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Genesis 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you (Jews), and whoever curses you I will curse.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
Mark Twain: “Faith is believing what you know is not true.”
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TABLE of CONTENTS
(1a) – VCT - SUMMARY and PICTURES
US Aerial Bombing is Terrorism & Genocide by VCT
(1b) - VCT – The FACTS - Science, Universe, Evolution, Life,
Religion & God by VCT
(1c) - VCT - US-Christians for Wars against Muslims in Mid-East Introduction & Views by VCT
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Biblical Absurdities and Atrocities by GOD
(2) - Old Testament - God is Vindictive, Maniacal & Genocidal
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(3) - Old Testament – God creates Israel by Genocide & Theft
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(4) - Old Testament – God’s Bigoted Laws and Punishments
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(5) - New Testament - Revelations–Armageddon & End of World
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Articles – Christian Zionism and Atrocities
(6) - Articles - Historical & International Political Perspective
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(7) - Articles - God creates Israel Again in 1948 - Bible Prophecy
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(8) - Articles - God Punishes Palestinians for Holocaust in Europe
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(9) - Articles - Christian Zionism and the Second Coming of Christ
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(10) - Articles - Christian Zionists wants God to end World ASAP
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(6) – Articles - International & Political Perspective
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(Articles downloaded from the Internet)
Churches Speak Out on Christian Zionism - Excerpts
http://www.christianzionism.org/churchesN.asp
Excerpts from Christianity and War by Laurence M. Vance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance-arch.html
'Deaths of Others' in America's Wars by John Tirman - Excerpts
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/deaths-of-others.html
US - Israel Lobby & Christian Zionism - Excerpts
INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW http://www.ihr.org/
‘Christian Zionism’ – Excerpts
Charles E. Carlson 2013
http://charlesecarlson.com/christian-zionism-the-worlds-most-urgent-mission-field/
The Origin of European “Jews”
KINGDOM OF THE KHAZARS Excerpts
http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/library/khazars.html
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Behind the Campaign for War Against Iran - Excerpts
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INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW
http://www.ihr.org/other/behindwarcampaign
118 countries support Iran nuclear program,
- Excerpts
http://www.arabicnews.com/
Non-Aligned countries declare support to Iran nuclear rights
Arab League backs Iran's peaceful nuclear activities Arab leaders:
US policy on Iran has no credibility
US enmity to Iran is opposition to Muslim progress
Iran's nuclear progress, source of honor for Muslims worldwide
Deaths in Other Nations since WW II Due To US Interventions By
James A. Lucas
http://www.countercurrents.org/lucas240407.htm
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(7) – Articles - God creates Israel again in 1948 – Prophecy
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(Articles downloaded from the Internet)
History of PALESTINE
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/for/israel.html
BBC News: Country profile: Israel and Palestinian territories
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/803257.stm
Ashkenazi Jews
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi
The Thirteenth Tribe – Ashkenazi Jews
by Arthur Koestler
http://www.christusrex.com/www2/koestler/
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A new face of Jesus By Jeordan Legon CNN
Thursday, December 26, 2002 Posted: 9:45 AM EST (1445 GMT)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/index.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282186.html
What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians
By John Whitbeck http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0202/p09s02-coop.html
Israeli Settlements Palestine Monitor factsheet – December 2008
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article7
East Jerusalem Palestine Monitor factsheet - December 2008
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article5
A list of UN Resolutions against "Israel"
http://wake-up-america.net/UN%20Resolutions%20against%20Israel.htm
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel (1972-2002)
http://www.trinicenter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24
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(8) - Articles - God Punishes Palestinians for Holocaust
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BBC News:
(Articles downloaded from the Internet)
Gaza homes destruction 'wanton' March 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7926413.stm
BBC News:
Demolitions build Jerusalem tension
April 2009, UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8016258.stm
BBC News: Israel warns European critics
April 2009, UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8026941.stm
BBC News:
UN: Freeze Jerusalem demolitions
UN laments choking of Bethlehem
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May 2009, UK
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BBC News:
Analysis: America's new Christian Zionists 2002
BBC News: Gaza crisis: key maps and timeline 2009/06/16
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7812136.stm
BBC News: Gaza Crisis – Blockade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7812136.stm2/hi/middle_east/8102631.stm
John Sutherland, August 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/30/israel.usa1
The Guardian Meet the new Zionists
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May 2009, UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8037467.stm
The Guardian In the name of God
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8028564.stm
BBC News:
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Matthew Engel October 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/28/usa.israel
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The Guardian, Their beliefs are bonkers
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The Guardian, Apocalypse Soon
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G. Monbiot April 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/20/usa.uselections2004/print
Rev. Giles Fraser Monday, June, 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0609-07.htm
The Los Angeles Times, An Unholy Alliance in Support of Israel
May 19, 2002
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0519-05.htm
The New York Times, Seeing Islam as 'Evil', By L. GOODSTEIN
May, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/national/27ISLA.html?ex=1055304000&en=
CBS News Zion's Christian Soldiers
by Mary Jayne McKay June, 2003
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/03/60minutes/main524268.shtml
Washington Post -The Evangelical-Israeli Connection
Bill Broadway
March 27, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId
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(9) - Articles - Christian Zionism & Second Coming of Christ
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We Hold These Truths Project Strait Gate Ministries
Would Jesus Concur or Weep? http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2832
Toward a Lutheran Response to Christian Zionism
Rev. Robert O. Smith Lutheran Pastor, Chicago University
http://www.elcjhl.org/palestine/zionism/zionism.asp
Geneva Ministries, Christian Zionism & Messianic Judaism James Jordan,Th.M.,
http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/eschatology/christian_zionism.html
http://www.biblicalhorizons.com
Presbyterian Church
- Resolution on Confronting Christian Zionism
http://www.pcusa.org/worldwide/israelpalestine/christianzionism.htm
Joint Statement by Latin and Syrian Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem;
Episcopal Church of Jerusalem, & Lutheran Church in Holy Land:
"We Stand for Justice. We Can Do No Other"
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http://www.zenit.org/article-16848?l=english
National
Catholic Reporter, By MARGOT PATTERSON, October, 2002
Will Evangelical Christians and Jews ignite apocalypse?
http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/101102/101102a.htm
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Thomas Williamson, Baptist Minister - Chicago, Illinois
To Whom Does the Land of Palestine Belong?
Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson1.html
Should Christians Support Construction of Jewish Temple in Jerusalem?
Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson2.html
Dispensationalism and Racism - Thomas Williamson
http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson3.html
Zionism versus the Bible - Thomas Williamson
http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson4.html
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Donald Wagner Presbyterian Minister, Prof. of Religion
British stirrings
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4959.htm
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Christ Second Coming http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4930.htm
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Bible and Sword http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4950.htm
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Clinton & Zionism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4951.htm
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Bush & Zionism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4960.htm
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(10) - Articles - Christian Zionists pushing God to end World
SECTION – 10
(Articles downloaded from the Internet)
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Christian Zionism http://www.theocracywatch.org/146christian_zionism.htm
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America's 'Conservative' Christians – and the Middle East by Christopher Deliso
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May 8, 2003 http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso76.html
WHOSE 'ROAD MAP'?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j050503.html
European Anti-Semitism & the Religious Right
Jon Basil Utley Nov13, 2003
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/utley10.html
The Dangerous Potent Elixir of Christian Zionism
By Pat Morrison
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 2007, pages 58-59
Anxious for Armageddonhttp://www.wrmea.com/archives/April_2007/0704058.html
By Grace Halsell Washington Report, March 2000
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0300/0003016.html
Israeli Extremists and Christian Evangelicals: The Alliance By Grace Halsell
Washington Report, December 1988, Page 31
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http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1288/8812031.htm
Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War By Grace Halsell
Washington Report, September 8, 1986, Page 15 Book Review
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http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/090886/860908015.html
We Hold These Truths – Project Strait Gate Ministry
Christian Zionists Snap at a Man From Galilee Charles E. Carlson
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=3053
Israel’s Death Culture
Charles E. Carlson April 03, 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2984
'Christians' Tour Israel: Gaza Extermination Goes On Charles E. Carlson 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
The Lie That Justifies Mass Murder:
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2916
Charles E. Carlson Jan 01, 2008
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2770
The Roots of Christian Zionism Part I Charles E. Carlson Dec 08, 2008
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
Christian Zionist's End Times
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2724
Charles E. Carlson Nov 05, 2008
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2670
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(1a) Introduction, Summary, Contents & Views V.C. Thomas (VCT)
Summary
This is a compilation of articles found on the Internet which looks at who is mainly responsible
for terrorism, death, destruction and genocide around the world today. Based on the numbers killed in
Asia & the Middle East, the United States of America is responsible for terrorism and genocide on a
colossal scale. Ground war with modern weapons and aerial bombing (4 years in Korea, 10 years in
Vietnam, & 10 years each in Iraq & Afghanistan) is terrorism resulting in the deaths of millions.
In wars before WWI the combatants could see who they were killing. US aerial bombing since
WWII involves no risks to the US military while terrorizing & killing innocent civilians and destroying
cities. The suicide bombing by a few Muslims youths get a lot of publicity in the US, so this document
concentrates on the atrocities of Jews and “so-called” Evangelical Christian Right in the US.
Jews, Christians and Muslims believe in the same God described in the Old Testament Bible (OTB)
by God himself (the Bible is the Word of God) as a petty, retarded, vindictive genocidal maniac. Israel
was created in 1948 by Eastern European Jews (converts to Judaism 1,000 years ago with no Semitic,
genetic or ancestral connection to Palestine) because of the Holocaust in Europe. It was created by
eradicating Palestinians from their ancestral homeland by armed robbery & genocide. Palestinians had
nothing to do with the Holocaust.
The most zealous supporters of US wars since WWII (particularly on behalf of Israel
created in 1948) are the Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Conservative Christians (RWEFCC). In
the 1950s and 1960s the evil enemy (Satan & Anti-Christ) was communism. When communism
disappeared, the RWEFCC switched to condemning, hating & attacking the evil Muslims. RWEFCC people
believe that once Palestine & Palestinians have been eradicated and replaced with God’s new only
chosen people of Eastern European origin, Armageddon, the end of the world, and the Second Coming of
Christ are imminent. They ignore the spiritual message of Christ.
The moral and ethical justification by Zionists Christians for creating Israel by armed robbery and
mass murder in 1948 is the Old Testament Bible (OTB) and Revelations in the New Testament Bible
(NTB). It is supposed to be fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The Old Testament Bible (OTB) is historical
mythology, and teaches hatred, cruelty, murder, genocide, sexism, homophobia & racism. Revelations is
ridiculous science & horror fiction by primitive & ignorant people of ancient times.
It is nearly impossible for a politician to get elected to office in the US Bible-Belt today without
the support of Zionist Christians and if they do not affirm that they also worship “Jews” as God’s only
chosen people and Israel as a country created by God.
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V.C. Thomas (VCT) was born in India in 1940. His family belonged to the Jacobite Syrian
Orthodox Church which was, by tradition, founded by the Apostle St. Thomas on the Southwest Coast of
India (Kerala State). He attended a British run Protestant school in India where each day began with a
short Anglican service and he had to study the New Testament Bible. He has a Mathematics degree
(included 2 religion courses) from a Catholic Jesuit College in India and Post-Graduate & Doctorate
degrees in engineering from the United Kingdom. From 1969, until he retired in 2008, he worked in the
USA as a scientific programmer, professional engineer and university professor. He was not involved
with religion after he moved to the UK in 1961.This investigation into American, Zionist, Right Wing,
Evangelical, Fundamentalist, and Conservative, brand of Christianity began in 2009.
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Korean War – US - B26 Napalm Bombing
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Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
Mark Twain: “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.”
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(1b) Universe, Evolution, Science, Religion and God
V.C. Thomas (VCT)
John Ch-8: 31 “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.”
INTRODUCTION
An 18th century philosopher observed that "even if God did not exist, it is necessary for man to
invent him." Another noted that "God is always on the side of the big battalions." Every human is born
with the instinct that our lives are supervised and controlled by invisible super natural powers.
The descriptions of God or gods that have survived and still believed in today’s scientific era are
the ones described in ancient written texts (from 1500 BC) by ignorant and superstitious people who
had just learned to write.
Religious minded people today still believe that any rubbish written in ancient times, are the
exact words of God. Even in the present time, believers continue to do this even when all scientific
evidence and facts prove otherwise.
Today’s modern technology and scientific knowledge contradict all religious dogma created in
ancient times by ignorant and superstitious people who had just learned to write.
Deep religious experiences (or self-induced delusions) can be explained by physical,
psychological, biological and medical sciences today. So-called “Evil” or “Sin” are the results of social
and mental conditions and can be corrected with education and medication today and without the
help of an imaginary “God”.
In this age of science and technology, religion has been abandoned by most educated and
intelligent people. We are moving into an era of agnosticism and atheism. An agnostic believes it is
pointless to argue about God. God may or may not exist, but agnostic reasons that we will never know.
An atheist positively rejects the existence of God but provides no alternate explanation for life on the
planet earth (only) and the infinite scope of the universe.
The following are my thoughts based on Carl Sagan’s “Varieties of Scientific Experiences – A
Personal Search for God”.
To see life in perspective, you have to (1) know where you are and (2) know who you are. This
is my interpretation, interpolation and extrapolation of his views.
Where you are: The earth is part of a universe whose stars are 13.5 billion light years
distance apart. The Big Bang theory explains why every object in the universe is moving outwards. The
distance of 13.5 billion light years is 13.5 x 1,000,000,000 x 365 days/year x 24 hours/day x 60
minutes/hour x 60 seconds/ minute x 186,000 miles/ second or 792,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
miles.
The earth was a molten mass that broke off from the sun 4.5 billion years ago and life gradually
formed. The earth’s diameter and circumference are 8,000 and 25,000 miles. The size of the earth
would be invisible relative to the size of our solar system never mind the universe. The size of all living
creatures and plant life is invisible relative to the size of the earth.
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Who you are:
There is no known life (including plant life) anywhere else in the universe
except the planet earth. Evolution of various forms of life on earth is now a scientific fact – not
theory. As the earth cooled down it produced the right physical combination of air and water to
produce plant life.
We are one of billions of microscopic (relative to earth’s size) living creatures on earth. Animal
life began as a single cell. We are all related (cockroaches, flies, rats, birds, fish), and the DNA
difference between humans and chimpanzees is two percent. All of us (animals, birds, insects, fish)
possess intelligence, have two eyes (not one or three), are born (requires sex), eat, drink, poop, and
then die.
Humans: Modern humans (homo-sapiens) started evolving in East Africa about 500,000 years
ago and started spreading to the rest of the planet 300,000 years ago.
The difference in human appearance is because of gradual adaptation to local climatic and
environmental conditions. Because Homo-sapiens evolved in a hot climate (East Africa), none of us
have a thick skin and we are not covered with fur to protect us from the cold like polar bears.
People who moved to cold climates developed a lighter skin to absorb the sun’s scarce radiation
and those in hot climates became darker. The difference between humans is, not their external
appearance, but their invisible minds which is shaped by other humans and the culture around them.
Humans were hunters and gatherers (farming had not been invented yet) until 10,000 years
ago, like the other animals. The greatest scientific invention until 5,000 years ago was the Wheel.
Life: Relative to the vastness of the universe, the planet earth and human life are infinitely
insignificant. There is no life after death or reincarnation. There are no invisible spirits in the
atmosphere or universe watching everything you do, listening to our prayers and reading our minds
every second and recording these data for reward or punishment after we die.
We exist only for an instant (relative to the universe and when life on earth began) and then
disappear into nothing again. If the planet earth were to blow up into bits, it would be a non-event in
the rest of the universe. There is no heaven or hell existing or after-life in some other universe.
In his search for God, Carl Sagan could not find Him, Her, or It. Life has NO Meaning or
Purpose when viewed from Sagan’s “COSMOS” telescope.
Religion and the total control of all past, present & future human minds began with the
invention of writing (particularly religious words attributed to God), about 3,500 years ago.
Based on the above facts, life has no meaning or purpose.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Humans therefore needed to create God and religion to give our lives meaning and purpose.
For instance, religious people commonly believe that the human “soul” does not end with death (only
the physical body does) and there is life after death.
We argue that religion is not supposed to be based on science and logic and it is based on our
so-called “spiritual side.” Scientific and logical discussions about religion and the existence of God
are therefore futile.
Humans in all cultures from ancient times have believed in the supernatural. We seem to be
born with this faith in the existence of God and a conscience that tells us right from wrong. We also
have the concept of another existence after we die based on good and evil. The laws of this universe do
not apply to every human’s craving for something called “God”.
Belief in God is invisible and not made up of electrons, protons, neutrons, atoms, and
molecules. The laws of the universe are mathematically precise, and that coincides with “Intelligent
Design” by a creator called God.
Why did God (if HE exists), the creator of the universe, choose human life only on earth? If
Intelligent Design is true, then God the creator does not interfere with the universe (and life on the
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planet earth) after having created it and set it in motion. Praying to God is a waste of time. If creating
the universe and life (on earth only) requires a God, then God requires a creator too. This process of
logic can go on endlessly.
The “God” worshipped and praised in today’s scientific age is still the “God” invented by
ancient, primitive, and ignorant humans who had just learned to write. Anything written by ancient
humans is considered by humans today to be written by God. Only a fraction of the words written in
ancient times (4,000 to 1,500 years ago) survived through the ravages of time so we have not heard all
of God’s exact words.
The written word can be interpreted in many ways by different people at different times
depending on their environment culture, age, education and intelligence. Two people reading the
same texts can have different interpretation of the words.
Jesus did not write down his message (a prescription for life), but left it to his disciples to write
down what they can remember years later. You are supposed to find the spiritual message of Christ by
reading the Gospels and Epistles.
The “God” referred to in this book is the God described by Moses in the Old Testament Bible
(OTB); the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the God of Jews, Christians, and Muslims; and the God
responsible for the strife and violence among his believers (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) throughout
history and today.
The crimes and cruelty perpetuated by the worshippers of this one and only true God are
based on his commandments in the Old Testament although they cannot be justified and the Old
Testament is contradicted by the New Testament.
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"Religions vary in their degree of idiocy. It is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain."
Albert Einstein: “The word of God is nothing more than the product of human weaknesses.”
Thomas Jefferson: "Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies.”
Benjamin Franklin: "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
Mark Twain: "Faith is believing in something you know is not true."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): "Faith is not wanting to know what is true."
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
Noel Sherman MD: "A believer in God is not a thinker and a thinker is not a believer in God.”
Blaise Pascal: “Men never commit evil so joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions."
Robert Ingersoll: "Our ignorance is God; what we know is science."
Jesse Ventura: "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people."
Napoleon Bonaparte: "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
Bertrand Russell: “There is not one word in the Bible in praise of intelligence."
Ernest Hemingway: "All thinking men are atheists."
Isaac Asimov: "Creationists make 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
Steven Weinberg: “Good people will do good and evil people will do evil, but for good people to do
evil requires religion.”
George Bernard Shaw: The fact that a believer in God is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point
than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Abu Ala Al-Maari: "The world holds two classes of people - intelligent people without religion, and
religious people without intelligence."
Yuri Gagarin - first man in space, while in space: "I don't see any god up here"
Carl Sagan: "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however
satisfying and reassuring."
John Adams: "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
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THE INVISIBLE MIND
The difference between humans and other living creatures (or between different types of
living creatures) is NOT the external physical appearance. Birds (parrots, peacocks) and land animals
(tigers, elephants, horses) are better looking, physically stronger, and more athletic than are
humans. Non-human life has stronger senses such as smell (dogs), hearing (owls), vision (eagles and
cats) and navigation skills (birds and fish can fly and swim to any exact destination and back).
The difference between humans and other living creatures is therefore their minds, which are
invisible (made of nothing but requires a physical functioning brain) that can think independently of
every other mind. The mind cannot be seen, heard, touched, smelled or tasted.
Like humans, the appearance of different “breeds” of dogs (a 220-lb bull mastiff and a 5-lb
Chihuahua) might differ considerably, but mentally are alike because they think like dogs.
The development of the human mind (at birth it is nothing) is controlled by other existing
human minds in the environment and the society and culture that you are born into.
The human mind can be developed into be anything you want. Human thoughts can be
controlled (trained and disciplined from birth) to be good or evil. Dogs can be trained to be vicious
attack dogs or affectionate and loyal dogs that help handicapped people.
In the case of humans, and since writing was invented about 3,500 years ago, the minds of
religious-minded people and their behavior are controlled by religious texts written by man (not
women). These texts are attributed to God, are based on the ignorance of ancient, uncivilized and
primitive people of the past with no knowledge of today’s science.
The insignificant human mind, no matter how intelligent, can never fully comprehend the
scope of the universe and the meaning of life on earth.
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MEDITATION TO CONTROL THE MIND
Several meditation methods that originated in India (Hinduism 2000 BC, Jainism 700 BC,
Buddhism 500 BC) try to discipline and control the mind. A Muslim Pakistani explained Transcendental
Meditation to me when we were students in Britain. He explained that it is a physical mental exercise
that helps you control the mind. He claims that it is not religious and that he is still a Muslim.
Hinduism sees ones individuality as an illusion. Everyone, in actuality, is God already, and God
exists everywhere and within every human. But people have lost that inner awareness and connection to
the God that resides within them. Hinduism helps people to come to that God realization through a
meditative, yogic, and spiritual path of self-enlightenment. A person’s individual consciousness (or
Godliness), ultimately merges with the universal consciousness (God), after true realization occurs.
Hindu meditation involves more of physical need, materialistic crutches and focus on a deity to appease
and merge with Brahma; the mind remains attached to craving and aversions.
Buddhism (which originated in India around 550 BC) on the other hand, is a discipline of nonattachment to enable self-realization. There is no God in Buddhism, nor an individual divinity (God
consciousness) or collective divinity (God). People are stationed in life according to their past and present
actions, or karma (as in Hinduism). When karma’s lessons have finally run their course, re-incarnation no
longer has to be endured. A Buddhist will attest to three important realities: birth, suffering, and death. I
have never heard about a Buddhist practitioner believing the existence of God. In Buddhist meditation
one is to focus on breathing without attachment to a deity, thus making the mind attain fulfillment,
happiness and contentment. The sustained practice of Buddhist meditation can lead to Nirvana, freeing
oneself from the cycle of life and death.
There is no life anywhere else in the universe. Every human in every civilization (including the
so-called primitive and ancient) seem to be born with a belief that life is created and controlled by some
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supernatural invisible power and you can interact (through prayer) with this power. Indian philosophy
claims that God exists in everyone.
If humans did not exist, then God cannot exist because other forms of life (animals, birds, fish,
insects, plants) cannot imagine God. If humans could not write 1,500 to 3,500 years ago, then today we
would NOT believe in the ancient and ignorant descriptions of God.
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ATHEISM
Atheism does not believe in the existence of God or any super-natural phenomenon that
cannot be proven. So according to atheism, there is no purpose in life when we know that we must all
die eventually. Atheism means that there are no consequences for our evil acts if we can get away with
them in this life. Death means that we do not exist anymore. Atheism can encourage selfishness,
greed, dishonesty, irresponsibility, and egocentricity in some people.
Atheism cannot explain the mathematical precision of the scope, growth and behavior of the
universe and the process of evolution of life which also appears to be scientifically precise and
extremely complex.
Human scientific achievements (almost all of it during the last 100 years) are impressive. But
humans cannot (and will never) create a molecule, atom, electron, proton or neutron of any element in
the universe. Humans cannot (and will never) create a single cell of life that can exist on earth or
anywhere in the universe. These are reasons for believing intelligent design and purpose by a “God,”
the creator.
Carl Sagan concluded that if such a God, based on our present knowledge of science exists,
then after his creation of the universe and life and after setting them in motion, he does not interfere
with them and has nothing more to do with them. Prayer, in such a situation is, as stated above, a
complete waste of time.
But we also cannot prove that there is no God or life after death. We will find this out only
after we die. God and Heaven are not supposed to be part of this universe.
The laws of the universe do not apply to religion, according to the believers in God. This Spirit is
not made up of electrons, protons, neutrons, atoms, molecules, and DNA. If everything has to be
created from nothing, and if there is a God the creator, then the next question is: “Who created God?”
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Carl Sagan: The Varieties of Scientific Experience:
A Personal View of the Search for God
Transcripts from the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, Scotland by Ann Druyan Penguin Books
Chapter 1Nature and Wonder
Chapter 5Extraterrestrial folklore
Chapter 2The Retreat from
Chapter 6The God Hypothesis
Copernicus
Chapter 7The Religious
Chapter 3The Organic Universe
Experience
Chapter 4Extraterrestrial
Chapter 8Crimes Against Creation
Intelligence
And what exactly is superstition? Is it justother people’s religion? Or is there some standard by
which we can detect what constitutes superstition? Superstition is belief without evidence.
The best way to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night.
It is very difficult to know who we are until we understand where and when we are.
Ann Druyan has pointed out, “an immortal Creator is a cruel God, because He, never having to
face the fear of death, creates innumerable creatures who do.”
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In much of Western theology the God portrayed is too small. It is the God of a tiny world and
not a God of a galaxy much less that of the universe. --- If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It
or whatever prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing?
At birth all of us imagine that we are the universe, and we don’t distinguish the boundaries
between ourselves and those around us. This is well established in infants
There is a constellation of properties that we generally think of when we in the West, or more
generally in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, think of God.
The fundamental differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are trivial compared to
their similarities. In the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, the world is a finite number of years old.
Put another way, any preexisting predisposition to religious belief can be powerfully influenced
by the indigenous culture, wherever you happen to grow up. And especially if the children are exposed
early to a particular set of doctrine and music and art and ritual, then it is as natural as breathing,
which is why religions make an effort to attract the young.
If we say that God made the universe, it is reasonable to then ask, "And who made God?"
We are seeking a rational justification for something that we hope will be true. Epicurus held
that God was okay but that humans were the least of His worries.
I therefore conclude that the alleged natural theological arguments for the existence of God, the
sort we're talking about, simply are not very compelling.
Why in any case is it necessary for God to intervene in human history, in human affairs, as
almost every religion assumes happens? That God or the gods come down and tell humans, "No, don't
do that, do this, don't forget this, don't pray in this way, don't worship anybody else, mutilate your
children as follows." Why is there such a long list of things that God tells people to do? Why didn't God
do it right in the first place?
There isn’t any other planet that’s just like Earth, and as far as we know so far, there isn’t any
other planet in the universe that has life on it. The bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed
some quarter of a million people, making no distinctions according to age, sex, class, occupation, or
anything else.
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THE BIBLE AND ISRAEL Old Testament Bible (OTB):
God creates the universe, Garden of Eden, and Adam and Eve 6,000 years ago in 6 days. Adam
and Eve sin by eating an apple. God kicks them out of Garden of Eden for eating the apple. God kills
everybody with a flood, except Noah and his family and two of each species of animal.
God makes humans speak in different languages for trying to build the Tower of Babel so the
Chinese spoke Chinese and the Dutch spoke Dutch. God separates humans into Jews and non-Jews.
God creates Israel for Jews (his only chosen people, who were dark skinned Semitic slaves in Egypt) by
killing “Palestinians” in “Palestine” circa 1500 BC. Israel does not exist about 500 years later.
Humans keep on sinning (not keeping the Sabbath, adultery, homosexuality, seeing the
nakedness of people they should not see, worshipping other gods, and so on) and God orders their
death by stoning them. His laws are based on revenge: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
God gives wealth and power to those who admire and worship him and helps them kill people
they do not like or who they envy. His only chosen people can steal the land that they want by killing all
the men and then use their women as concubines.
According to the Old Testament Bible (OTB), God is a mass murderer, racist bigot, vindictive,
unforgiving, uncompassionate, merciless, homophobic, narcissist and sexist. This OTB God has the
behavioral characteristics of the humans who wrote the exact words of God. Other than being immortal,
the God of all religions has been attributed human physical, mental and behavioral characteristics
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A hypothetical “God” based on known science today is definitely NOT the “God” described in
the Old Testament Bible (OTB) who was created by man (not woman) in man’s own image to justify
man’s actions of cruelty, greed and prejudice.
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New Testament Bible (NTB):
God sends his only son, Jesus, to save his only chosen people (Jews) from their sins. Nobody
(except for a dozen or so) believes in him because he was not the tall, handsome, and powerful person
they expected to help them kill all their enemies and make them wealthy and powerful. They crucify
him. He dies for our sins. God signs a new covenant with all humans and starts the Christian religion.
Christians cannot stop sinning either.
Revelations (last book of NTB):
God knows beforehand that humans are not going to stop sinning, so he prophesizes to send his
only son, Jesus, again (this time accompanied by four horsemen, seven angels blowing trumpets, and so
on and so forth) to destroy the earth (up to all four corners only) because of all the sinning of humans.
God and Jesus are going to destroy bad humans only, not other forms of life and not the whole universe.
This is called Armageddon.
But first, all Jews (who are now no longer dark-skinned Semitic descendants of slaves in Egypt
but are descendants of white-skinned Northern Europeans who converted in the ninth century) must
return to Israel, which God went through the trouble of creating again in 1948 by killing and getting rid
of Palestinians from Palestine.
Only those who help God destroy Palestinians and Muslims will be saved, like the Right Wing,
Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Conservative, Christian (RWEFCC) people in the Bible-Belt of America.
RWEFCC people will be swept up into Heaven by Jesus Christ (called the Rapture) before Armageddon
and the nuclear war (ignited by RWFCC people who are now already safe in Heaven) between Muslims
and non-RWFCC Christians begins. Hindus and others aren’t mentioned in this scenario.
Two-thirds of all Jews will also die, and the remaining will convert to RWEFCC and be saved.
Everyone else will burn in Hell for eternity where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. RWEFCC
people live happily ever after in Heaven because abortion, gay marriage, homosexual sex, helping the
less fortunate (liberalism, socialism) are illegal in Heaven.
THE END.
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A few examples of God’s commandments are shown.
(Mass murder commandments have been omitted.)
Deuteronomy 23.2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth
generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Exodus 22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be destroyed.
Exodus 21:15-17 “And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death”. “And he
that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death”.
Deuteronomy 22.20 – 22.1 If tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel, then she shall brought
to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die
Leviticus 20:10 "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor-both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death."
Leviticus 21:9 "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she
profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire."
Leviticus 24:16 “And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death”
Exodus 31:15 “Whosoever shall work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death”.
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Deuteronomy 17:12 Anyone that reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the
LORD your God must be put to death.
Kill Witches: You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17)
Kill Homosexuals: "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for
their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13)
Kill Fortunetellers: A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by
stoning; (Leviticus 20:27)
Death for Hitting Parents: Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15)
Death for Cursing Parents: All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty
of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9)
Death for Adultery: If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman
must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10)
Death for Fornication: A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby
dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9)
Death to Followers of Other Religions: Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall
be doomed. (Exodus 22:19)
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God Creates Israel by Murder & Theft
(The entire Book of Deuteronomy describes God’s instructions to his only chosen people of how
to kill & steal to create Israel. Below are two sample verses that summarizes Deuteronomy)
Deuteronomy Chapter 6 verses 10-11: And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have
brought thee (Jews) into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, and houses full of all good things, which
thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou
plantedst not
Deuteronomy Chapter 7, verse 2: when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee;
thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show
mercy unto them.
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous
executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible (Old Testament) is
filled, it is more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of
wickedness that has served to brutalize mankind."- Thomas Paine,
"One of the foundation stones of our faith is the Old Testament. If that book is not true, if its
authors were unaided men, if it contains blunders and falsehoods, then that stone crumbles to
dust...The Old Testament must be thrown aside. It is no longer a foundation. It has crumbled." – from
“The Foundations of Faith”
The same can be said of Revelations in the New Testament. Revelations takes supernatural
mumbo-jumbo to ridiculous extremes. It is incredible that US foreign policy, war policy, and bombing
policy are based on the Old Testament Bible and Revelations. Why bother to teach science in US
schools? No country, not even Israel, base their foreign and domestic policies on such Biblical rubbish.
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JESUS CHRIST - VCT
The life and teachings of Jesus Christ are contained in the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John), The Acts of the Apostles, and The Epistles of Paul and the Apostles. Revelations in the New
Testament and the Old Testament Bible teaches fear and has nothing to do with the way you should live
and think to achieve happiness and union with spirit of Christ.
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The life, teachings, and promises of Jesus give meaning and purpose to life. It is a prescription
for living a productive and contented life through life’s problems and setbacks, over which you have
no control. The example set by the life and death of Jesus and his promises, including that he is always
with us during good and bad times, is reassuring. The Gospels of Christ are about your moral and ethical
life and our spiritual relationship with God.
A mind without hate, greed, envy, jealousy, anger, and with love and kindness to everyone is a
prescription for a stress-free and happy life. Helping others, especially those who are less fortunate,
can be mentally rewarding and satisfying.
This is the reward for following Jesus in this world and not wealth and power as promised in the
OTB. Jesus did not promise wealth and power but spiritual peace and contentment.
Believing Jesus and being a Christian is a spiritual experience and a state of mind. It requires
following his prescription for life (love & non-violence). It is not belief in the “Virgin Mary” and other
supernatural events. Eastern Europeans calling themselves “Jews” occupying Palestine and Jerusalem
and renaming it Israel has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus.
If loving thy neighbor as thyself and helping others less fortunate does not make you happy,
then don’t waste your time on it. Those who claim to be a Christian and do not follow the life and
teachings of Jesus are not Christians. This includes all U.S. Christians that support unprovoked US wars
on behalf of Israel.
The words of “Christian” prayer and hymns are still based on the OTB and consist of
repeatedly telling God how great he is and how insignificant we are in comparison. In the OTB, God
rewards such devout worshippers by helping destroy their enemies, stealing their enemies’ properties
and rewarding them with wealth, power and women for sex.
The “Lord’s Prayer” is very short. Matthew 6:5-6: "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as
the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that
they may be seen of men....when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door,
pray to thy Father which is in secret...."
The followers of atheism, based on their understanding of science, the universe and the origins
of life, tend to be (unwittingly) true followers of Christ.
Unlike the Old Testament, the life and teachings of Christ and the description of God by Christ,
do not contradict the presently known scientific theories (and they are theories that cannot be
physically measured and proven). This “cosmic” and “scientific” view of creation confirms the spiritual
message of Christ.
Super-natural events such as the miracles in the Gospels, cannot be proved wrong today. When
Christ was crucified his disciples ran away. Only after the Resurrection were they prepared to endure
torture and death to spread the Gospel. This is the proof we have today.
Jesus does not endorse capitalism (the OTB does) or condemn communism (the NTB actually
preaches socialism) but the right wing Christian Evangelicals in the US have made them a part of
Christianity. They have also made war and destruction to fight communism a part of Christianity.
The four Gospels teach love, compassion, and forgiveness only, and do not get into political
sciences and economic theories preached by the RWEFCC pastors and leaders. The life and teachings
of Jesus contradicts the commandments (all evil) of God in the Old Testament. Revelations in the New
Testament (which has nothing to do with Jesus) is also nonsense.
Christianity cannot survive the modern and future enlightened scientific age unless the Old
Testament and Revelations are removed the from Christian Bible.
The scientific concept of God of the universe and the creator of life on earth is the loving,
caring, compassionate, merciful, and forgiving God described by Jesus in the NTB who cares most for
the least (considered by humans) among us.
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“The Third Jesus – The Christ We Cannot Ignore” by Deepak Chopra
Introduction
Part One – The Third Jesus
Redeeming the Redeemer
“I am the Light”
“The Kingdom of God Is Within”
Part Two – The Gospel of
Enlightenment - Reading What Jesus Said
Love and Grace
Faith
Revelation and Redemption
Jesus and the Self
Meditation
Contemplation
Prayer
Karma – Reaping and Sowing
The World at Illusion
Unity
Who Is the “Real” Jesus?
Part Three – Taking Jesus As
Your Teacher - A Guide For Seekers
The Search for Higher Reality
How the Path Opens
The Middle of the Journey
Where the Soul Never Dies
What Would Jesus Do?
INTRODUCTION “The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra”
(Excerpts)
This basic tenet of Christianity, which comes from Matthew 7:12, is simple enough to teach
even to small children: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. So where is the riddle?
The Golden Rule requires you to treat an enemy as an equal, which means in essence that you
can have no enemies.
Jesus didn't say, "Pick the easiest people and treat them nicely, just as you'd like to be treated."
It's human nature to love those who love us in return, not those who hate us. It is human nature to
fight back when attacked. But Jesus makes no such allowances. Many of Jesus’ most famous words
defy human nature in this way. Turn the other cheek. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
If Jesus’ words are too radical to live by, was that his intention? Jesus intended a completely
new view of human nature, and unless you transform yourself, you misunderstand what he had to say.
You can struggle your entire life to be a good Christian without succeeding in doing what Jesus
explicitly wanted. He wanted to inspire a world reborn in God. At the level of the soul we find out how
to love our neighbors as ourselves, we are able to remove the obstacles that keep us from doing unto
others as we would want them to do unto us.
Jesus’ name for the realm of the soul is the Kingdom of God, and he clearly intended for it to
descend to earth (On Earth let it be as it is in Heaven.) God was to replace Caesar as the ruler of human
affairs, and all conditions that applied to material existence would change.
The disciples who had followed him knew without a doubt that they had met someone of
earthshaking significance. What the disciples didn't talk about so fervently was the shadow side of their
new faith. They were struggling to live as Jesus wanted them to, and in many respects they were failing.
The early Church was rife with disputes and conflicts, just like every other faith that had come
before. To emerge from this chaos, to survive as followers of the Messiah, was a life-and-death challenge. As a result, Christianity was forced to compromise Jesus’ vision: The alternative—a complete
transformation of human nature—was proving impossible. Those few who could achieve it became
known as saints, and they were far removed from the dirty, bustling world and its corrupt ways.
In this book, I argue that Jesus’ vision isn't impossible to realize. Yes, it is radical and mystical.
None of that has changed. But the underlying dilemma—how to live as Jesus wanted us to—can be
resolved. In fact, it must be resolved if Jesus is to have any kind of meaningful future.
What made Jesus the Son of God was the fact that he achieved God-consciousness. Jesus said
as much when he declared that "the Father and I are one." He knew no separation between his
thoughts and God's thoughts, his feelings and God's feelings, his actions and the actions God wanted.
But my attachment to Jesus is more personal, too. It dates from my childhood, when I heard
Christian prayers at the Catholic school I attended and Vedic chants at home. I was encouraged to
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respect every faith. In my circle of friends one could run over to a Christian house for Christmas without
feeling strange, just as we ran to a Muslim or Parsi house for their feasts and holy observances.
In the ferment of change, there resides an opening for Jesus’ radical vision to be renewed.
