- Prominent Israeli lawyer Ram Caspi (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/868829.html)recently
called for mass killing of innocent Gazan civilians who already endure
a circle of Dante's inferno, inching through daily miseries toward a hopeless
future. Caspi said the moment another rocket is fired at Israel, the Jewish
state should cut off Gaza's million and a half inhabitants from life-from
"the essential infrastructure systems of fuel, water, electricity
and telephones, and...prevent others from providing these utilities to
Gaza."
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- Need I comment on the barbarism of punishing
innocents this way? (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm) International
law-let alone basic morality and the law of God!-forbids inhumane treatment
of noncombatants. Yet Gideon Levy observes in Haaretz, "Caspi is a
successful attorney, who comes and goes in the tabernacles of justice and
rule, a man who moves about in the highest reaches of Israeli society.
Not a hair on his head has been mussed as a result of his satanic proposal."
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- Levy mournfully cites quote after quote from
Israeli racists calling for the slaughter of Palestinian Arabs. Caspi breathes
this hatred among Israeli elite, while advising them on the law. Israel's
religious shepherds also preach such bloodlust. Former Sephardi chief rabbi
Mordechai Eliyahu recently wrote Ehud Olmert to counsel that all Gazan
civilians-men, women, newborn babies-are collectively guilty for rocket
attacks on Israel. He said the Jewish state is morally entitled to kill
them all.
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- Eliyahu's son, also a rabbi, (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527966693
&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull) spoke to press about his father's
views. "If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a
thousand," he said. "And if they do not stop after 1,000 then
we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even
a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."
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- The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
smears Christians as "anti-Semites" if we believe or say Jewish
leaders were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ 2,000 years ago-a
fact of history. ADL works aggressively to keep anti-Semitism defined as
the gravest social sin. In much of the western world, ADL has also made
it a "hate" crime. Truthful examination of Jews, Judaism, or
Israel is a ruinous, career-destroying path for any public figure. If you
question the 6 million figure of the Jewish Holocaust, you can spend the
next half decade behind bars. But actually call for a Palestinian holocaust-for
the murder of living people-and you can climb the ranks of Jewish high
society. ADL and so-called "progressive" Jewish advocacy groups
are largely silent about the bloodthirsty racist words of evil men like
Caspi and Eliyahu.
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- Christian Judeo-Amour
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- Christians seek to obey Jesus, the "Prince
of Peace" who only blessed the merciful. How can that mean supporting
a Jewish state where such statements are spoken by mainstream religious
and litigious leaders?
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- Well-meaning evangelicals by the millions
genuinely think it's their Christian duty to "bless God's chosen people"
by refraining from criticism and offering virtually unlimited military,
monetary, and moral support.
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- Such Christians consume an abundant diet
of Christian Zionism, glorification of Judaism and villainization of Islamic
militants. They have no room left for the possibility that Israel provoked
Arab aggression by reducing millions to daily misery and political helplessness.
They largely fail to wonder if Christ really smiles on the Chosen People
as they continue to reject Him, describing Him with profanity and refusing
to allow Christian evangelism. Among mainstream American Christians, there
is virtually no meaningful dissent about Israel.
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- Instead of truth, pro-Jewish zealotry flows
like wine. Richard Bartholomew, a blogger for Salon, recently (http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2007/06/01.html)
reviewed "the latest crop of apocalyptical Christian Zionist and anti-Islamic
titles from Christian publishers" advertised in Christian Retailing
magazine. The magazine reports having already pre-sold lots of copies of
Mike Evans' The Final Move Beyond Iraq. Evans paints Iran's Ahmadinejad
as "a radical zealot bent on the destruction of the West and installation
of a world Islamic system."
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- More new releases include Culture Clash:
Islam's War on America and In Defense of Israel, by John Hagee. Major Christian
publishers like Tyndale and Harvest House have made a fortune from Mideast
titles that are staunchly pro-Zionist. Tim LaHaye, of Left Behind fame,
has a new book set for release in September, Global Warning: Are We on
the Brink of World War III? Bartholomew notes wryly that Tyndale is set
to release a third edition of Armageddon, Oil and Terror: What the Bible
Says About the Future of America, the Middle East, and the End of Western
Civilization. Its supposedly solid predictions have already needed to be
revised twice, but Tyndale has still sold more than 2 million copies.
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- Such books are attractive to many with their
simplistic celebration of the US and shallow reading of Scripture. They
pretend to explain complicated and frightening geopolitical reality with
easy-to-follow plans: support Israel, support the war on terror, Muslims
are evil, Jews and Christians are good.
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- This intellectual junk food fills tables
across America because real truth about Israel and Judaic supremacism is
forbidden in public. Many patriotic Christians will consider 2008 presidential
candidates in light of the Islamophobia and devotion to the Jewish state
they learn from FOX News and the pulpit. The same as Jews, they will ask:
Who supports Israel and Bush's war? Who is willing to use nukes on Iran?
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- Doubtful Brethren
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- The increasing Judaization of the evangelical
church is also reflected in the growth of Messianic Judaism. Messianic
Jews believe in Christ but also assert a Jewish identity. The Jewish Forward
reports, "According to several movement leaders and scholars of religion,
messianic Judaism is expanding rapidly in communities across the American
South, a growing region of the country that is attracting new Jewish residents
more generally."
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- Forward quotes Derek Leman, who leads a Messianic
synagogue in Atlanta: "In the Bible belt, you have many Christians
who love Israel, so we attract more gentiles [to our services], plus there
are a lot more intermarried couples down here than there would be in the
Northeast."
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- "It is a trend alarming to Jewish communal
leaders," says Forward. As more and more Gentile Christians become
infatuated with Israel and the idea of Judaism, this cross-pollenization
should worry more than Jewish leaders! The New Testament teaches that in
Christ, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor
female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3:28) The growing
popularity of a Christian/Jewish identity and Zionism should deeply concern
any Christian pastor or layman with a working knowledge of the New Testament's
warnings against Judaizers in the early church--"Christian Jews"
who wanted to bring the church back into bondage to Old Testament and rabbinic
observances and traditions.
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- One Good Man?
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- Speaking the whole truth about Jewish political
power and activism today is personally costly-to reputation, relationships,
and certainly to career. A person would have to be motivated either by
great hate or by great love. It was great love that compelled St. Paul
to rebuke the rabbinic leaders of his time and also Judaizers in the church
who exalted manmade religion over redemption through Christ. Paul said
love for Jews filled him with "sorrow and unceasing anguish"
as he longed for his brothers to know the truth and submit to God.
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- The greatest compassion is God's intervention
in our lives, revealing our depravity and offering escape. Humans can share
God's compassion by speaking the whole truth about evil acts, ideas, systems
and even individuals.
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- Calling evil by its name is an act of love-especially
when it carries personal cost. The person who will not speak truth about
evil pays no social price. He also has no love. And he becomes complicit
with that evil. Only truth offers hope of change, of repentance and salvation.
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- Christian leaders fear the whole truth about
the Judaic agenda and believe their reputations and ministries will be
destroyed if they speak this truth. They also believe Jews can't bear the
whole truth about the elite minority of evil leaders directing their Tribe.
But the wisest, kindest Being who ever walked the earth-the Son of God-told
us that when we know the truth, it will set us free. It is high time America's
Christian leaders acted as if they believed Him.
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