that two-thirds of Gazans want “direct personal contacts and dialogue with Israelis.” An even higher proportion, three-quarters, also say they “would like to see Israeli companies offer more jobs inside the West Bank and Gaza.”
Even more striking is how few Gazans primarily blame Israel for their current dire economic straits. Asked who is most responsible for the slow pace of reconstruction in their area, the majority pick either Hamas (32 percent) or the Palestinian Authority (22 percent) – compared with just 27 percent who single out Israel. The UN and “no opinion” each get 8 percent of the vote for most at fault. Surprisingly, Egypt is last on this list of perceived villains, with a mere 3 percent."
the article continues
" To be sure, none of this means that most Gazans like, trust, or simply accept the lasting reality of Israel. In both polls, for instance, only about half say that negotiations with Israel have had even “somewhat positive” results to date. Similarly, only about half say that a two-state solution should “end the conflict.” And slightly more than half, 55 percent, still anticipate that “eventually, the Palestinians will control almost all of Palestine” – either because “God is on their side,” or because “they will outnumber the Jews some day.”
Nevertheless, on some final status issues too, Gazans are unexpectedly realistic. On the refugee problem, to cite but one highly emotive example, 68 percent favor accepting a “right of return” only to the West Bank and Gaza but not to Israel, “if that is the very last step required to end the occupation and achieve a real independent Palestinian state.” Among West Bankers, the comparable figure is a full 20 points lower. And the official position of both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas remains steadfastly opposed to such a compromise.
Finally, turning toward views of U.S. policy, Gazans exhibit a comparatively moderate mix of attitudes on that as well. Asked to select from a list “the one thing you’d most like the U.S. to do about the Palestinian issue these days,” the winner is “put pressure on Israel to make concessions,” with 38 percent. But a close second place goes to “increase economic aid to the Palestinians,” at 23 percent, followed by “put pressure on the PA and Hamas to be more democratic and less corrupt, at 14 percent. Only 16 percent say the U.S. should “stay out of Palestinian and Middle East affairs altogether.” On the West Bank, however, that option actually earns top billing, with a stunning 49 percent.
These unexpectedly moderate findings are based on two face-to-face, standard probability surveys taken by two different, reliable Palestinian pollsters among representative samples of approximately 500 randomly selected Gazans, during the period October 3-15. One poll was supervised by the highly experienced, Bethlehem-based Palestine Center for Public Opinion. The other, a condensed version with selected key questions, was run by a different but equally qualified, Ramallah-based organization. To optimize access and validity, both organizations used local Gazan interviewers and field supervisors exclusively.
Adding to their credibility, the data sets from these two polls are broadly similar (though with some differences noted above, almost certainly because the questions in one survey followed a long list of other provocative topics). Also, to ensure maximum reliability, I traveled to the region during the fieldwork to consult in person with the pollsters and interviewers, help edit and translate the questionnaires into Arabic, confirm their technical proficiency and quality controls, and iron out any practical problems -- of which there were mercifully few. In addition, the relatively hardline results from some long-term questions argue convincingly that the tactical moderation expressed on short-term one is not simply a pretense or an artifact of “courtesy bias.” Indeed, it is precisely these mixed-to-negative views about Israel’s distant future that offer greater credence to the relatively pragmatic voices on more immediate issues."
and lastly says
" Altogether, then, popular attitudes in Gaza reflect a different reality than either the militant image propagated by Hamas, or the desperate anger at Israel often portrayed in outside accounts. The findings from these new polls offer a compelling corrective to those stereotypes. So pundits and policymakers on all sides would be wise to pay much more attention to how the people of Gaza themselves see their admittedly very difficult situation, and to the realistic options they prefer for some improvements in their plight."
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article by Ronn Torossian is
Titled
"Beauty of Israel: Quotes From Benjamin Disraeli & Ron Hershco, Beaches, Strawberries and More…"
Jan 2, 2014, 9:22 PM
the article states
"With all the politics and noise surrounding Israel, it is often easy to overlook the sheer and amazing beauty of Israel. The rich history, people, culture, sights, food – so much beauty in the land of Israel.
Some great quotes to make one relish the wonders of the Land Of Israel:
“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Israel is a beautiful country, there’s no denying that fact. With its diverse landscapes and scenery, ranging from desert in the south, to lush green hills in the north, that beauty is incredibly varied, and whilst travelling in Israel you are almost certain to, very often, gasp in awe at the beauty this land has to offer.” TouristIsrael.com
“Even the very pronunciation of Israel – “ISS-RAA-EEELLLL” brings chills to my bones for my love of Israel” Ron Hershco
“They may be hot, crowded and swarming with jellyfish, but Tel Aviv beaches are apparently a world-class asset. National Geographic yesterday published a list of the world’s 10 best beach cities and rated Tel Aviv alongside Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Nice (on the French Riviera) and Cape Town.”