Spirit, like water, remains fresh only if it flows. No one is an outsider who wishes to make Jesus
central to his or her spiritual path, and no one should pay lip service to Jesus’ words while guilt, pain,
and suffering continue to go unhealed.
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What would Jesus Do? (Last Chapter, first 2.5 pages)
Excerpts
I could not conclude a book about Jesus without delving into the social crisis that Christianity
currently faces. Not just in America but around the world, the faith has been hijacked by movements
that violate Jesus’ teaching even as they proclaim they are defending it.
A religion of love has moved alarmingly in the direction of hatred, although outright hatred
may not be preached from the pulpit. What is preached is self-righteous intolerance.
Recently I saw a television news feature on a new movement in education, Christian law
schools. They are teaching students that criminal and civil law is rooted in God's (biblical)
commandments. In the news feature a recent graduate of one of these Christian law schools was interviewed on camera, who said, "I believe in absolute truth. Not in gray or relative truth. Absolute truth is
where “God's” word is."
Other new graduates spoke confidently of "God's word" being the ultimate basis of the law in all
times and places. This cadre of young Christian lawyers is ambitious, intent on overturning gay rights
and legal abortion, reaching into stem cell research, school prayer, and beyond.
Has anyone told them that God's word (that is, the Bible) is explicitly out of bounds in a secular
state, or that God has faces other than Christian? They have been betrayed by elders who assure them
that "God's word" endorses reactionary politics.
When we read headlines about gay bashing and violent attacks on abortion clinics, the media
are careful not to draw a direct line to fundamentalist dogma, but that is a mere formality.
This trend may eventually cripple Christianity. They equate taking the Bible literally with
being a good Christian, despite the mountain of evidence that Jesus’ teachings have been muddled,
obscured, altered, corrupted (by his followers) and lost over the centuries.
Attempts to return to the pure origin of Christianity are doomed. The irony behind these crises
is revealed by the slogan “What would Jesus do?” It has become familiar on bumper stickers and in
presidential races. The novelty of the slogan has worn off, yet countless Christians (and not just
fundamentalists) use “What would Jesus do?” as their moral touchstone.
On the most hotly debated social issues that now split Christianity, the gospels provide no
clear resolution. In fact, the bitter conflict over such issues as gay rights and abortion is only made
worse by referring these tough moral choices to Jesus.
If anyone is serious about asking "What would Jesus do?" the first question to ask is, "What
would Jesus do about the mess that Christianity finds itself in?"
(Remaining 12 pages of this Chapter dealing with specific issues of abortion, gay marriage, etc., have
been omitted)
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(1b) - Introduction, Summary, & Views by VCT
Humans have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty, torture and mass murder throughout
history. It is easier to maintain a clear conscience by ignoring what is going on if you and your country
have nothing to do with the wars, atrocities and genocide.
This not the case for Americans since the end of the WWII, as the US is responsible for invading
and the massive carpet bombing (which involves almost no US casualties) of several nations for years
on end because of perceived threats from communists and terrorists. “Collateral Damage” is not an
excuse when the enemy does not have military power or weapons of mass destruction or the means to
invade and attack the US.
The wars and bombings by the US since WWII in Asia and the Middle East (all initiated by the
US) are being justified by Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Christian Conservatives (RWEFCC) in
America, based on the God of the Old Testament Bible (OTB) and Revelations in New Testament both
of which have nothing to do with, in fact contradicts, the teachings of Jesus.
The US enemy since WWII has always been “non-Christian” and “non-European”.
The threat of the US being attacked by communist Korea and Vietnam (small weak countries)
was no more than that of being attacked by the Soviet Union and China. Korea and Vietnam were
invaded and subjected to 4 years and 10 years of US aerial bombing & ground war using modern
weapons of destruction.
About 20 people were responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York
City (NYC) in September 2001. The US response was to invade attack and bomb Muslim countries
almost continuously since September 11, 2001 (9-11). Muslim countries were put through death and
suffering. Muslim countries were the strongest US allies until the end of the cold war (1990) and they
were armed by the US during this period.
Indiscriminately destroying everyone and everything in Muslim countries is not justified in
retaliation for the bombing of the WTC-NYC on 9-11-2001 by about 20 individuals.
Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Conservative Christians (RWEFCC) are the most zealous
supporters of US wars since WWII. “American Christian Zionism” justifies war against Muslims based
on the Old Testament Bible (OTB) and last book of the New Testament Bible (NTB), Revelations.
RWEFCC people believe Armageddon is imminent since Israel has been created by God again in
1948 by destroying Palestine and eradicating Palestinians from their homeland. The Second Coming
of Christ and “Rapture” (when they will be swept into heaven by Jesus) depends on it.
RWEFCC people are responsible for wars, bombing & genocide and for generating hatred of
others (Muslims). RWEFCC people think that Muslims are the Ant-Christ, Satan and God’s enemies.
Before they included Zionism, worshipping Jews, Israel and Jerusalem into their “Christian”
religion, RWEFCC people were for slavery and racism. The Jesus they worship is a tall, handsome,
Nordic person. What if Jesus was a short, ugly, black man? What if people in Central Africa hand
converted to Judaism 1,000 years ago instead Eastern Europeans and took over Palestine?
Anyone who shows compassion for the less fortunate and calls for public government funding to
help them is “unpatriotic”, “un-American”, “liberal” and “un-Christian” according to RWEFCC people.
Compassion and help for the less fortunate now falls under the evils of communism, socialism,
liberalism, secularism, atheism and humanism according to RWEFCC people.
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Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Palestine and Zionism
Can God’s “Word” in Deuteronomy be used in US courts to justify the stronger and betterarmed White Aryan Eastern Europeans (who imagine they are descendants of dark-skinned slaves in
Egypt) throwing the weaker Semitic Palestinians out of their ancestral homes and then branding them
as genocidal terrorists when they fight back by throwing stones and home-made bombs?
Will the US courts agree that Hindus from India are entitled to expel or slaughter all Europeans
in Europe (assuming they have the military power to do this without any risk to themselves) because
their ancient religious texts said so? Can anyone in the US (or anywhere in the world) legally steal
other people’s property by armed robbery and mass murder? This is how Israel was created in 1948.
The Israel that Moses created around 1500 BC (also by armed robbery and mass murder) ceased
to exist around 1000 BC. Palestinians have lived in Palestine even before Moses. Most “Christian”
Americans do not seem to know that the entire region was Palestine for 3,000 years until 1948.
At the time of Christ 2000 years ago, the region was Palestine. RWEFCC people in the US think
that Israel has existed forever because that is impression you get by reading the Old Testament Bible.
Even if Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe can prove that they are pure genetic descendants
of Semitic Jews from Egypt and Palestine, they have no right to go back there after 2000 years and
slaughter the present inhabitants or drive them out of their ancestral homes, because of the Holocaust
committed by Europeans against other Europeans.
Are the Jews in Israel and the US obeying God's other commandments, such as stoning women
to death if they commit adultery and isolating them as unclean when they are having their menstrual
period? Are homosexuals and atheists (most Jews tend to be atheists because of their high intelligence)
being stoned to death? Are children born out of wedlock (bastards) and their descendants for ten
generations being condemned as social outcasts? Are parents of disobedient teenagers stoning them to
death because of God’s commandments?
Can these laws of God be enforced in US courts (or any country in the world) today?
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Creation of Israel in 1948
Christian Zionism: by Donald Wagner.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4959.htm
“The Ashkenazim played a crucial role in the setting up of the State of Israel, inasmuch as a
group of them, formed in 1896 and calling themselves ‘Zionists’, were responsible for formulating the
concept of such a State. This was basically a secular, atheistic group.”
“The State of Israel was subsequently set up in 1948 by the Zionists, under the leadership of
the Russian-born David Ben-Gurion (another atheist) who immigrated to Palestine in 1906.”
The very term “atheist” means disbelief in any “God”’ and/or “religion”. Hence, an atheist
cannot consider himself or herself a Jew in the strictly religious sense of the term. Here we have Ben
Gurion himself, in his address to a special session of the Knesset in 1971, saying that:
“An Arab can be Muslim or Christian. A Jew, however, cannot be a member of another faith
and still be a Jew. A Jew can be an atheist, but if he or she adopts the Christian or Muslim faith then he
or she is no longer a Jew”.
To quote Rabbi E. Weissfish: “The Zionist ideology has no connection whatsoever with
Judaism, on the contrary Judaism is totally opposed to Zionism.”
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Eradication of Historical Palestine in the Name of God
Palestinians are never going to get their country back from the European invaders and
conquerors because of the almighty USA. Peace negotiations will not even include an apology to the
Palestinians for the atrocities committed against them. There will be no financial compensation to
Palestinians for the theft of their ancestral homeland.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Justification: Old Testament Bible & Revelations.
The Palestinians will have to accept a small part of unwanted land (the Gaza strip) with no
religious significance (the RWEFCC people will not let them go back to the so-called Christian holy lands),
with no compensation for their country that was taken by armed robbery.
Once all the Palestinians who have been living in Palestine for thousands of years have been
eradicated from Palestine, and all the Jews (of European origin who are not descendants of Jacob and
have no genetic connection to Palestine) of the world have moved to Israel, then we can expect
“Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.”
No matter what solution is imposed on the Palestinians by threats, punishment, and bribes, the
basis for the creation of Israel (armed robbery and theft by Eastern Europeans) will never go away. It is
based on God’s orders in Deuteronomy which gave Jews possession of “Palestinian” land in 1500 BC.
In 1948, Europeans who made themselves descendants of Jacob and God's only chosen people
destroyed Palestinians and Palestine to create a nation called Israel because of the Holocaust.
The fact will always remain that Israel as a nation was created by armed robbery and mass
murder for racial and religious reasons by non-Semitic people (Eastern Europeans) who have no
historical or genetic or ancestral connection to that region (Palestine).
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Religious Alliances against Islam
The entire Christian Bible is Jewish.
The Old Testament Bible (OTB) is about an angry, vengeful, violent, narcissistic, homophobic,
and racist God who created the world in six days about 6,000 years ago and chose Jews as his only
special people. The OTB is historically bad mythology, scientifically impossible and absolutely ridiculous.
The New Testament Bible (NTB excluding Revelations) is about a loving, caring, compassionate,
forgiving and charitable God and He is the God of all people. The supernatural events in the NTB cannot
be proved wrong today although they are scientifically impossible. The disciples of Jesus were prepared
to undergo extreme hardships and torturous deaths only after they witnessed the Resurrection. This is
the only proof that we have about the supernatural nature of Jesus and should follow his way of life.
Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Conservative Christians (RWEFCC) are today the
strongest supporters of Jews and Israel although to be a Jew you have to categorically reject Jesus as a
fraud. RWEFCC people worship Jews and Israel and ignore the life and teachings of Jesus. The word
“Christian” in Fellowship of Christians and Jews refers to RWEFCC people who exist in the US only and
that too as a small minority of US Christians.
Hindus and Jews have also formed close social and spiritual alliances although the God of the
OTB wants his only chosen people to kill people who worship other gods and destroy their idols and
religious sites. The Muslims did just that during 1,000 years of political and military domination in India.
Jews, Christians and Muslims supposedly believe in the one and only true God. There is no
difference between the OTB God of Jews and Muslims, but there is a difference between the OTB God
and the NTB Christian God described by Jesus.
So we have Jewish-Christian alliances and Jewish-Hindu alliances but not a Jewish-Islamic
alliance or a Christian alliance. These alliances have nothing to do with Christianity, but are based on
political interests and hatred only. Israel appears to be the source of all this evil.
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Using the Media to Control the Minds of Americans
One way to misinform the public is to report and exaggerate your side of the story, ignore and
hide large-scale acts of evil by your side, and over-emphasize and twist isolated and desperate acts of
retaliation from the other side. That way, a person can tell enormous lies without ever lying.
The Russian and Chinese suppression of protests in Chechnya and Xinjiang caused thousands of
deaths but this is not news because it does not affect Israel. The massacres in Cambodia, Rwanda and
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Justification: Old Testament Bible & Revelations.
Sudan are not news in the US because they do not affect Israel. But the June 2009 Iran elections (which
involved no deaths) is news and condemned by the US media.
The Nazis were masters of this strategy and they convinced most of central Europe through the
media that Jews were undermining the nation by controlling the financial world. The Nazi crimes were
hidden by controlling the media. The US and the rest of the world were also responsible for the
Holocaust by not reporting the Nazi crimes.
Britain entered WWII in late 1939 because of its treaty with Poland. The US entered the war
because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941. The Soviet Union entered when it was
attacked despite a treaty with the Nazis. Their decisions had nothing to do with the torture and
extermination of Jews in Europe. Nobody cared about the tiny, insignificant religious minority of Jews,
just as they do not care about the Palestinians today because the US public is brainwashed with
selective reporting by the media.
This shows what one-sided media reporting of world events can accomplish. The pen is mightier
than the sword. The US media's reports of the situation in the Middle East are examples of clever,
manipulative, selective reporting.
Arabs and Muslims do not hate Americans and their prosperity. They hate the USA and Israel
for bombing, robbing, and humiliating them. Wealthy, Western-educated suicide terrorists from Saudi
Arabia are not jealous of U.S. prosperity as reported by the U.S. media. Their affluent lifestyles depend
on it. The World Trade Center (WTC) suicide bombers belonged to this class of people. Suicide attacks
by young Muslim men are not because they expect seventy-two virgins when they arrive in Heaven as
reported by the pro-Israeli U.S. media. They are incensed at the injustice in Palestine and the
hopelessness of trying to get justice because of the U.S.A. only. No other nation stands in their way
for achieving justice. Non-bombing nations in the world are not afraid of these so-called “Islamic
Terrorists”. None of this is mentioned in the US media.
The media has convinced Americans (except intelligent independent thinkers who do not
include RWEFCC people) that Muslims hate Americans and that they are all evil.
The U.S. media (the serious newspapers, magazines, and television reporting) are now owned
mainly by immigrant European Askenazi Jews who continue to maintain their separate identity.
Today, no politician in the US can win an election unless he or she agrees with their occupation
of Palestine and ignores the crimes committed against the Palestinians.
Politicians must compete with each other in praising Israel in order to get elected. In fact, the
election campaign and the winners depend on who can do the best job of satisfying the Jewish and
RWEFCC lobbies in Congress and who can come up with the best rhetoric about admiring Israel and
condemning Palestinians.
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The Logic of U.S. Wars
The nearly trillion tax dollars per year spent on WMD and wars could be spent on improving the
lives of under-privileged people (mainly non-White) but it would be un-Christian to spend the money
helping the wrong type of people.
During the 1950s and thru 1980s the US promoted anti-communist paranoia and hysteria
around the world and tried to persuade countries to join the US with military treaties to defend against
and attack communist countries. Communism in Asia was the result of wealthy, privileged, and corrupt
minority exploiting the vast uneducated majority. Communism promised to reverse the situation.
The U.S. wars for freedom from communism in Korea and Vietnam occurred when there was
segregation and discrimination in the US against non-whites, which include Koreans and Vietnamese.
The Muslim countries were the strongest supporters of U.S. military alliance against
communism from 1950 to 1990, when communism dissolved because it was a failure.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Justification: Old Testament Bible & Revelations.
These included SEATO (South East Treaty Organization or Manila Pact - US, Pakistan-Bangladesh,
Philippines) and CENTO (Central Treaty Organization – Baghdad Pact - US, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey). In
Europe it was NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Afghanistan was attacked after supporting them with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in
their ten year insurgence against communist Soviet occupation. Iraq was attacked after supporting them
with WMD in their eight year war with Iran.
In the 1980s, Iraq was armed by the US during their eight-year war against Iran and
Afghanistan was armed by the US during ten-year insurgency against occupation by the Soviet Union.
Old WMD are sold inexpensively to arms dealers friendly to U.S. causes, who resell them to
rebels, revolutions and insurgents in other countries. The WMD industry in the U.S. is privately owned,
and a vital part of the US economy. The customer is the US taxpayer and the profits of these private
companies are large and guaranteed.
Iraq was duped into invading Kuwait by the US in order to fabricate excuses for bombing it
(Saddam Hussein was sure of support from its US ally and WMD supplier in its war against Iran). This
resulted in the US bombing and killing the 100,000 Iraqi troops retreating from Kuwait.
The U.S. propaganda after the Iraq war against Iran was that Iraq had vast quantities of
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that were all provided by the US. The excuse for bombing
Afghanistan was the September 11, 2001 attack on World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City
(NYC). The WTC attackers were young, idealistic Muslim suicide bombers from Saudi Arabia and Egypt
and not Iraq and Afghanistan.
The strategy for first bombing and then safely occupying Iraq and Afghanistan was to limit US
casualties. The US realized that first occupying and then bombing, as in the case with Korea (40,000
deaths) and Vietnam (60,000 deaths), is a mistake and resulted in a high number of U.S. casualties.
By contrast, US deaths in Iraq have been about 4,000 and in Afghanistan about 2,000,
compared to millions of civilian “enemy” lives destroyed by the US with aerial bombing.
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What Did Jesus Look Like?
From science and computers, a new face of Jesus
By Jeordan Legon CNN
Thursday, December 26, 2002 Posted: 9:45 AM EST (1445 GMT)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/index.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282186.html
Palestinians, not Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews, are the true Semitic people and the
descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (if they ever existed).
They have always lived there, even before Moses (who did not look like Charlton Heston in
MGM's The Ten Commandments) led the Jews (who did not look like Norwegians as shown in the movie)
from slavery in Egypt across the Red Sea on foot and into Palestine, where they obeyed God by killing
the people there, showing them no mercy, and stealing their land. Christianity was founded at the
crossroads of Asia, Europe, and Africa. The Apostle Philip preached to Ethiopians. Descendants of
slaves in Egypt should at least look like Egyptians and not Scandinavians.
The European images of the people in the Bible were created by the people of Europe in the
past because they did not know what the people in Egypt looked like. The images of Buddha in Pacific
Asia were created to look like them because they did not know what people in Northern India looked
like where Buddha lived 2,500 years ago.
The European racial self-images of Christ have made Christianity unacceptable in Asia, where
religious philosophy is older than they are in Europe.
Jesus looked like the average Palestinian or Egyptian of today and did not look like the images
that European Christians worship. Ashkenazi Jews are Eastern Europeans who converted to Judaism
1,000 years ago. If Jesus came as a humble and impoverished man representing the under-privileged,
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Justification: Old Testament Bible & Revelations.
down-trodden, poor and less fortunate people on earth, then he would not also come as a tall, strong
and handsome man, warrior or king. This is why the Jews rejected him as the Messiah.
In 1858 a fourteen-year-old peasant girl (now St. Bernadette) in France claimed she saw the
Blessed Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Lourdes) in an apparition and that Mother Mary spoke to her. In 1917,
three shepherd children in Portugal claimed they saw the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Fatima). Our Lady of
the Rosary is also sometimes used to refer to this apparition.
When the Virgin Mary appeared before these children, she looked exactly like, and dressed in
the same clothes, portrayed in the Catholic paintings and statues of the Virgin Mary.
What if the population of Central Africa had converted to Judaism in the ninth century instead
of Russians north of the Caucuses region? Would these racist Christians support their conquest of
Palestine by black Africans because they are Jews? Would the Bible-Belt Christians be Christians if
Christ and the Jews were black?
These Christians are worshipping a tall, handsome, Northern European-looking idol of Jesus,
not the spiritual message of Jesus which includes non-violence under all circumstances.
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Christians for Wars, Bombing and Genocide
The United States most likely has been responsible, since WWII, for the deaths of between 20and 30- million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world. This includes indirect deaths
from the chaos caused by wars. - James. Lucas “Deaths in Other Nations since WW II Due To US
Interventions” (http://www.countercurrents.org/lucas240407.htm)
Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Conservative Christian (RWEFCC) people love and glorify
the military, as exemplified for example in “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. American Christianity
starts with slavery followed by segregation and discrimination and now bombing small, non-Christian
and non-White nations. Examples: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
American Christians are unforgiving and vengeful. An example is the Boycott of Cuba since Fidel
Castro took over Cuba in 1961. The boycott is still ongoing because Castro is still alive but the US has
diplomatic and trade relations with communist China and Vietnam.
The objectives of the “U.S. Christians for wars, bombing & genocide” since WWII are (a) to
maintain the profitable “Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD” industry and (b) to support Israel by
eradicating Palestinians from their ancestral homeland.
Until 1961 Cuba was for the privileged, until communist leaning Fidel Castro took over. It is the
so-called “Christian” mission to boycott, isolate, and starve the tiny neighboring island of Cuba whereas
it is okay to have communist China as the biggest trading partner and to open up trade with communist
Vietnam after a ten-year with the country.
The US never considered attacking the source of communism, which would be the Soviet Union
and China, but it was the so-called “Christian duty” to attack small and weak countries like North
Korea and North Vietnam.
U.S. wars in the Middle East are to support Israel (to hasten Armageddon and enable the Second
Coming of Christ) by dismantling Muslim countries. Israel was created by invading Europeans who
originated in Russia (Ashkenazis) and who converted to Judaism about 1,000 years ago and then spread
to the rest of Europe. Since there is no more communists to attack and kill, RWEFCC people are now
Zionists and believe in eradicating Palestine and Palestinians.
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Christian Zionism
See: http://www.christianzionism.org/
The sermons of RWEFCC preachers almost always include references to Armageddon and the
Second Coming of Christ as predicted in Revelations.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Justification: Old Testament Bible & Revelations.
The message is that Armageddon is going to happen any day now because the prophecies in the
Bible are being fulfilled. Israel was been created again in 1948. Jerusalem was conquered in 1967. The
evil Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim people exist today as the Egyptians did during the first creation of
Israel in 1500 BC. They are threatening to take back their stolen property, which has been renamed
Israel. The Anti-Christs, such as the President of Iran, are turning all over the Muslim world. Such a
narrative creates a dire sense of urgency and panic among the preacher’s flocks of sheep.
The only possible snag might be that six million wealthy and politically powerful Jews in the US
will not move to Israel and convert to the RWEFCC brand of Christianity. Armageddon cannot happen
because Ashkenazi Jews are not descendants of Jacob, therefore not Jews and do not belong in Israel.
The end of the so-called “Communism Threat” had to be replaced by another so-called
“Imaginary Threat” to support the WMD industry. The World Trade Center (WTC) bombing by about
twenty amateur, idealistic Muslims that killed about 3,000, as revenge for bombing Iraq (a Muslim
country) and US support for Israel, was the excuse for fabricating the “Terrorism Threat”. This imaginary
threat comes from Muslim countries and Muslims only.
Christian Zionism began after WWII in 1948, when Israel was created by a race of Eastern
Europeans with absolutely no genetic, historical, or ancestral connection to Palestine. Christian Zionists
believe that the Eastern European tribe who appeared from nowhere, about 1,000 years ago is now
God’s “only chosen people”. Christian Zionism does not exist anywhere else in the Christian world
except the USA.
Ancient Israel was also created by God by theft and genocide. The inhabitants in the region
(Palestine) were eradicated by God, who replaced them with his only chosen people (slaves in
Egypt). Ancient Israel ceased to exist hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. The region was
Palestine during the life of Christ.
The creation of Israel in 1948 was compensation for 1,000 years of discrimination against
“European converts to Judaism” by other “Christian Europeans” culminating in the Holocaust.
Semitic “Arab Muslims” (Palestinians, Egyptians) had nothing to do with it. Muslim Palestinians
in their ancestral homeland had to be punished for the crimes (Holocaust) committed by European
Christians in Europe – well somebody (just anybody except the perpetrators) had to be punished.
Eastern European, non-Semitic, so-called “Jews” who converted to Judaism a 1,000 years ago,
who had just suffered the Holocaust had no shame in turning around and committing the same
atrocity against a Semitic people (Palestinians) who had nothing to do with the Holocaust.
The creation of Israel in 1948 by attacking, killing, eradicating, and removing Palestinians from
Palestine and then replacing them with Eastern Europeans is considered by Christian Zionists to be an
act of God. God created ancient Israel in the same way by ethnic cleansing, genocide and theft.
Almost the entire media in the US (and therefore the minds of almost all Americans) is now
controlled by two percent of the U.S. population. U.S. Middle East policy is made in Israel.
As mentioned above, no one can now get elected U.S. president or elected to the U.S. Senate
and Congress without first paying homage to Israel. During the 2012 presidential elections both Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney went to Israel and did just that.
All Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Conservative Christians (RWEFCC) seem to agree on
every topic under the sun. It is supposed to prove that they were all independently inspired by
God. What they conclude is what God wants.
God wants us to “nuke” Iran. God has also told them that in order to create Israel, all
Palestinians have to be eradicated from Palestine and replaced by Eastern Europeans who converted in
the ninth century. They all agree that this is absolutely necessary to enable the Second Coming of
Christ, as stated in Revelations.
RWEFCC people will make sure Palestinians will never get justice and that the crime against
them is eternal.
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Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Expediting the Second Coming of Jesus Christ
The self-righteous RWEFCC people believe all Palestinians have to be thrown out of their
homeland or slaughtered (as ordered by God in Deuteronomy) where they have lived since the
beginning of history so Europeans pretending to be Jews can return to the so-called “Promised Land”
and thus fulfill the Biblical prophecy in Revelations.
Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ can happen only after all Jews (now
descendants of Eastern Europeans who converted in the ninth century who have no relation to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) have returned to the newly created “Promised Land of Israel” that God
went through the trouble of creating again in 1948.
All the RWEFCC ministries and their pastors believe in expanding the present borders of Israel by
getting rid of all Palestinians and Arabs in that region. This has to be done before we can have
Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.
They are doing everything they can to expedite the event. They all claim that they got all this
information directly from God and independently of each other. So it has to be true. It actually proves
collusion and their dishonesty because scientifically the so-called “end of the world” is impossible.
Since the Gulf war and the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has terrorized and destroyed the lives
of millions of people in Muslim countries, including children, with years of aerial bombing. The
amateurish retaliation called “terrorism” by a handful of so-called “terrorists” using homemade bombs
is insignificant in comparison.
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God’s “Game Plan”
Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Conservative Christians (RWEFCC) have already
figured out all the details of God’s so-called “Game Plan” for the world and how to end the world and
his creation as prophesized in Revelations.
So far, everything has gone according to plan. The history of the world and the details of every
life have been prophesized in the Old Testament Bible and Revelations in the New Testament.
God created Adam and Eve, kicked them out of Garden of Eden for eating apples, created his
specially chosen people called Jews, created Israel for them by killing and getting rid of people already
living there, and helped Jews defeat their enemies (the people they hate and whose land and property
they want to steal).
The so-called “prophets” have read the plan and predict the arrival of Jesus to save God’s only
chosen people and that he will be crucified by God’s only chosen people. Revelations predicts
Armageddon (the end of the world) and the Second Coming of Jesus in Jerusalem, Israel. Israel (which
had ceased to exist about 1,000 years before Christ) was re-created in 1948 in preparations for the
Second Coming of Christ.
This is where RWEFCC people take over from God to start Armageddon and to enable the
“Second Coming of Christ.” They claim that the Holocaust was a part of God’s plan to force Jews (who
are no longer Jews but Europeans who converted in the ninth century) to attack Palestine, get rid of the
Palestinians, and create Israel again in 1948. The Nazis were only following God’s plans.
Capturing Jerusalem in 1967 shows the step-by-step progress of this holy divine plan of
God. The next step is to remove all Palestinians from the Gaza strip and the “Occupied Territories.”
There is still a lot of work left to be done to complete the drawings and specifications in God’s
plans. God has contracted with RWEFCC people to execute the plan.
Muslims have been assigned to play on the “Other Team” which is going to be annihilated.
The Devil has been drafted by the RWEFCC people to be the Muslim team’s coach, manager, and
owner. RWEFCC people have been assigned the responsibility for starting a nuclear war between
Muslims and Christians.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Justification: Old Testament Bible & Revelations.
Only Pakistan has nuclear weapons at the moment, and they have no means to use them except
against India. All Muslim nations, like Iraq and Iran, have therefore been declared to be getting weapons
of mass destruction soon, including nuclear and chemical weapons. The Muslims and Muslim nations
have to be destroyed by the US with pre-emptive nuclear strikes. The US taxpayer will be paying for
carrying out these plans of God.
The US will be rewarded by God for its sacrifice and investment. Genesis 12:3 states, “I will
bless those who bless you (Israel), and the one who curses you I will curse.”
(Contact RWEFCC preachers for more details of God’s future genocidal plans)
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American Christianity
Since World War II (1939 to 1946), the US has gone to war in Korea and Vietnam to fight
communism and ensure that their governments are capitalistic and the countries have freedom. During
this period there was racial discrimination and segregation in the US.
Right Wing Evangelical Fundamentalist Conservative Christians (RWEFCC) are sure that God and
Jesus are capitalists.
According to the OTB, God is a capitalist and imperialist because he promises wealth for his
chosen people (only) and believes in royalty. In the NTB, God is a socialist and pacifist. The NTB does
not endorse capitalism, but the OTB does.
The OTB also endorses racism with the assertion that Jews are God’s only chosen people and
endorsing the killing of non-Jews just to steal from them.
The NTB actually preaches socialism as demonstrated by the lives of Jesus and the early
Christians, but RWEFCC people in the US have made capitalism the official economic doctrine of
Christianity. Government help for the disadvantaged is un-Christian socialism.
Experiments during the last fifty years have proved that capitalism, individual entrepreneurship,
and competition create better economic conditions for everyone than socialism. The efficiency of
people working for themselves is greater than a bureaucrat’s efficiency when working for the
government.
There will still be an under-privileged minority that cannot depend on charity from the
privileged majority. Anyone who shows compassion for the less fortunate and calls for public
government funding to help them is a “liberal” or an evil person according to RWEFCC people.
This compassion and help for the less fortunate now falls under the evils of liberalism,
secularism, and humanism. People who try to help others who are less fortunate are seen as
unpatriotic Americans and un-Christian by RWEFCC people.
RWEFCC people are well-off but do nothing, not even support legislation, to improve the
miserable lives of those who already exist in the US because doing so would be socialism and therefore
un-Christian and un-American.
RWEFCC people advocate spending $500 billion per year on the military and weapons of mass
destruction. They support the massive bombing of small, weak nations because there might be a
handful of angry teenaged terrorists there. They are in favor of guns (including machine guns) being
available for everyone.
They are for hunting and killing animals for pleasure and entertainment. They believe in wars
and the death penalty. They are against abortion
Those who disagree with the RWEFCC people on their doctrines (that have nothing to do with
the life and teachings of Jesus) are considered to be evil, unpatriotic, un-Americans and un-Christian.
Jesus did not mention politics, economics, government and how humans should have sexual
intercourse, but the God of the OTB does (Leviticus). The message of Jesus is purely spiritual and about
love, compassion, forgiveness, and charity.
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Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Selling Christianity for Money (The Jesus Industry)
Right-Wing Fundamentalist Conservative Christian ministries, like all religious organizations,
depend on donations from their followers. This is not like regular tax income or dependable sales
income from a stable business enterprise.
Religion is an imaginary and invisible product that no one really needs. Therefore, the sales
pitch asking for money has to be repeated constantly for religious organizations to survive.
RWEFCC pastors are good business entrepreneurs and entertainers. They would be financially
successful, may be even more so, in real commercial and industrial businesses because of their
personalities and their business, communication, marketing, and sales skills. They could be successful
politicians, but there is no money to be made in that racket except through bribes.
The pastors in some RWEFCC churches make fortunes from selling Christianity. Their sermons
consist of asking their “flock of sheep” for money for their missions, saying that God will reward the
donors with greater financial wealth in this life if they donate money to their ministries.
They show pictures of destitute children in the underdeveloped world. Only a small percentage
of the donations go to the people who are supposed to get the money. The rest of it goes toward
expenses (mainly salaries), which includes the preacher’s CEO-level salary.
The OTB God does promise wealth to those who admire him (actually Jews only). For example,
in the OTB, God gives immense power and wealth to King David, King Solomon, and other Jewish leaders
for worshipping and praising him.
If you worship and praise God and keep telling him over and over again how great he is and
what a miserable wretch you are in comparison, like King David did in Psalms, then God will shower you
with political and military power, material wealth in this world and also women for sexual enjoyment.
The RWEFCC pastors keep reminding their flocks that they too can become rich this way, by
contributing to God and Jesus through their ministries. The pastors get to keep a hefty commission.
Compare all this with the life of Jesus Christ in the New Testament Bible and that of his
disciples after his crucifixion.
This commentary is against a few Zionist TV Christian pastors. There is little money to be made
selling religion locally in churches, and the majority of Christian pastors dedicate their lives for a small
income. Church attendance is diminishing (in the UK it is about five percent now).
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Living the Christian Life in America
In the 1950s and 1960s, church-going Americans went to war in Korea and Vietnam to fight for
freedom and justice while non-whites, particularly African-Americans, were treated.
Before they abandoned Vietnam in chaos after ten years of bombing, they carpet bombed
Cambodia continuously with cluster bombs for months because enemy supplies were supposedly
coming from there. Bombing from 50,000 feet up in the air does not result in US casualties.
Cambodia and most of the people including children were crippled, and the chaos produced Pol
Pot, who murdered another 2 million of his own people in a civil war. The US is responsible for these
murders by Pol Pot and other local people who grew up with death, destruction, misery, and chaos
created by church-going American Christians.
The RWEFCC (who were not evangelicals in the 1950s and 1960s because they were racists at
that time) supported these bombings as the right thing to do. Most churches in the US (particularly the
Christian Bible-Belt South) were segregated then.
If blacks tried to enter these churches they would be dragged out, lynched, and hung by a rope
from the branch of a tree. Prior to this, these Christians captured blacks in Africa, packed them like
canned sardines in the cargo areas of slave ships, and shipped them to the Americas to be used as
beasts of burden or property as slaves.
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RWEFCC people have gone through a dramatic change regarding racism. They now follow the
teachings of Christ. But they are now preaching the carpet bombing of Muslim nations from their church
pulpits because of God’s orders in Deuteronomy and prophecies in Revelations.
RWEFCC people do not seem to be able to mind their own business. They are not happy
unless they are at war attacking, killing, and humiliating people whom they have decided are “evil
people.” Condemning people is their job as good Christians.
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American Christianity in Action
During the Cold War, the Right Wing Fundamentalist Conservative Christian (RWEFCC) people
were the most extreme supporters of spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year on the military to
defend the capitalist system. The life of Christ was anything but materialistic.
Today they would like to see this military spending continue insulting, humiliating, and
subjugating Arabs and Muslims everywhere (because they control the oil resources) and anyone else
who questions the morality of throwing the Palestinians out of their homeland and slaughtering them
with machine guns, tanks, jet fighters, and bombing.
Until the late 1960s, Christian fundamentalists in the southern Bible-Belt believed in segregating
and humiliating African Americans. Prior to that, they enforced black slavery and traded humans for
profit. The right wing Christian fundamentalists will fight any attempt to spend money on abolishing the
cycle of poverty in black and non-white America but find excuses to spend trillions of dollars to fight
communism and imaginary terrorists.
US intolerance, arrogance, injustice, bombing, and other abuses are responsible for creating
the handful of desperate and angry young men who resort to random attacks on innocent people in
the first place. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The best way to get rid of your enemies is by making them your friends (Love your enemies –
Jesus). You cannot bomb and torture people into becoming your friends.
RWEFCC people in America are now the most ardent supporters of getting all Palestinians out
of what is left of their homeland. Today they advocate bombing entire nations to pulp and slowly
starving and killing the populations there to protect the occupation of Palestine by Jews from Europe,
who are not truly Jews.
There is nothing in the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles that says Europeans pretending to be the
descendants of the Jacob can return to Palestine after 2,000 years. The God of the OTB did not say that
non-Semitic Ashkenazi Eastern Europeans can return to the Promised Land disguised as Jews.
RWEFCC people are supposedly obeying God's "Word" by attacking and destroying Muslim
nations to protect Israel. According to some Christian theologians of the ignorant Middle-Ages, God
removed the Jews from Palestine 2,000 years ago (there was no Israel then either) because they
rejected Christ.
RWEFCC people believe that the Holocaust was a part of God’s plans to force Jews to create
Israel in 1948 and to force them to move back to the “Promised Land.” This is to force Armageddon
and facilitate the Second Coming of Christ.
The Nazis were just God’s holy workers in carrying out his plans to persuade the Jews to create
and move to the “Promised Land”, just as Zionist Jews and Christians are carrying out the second stage
of God’s plans by getting rid of Palestinians from Palestine so as to enable the Second Coming of Christ.
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Prayer
Christian prayers and hymns imitate the words in the Old Testament. The words consist of
repeatedly saying to God “How great Thou art” and pointing out what miserable sinners humans are.
They expect God to reward them and grant them their wishes for “sucking up” to him. God
does reward David, Solomon and others with wealth and women for sex for doing this.
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Religious worship among RWEFCC people is more like political rallies. Their performances by at
least one preacher include instant healing of incurable diseases, making crippled people walk. The focus
is on the preacher and his sermon. The preacher does all the talking, and the masses seem to be
worshipping the preacher. Asking for money to keep the “ministry” going is part of the Gospel and
necessary. The prayer rallies also include expanding Israel.
When you pray to Jesus, you have to imagine a tall, handsome, Nordic, blue-eyed person with
blondish-brown hair (he was not bald) and a beard dressed in immaculaty clean robes.
He also has scars where the nails went thru his hands and feet. He doesn’t wear shoes so that
we can see the scars on his feet. You have to call him by the name Jesus. You cannot call him by any
other name such as Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, Charlie, or Scott. When you imagine God, you have
to remember that he was created in man’s image. He would be an older version of a White Northern
European (just like the Ashkenazi Jews. Why should non-White and non-European people believe in
this God and Jesus?
The sermons of the preachers almost always include the warning that “Armageddon and the
second coming of Christ” as predicted in Revelations. They create a dire sense of urgency and panic
among the masses. They believe that Armageddon is going to happen any day now because the
prophecies in the Bible are being fulfilled. Anti-Christ and Satan are turning up in Muslim countries.
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Traditional American Christianity
Jesus and his disciples lived in poverty. They did not crave and worship material wealth. Jesus
did not promise wealth and power as rewards for following him. The disciples were tortured and
murdered for believing Jesus.
Jesus preached rewards (without mention of wealth and power) in the next life and did not
guarantee success and wealth in this life if you followed his teachings. According to Jesus, it is easier
for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven.
Unlike in America, devout Christian fundamentalists in Europe today and elsewhere in the world
try to imitate the life of Christ and his disciples. The priests of Catholic and Orthodox churches are
celibate and recieve a bare sustenance income.
The pastors of traditional Protestant churches get a salary but do not get to decide the
percentage of the donations (or profit) that they can keep for themselves. They have families to
support. These pastors are not running their own private businesses.
