- The Jewish Agency for Israel (which helped found
the Jewish state) has accepted a big check from the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews and given a seat on two of its "most powerful
committees" to Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. Eckstein heads the Fellowship
of Christians and Jews. This partnership shows an unprecedented level of
alliance between evangelicals and Zionist Jews.
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- This is a major sea change from a decade
ago, when the Agency didn't want to be seen allied with evangelicals in
any way, the Forward points out. Rejecting Christians today would mean
losing a lot of greenbacks. Eckstein's group promises $45 million for the
agency "over the next three years, almost all of it raised from evangelical
Christians in North America."
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- The article notes, "With a decline
in funding allocations to Israel from American Jews, and studies showing
declining emotional attachment as well, donations and political support
from evangelical Christians have become essential to Israel." Today
the loyalty of American evangelicals has become a crucial bloc in the Israel
lobby.
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- But many Jewish leaders don't even conceal
their disgust about accepting Christians' help. The Jewish Week says this
increased partnership with evangelicals--specifically between the Agency
and the Fellowship--has built "an undercurrent of unease in Israel
and North American Jewish leadership circles." One unnamed American
Jewish leader called the agreement "an abomination." It was called
"appalling" by Knesset member Colette Avital, former Israeli
consul general for New York. Anti-Defamation League head Abe Foxman said
he is "disturbed." Nina Penton, a Jerusalem municipal council
member, called it "a national disaster" and claimed Christians
are trying to "take [Jews'] souls."
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- Jewish Week says angry Jews have tried
to excommunicate Eckstein for collaborating with goyim--Christians, no
less--and he was investigated by the New York rabbinical court. Notice
I said New York, not Israel.
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- Evangelicals appear unwilling to recognize
Talmudic Judaism's hostility toward them. The more suspicious and spiteful
many Jews behave, the more support Christians promise. Evangelicals have
thoroughly digested the Zionist myth of Jewish victimhood, impotence, and
of gentile (especially Christian) guilt. Evangelicals believe it's their
responsibility to protect "little Israel" from annihilation.
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- After 1900 years of dispersion and persecution,
Jews enjoy unheard-of freedom and prosperity in America. Yet despite Jews'
disproportionate enjoyment of wealth, prestige, influence and fawning approval
from evangelicals-38 percent of American Jews believe there is "a
great deal" of anti-Semitism in the US and 48 percent think "a
moderate amount" still thrives here. American Jewish leaders trivialize
evidence of their tribe's great affluence and prestige in this country.
Always identifying new Hitlers, they promote the racist belief that all
Gentiles are irrationally anti-Semitic and untrustworthy. This premise
creates a dangerous separatism and hostility toward gentile Americans and
especially Christians, who are increasingly blamed for millennia of anti-Jewish
hatred, bigotry, persecution and evil.
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- Christians must begin to recognize the
danger that belief presents to them. Jews in the United States enjoy the
most affluent, elite strata of society--they are hugely over-represented
in government, media, business, and education. Jews in Israel enjoy staggering
military advantage, possession of nukes, and an unbroken stream of financial
support from Uncle Sam, and increasingly from Christians.
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- When Israeli and American Jews express
their bitter disgust toward partnership with Christians, that attitude
should not be taken lightly. Jews are not the underdog on the international
scene today. They have the power to do far more than suspiciously glare.
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- Jewish antagonism to Christian values--and
Christian evangelism--is public record. The Anti-Defamation League, creator
of Christian-persecuting "anti-hate" laws, is rabid against the
New Testament, Christian conversion efforts, and public expression of Christianity.
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- In November 2005, Anti-Defamation League
president Abraham Foxman criticized evangelical Christians as the "key
domestic challenge to the American Jewish community." Many right-wing
Christians were outraged, including Don Wildmon of the American Family
Association who said, "The more [Foxman] says that 'you people are
destroying this country,' [the more] some people are going to begin to
get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way
you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore.' "
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- But despite attacks from Jewish Zionists
like Foxman, and the overwhelming liberalism of American Jews-- Christians
don't publicly recognize that the Jewish left poses (in Foxman's words)
a "key domestic challenge" to the Christian community! Like baby
rabbits in spring, Christians literally don't know their enemy. For this
reason, evangelicals can't respond effectively to liberal militant anti-Christianity
in media, Congress, and Jewish "civil liberties" groups.
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