“Just thinking about a trip to Israel can be so exhilarating! You visualize the beauty of the sights, the special feeling in the air – a wonderful, meaningful getaway.” Shifra Bamberger
“We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.” Golda Meir
“A visit to the excavations “makes you comprehend the grandeur of the historical city, perched at the edge of the desert.” Dita Kohl-Roman
“Wading through a dark, 2,700-year-old [Hezekiah’s] tunnel with gushing water is a real Indiana Jones experience.” Michael Kohn
“Israeli cuisine exemplifies the true melting pot that is Israel. Hailing from over 80 countries, Jews have returned to their ancient land, bringing with them the foods and recipes they developed during their wanderings.” MyJewishLearning.com
“Israel is beautiful – and it’s the place where the stories of the Bible actually took place.” Michael Lichtenstein
“The Negev has been considered a Garden of Eden for adventurers since the establishment of the State of Israel. Backpackers wandered along its paths without encountering a single living soul, drivers of land rovers sought the wide empty expanses of the desert, cyclists discovered the goat paths of the Negev and turned them into attractive single track bicycle paths, and horseback and camel riders traveled on excursions from one place to another.” CarmeyAvdat.com
“The national art and archaeology museum exhibits local and international art collections, Judaica, and antiquities.” National Geographic"
From the website, theisraelbible.com an article is titled
"Biblical Boundaries of the Land of Israel"
Genesis 15:18, 17:8
the article says
"This map features the biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel as described in Genesis 15:18 and Genesis 17:8.
Dan is described in the Bible as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel
Be’er Sheva is described in the Bible as the southernmost city settled by the Israelites. Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov all spent time in Be’er Sheva (see map Journey of the Forefathers – Key Places).
The Nile River is Egypt’s primary source of water. At the beginning of the Israelite’s slavery in Egypt, Pharaoh commanded that all baby boys be thrown into the Nile (Exodus 1:22), and baby Moshe was placed in the Nile (Exodus 2:3) and drawn from the Nile (Exodus 2:5) when he could no longer be hidden from the Egyptians. The first two plagues the God brought upon the Egyptians also began in the Nile (Exodus 7:14-24, Exodus 7:26-8:11).
The Euphrates River is the longest river of Western Asia, and is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia. According to the Bible, the Euphrates was one of four rivers whose source was a river flowing from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:14).
There are two different phrases often used to describe the biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel:
From Dan (1) to Be’er Sheva (2)
From the Nile (3) to the Euphrates (4)
The expression from Dan to Be’er Sheva appears nine times in the Bible (Judges 20:1, I Samuel 3:20, II Samuel 3:10, II Samuel 17:11, II Samuel 24:2, II Samuel 24:15, I Kings 5:5, I Chronicles 21:2, II Chronicles 30:5), and is used to define the area of the Israelite settlement in the Land of Israel (highlighted in yellow on the map). These borders reflect the promise that God made to Avraham in Genesis 17:8 “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.” Though these are the basic borders of the Land of Israel, it is possible to expand beyond these borders as seen, for example, in Numbers 32.
The phrase “from the Nile to the Euphrates” includes a much bigger area than Dan to Be’er Sheva (highlighted in pink on the map). This phrase has its source in the Covenant of the Parts in which God promises Avraham “’Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates” (Genesis 15:18). These two rivers mark the limits of potential expansion of the original borders of the Land of Israel. In addition, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag explains that the Nile and the Euphrates represent the two centers of ancient civilization, Egypt and Mesopotamia. By saying that the land in between these two bodies of water is set aside for the Children of Israel, God is implying that it is Israel’s destiny to become a blessing to all mankind by declaring His name “at the crossroads of the two great centers of civilization." See this online article for Maps & Pictures
From YouTube a video about the Future Borders of Israel, the video is titled
"Future Borders of the Land of Israel per Jewish Prophets"
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"The following maps depict the boundaries of the land that was "Promised" to Father Abraham by God, hence called the "Promised Land." Moses also records his prophetic expansion on the boundaries of the Chosen people of God; the descendants of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob known as Hebrews and Israelites in Scripture now called the Israelis and Jewish people of our times. The maps record the boundaries that will eventually encompass New Israel per Jewish Seers and believed by Abraham"
From the website of Grace Baptist Church in Washington, IN, the website
gbcwashingtonin.com
"The Size of Israel's Future Land"
Study of Biblical Prophecy
the article says
"The Scriptures declare that the land promised by God will cover a much larger portion of land then Israel has ever possessed. The exact extent of this land is debated by scholars for at least two reasons. First of all, some of the locations used to define Israel’s future borders are difficult to pinpoint in light of our present knowledge of the ancient land.