Some Christians such as the Catholic Jesuits have made extreme lifetime sacrifices by helping
people living in wretched conditions, such as lepers no one else wants to go near. This sort of
commitment must require tremendous will power or one hundred percent belief in Christ, as
demonstrated by the lives of the Disciples of Christ after they witnessed the Resurrection.
RWEFCC people have slowly taken away the members of the traditional Catholic, Orthodox,
and Protestant churches with their promises of prosperity.
How many of the followers of the RWEFCC preachers are contributing to their ministries
because of the underlying promise in all their messages of financial prosperity?
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Origin of Ashkenazi Jews – 1800 AD Who is a Jew?
According to the God of the Old Testament (OT), a Jew is a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob by their Jewish wives only. Their children by other women (concubines who outnumbered their
Jewish wives) are not Jews.
Abraham’s son Isaac born of his Jewish wife Sarah is a Jew. His son Ishmael born of one of his
non-Jewish concubines is not a Jew. The twelve sons (not daughter Dinah) of Jacob are Jews, but the
children of his twin brother Esau are not. King David and King Solomon had several wives and several
hundred concubines. Only their children by their Jewish wives are Jews. Jewish ancestry in the OTB is
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shown by the male lineage. There is no mention of the names of mothers of the male Jews. God is
genetically precise as to who can be his only chosen people.
A new believer of this religion can be created only by sexual reproduction. This is a race and
not a religion. You have to be a Jew by race to be admitted to modern Israel and become a citizen.
At the time of the first creation of Israel, the Jews were a Semitic race of people and were slaves
in Egypt. This region has a hot desert climate and is bordered by Sudan, Libya, and Israel. Ethiopia is
part of Bible territory. The Jews were therefore a dark-skinned people who looked like others in that
region whose descendants are the Egyptians and Palestinians of today.
Today, the term “Jewish race” means the Ashkenazi Europeans who are not Semitic and who have no
genetic, racial, or ethnic roots in Palestine or anywhere in the Middle East or close to it.
European Jews, who constitute a majority of Jews worldwide today, have their racial roots in the
Khazar region north of the Caucuses and are racially indistinguishable from White Europeans from all
parts of Europe. They are not a Semitic race. If the Ashkenazi Jews were to try to manually build the
pyramids today, they would die of skin cancer. Ashkenazi Jews are genetically of White, European,
Aryan origin and NOT of Semitic Middle Eastern origin.
In the 1950s, Jews from India had to prove their Jewish racial identity to enter Israel because
they were brown-skinned people like South Asians, Palestinians, and Egyptians.
There is no harm in Norwegians, Mongolians, or Nigerians believing that they are the pure racial
descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and that their ancestors are descendants of slaves in Egypt.
There is no harm in anyone pretending that they are a hundred percent pure descendants of
nine-legged apes from Pluto. But it is wrong to go back to Pluto after 2,000 years and kill the inhabitants
there and steal their property.
Muslims have not hated Jews, but Christians in Europe might have in the past because Jews
killed Jesus and Jews believe that Jesus is a fraud. Muslim terrorists do not hate Americans but they
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hate America’s support for Israel. Theoretically, you can make all the terrorists disappear by making
Israel disappear.
The creation of Israel was justified in 1948 because of the persecution of Jews in Christian
Europe. Both the Jews and Christians of Europe were European, not Semitic. The Palestinians, Arabs,
and Muslims had nothing to do with the persecution of Jews.
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Jews against Zionism
As with all issues when a person’s own life is not affected, not allf Jewish Americans (who have
taken control of the US media) are for whipping up this frantic hysteria to remove all Palestinians from
Palestine and create and expand the boundaries of Israel.
The six million Jews in America have traditionally been the most tolerant on racial and social
issues and were actively involved in correcting such injustices. They were the main opponents of the
unjustified wars in Korea and Vietnam.
Jews are still obsessed and paranoid about what was done to them by European
Christians. They were not mistreated by the Muslim Middle East because the ancestors of the
Ashkenazi Jews were never anywhere near the Middle East.
They now have to be paranoid about Muslims because of the creation of Israel.
Please view the following websites for details:
http://www.nkusa.org/ Jews United against Zionism
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/ Jews not Zionists
The solution (other than returning all of Palestine to the Palestinians) must include an apology
to the Palestinians and compensating them for the valuable (to Jews, Christians, and Muslims)
property that was stolen from them by armed robbery.
Because the US supports this theft, all Palestinians should be allowed to settle in the
US. Alternatively, exchange Jews in the US for Palestinians, because this has to be done sometime soon
anyway before Armageddon and Second Coming of Christ can happen.
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Anti-Semitism
The Jews were persecuted by European Christians for 1000 years ending with the
Holocaust. There was no anti-Semitism in Europe before then because Jews did not exist in Europe.
Theoretically there was actually no such thing as anti-Semitism after the ninth century because,
as noted above, the Jews from Europe (ninety percent of the Jews in the world) do not belong to the
Semitic race. These Jews were White Aryan Europeans, and their ancestry goes back to the region north
of the Caucuses when the people there converted in the ninth century. Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans
like other Europeans. They are not Semitic.
Israel’s definition of a Jew is someone with one Jewish grandparent. This has been applied for
1000 years by the inter-marriage of Jews in Europe. Except for the few Jews from India, the Middle East,
and North Africa, Israel is almost of totally occupied by Europeans (such Germans).
The prejudice, intolerance, and violence against Jews in Europe were based on ignorance of the
four Gospels. The semi-literate, ignorant, and primitive “Christians” in the Europe of the past did it
because Jews killed Jesus. Jesus and his disciples were Jews. Jews are therefore categorically rejecting
Christ as a fraud which many Christians in the ignorant past would have found offensive. Claiming to be
God’s only chosen people (besides being stupid) can also create prejudice.
European “Christians” have acted like this among themselves also. Heresy (detailed doctrine
that has nothing to do with the life and teachings of Jesus) was punished by torture and death as
prescribed by the OTB God. There were wars and mass murders between Catholics and Protestants
based on differences in opinion when interpreting the Bible. They have any idea about the life and
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teachings of Jesus. “Anti-Semitism” in Europe has declined with the decline of active Christianity there
since WWII. Most Europeans have rejected religion and accepted scientific reality (Atheism)
Christians and Muslims in the Middle East and India were never anti-Semitic because Jesus, his
family, and the Apostles were Jews. Arabs were never anti-Semitic because they are a hundred percent
Semitic themselves. Jews were not ill-treated by Muslims any more than Christians were. Muslims illtreated Hindus in India because they worshipped “other gods” and the God of the Jews (adopted by
Christians and Muslims) wants such people and their places of worship and idols should be destroyed.
The Muslims who ruled India for 1,000 years did not destroy Christian or Jewish religious sites.
European Christians hated Jews until 1948. Semitic Arab Muslims did not hate Jews until the
creation of Israel in 1948. It looks as if these non-Semitic people who imagine that they are Semitic
people are going to remain paranoid about anti-Semitism forever, and this time the anti-Semitism is
coming from real Semitic people.
Therefore, we have anti-Semitism from Semitic people prejudiced against non-Semitic people
who imagine they are Semitic people. The OTB God is responsible for this mess.
Hitler and the Nazis did not hate Jews because Jews killed Jesus (born a Jew). It could not have
been for racial reasons either because the differences between the Nazis and European Jews are
insignificant when we think of races today. There were other reasons such as envy, because of the
intellectual dominance and financial power of Jews. The median intelligence level of this Ashkenazi tribe
is higher than most other races and ethnic groups. For example, as just 2% of the US population, they
dominate almost fields – arts, sciences, industry, banking, finance, the media, and so on.
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The Holocaust
The Nazis were so arrogant and sure of their future that they filmed the torture, cruelty, and
mass murder of Jews in Europe. Their own records indicate the magnitude of the genocide. The
murders were committed directly at close range by individuals who saw the results of the killing. This
method of killing was true of wars until WWI.
This is unlike the U.S. and Israeli carpet bombing for years, which is only collateral damage
and the killers cannot see the people being killed and the devastation of lives and property.
There are still some White Right Wing extremists who deny the Holocaust. It is argued that there
were not that many Jews in Europe, that it would be impossible logistically to do away with that many
people given the time and facilities that the Nazis had. Even if the number is 600,000 (which is more
likely) rather than 6 million, the nature of the event is still a moral horror of mind-boggling
magnitude. The Nazis provided the records.
What makes the Holocaust the biggest horror in world history is because 6 million innocent,
unarmed people including children were systematically murdered as part of an organized government
plot. The number 6 million makes it the worst crime in history.
The Nazis had to go around Europe looking for Jews, and this was difficult because the Jews
looked racially just like themselves (Nazis). Initially, the Jews were shot one by one. Later, the Nazis
invented the gas chambers because the SS would get blood splattered on them when they shot the
Jews. The efficiency of this killing system was very low compared to years of non-stop carpet bombing of
countries by the US. According to the pictures, most people at the camps seemed to have died of
starvation and disease. About 60 million people died in Asia and Europe during WWII, most them
because of the chaos caused by the war. Ten percent cannot possibly be Jews.
There will always be a question about the number 6 million. There are Holocaust memorials in
Europe to constantly remind Europeans of their evil past. The Holocaust is being used as a cover to
commit another crime.
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(2) - OTB: God is Cruel, Unjust & Genocidal Maniac
Absurdities, Cruelty, Murder & Genocide By God
Richard Dawkins: The God of the Old Testament
(Repost with Bible verses that support Richard Dawkins' description of the Old Testament God.
Let me know if I've left out some good verses -- I started to poop out toward the end.) The God of the
Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,
unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic,
racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously
malevolent bully.
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A Jealous God
How jealous and proud is he? Well, his name is Jealous. And he named himself! For thou shalt
worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Exodus 34:14 Here are
some more verses where God brags about his jealousy.
I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation. Exodus 20:5
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even ajealous God. Deuteronomy 4:24
I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation. Deuteronomy 5:9
(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be
kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 6:15
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke
against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall
blot out his name from under heaven. Deuteronomy 29:20
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to
anger. Deuteronomy 32:16
He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. Joshua 24:19 And Judah
did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins. 1 Kings 14:22.
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted
me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the
door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provoketh to jealousy. Ezekiel 8:3
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up
mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of
jealousy in the entry. Ezekiel 8:5
I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee
blood in fury and jealousy. Ezekiel 16:38
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be
quiet, and will be no more angry. Ezekiel 16:42
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take
away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy
daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. Ezekiel 23:25
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Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen. Ezekiel 36:5
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Ezekiel 38:19 God is jealous, and the
LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; Nahum 1:2
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Zechariah 1:14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was
jealous for her with great fury. Zechariah 8:2
All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. Zephaniah 3:8
A Petty God
A golden bell and a pomegranate ... shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be
heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Exodus 28:34-35
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not
sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Leviticus 19:19
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish: for that
is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 17:1
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest
thyself. Deuteronomy 22:12
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the
congregation of the LORD. Deuteronomy 23:1
An Unjust God
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation.
Deuteronomy 23:2
If thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. Exodus 4:23
The LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of
beast. Exodus 13:15
I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth generation. Exodus 20:5
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers. Isaiah 14:21
See here for a list of Old Testament injustices.
An Unforgiving God
He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. Joshua 24:19
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear
them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. Jeremiah 11:14
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will
not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Jeremiah 14:12
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though
they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. Ezekiel 8:18
God is a Control-Freak
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe
to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall
come upon thee, and overtake thee: ...
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods (hemorrhoids), and
with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The LORD shall smite thee with
madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: ...
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Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: ... The LORD shall smite thee in
the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the
top of thy head. ...
Thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters ... The
tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the
ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and
toward her son, and toward her daughter,
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children
which she shall bear: for she shall eat them. Deuteronomy 28:15-68
A Vindictive God
I kill .. I wound ... I will render vengeance to mine enemies ... I will make mine arrows drunk with
blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. Deuteronomy 32:39-42
He will avenge the blood of his servants, vengeance to his enemies. Deuteronomy 32:43
To me belongeth vengeance and recompence ... for the day of their calamity is at hand.
Deuteronomy 32:35
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and his anger was kindled; and the fire
of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them. Nunbers 11:1
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by
the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: Jeremiah 11:22
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his
adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood.
Jeremiah 46:10
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
Micah 5:15
A Bloodthirsty God
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the
LORD. Leviticus 4:17 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters
Leviticus 26:29
I kill .. I wound ... I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh.
Deuteronomy 32:39-42 But God shall wound the head of his enemies ... That thy foot may be dipped in
the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. Psalm 68:21-23
For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath
utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be cast out, and
their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. Isaiah
34:2-3 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven. Isaiah 34:5
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, ... their land shall be soaked with blood, ... For it is the
day of the LORD's vengeance. Isaiah 34:7-8
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their
own blood, as with sweet wine. Isaiah 49:26 I will trample them in my fury; and their blood ... will stain
all my raiment. Isaiah 63:2-6
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they
shall eat every one the flesh of his friend. Jeremiah 19:9 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a
day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be
satiate and made drunk with their blood. Jeremiah 46:10
Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. Jeremiah 48:10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for
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you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ezekiel
39:17 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. Ezekiel 39:18
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have
sacrificed for you. Ezekiel 39:19 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men,
because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh
as the dung. Zephaniah 1:17
Ethnic Cleansing by God
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword,
destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy 13:15
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ... go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep,
camel and ass. 1 Samuel 15:2-3
A Misogynistic (hatred for women) God
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them
out unto you, an do ye to them as is good in your eyes. Genesis 19:8
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men;
and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be
the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 1 Samuel 18:27
And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband; she
shall be scourged. Leviticus 19:20
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her
father: she shall be burnt with fire. Leviticus 21:9
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male
among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women
children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Nunbers 31:15-19
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male
thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women ... shalt thou take unto thyself. Deuteronomy
20:13-14 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her .... Thou shalt go
in unto her. Deuteronomy 21:11-13
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated .... Deuteronomy 21:15 If any man
take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... Deuteronomy 22:13 I took this woman, and when I came
to her, I found her not a maid. Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth
the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city.
But if ... the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel
to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.
Deuteronomy 22:14-21 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in
the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall
stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24
When two men strive together on with another, and the wife of the one ... putteth forth her
hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12
Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? Judges 5:30
Wherefore David and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought
their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And
Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 1 Samuel 18:27
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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will
take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in
the sight of this sun. 2 Samuel 12:11
And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I
am the LORD Ezekiel 26:6
A Homophobic God
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Leviticus 18:22
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:13
A Racist God
One of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the
sight of Moses ... And when Phinehas ... saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a
javelin in his hand;
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of
Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of
Israel. Numbers 25:6-8
The LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
are upon the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 7:6
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their
tenth. Deuteronomy 23:3
Infanticidal,
At midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of
Pharaoh. Exodus 12:29
Ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. Leviticus 26:16
I will also send wild beasts which shall rob you of your children. Leviticus 26:22
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters. Leviticus 26:29
Because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme,
the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. ...
And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick... on the
seventh day, that the child died. 2 Samuel 12:14-18
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their
fathers. Ezekiel 5:10
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they
shall eat every one the flesh of his friend. Jeremiah 19:9
A Genocidal God
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it
utterly, and all therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. Deuteronomy 13:5
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou
shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. Deuteronomy 20:16-17
So smote all the country ... he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as
the LORD God of Israel commanded. Joshua 10:40
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ... go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and
spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 1
Samuel 15:2-3
A Filicidal (killing children) God
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and ... offer him there for
a burnt offering. Genesis 22:2
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For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. Leviticus 20:9
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her
father: she shall be burnt with fire. Leviticus 21:9
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or
thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods ...
thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the
hand of all the people. Deuteronomy 13:6-10
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Psalm 137:9
A Pestilential (pernicious) God
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was
kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. Nunbers 11:33
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people
of Israel died. Nunbers 21:6
The hand of the LORD was against the city ... and he smote the men of the city, both small and
great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. 1 Samuel 5:9
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel ... and there died of the people ... seventy thousand
men. 2 Samuel 24:13
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and
blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. Ezekiel
5:17
A Megalomaniacal God
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he
was wroth. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were
kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. And he
rode upon a cherub, and did fly. 2 Samuel 22
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations,
and they shall know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 38:23
A Sadomasochistic God
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off
thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 23:34
A Capriciously Malevolent God
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any
man upon whom is the mark ... fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew
in the city. Ezekiel 9:4-7 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. Ezekiel 8:18 And the
cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am
the LORD. Ezekiel 12:20
God is a Bully
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear,
and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. Jeremiah 15:3 And I
will call for a sword against him, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
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(3) - OTB: Deuteronomy – God Creates Israel by Murder & Theft
Absurdities, Cruelty, Murder, Genocide & Theft by God
Deuteronomy Chapter 6 verses 10-11: And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have
brought thee (Jews) into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, and houses full of all good things,
which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which
thou plantedst not
Deuteronomy Chapter 7, verse 2: when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou
shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy
unto them
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Deuteronomy (Chapter 1)
1:4
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God
of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
1:30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for
you in Egypt before your eyes;
Deuteronomy (Chapter 2)
2:12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they
had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his
possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered,
was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the
host, as the LORD sware unto them.
2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until
they were consumed.
2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them;
and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
2:22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before
them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
2:23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out
of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
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2:24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine
hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in
battle.
2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are
under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble in anguish because of thee.
2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his
spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
2:31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin
to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
2:33 LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the
little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
Deuteronomy (Chapter 3)
3:1
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us,
he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
3:2
And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land,
into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt
at Heshbon.
3:3
So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people:
and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
3:4
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them,
threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:5
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
3:6
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the
men, women, and children, of every city.
3:7
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to
possess it: ye shall pass over armed before the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
Deuteronomy (Chapter 4)
4:31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor
forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give
thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun rising;
4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come
forth out of Egypt:
4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites,
which were on this side Jordan toward the sun rising;
Deuteronomy (Chapter 6)
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6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou
buildedst not,
6:11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou
diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten;
Deuteronomy (Chapter 7)
7:1
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath
cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater than thou;
7:2
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly
destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son,
nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and
cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye
shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide
themselves from thee, be destroyed.
7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest
not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty
destruction, until they be destroyed.
7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under
heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold
that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD
thy God.
Deuteronomy (Chapter 9, 10)
9:3
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a
consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou
drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
9:6
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy
righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and
possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Deuteronomy (Chapter 12)
12:1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD
God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their
gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and
ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to
possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
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12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed
from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their
gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deuteronomy (Chapter 13)
13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a
wonder,
13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither
shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all the people.
13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away
from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13:15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it
utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with
fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God:
Deuteronomy (Chapter 19, 20)
19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot.
20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male
thereof with the edge of the sword:
20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil
thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy
God hath given thee.
20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance,
thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites,
and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded
thee:
Deuteronomy (Chapter 21)
21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered
them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou
wouldest have her to thy wife;
21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; shave her head, and pare her nails;
21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and
bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her
husband, and she shall be thy wife.
21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but
thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast
humbled her.
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(4) OTB - Books of Moses – God’s Laws & Punishments
Absurdities, Cruelty, Murder & Genocide By God
Punishment for new born illegitimate babies (bastards) and 10 generations of
descendants.
Deuteronomy 23.2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his
tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Stonning to death punishment for serving other gods.
Exodus 20:3 – 20.4 Thou shalt have no other gods before me Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or
that is in the water.
Exodus 22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly
destroyed.
Deuteronomy 17.2 – 17.5 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD
thy God giveth thee, man or woman who hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God in
transgressing His covenant, and hath gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or
moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded, then shalt thou bring forth that man
or that woman who has committed that wicked thing unto thy gates, even that man or that woman,
and shalt stone them with stones till they die.
Deuteronomy 13:6-10, “If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the
wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is of thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Thou shalt not consent unto him,
nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou
conceal him:
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all the people. Thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God."
Death punishment for hitting Parents
Exodus 21:15-17 “And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to
death”. “And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death”.
Stoning to death punishment for Disobedient Sons.
Deuteronomy 21.21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, so that he die. So
shalt thou put evil away from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
Stoning to death punishment for Non Virgin Women.
Deuteronomy 22.20 – 22.1 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for
the damsel, (unmarried women), then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house,
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought folly in
Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
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Stoning to death punishment for Adultery.
Deuteronomy 22.22 – 22.24 “If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then
they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman and the woman; so shalt thou put
away evil from Israel. If a damsel who is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the
city and lie with her, then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone
them with stones, that they die — the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city, and the man,
because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife; so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Leviticus 20:10 "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his
neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death."
Leviticus 21:9 "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she
profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire."
Death punishment for Blasphemy.
Leviticus 24:16 “And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall be put to death”
Death punishment for working on the Sabbath
Exodus 31:15 “Whosoever shall work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death”.
Numbers 15:32. “And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that
gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day…And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.”
God’s Punishment of Non-Jews (from the Books of Moses)
God was involved in the taking of life for those who threatened or harmed Israel.
Example - 1: Genesis 7:19-24. Noah builds an Ark for his family and a male and female of
each animal and creature on land and each bird and insect in the air. All other lives were drowned by
the flood. The fish survived because they could swim.
21: And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22: All in whose nostrils was the
breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23: And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man,
and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed: and Noah
only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24: And the waters prevailed on earth a
hundred and fifty days.
Example - 2: Genesis 18:20-21. Genesis 19: 11, 13, 24, 25 God destroys Sodom and
Gomorrah. 20: And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their
sin is very grievous; 21: I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the
cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. .
11: And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and
great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 13: For we will destroy this place, because the
cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
24: Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD
out of heaven; 25: And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Example - 3: Exodus 11: God kills the Egyptians' first-born sons and destroyed the Egyptian
army in the Red Sea. 1: And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh,
and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you
out hence altogether.
4: And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
5: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh even unto the
firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
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7: But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast:
that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Example - 4: Exodus 14: God destroys the Egyptian army in the Red Sea
8: And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children
of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. 16: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch
out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the
midst of the sea.
21: And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a
strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22: And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the
waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
27: And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength; and
the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28: And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of
Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Murder in the Old Testament Bible
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The act of murder is rampant in the Bible. In much of the Bible, especially the Old Testament,
there are laws that command that people be killed for absurd reasons such as working on the Sabbath,
being gay, cursing your parents, or not being a virgin on your wedding night. In addition to these crazy
and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of
God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational
explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to
keep the ark of God from falling during transport. There are also countless examples of mass murders
commanded by God, including the murder of women, infants, and children.
The following passages are a very small percentage of the total passages approving of murder in
the Bible. They are divided here into three parts: This list is long, but it barely scratches the surface of
all the murders approved in the Bible.
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the
LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their
abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they
have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
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1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs
20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital
offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put
to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her
father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and
soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether
small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live,
because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and
mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble
among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such
cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act
has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well
as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it.
Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must
remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for
destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have
compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The
LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today,
doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins on Their Wedding
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls
virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her
townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness
in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill Followers of Other Religions.
1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate
friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of
any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him
or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the
first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death,
because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as
this. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
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2) Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving
you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other
gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly
forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable
thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and
stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
Death for Blasphemy
One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father got into a fight with one of
the Israelite men. During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the LORD's name. So
the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother's name was Shelomith. She was the daughter
of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They put the man in custody until the LORD's will become clear.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who
heard him to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death. Say to
the people of Israel: Those who blaspheme God will suffer the consequences of their guilt and be
punished. Anyone who blasphemes the LORD's name must be stoned to death by the whole community
of Israel. Any Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the LORD's name will surely
die. (Leviticus 24:10-16 NLT)
Kill False Prophets
1) Suppose there are prophets among you, or those who have dreams about the future, and
they promise you signs or miracles, and the predicted signs or miracles take place. If the prophets
then say, 'Come, let us worship the gods of foreign nations,' do not listen to them. The LORD your God is
testing you to see if you love him with all your heart and soul. Serve only the LORD your God and fear
him alone.
Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling to him. The false prophets or dreamers who try
to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who
brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt. Since they try to keep you from following the LORD your
God, you must execute them to remove the evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5 NLT)
2) But any prophet who claims to give a message from another god or who falsely claims to
speak for me must die.' You may wonder, 'How will we know whether the prophecy is from the LORD or
not?' If the prophet predicts something in the LORD's name and it does not happen, the LORD did not
give the message. That prophet has spoken and need not be feared. (Deuteronomy 18:20-22 NLT)
Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle
For the LORD had said to Moses, 'Exempt the tribe of Levi from the census; do not include them
when you count the rest of the Israelites. You must put the Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of the
Covenant, along with its furnishings and equipment. They must carry the Tabernacle and its equipment
as you travel, and they must care for it and camp around it. Whenever the Tabernacle is moved, the
Levites will take it down and set it up again. Anyone else who goes too near the Tabernacle will be
executed.' (Numbers 1:48-51 NLT)
Kill People for Working on the Sabbath
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my
Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to
remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone
who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six
days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy
day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
Kill Brats
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From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on his way, some small boys came out of the
city and jeered at him. "Go up baldhead," they shouted, "go up baldhead!" The prophet turned and
saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and
tore forty two of the children to pieces. (2 Kings 2:23-24 NAB)
Kill Curious People
And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he
smote of the people seventy men, `and' fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah
had smitten the people with a great slaughter. And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to
stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us? (1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)
Killed by a Lion
Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another man, "Strike
me!" But the man refused to strike the prophet. Then the prophet told him, "Because you have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD, a lion will kill you as soon as you leave me." And sure enough, when he
had gone, a lion attacked and killed him. (1 Kings 20:35-36 NLT)
Killing the Good Samaritan
The ark of God was placed on a new cart and taken away from the house of Abinadab on the
hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab guided the cart, with Ahio walking before it, while David and all
the Israelites made merry before the Lord with all their strength, with singing and with citharas, harps,
tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
When they came to the threshing floor of Nodan, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God
to steady it, for the oxen were making it tip. But the Lord was angry with Uzzah; God struck him on
that spot, and he died there before God. (2 Samuel 6:3-7 NAB)
Kill Sons of Sinners
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the
earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)
God Will Kill Children
The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the
womb or never even be conceived. Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from
you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone. I have watched Israel become as
beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered." O LORD,
what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no
milk.
The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive
them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are
rebels. The people of Israel are stricken. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved
children." (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)
Kill Men, Women, and Children
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone
whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and
women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the
Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill
its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they
were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)
God Kills all the First Born of Egypt
And at midnight the LORD killed all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son
of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn son of the captive in the dungeon. Even the firstborn
of their livestock were killed. Pharaoh and his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the
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night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where
someone had not died. (Exodus 12:29-30 NLT)
Kill Old Men and Young Women
"You are my battle-ax and sword," says the LORD. "With you I will shatter nations and destroy
many kingdoms. With you I will shatter armies, destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and the
charioteer.
With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and
maidens. With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and rulers. "As you
watch, I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in
Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy," says
the LORD. "I will raise my fist against you, to roll you down from the heights.
When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of rubble. You will be desolate forever. Even
your stones will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out," says the
LORD. (Jeremiah 51:20-26)
God Will Kill the Children of Sinners
If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more
disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so
your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. (Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT)
More Rape and Baby Killing
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to
death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking
hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them
off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on
helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)
More of Samson's Murders
(The Lord saves Sampson from standing trial for 30 murders and arson by allowing him to kill
1000 more men.) When he reached Lehi, and the Philistines came shouting to meet him, the spirit of the
Lord came upon him: the ropes around his arms become as flax that is consumed by fire and the bonds
melted away from his hands. Near him was the fresh jawbone of an ass; he reached out, grasped it, and
with it killed a thousand men. (Judges 15:14-15 NAB)
Mass Murder
This is what the Lord of hosts has to say: 'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred
his way as he was coming up from Egypt. Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has
under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep,
camels and asses.' (1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB)
You Have to Kill
Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from
blood. (Jeremiah 48:10 NAB)
God Kills Some More
Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people,
I wouldn't help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight! And if they say to you, 'But where can
we go?' tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: Those who are destined for death, to death; those who
are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for
captivity, to captivity.'
"I will send four kinds of destroyers against them," says the LORD. "I will send the sword to kill,
the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left. Because
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of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an
object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth." (Jeremiah 15:1-4 NLT)
God Promises More Killing
I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return. I
will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with
people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then
you will know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 35:7-9 NLT)
The Angel of Death
My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites,
Hivites, and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out. (Exodus 23:23 NAB)
Destruction of Ai
Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the entire army and
attack Ai, for I have given to you the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the
captured goods and the cattle for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city." So Joshua and the army
of Israel set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand fighting men and sent them out at night with
these orders: "Hide in ambush close behind the city and be ready for action.
When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to fight as they did before, and we will
run away from them. We will let them chase us until they have all left the city. For they will say, 'The
Israelites are running away from us as they did before.'
Then you will jump up from your ambush and take possession of the city, for the LORD your God
will give it to you. Set the city on fire, as the LORD has commanded. You have your orders." So they
left that night and lay in ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai. But Joshua remained among
the people in the camp.
Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Point your spear toward Ai, for I will give you the city." Joshua
did as he was commanded. As soon as Joshua gave the signal, the men in ambush jumped up and
poured into the city.
They quickly captured it and set it on fire. When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from
the city was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of
the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.
When Joshua and the other Israelites saw that the ambush had succeeded and that smoke was
rising from the city, they turned and attacked the men of Ai.
Then the Israelites who were inside the city came out and started killing the enemy from the
rear. So the men of Ai were caught in a trap, and all of them died. Not a single person survived or
escaped. Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.
When the Israelite army finished killing all the men outside the city, they went back and
finished off everyone inside. So the entire population of Ai was wiped out that day – twelve thousand
in all. For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely
destroyed.
Only the cattle and the treasures of the city were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these for
themselves, as the LORD had commanded Joshua. So Ai became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate
to this very day. Joshua hung the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset the
Israelites took down the body and threw it in front of the city gate. They piled a great heap of stones
over him that can still be seen today. (Joshua 8:1-29 NLT)
Killing at Jericho
When the people heard the sound of the horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the
walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the city from every side and captured
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it. They completely destroyed everything in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep,
donkeys – everything. (Joshua 6:20-21 NLT)
God Kills an Extended Family
"You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made other gods and have
made me furious with your gold calves. And since you have turned your back on me, I will bring disaster
on your dynasty and kill all your sons, slave or free alike.
I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone. I, the LORD, vow that
the members of your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field
will be eaten by vultures.'"
Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam's wife, "Go on home, and when you enter the city, the child will
die. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him.
He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good
thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam. And the LORD will raise up
a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam.
This will happen today, even now! Then the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a
stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will
scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the LORD by worshiping Asherah
poles. He will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and made all of Israel sin along with him." (1
Kings 14:9-16 NLT)
Mass Murder
The men of Israel withdrew through the territory of the Benjaminites, putting to the sword the
inhabitants of the city, the livestock, and all they chanced upon. Moreover they destroyed by fire all
the cities they came upon. (Judges 20:48 NAB)
The Angel of Death
That night the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty five
thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all the corpuses of the
dead. (2 Kings 19:35 NAB)
Kill Your Neighbors
(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who are on the LORD's side,
come over here and join me." And all the Levites came. He told them,
"This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from
one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors." The Levites
obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day.
Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for
you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now
give you a great blessing." (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)
Kill the Family of Sinners
And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make
confession to him; and tell me now what thou hast done, hide it not from me. And Achan answered
Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver,
and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them, and behold, they are
hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it."
[Note that the sin is not looting, but failing to give the loot to the treasury of the Lord.]
"So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the
silver under it. And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all
the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
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And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment,
and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and
his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of Achor.
And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel
stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the LORD turned from the
fierceness of his anger: wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor. (Joshua 7:19-26
Webster's Bible)
Kill Followers of Other Religions
While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men defiled themselves by sleeping with
the local Moabite women. These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, and soon the
Israelites were feasting with them and worshiping the gods of Moab.
Before long Israel was joining in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD's anger to blaze
against his people. The LORD issued the following command to Moses: "Seize all the ringleaders and
execute them before the LORD in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of
Israel."
So Moses ordered Israel's judges to execute everyone who had joined in worshiping Baal of
Peor. Just then one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into the camp, right before the eyes
of Moses and all the people, as they were weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle. When Phinehas
son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly.
Then he took a spear and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the
way through the man's body and into the woman's stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was
stopped, but not before 24,000 people had died. (Numbers 25:1-9 NLT)
Murder
At the customary time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar
and prayed, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove today that you are God in Israel and that
I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this at your command.
O LORD, answer me! Answer me so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God and that
you have brought them back to yourself."
Immediately the fire of the LORD flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the
wood, the stones, and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the ditch! And when the people saw it,
they fell on their faces and cried out, "The LORD is God! The LORD is God!"
Then Elijah commanded, "Seize all the prophets of Baal. Don't let a single one escape!" So the
people seized them all, and Elijah took them down to the Kishon Valley and killed them there. (1 Kings
18:36-40 NLT)
Kill All of Babylon
"Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Yes, march
against Babylon, the land of rebels, a land that I will judge! Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them,
as I have commanded you," says the LORD. "Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great
destruction". (Jeremiah 50:21-22 NLT)
Micah Kills a Whole Town
Then, with Micah's idols and his priest, the men of Dan came to the town of Laish, whose people
were peaceful and secure. They attacked and killed all the people and burned the town to the
ground. There was no one to rescue the residents of the town, for they lived a great distance from Sidon
and had no allies nearby.
This happened in the valley near Beth-rehob.Then the people of the tribe of Dan rebuilt the town
and lived there. They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor, Israel's son, but it had originally been
called Laish. (Judges 18:27-29 NLT) (Note that God approves of this slaughter in verse 6.)
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God advocates child murder, infanticide, child abuse and abortion
“When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet
no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon;
and he shall pay as the judges determine.
If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth...“--Exodus
21:22-24
Abortion:
Hosea 9:11-16 Hosea prays for God’s intervention. “Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the
murderer. Give them, 0 Lord: what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. .
.Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea though they bring forth, yet will I
slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.” Clearly Hosea desires that the people of Ephraim can no
longer have children. God of course obeys by making all their unborn children miscarry. Is not
terminating a pregnancy “abortion”?
Numbers 5:11-21 The description of a bizarre, brutal and abusive ritual to be performed on a wife
SUSPECTED of adultery. This is considered to be an induced abortion to rid a woman of another man’s
child.
Numbers 31:17 (Moses) “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every
women that hath known man by lying with him.” In other words: women that might be pregnant,
which clearly is abortion for the fetus.
Hosea 13:16 God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and the “their women with
child shall be ripped up”. Once again this god kills the unborn, including their pregnant mothers.
2 Kings 15:16 God allows the pregnant women of Tappuah (aka Tiphsah) to be “ripped open”.
And the Christians have the audacity to say god is pro-life. How and the hell is it that Christians can read
passages where God allows pregnant women to be murdered, yet still claim abortion is wrong?
Infanticide:
1 Samuel 15:3 God commands the death of helpless "suckling" infants. This literally means that
the children god killed were still nursing.
Psalms 135:8 & 136:10 Here god is praised for slaughtering little babies.
Psalms 137:9 Here god commands that infants should be “dashed upon the rocks”.
The murdering of children:
Leviticus 20:9 “For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death:
he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.”
Judges 11:30-40 Jephthah killed his young daughter (his only child) by burning her alive as a
burnt sacrifice to the lord for he commanded it.
Psalms 137:8-9 Prayer/song of vengeance “0 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.”
2 Kings 6:28-29 “And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman
said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. So we
boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him:
and she hath hid her son.”
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 “If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the
voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken
unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his
city, and unto the gate of his place;
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And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not
obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones,
that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”
Judges 19:24-29 “Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; But the men would
not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew
her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house
where her lord was, till it was light. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and
gat him unto his place. And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his
concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts
of Israel.” To put it very bluntly this poor, young lady was murdered by her mate for being raped.
Exodus 12:29 God killed, intentionally, every first-born child of every family in Egypt, simply
because he was upset at the Pharaoh. And god caused the Pharaoh’s actions in the first place.
Exodus 20:9-10 God commands death for cursing out ones parents Joshua 8 God commanded
the deaths of 12,000 men, women, and children of Ai. They were all slain in the ambush that was
planned by god.
2 Kings 2:23-24 The prophet Elisha, was being picked on by some young boys from the city
because of his bald head. The prophet turned around and cursed them in the Lords name. Then, two
female bears came out of the woods and killed forty-two of them
Leviticus 26:30 “And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters.”
Isaiah 13:15-18 If God can find you, he will “thrust you through,” smash your children “to
pieces” before your eyes, and rape your wife.
Jeremiah 11:22-23 God will kill the young men in war and starve their children to death.
Jeremiah 19:7-9 God will make parents eat their own children, and friends eat each other.
Lamentations 2:20-22 God gets angry and mercilessly torments and kills everyone, young and
old. He even causes women to eat their children.
Proverbs 13:24, 19:18, 22:15, 23:13-14 & 29:15 God commands repeatedly to beat your children
Genesis 22:9 & 10 “And they came to the place which God had told him of and Abraham built an
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the
wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.” It matters not that
god let Abraham get out of murdering Isaac. To put a knife up to your son’s throat is child abuse.
Rape In The Bible – God’s Orders
(1) Murder, rape, and pillage at Jabesh-gilead (Judges 21:10-24 NLT)
So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there,
including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males
and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred
young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Canaan.
Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead
who were spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them.
The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had left this gap in the tribes of Israel. So
the Israelite leaders asked, "How can we find wives for the few who remain, since all the women of the
tribe of Benjamin are dead? There must be heirs for the tribe of Israel.
But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn
oath that anyone who does this will fall under God's curse." They told the men of Benjamin who still
needed wives,
"Go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out
from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! And when their
fathers and brothers come to us in protest, tell them, 'Please be understanding.
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Let them have your daughters, for we didn't find enough wives for them when we destroyed
Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in
marriage to them.'" So the men of Benjamin did as they were told.
They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of
their own inheritance. Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them. So the assembly of Israel
departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.
(2) Murder, Rape and Pillage of the Midianites (Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All
five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam
son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and
seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder.
They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered
the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the
priest, and to Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River.
But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the
battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. Now kill all the boys and all the women
who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for
yourselves.
(3) More Murder Rape and Pillage (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your
terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they
refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.
When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep
for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your
enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
(4) Laws of Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty
pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he
will never be allowed to divorce her.
(5) Death to the Rape Victim (Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you
shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she
did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
(6) David's Punishment - Polygamy, Rape, Baby Killing (2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives
[plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in
broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel,
and with the sun looking down.' But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child
born to you must surely die." [The child dies seven days later.]
(7) Rape of Female Captives – Kill fathers and husbands first Deuteronomy 21:10-14
if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish
to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must
shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb.