When the Lord originally promised the land to Abraham, He stated that the borders would be “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates” (Gen. 15:18). Though the river Euphrates is easy to discern, one might question as to what extent of the river Euphrates is God using as a border. Is He talking of just the Northern most portion or is He talking about the whole length of the River encompassing much of modern Saudi Arabia and Iraq? The river of Egypt may be the Nile yet others see it as other possible rivers located in the Northern part of the Sinai. The North, South, East, and West boundaries are given more specifically in Ezekiel 47:15-20 however, like the information given in Gen. 15, there is much debate over where some of these places are located.
The second problem in determining the boundaries and size of the future Kingdom comes from the text of Ezekiel 48. In Ezekiel 48 we are told how the land is going to be disbursed among the tribes. However the exact measurements of these equal portions is not given with the exception of the Sacred portion. The measurement of the sacred portion does equal the width (v. 8)(East to West) of the other 12 portions however since Ezekiel never tells us the measure of the other portions we are no further ahead. The central part of the sacred portion does have specific measurements. From these measurements one can determine the length (North to South) and the width (East to West) of this central segment however this too does not help us to determine the over all size of the portions for two reasons.
Reason one, in giving the dimensions of this portion, Ezekiel leaves out what measurement he is using to get his results. He says one portion is 25,000 wide and 10,000 long but never tells us if he is speaking of cubits, rods, inches, meters or whatever else might be used for measure. Many of the English versions substitute the word cubit but it is usually listed in italics indicating that it is not part of the Hebrew text. In prior chapters where measurements are given, Ezekiel uses both rods and cubits but nothing is given in this chapter to tell us if he is using either of these measurements."
the article continues
"Reason two, even if Ezekiel is using rods or cubits, the measurements only tell us the size of the central part of the sacred portion. We can guess that the sacred portion is the same length (North to South) as the other portions and if this is true, we should be able to determine the length of the nation. However, unlike the width (East to West), Ezekiel never states that the other12 portions are the same length (North and South) as the sacred portion. Therefore, until additional archaeological information becomes available, the certainty of the borders will be left in question.
To illustrate my point let me give a few examples. It is unlikely that the measurement is a cubit as that is only 18” in length. This would mean that the center of the sacred portion would be approximately 6 miles wide and 6 miles long. Not much room to put the tribe of Levi, the Temple, and the city Jerusalem. If it is a rod, which measures 11 feet, the center of the sacred portion would be 50 miles by 50 miles in size. These measurements would appear more accurate but there is no certainty. If these figures are accurate, and the remaining 2 parts of the sacred portion on either side of the central portion are equal in measurement to the central portion then we can draw some conclusions about its overall size. Using this measurement and guessing that the other portions are equal in size to the sacred portion, we can get a rough estimate of the size of the land. The land received by Israel in the future Kingdom would measure 650 miles long (North to South) and 100 miles wide (East to West) or a total of area of 65,000 square miles. Modern Israel is 8,000 square miles or about the size of New Jersey. If our measurements are correct, and that is a big “if”, the future Israel would end up the size of the state of Missouri. If this much land were to be given to Israel today it would stretch from the Southern border of Turkey to the bottom tip of Sinai and will cover portions of Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon.
Whatever the exact portion of land to be possessed by Israel, we do not it will be spacious and fully able to meet the needs of Israel throughout the Millennium. There will no longer be any questions or controversy over what belongs to Israel.
The Division of the land
Though the size may not be know with certainty, the disbursement of the land is very clear. The land will be divided into 13 equal segments of land, one section for each of the 13 tribes of Israel. Some might ask at this point how there could be thirteen tribes since only 12 are mentioned in the Old Testament. A closer look at the listing of the tribes shows that the 12 tribes came from the sons of Jacob but Joseph was given a double blessing and his two sons each become a tribe (Gen. 48:1-5). When referring to the tribes, the number twelve is used because the tribe of Levi is not counted since it was a special tribe dedicated unto the Lord.
Ezekiel gives us the order the disbursement of the tribes as follows (Ezek. 48:1-29)"
and lastly says
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Dan
Asher
Naphtali
Manasseh
Ephraim
Reuben
Judah
Sacred Portion (Levi, Jerusalem, Temple, Prince’s Portion)
Benjamin
Simeon
Issachar
Zebulon
Gad
Ezekiel tells us that all the portions are equal both in width and length with possibly the exception of the Sacred portion. The sacred portion is the same length as the other portions yet whether it width is the same is unknown. There will be no partiality shown to any tribe as far as the possession of the land.