After she has mourned her father and mother (that you killed) for a full month, you may have
relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you
lose your liking for her, you shall give her freedom, if she wishes it."
(8) Rape and the Spoils of War (Judges 5:30 NAB)
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They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils
of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30 NAB)
(9) God Assists Rape and Plunder (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will
gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women
ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the
city. (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
Slavery in the Bible – God’s Orders
The following that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock.
1) However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live
among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have
been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a
permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives,
must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)
The following passage describes how the Hebrew slaves are to be treated.
2)
If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years. Set him free in the seventh
year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom. If he was single when he became your slave and then
married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year. But if he was married before he became a
slave, then his wife will be freed with him. If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they
had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still
belong to his master. But the slave may plainly declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I
would rather not go free.' If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master
must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will belong to
his master forever. (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT)
3) Sex Slaves (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT) When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be
freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may
allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one
who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may
no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and
then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If
he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any
payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
[A man can buy as many sex slaves as he wants as long as he feeds them, clothes them, and
screws them! What does the Bible say about beating slaves? It says you can beat both male and
female slaves with a rod so hard that as long as they don't die right away you are cleared of any
wrong doing. http://www.evilbible.com]
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his
hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished,
since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)
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(5) New Testament Bible (NTB) Basis:
Revelations –Armageddon and the End of the World
Absurdities
Revelation, chapter 1
1: The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
2: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ.
3: Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
7: Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced
him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
8: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which
was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
10: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11: Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book,
and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto
Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12: And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13: And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14: His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a fire;
15: And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of
many waters.
16: And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged
sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17: And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto
me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the
keys of hell and of death.
20: The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden
candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which
thou sawest are the seven churches.
Revelation, chapter 2
1: Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven
stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
4: Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
5: Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I
will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
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6: But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
8: And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last,
which was dead, and is alive;
9: I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of
them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
10: Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you
into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee a crown of life.
12: And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp
sword with two edges;
14: But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of
Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed
unto idols, and to commit fornication.
15: So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I hate.
16: Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of
my mouth.
20: Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman
Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
21: And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22: Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great
tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23: And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which
searcheth the hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Revelation, chapter 3
1: And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven
Spirits of God, and the seven stars;
2: Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not
found thy works perfect before God.
3: Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore
thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come
upon thee.
9: Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not,
but do lie; behold, I will make them come and worship before thy feet, and know that I have loved thee.
16: Because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Revelation, chapter 4
1: After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I
heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee
things which must be hereafter.
2: And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on
the throne.
3: And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow
round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
4: And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and
twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and on their heads crowns of gold.
5: And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven
lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
6: And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne,
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and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
7: And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a
face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
8: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within:
and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.
Revelation, chapter 5
6: And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the
elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
7: And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
8: And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before
the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours,.
Revelation, chapter 6
1: And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of
thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2: And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was
given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3: And when he had opened the seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4: And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon
to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a
great sword.
5: And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I
beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
7: And when he had opened the fourth seal, the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with
sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
9: And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were
slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not
judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
12: And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and
the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13: And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when
she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14: And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and
island were moved out of their places.
Revelation, chapter 7
1: And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the
four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2: And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he
cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3: Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our
God in their foreheads.
4: And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and
forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5: Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
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6: Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed
twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
7: Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
8: Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed
twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
11: And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts,
and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Revelation, chapter 8
1: And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about half an hour.
2: the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
6: And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
7: The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were
cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
8: And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast
into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9: And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third
part of the ships were destroyed.
10: And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a
lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11: And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became
wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
12: And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part
of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day
shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13: And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud
voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the
three angels, which are yet to sound!
Revelation, chapter 9
1: And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him
was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2: And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a
great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
3: And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as
the scorpions of the earth have power.
4: And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any
green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5: And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented
five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion.
6: And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and
death shall flee from them.
7: And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads
were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8: And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9: And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was
as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10: And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power
was to hurt men five months.
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13: And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar
which is before God,
14: Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in
the great river Euphrates.
15: And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month,
and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16: And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I
heard the number of them.
17: And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire,
and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their
mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
18: By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the
brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19: For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and
had heads, and with them they do hurt.
20: And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the
works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and
stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of
their thefts.
Revelation, chapter 10
1: And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a
rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
2: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left
foot on the earth,
3: And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders
uttered their voices.
4: And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a
voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered.
5: And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
7: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of
God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
8: And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little
book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
9: And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me,
Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10: And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet
as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11: And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and
tongues, and kings.
Revelation, chapter 11
1: And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure
the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
5: And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their
enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6: These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have
power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7: And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the
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bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8: And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom
and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9: And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three
days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
12: And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they
ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13: And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in
the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to
the God of heaven.
14: The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15: And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms
of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for.
18: And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they
should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints,
and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19: And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of
his testament: and there were lightnings, voices, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.
Revelation, chapter 12
1: And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3: And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven
heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4: And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it
was born.
5: And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they
should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
7: And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels,
8: And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9: And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
13:And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which
brought forth the man child.
14: And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the
wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face
of the serpent.
15: And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might
cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16: And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the
flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17: And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her
seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation, chapter 13
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1: And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear,
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, seat, and great authority.
3: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed:
and all the world wondered after the beast.
4: And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the
beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
7: And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power
was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
10: He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be
killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
11: And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb,
and he spake as a dragon.
12: And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them
which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13: And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in
the sight of men,
14: And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had
power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an
image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15: And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should
both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in
their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or
the number of his name.
18: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the
number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Revelation, chapter 14
1: And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and
four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
2: And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great
thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
3: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the
elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were
redeemed from the earth.
4: These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which
follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb.
5: And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before God.
6: And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach
unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people,
7: Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come:
and worship him that made heaven, earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8: And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because
she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
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9: And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and
his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10: The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture
into the cup of his dignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the
holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day
nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12: Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and
the faith of Jesus.
13: And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do
follow them.
14: And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of
man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15: And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the
cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the.
16: And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle; and the earth was reaped.
17: And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18: And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud
cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine
of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19: And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it
into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20: And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even
unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Revelation, chapter 15
1: And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last
plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
6: And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and
white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
7: And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of
God, who liveth for ever and ever.
8: The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was
able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
Revelation, chapter 16
1: And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and
pour out the vials f the wrath of God upon the earth.
2: And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and
grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast and them which worshipped his image.
3: And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead
man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4: And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they
became blood.
5: And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and
shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6: For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to
drink; for they are worthy.
7: I heard another out of the altar say, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
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8: And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to
scorch men with fire.
9: And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath
power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
10: And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of
darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11: And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not
of their deeds.
12: And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water
thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13: And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of
the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth
and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God.
15: Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk
naked, and they see his shame.
16: And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17: And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of
the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18: And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake,
such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake.
20: And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21: And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a
talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was
exceeding great.
Revelation, chapter 17
1: And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying
unto me; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the
earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3: So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her
fornication:
5: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER
OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs
of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7: And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the
woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8: The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go
into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the
book of life, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9: And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the
woman sitteth.
10: And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when
he cometh, he must continue a short space.
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11: And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into
perdition.
12: And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet;
but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13: These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14: These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of
lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15: And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples,
and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16: And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall
make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17: For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto
the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18: The woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Revelation, chapter 18
1: And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and
the earth was lightened with glory.
2: And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and
hateful bird.
3: For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the
earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through
the abundance of her delicacies.
4: And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5: For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6: Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in
the cup which she hath filled.
7: How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give
her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8: Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall
be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
9: And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her,
shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10: Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that
mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11: And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their
merchandise any more:
21: And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying,
Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
22: And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no
more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and
the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
23: And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom
and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee:
24: And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon
the earth.
Revelation, chapter 19
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1: And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia;
Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
2: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did
corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
9: And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
10: And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow
servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is
the spirit of prophecy.
11: And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12: His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13: And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14: And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen,
white and clean.
15: And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God.
16: He hath on his vesture and thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
17: And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18: That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond,
both small and great.
19: And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to
make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20: And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21: And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which
sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Revelation, chapter 20
1: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great
chain in his hand.
2: And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound
him a thousand years,
3: And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he
should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must
be loosed a little season.
4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the
souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their
hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a 1000 years.
5: But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first
resurrection.
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power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7: And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8: And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and
Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as sand of the sea.
9: And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about,
and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10: And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the
beast and the false prophet are, and be tormented day and night forever and ever.
11: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12: And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and
another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which
were written in the books, according to their works.
13: And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead
which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14: And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15: And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation, chapter 21
1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed
away; and there was no more sea.
2: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband.
3: And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them.
4: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5: And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me,
Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6: And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give
unto
him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7: He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, he shall be my son.
8: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers,
and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone: which is the second death.
9: And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven
last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10: And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great
city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
19: And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.
The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
20: The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a
topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
27: And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation, chapter 22
1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed
away; and there was no more sea.
2: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared
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as a bride adorned for her husband.
3: And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them.
4: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5: And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me,
Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6: And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give
unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7: He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, he shall be my son.
8: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers,
and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone: which is the second death.
9: And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven
last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10: And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
20: The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a
topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
27: And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation, chapter 23
1: And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb.
9: Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the
prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
10: He saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he
that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12: And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his
work shall be.
13: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14: Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and
may enter in through the gates into the city.
15: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
16: I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root
and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17: And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that
is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18: For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man
shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
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Churches Speak Out on Christian Zionism
http://www.christianzionism.org/churchesN.asp
Excerpts from Christianity and War by Laurence M. Vance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance-arch.html
'Deaths of Others' in America's Wars by John Tirman - Excerpts
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/deaths-of-others.html
US - Israel Lobby & Christian Zionism - Excerpts
INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW http://www.ihr.org/
‘Christian Zionism’ – Excerpts
Charles E. Carlson 2013
http://charlesecarlson.com/christian-zionism-the-worlds-most-urgent-mission-field/
The Origin of European “Jews”
KINGDOM OF THE KHAZARS Excerpts
http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/library/khazars.html
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118 countries support Iran nuclear program,
- Excerpts
http://www.arabicnews.com/
Non-Aligned countries declare support to Iran nuclear rights
Arab League backs Iran's peaceful nuclear activities Arab leaders:
US policy on Iran has no credibility
US enmity to Iran is opposition to Muslim progress
Iran's nuclear progress, source of honor for Muslims worldwide
Deaths in Other Nations since WW II Due To US Interventions By
James A. Lucas
http://www.countercurrents.org/lucas240407.htm
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http://www.christianzionism.org/churchesN.asp
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Throughout history Christians have at times twisted scripture to justify violence: for the
Crusades, for Anti-Semitism, and for slavery. One example is Thorten Stringfellow's biblical(Old
Testament) justification of slavery (http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/string/string.html).
Too often the church has been slow to respond to these biblical distortions with disastrous
results. Today Christian Zionists - particularly those with dispensationalist leanings - are at it again.
For some time, individuals, and theologians have spoken out against Christian Zionism. In the
past few years, whole church bodies are adding their official voices to the distortions and injustices
perpetuated by Christian Zionism.
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Excerpts from Christianity and War
by Laurence M. Vance
"Were it not for the support offered by several tens of millions of evangelicals, militarism in
this deeply and genuinely religious country becomes inconceivable."
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (Oxford, 2005)
by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.).
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance-arch.html
We are continually told by every Christian apologist for war and the military that because God
sponsored wars in the Old Testament against heathen nations (Judges 6:16), and used his chosen nation
of Israel (Deuteronomy 7:11-12) to conduct them, that this justifies Christian killing for the state in some
foreign war.
Whether you agree or disagree with evangelical support for militarism, the fact remains that the
largest group of Americans that the government can count on to support the institution of the military,
the empire of troops and bases that encircles the globe, large defense budgets, overseas military
interventions, the perpetual war on terror, and now torture is evangelical Christians – and the more
conservative the more bloodthirsty.
This is a subject that exposes Bible scholars as Bible illiterates. This is a subject that turns
Christians into disgraceful apologists of the state, its leaders, its military, and its wars. This is a subject
that reveals pro-life Christians to be two-faced supporters of wholesale murder.
If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war, torture, militarism, the warfare
state, state worship, suppression of civil liberties, an imperial presidency, blind nationalism, government
propaganda, and an aggressive foreign policy it is Christians.
The New Testament ethic for the Christian is one of peace, endurance, acceptance, nonviolence, non-aggression, and non-retaliation.
Yet, never at any time in history have so many of these Christians held such unholy opinions.
The association they have with the Republican Party is unholy. The admiration they have for
the military is unholy. The indifference they have toward war is unholy. The callous attitude they have
toward the deaths of foreigners is unholy.
Christians quote Scripture to defend the latest U.S. military action. Christians who claim to be
dispensationalists wrongly divide the word of truth when they appeal to the Old Testament to justify
U.S. government wars.
Christians who claim to have the mind of Christ show that they have lost their mind when they
want the full force of government to protect a stem cell, but have no conscience about U.S. soldiers
killing for the government.
Much of the blame for Christian support for war must be laid at the feet of the pastors and
church leaders. They are blind leaders of the blind. It is tragic that many so-called Christian leaders
moonlight as apologists for the Republican Party. Many pastors are cheerleaders for current U.S.
wars.
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We hear more from pulpits today justifying American military intervention in the world. It is
appalling that instead of the next U.S. military adventure being denounced from every pulpit in the
land, it will be conservative preachers who can be counted on to defend it.
After ten years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some of the greatest
defenders of these wars continue to be Christians.
The morality of going to war in the first place, as well as the number of dead and wounded Iraqis
and Afghans, is of absolutely no concern to most US Christians. Every dead American solider is a hero, no
matter where he fought, what his motive was, or how he died.
Christian support for the war on terror is so pervasive that I agree with Mark Twain in saying
that "if Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian."
I’m sorry to say that blind acceptance of government propaganda, willful ignorance of U.S.
foreign policy, persistent support of the Republican Party and the childish devotion to the military are
the norm among the majority of conservatives.
There is an unholy desire on the part of a great many Christians to legitimize killing in war. There
persists the idea among too many Christians that mass killing in war is acceptable, but the killing of
one’s neighbor is a crime. Many Christians have a warped view of what it means to be pro-life.
Why is it that foreigners don’t have the same right to life as unborn American babies? Why is it
that many Christians consider an American doctor in a white coat is considered a murderer if he kills
an unborn baby, but an American soldier in a uniform is considered a hero if he kills an adult?
There should be no difference between being for abortion and for war. Both result in the death
of innocents.
It is indeed strange that Christian people should be so accepting of war. War is the greatest
suppressor of civil liberties. War is the greatest destroyer of religion, morality, and decency.
War is a great creator of fertile ground for genocides and atrocities. War is the greatest
destroyer of families and young lives. War is the greatest creator of famine, disease, and
homelessness.
It doesn’t matter how many people the Jews killed in the Old Testament or how many times
the Lord ordered them into battle; likewise, it doesn’t matter how many people will die at some future
Battle of Armageddon.
What matters is right now under the New Testament in the Church Age. For a Christian to not
know that is to manifest a tremendous ignorance of the Bible he professes to believe. Christians should
be New Testament Christians.
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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/deaths-of-others.html
'Deaths of Others' in America's Wars
by John Tirman
Excerpts – Edited to reduce length
John Tirman is Principal Research Scientist and Executive Director of the Center for International
Studies, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up
the World.
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Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle — 100,000
dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in
Iraq; more than 1,000 in Afghanistan — and rightly so.
But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered
by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question that John
Tirman, a principal research scientist and executive director at the MIT Center for International
Studies, answers in The Deaths of Others. The book is published by Oxford University Press.
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Between six and seven million people died in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq alone, the majority of
them civilians. And yet Americans devote little attention to these deaths. Other countries, however, do
pay attention, and Tirman argues that if we want to understand why there is so much anti-Americanism
around the world, the place to look is how we conduct war.
From atomic weapons and carpet bombing in World War II to napalm and daisy cutters in
Vietnam and beyond, we have used our weapons intentionally to kill large numbers of civilians and
terrorize our adversaries into surrender.
Americans, however, are mostly ignorant of these facts, believing that U.S.-driven wars are
essentially just, necessary and "good." Tirman investigates the history of casualties caused by U.S. forces
in order to explain why the United States remains so unpopular & why U.S. armed forces operate the
way they do.
Trenchant and passionate, The Deaths of Others forces readers to consider the tragic
consequences of American military action not just for Americans, but especially for those we
fight. Features include: a passionate and sweeping account of the impact of U.S. wars on U.S.
opponents; a critical account of the
American way of war will be controversial; and highly readable
history that covers all of the United States' modern wars.
"This sad and gripping record of crimes we dare not face, and the probing analysis of the roots
of indifference and denial, tell us all too much about ourselves. It should be read, and pondered," said
MIT Institute Professor Noam Chomsky.
"John Tirman has not only written a profoundly important, revelatory work about something
that most people in this country ignore; he has looked deep into our history and the American mind to
see why we ignore it.
I wish I could give this highly readable book to everyone, from general to the civilian bureaucrats
who send them off to kill, who shares the illusion that war mainly involves soldiers," said Adam
Hochschild, author of To End All Wars.
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INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW
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The role of the Israel lobby in the growth of "Christian Zionism" ;
What Our Taxes to Israel are Funding
Alison Weir http://alisonweir.org/
While some individuals, both Jewish and Christian, have talked about a Jewish "return" to
Palestine throughout past centuries, today's version of Christian Zionism was largely invented in the
19th century; adherents of political Zionism, a movement to create a Jewish state, were a major factor
in how and why it grew. In the 1970s the Israeli government gave Jerry Falwell a jet plane, helping him
to spread his version of theology.
Numerous Christians, including a great many evangelical pastors and theologians, have long
opposed the Christian Zionist interpretation of the Bible. However, none of the above individuals have
the jet planes and massive funding of a Jerry Falwell or John Hagee to deliver their views and
information to US Christians.
Many of the politicians who support Israel do so for the simple reason that the pro-Israel
influence in Congress and the media is extremely significant to their chances for re-election rather
than out of religious motivation. North Carolina's Jesse Helms was an example: he demanded that
Palestinians receive a "just settlement of their grievances" until he learned that such a stance would
hurt his coverage by the media, at which point he changed it.
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It is also important to be aware that numerous members of the Israel Lobby are behind the
efforts to create Islamophobia in the American public. While there is a growing focus on Christian
Zionism, there is a simultaneous cover-up of the nature of Jewish fundamentalism and its role in Israel.
Given that American taxpayers, even during recessions in which thousands of Americans are
thrown out of work, have long given Israel far more of our tax money than to any other nation on
earth – currently about $7 million per day – it is highly appropriate that we examine the target of our
truly inordinate generosity.
It is strange that an Israel advocates democracy, since Israel violates it so systematically. Israel is
a self-defined "Jewish state" in which non-Jews (i.e. the Christians and Muslims who made up a
majority of the population in this land until recently, and still make up almost twenty percent of the
population) are second-class citizens.
The fact is that Christian and Muslim religions are routinely disparaged and their economic
situation is far inferior. Today, thousands of Muslims and Christians under Israeli occupation are
prevented from worshiping in their holiest churches and mosques.
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‘Christian Zionism’ by Charles E. Carlson
2013 – Excerpts – Edited to reduce
length
http://charlesecarlson.com/christian-zionism-the-worlds-most-urgent-mission-field/
Increasingly, mainline or traditional churches are speaking out refuting the bizzare
interpretive biblical foundations of the John Hagee’s, the late Jerry Falwell, and other proud professing
“Christian Zionists.”
Firm words need to be said to every one of the 50-70 million or more Americans who allow
themselves to be associated with the likes of John Hagee and the late Jerry Falwell and many others.
The right words are, “you are following something, but you are not following Jesus,” State.
Israel is a far more brutal occupier than were the Romans, of Jesus’ day, as can be witnessed to by
thousands who have lived in Israeli prisons.
It is our prayer that church groups like the Church of Scotland (COS), will take this next bold, but
obviously correct step.
The (COS) is the latest, but not the only church organization to recognize that Israel is an
occupier and flagrant abuser of the natives in the land of the Philistines.
The Church of Scotland (COS) has a 10 year history of warning its members that they should
reject “Christian Zionism,” stating clearly in a 2007 plea from their church leaders in Jerusalem,
“endorsing their criticism of Christian Zionism and warned their members to reject it
The Southern Baptist leadership in the person of Richard L Land, said officially in 2002, God
gave the land to Israel, so for the Palestinians, “it’s God’s way or the Highway”. (3)
In contrast, Church of Scotland challenged the most basic spiritual belief of “Christian Zionism,”
this being that the ancient Chaldean, Abraham, received the land now known as Palestine from God and
passed it along to the present day occupiers, never mind that the occupiers came from Europe only 65
years ago and chose the name “Israel” for themselves.
The Church of Scotland firmly states that no tribe or nation, pointedly Israel, can claim land
rights from God based on Scripture.
Conversely, the basic tenant of “Christian Zionism” is the belief
that the present day state of Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy, with a right to the land given by
God, therefore, the historic occupants have no right to be there.
We have explained to those entering several Christians United For Israel, Night to Honor Israel
meetings that they will not find Christ inside the doors, for there is not a “jot or tittle” of what Jesus or
His disciples taught being heard inside.
Our own friends who attend and observe tell us Jesus is all but forgotten inside. Christian
Zionists are so far outside of practicing Christianity as to be a bad joke.
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One does not have to be a Bible scholar to see this, children can see that the occupation does
not equate with “Blessed are the Peacemakers”, “Love your neighbor as yourself”, or a hundred other
teachings of Jesus and those who followed him.
There is simply not an ounce of Christ taught in “Christian Zionist” services.
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The Origin of European “Jews”
The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler
Excerpts – Edited to reduce length
GOG, MAGOG AND THE KINGDOM OF THE KHAZARS
http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/library/khazars.html
THE KHAZAR KINGDOM'S CONVERSION TO JUDAISM
According to Benjamin Freedman the Khazars' conversion to Judaism was first precipitated by
their monarch's abhorrence of the moral climate into which his kingdom had descended.
The mechanics of the Khazarian kingdom's turn to Judaism was from a humanistic
perspective at least, rather than random and capricious. It matters little what the mechanics were of
the conversion of the Khazar kingdom to Judaism. It matters only that it happened, and that it happened
with a clanging historical ring that resounds to the present age.
The Khazar's conversion to Talmudic Judaism is not a surprising outcome, given that such a
forum was to be the determining factor in their choice, rather than purely spiritual perceptions.
This entrenchment in the Jewish religion outlasted the kingdom itself and was transplanted,
whole cloth, into the Eastern European settlements of Russia and Poland. 42.
Here pictured is a classical perspective of what was to become the Khazar/Jewish heritage in
nearly all their dealings -- business, social or cultural. 45.
Before and after the Mongol upheaval the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued
Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centres of eastern Europe." 46
"Here, then," remarks Arthur Koestler, "we have the cradle of the numerically strongest and
culturally dominant part of Jewry."
This more recent "Diaspora" resulted in a strong, oftentimes politically overwhelming,
Khazar/Jewish influence in especially Hungary and Poland, but also in the whole of Eastern Europe.
Jews were found in positions of power and political influence in virtually every major category of
life, business and society.
There can be little doubt that the majority of modern Jewry originated in the migratory waves of
... Khazars who play such a dominant part in early Hungarian history".
Western European Jews historically displayed such a talent and acumen at trading and money
lenders that in any society and culture in which they found themselves, they possessed and controlling
influence over large portions of that nation's wealth.
"In the 'dark ages' the commerce of Western Europe," wrote Cecil Roth in the 1973 edition of
The Encyclopedia Britannica, "was largely in Jewish hands, not excluding the slave trade, and...Jew and
Merchant are used as almost interchangeable terms."
"The floating wealth of the country," Roth continued, "was soaked up by the Jews, who were
periodically made to disgorge into the exchequer [national or royal treasury]" 48 It was evident that the
ruling class periodically became intimidated by the mass of their nation's wealth accumulating to the
hands of so small a minority -- and a very clannish minority at that.
Such a course of events evidently led to the creation of a stereotyping blueprint for Jews and
Jewish communities that has been expressed in various cultures for centuries.
"The nucleus of modern Jewry," remarks Koestler, "thus followed the old recipe: strike out for
new horizons but stick together." 49
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This, as previously mentioned, was the course of Western European Jews, but the similarity
between them and the Khazarian Jews is striking, especially in their unequalled aptitude at things
economical and political.
This mass of historical data "has lead several historians to conjecture that a substantial part,
and perhaps the majority of eastern Jews -- and hence of world Jewry -- is of Khazar, and not of
Semitic Origin."
Abraham N. Poliak, Tel Aviv University's post-war Professor of Mediaeval Jewish History,
wondered at "how far we can go in regarding this [Khazar] Jewry as the nucleus of the large Jewish
settlement in Eastern Europe.
The descendants of this settlement (those who stayed where they were, those who emigrated
to the United States and to other countries, and those who went to Israel) constitute now the large
majority of world Jewry.
Mr. Koestler nicely summates, "The evidence adds up to a strong case in favour of those
modern historians (whether Austrian, Israeli or Polish) who, independently from each other, have
argued that the bulk of modern Jewry is NOT of Palestinian, but of Caucasian origin.
Jewish migrations did NOT flow from the Mediterranean across France and Germany to the
east and then back again.
They moved in a westerly direction, from the Caucasus through the Ukraine into Poland and
into Central Europe.
With the overwhelming evidence that the modern Jewish population is of Khazar origin,
Koestler remarks that this would clearly indicate that
"their ancestors came not from the Jordan but from the Volga, not from Canaan but from the
Caucasus, once believed to be the cradle of the Aryan race;
and that genetically they are more closely related to the Hun, Uigur and Magyar tribes than to
the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
This conclusion would then logically render the epithet "anti-Semitism" "void of meaning,".
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Behind the Campaign for War against Iran
Countering the Threat of a New Middle East Conflict
By Mark Weber 2013
Excerpts – Edited to reduce length
INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW
http://www.ihr.org/other/behindwarcampaign
In recent years prominent American politicians and other influential public figures have
spoken repeatedly of the alleged danger of Iran’s nuclear program, and have again and again
threatened war against this Middle East nation of 75 million.
With support from pro-Israel politicians in the US, Israel’s prime minister has repeatedly
threatened to attack Iran if it develops even the capability of building a nuclear weapon.
President Obama and other high-level politicians, together with much of the US media, have
been echoing Israel’s threats and alarmist claims.
In addition to belligerent rhetoric against the Tehran regime, the Obama administration
enforces severe economic sanctions against Iran. If Iran does not halt its nuclear energy program, the
US president threatens, “all options are on the table” – including bombing, nuclear missile attacks and
even invasion.
A recent Gallup public opinion poll shows that most Americans regard Iran’s nuclear energy
program as a “critical threat” to “the vital interests of the United States” -- a view that mirrors the
belligerently anti-Iran tone of the mainstream US media, and the harshly anti-Iran rhetoric of vocal
public figures.
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How real is this “threat”? How dangerous is Iran? What’s behind the campaign for war? And
what does all this mean for US?
In fact, the so-called Iran “crisis” is artificial. It’s every bit as phony as the one manufactured to
provide a pretext for the calamitous war against Iraq, which took thousands of American lives and cost
hundreds of billions of dollars, and brought destruction, suffering and death to many hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis.
Many scholars, historians, specialists, analysts, and military leaders point out some basic, key
facts: Iran is not building nuclear weapons, Iran is not a threat to the US, and Iran’s leadership is
neither irrational nor suicidal.
As even high-level US intelligence officials have acknowledged, there is no evidence that Iran
is trying to develop nuclear weapons. (Iranian leaders have always insisted that their nation’s nuclear
energy program is entirely peaceful.) James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligencehas
expressed “a high level of confidence” that Iran has no nuclear weapons program – an assessment that
reflects the consensus of 16 US intelligence agencies.
Israel and pro-Zionist politicians in the US threaten Iran not because it might be developing
nuclear weapons, but because the Islamic Republic forthrightly opposes Zionist occupation and
aggression, and steadfastly supports Palestinian freedom and resistance to Israeli hegemony.
Behind the campaign for war is shameless hypocrisy and brazen gall, because Israel itself has a
large, secretive stockpile of illicit nuclear weapons, routinely defies international law, occupies
conquered lands, and oppresses millions.
The sad reality is that US policy in the Middle East is driven not by what’s best for Americans and
the world, but rather – as even the US ambassador to Israel has acknowledged -- by concern for Israel's
security and identity as a Jewish ethno-religious state.
US hostility toward Iran, and Washington’s unique, blank-check support for Israel, are the
result of the Jewish-Zionist grip on our nation's mass media, political life and educational system.
For many years now the American public has been systematically misinformed by a minority
dominated media, and misled by political leaders who put partisan interests ahead of what's good for
Americans.
So blatant have US politicians become in their scrambling for Jewish-Zionist support that even
a prominent New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, has been moved to comment on how
politicians, of both major parties, “grovel for Jewish votes and money.”
Just as the 2003 Iraq war was, in large measure, a war for Israel, a new US or Israeli war
against Iran would likewise serve only narrow, Zionist interests. For everyone else – including
Americans – such a war would be calamitous.
Raising public awareness about the dangerous push for a new Middle East war, and the
formidable power behind that campaign, is an important task of the IHR. We don’t just oppose war. We
forthrightly identify and counter those who promote, justify and propagandize for war.
In lectures, interviews, meetings, and broadcasts, as well as through books, discs and leaflets,
we’ve been highlighting the malevolent power that’s pushing for a new war, and its harmful hold on our
political and cultural life.
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118 countries support Iran nuclear program,
http://www.arabicnews.com/ (as 3000 centrifuges are to be installed)
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Ambassadors to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from the Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM) Troika as well as the Group of 77 visiting Iran and who inspected Isfahan UCF
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Complex yesterday underlined again the stance of 118 member countries of Non-Aligned Movement
concerning Iran's peaceful nuclear activities.
Cuban permanent representative to the IAEA and head of NAM's Troika visiting Isfahan UCF
Complex said, "We believe all countries must have the right to use peaceful nuclear energy without
any discrimination and no country has the right to stop them."
She also insisted on countries' obligation to international laws and regulations and added, "We
welcome Iran's voluntary steps for confidence building and we encourage Iran for cooperation to solve
the remaining issues." The Cuban diplomat pointed out, "As it was stressed in the statement of last year
summit of NAM countries, we want a Middle East region without atomic weapons and we ask Israel to
join NPT."
She added, " We also consider any kind of attack against working nuclear facility or facilities
under construction a measure opposed to international regulations which endanger world peace."
Referring to another part of last year statement of NAM summit, the Cuban permanent
representative to the IAEA said, the Non-Aligned Movement wants peaceful settlement for Iran's
nuclear dossier and calls for negotiation without any precondition.
Iran's Ambassador to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar
Soltaniyeh said that the two cameras installed at the UF6 production facilities at Isfahan UCF Complex
is a sign of Iran's additional cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Iran's permanent representative to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEO) Ali Asghar
Soltanieh said yesterday the Islamic Republic of Iran spares no efforts to remove ambiguities in its
nuclear activities. Soltanieh said Iran is determined to pursue its peaceful nuclear activities.
"Suspension (of Uranium enrichment) is not rational and nobody has been able to give a logical
justification for it," Soltanieh said.
He said the head of IAEA's Regional Inspection Department came to Iran last week and
expressed his pleasure with Iran's cooperation with IAEA.
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The ministerial meeting of the coordinating bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM),
composed of 114 countries, issued a statement today in Putrajaya, Malaysia defending Iran's peaceful
nuclear program.
The ministers reiterated their principled position on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
reflected in the final document of the ministerial meeting of the coordinating bureau of the Non-Aligned
Movement held in Putrajaya, Malaysia from May 27 to 30, 2006, the statement said.
The ministers recognized the IAEA as the sole, competent authority for verification of the
respective safeguards obligations of member states and stressed that there should be no undue
pressure or interference in the agency's activities, specially its verification process, which would
jeopardize the efficiency and credibility of the agency.
The ministers reaffirmed the basic and inalienable right of all states to develop research,
production and use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes without any discrimination and in
conformity with their respective legal obligations.
It further stressed that nothing should be interpreted in a way as inhibiting or restricting the right of
states to develop atomic energy for peaceful purposes. The NAM ministers furthermore reaffirmed that
states' choices and decisions in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear technology and its fuel cycle policies
must be respected.
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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa today expressed support for Iran's peaceful
nuclear activities. Moussa's at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Malaysia said the Middle
East region should be free from weapons of mass destruction, he said, adding that peaceful use of
nuclear energy is Iran's inalienable right.
Criticizing the double standard applied to the issue of states pursuing nuclear energy, he
stressed that the entire Middle East region should be freed from nuclear weapons without
discrimination.
All signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have the right to use nuclear energy for
peaceful purposes, he said, and urged respect for Iran's right to press for this right.
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The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling
on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East.
The Conference host President Hosni Mubarak said it was time for the United States to realize
that the Arab states wanted reform but wanted it at their own pace, on their own terms and without
American pressure.
Mubarak's former foreign minister and now leader of the Arab League was more blunt. He said
US allegations about Iran's attempts to build nuclear weapons, for example, carried no credibility in
the Arab states and demanded proof from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Amr Mousa, said Arabs looked to the US claims against Saddam Hussein before invading Iraq
and responded with deep doubts about American honesty.
"It has been proven in the Iraq war that there was information that was deliberately or
inadvertently false. Information must come from an international organization that is credible and
responsible," he said.
He said that the Arab states want the whole region to be free of nuclear weapons, including
the arsenal Israel is believed to possess. "The Middle East does not need a military nuclear program, be
it Iranian, Israeli or other," Moussa told reporters.
Iran, which chose not to attend the conference, stated that national nuclear program is
designed purely to generate electricity.
Iran has been a regular participant at the main World Economic Forum gathering in Davos,
Switzerland.
Moussa's words on Israel, which is said by some to have a stockpile of nuclear weapons,
reflected the grievances of most Arab leaders when he asked why the West overlooks Israel's alleged
nuclear arsenal but presses Iran to drop its civilian program.
"Why should Israel be special?" Mousa asked. "We're all scared of a nuclear weapon, whether it
is with country A or country B."
The perceived double standard, he said, means that US policy toward Iran 'does not enjoy
credibility and comprehensive support in the Middle East'.
A Syrian Foreign Ministry official said Syria was invited but did not attend 'because Israel was
participating. The Palestinian invitation to the first of the forum's Middle East conferences to be hosted
by Egypt went to moderate President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran, currently in Indonesia, said that West's
hostility towards Iran was in line with its opposition to progress and development of the Muslim
nations.
Referring to Iran's peaceful nuclear programs, President Ahmadi-Nejad said "Enemies
want to use sciences and technologies as a leverage to impose pressures on Muslim nations."
Meanwhile, chairman of the Nahdat-ul Ulema Movement, Hashim Muzadi, said that the body
supported Iran's peaceful nuclear programs, adding Muslim parties in the Islamic countries should
close their ranks in order to strengthen unity among the Islamic nations.
Speaking to Indonesia's State Islamic University students, he said "the world's arrogant powers
intended to have monopoly over all sciences and technologies so that they could use them as a means
to expand their domination over independent states."
President Ahmadi-Nejad said Muslims should try to present a clear and effective image of
Islam to the world.
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Scientific progress and achievements of Iranian scientists in the field of nuclear technology are
a source of honor for Muslims throughout the world, Lebanese and Palestinian officials said
yesterday.
The officials made the remark in a ceremony held here on the occasion of the third martyrdom
anniversary of founder of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and a top
Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi.
During the ceremony, Assistant Leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Talal
Naji, said the Palestinian people would support Iran's program to have access to peaceful nuclear
technology. He praised Iran's strategy on Palestine's ideals and the country's support for the
oppressed Palestinians under current sensitive circumstances.
Deputy Chief of Lebanese Hizbullah for political affairs Hossein Alhaj Khalil also praised Iran's
strategy and foreign policy in support of the Palestinians' rights.
He said failure of Hamas is a top priority for Israel and the US while Arab and Muslim states call
for success of the elected Palestinian government. The Hizbullah official called on all regional nations to
make efforts to disclose US claims on establishment of democracy and freedom and observation of
human rights.
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Deaths in Other Nations since WW II Due To US Interventions
(Excerpts) - By James A. Lucas
http://www.countercurrents.org/lucas240407.htm
“How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?” This
theme is developed in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in 37 nations as
well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is considered culpable.
This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million
deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the two Iraq Wars.
The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in
Cambodia and Laos.
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The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since
WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the
world.
To the families and friends of these victims it makes little difference whether the causes were
U.S. military action, proxy military forces, the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other
ways, such as economic pressures applied by our nation.
They had to make decisions about finding lost loved ones, whether to become refugees, and
how to survive.
Some authorities estimate that there are as many as 10 wounded for each person who dies in
wars. Their visible, continued suffering is a continuing reminder to their fellow countrymen.
Afghanistan
The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet
Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation. (1,2,3,4).
The CIA spent 5 to 6 billion dollars on its operation in Afghanistan in order to bleed the Soviet
Union. (1,2,3) When that 10-year war ended over a million people were dead and Afghan heroin had
captured 60% of the U.S. market. (4).
The U.S. has been responsible directly for the deaths in Afghanistan many of which resulted
from bombing in retaliation for the attacks on U.S. property on September 11, 2001. Subsequently U.S.
troops invaded that country. (4)
Cambodia
U.S. bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in secret under the
Johnson and Nixon, but when President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land assault
on Cambodia
So the U.S. bears responsibility not only for the deaths from the bombings but also for those
resulting from the activities of the Khmer Rouge - a total of about 2.5 million people. When Vietnam
invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA supported the Khmer Rouge. (1,2,3)
Cuba
In the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 which ended after 3 days, 114 of the invading force
were killed, 1,189 were taken prisoners and a few escaped to waiting U.S. ships.
Some people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from 2,000, to 4,000.
Another estimate is that 1,800 Cuban forces were killed on an open highway by napalm.
This appears to have been a precursor of the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991 when U.S.
forces mercilessly annihilated large numbers of Iraqis on a highway. (2)
El Salvador
The civil war from 1981 to1992 in El Salvador was financed by $6 billion in U.S. aid given to
support the government in its efforts to crush a movement to bring social justice to the people in that
nation of about 8 million people. (1)
Guatemala
In 1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification Commission concluded
that over 200,000 people had been killed during the civil war and that there had been 42,000
individual human rights violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the army.
According to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of Guatemala –
financed and supported by the U.S. government – destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a
campaign of genocide. (4)
Iran
Iran lost about 262,000 people in the war against Iraq from 1980 to 1988. (1) See Iraq for more
information about that war.
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Iraq (Saddam Husein) was supported by the US. On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy ship, the Vincennes, was
operating within Iranian waters providing military support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
Iraq
The Iraq-Iran War lasted from 1980 to 1988 and during that time there were about 105,000
Iraqi deaths according to the Washington Post. (1,2).
According to Howard Teicher, a former National Security Council official, the U.S. provided the
Iraqis with billions of dollars in credits and helped Iraq in other ways such as making sure that Iraq had
military equipment.
The U.S. was not adverse to both countries weakening themselves as a result of the war, but it
did not appear to want either side to win. The U.S.-Iraq War and the Sanctions against Iraq extended
from 1990 to 2003.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Iraq had reason to believe that the U.S. would not
object to its invasion of Kuwait, since U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had told Saddam Hussein
that the U.S. had no position on the dispute that his country had with Kuwait. So the green light was
given, but it was more of a trap.
The public relations strategy to energize the American public opinion against Iraq the daughter
of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. falsely testified before Congress that Iraqi troops were pulling
the plugs on incubators in Iraqi hospitals. This contributed to a war frenzy in the U.S.
The U.S. air assault started on January 17, 1991 and it lasted for 42 days. On February 23
President H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. ground assault to begin.
The invasion took place with much needless killing of Iraqi military personnel. Only about 150
American military personnel died compared to about 200,000 Iraqis. Iraqi troops retreating from
Kuwait were mercilessly killed.
Other deaths later were from delayed deaths due to wounds, civilians killed, those killed by
effects of damage of the Iraqi water treatment facilities, infrastructure and by the sanctions.
In 1995 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. reported that U.N sanctions on Iraq
had been responsible for the deaths of more than 560,000 children since 1990. (5)
Leslie Stahl on the TV Program 60 Minutes in 1996 mentioned to Madeleine Albright, U.S.
Ambassador to the U.N. “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more
children than died in Hiroshima. And - and you know, is the price worth it?”
Albright replied “I think
this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think is worth it.” (4). In 1999 UNICEF reported that 5,000
children died each month as a result of the sanctions. (6)
Richard Garfield later estimated that the more likely number of excess deaths among children
under five years of age from 1990 through March 1998 to be 227,000 – Garfield estimated that the
numbers to be 350,000 through 2000. (7)
Israeli-Palestinian War
About 100,000 to 200,000 Palestinians have been killed in the struggle between those two
groups.
The U.S. has been a strong supporter of Israel, providing billions of dollars in aid and
supporting its possession of nuclear weapons. (1,2)
Korea, North and South
The Korean War started in 1950. The North Korea government claimed that by 1949 the South
Korean army committed 2,617 armed incursions. It was a myth that the Soviet Union ordered North
Korea to attack South Korea. (1,2)
The U.S. started its attack before a U.N. resolution was passed supporting our intervention,
and our military forces added to the mayhem in the war by introducing the use of napalm. (1).
Four sources give deaths counts ranging from 1.8 to 4.5 million. (3,4,5,6). Another source
gives a total of 4 million but does not identify to which nation they belonged. (7)
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John H. Kim, a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of Veterans for Peace,
stated in an article that during the Korean War “the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy were directly
involved in the killing of about three million civilians in Korea.
It is reported that the U.S. dropped some 650,000 tons of bombs, including 43,000 tons of
napalm bombs, during the War.”
Laos
From 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War the U.S. dropped over two million tons of bombs
on Laos – more than was dropped in WWII by both sides.
Over a quarter of the population became refugees. This was later called a “secret war,” since
it occurred at the same time as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were
killed.
Pakistan
In 1971 West Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S., brutally invaded East
Pakistan.
The war ended after India, whose economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million
refugees, invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West Pakistani forces. (1).
Millions of people died during that brutal struggle, referred to by some as genocide committed
by West Pakistan.
That country had long been an ally of the U.S., starting with $411 million provided to establish
its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. $15 million in arms flowed into W.
Pakistan during the war. (2,3,4).
Three sources estimate that 3 million people died and (5,2,6) one source estimates 1.5 million.
(3)
Vietnam
In August, 1964 the CIA and others helped fabricate a phony Vietnamese attack on a U.S. ship
in the Gulf of Tonkin and this was used as a pretext for greater U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (1).
According to a Vietnamese government statement in 1995 the number of deaths of civilians
and military personnel during the Vietnam War was 5.1 million. (2)
Since deaths in Cambodia and Laos were about 2.7 million (See Cambodia and Laos) the
estimated total for the Vietnam War is 7.8 million.
The Virtual Truth Commission provides a total for the war of 5 million, (3) and Robert
McNamara, Secretary Defense, according to the New York Times Magazine says that the number of
Vietnamese dead is 3.4 million. (4,5).
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SECTION – 7
(Articles downloaded from the Internet)
History of PALESTINE
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/for/israel.html
BBC News: Country profile: Israel and Palestinian territories
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/803257.stm
Ashkenazi Jews
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi
The Thirteenth Tribe – Ashkenazi Jews
by Arthur Koestler
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Thursday, December 26, 2002 Posted: 9:45 AM EST (1445 GMT)
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282186.html
What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians
By John Whitbeck http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0202/p09s02-coop.html
Israeli Settlements Palestine Monitor factsheet – December 2008
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article7
East Jerusalem Palestine Monitor factsheet - December 2008
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article5
A list of UN Resolutions against "Israel"
http://wake-up-america.net/UN%20Resolutions%20against%20Israel.htm
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel (1972-2002)
http://www.trinicenter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24
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History of Palestine
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1897 - First Zionist Congress met in Basel, Switzerland. The World Zionist Organization was
established and the Basel Program promoted Jewish settlement in Palestine. The first wave of Jewish
immigration had begun in 1882, and a second wave began in 1904.
1914 - August, The Great War began with England and France and Russia allied against Germany
and Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans had ruled the Middle East for 500 years,
but that rule was now challenged by Jewish and Arab nationalism, and British oil interests in Iraq and
Iran. During the war, Sharif Hussein and Henry McMahon, the British high commissioner in Egypt,
exchanged correspondence guaranteeing Arab independence in return for the Arab revolt that began
1916 against the Ottomans.
1916 - May 16, Britain and France signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement that divided the Ottoman
Middle East provinces among them. Balfour Declaration, to Lord Edmund de Rothschild supporting the
establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
1918 - Nov. 11, armistice ended the fighting on the Western Front. December 9, British forces
occupied Palestine.
1920 - San Remo Conference granted Great Britain mandate over Palestine.
1922 - League of Nations confirmed the mandate for Palestine.
1933 - Haavara Agreement by Nazi Germany allowed Jews to transfer money to Palestine until
1941, making it possible for thousands to emigrate.
1937 - July 7, the Peel Commission Report recommended turning Palestine into a Jewish State
and an Arab State incorporated into Transjordan, with Jerusalem and Bethlehem placed under the
British Mandate.
1939 - The British government issued the MacDonald White Paper to limit and restrict Jewish
immigration and land purchases in Palestine. It provided for the establishment of a Palestinian (Arab)
state within ten years and the appointment of Palestinian ministers to begin taking over the government
as soon as "peace and order" were restored to Palestine; 75,000 Jews would be allowed into Palestine
over the next five years, after which all immigration would be subject to Arab consent; all further land
sales would be severely restricted. Sept.
1940 - The British began to recruit Jewish volunteers into parachutists and Palistinian battalians
to fight with the British army in Europe. By 1944, these units were united into the Jewish Brigade that
fought in Italy in 1945
1942 - May 11, Ben-Gurion and the Zionists at the Biltmore Conference in New York advocated
the establishment of a Jewish "Commonwealth" (replacing the word "homeland") in Palestine and
unlimited immigration.
1946 - After the war, Prime Minister Clement Atlee and his foreign minister, Ernest Bevin,
continued to enforce the policy of the 1939 White Paper.
The Jewsish Agency united with radicals to oppose British policy. The Haganah, the Irgun and
Lehi carried out terrorist attacks against British forces, the most spectacular of which was the
bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
1947 the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution of the United Nations Special
Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in favor of a complex system of Palestine's partition into separate
Arab and Jewish states, a special international status for Jerusalem.
Although supported by the United States and the Soviet Union, the plan was opposed by the
League of Arab States (Arab League) Council, meeting in December.
1948 - In January, as violence grew between Jews and Arabs and the British, President Truman
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reversed his decision for partition and now opposed it, supporting instead a trusteeship plan, and then
full statehood for Israel.
April 9, Jewish underground forces led by Menachem Begin's Irgun massacred 254 Palestinians
in the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem. May 14, the Mandate over Palestine officially ended and
the Zionists proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel.
The U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Israel. May 15, Israel War of Independence
began.
December 11, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 194, which recognized
the right of Palestinians who were expelled by the Israeli army or who fled during the 1948 war to
return to their homes.
1949 - April 3, Israel and Arab states agreed to armistice. Israel gained about 50% more territory
than was originally allotted to it by the UN Partition Plan.
1950 - April 24, the West Bank officially became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
1953 - February 28, Israel launched a large scale assault on the Gaza Strip.
1956 - Oct. 29, Suez War. Israel invaded the Sinai peninsula and occupies it for several months,
with French and British collaboration.
1964 - May, the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) founded with the aim of destroying
Israel. The Palestinian National Charter of 1968 officially called for liquidation of Israel.
1967 - May, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping
and dismisses UN peacekeeping force. Negotiations with US to reopen the Straits of Tiran fail.
June 5-10, Six Day War. Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground, conquers and
occupies Sinai and Gaza, then conquers the West Bank from Jordan, and Golan Heights from Syria.
November 22, the UN resolution 242 called for Israeli withdrawal, establishment of peace.
1968 - March 21, the Battle of al-Karameh took place in the village Karameh, east of the Jordan
River, where Palestinian guerilla movements joined the Jordanian army to block Israel from entering the
East Bank.
1973 - Oct. 6, Yom Kippur War (October War). In a surprise attack on the Jewish day of
atonement, Egypt retook the Suez canal and Syria the Golan Heights.
The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 338, recommending negotiations
between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
1978 - March 14, the Israeli army invaded southern Lebanon, demolished a number of villages,
and killed some 700 Lebanese and Palestinians.
September 17, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords.
Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai in exchange for peace with Egypt and to grant the
Palestinians "full autonomy" in the Occupied Territories after a transitional period of five years.
1979 - March 22, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 446, which
demanded that Israel dismantle the settlements in the Occupied Territories.
1981 - June 7, Israel destroyed Iraqi nuclear reactor in daring raid. Oct. 6, Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat is assassinated while on the reviewing stand of a victory parade.
1982 - June 6, Massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon to fight PLO. Israel besieged Beirut for three
months. Palestinian and Lebanese casualties were estimated at tens of thousands of people killed.
September, 16-18, members of the Phalange militia massacred up to 2,000 Palestinian refugees at
Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut.
1983 - December 20, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and 4,000 PLO commandos left north Lebanon on
Greek ships and relocated their headquarters in Amman, Jordan.
1985 - November 19, Yasser Arafat and the PLO Executive Committee met in Baghdad and
reaffirmed the PLO's rejection of UN resolutions 242 & 338.
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1987 - November 24, the Palestinian National Council proclaimed an independent Palestinian
state in the West Bank and Gaza; 55 countries including China and the Soviet Union recognized the
Palestinian state. December 7, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat declared in Stockholm that the PLO accepted
Israel's right to exist and denounced terrorism.
1989 - January 12, the UN Security Council granted the PLO the right to speak directly to the
Council as "Palestine" with the same status as any UN member nation. April 20, the UN General
Assembly condemned Israeli practices in the Occupied Territories and called on the UN Security Council
to protect Palestinian civilians.
1990 - May 25, after the United States refused to grant Yasser Arafat a visa to enter New York
to address the UN General Assembly, the General Assembly moved to Geneva where Arafat called for
deployment of UN forces into the West Bank and Gaza.
1991 - January 17, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in the first Gulf War to force
Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.
1993 - Sept. 13, in the Oslo Declaration of Principles, Israel and PLO agreed to mutual
recognition.
1995 - Sept 28, Oslo Interim Agreement signed. Palestinian Authority to be established. Nov. 4,
Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by right-wing Israeli fanatic Yigal Amir. Rabin is replaced by Shimon
Peres.
1996 - June, right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu elected Prime Minister in Israel,
replacing Shimon Peres.
1997 - Jan 18, Israel and Palestinians reached agreement on Israeli redeployment in the WestBank city of Hebron.
1999 - May 17, Israel elected Labor party leader and Former General Ehud Barak as Prime
Minister in a landslide. Barak promised rapid progress toward peace.
2001 – Sept. 11, World Trade Center in NYC and the Pentagon carried out by fanatic Islamic AlQaida group headed by Osama Bin Laden initiate US war on terror.
2004 - July 9, International court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the Israeli security barrier violated
international law and must be torn down. Nov 11, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat died.
2005 - Jan 9, Mahmoud Abbas elected President of the Palestinian National Authority.
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Ashkenazi JewsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashkenazi Jews ( ‫ אשכנזיהודי‬Yehudei Ashkenaz)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi
The Jews in Central Europe (1881)
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (Hebrew: ‫םי זִ נֲָּכְׁש ַא‬, pronounced
[ˌaʃkəˈnazim], singular. [ˌaʃkəˈnazi]; also ַ‫זדּוה‬
ְ ַ ְׁ‫םי זִ נֲָּכ‬, Yehudei Ashkenaz, "the Jews of Ashkenaz"), are the
Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland in the west of Germany.
Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for the region which in modern times encompasses the country
of Germany and German-speaking borderland areas. Ashkenaz is also a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of
Nations (Genesis 10). Thus, Ashkenazim or Ashkenazi Jews are literally "German Jews."
Regions with significant populations
Total population
8[1]–11.2[2] million
United States
5–6 million
Ukraine
150,000
Israel
3 million
Australia
120,000
Russia
800,000
South Africa
80,000
Argentina
300,000
Belarus
80,000
United Kingdom
~ 260,000
Hungary
75,000
Canada
~ 240,000
Chile
70,000
Germany
200,000
Netherlands
30,000
France
200,000
Poland
25,000
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Many Ashkenazi Jews later migrated, largely eastward, forming communities in non Germanspeaking areas, including Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere between
the 10th and 19th centuries. With them, they took and diversified Yiddish, a Germanic Jewish language
that had since medieval times been the lingua franca among Ashkenazi Jews.
The Ashkenazi Jews developed a distinct culture and liturgy influenced, to varying degrees, by
interaction with surrounding peoples of Central and Eastern Europe.
Although in the 11th century they comprised only 3% of the world's Jewish population,
Ashkenazi Jews accounted for (at their highest) 92% of the world's Jews in 1931 and today make up
approximately 80% of Jews worldwide.[3]
Most Jewish communities with extended histories in Europe are Ashkenazim, with the exception
of those associated with the Mediterranean region.
The majority of the Jews who migrated from Europe to other continents in the past two
centuries are Ashkenazim, Eastern Ashkenazim in particular.
This is especially true in the United States, where 6 out of the 7 million American Jewish
population – the largest Jewish population in the world when consistent statistical parameters are
employed[4] – is Ashkenazi, representing the world's single largest concentration of Ashkenazim.
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Justification: Old Testament Bible & Revelations.
Excerpts – Edited to reduce length
Where do the Ashkenazi Jews come from?
The Khazar Empire and its Heritage By Arthur Koestler
http://www.christusrex.com/www2/koestler/
This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power
in Eastern Europe, which in A.D. 740 converted to Judaism. Khazaria, a conglomerate of Aryan Turkic
tribes migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western (Ashkenazim) Jewry...
As Arthur Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day, and they chose a
surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to
adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism.
The second part of Mr. Koestler's book deals with the Khazar migration to Polish and
Lithuanian territories, and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of Jewry.
"The evidence in the previous chapters adds up to a strong case in favour of those modern
historians - whether Austrian, Israeli or Polish - who, independently from each other, have argued that
the bulk of modern Jewry is not of Palestinian, but of Caucasian origin.
The mainstream of Jewish migrations did not flow from the Mediterranean across France and
Germany to the east and then back again. The stream moved in a consistently westerly direction, from
the Caucasus through the Ukraine into Poland and thence into Central Europe. When that
unprecedented mass settlement in Poland came into being, there were simply not enough Jews around
in the west to account for it.
"The Jews of our times fall into two main divisions: Sephardim and Ashkenazim.
The Sephardim are descendants of the Jews who since antiquity had lived in Spain (in Hebrew
Sepharad) until they were expelled at the end of the fifteenth century and settled in the countries
bordering the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and to a lesser extent in Western Europe.
They spoke a Spanish-Hebrew dialect, Ladino, and preserved their own traditions and religious
rites. In the 1960s, the number of Sephardim was estimated at 500,000.
The Ashkenazim, at the same period, numbered about eleven million. Thus, in common
parlance, Jew is practically synonymous with Ashkenazi Jew." ( page 181).
In Mr. Koestler's own words, "The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the
past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated."
The history of the Ashkenazi Jews was widely known and appreciated in the former Soviet
Union. Ashkenazi militants traced the area where the Turkic Khazars originated before their migration to
Southern Russia to Birobidjan, an Eastern Siberian area as big as Switzerland bordered by the Amur
river, by China and Mongolia.
Mr. Koestler was an Ashkenazi Jew and took pride in his Khazar ancestry.
As expected, The Thirteenth Tribe caused a stir when published in 1976, since it demolishes
ancient racial and ethnic dogmas...At the height of the controversy in 1983, the lifeless bodies of Arthur
Koestler and his wife were found in their London home. Despite significant inconsistencies, the police
ruled their death a suicide...Another Mossad "suicide"!
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Excerpts
From science and computers
By Jeordan Legon CNN
Thursday, December 26, 2002 Posted: 9:45 AM EST (1445 GMT)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/index.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282186.html
This image of what Jesus may have
looked like is on the cover of Popular
Mechanics this month.
Israeli and British forensic
anthropologists and computer programmers
got together to create the face featured in the
1.2-million circulation magazine, which
occasionally veers from its usual coverage of
motors and tools to cover the merger of
science and religion.
This is not what the descendants of slaves in
the hot desert climate of Egypt would have
looked The Ashkenazi Jews today are White
European-Asian who originated in the region
north of the Caucuses who converted in the
ninth century. They spread through Eastern
Europe (Russia, Poland & Germany) and
intermarried with other Europeans. They
have no connection to Egypt.
The Jesus pictured on the cover of this month's Popular Mechanics has a broad peasant's face, dark
olive skin, short curly hair and a prominent nose. He would have stood 5-foot-1-inch tall and weighed
110 pounds, if the magazine is to be believed.
This representation is quite different from the typical lithe, long-haired, light-skinned and
delicate-featured depiction of the man Christians consider the son of God. "What did Jesus look like?"
the article asks. "An answer has emerged from an exciting new field of science: forensic anthropology."
How they started
Neave and a team of researchers started with an Israeli skull dating back to the 1st century.
They then used computer programs, clay, simulated skin and their knowledge about the Jewish people
of the time to determine the shape of the face, and color of eyes and skin.
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They turned to the Bible to determine the length of his hair. In the New Testament, "would Paul
(one of the apostles) have written, 'If a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him' if Jesus Christ had had
long hair?".
Hard to find a lot of evidence
"There is no way that we are saying this is the skull of Jesus," Popular Mechanic's Mike Fillon
told CNN. "Christians believe ... that Jesus' entire body was resurrected, so there would never be any
bones or skull or DNA evidence of Jesus. Plus, his ministry was very, very short. So it would be hard to
find a lot of evidence."
Instead the article focuses on describing the painstaking effort of imagining the face and how
science and theology both played a part in the process.
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Reader Comments
Those who thinks that Jesus does not look handsome in this picture, please understand that He
did not come to earth to act in Hollywood movies
Those people who find the picture offensive are not Christians. Jesus might have been
unattractive physically, but he taught us unconditional love.
If you can't love a person with a physical appearance that is far from your established
standards, then you don't love Jesus as you claim so you do not know how to love the way Jesus loved.
Some of you people are so shallow. If you believe in Jesus what difference does it make what he
looked like? Frankly I think if there is a Jesus he would be appalled by that type of thinking. I agree
with Gandhi, you Christians are so unlike your Christ.
It is interesting that Catholics want to believe everything about Jesus and even have pictures of
him of what THEY want him to look like. It would have been difficult for western Europeans falling love
with an olive skinned, dark hair 5 feet 2" savior from the middle east and a Jewish one.
The Catholic Church and its followers want a white skinned, blue eyed, tall, long flowing
brown hair California surfer type Jesus. For years Western Europe paid little attention to dark sinned
writers.
COME ON!!!! You have plenty of people from Judea/Palestine whose families have lived there,
and nowhere else, for as far back as anyone can remember. To see them is to see what Jesus "looked
like." The Bible did not focus on his appearance, but on what counted which was his life and
teachings.
Divinity doesn't make us look Aryan. Jesus wasn't a German wannabe. He was God's Son who
looked like everybody else at the time... he wasn't pretty either... The Bible says he was nothing great to
look at... nothing extraordinary. They didn't make this from former pictures or shrouds of dead people...
it is off of skulls and scientific addition of muscles and skin
“I saw Jesus in a dream, not ordinary dream-it was so real! He had light-brown shoulderlength hair, curly at the ends. His face was beautiful, full of kindness. Light textured. He was floating
about a foot above the ground. He was wearing long plain linen robe with long sleeves. He blessed
me, making a cross sign with his hand. I am absolutely sure- this is what he looks like.Our Lord JESUS
didn’t look like this man. HE had golden curly hair and very sweet and incredibly kind face.”
It does not matter what he looked like. His IMAGE does not matter. His SYMBOL does. What
he said and stood for over-triumphs all of the characteristics. He was born of their flesh and hence
looked of their flesh. It does not matter what he looked like, but rather, what he stood for and his
teachings.
I guess we can expect a protest group to start because of this and it will most likely be from a
group damning it as racist because Jesus isn't illustrated as their own ethnicity.
The point is, we have no idea what Jesus looked like when He walked the earth. We don't
know because we don't need to know. This piece here is meant to dispel the myth that Jesus is in fact
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the guy in all of those pictures. The Bible doesn't give us a description for a very good reason. We are
not supposed to make physical images of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is wrong to do so.
All I need to know is that Jesus died on the cross for my sins and the sins of all of his children.
Some of you need to know that this is not brain science. Jesus is the savior. Jesus did live as a man.
However he died on the cross for the sins of all of humanity.
No one will really know how Jesus Christ looked like. That also means he wasn't blonde with
blue eyes and standing 5'11 to 6'2. No! He was around the same height as every other human at that
time which was around 5’ to 5'5”.
Really, that's not such a bad thing is it? He was not white or fair skinned. But is that a bad thing
that he was not white skinned? No people! Understand all this.
Let me ask you this "real Christians"...If you died today and went to heaven and saw that Jesus
Christ was 5'3 long black hair with brown eyes and brown skin, would you turn around and head down
those steps to hell?
God did not want his Son followed merely because of his looks (like politicians of our modern
age) but because of what he had to say. In any regard, it's not what he looked like that matters outside
of normal human curiosity, but rather his message, his meaning for being here, and his sacrifice for us.
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What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians
Recognition would imply acceptance that they deserve to be treated as sub-humans. Opinion
(from Christian Science Monitor)
By John V. Whitbeck from the February 2, 2007 edition
ChristianScienceMonitor http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0202/p09s02-coop.html
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - Since the Palestinian elections in 2006, Israel and much of the West
have asserted that the principal obstacle to any progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace is the
refusal of Hamas to "recognize Israel," or to "recognize Israel's existence," or to "recognize Israel's
right to exist."
These three verbal formulations have been used by Israel, the United States, and the European
Union as a rationale for collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
The phrases are also used by the media, politicians, and even diplomats interchangeably, as
though they mean the same thing. They do not.
"Recognizing Israel" or any other state is a formal legal and diplomatic act by one state with
respect to another state. It is inappropriate – indeed, nonsensical – to talk about a political party or
movement extending diplomatic recognition to a state.
To talk of Hamas "recognizing Israel" is simply to use sloppy, confusing, and deceptive shorthand
for the real demand being made of the Palestinians.
Is it the 55 percent of historical Palestine recommended for a Jewish state by the UN General
Assembly in 1947?
The 78 percent of historical Palestine occupied by the Zionist movement in 1948 and now
viewed by most of the world as "Israel" or "Israel proper"?
The 100 percent of historical Palestine occupied by Israel since June 1967 and shown as
"Israel" (without any "Green Line") on maps in Israeli schoolbooks?
Israel has never defined its own borders, since doing so would necessarily place limits on them.
Still, if this were all that was being demanded of Hamas, it might be possible for the ruling
political party to acknowledge, as a fact of life, that a state of Israel exists today within some specified
borders. Indeed, Hamas leadership has effectively done so in recent weeks.
"Recognizing Israel's right to exist," the actual demand being made of Hamas and Palestinians,
is in an entirely different league. This formulation does not address diplomatic formalities or a simple
acceptance of present realities.
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It calls for a moral judgment. There is an enormous difference between "recognizing Israel's
existence" and "recognizing Israel's right to exist."
From a Palestinian perspective, the difference is in the same league as the difference between
asking a Jew to acknowledge that the Holocaust happened and asking him to concede that the
Holocaust was morally justified.
or Palestinians to acknowledge the occurrence of the Nakba – the expulsion of the great
majority of Palestinians from their homeland between 1947 and 1949 – is one thing. For them to
publicly concede that it was "right" for the Nakba to have happened would be something else entirely.
For the Jewish and Palestinian peoples, the Holocaust and the Nakba, respectively, represent
catastrophes and injustices on an unimaginable scale that can neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
To demand that Palestinians recognize "Israel's right to exist" is to demand that a people who
have been treated as sub-humans unworthy of basic human rights publicly proclaim that they are subhumans. It would imply Palestinians' acceptance that they deserve what has been done and continues
to be done to them.
Even 19th-century US governments did not require the surviving native Americans to publicly
proclaim the "rightness" of their ethnic cleansing by European colonists as a condition precedent to
even discussing what sort of land reservation they might receive.
Nor did native Americans have to live under economic blockade and threat of starvation until they shed
whatever pride they had left and conceded the point.
Etc., Etc.
• John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer, is the author of, "The World According to Whitbeck." He
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The Palestine Monitor – Israeli Settlements
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article7
Palestine Monitor factsheet - Updated: 17 December 2008
"Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal
and an obstacle to peace and to economic and social development [... and] have been established in
breach of international law."
International Court of Justice Ruling, July 9, 2004
Settlements: The Facts
There are currently 121 Israeli settlements and approximately 102 Israeli outposts built
illegally on Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967. All of these settlements and outposts are illegal
under international law and have been condemned by numerous United Nations Security Council
resolutions. Israeli outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law.
These settlements and outposts are inhabited by a population of some 462,000 Israeli settlers.
191,000 Israelis are living in settlements around Jerusalem and a further 271,400 are spread
throughout the West Bank.
The settler population has grown consistently between 4-6% per year over the last two
decades, a much higher rate of growth than Israel as a whole (1.5%).
Approximately 385,000 settlers in 80 settlements will be located between the Separation Wall
and the Green Line if Israel holds to projected plans.
In 2008, amidst the ‘settlement freeze’ agreed upon in the Annapolis framework, tenders for
new settlement building increased by 550% from 2007. Actual settlement construction has increased by
30% since the launching of the new round of peace talks. Settlement building around Jerusalem has
increased by a factor of 38.
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A total of 9,000 further housing units have been approved in East Jerusalem, and
approximately 2,600 new housing units are being built east of the Separation Wall, comprising 55% of
all settlement construction activity.
The Israeli settlements
The Israeli Settler movement has continued growing and expanding throughout the last few
decades in spite of the international condemnation it has accrued for Israel, and regardless of which
political party holds sway in Tel Aviv.
That is to say that settlement building on the land occupied in 1967 is not a policy of either the
right or the left; it is the policy of Israel. Even those in Israel who now loudly call for a swift two-state
solution, for fear that it will soon become impossible, have done little or nothing to stop the expansion
of.
Settlers and settlements compose one of the most difficult challenges to peace. Those who selfidentify as settlers are ideologically committed to staying on their land regardless of what their
government or military think.
Many of these settlers have built their communities in areas east of Israel proper and often east
of the illegal separation Wall that encloses the majority of illegal settlements.
These settlers are often willing to use violence against both Israelis and Palestinians to have
their way, and have stepped up their acts of terror and intimidation.
It is important to remember that though the settlements and settlers themselves are significant
obstacles to peace, the infrastructure which unite them to Israel proper pose even more difficult
challenges, as by-pass roads between settlements slice the West Bank into a series of economically
and politically isolated ‘bantustans’. Furthermore, settlements are located in strategic areas which
capture vital resources such as water and agricultural land.
Israel’s continued insistence upon the legitimacy of the settler movement provides a tough
challenge for negotiators who are able to recognize the inherent impossibility of maintaining nearly
half a million hostile citizens of Israel in a future, highly incontiguous Palestinian state. Regardless, the
movement continues to grow stronger day by day.
Since 1967, successive Israeli governments have established settlements in violation of
international law; colonizing Palestinian territories in order to consolidate and secure control of these
areas and prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state.
Originally used to describe any new Jewish development in Israel, the term ‘settlements’ now
refers to Jewish-only housing units built in strategic areas of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, on land
occupied by Israel in 1967.
Settlement vs. Outpost
Most settlements begin as ‘outposts’. Of the more than 120 settlement outposts in the West
Bank, 58 were established after March 2001. Neither the Road Map, nor the successive UN resolutions,
contain or respect Israel’s domestic distinction between legal and illegal settlements or outposts.
Settler Violence
Settlers often carry out violent attacks against Palestinians and their property with complete
legal immunity, and often with more than implicit sup-port from the military itself.
In fact, Israeli soldiers often protect and assist settlers, and legal proceedings are rarely brought
against them.
According to OCHA, 80-90% of the files opened against Israeli settlers following attacks on
Pales-tinians and their property are regularly closed by the Israeli police without prosecution.
In the first eight months of 2008, there were a total of 112 people injured as a result of settler
attacks. Nearly 80% of these incidents have occurred in the Hebron district.
Settlements and International Law
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Israeli settlements are illegal under every basic reading of international law:
Article 46 of the Hague Convention prohibits confiscation of private property in occupied
territory. Article 55 of the same Hague Convention stipulates “the occupying state shall be regarded
only as administrator of public buildings, real estate, forests, and agricultural estates belonging to the
hostile State, and situated in the occupied country. It must safeguard the capital of these properties, and
administer them in accordance with the rules of usufruct”.
Article 49, paragraph 6 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that “the occupying power shall
not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies”.
UN Security Council Resolution 465 (1980-unanimously adopted) made it clear that “Israel’s
policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants” in the Occupied Territories
constitutes “a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle
East”.
The Security Council called upon Israel to “dismantle the existing settlements and in particular
to cease the establishment, construction or planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied
since 1967, including Jerusalem”.
The 2004 ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague declared that “Israeli
settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and an obstacle
to peace and to economic and social development”.
Settlements in the Annapolis Process
At the Annapolis Conference Israel and the Palestinians renewed their respective commitments under
the Road Map. Chief among Israel’s obligations are “[freezing] all settlement activity (including
natural growth of settlements)” and “immediately [dismantling] settlement outposts erected since
March 2001”.
Despite Israel’s commitment during the Annapolis Summit to freeze all settlement activity,
construction has continued and almost doubled in all of the settlements and outposts on both sides of
the Separation Barrier.
“Since Annapolis, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other senior Israeli officials have repeatedly
made clear that Israel would not implement a genuine settlement freeze. Among other things, Olmert
has said that Israel would continue building in settlements in and around East Jerusalem as well as in
the so-called settlement ‘blocs’, thus effectively negating the very purpose of the freeze.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that “the United States doesn’t make a distinction”
between settlement activity in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, Israeli officials continue to
make unilateral exemptions to their settlement freeze obligations”.
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The Palestine Monitor – East Jerusalem
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article5
Palestine Monitor factsheet - Updated: 16 December 2008
“The 75 km Wall being built in East Jerusalem is an instrument of social engineering designed
to achieve the Judaization of Jerusalem by reducing the number of Palestinians in the city.”
Professor John Dugard, UN Special Rapporteur
East Jerusalem: The Facts
A 2006 study estimated that 62% of Palestinians in East Jerusalem live in poverty, as compared
with 23% of Jewish families in East Jerusalem. In 2005 the Arab and Jewish birthrates in Jerusalem
were equivalent at 3.9 children per woman.
In the first three years of occupation, Israel confiscated 18270 dunums (18,27 sq kms) of
Palestinian land. By 1991 that number had reached 23378 dunums (23,4 sq kms).
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By 2007, the Wall resulted in the confiscation of land belonging to 19.2% of Palestinian families
in Jerusalem.
From 1967 until the end of 2006, Israel had revoked the residency rights of around 8,269
Palestinian Jerusalemites.
East Jerusalem
In the 1947 UN Partition Plan (See rear inside cover in the PDF) Jerusalem was declared a
‘corpus separatum’ to be placed under a special international regime administered by the UN.
The UN Partition Plan was not accepted by Palestinians, nor the larger Arab world, resulting in
the 1948 war in which Israel captured up to 85% of the city, primarily in the west, while the Jordanian
army held onto 11% primarily in the east. The remaining 4% was considered ‘no man’s land’.
64,000-80,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes in West Jerusalem and 40
of the surrounding villages, which were destroyed by Israeli forces to preclude the return of their
inhabitants.
The property, homes and possessions of Palestinians were considered ‘left’ by the previous
inhabitants under Israel’s 1950 Absentee Property Law and transferred to the Israeli state.
The remaining 15% of Jerusalem, including the ‘Old City’, remained in the hands of
Palestinians until it too was captured by Israel in the war of 1967.
After having ‘unified’ the city, Israel began to implement a complex series of policies and
regulations meant to control or expel the remaining Palestinian population, so as to build a strong Jewish
majority in the city.
In 1980, the Israeli government officially annexed East Jerusalem by amending the “Basic Law”
to extend Israeli jurisdiction to the occupied area of the city. The annexation of Jerusalem by Israel has
had two important consequences for Palestinians revolving around culture and economics.
Culturally and historically Jerusalem was the original capital of Islam, where the Prophet
Mohammed not only began his ministry, but from where he also ascended to heaven.
After the center of Islam moved to the Arabian Peninsula, Jerusalem, or ‘Al Quds’ as it is known
in Arabic, remained its third most holy site.
Economically, the severing of Jerusalem from Palestine can be likened to the removal of the
hub of a bicycle wheel. The cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Nablus to name only a few,
developed as suburbs over time like the spokes of a wheel - all connected to and dependent upon
Jerusalem as the center of trade and commerce.
The removal of the hub has left each of the spokes disconnected and economically impotent greatly hampering the economic development of the occupied Palestinian territories.
Despite international law, and the implications that Jerusalem has for the viability of a future
Palestinian state, Israel has thus far refused to put the city on the negotiating table.
It is highly unlikely that any Palestinian leader would be able to sign an accord which does not
include East Jerusalem in a Palestinian state as it would exacerbate the economic challenges of statebuilding and deliver a heavy blow to the pride of not only Palestinians, but the entirety of the Muslim
and Christian world.
Land Confiscation
In the 1949 Armistice Agreement Jerusalem was divided between Israel in the West and the
Jordanian East Jerusalem. In 1950 the ‘Absentee Proberty Law’ was passed transferring all property
considered ‘abandoned’ during the war, to the Israeli state.
In the late 1980’s a number of properties in Silwan and the Muslim Quarter in the Old City were
turned over to the Custodian for Absentee Property, and then to a settler organization.
In June 1967, Israel unilaterally expanded the boundaries of Jerusalem by annexing some 70 sq
kms to the municipal boundaries of the West Bank area and evicting “over 6,000 Palestinians from the
Old City’s Mughrabi Quarter (…) in order to create a plaza in front of Al-Buraq (the Western Wall)”.
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Following the Six-Day War and the annexing of Palestine, Jerusalem was declared capital of
Israel. This prompted the UN GA to pass a resolution (2253), which ordered Israel “to desist forthwith
from taking any action which would alter the status of Jerusalem”.
However Israel, in the first three years of occupation, confiscated 18270 dunums (18,27 sq
kms) of Palestinian land - by 1991 that number had reached 23378 dunums (23,4 sq kms).
The construction of the separation Wall is also important in terms of land confiscation. By
2007, the Wall resulted in the confiscation of land belonging to Palestinian families in Jerusalem.
Over the course of the occupation, Israel has expropriated over 60,000 dunums (60 sq kms) of
Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem, all of which have been converted exclusively to Jewish use.
This is 86,5% of the total land area of occupied East Jerusalem.
House Demolition
According to the Fourth Geneva Convention as signed by Israel, an Occupying Power is
prohibited from destroying property or making use of collective punishment. Article 53 states that;
“Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or
collectively to private persons, to the State, to other public authorities, or to social or cooperative
organizations, is prohibited, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military
operations”.
East Jerusalem is regarded ‘occupied territory’ by the United Nations, therefore, the practice
of demolishing Palestinian houses is not legal.Many Palestinian Jersusalemites choose to construct
buildings without permits, which provides the Ministry of Interior and the Jerusalem Municipality the
pretext to demolish their homes.
Residency & ID
From 1967 until the end of 2006, Israel had revoked the residency rights of around 8,269
Palestinian Jerusalemites. Losing residency means losing the right to live in Jerusalem, access to social
services and the right to travel within and out of Israel.
Palestinian ‘permanent residents’ of Jerusalem are not entitled to an Israeli passport and they
are not allowed to participate in Israeli national elections.
They do have the right to participate in Jerusalem municipal elections, but most residents
choose not to, as a principled protest over the Israeli controlled East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem under International Law
Israel unilaterally annexed East Jerusalem in June 1967 and extended Israeli law, jurisdiction,
and administration to this part of the city. In 1980, the Knesset passed the Basic Law, which declared
Jerusalem the Capital of Israel, including East Jerusalem.
In response to Israel’s expansion of the Jerusalem borders, UNSCR 252 of 1968 states that the
Security Council “Considers that all legislative measures by Israel, including expropriation of land and
properties thereon, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and cannot change
that status”.
In response to Israel’s annexing of occupied East Jerusalem, UNSCR 476 of 1980 states that the
Security Council “Reconfirms that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel,
the occupying Power, which purport to alter the character and status of Jerusalem have no legal validity
and constitute a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians. “The
City of Jerusalem shall be established as a corpus separatum under a special inter-national regime and
shall be administered by the United Nations". See Map on inside rear cover in the PDF.