Ezekiel also tells us that the sacred section is divided into three basic segments which are the same length (North to South) thus lying side by side (Ezek. 48:8-22). The center segment is a section of land given to the Lord. It too is divided into three sections. The northern section is for the priests and measures 10,000 X 25,000 with the temple at its center. The middle section of land is given to the Levites which also measures 10,000 X 25000 and the southern section is given to the city of Jerusalem and measures 5,000 X 25000 with the city of Jerusalem located in the center of this section. The city of Jerusalem will make up a square which measures 4500 on each side. On either side of the central segment are segments that belong to the Prince. These segments will measure 25000 in length (North to South) and their width will be equivalent to the width of the tribes portion minus the 25000 of the central segment. Not knowing the exact width (East and West) of the Princes portion we can only say that the tribes portion is over 25000 in length." Anyone can look up this article to view the Maps
From the website chosenpeople.com an article is titled
"Taking it Literally:
The Biblical Boundaries of Israel"
By David Sedaca
the article says
"For the past few months, we have been following the news on the changing political landscape of the Arab world. In the middle of it all, the nation of Israel is standing strong – a nation that for 2,000 years was virtually “written off” by history.
A nation and people that were scattered throughout the world for two millennia has taken center stage in world politics.
Boundaries of Israel
As the partition of the Holy Land will soon be discussed yet again by the nations, one might ask: What is the actual land that rightly belongs to Israel? The key text for answering this question is found in Genesis 15:18-21 [Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)] ,
“On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates — the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.’”
There are several key elements in this verse that we must consider. First, it is a covenant between God and Abram, and as such, it cannot be abrogated by human effort. God indicated the terms of this covenant: The land that is promised was not given to Abram, but rather to his descendants.
Although some may argue that this includes all of Abram’s descendants, we know that the pact was passed on only to Isaac, then to Jacob (Israel) and his children.
Abram did have other children, and the Ishmaelites are also descendants of Abram, but the Bible affirms that the covenant is passed through the son of promise – Isaac.
The next key element of the promise is that the land given by God was going to be acquired at a future time. “To your descendants” has no time limit! Just because it has not yet been fulfilled does not mean that it will not be fulfilled in coming years.
Quite the contrary, we see that Israel’s history perfectly follows God’s plan as indicated in Deuteronomy 30:2-4 [Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)] , including the dispersion due to disobedience and regathering into the land because of the unchanging nature of the covenant:
“…and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. ”
the article continues
"Just a century ago, the modern State of Israel did not exist, and half of the world’s Jewish population was obliterated by the Nazi Holocaust just a generation ago. But today Israel stands strong among the nations. The prophet Isaiah asks in 66:8,
“Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment?”
The answer is YES! Not because of Israel’s might, but because of God faithfulness to His covenant.
What are the precise borders of the land promised to Abram’s descendants?
The Lord makes them perfectly clear. Like any modern-day land purchase, the deed indicates the boundaries of the land given: from the Nile river (which is mainly modern Egypt and Sudan) to the Euphrates (modern-day Iraq).
To ensure that there is no doubt about the land’s boundaries, Scripture also indicates the different groups of people that occupy it: “…the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.” We know that these peoples lived in what is today Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, part of Asian Turkey, and of course all of Israel, including Gaza and the West Bank.
This fact adds another dimension to the promise: the Lord is giving to Abram’s descendants land that is currently occupied by other nations!
The question arises of how Israel will acquire this land – will she have to invade and conquer other countries?
The text in Genesis 15 offers no indication that Israel will have to fight and conquer; therefore, the logical answer is that the Lord will see that the promise is fulfilled.
The boundaries of the land promised to Abram’s descendants is clearly indicated in the Bible, yet we know that Israel has never had control of the full extent of this land.
The Lord never said when it will happen, but He does say that it will happen.
I believe that after the final battles described in the Bible, when all the nations will rise against Israel, with the return of Jesus, Israel will prevail.
The promise will be fulfilled with the establishment of His Messianic kingdom.
If He has fulfilled every promise given thus far, we can be certain that He will fulfill those that remain – including all the land promised to Abram’s descendants."
From the Christian Zionist website, eczp.blogspot.com an article is titled
"What Israel’s Future Borders Will Look Like" and it says
This is horrifying for the world powers, but we like it very much!
Genesis 15:18 reads: “To your descendants I give this land from the River of Egypt to the Great River, the river Euphrates.”
Moses announces to the Jews in Deuteronomy 11:24, that “Every place where you set the soles of your feet shall be yours. Your borders shall run from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.”
Gepost door Henoch op maandag, januari 27, 2014 , see the Map with this Article that shows Israel's Future Enlarged Borders !!!
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