This point was further restated in UN General As-sembly Resolutions 303 of 1949. Despite
these resolutions, the Judaization of Jerusalem and the oppression of the remaining Palestinians
continues right into the present.
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A list of UN Resolutions against "Israel"
Here is a list of UN resolutions that Israel has not complied. Israel has ignored every single
resolution. It involves the serious distortion of the official Security Council record by the
profligate use by the United States of its veto power. (See Table). This collection of resolutions
criticizing Israel is unmatched by the record of any other nation.
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www.hamdden.co.uk
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/un.html
1955-1992:
* Resolution 106: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid".
* Resolution 111: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people".
* Resolution 127: " . . .
'recommends' Israel suspends it's 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem".
* Resolution 162: " . . .
'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions".
* Resolution 171: " . . .
determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria".
* Resolution 228: " . . .
'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under
Jordanian control".
* Resolution 237: " . . .
'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees".
* Resolution 248: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan".
* Resolution 250: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem".
* Resolution 251: " . . .
'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of
Resolution 250".
* Resolution 252: " . . .
'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital".
* Resolution 256: " . . .
'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation".
* Resolution 259: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation".
* Resolution 262: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport".
* Resolution 265: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan".
* Resolution 267: " . . .
'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of
Jerusalem".
*Resolution 270: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon".
* Resolution 271: " . . .
'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem".
* Resolution 279: " . . .
'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 280: " . . .
'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 285: " . . .
'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon".
* Resolution 298: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem".
* Resolution 313: " . . .
'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 316: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon".
* Resolution 317: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon".
* Resolution 332: " . . .
'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 337: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty".
* Resolution 347: " . . .
'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon".
* Resolution 425: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 427: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
* Resolution 444: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces".
* Resolution 446: " . . .
'determines' that Israeli settlements are a ' obstruction' to peace and
calls Israel to abide by Fourth Geneva Convention".
* Resolution 450: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon".
* Resolution 452: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupiedterritories".
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* Resolution 465: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member states not to assist
Israel's settlements program".
* Resolution 467: " . . .
'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon".
* Resolution 468: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and
a judge and to facilitate their return".
* Resolution 469: " . . .
'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the council's order not to
deport Palestinians".
* Resolution 471: " . . .
'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva
Convention".
* Resolution 476: " . . .
'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".
* Resolution 478: " . . .
'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its
'Basic Law'".
* Resolution 484: " . . .
'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian
mayors".
* Resolution 487: " . . .
'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's nuclear facility".
* Resolution 497: " . . .
'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is 'null and void'
and demands that Israel rescinds its decision".
* Resolution 498: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon".
* Resolution 501: " . . .
'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops".
* Resolution 509: " . . .
'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally
from Lebanon".
* Resolution 515: " . . .
'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut allow food supplies to be
brought in".
* Resolution 517: " . . .
'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that
Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 518: " . . .
'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon".
* Resolution 520: " . . .
'condemns' Israel's attack into Beirut".
* Resolution 573: " . . .
'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO
headquarters.
* Resolution 587: " . . .
'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces
from
Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw".
* Resolution 592: " . . .
'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University
by Israeli troops".
* Resolution 605: " . . .
'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices denying the human
rights of Palestinians.
* Resolution 607: " . . .
'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and to abide by the Fourth
Geneva Convention.
* Resolution 608: " . . .
'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported
Palestinian civilians".
* Resolution 636: " . . .
'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.
* Resolution 641: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians.
* Resolution 672: " . . .
'condemns' Israel for violence against Palestinians at the Haram alSharif/Temple Mount.
* Resolution 673: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United Nations.
* Resolution 681: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of Palestinians.
* Resolution 694: " . . .
'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure
their safe and immediate return.
* Resolution 726: " . . .
'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians.
* Resolution 799: ". . .
'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for
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their immediate return.
1993 to 1995
UNGA Res 50/21 - The Middle East Peace Process (Dec 12, 1995)
UNGA Res 50/22 - The Situation in the Middle East (Dec 12, 1995)
UNGA Res 49/35 - Assistance to Palestinian Refugees (Jan 30 1995) l
UNGA Res 49/36 - Human Rights of Palestinian Refugees (Jan 30 1995)
UNGA Res 49/62 - Question of Palestine (Feb 3 1995)
UNGA Res 49/78 - Nuclear Proliferation in Mideast (Jan 11 1995)
UNGA Res 49/87 - Situation in the Middle East (Feb 7 1995)
UNGA Res 49/88 - The Middle East Peace Process (Feb 7 1995)
UNGA Res 49/149- Palestinian Right- Self-Determination (Feb 7 1995)
UNGA Res 48/213 - Assistance to Palestinian Refugees (Mar 15, 1994)
UNGA Res 48/40 - UNRWA for Palestinian Refugees (Dec 13, 1993)
UNGA Res 48/41 - Human Rights in the Territories (Dec 10 1993)
UNGA Res 48/58 - The Middle East Peace Process (Dec 14 1993)
UNGA Res 48/59 - The Situation in the Middle East (Dec 14 1993)
UNGA Res 48/71 - Nuclear- Free Zone in Mideast (Dec 16 1993)
UNGA Res 48/78 - Israeli Nuclear Armanent (Dec 16 1993)
UNGA Res 48/94 - Self-Determination & Independence (Dec 20 1993)
UNGA Res 48/124- Non-interference in Elections (Dec 20 1993)
UNGA Res 48/158- Question of Palestine (Dec 20 1993)
UNGA Res 48/212- Repercussions of Israeli Settlements (Dec 21 1993)
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
Subject Vetoes: 1972-1982Date & MeetingUS Rep Casting VetoVote
* Palestine: Syrian-Lebanese Complaint. 3 power draft resolution 2/107849/10/1972Bush13-1, 1
* Palestine: Examination of Middle East Situation. 8-power draft resolution (S/10974)7/2/1973Scali13-1, 0
* Palestine: Egyptian-Lebanese Complaint. 5-power draft power resolution (S/11898)12/8/1975Moynihan13-1,
1
* Palestine: Middle East Problem, including Palestinian question. 6-power draft resolution
(S/11940)1/26/1976Moynihan9-1,3
* Palestine: Situation in Occupied Arab Territories. 5-power draft resolution (S/12022)3/25/1976Scranton14-1,0
* Palestine: Report on Committee on Rights of Palestinian People. 4-power draft resolution
(S/121119)6/29/1976Sherer10-1,4
* Palestine: Palestinian Rights. Tunisian draft resolution. (S/13911)4/30/1980McHenry10-1,4
* Palestine: Golan Heights. Jordan draft resolution. (S/14832/Rev. 2)1/20/1982Kirkpatrick9-1,5
* Palestine: Situation in Occupied Territories, Jordan draft resolution (S/14943)4/2/1982Lichenstein13-1,1
* Palestine: Incident at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. 4-power draft resolution4/20/1982Kirpatrick14-1, 0
* Palestine: Conflict in Lebanon. Spain draft resolution. (S/15185)6/8/1982Kirpatrick14-1,0
* Palestine: Conflict in Lebanon. France draft resolution. (S/15255/Rev. 2)6/26/1982Lichenstein14-1
* Palestine: Conflict in Lebanon. USSR draft resolution. (S/15347/Rev. 1, as orally
amended)8/6/1982Lichenstein11-1,3
* Palestine: Situation in Occupied Territories, 20-power draft resolution (S/15895)8/2/1983Lichenstein13-1,1
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Subject-Date-Vote
* Occupied Arab Territories: Wholesale condemnation of Israeli settlement policies - not adopted1983
* S. Lebanon: Condemns Israeli action in southern Lebanon. S/167329/6/1984Vetoed: 13-1 (U.S.), with 1
abstention (UK)
* Occupied Territories: Deplores "repressive measures" by Israel against Arab population.
S/19459.9/13/1985Vetoed: 10-1 (U.S.), with 4 abstentions (Australia, Denmark, UK, France)
* Lebanon: Condemns Israeli practices against civilians in southern Lebanon. S/17000.3/12/1985Vetoed: 11-1
(U.S.), with 3 abstentions (Australia, Denmark, UK)
* Occupied Territories: Calls upon Israel to respect Muslim holy places. S/17769/Rev. 11/30/1986 Vetoed: 13-1
(US), with one abstention (Thailand)
* Lebanon: Condemns Israeli practices against civilians in southern Lebanon. S/17730/Rev. 2.1/17/1986Vetoed:
11-1 (U.S.), with 3 abstentions (Australia, Denmark, UK)
* Libya/Israel: Condemns Israeli interception of Libyan plane. S/17796/Rev. 1.2/6/1986Vetoed: 10 -1 (US), with
4 abstentions (Australia, Denmark, France, UK)
* Lebanon: Draft strongly deplored repeated Israeli attacks against Lebanese territory and other measures and
practices against the civilian population; (S/19434)1/18/1988vetoed 13-1 (US), with 1 abstention (UK)
* Lebanon: Draft condemned recent invasion by Israeli forces of Southern
* Lebanon and repeated a call for
the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Lebanese territory; (S/19868)5/10/1988vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Lebanon: Draft deplored recent Israeli attack against Lebanese territory on 9 December 1988;
(S/20322)12/14/1988vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Occupied territories: Draft called on Israel to accept de jure applicability of 4th Geneva
Convention; (S/19466)1988vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Occupied territories: Draft urged Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention, rescind the order to
deport Palestinian civilians, condemned policies and practices of Israel that violate the human rights of the
Palestinian people in the occupied territories; (S/19780)1988vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Occupied territories: Strongly deplored Israeli policies and practices in the occupied territories, and strongly
deplored also Israel's continued disregard of relevant Security Council decisions.2/17/1989Vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Occupied territories: Condemned Israeli policies and practices in the occupied territories.6/9/1989Vetoed 141 (US)
* Occupied territories: Deplored Israel's policies and practices in the occupied territories.11/7/1989Vetoed 14-1
(US)
* Occupied territories: NAM draft resolution to create a commission and send three security council members
to Rishon Lezion, where an Israeli gunmen shot down seven Palestinian workers.5/31/1990Vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Middle East: Confirms that the expropriation of land by Israel in East Jerusalem is invalid and in violation of
relevant Security Council resolutions and provisions of the Fourth Geneva convention;5/17/1995Vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Middle East: Calls upon Israeli authorities to refrain from all actions or measures, including settlement
activities.3/7/1997Vetoed 14-1 (US)
* Middle East: Demands that Israel cease construction of the settlement in east Jerusalem (called Jabal Abu
Ghneim by the Palestinians and Har Homa by Israel), as well as all the other Israeli settlement activity in the
occupied territories3/21/1997Vetoed 13-1,1 (US)
* Call for UN Observers Force in West Bank, Gaza3/27/2001Vetoed 9-1 (US),
with four abstentions
(Britain, France, Ireland and Norway)
* Condemned acts of terror, demanded an end to violence and the establishment of a monitoring mechanism
to bring in observers.12/15/2001Vetoed 12-1 (US)
with two abstentions (Britain and Norway)
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SECTION – 8 (Articles downloaded from the Internet)
BBC News:
Gaza homes destruction 'wanton'
March 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7926413.stm
BBC News:
Demolitions build Jerusalem tension
April 2009, UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8016258.stm
BBC News: Israel warns European critics
April 2009, UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8026941.stm
BBC News:
UN: Freeze Jerusalem demolitions
UN laments choking of Bethlehem
May 2009, UK
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BBC News:
Analysis: America's new Christian Zionists 2002
BBC News: Gaza crisis: key maps and timeline 2009/06/16
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7812136.stm
BBC News: Gaza Crisis – Blockade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7812136.stm2/hi/middle_east/8102631.stm
The Guardian In the name of God
John Sutherland, August 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/30/israel.usa1
The Guardian Meet the new Zionists
Matthew Engel October 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/28/usa.israel
The Guardian, Their beliefs are bonkers
G. Monbiot April 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/20/usa.uselections2004/print
The Guardian, Apocalypse Soon
Rev. Giles Fraser Monday, June, 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0609-07.htm
The Los Angeles Times, An Unholy Alliance in Support of Israel
May 19, 2002
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0519-05.htm
The New York Times, Seeing Islam as 'Evil', By L. GOODSTEIN
May, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/national/27ISLA.html?ex=1055304000&en=
CBS News Zion's Christian Soldiers
by Mary Jayne McKay June, 2003
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/03/60minutes/main524268.shtml
Washington Post -The Evangelical-Israeli Connection
Bill Broadway
March 27, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId
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Gaza homes destruction 'wanton'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7926413.stm
Amnesty said the way houses had fallen suggested they had been blown up from under walls and
pillars. Human rights investigators say Israeli forces engaged in "wanton destruction" of Palestinian
homes during the recent conflict in Gaza. Amnesty International has told the BBC News website the
methods used raised concerns about war crimes.
Israeli troops had to leave their vehicles to plant the mines, indicating that they faced no danger
and that there was no military or operational justification, she said. Breaking the Silence, an Israeli
group that gathers and circulates the testimonies of Israeli soldiers, has also told the BBC News
website that its findings from the Gaza war suggested many demolitions had been carried out when
there was no immediate threat.
"From the testimonies that we've gathered, lots of demolitions - buildings demolished either by
bulldozers or explosives - were done after the area was under Israeli control," said Yehuda Shaul, one
of the group's members.
Thousands of buildings were destroyed in the 22-day Israeli operation. Some of them were
police stations, mosques and government premises attacked in targeted airstrikes.
Reduced to rubble
There were also whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble in areas where the Israeli ground
forces were present. Ms Rovera said Amnesty International was concerned about "large scale
destruction of homes and other civilian properties" during the conflict. "The destruction was, in our
view, and according to our findings, wanton destruction - it could not be justified on military grounds,"
she said.
Ms Rovera said her team found fragments of anti-tank mines in and around destroyed properties.
Their use was also consistent with remains of houses, collapsed in on themselves as if blown up from
below, rather than destroyed from above as in an airstrike.
Troops would have had to leave their armoured vehicles to plant them and rig up the
detonators, she said. "Unless those operating on the ground felt not just 100% but 200% secure - that
the places were not booby trapped, that they wouldn't come under fire - they could not have got out
of the vehicles," she said. "They would not have used that method." Ms Rovera said.
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BBC News: Demolitions build Jerusalem tension
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8016258.stm
Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:47 UK By Katya Adler BBC News, Jerusalem
Five young children cling to their mother. All of them are crying. This morning, without
warning, Israeli bulldozers came to destroy their home in East Jerusalem.
Speaking amongst the mangled remains of her house, Samia Ihdaidoon says she was still sleeping
when Israel's police arrived. "They came pounding on the doors and climbed in through the bedroom
window as if it was a raid. They said I had five minutes to put on my scarf and collect our valuables, then
I had to get out. It's a shock for the children. I'm in despair." Israel says the Ihdaidoon's house was
demolished because it was built illegally. Angry neighbours congregate in the rubble. Samia Ihdaidoon
says she and her family were given five minutes to vacate their home The Ihdaidoon family have
salvaged some of their belongings
Osama Zahaika told us Israel makes it almost impossible for Palestinians to get building permits
in East Jerusalem. "As a Palestinian I know why they do it. Israel doesn't want us here. My house, most
of the Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem are illegal. Not granting us construction permission,
demolishing our houses. It's a form of quiet transfer," Mr Zahaika says.
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"People like to talk of human rights. Where are human rights here? If you destroy a family home in
winter, it's cold. In summer, it's hot. At the same time Israelis can build and live in East Jerusalem
without being disturbed. Is it one rule for us, one rule for the Jews, the Israelis?" Israel's Association for
Civil Rights says Jerusalem's municipality uses planning regulations to curb Palestinian construction.
Hundreds of East Jerusalem Palestinians have lost their homes over the past few years, thanks to
demolition orders. Israeli NGO's, such as B'Tselem, warn that close to 2,000 could face the same fate
over the next months. If current demolition orders are carried out, this would be the largest loss of
Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem since Israel captured the territory just over 40 years ago.
At the same time, Jewish Israeli citizens are moving in to the area. This is illegal under international
law as East Jerusalem is occupied territory, though Israel disputes this and has annexed the
area. Palestinians fear this could mean the end of a dream - to one day have East Jerusalem as the
capital of their own state. The international community's Middle East envoy Tony Blair told me this
cannot be allowed to happen.
"The only two-state solution which will work is one that is fair and that will mean East Jerusalem as
the capital of a Palestinian state. It will also mean that it is a state that is viable in terms of its
territory." The issue of home demolitions is now attracting widespread international attention. As we
stood, hot and dusty, amongst the Ihdaidoon's rubble, four smart, shiny United Nations cars powered
towards us.
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BBC News: Israel warns European critics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8026941.stm
Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:57 UK
Israel has told the European Union to stop criticising Benjamin Netanyahu's government or risk
being excluded from future Middle East peace negotiations.
The warning comes ahead of the first European trip by Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's new foreign
minister. Israeli media say the warnings have been issued by the deputy director for European affairs at
the Israeli foreign ministry, Rafi Barak. His main target the EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita
Ferrero-Waldner. The UK embassy in Tel Aviv has confirmed it was contacted by Mr Barak but refused to
disclose details of the conversation. Etc., Etc.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to back the principle of a Palestinian state
while Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is a "dead end".
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BBC News: UN: Freeze Jerusalem demolitions
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8028564.stm
Friday, 1 May 2009 14:34 UK
The UN has asked Israel to freeze all pending demolition orders in East Jerusalem and to do
more to provide for the housing needs of Palestinians.
Almost a third of all Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem have been built without a permit, says a
UN report. This puts 60,000 Palestinians at risk of having their houses demolished by Israeli
authorities. Etc., Etc.
Palestinians wanting to build a home can only seek permission to do so in a small area. It
comprises about 13% of East Jerusalem and is already densely populated. Out of the quarter of a
million Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, the UN says, 60,000 are at risk of having their homes
demolished by the Israeli authorities. Etc., Etc.
The UN report says that approximately 1,500 demolition orders have been issued and are
pending. If carried out they would make 9000 people homeless, half of them children. Those who build
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illegally not only risk losing their home, but also "face heavy fines imposed by the Jerusalem
municipality and, in some cases prison sentences".
Hardest hit are the children, says the report. "In the immediate aftermath of demolitions,
children often face gaps in education and limited access to basic services such as health care and clean
water. Longer-term impacts include symptoms of psychological distress
Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. It has annexed the city and declared its east and
west Israel's eternal capital. This is not recognised by the international community, with the east of
the city considered occupied territory.
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BBC News: Palestinian water crisis deepens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8007801.stm
Monday, 20 April 2009 12:07 UK
A World Bank report blames Palestinian mismanagement and Israeli restrictions for severe
water shortages in Palestinian areas. Palestinians get only a quarter of the water Israelis have access
to. The existing problems affect not just daily supply but the development of water resources, water
uses and wastewater management.
"Water related humanitarian crisis are in fact chronic in Gaza and parts of the West Bank," says the
report. For their water Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are completely depended on
scarce resources controlled by Israel. This has led to "systematic and severe constraints on Palestinian
development of water resources", says the report. Etc., Etc.
The mismanagement is made worse by movement and access restrictions which Palestinians live
under. As a result Israelis have about four times as much water available to them as people in the
West Bank and Gaza. Israeli officials said the report was "grossly misleading" as Israel had a much more
developed industrial sector which could skew the assessment. But in Gaza 150,000 Palestinians have no
access to tap water at all, a report in the Palestine Telegraph says.
According to the local utility provider, several wells have been destroyed during the Israeli
offensive earlier this year. Since then only three out of 80 trucks with spare parts and pipes for the
water system have been allowed to enter Gaza. Severe damages to two wastewater treatment plants
could not be repaired and continue to affect water quality.
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BBC News: UN laments choking of Bethlehem
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8037467.stm
Thursday, 7 May 2009 10:45 UK
The UN has accused Israel of restricting development of the Bethlehem region in the West
Bank. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said just 13% of land around
Bethlehem was open for use by the Palestinian population.
It said the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ was hemmed in by Israeli settlements and
military zones as well as Israel's West Bank barrier. An Israeli foreign ministry official said the issue was
beyond Ocha's remit.
Next week, Pope Benedict is due to celebrate Mass in Bethlehem , a Palestinian governorate
which is home to 175,000 inhabitants, including many Christians.
Two-thirds of the governorate's 660 sq km (255 sq miles) has been under Israeli control and
about 86,000 Israelis live in settlements and outposts in the governorate, Ocha says. Israel occupied
the West Bank in the 1967 war and its settlement activity is regarded as illegal under international
law, although Israel disputes this.
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"Israeli measures have radically reduced the space available to the inhabitants of Bethlehem,
compromising the future economic and social development of the governorate," the Ocha report says.
Etc., Etc.
The international peace plan known as the road map called on Israel to halt all construction in the
settlements, although observers say construction has never ceased.
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BBC News: Analysis: America's new Christian Zionists
Tuesday, 7 May, 2002, 12:24 GMT 13:24 UK
Since 11 September support among Americans for Israel has grown massively as many now see
the Middle East conflict as the frontline in the US "War on Terror". Joining well-established Jewish
lobby groups in America is a new and powerful phenomenon - Christian Zionism. There are an
estimated 40 million Christian Conservatives in America and they may be in a position to wield
unprecedented influence in support of Israel.
Fundraising
At the Cornerstone Church in Texas 5,000 Christian worshippers cheer in support of Israel.
"Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish state. Not since Camp David but since King David," says
their leader, Pastor John Hagee.
Many high profile Israeli politicians have addressed this congregation, among them former
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Cornerstone Church is by no means unique in America.
Republican activist Gary Bauer says there is growing support for Israel from Christian Conservatives.
This new movement is forging an alliance with American Jewish organisations. They rely on
grass-roots activists, encouraged by boosters like Nachum Segal. He hosts America's biggest Jewish
radio show - JM in the AM - Jewish Moments in the Morning. Mr Segal constantly urges his listeners to
work in support of Israel.
The best-known pro-Israel lobby group is Aipac, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.
It is rated as one of the top five lobbying groups in Washington. "Aipac has a lot of influence on foreign
policy," says JJ Goldberg, editor of the Jewish newspaper The Forward. "They work hard to ensure that
America endorses pretty much Israel's view of the world and the Middle East." Aipac says its main role
is providing information and denies that it puts pressure on politicians to support Israel.
Some left of centre activists like MJ Rosenberg of the Israeli Policy Forum are worried about the
new alliance between hawkish Jewish groups and Christian conservatives. They fear it may constrain
President George W Bush's ability to mediate fairly between the Israelis and the Palestinians. "It's more
than damaging," he says. "It's frightening." But Congressman Robert Wexler ridicules suggestions that
Israel's supporters control American policy in the Middle East. Instead, he says, America supports
Israel because they share fundamental values.
"Americans are just solid, rock-solid with the people of Israel," says Congressman Wexler. "It is a
democratic nation and a freedom-loving people and a very decent people and they deserve to have a
free and secure state."
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BBC News: Carter 'distressed' by Gaza visit
"deliberately destroyed by bombs from F-16s made in my country and delivered
to the Israelis".
Published: 2009/06/16 11:19:45 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/8102631.stm
Former US President Jimmy Carter has said he had to "hold back tears" while viewing destruction
on a visit to Gaza. He is due to meet leaders from Hamas, which controls Gaza but is considered a
terrorist group by western countries. The veteran politician is expected to hand over a letter for
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captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from his family. He condemned "deliberate" destruction in Israel's
January offensive,
The former US president, who brokered the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace deal, has long advocated
engagement with the militant Hamas movement as crucial for progress on peace. The BBC's Aleem
Maqbool in Gaza says he is one of the highest profile figures to visit Gaza for years. While Mr Carter is
not visiting in an official capacity, many in Gaza hope he has the ear of US President Barack Obama, our
correspondent says.
Visiting the American School in Gaza, damaged in Israel's three-week operation, Mr Carter said
"it's very distressing to me". He said the school had been
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BBC News: Gaza crisis: key maps and timeline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7812136.stm
Israeli forces ended their offensive against Hamas in Gaza on Saturday, 17 January, following the
declaration of ceasefires by Hamas and Israel. Highlighted below are some of the main buildings
identified as destroyed or damaged in Gaza City and the surrounding area based on analysis by Unosat
of satellite imagery taken on 19 January.
The image, taken for Unosat at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, has helped
researchers identify at least 1,008 destroyed or damaged buildings. The map below shows the main
areas attacked in the three weeks of violence. Palestinian medical sources say more than 1,010
Palestinians were killed in the violence, which began on 27 December 2008. Israel says 13 Israelis died,
including 10 soldiers in the campaign and three civilians killed as a result of rocket fire from
Gaza.
Gaza crisis: key maps and timeline
The Gaza Strip is a narrow piece of land along the Mediterranean coast
between Israel and Egypt.
Just 40km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, it is home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians. The
shape of the territory was defined by the Armistice Line following the creation of Israel in 1948 and the
subsequent war between the Israeli and Arab armies. Egypt administered the Strip for the next 19
years, but Israel captured it during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and Gaza has been under Israeli control
since then.
Gaza City is the Strip's biggest population centre and has about 400,000 inhabitants. As in other
towns in Gaza, there are high levels of poverty, deprivation and unemployment in Gaza City. It was the
scene of frequent deadly clashes between gunmen from the rival Hamas and Fatah factions. Under
Hamas rule, law and order in the strip improved, though Hamas security forces have been accused of
abuses. Over the years, Israeli air strikes targeting militants in the densely populated areas have
often killed bystanders as well.
Gaza's other two main population centres are Khan Younis (population 200,000) in central Gaza
and Rafah (population 150,000) in the south. The majority of Gaza's residents are from refugee families
which fled or were expelled from the land that became Israel in 1948. Most Gazans live in eight refugee
camps to which the United Nations delivers health, education and other humanitarian services. Some
of the camps have merged with nearby towns, while others such as Nuseirat and Bureij are selfcontained.
The influx of refugees into the narrow strip of land means it now has one of the highest
population densities on earth. About 20% of refugee dwellings are not connected to the sewage
system and waste water flows in open channels along roads. The camp population in Gaza, according
to the UN, are: Jabaliya (106,691), Rafah (95,187), Shati (78,768), Nuseirat (57,120), Khan Younis
(63,219), Bureij (28,770), Maghazi (22,266), Deir al-Balah (19,534).
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BLOCKADE
Israel has for many years restricted entry to and exit from Gaza, but it intensified its blockade of
Gaza in June 2007, when Hamas took over. Only basic humanitarian items have been allowed in, and
virtually no exports permitted, paralysing the economy. In the wake of the Hamas takeover, Israel said
it would allow only basic humanitarian supplies into the strip. No specific list of what is and is not
classed as humanitarian exists, although aid agencies say permitted items generally fall into four
categories - human food, animal food, groceries (cleaning products, nappies etc) and medicines.
In September 2007, the Israeli government declared the Strip a "hostile entity" in response to
continued rocket attacks on southern Israel, and said it would start cutting fuel imports. Fuel shortages
and a lack of spare parts have had a heavy knock-on impact on sewage treatment, waste collection,
water supply and medical facilities. Israel maintains the blockade has at no point caused a
humanitarian crisis -but in early 2008, a group of aid agencies described the situation as exactly that,
and the worst situation in the strip since Israel occupied it in 1967. The blockade has been criticised as
collective punishment by, among other, the United Nations.
An Israeli-built metal fence separates Israel and the Gaza Strip. Along the border are several
heavily fortified border crossings for people and goods. They are heavily guarded by Israeli forces and
have been targets of Palestinian militant attacks. After the 2005 pullout, Israel wanted to keep control
of Gaza's border with Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Route, to control traffic and prevent
smuggling. However, it was obliged by international pressure to abandon the plan and it handed over
responsibility for the border to Egypt.
Etc., Etc.
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MILITANT ACTIVITY: The Guardian - In the name of God
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/30/israel.usa1
George Bush really is doing God's work - according to the Rev Evans' best-selling book, that is
John Sutherland
The Guardian, Monday 30 August 2004
The author, Michael D Evans, is part preacher, would-be sooth-sayer, big-time blowhard.
The book purports to reveal how "ancient prophecies reveal our nation's future". More precisely
these prophecies, correctly decoded, confirm that George Bush's tearing up of the Middle East road
map, last April, has found great favour with God.
The current conflict accords exactly, for those that have eyes to see, or teachers like the Rev
Evans to instruct them, with the divinely ordained script for America and Israel.
We are now, as Evans puts it, "in the eye of the prophetic storm". Bracing, perilous, but for the
American faithful, deeply reassuring.
Much of The American Prophecies is devoted to close exegesis of the page of the Bible on which
incoming presidents have laid their hand while taking the oath of office during the swearing-in
ceremony. It is a presidential privilege to choose the passage. What did the 42nd president (known to
the irreverent as Slick Willy) select for that fateful day? Galatians 6:8, "For he that soweth unto his
own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption."
More damning, however, than his fleshly reapings with Monica, was Clinton's betraying the
sacred mission entrusted him by God. He cannot plead ignorance, when his time comes to stand before
the divine bench. As governor of Arkansas, he was specifically instructed by his pastor, the Rev WO
Vaught, "You might be president one day. You will make mistakes and God will forgive you. But God
will never forgive you if you turn your back on Israel." Which, to the great peril of his country, Clinton
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did, at Camp David in July 2000. What followed, 14 months later in Manhattan, was a mark of God's
stern displeasure at the errant president.
Evans' exegesis demonstrates to his satisfaction, and that of millions of his countrymen
apparently, that America, no less than Israel, is centrally alluded to in Bible prophecy. Under un-Godly
presidents (notably Carter, Clinton and Bush I) the US has dallied with its false marriage partner
Ishmael/Islam, foregoing religious principle for oil. Now, under Bush II, it is cleaving to its true partner,
Isaac/Israel.
It is clear to Evans' prophetic mind "that America must go to war against Syria, a much more
dangerous terrorist-harbouring state than Iraq" and that "Israel must go into Iran and take out their
nuclear reactor". God wants these acts of war. Not to comply would induce Him to lift His "hedge of
protection" and permit a "much, much worse" consequence than 9/11. For Evans, "God is foreign
policy". And there is only one item on the agenda: stand by Israel, crush her foes. Etc., Etc.
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Meet the new Zionists: The Guardian
Matthew Engel
October 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/28/usa.israel
The members of the Christian Coalition of America are some of the most passionate defenders
of Israel in the United States. There's just one catch: they want to convert all Jews to Christianity.
Matthew Engel reports on an unholy alliance
On the platform, an Israeli student is telling thousands of supporters how the horrors of the year
have only reinforced his people's determination. "Despite the terror attacks, they'll never drive us
away out of our God-given land," he says.
This is greeted with whoops and hollers and waving of Israeli flags and the blowing of the shofar,
the Jewish ceremonial ram's horn. Then comes the mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, who is received
even more rapturously. "God is with us. You are with us." And there are more whoops and hollers and
flag-waves and shofar-blows.
This support is not offered with any ifs or buts either. The placards round the hall insist that
every inch of the Holy Land should belong to Israel and that there should never be a Palestinian state.
These assertions are backed up by biblical quotations. There are thousands of people cheering for Israel
in the huge Washington Convention Centre.
But not one of them appears to be Jewish, at least not in the conventional sense. For this is the
annual gathering of a very non-Jewish organisation indeed: the Christian Coalition of America. And
the strangest thing of all is not their support, which is a novel and important development in American
politics, but the thinking that lies behind it. You might also describe it as downright weird.
In a country where weekly church attendance is about 20 times the level it is in Britain (40% v
2%), the relationship between religion and politics in the US is intense. And there is little doubt that, last
spring, when President Bush dithered and dallied over his Middle East policy before finally coming down
on Israel's side, he was influenced not by the overrated Jewish vote, but by the opinion of Christian
"religious conservatives".
When the president demanded that Israel withdraw its tanks from the West Bank in April, the
White House allegedly received 100,000 angry emails from Christian conservatives.
Etc., Etc.
Central to the theory - based on a reading of scripture Brown would prefer not to discuss - is
the Rapture, the second coming of Christ, which will presage the end of the world. A happy ending
depends on the conversion of the Jews. And that, to cut a long story very short, can only happen if the
Jews are in possession of all the lands given to them by God. In other words, these Christians are
supporting the Jews in order to abolish them.
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Etc., Etc.
Meanwhile, outside the hall was Leanne Cariker from Oklahoma, carrying a placard saying "Just
Say No! To A Palestinian State". Her support of Israel is based on the same premise. "The Bible says
there is no way to worship God except through the son," she explains. To add to the bizarreness of this
scene, she was standing opposite another group of demonstrators: anti-Zionist Hasidic Jews from
Brooklyn in long black coats, who oppose the state of Israel based on their own reading of the Bible.
Confused? You should be. Poor Leanne Cariker was. "I'm not against them," she wailed. "I'm for them. I
believe they're God's chosen people."
You might think these Christian activists represent the furthest shores of American politicoreligious wackiness. The politicians don't think so. This conference began with a videotaped benediction
straight from the Oval office. Some of the most influential republicans in Congress addressed the
gathering including - not once, but twice - Tom DeLay, who is hot favourite to take over as majority
leader of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections on November 5, thus becoming
arguably the most powerful man on Capitol Hill.
"Are you tired of all this, are you?" he yelled to the audience. "Nooooooo!" they roared back.
"Not when you're standing up for Jews and Jesus, that's for sure," he replied.
Jews habitually do not stand up for Jesus. But most Jewish leaders have opted to shrug, accept
the Christians' support and let them whistle for their conversions.
That certainly goes for Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, reportedly greeted "like a rock
star" by Christian evangelicals in Jerusalem last month.
More thoughtful leaders are at least concerned. "I'm going to take the support because Israel
needs it," said Rabbi Jerome Epstein, vice-president of the US's conservative (in this context middle-ofthe-road) Jewish organisation, the United Synagogue.
Not everyone accepts this. "They don't love the real Jewish people," the author Gershom
Gorenberg told the CBS programme 60 Minutes. "They love us as characters in their story, in their play,
and that's not who we are.
If you listen to the drama that they are describing, essentially it's a five-act play in which the
Jews disappear in the fourth act." This is not something speakers at the rally are anxious to emphasise.
DeLay was followed by Pat Robertson, the coalition's founder, sometime presidential candidate
and the very personification of the successful American TV evangelist: blow-dried hair, stick-on smile,
expensive suit, honeyed voice and certainty of tone.
Robertson prefers to dwell on Arab plans to drive Israel into the sea and the iniquity of Yasser
Arafat and "his gang of thugs". But he also cites the stories of Joshua and David to prove Israel's
ownership of Jerusalem "long before anyone had heard of Mohammed".
Etc., Etc.
The other week Falwell called Mohammed a terrorist, which might have accounted for his
unexplained non-appearance at the conference.
Etc., Etc.
One of the points Robertson likes to emphasise is to reject accusations that the coalition's support of
Israel is a "Johnny come lately experience". "We've been with them through thick and thin," he says.
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Their beliefs are bonkers: The Guardian
US Christian Evangelicals are driving Bush's Middle East policy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/20/usa.uselections2004/print
George Monbiot
The Guardian, Tuesday 20 April 2004 18.47 BST
Buzz up! Digg it
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To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must first understand what is
happening in Texas. To understand what is happening there, you should read the resolutions passed at
the state's Republican party conventions last month. Take a look, for example, at the decisions made in
Harris County, which covers much of Houston.
The delegates began by nodding through a few uncontroversial matters: homosexuality is
contrary to the truths ordained by God; "any mechanism to process, license, record, register or
monitor the ownership of guns" should be repealed; income tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and
corporation tax should be abolished; and immigrants should be deterred by electric fences.
Thus fortified, they turned to the real issue: the affairs of a small state 7,000 miles away. It was
then, according to a participant, that the "screaming and near fist fights" began.
I don't know what the original motion said, but apparently it was "watered down significantly" as
a result of the shouting match.
The motion they adopted stated that Israel has an undivided claim to Jerusalem and the West
Bank, that Arab states should be "pressured" to absorb refugees from Palestine, and that Israel should
do whatever it wishes in seeking to eliminate terrorism. Good to see that the extremists didn't prevail
then.
In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion. In the
19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a series of unrelated passages from the Bible
to create what appears to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain
preconditions have been met.
The first of these was the establishment of a state of Israel. The next involves Israel's occupation
of the rest of its "biblical lands" (most of the Middle East), and the rebuilding of the Third Temple on
the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques.
The legions of the antichrist will then be deployed against Israel, and their war will lead to a
final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. The Jews will either burn or convert to Christianity, and
the Messiah will return to Earth.
What makes the story so appealing to Christian Evangelicals is that before the big battle begins,
all "true believers" (ie those who believe what they believe) will be lifted out of their clothes and
wafted up to heaven during an event called the Rapture.
Not only do the worthy get to sit at the right hand of God, but they will be able to watch, from
the best seats, their political and religious opponents being devoured by boils, sores, locusts and frogs,
during the seven years of Tribulation which follow.
The true believers are now seeking to bring all this about. This means staging confrontations at
the old temple site (in 2000, three American Christians were deported for trying to blow up the mosques
there), sponsoring Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, demanding ever more US support for
Israel, and seeking to provoke a final battle with the Muslim world/Axis of Evil/United Nations/
European Union/France or whoever the legions of the antichrist turn out to be.
The believers are convinced that they will soon be rewarded for their efforts.
The antichrist is apparently walking among us, in the guise of Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Yasser
Arafat or, more plausibly, Silvio Berlusconi. The Wal-Mart corporation is also a candidate (in my view a
very good one), because it wants to radio-tag its stock, thereby exposing humankind to the Mark of the
Beast.
By clicking on www.raptureready.com, you can discover how close you might be to flying out of
your pyjamas. The infidels among us should take note that the Rapture Index currently stands at 144,
just one point below the critical threshold, beyond which the sky will be filled with floating nudists.
Beast Government, Wild Weather and Israel are all trading at the maximum five points (the EU is
debating its constitution, there was a freak hurricane in the south Atlantic, Hamas has sworn to avenge
the killing of its leaders), but the second coming is currently being delayed by an unfortunate decline in
drug abuse among teenagers and a weak showing by the antichrist (both of which score only two).
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We can laugh at these people, but we should not dismiss them. That their beliefs are bonkers
does not mean they are marginal. American pollsters believe that 15-18% of US voters belong to
churches or movements which subscribe to these teachings.
A survey in 1999 suggested that this figure included 33% of Republicans. The best-selling
contemporary books in the US are the 12 volumes of the Left Behind series, which provide what is
usually described as a "fictionalised" account of the Rapture (this, apparently, distinguishes it from the
other one), with plenty of dripping details about what will happen to the rest of us.
The people who believe all this don't believe it just a little; for them it is a matter of life eternal
and death.
And among them are some of the most powerful men in America. John Ashcroft, the attorney
general, is a true believer, so are several prominent senators and the House majority leader, Tom DeLay.
Mr DeLay (who is also the co-author of the marvellously named DeLay-Doolittle Amendment,
postponing campaign finance reforms) travelled to Israel last year to tell the Knesset that "there is no
middle ground, no moderate position worth taking".
So here we have a major political constituency - representing much of the current president's
core vote - in the most powerful nation on Earth, which is actively seeking to provoke a new world
war. Its members see the invasion of Iraq as a warm-up act, as Revelation (9:14-15) maintains that
four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates" will be released "to slay the third part of
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Apocalypse Soon: The Guardian Giles Fraser 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0609-07.htm
Evangelicals in the US Believe There is a Biblical Basis for Opposing the Middle East Road Map
Just as new life is being breathed into the peace process, religious groups throughout the US are
whipping up hostility to the road map.
The aim of the Christian-Jewish "interfaith Zionist leadership summit" held in Washington last
month was "to oppose rewarding murderous Palestinian terrorism with statehood".
Attending the conference were some of the most influential figures of the Christian right;
behind them a whole infrastructure of churches, radio stations and bible college courses teaching
"middle-east history".
Since the late 19th century, an increasing number of Evangelicals have come to believe that the
second coming of Christ is bound up with the political geography of Israel. Forget about the pre-1967
boundaries; for them the boundaries that count are the ones shown on maps at the back of the Bible.
Acceptance of the state of Israel by the UN in 1949 brought much excitement to those who
believed the second coming was being prepared for. A similar reaction greeted the Six Day war in
1967. The displacement of Palestinians mattered little compared with the fulfillment of biblical
prophecy.
Writing in Christianity Today immediately after the Six Day war, Billy Graham's father-in-law,
Nelson Bell, claimed the fact that "for the first time in more than 2,000 years Jerusalem is now
completely in the hands of the Jews gives the student of the Bible a thrill and a renewed faith in its
accuracy and validity."
So as the international community withdrew its embassies after the war, and the UN passed
resolution 242 condemning Israel's occupation of the West Bank, the International Christian Embassy
was set up to show support for Israel.
Since then the Christian right has staunchly opposed trading land for peace or any attempt to
broker a settlement by power-sharing arrangements.
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The destruction of the al-Aqsa mosque continues to be sought after by both Christian and
Jewish Evangelicals. US churches are encouraged to form links with Jewish settlers via email and to
support them through fundraising.
Happy to have any friend it can get, the Israeli government has long since exploited its
connections with far-right US Christian groups. While moderate Christians, such as the Palestinian
Bishop of Jerusalem, cannot get to see Ariel Sharon despite repeated requests, the door is always open
to southern Baptists and TV evangelists.
What is astonishing about this marriage of convenience is that their version of evangelical
Christianity believes that biblical prophecy leads to Armageddon and finally to the conversion of the
Jews to Christ.
According to the most influential of the Christian Zionists, Hal Lindsey, the valley from Galilee
to Eilat will flow with blood and "144,000 Jews would bow down before Jesus and be saved, but the
rest of Jewry would perish in the mother of all holocausts".
These lunatic ravings would matter little were they not so influential. Lindsey's book, The Late
Great Planet Earth, has sold nearly 20m copies in English and another 30m-plus worldwide.
Against this crazy theological background, an ideological battle is now being waged. Despite the
fact that apocalyptic prophecy as read by the Christian right ends with another holocaust some Israeli
politicians and journalists are encouraging Evangelicals to stick by the implications of their narrative.
In a recent column in the Jerusalem Post, Michael Freund called upon evangelical Christians to
lobby against the pressure being put on George Bush by Tony Blair and Colin Powell. "If Jesus were alive
today," he wrote, "the US state department would likely criticize him for being a Jewish settler and an
obstacle for peace."
There are 45 million evangelicals in the US and they represent a crucial block vote for bornagain Bush. It is therefore to his credit that he has resisted their pressure and managed to persuade
Sharon to accept the peace plan. Perhaps Bush is able to take the evangelical vote for granted in much
the same way as Blair is able to take the left's vote for granted: both have nowhere else to go.
Yet Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal of Jerusalem doesn't trust Bush. He thinks the combination of
European impotence and the US's refusal to pressure Israelis into stopping building settlements means
the plan is already dead in the water. "It took them six days to occupy the Palestinian territories; they
could get out in three," he says.
Bishop Riah has persuaded the World Council of Churches to call for sanctions on all products
from the occupied territories. The diocese of Jerusalem runs hospitals in Gaza and Nablus. It's in places
like these that the real work of Christian ministry is conducted. By contrast, US evangelicals oppose the
peace process and swarm into Iraq to convert its people to Jesus.
· The Rev Dr Giles Fraser is the vicar of Putney and lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College,
Oxford and can be contacted at giles.fraser@parishofputney.co.uk
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An Unholy Alliance in Support of Israel: Los Angeles Times
by Jo-Ann Mort
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0519-05.htm
Published on Sunday, May 19, 2002 in the
NEW YORK -- In the "strange bedfellows" department, one of the oddest pairings on the current
political scene is American Jews and the Christian right. Yes, both groups back Israel. But their longterm visions for its future are miles apart.
It's not that non-Jewish support in the U.S. for Israel is something new--think Pete Seeger or the
Weavers singing "Kumbaya." But there has been a shift in the makeup of that support. It used to be
progressive non-Jewish Americans who strongly backed Israel. Now Israel's best friends are former
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Christian Coalition Executive Director Ralph Reed (who heads the Georgia Republican Party) and House
Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
The Anti-Defamation League even went to the extreme of reprinting as an advertisement in the
New York Times and other newspapers an article titled "We People of Faith Stand Firmly With Israel"
that Reed wrote for The Los Angeles Times. Is this the same ADL that has as its cornerstone fighting
bigotry, supporting civil rights and maintaining separation between church and state?
If Jews feel mainstream media coverage of Israel is biased, perhaps they ought to protest by
watching a network that gives plenty of positive coverage to Israel: Robertson's Christian
Broadcasting Network. Of course, the network's vision of Israel may make many Jews uncomfortable.
As another article on its Web site proclaims: "Thus Jews, Israel, will eventually--and supernaturally-witness to the gospel, and with such explosive power that the world can scarcely be the same! Ah,
there is God's future for ethnic Israel."
The newest member of Sharon's Cabinet is the head of the National Religious Party, Effi Eitam, a
former Israeli army brigadier general who was refused higher promotion within the army because of his
harsh treatment of Palestinians. Eitam, a "born-again" Jew, is a former secular kibbutz member
transformed into a messianic Jew, much along the lines of other Religious Party settlers who saw the
post-1967 era in Israel more as the fulfillment of biblical dictate than as a move to meet Israel's
security needs.
Eitam believes not only in dealing ruthlessly with Palestinians across the 1967 Green Line but he
says that the Israeli Arab citizens who reside within Israel's pre-1967 borders should be transferred
out. He would do well with his counterparts in the United States, but his beliefs would most likely find
little support among the bulk of Jews in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the U.S.
The alliance of the Christian right, the neoconservative intellectuals (many of whom are Jewish)
who long ago gave up on the Democrats and the more mainstream Jewish organizations has
strengthened the resolve of the Bush administration to say yes to almost anything Sharon is doing.
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Seeing Islam as 'Evil', Evangelicals Seek Converts:
New YorkTimes By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/national/27ISLA.html?ex=1055304000&en=6d
8b214392735a3a&ei=5004&partner=UNTD
May 27, 2003
GROVE CITY, Ohio ?
On a recent Saturday in a church fellowship hall here, evangelical Christians from several states
gathered for an all-day seminar on how to woo Muslims away from Islam.
The teacher urged a kindly approach: always show Muslims love, charity and hospitality, he said, and
carry copies of the New Testament to give as gifts. The students, scribbling notes, included two pastors,
a school secretary and college students who said they hoped to convert Muslims in the United States.
But although the teacher, an evangelical preacher from Beirut, stressed the need to avoid
offending Muslims, he projected a snappy PowerPoint presentation showing passages from the Koran
that he said proved Islam was regressive, fraudulent and violent.
"Here in the Koran, it says slay them, slay the infidels!" said the teacher, who said he did not want
to be identified because being a missionary to Muslims put his life at risk. "In the Bible there are no
words from Jesus saying we should kill innocent people."
At the grass roots of evangelical Christianity, many are now absorbing the antipathy for Islam that
emerged last year with the incendiary comments of ministers. The sharp language, from religious
leaders like Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Jerry Vines, the former president of the
Southern Baptist Convention, has drawn rebukes from Muslims and Christian groups alike.
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Mr. Graham called Islam "a very evil and wicked religion, and Mr. Vines called Muhammad,
Islam's founder and prophet, a "demon-possessed pedophile."
In evangelical churches and seminaries across the country, lectures and books criticizing Islam
and promoting strategies for Muslim conversions are gaining currency. More than a dozen recently
published critiques of Islam are now available in Christian bookstores.
Arab International Ministry, the Indianapolis group that led the crash course on Islam here, claims
to have trained 4,500 American Christians to proselytize Muslims in the last six years, many of those
since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The oratorical tone of these authors and lecturers varies, but they
share the basic presumption that the world's two largest religions are headed for a confrontation, with
Christianity representing what is good, true and peaceful, and Islam what is evil, false and violent.
Evangelicals have always believed that all other religions are wrong, but what is notable now
is the vituperation. "The Koran's good verses are like the food an assassin adds to poison to disguise a
deadly taste," writes Don Richardson, a well-known missionary who worked in Muslim countries, in
"Secrets of the Koran" (Regal Books, 2003). This month, he is scheduled to speak on Islam at churches in
five American cities.
Most of the authors and teachers preach a corollary of the Christian dictum to "love the sinner
and hate the sin." They assert that while the vast majority of Muslims are not evil, they have been
deceived by a diabolical religion based on a flawed scripture that can never bring them salvation.
Akbar Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic studies department at American University, said he grew
up attending Catholic and Protestant missionary schools in Pakistan, but never heard a negative word
about Islam from the missionaries. He said, the new hostility to Islam and, in particular, the insults to
the prophet Muhammad have outraged the Muslim world.
"The whole range of Muslims, from orthodox to liberal secularists, are all lined up against these
attacks coming from the American evangelists," said Mr. Ahmed, the author of a new book "Islam Under
Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World" (Polity Press). "Unwittingly, these evangelists have
unleashed a consolidation of sentiments for Islam. Even the most moderate Muslims have been upset by
this."
The push for conversions may backfire for the evangelists, he said, since Muslims who may have
been open to the missionaries' presence feel their honor has been insulted. In interviews, evangelical
authors and lecturers said their work did not denigrate Islam as much as share the truth about
Christianity.
The 2001 terrorist attacks, which led many Americans to see Islam as a global threat; the greater
numbers and visibility of Muslims in the United States, and the demise of Communism, once public
enemy No. 1 for many evangelical organizations.
"Evangelicals have substituted Islam for the Soviet Union," said the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice
president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents 43,000
congregations. "The Muslims have become the modern-day equivalent of the Evil Empire."
The National Association of Evangelicals called on Christian leaders this month to temper their
anti-Islam oratory, saying it had been unhelpful to interfaith relations, and dangerous to Christians
spreading the gospel to Muslims. While some evangelical leaders welcomed the criticism, others bristled
and said that it was not the Christians but the Muslims who must stop the hate-speech.
The conservative evangelical approach to Islam is in stark contrast with the "interfaith
understanding" approach of many Orthodox, Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches like
the Methodists, Episcopalians and Lutherans. Since 9/11, local churches (non-conservative) in these
denominations began inviting Muslims to explain their faith at a flurry of interfaith events and dialogue
sessions.
"God calls all of us to have an open mind and an open heart," said the Rev. Robert Edgar,
general secretary of the National Council of Churches, which represents many Protestant and
Orthodox denominations. "And many of the people who are part of the National Council of Churches
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believe that if judgment is to be made it needs to be made by God and not by those who have divided
ourselves up around a particular ideology."
These churches acknowledge theological differences between Christianity and Islam, but stress
the common roots and essential compatibility. They teach that Muslims are monotheists, "Allah" is
simply Arabic for God, and both faiths share Abraham as patriarch.
But for many of the evangelical experts on Islam, these notions are simplistic whitewash to
paint over a real theological divide. At the daylong seminar in the fellowship hall of Southwest Grace
Brethren Church, just outside Columbus, the teacher drew on his own life experience as evidence of
Islam's evils. While President Bush and others have depicted Islam as a peaceful religion that has been
"hijacked" by extremists, the teacher said he knew better than to believe that.
"You can tell me Islam is peaceful, but I've done my homework," he said, reeling off a list of
Koranic citations. "From the beginning of Islam, the sword brought results faster than words." Some of
what he taught would be accepted by most theologians: Muslims reject the Christian concept of a
Trinitarian God ? the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Muslims respect Jesus as a prophet, but do not
accept the Christian belief that he is the son of God.
And Muslims even pray differently than Christians, he said. "Muslims pray to get points," he said,
"not to communicate with God." Group prayer on Fridays is for "extra points," he said.
Pat McEvoy, a secretary at a high school in Columbus, said she had known very little about Islam
before the seminar. Her school has an influx of students from Somalia, and as she walked through the
hallways she regarded these immigrants as "a virtual mission field."
She said she felt an obligation to save them from an eternity in Hell. Do invite them home for a
meal. Do bring them chocolate chip cookies. Do talk about how, in order to get saved, they must accept
Jesus. "Our job," he said, "is not to make the Muslim a Christian. Our job is to show them the love of
Christ."
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Modern Zionism Not Biblical
By Babu G. Ranganathan
27.04.2009 Source:
Pravda.Ru
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/27-04-2009/107458-zionism-0
The best way for Israel to stop terrorist attacks in its territory is by first ceasing its occupation of
all Arab lands and the continual, unrestrained building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. As an
evangelical and conservative Christian, of Indian origin, I wish to set the biblical issue in proper
perspective.
Etc., Etc.
From a purely biblical perspective Zionism has enormous problems.
The fact is that almost none of the Jews in modern Israel are descendants of the original Jews
of Palestine thousands of years ago. Most of the Jews in Israel today are descendants of Europeans
who had converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages (known as Khazar or Ashkenazi Jews).
The last time God had promised in the scriptures to bring the Jews back to their ancestral
homeland was fulfilled centuries ago when He brought them back from their Babylonian captivity. Thus,
the Jews in present-day modern Israel are not a fulfillment of that ancient promise.
Furthermore, God's promises concerning the land to the Jews in the Old Testament were
conditional - only so long as they continued to obey Him were those promises concerning the land
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binding (read Deuteronomy 28). In any case, as I have already noted, God fulfilled his promise
concerning the land to the Jews centuries ago.
We read in the Book of Joshua 21:43, 45: "And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which He
sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. There failed not ought of any
good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel ; all came to pass." Thus, there is no
promise concerning the land that still awaits any fulfillment.
Most evangelical Christians today are looking forward to the seven-year tribulation period of
Israel which would require for the Jews to be in the land. But this period had already occurred in history
during AD63 to AD70 (seven years) when the Roman army besieged and destroyed Jerusalem and the
Jewish Temple. It was this destruction that Jesus said would mark the end of the age (the Jewish Age,
that is).
During these seven years, there was a brief respite from the attacking Roman army and this
respite gave an opportunity for believing Jews (Christians) of this time to escape the final destruction of
Jerusalem and have their lives spared.
Most evangelical Christians, who are dispensationalists, are still seeking for an Israel that the
New Testament says is the spiritual body of Christ made up of both Jew and Gentile believers in Jesus
Christ and who together (as one seed) inherit the same (not different) promises (Galatians 3:14-16).
The New Testament refers to the Christian church as the "Israel of God" (Galatians 6:16 ). There is
good reason to believe that some of the Old Testament descriptions of God's future dealings with Israel
are already being fulfilled spiritually now in and through the Christian church which is made up of both
Jew and Gentile believers in Christ inheriting the same (not different) promises.
The problem with most evangelical Christians today is that they interpret the Book of Revelation
literally. But Revelation is a book of symbolism and should not to be interpreted literally. The Book itself
tells us not to interpret it literally. In the very first verse of the very first chapter we read, "The
revelation of Jesus Christ, which God (the Father) gave unto Him, to show unto His servants things which
must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant John" (Revelation
1:1, KJV). The word "signified" in the passage comes from a Greek word meaning "signs" or "symbols".
Thus, Revelation was meant by Christ to be interpreted symbolically, not literally.
The Book of Revelation, like the rest of the New Testament, was originally written in Greek so
sometimes we must go to the Greek language to have a more precise understanding of certain words.
Many evangelical Christians believe (wrongly) that the " Great City " in the Book of Revelation, which
God destroys in His wrath and which is referred to figuratively as Babylon , is Rome .. They believe it is
Rome because the city is described as being surrounded by seven hills.
Jerusalem is also surrounded by seven hills. The proof that Jerusalem is the city and not Rome is
found in Revelation 11:8 where we read, "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified". Was the Lord crucified in Rome or
in Jerusalem? The wrath of God against Jerusalem for its apostate Judaism is what the early portions of
the Book of Revelation are all about.
The modern state of Israel, now that it has been established, has every right to exist, but Israel
should also be made to uphold the UN resolutions concerning Palestinian inalienable rights. Unlike
before, almost all Arabs, including Palestinians, now recognize Israel's right to exist or, at least, will not
wage war with Israel if Israel completely withdraws to its pre-1967 borders. But, what Palestinians and
other Arabs cannot live with is Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and Israel's continued
building of settlements there.
Most Palestinians will stop their resistance and even go after the terrorists themselves if Israel
simply gets out of their way (the West Bank ) and that is the best way for Israel to stop the resistance
and preserve its security and peace - not to mention the security and peace of others. It is important,
however, to have some basic background knowledge of how the modern state of Israel was founded.
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As one writer points out: " Israel was created (in the beginning) not by force of arms or military
invasion, but terrorist activity advocated by Jewish immigrants, in an effort to get rid of the British
Administration (the lawful government of the day, as sanctioned by the predecessor to the UN). Britain
abandoned its mandate and Israel was created by the UN."
Any solution to the present crisis must also involve monetary or financial compensation being
made by Israel to Palestinian families who have had their homes and lands seized and taken away during
the formation of the modern state of Israel in the 1940's. (According to the UN resolution 194,
Palestinian refugees have the right for compensation and repatriation).
During that time Palestinian families suffered huge atrocities at the hands of Jewish immigrants,
including many pregnant Palestinian Arab women having their wombs ripped open and their babies
slaughtered before their very eyes.
This was one of many horrible crimes committed against Palestinians, even by such notable
political figures as Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin, and the Palestinians should be
compensated by the modern state of Israel for these crimes. That is only right.
The terrorism committed by Jewish immigrants against Palestinian Arabs in the late 1940's is a
major reason for why many Palestinian Arabs fled their homes and land and became refugees.
However, as long as most evangelical Christians in America believe modern Zionism is biblical
they will continue to exert one-sided pressure in Washington DC in support of Israel 's status quo in the
region and prevent any pressure on Israel to pull back to its pre-1967 borders and discontinue building
settlements on Arab land.
That is why it is very important to understand that there is no biblical basis for modern
Zionism. If America insists Israel must be fair to Palestinians it will not only help achieve peace in the
Middle East but also will reduce Muslim extremism, and even terrorism, against the United States .
The author, Babu G. Ranganathan, is an experienced Christian writer. Mr. Ranganathan has his
B.A. degree with concentrations in theology and biology.. As a religion and science writer he has been
recognized in the 24th edition of Marquis Who's Who In The East. The author's articles have been
published in various publications including Russia's Pravda and South Korea's The Seoul Times.
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Zion's Christian Soldiers CBSnews
Conservative Christian Says Founder of Islam Set A Bad Example
June 8, 2003 | by Mary Jayne McKay
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/03/60minutes/main524268.shtml
(CBS) This week, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told President Bush that he would start to
dismantle some illegal Jewish settlements on the West Bank. That news has alarmed those Jewish
settlers -- and ultra-Zionist Israelis who believe that the Jewish State should control all of the Biblical
Jewish homeland. But they're not the only group that feels that way. So do Evangelical Christian
Evangelicals who make up the largest single religious grouping in the United States. Correspondent Bob
Simon first reported this story on October 6, 2002.
What's the number one item on the agenda of the Christian Right? Abortion? School Prayer? No
and No. Believe it or not, what's most important to a lot of conservative Christians is the Jewish State.
Israel: Its size, its strength, and its survival. Why?
There is the alliance between America and Israel in the war on Islamic terror. But it goes deeper.
For Christians who interpret the bible in a literal fashion, Israel has a crucial role to play in bringing on
the Second Coming of Christ. Last fall, supporters of the Christian Coalition gathered on the Mall in
Washington to express their faith and to lobby the administration. Christian Coalition, which wants to
make sure that the Bush Administration sees the struggle in the Middle East between Jews and
Muslims their way - the Christian way.
At one congregation in Colorado, it’s Israel Awareness Day. But this is not a Jewish
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congregation. They are all Christians. Not only are they holding these pep rallies all across America,
they’re also streaming here to Israel, to the dangerous streets of Jerusalem to express their devotion.
American Christian Zionists say they are now a more important source of support for Israel than
American Jews or the traditional Jewish lobby. “It is my belief that the Bible Belt in America is Israel’s
only safety belt right now,” says Rev. Jerry Falwell, one of the leaders of the Christian Right. That’s the
bulk of Evangelical Christians; Falwell claims to speak for all of them.
“There are 70 million of us,” he says. “And if there’s one thing that brings us together quickly
it’s whenever we begin to detect our government becoming a little anti-Israel.”
Falwell began to detect just that in April 2002 when President Bush called on Israel to withdraw
its tanks from Palestinian towns on the West Bank. So Falwell shot off a letter of protest to the White
House, which was followed by a hundred thousand e-mails from Christian conservatives. Israel did not
move its tanks. Mr. Bush did not ask again.
“There’s nothing that would bring the wrath of the Christian public in this country down on this
government like abandoning or opposing Israel in a critical matter,” Falwell says. The “Christian
public” is, he says, Mr. Bush’s core constituency. “I really believe when the chips are down Ariel Sharon
can trust George Bush to do the right thing every time,” says Falwell.
Prime Minister Sharon can apparently trust the Christian Evangelicals to do the right thing too.
They treated him like a rock star when they flocked to Jerusalem last fall to celebrate the Jewish Feast
of Tabernacles. What propels them? Why do they love Israel so much? The return of the Jews to their
ancient homeland is seen by Evengelicals as a precondition for the Second Coming of Christ. Therefore,
when the Jewish state was created in 1948 they saw it as a sign.
Israel’s conquest of Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967 also deepened their excitement and
heightened their anticipation. And today’s The Bible is the word of God.” McAteer is known as the
Godfather of the Christian Right. He’s a former Colgate marketing executive from Memphis, and a
founder of the Moral Majority. McAteer believes that the current situation is the beginning of the
final battle. “I believe that we are seeing prophecy unfold so rapidly and dramatically and wonderfully
and, without exaggerating, makes me breathless.”
But he’s not the only one. Countless millions of Americans are reading a series of novels called
“Left Behind.” These novels are topping bestseller lists all over the country and they’re being made into
movies. They chronicle apocalyptic times, and the setting is the 21st century, complete with war planes
and TV correspondents.
However, the plot is ripped from the pages of the Bible, so it all winds up here in Israel where,
according to the Book of Revelations, the final battle in the history of the future will be fought on an
ancient battlefield in northern Israel called Armageddon.
It will follow seven years of tribulation during which the earth will be shaken by such disasters
that previous human history will seem like a day in the country. The blood will rise as high as a horse’s
bridle at Armageddon, before Christ triumphs to begin his 1,000-year rule.
And the Jews? Well, two-thirds of them will have been wiped out by now. But the survivors will
accept Jesus at last.
“The Jews die or convert”. As a Jew, I can’t feel comfortable with the affections of somebody who
looks forward to that scenario,” says Gershom Gorenberg, who knows that scenario well. Gorenberg is
the author of the “End of Days,” a book about Christian evangelicals who read the Bible literally.
“They don’t love real Jewish people. They love us as characters in their story, in their play, and
that’s not who we are, and we never auditioned for that part, and the play is not one that ends up
good for us.”
“If you listen to the drama they’re describing, essentially it’s a five-act play in which the Jews
disappear in the fourth act.” But if that makes Gershom Gorenberg feel uncomfortable, these
Christians say it’s only because he doesn’t understand how deeply they love him. “The Jews need
conversion,” says Kay Arthur. “They need to know that the Messiah is coming. And the Bible tells us
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what’s going to happen.”
The Christian Evangelicals believe the only Israelis who are really listening to God are the hard
line Jewish settlers who live on the West Bank and Gaza and refuse to move.
“God save us from these people,” says political analyst Yossi Alfer, who served 12 years in Israel’s
intelligence agency, the Mossad. Later, he became Israel Director of the American Jewish
Committee. nSays Alfer: “When you see what these people are encouraging Israel and the U.S.
Administration to do that is, ignore the Palestinians, if not worse, if not kick them out, expand the
settlements to the greatest extent possible, they are leading us into a scenario of disaster.”
“A lot of Muslims feel these days that Christians and Jews are getting together and ganging up on
them,” Simon said to Falwell. “That’s true. I’m sorry, that’s true. I hope it will cease to be so.
But I
think that is the fact right now,” says Falwell. Falwell believes most Muslims want to live in peace but,
he says, the lines have been drawn. Christians and Jews are on one side, Muslims on the other hand, he
says, those lines were drawn more than a thousand years ago.
“You wrote an approving piece recently about a book called ‘Unveiling Islam,’” says Simon to
Falwell. “And you, the authors of that book wrote, ‘The Muslim who commits acts of violence in jihad
does so with the approval of Mohammed.’ Do you believe that?"
“I do,” says Falwell. “I think Mohammed was a terrorist. I read enough of the history of his life,
written by both Muslims and non-Muslims, that he was a violent man, a man of war.”
“So, in the same way that Moses provided the ultimate example for the Jews and same way that
Jesus provided the ultimate example for Christians, Mohammed provided the ultimate example for
Muslims and he was a terrorist,” asks Simon.
“In my opinion,” says Fallwell. “And I do believe that - Jesus set the example for love, as did
Moses. And I think that Mohammed set an opposite example.” What frightens Alfer is that he hears
much of Falwell’s world view reflected in the words of the Bush Administration. “When we hear
expressions like “the evil ones,” this kind of black and white view of good guys, the bad guys,”.
But as long as Jews are the good guys in this representation, this is good for the Jews, isn’t
it? “It’s not good for the Jews. It’s not good for the Jews," says Alfer. We have to get God out of this
conflict if we’re going to have any chance to survive as a healthy, secure Jewish state."
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The Evangelical-Israeli Connection: Washington Post
Scripture Inspires Many Christians to Support Zionism Politically, Financially
By Bill Broadway
Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 27, 2004;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A283762004Mar26&notFound=true
The much-publicized controversy over Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" might give the
impression that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in common, theologically or otherwise.
Nothing could be further from the truth. While some evangelical and Jewish leaders sparred publicly
for months over the film's depiction of Jesus's last hours, especially its potential to incite anti-Semitism,
thousands of evangelicals were donating millions of dollars to support the state of Israel and its people.
Backing Israel for Different Reasons
Most evangelical Christians support the state of Israel, but not always for the same reasons. The
strongest proponents, including religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and House Majority Leader Tom
DeLay (R-Tex.), believe in premillennial dispensationalism, a prophetic doctrine that is dramatized in
the "Left Behind" novels and includes such events as the Rapture, the Battle of Armageddon, the Second
Coming of Jesus and a mass conversion of Jews.
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Most dispensationalists are also Zionists, believing that the return of Jews to their homeland
sets the stage for this end-time scenario.
Christian Zionists supported the 1948 establishment of Israel and oppose peace proposals
that would cede land to the Palestinians or call for the withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the West
Bank and Gaza. Christian Zionists believe that modern-day Israel fulfills God's promise to Jacob in
Genesis 35: "The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your
descendants after you."
They also believe the modern gathering of Jews has created the New Israel and New Jerusalem
foretold in the Prophets and in the Book of Revelation.
Other evangelicals reject that idea, saying that the promise of the land was fulfilled in the days
of Solomon and that the church -- universal Christianity -- constitutes the New Israel. Proponents of this
position, called replacement theology, emphasize God's covenant with humanity rather than the
importance of the land.
"Not all evangelicals agree [on theology], nor are all pro-Israel positions alike," said Richard Cizik,
vice president for government affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals. Whatever their views,
evangelicals "are and will remain the staunchest supporters of Israel.
Estimates of the U.S. evangelical population vary widely, from 50 million to more than 100
million, with the higher figures including evangelicals in mainline Protestant and African American
churches. Evangelical leaders and scholars say there are far more believers in replacement theology
than there are Christian Zionists.
"We get 2,000 to 2,500 pieces of mail a day, most of them with checks," said Yechiel Eckstein,
president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, founded 21 years ago to foster better
relations between the two religions.
Since then, Eckstein, an Orthodox rabbi, has broadened the organization's mission and in the
last decade has collected more than $100 million in financial support for Israel.
Last year, the fellowship contributed $20 million from a donor base of 365,000 individuals and
groups, most -- if not all -- of them evangelical Christians, Eckstein said. About half of the money was
used to help Jews relocate to Israel from different parts of the world; the remainder provided food,
medical care and other assistance to poor and elderly Jews in Israel, the former Soviet Union.
On Monday, the fellowship announced a campaign to raise $7.2 million to provide security for the
1,000 highest-risk public bus routes in Israel, including bomb-detection devices and equipment for
screening passengers and baggage, and sent a $2 million check to begin the process.
The fellowship, the largest and one of the oldest evangelical organizations providing support for
Israel, has been joined in recent years by at least a half-dozen others with such names as Bridges for
Peace, Christians for Israel, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem and Chosen People Ministries.
Although no one tracks all evangelical contributions to Israel, Eckstein believes the figure could
exceed $25 million annually. If the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 seemed the answer to the
Christian Zionists' prayers -- the extraordinary victory of Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War seemed to
them a sure sign of divine will.
Evangelical leaders such as the Rev. Jerry Falwell began lobbying for greater political support of
Israel from the U.S. government and urging financial support from the rapidly growing evangelical
movement. And the relationship between evangelical leaders and the Israeli government began to
flower, slowly at first.
The 1977 election of Likud Party leader Menachem Begin as prime minister marked a new era in
evangelical-Israeli relations. Begin was so pleased with Falwell's pro-Israel activities that in 1979 he
gave the evangelical leader a Lear jet. Today, the connection is even stronger. Likud Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon has met with evangelical leaders on numerous occasions, most recently in Jerusalem to ask
their help in countering a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe and other parts of the world.
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In January, the Israeli parliament created a Christian Allies Caucus to coordinate activities with
its Christian friends. About the same time, former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, Israeli minister to
the Diaspora and for Jerusalem affairs, met with evangelical leaders at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis
to thank them for their "steadfast support for the state of Israel."
Those in attendance included John Hagee, pastor of the 17,000-member Cornerstone Church in
San Antonio; Adrian Rogers, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention; and Edward E. McAteer,
friend of President Bush and chairman of the Religious Roundtable, a coalition of religious, military and
civic leaders committed to infusing Christian principles in public policy.
On Feb. 15, Israeli Tourism Minister Benny Elon honored Pat Robertson at the National
Association of Broadcasters Convention in Charlotte. He praised Robertson's leadership of a movement
that has "saved Israel's tourism from bankruptcy" by promoting pilgrimages to the Holy Land despite
U.S. government travel warnings after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and renewed hostilities
between Israelis and Palestinians.
Baras said none of the Christian support organizations she knows in Israel allow donors or
workers to evangelize -- despite the fact that those who come are the most ardent believers in end-time
prophecies predicating the second coming of Jesus on the return of Jews to Israel.
Because of their massive and increasing support for Israel, many evangelicals were confused by
Jewish concerns that "The Passion" would provoke violent acts of anti-Semitism.
"The churches in the past have helped to foster an image of Jews as the sole enemies of Christ,
which has contributed to anti-Semitism in the secular world," Ted Haggard, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, said last month at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum in Los Angeles. "In
the last 50 years, churches have done much to change these attitudes, and to loudly proclaim a message
of love and tolerance."
Jews appreciate such religious sensitivity, but they also are well aware that Christian
proclamations of love include a hope that Jews eventually will accept Jesus as the Messiah, said David
A. Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee. On the other hand, Jews accept
financial and political support from evangelicals because evangelicals are the only friends of Israel.
On civil rights, prayer in schools and abortion, American Jews have found solidarity with mainline
Protestants- Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ.
But many Protestants have parted ways with Jews on Israeli policies, pressing for Palestinian
rights, calling for withdrawal of settlements from the West Bank and Gaza and condemning
retaliatory attacks after suicide bombings.
Evangelicals, meanwhile, have been very supportive of Israel's policies, especially military actions
against radical Palestinian groups. In an online survey of U.S. evangelicals after Monday's attack on Sheik
Ahmed Yassin, 89 percent of the 1,630 respondents supported the killing of the Hamas leader -compared with the 61 percent of Israelis who supported the attack in a survey by Maariv.
Eckstein, whose organization conducted the informal survey of evangelicals, said most people
who contribute to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews do so for religious reasons but
also want to show their political solidarity with Israel. They oppose any withdrawal of Jewish settlers
and "are very distrustful of Palestinians, of [Yasser] Arafat. They would make good Likudniks," he said.
Most Jewish leaders don't ignore the religious reasons many evangelicals support Israel. "Many
Jews and many Israelis are very open-eyed about the driving religious philosophy of the evangelicals and
why they want Israel to exist," But Jews are practical, he said.
"The end may come tomorrow, but Israel hangs in the balance today."
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a primary Gibson
antagonist in the "Passion" debate, agreed with Harris. "Israel is fighting for security, isolated in a
hypocritical world," he said. "It's no time to say [to evangelicals], 'You're not a perfect friend.' " Staff
researcher Madonna A Lebling contributed to this report.
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(Articles downloaded from the Internet)
We Hold These Truths Project Strait Gate Ministries
Would Jesus Concur or Weep? http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2832
Toward a Lutheran Response to Christian Zionism
Rev. Robert O. Smith Lutheran Pastor, Chicago University
http://www.elcjhl.org/palestine/zionism/zionism.asp
Geneva Ministries, Christian Zionism & Messianic Judaism James Jordan,Th.M.,
http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/eschatology/christian_zionism.html
http://www.biblicalhorizons.com
Presbyterian Church
- Resolution on Confronting Christian Zionism
http://www.pcusa.org/worldwide/israelpalestine/christianzionism.htm
Joint Statement by Latin and Syrian Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem;
Episcopal Church of Jerusalem, & Lutheran Church in Holy Land:
"We Stand for Justice. We Can Do No Other"
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http://www.zenit.org/article-16848?l=english
National Catholic Reporter, By MARGOT PATTERSON, October, 2002
Will Evangelical Christians and Jews ignite apocalypse?
http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/101102/101102a.htm
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Thomas Williamson, Baptist Minister - Chicago, Illinois
To Whom Does the Land of Palestine Belong?
Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson1.html
Should Christians Support Construction of Jewish Temple in Jerusalem?
Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson2.html
Dispensationalism and Racism - Thomas Williamson
http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson3.html
Zionism versus the Bible - Thomas Williamson
http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson4.html
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Donald Wagner Presbyterian Minister, Prof. of Religion
British stirrings
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4959.htm
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Christ Second Coming http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4930.htm
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Bible and Sword http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4950.htm
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Clinton & Zionism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4951.htm
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Bush & Zionism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4960.htm
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Would Jesus Concur or Weep? Tom Compton 2009
We Hold These Truths
Project Strait Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2832
Palestine Chronicle: http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14761
Looking at the photo of an innocent, dead, Palestinian child, I want to weep. It appears that the
child is a girl of around 3 years old. Her parents are probably Muslims because the population of Gaza is
predominantly Muslim. However, there are Christians peaceably living there, side by side with the
Muslims.
So, there is a small probability that this little girl’s parents could be Christians. Of course, it
doesn’t make any difference whether her parents were Muslims, Christians or Jews. If her parents are
still alive, they would be grieving. And, we as Christians should be grieving.
Americans and our Congress have overwhelmingly supported the actions by the Israelis against
the Palestinians in Gaza in the first few weeks of January, 2009. Probably hundreds of young children,
as the girl pictured here, were killed. Typically, a large percentage of Americans view the loss of such
young lives as “collateral damage.” This is an euphemism used by our military to sooth the American
public.
We’ve all heard about the collateral damage in Iraq and Afghanistan. It wouldn’t be nice if it were
called what it really is: murder. One group in the United States that religiously and fervently supports
Israel, no matter how it conducts itself against the Palestinians that reside in Israel, are Christian
Zionists. They believe that the modern state of Israel is a fulfillment of Old Testament, Biblical
prophecy.1
In a nutshell, Christian Zionists believe unconditional love must be bestowed upon Israel; not
doing so would result in condemnations and curses from God. The idea that the modern state of Israel
is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy is a debate topic that can be carried on between Christians of
different viewpoints.
As Christians, our first and most important allegiance must be to Jesus Christ. No where in the
New Testament does Jesus or another writer require that a belief in a physical state of Israel is
necessary for salvation. Jesus’ kingdom is based in the spiritual realm.
Here are some thoughts from an article by Ericka Moore, Israel, The New American Idol: Israel
has become the new American Idol. The mantra of “We will always support Israel” is disturbing
enough coming from the President, the Congress, and our media, but when Christian Evangelical
Churches across America are the loudest voices in the chorus, it’s time to investigate.
The most-quoted “proof text” referenced universally by Christians who believe we must
unconditionally “bless” the modern day state of Israel is as follows: “The LORD had said to Abram,…; ‘I
will make you into a great nation and I will bless you.
I will make your name great and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And
whoever curses you I will curse; And all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” * (Gen. 12:1-3)
Let’s take a look at the New Testament book of Galatians. In Galatians 3:8, Paul quotes a portion
of this same scripture: “The scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and
announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
And what is the gospel message that God is proclaiming to Abram in advance? Is it the recently
gathered, political state of Israel that will be a blessing to all nations? Paul goes on to explain further in
verse 16, “The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed. The scripture does not say ‘and to
seeds,’ meaning many people, but ‘to your Seed,’ meaning one person, who is Christ.”
When we take the verse from Genesis 12:3 and apply it to the present day state of Israel, we
are distorting the very gospel itself. Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah, is the Seed through whom
“all nations will be blessed.” That is, and always has been, the only gospel message of both the Old
and New Testament.
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Paul closes Galatians 3:26-29 with these profound words: “You are all sons of God through faith
in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There
is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you
belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
We are all equal in the sight of God. He displays no favoritism based on race, social status, or
gender. Jesus Christ gave his life out of love, not to save a tiny plot of land or a favored ethnicity, but
for all mankind.
Not for inanimate shrines and places, as much as we may love what they represent to us, but
for the forgiveness of sins and salvation of all who will receive Him. His sacrifice was to make us “living
stones” in one glorious temple, not built by human hands, but by a living God who wants relationship
with us.
The question for the American church today is simple: What gospel are we believing and
preaching?
The only real question for Christians, when they look at the photo of the dead child, should
be: “What would Jesus say about the photo of the dead child?”
Would he concur that she is collateral damage needed for the state of Israel or would He
weep? Brothers and sisters in Christ, you have to choose one or the other. I know my Jesus would
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http://www.elcjhl.org/palestine/zionism/zionism.asp
http://www.elcjhl.org/palestine/zionism/08maysmith.pdf
Toward a Lutheran Response to Christian Zionism - Excerpts
Rev. Robert O. Smith
Rev. Robert O. Smith serves as Continental Desk Director for Europe and the Middle East in the
Global Mission Unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
“We are Israel’s best friend in the world because of the character we have as a nation.… This is
not a political battle at all. It is a contest over the word of God.”
“I stand before you today … as an Israeli of the heart…. We hear your voice cry out in the
desert, and we will never leave your side.”
“The establishment of the nation of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and the very
essence of its fulfillment.”
I am a “stalwart friend of Israel” — “their security is sacrosanct.”
“There’s nothing that would bring the wrath of the Christian public in this country down on this
government like abandoning or opposing Israel in a critical matter.”
They were uttered, respectively, by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), in a December 2001 speech on
the Senate floor;2 by former House Speaker Tom DeLay (R-TX), in a July 2003 speech delivered in
Israel’s Knesset building;
The above quotations demonstrate a commonplace fact: there is a great deal of religiouslyinflected energy within American politics surrounding the State of Israel.
The newest organization seeking to channel all of this religiously inspired political energy is
Christians United for Israel (CUFI). CUFI is led by John Hagee, pastor of Cornerstone Church in San
Antonio, Tex. Hagee’s church, with a membership of 16,000, has given millions of dollars in recent years
to various groups within Israel. In the summer of 2006, CUFI’s inaugural conference drew roughly 3500
Christian Zionists to Washington, DC.
CUFI is a highly organized and mobilized political organization. Emulating the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, CUFI envisions itself as a “Christian AIPAC.” The group’s initial policy
statements included supporting Israel’s military strikes on Lebanon in 2006 and, within the context of
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the U.S. war in Iraq, a preemptive strike on the nuclear capabilities of Iran. CUFI’s clearest policy goals
are articulated in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
John Hagee himself is a leading purveyor of religious rhetoric regarding U.S. foreign policy.
Often, his ire is directed squarely at U.S. political leaders. In a sermon preached before his Cornerstone
congregation, for instance, Hagee directed his message to national politicians:
“For those of you who are in Washington, Jerusalem is not up for negotiation with anyone for
any reason at any time in the future, regardless of what your Roadmap of Peace calls for. There are
people in this nation who believe the Bible takes precedent over Washington, D.C.”
At the 2007 AIPAC policy conference, Hagee warned of a growing conspiracy against Israel: “I am
concerned that in the coming months yet another attempt will be made to parcel out parts of Israel in a
futile effort to appease Israel’s enemies in the Middle East.
I believe that misguided souls in Europe, I believe that the misguided souls in the political brothel
that is now the United Nations and sadly—and sadly even our own State Department will try once
again to turn Israel into crocodile food.”
A little over a year before, during a CUFI dinner addressed by the Israeli Ambassador to the United
States, Hagee described Israel’s conflict with Lebanon as “a battle of good and evil”.American support
for the State of Israel was “God’s foreign policy.”
Calling support for Israel “God’s foreign policy” can sound quaint. It is a stretch, however, to say
that Christian Zionist leaders actively shape U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Christian Zionist
activism serves to maintain the status quo of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The status quo, however, is
harmful for the majority of Palestinians.
Christian Zionism is a politically mobilized strand of Christian fundamentalism committed to
preserving Jewish control over all of historic Palestine to ensure the realization of the movement’s own
end-times hope.
Both a political theology and a philosophy of history, Christian Zionism builds on the futurist
system of biblical prophecy interpretation known as “premillenial dispensationalism,” a system
popularly expressed as “Armageddon theology” or “rapture theology.” Christian Zionism places the
State of Israel (and, often, the United States) at the center of God’s purposes for “the end of the age.”
Of the many verses key for Christian Zionist biblical interpretation, two have figured prominently
in Christian Zionist political commentary concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The first is Joel 3:2—
“I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because
they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land.”
Christian Zionists
expressed shock and surprise when Ariel Sharon, long seen as a champion of religiously-motivated
Israeli settlers in occupied Palestinian territory, announced plans for Israel’s unilateral “disengagement”
from Gaza.
According to televangelist Pat Robertson the prophet Joel tells us that “God has enmity against
those who ‘divide my land.’” The 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was “the same
thing.” Robertson concluded, “I would say woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar
course to appease the E.U., the United Nations or United States of America. God said, ‘This land
belongs to me, you better leave it alone.’”
Another consistent biblical favorite for Christian Zionists is Genesis 12:3—“I will bless those who
bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse.”
Therefore, for Christian Zionists, our alignment with the State of Israel is the measure of our
faithfulness to God’s purposes.
Christian Zionist policy analyst Michael Evans (Author: Israel: America’s Key to Survival) has made
extensive use of Genesis 12:3. His 2003 book, Beyond Iraq, was written to provide biblically-based
arguments against the “Roadmap” for peace introduced in April 2003 by the Quartet (the United States,
Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations.
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Evans argues that “both the Old and New Testaments make abundantly clear that Christians
must support Israel in every possible way.” To this end, Evans identifies Genesis 12:3 as a “selfish
reason” Christians should support Israel:
“When we support Israel we are supporting the only nation that was created by an act of God.
We are declaring that the Bible is true…. Yet if we touch Jerusalem, which is prophecy, America will lose
the blessing of God and America will tragically lose the war on terrorism.”
William Blackstone devised a theory that … the United States had a special role and mission in
God’s plans for humanity, that of a modern Cyrus, assigned the task of restoring Jews to Zion and thus
helping to advance the messianic timetable….
Many, however, find repugnant Christian Zionism’s easy melding of Evangelical faith and American
nationalism. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in a Nov. 2007 interview with a British
Islamic lifestyle magazine, accused Christian Zionists of being too connected to “the chosen nation
myth of America, meaning that what happens in America is very much at the heart of God’s purpose
for humanity.”
After Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon, a July 2006 Pew Research Poll found that “a 44%plurality of U.S. adults say they sympathize more with Israel, while 9% sympathize with the
Palestinians, figures that have remained largely unchanged in polls taken since late 2001.”
Later that same year, a Zogby International poll of likely voters in the 2006 mid-term elections
found that 31% of Americans agreed or strongly agreed with a basic definition of Christian Zionism,
that “Israel must have all of the promised land, including Jerusalem, to facilitate the second coming of
the messiah.”
Christian Zionists of the premillenial dispensationalist variety often approach Muslims and Jews
through the prism of their apocalyptic hopes.
Brog’s orientation toward the defense of “Judeo-Christian civilization” against even a “particular
type of Muslim” indicates a presumed exclusion of Islam and Muslims from the possibilities of that
civilization. This presumption of a civilizational divide—a divide between the Islamic and the western,
“Judeo-Christian” worlds— feeds John Hagee’s perspectives on U.S. Middle East policy.
“I would hope the United States would join Israel in a military preemptive strike to take out the
nuclear capability of Iran for the salvation of Western civilization,” he has said. “I don’t believe that the
Islamo-fascist mentality will ever respond favorably to diplomacy. Their agenda is the destruction of
Israel and death to Jews and Christians.”
The newsletter identified three objectionable aspects to Christian Zionism, including 1) its
promotion of Jesus “not as the Savior but as a military general,” 2) its treatment of Jewish people
simply as “characters … in the so-called final battle,” and 3) as “anti-justice, anti-peace, antireconciliation.”
A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. When we encounter a theological system that
does not care about the lives of real people living in the Holy Land, one that treats all of them—Jews,
Christians, Muslims, Druze—as pawns in an end-times drama, it needs to be called what it is. We can
boldly name Christian Zionism as a theology of glory that anticipates the destruction of all persons not
adhering to its ideology.
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Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to U.S. –
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
Rev. Robert O. Smith Lutheran Pastor, University of Chicago
http://www.elcjhl.org/palestine/zionism/zionism.asp
October 26, 2005 Council for the National Interest press release
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Christian Zionism, a belief that paradise for Christians can only be achieved once Jews are in
control of the Holy Land, is gathering strength in the United States and forging alliances that are
giving increasingly weird shape to American policy toward the Middle East.
The nature of the movement and its detrimental impact on policy was the subject of the 22nd
Capitol Hill public hearing presented by the Council for the National Interest yesterday.
A new Zogby International poll commissioned by the CNI Foundation shows that 31 percent of
those surveyed in the national poll strongly believe or somewhat believe in the ideas behind Christian
Zionism, defined as "the belief that Jews must have all of the promised land, including all of
Jerusalem, to facilitate the second coming of the messiah."
Other polls bear similar messages, that 53% of Americans believe that Israel was given by God
to the Jews (Pew), and that 59% of the American public believes the prophecies contained in the Book
of Revelations will come true (CNN/Time.)
The irony of the alliance between Christian Zionists and Jewish Zionists is that the one ideology
promotes the ultimate destruction of the other. As Smith pointed out, the "Christians United for Israel"
is all about Israel, not about the Israelis, and only a little surface digging into Christian Zionism shows
how anti-Semitic it really is.
So much so that Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, one of the ceaseless
champions of Zionism in this country, has called the Christian right one of the direst threats to American
Jews.
This has not prevented top Israeli officials from paying homage to the Christian right, including
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli ambassador Daniel Ayalon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, and a host of others. The
ability of CUFI and other far right Christian religious leaders like Jerry Farwell and Pat Robertson to raise
money for Israel, including Israeli settlements, is well documented.
Christian Zionism, Smith concluded, has a fundamental lack of earthly concerns, is divorced from
reality, and undermines the work of politics. Its practical impact is the killing of people in the Holy
Land.
The recent statement by the Christian religious leaders of Jerusalem that warned against
Christian Zionism's policies of racist intolerance and perpetual war was much needed, but it should
have come from America's religious leaders.
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Christian Zionism and Messianic Judaism
Chapter 8 of The Sociology of the Church
Essays in Reconstruction
James B. Jordan, Th. M. Geneva Ministries Tyler, Texas
Published by Geneva Ministries P.O. Box 131300, Tyler, Texas 75713
http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/eschatology/christian_zionism.html
http://www.biblicalhorizons.com jbjordan@biblicalhorizons.com
CHRISTIAN ZIONISM AND MESSIANIC JUDAISM
One of the most grotesque aspects of the sociology of modern American Protestantism is the
phenomenon of Christian Zionism.
While related to the theology of dispensationalism, Christian Zionism is actually something
altogether different theologically. The purpose of this chapter is to explore this movement, and in
particular to point out its grievously heretical theoretical basis. We close with a brief note on Messianic
Judaism.
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Zionism
Zionism is a political movement built on the belief that the Jewish people deserve by right to
possess the land of Palestine as their own. During the last part of the 19th and first part of the 20th
centuries, Zionism gained support throughout the Christian West.
This was due to two factors: the influence that Jewish wealth could purchase among
politicians, and the emotional sup-port that the history of Jewish tribulation could elicit from a
Christianized public conscience.1
With this support, Zionist guerillas succeeded in throwing Palestine into havoc during the late
1940s, and eventually took over that land. The result was the disenfranchisement of people who
historically dwelt there.
The Moslem Palestinians were formally disenfranchised, and the Palestinian Jews were
effectively disenfranchised as a result of being swamped by larger numbers of European Jews who
immigrated to the new State of Israel.
It is important to realize that the most conservative Jews were anti-Zionists, believing that
Palestine was not to become a Jewish land until made so by the coming of the Messiah. (This viewpoint
was dramatized in the recent and rewarding film, The Chosen. )
Much of the most severe criticism of the political Zionist movement has come from anti-Zionist
Jews, the most noted being Alfred M. Lilienthal.2
Spurious criticisms of Zionism abound on the right. We hear from some rightist sources that it is
a myth that 6,000,000 Jews were slaughtered by the National Socialists.
It is argued that there were not that many Jews in Europe, that it would be impossible
logistically to do away with that many people given the time and facilities that the Nazis had, and so
forth.
This may be true; I have absolutely no way of knowing. The argument, however, seems to be that
virtually no Jews were slaughtered by Nazis, and this is nonsense.
Even if the number is 600,000 rather than six million, the event is still a moral horror of
astonishing magnitude. Even if only one man were killed simply because he was a Jew, this would be a
moral horror.
Of course, a blasphemous theology has been erected upon this in some Jewish circles, which is
the notion that the Nazi persecutions fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah 53, and that the Jews suffered for the
sins of the world.
As Christians we can only abominate such a construction, and we must call it what it is: a Satanic
lie. Still, it is not necessary to deny the event itself in order to argue against an evil theological
construction.
Perhaps more common is the assertion that most modern Jews are not Jews at all: They are
Khazars.3 The Khazari race seems to lie behind the Ashkenazik Jews of Eastern Europe.
Biblically speaking, a Jew is someone who is covenanted into the people of the Jews by
circumcision, for better or for worse. When Abraham was commanded to circumcise, he was told to
circumcise his entire household, including his 318 fighting men and his other domestic servants (Gen.
14:14; 17:10-14). These servants multiplied as the years went by, and Jacob inherited them all (Gen.
27:37). Although only 70 from the loins of Jacob went down into Egypt, but also many servants went.
All these people were Jews, but only a small fraction actually had any of Abraham’s blood in
them. Later on we see many other people joining the Jews; David’s men include many foreigners, of
whom Uriah the Hittite is but the best known.
What this demonstrates is that covenant, not race, has always been the defining mark of a Jew
(as it also is of a Christian). Genealogical records were kept for the immediate family since the Messiah
had to be of the actual blood of Abraham, and later of David.
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Thus, the Jews are those who claim to be Jews, who are covenanted with the Jews. The Khazari
converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages, and they are Jews, It is spurious to criticize Zionism on the
grounds that "Jews really didn’t suffer during World War II," or "Who knows who the real Jews are?" It is
pretty obvious who the Jews are, and they are, as always, a force to be reckoned with.
The third line of criticism against Zionism concerns the rightness or wrongness of its invasion and
conquest of Palestine. We can listen to arguments to the effect that the Jews stole the land from its
inhabitants, that they have persecuted the Palestinians, that they committed horrors during their
guerilla campaign, and the like.
Actually, none of this is any of our direct concern as Christians. As Christians we see both Jews
and Moslems as groups that have rejected Christ as Messiah, and who have opposed the true faith. If
they want to convert, we rejoice. If they want to kill each other off, then that is too bad, but let them
have at it — there’s nothing we can do about it.
But then, that brings us to the issue: Are Bible-believing Christians supposed to support a Jewish
State, for theological reasons? Such is the assertion of Jerry Falwell, and of the heresy of Christian
Zionism. Let us turn to this doctrine.
Orthodox Dispensationalism versus Christian Zionism
During the nineteenth century, a peculiar doctrinal notion known as "dispensationalism" arose.
Technically, dispensationalism teaches that God has two peoples in history of the world: Israel and the
"Church.
" We presently live in the "Church Age," and God’s people today are Christians, the Church. At
the present time, the Jews are apostate enemies of God and of Christ, and are under God’s judgment
until they repent.
One other point to note: There are absolutely no signs that the Rapture of the Church is near. It
will come "as a thief in the night."
First, there are no signs that precede the Rapture, dispensationalism clearly implies that the
modern State of Israel has nothing to do with Bible prophecy. If Israel collapsed to-morrow, it would
make no difference.
Second, dispensationalism teaches that Jews of today, and even into the Tribulation period, are
apostate, and this certainly implies that they are under the wrath and judgment of God. Christians
should minister to them, and try to convert them.
Christians should understand that during the Church Age, the Jews are not the people of God.
Rather, the Church is the people of God today.
Third, by teaching that Israel is "set aside" during the Church Age, dispensationalism clearly
implies that the promises made to Israel are also "set aside" during that period. The land promise, and
the promise "those who bless you, I will bless. Thus, the Jews have no right to the land during the
Church Age, and also there is no particular blessing for Gentiles who treat the Jews with favor.
Fourth, dispensational theologians are most strict on the point that the Church is a "new people ,"
composed as one body in Christ of both Jew and Gentile.
As far as I am concerned, dispensationalism is sorely wrong in its prophetic view, but it is at least
orthodox in its view of salvation and blessing. Blessing comes to the Jews when they repent and accept
Christ; until then, they are under God’s curse. How can it be otherwise? All blessings are in Christ. This
is the teaching of orthodox Christianity, and Darby and the early dispensationalists were orthodox.
Jerry Falwell and Christian Zionism
My description of dispensationalism may seem rather strange, because this is not the teaching of
Hal Lindsey, of the modern Dallas Theological Seminary, or of other modern dispensationalists. I call
these people "pop-dispies ," for short.
The consistent dispensational system teaches that there are no prophecies whose fulfillment
takes place during the Church Age, because the Church exists outside of prophetic time, but modern
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pop-dispies teach that the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in 1948 was a fulfillment of
prophecy.
Consistent dispensationalism teaches that God is dealing with His "heavenly" people today (the
Church), and that during the Church Age, God has "set aside" His apostate "earthly" people (Israel).
Pop-dispies, on the contrary, hold that even though apostate, Israel still must be regarded as
being under God’s present blessing.
They hold the heretical notion that the Jews do not need to
repent in order to obtain the blessings of God’s covenant. They hold the un-Biblical notion that
apostate Jewry is not today under the wrath of God.
A well-known advocate of this unfortunate position is the Rev. Jerry Falwell. A modern Zionist,
Merrill Simon, has recognized this fact, and has written a book, Jerry Falwell and the Jews.5 This book is
a series of interviews with Rev. Falwell, to present him as a friend of Zionism.
I should like to cite some quotations from this book, and make some appropriate comments. The
books says, however, "No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written
consent from the publishers," which rather cramps my style. You’ll just have to believe me, as I
summarize Falwell’s comments.
On page 13, Falwell is asked if he considers the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 as a sign of
God’s rejection of Israel. Falwell answers by saying that he surely does not believe a "vengeful" God
brought the Roman army to Jerusalem to destroy the Jews. Falwell ascribes the event rather to antiSemitism.
On page 25, Falwell says that he believes anti-Semitism is inspired exclusively by Satan, as part
of his opposition to God. Against this, read Job chapters 1 and 2, Satan is never allowed to do anything
without God’s permission. More-over, we find from the rest of the Bible that God frequently raises up
enemies against His people, as scourges to punish them. Read the Book of Judges, Kings and Chronicles
about Assyria and Babylon. Read Habakkuk.
It is true that anti-Jewish feelings are not part of the Christian message, and that Christians
should be as considerate toward Jews as they are toward all other men. It is also true, however, that it
is God Who stirs up the Babylonians and Assyrians. Until the Jews repent and convert (as Romans 11
promises that someday they shall), they remain God’s enemies, and He does stir up pagans against
them.
On page 55, Falwell says that Jews and Christian may differ at some points, but they have a
common heritage in the Old Testament. Would Falwell be willing to say the same to a Moslem? At any
rate, the statement is incorrect. Judaism looks to the Talmud, not to the Bible, as its law. Judaism never
approaches the Bible except through the Talmud.
On page 62, Falwell says that the future of the State of Israel is more important than any other
political question. He says that the Jews have a theological, historical, and legal right to Pales-tine. He
affirms his personal commitment to Zionism, and says that he learned Zionism from the Old Testament.
The Bible teaches us that when Adam and Eve rebelled, they lost their right to the Garden, and
God cast them out. God used the very same principle with Israel, giving them the land, but warning
them over and over again that if they rebelled, they would be cast out. It is beyond me how Falwell can
read the Old Testament Scriptures and fail to see this.
Modern apostate Jews have absolutely no theological, and therefore no historical and legal
right to the land of Palestine.
On page 68, Falwell says that one thing in modern Israel disturbs him. It is that Christians do not
have the liberty to evangelize for the gospel. In other words, Falwell is aware that Christians are being
persecuted in Israel today, but he still supports Israel! If this is not a betrayal of the faith, what
is? Finally, on p. 145, Falwell is asked about abortion, since modern Jews advocate abortion. Simon
asks him whether or not the death penalty should be used against a woman who has an abortion, and
her physician. Falwell replies that he has never thought about this before, and that he thinks any action
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against the woman would be wrong. Rev. Falwell is so confused, befuddled, and blind that he cannot
see them.
Obviously, if abortion is murder, then we have to advocate the death penalty for it! Of course,
Falwell here sounds just like most of the rest of the modern anti-abortion movement: They’ve never
even thought about some of the most basic, elementary issues involved.
"Abortion is murder,"
they cry. "Reinstitute the death penalty for murder," says the Moral Majority (Falwell’s political
group). Anybody with an IQ over 25 can figure out the implications of these two statements, but
apparently Falwell has never thought of this before.
Christian Zionism is blasphemy. It is a heresy. Christians have no theological stake whatsoever
in the modern State of Israel. It is an anti-God, anti-Christ nation. Until it repents and says "blessed is
He Who comes in the Name of the Lord," it will continue to be under the wrath of God. The modern
State of Israel permits the persecution of Christians and Christian missionaries. To support the enemies
of the Gospel is not the mark of a Gospel minister, but of an anti-Christ.
(According to Ben Gurion, a Jew can be an Atheist but if he converts to Christianity then he is no
longer entitled to live in Israel. VCT)
Messianic Judaism
In recent years, a large number of Jewish young people have turned to Jesus Christ as their Lord
and Savior. Many of these young people have formed "Messianic Synagogues," and have articulated
here and there various theologies of "Messianic Judaism." For many, Messianic Judaism is simply a way
of keeping some Jewish cultural traditions while becoming Christian, and there is nothing wrong with
this.
Unfortunately, for some, Messianic Judaism is seen as an alternative to historic Christianity. In
fact, some Messianic Jews apparently believe that they can claim unlimited financial support from
Gentile Christians, because of this preeminence.8
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Resolution on Christian Zionism: Presbyterian Church
Israel and Palestine General Assembly Action
http://www.pcusa.org/worldwide/israelpalestine/christianzionism.htm
The 216th General Assembly (2004) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) adopted this resolution,
with comment:
1. Call upon the Stated Clerk to issue to all churches in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) a pastoral
letter on Christian Zionism and the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine by making this letter available
on the PC(USA) Web site (Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, Corporate Witness, Interfaith
Relations, Middle East, and the Office of Theology and Worship).
2. Direct the Stated Clerk to inform current government officials that Christian Zionism does not
represent the majority of American Christians and the faith of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
3. Direct the General Assembly Council to continue to commend and promote the PC(USA) list of
resources found in the September/October 2003 issue of Church & Society, entitled "Israel and
Palestine: The Quest for Peace," so that Presbyterians will become educated of the Middle East situation
and have a better understanding of its history and people.
4. Direct the Office of the General Assembly and the General Assembly Council to educate
Presbyterians about the Reformed principles for interpreting Scripture as affirmed by previous General
Assemblies. Specifically, interpreting Scripture as follows:
a. In light of the entire witness of Scripture: 'Thus the New Testament's emphasis on the
gospel is not to be understood apart from the Old Testament's emphasis on the grace of the law; and
the Old Testament's emphasis on the law is not to be understood apart from the New Testament's
emphasis on the grace of the gospel.
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b. And the rule of love of God and neighbor: 'The expression of God's will is the two fold
commandment to love God and neighbor, and all interpretations are to be judged by the question
whether they offer and support the love given and commanded by God,'.
5. Direct the General Assembly Council (GAC), through its offices on the Middle East, Interfaith
Relations, Theology and Worship, and the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, to develop a resource
and study guide to assist Presbyterians in understanding how biblical faith and Reformed theology guide
our understanding of present realities in the Middle East.
6. Continue to cooperate with other denominations' church bodies and like-minded groups to
promote peace in the Holy Land.
7. Urge Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)-related colleges & seminaries to address this issue.
8. Commend to the church the following works to understand and Christian Zionism:
a. Our own resources from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.):
b. Resources from outside the PC(USA):
9. Pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit to illumine our minds as we continue to seek a deeper
understanding of God's Word for us and for the world today.
Comment from the General Assembly Council:
Item 12-03 calls on the General Assembly to oppose Christian Zionism and to develop a plan to
communicate the theological and political ramifications it engenders to the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.), in the mass media, and among U.S. government officials.
Item 12-03 rightly calls on the General Assembly to look closely at the role that Christian
theology has in relation to current struggles in Middle-East politics and to work for peace in that
troubled region.
Presbyterians have a strong history of careful theological and social analysis, and the question of
Christian Zionism and its relation to U.S. policies toward the Middle East deserves that type of
consideration.
1. What Is Christian Zionism?
Christian Zionism "weds religion with politics and interprets biblical faithfulness in terms of
fidelity to Israel's future" [ http://www.hcef.org/hcef/index.cfm/ID/159 ]. It is a particular political
philosophy and strategy. Christian Zionist leaders share 5 core beliefs:
(1) The Covenant. God's covenant with Israel is eternal and unconditional; the promises of land
given to Abraham will never be overturned. The church has not replaced Israel; therefore, Israel's
privileges have never been revoked.
(2) The Church. God's plan has always been for the redemption of Israel. When Israel failed to
follow Jesus, the church was born as an afterthought or "parenthesis." At the rapture the church will
be removed and Israel will once again become God's primary agent in the world.
We live in 'the times of the Gentiles' that will conclude soon. There are two covenants now at
work, that given through Moses and the covenant of Christ. The new covenant in no way makes the
older covenant obsolete.
(3) Blessing Modern Israel. Genesis 12:3 is applied literally and applied to modern Israel: "I will
bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you." Christians have a spiritual obligation to
bless Israel and "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." While many Christians have also believed it important
to observe the injunction of Genesis 12:3 in regard to the Jews, Christian Zionism links this specifically to
support of the modern state of Israel. To fail to support Israel's political survival today will incur divine
judgment.
(4) Prophecy. The prophetic books of the Bible specifically refer to events today, though some
may also refer to events in Biblical times. This quest for prophecy has spawned countless books of endtime speculation involving the state of Israel based on Biblical prophecy.
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(5) Modern Israel and Eschatology. The modern state of Israel is a catalyst for the prophetic endtime countdown. If these are the last days, then we should expect an unraveling of civilization, the rise
of evil, the loss of international peace and equilibrium, a coming antichrist, and tests of faithfulness to
Israel.
Above all, political alignments today will determine our position on the fateful day of Armageddon.
Since the crisis of 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it has been easy to persuade the public that
history is unraveling precisely as Dispensationalism predicted. [
http://www.hcef.org/hcef/index.cfm/ID/159 ]
2. What Is Dispensationalism?
Premillennialism holds that Christ will return to the earth prior to the Last Day in order to
exercise rule over the nations for a thousand years in the last stage of human history.
It is pessimistic concerning the role and prospects of the Church in human history; therefore it
posits another age, the millennium, between Christ's return and the Last Day, during which Christ rules
in person over a theocratic kingdom to which all the nations of the world are subject. Periods of great
world upheaval and crisis have tended to spawn and multiply despair in society, and premillennial
visions within Christianity. . . .
Dispensationalism gives premillennialism a complete system. Human history is regarded as a
series of ages (dispensations) in which humanity is tested with respect to some aspect revealed of
God's will. In each case humankind fails, is judged by God, and then set on the trail under new covenant
conditions. (For further detail, see "Dispensationalism," Minutes, PCUS, 1944, Part I, pp. 123-27.)
The General Assembly in 1944 was very careful to distinguish premillennialism in general from its
specific application in Dispensationalism. It was the latter that was singled out for specific criticism:
It is the unanimous opinion of your Committee that Dispensationalism as defined and set forth
above is out of accord with the system of the doctrine set forth in the Confession of Faith, not primarily
or simply in the field of eschatology, but because it attacks the very heart of the Theology of our
Church, which is unquestionably a Theology of one Covenant of Grace. ["Dispensationalism," Minutes
of the General Assembly, PCUS, 1944, Part I, pp. 123-27.]
John Hagee, a popular television preacher and Christian Zionist leader who recently delivered
$1 million to Israel [ http://www.hcef.org/hcef/index.cfm/ID/159 ], has defended a parallel and
enduring covenant with the Jews: "I believe that every Jewish person who lives in the light of the
Torah, which is the word of God, has a relationship with God and will come to redemption" ["San
Antonio Evangelical battles anti-Semitism," Houston Chronicle, April 30, 1988, sec. 6, pg. 1.].
In such matters, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) must speak with a firm, but careful voice. See
also: [ http://www.PC(USA).org/ga213/business/OVT0125 ] and [
http://www.PC(USA).org/theologyandworship/issues/reflection ] "Between Millennia" and
"Eschatology: The Doctrine of Last Things."
(sections omitted)
Pray for peace in the new year Join in prayer with Bruce Reyes-Chow,
Gradye Parsons and Linda Valentine.
Read a statement from the Stated Clerk on the crisis.
Learn more about the current crisis and find ways to respond.
The Presbyterian Church has been involved in mission efforts in the Middle East for nearly two
centuries. The denomination's long-standing witness in Israel and Palestine has spanned a range of
efforts: supporting mission personnel; working with partner churches; contributing to refugee relief and
resettlement; combating hunger and poverty; supporting ministries of local churches; sponsoring travelstudy seminars; promoting education, health and leadership development; vocational training programs
and self-development projects; programs supporting peace, justice and human rights movements;
engaging in constituency education; and mobilizing to influence public policy.
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Since 1948 General Assemblies have repeatedly addressed the Middle East and particularly
Israel and Palestine. The Presbyterian position has consistently been to affirm the right of Israel to exist
as a sovereign state within secure, internationally recognized borders and the right of the Palestinians to
self-determination, including the right to the establishment of a neighboring independent, sovereign
state toward the end of establishing a just and durable peace.
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Religious Leaders' on Christian Zionism
"We Stand for Justice. We Can Do No Other"
JERUSALEM, AUG. 30, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is "The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism"
released Aug. 22. The statement was written by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem and other
local heads of Churches in Jerusalem. Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement
that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a
just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist program provides a worldview where the
Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. It puts emphasis on
apocalyptic events leading to end of world rather than living Christ's love and justice today.
We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical
message of love, justice and reconciliation.
We reject the alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations with elements in the
governments of Israel and the United States that are presently imposing their unilateral preemptive
borders and domination over Palestine. We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that support
these policies. They advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war rather than the gospel of universal
love, redemption and reconciliation taught by Jesus Christ.
Rather than condemn the world to the doom of Armageddon we call upon everyone to
liberate themselves from the ideologies of militarism and occupation. Instead, let them pursue the
healing of the nations! These discriminative actions are turning Palestine into impoverished ghettos
surrounded by exclusive Israeli settlements. The establishment of the illegal settlements and the
construction of the Separation Wall on confiscated. We call upon all Churches that remain silent, to
break their silence and speak for reconciliation with justice in the Holy Land. Therefore, we commit
ourselves to the following principles:
We affirm that all people are created in the image of God. In turn they are called to honor the
dignity of every human being and to respect their inalienable rights. We affirm that Palestinians are
one people, both Muslim and Christian. We reject all attempts to subvert and fragment their unity.
We call upon all people to reject the narrow world view of Christian Zionism and other ideologies
that privilege one people at the expense of others. We are committed to non-violent resistance as the
most effective means to end the illegal occupation in order to attain a just and lasting peace.
With urgency we warn that Christian Zionism and its alliances are justifying colonization,
apartheid and empire-building.
Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad,
Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate, Jerusalem Bishop Munib Younan,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan & the Holy Land
Patriarch Michel Sabbah
Latin Patriarchate, JerusalemBishop Riah Abu El-Assal,
Episcopal Church of Jerusalem & the Middle East
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Will Evangelical Christians and Jews ignite apocalypse?
Media Monitors Network
By MARGOT PATTERSON
http://www.mediamonitors.net/
mpatterson@natcath.org
National Catholic Reporter, October 11, 2002
In September, thousands of Christian Zionists met in Jerusalem for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot to
cheer on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to declare their unconditional support for the state of
Israel. Organized by the International Christian Embassy, the meeting appeared to be a love-in as much
as a rally. “Walking here, I heard many times, and many people said, ‘We love you, we love Israel,’ ”
Sharon said. “May I tell you we love you. We love all of you.”
Religion and politics. It’s an incendiary combination anywhere, and particularly in the Middle East
where Christian Evangelicals, often working in tandem with Jewish Messianic settlers, promote the
formation of a Greater Israel that they believe will usher in Armageddon itself. Many of this country’s
most ardent Christian supporters of Israel welcome that prospect.
“It’s a very tragic situation in which Christian Evangelicals, certain groups of them that focus on
Armageddon and the Rapture and the role of a war between Muslims and Jews in bringing about the
Second Coming, are involved in a folie à deux with extremist Jews,” said Ian Lustick, a professor of
political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
“There is a group of people in the Defense Department and in the vice president’s office who are
very, very pro-Israeli and very pro the Likud Party in Israel,” said Christison, who named Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Undersecretary of Policy in the Defense Department Douglas Feith; adviser
to the Defense Department Richard Perle; Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis Libby Jr.; and
Elliot Abrams on the National Security Council staff. The United States’ current and exclusive focus on
Islamic fundamentalism is a case of what some argue is selective blindness.
Since Sept. 11, suspected Muslim charities have been shut down by the U.S. government
without the government offering any evidence that these charities have links to terrorists, Zogby said.
At the same time, a known terrorist organization such as the Jewish Defense League is not placed on the
government’s list of terrorist organizations, he said.
“Without question, we are subsidizing those settlements. Money is money,” said Zogby, noting that
Israel is not only the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid but the only country that receives its foreign
aid in cash without going through the Agency For International Development and without being held
accountable to the General Accounting Office for what it does with U.S. aid.
“We say settlements are unhelpful or counterproductive, but every single effort to sanction Israel
for building settlements or to take international steps to stop Israel from building settlements, we
block,” Zogby said. “We’re massive enablers of Israel’s bad practices.”
Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and a host of other conservative Christian leaders now
lobby on behalf of Israel and support the most hard-line Israeli positions. Many Evangelical Christian
groups finance efforts to resettle Russian Jews in Israel, often in settlements in the occupied territories
that offer settlers special tax breaks and financial inducements to move there.
“You have a number of very conservative Christian groups that support settlements because they
see this as a way of strengthening Jewish hold on the land of Israel because in their mind this is
important for end-of-time theology and part of hastening the Second Coming and the conversion of
Jews.
But end-of-time theology is an important motive to many. For biblical literalists, particularly
those who subscribe to dispensational premillennialism, a theology articulated by British preacher John
Darby and popularized today by such books as Hal Lindsay’s The Late, Great Planet Earth or the Left
Behind books by the Rev. Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, the Rapture is near at hand in which Christ’s
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faithful will be caught up in the clouds and given new, immortal bodies while the rest faces the horrors
of the last seven years of human history.
Israel plays a key role in this theology, which posits that the Second Coming requires Israel to be
reconstituted and the Jewish Temple, destroyed in 70 A.D., rebuilt. According to the script many
Christian Evangelicals read from, the Antichrist will desecrate the rebuilt Temple, which will be followed
by a period of tribulation when earthquakes, plagues and all the other furies outlined in the Book of
Revelation will come to pass.
This in turn will be followed by Jesus’ return to earth. At that time, according to some Christians,
those Jews who accept Jesus will enter the kingdom along with faithful Christians. Others will perish
violently. Jews have their own Messianic reading of the future. No apocalypse. No mass conversion of
the Jews. No second coming of Jesus.
For Evangelical Jews, the establishment of the state of Israel and the extension of its
sovereignty to the West Bank, Gaza and even further, is part of the process of world redemption.
Eventually, Jewish rule will extend beyond the borders of the present state of Israel to the entire land of
Israel described in the Hebrew Scriptures, the Temple will be rebuilt, and the Messiah will arrive,
ushering in the redemption of the world.
For both Evangelical Christians and Jews, an end to human history as we know it is connected to
a transcendent imperative that necessitates actions that others see as risky, provocative and
aggressive. For both groups, Israeli settlers are the vanguard troops in a campaign of action rooted in
believers’ reading of the Bible.
The Bible as property deed
While the notion of biblical entitlement to the land of Israel was latent in the founding of the
state of Israel, religious claims were soft-pedaled by early Zionist leaders.
If arguably a streak of secular Messianism underlay the Zionist enterprise, it was the Six Day War
in 1967 and the swift and surprising victory Israel achieved in that war, doubling in less than a week the
amount of territory it controlled, including the prized city of old Jerusalem, that provided the impetus
for the settler movement and the development of a Jewish fundamentalism that had been largely
dormant for 18 centuries.
Even secular Israelis regarded the victory as a kind of miracle while for others, especially
religious Zionists, the conquest of the West Bank was proof of a divine plan at work. “Messianism
became a respected ideology, powering the movement that settled Jews across the West Bank,”
Gorenberg writes. He adds that Israel’s victory became part of another story, too: the resurgence of
Christian fundamentalism in the last third of the 20th century.
“The Jewish conquest of Jerusalem provided ‘proof’ of premillennial doctrine. It amplified hopes
for the Second Coming; it spurred some people to predict just when the great event would take place.
… “Christian millennialists eagerly watched the Middle East for more signs. In time, some moved from
being onlookers to being participants, offering support to Israel -- or to the Israelis deemed most likely
to make prophecy come true,” Gorenberg writes.
Now some conservative Christians not only raise money for Israel, they meet in breakfasts and
monthly briefings organized by the Israeli Embassy and participate in schemes to build the third Temple
in Jerusalem. In 1998, for instance, the Canaan Land Restoration Inc. of Israel was established by Clyde
Lott, an American cattleman and a Pentecostal minister.
The Web site of one Christian Zionist organization states that “Today, tens of millions of
Protestant Christians in the United States and more around the world support Israel with an uncritical
fervor, exceeding even Jewish support.”
“There are a lot of forces at work here,” said Jim Besser, a writer for The New York Jewish Week
and The Baltimore Jewish Times. “There are evangelical Christians who support Israel simply because
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they believe it is biblically mandated for them to do so. There are also those who support the right
wing in Israel because of their views of the end-time prophecies.
They believe Israel will play a central role just by view of getting destroyed. Many of the most
prominent names in the evangelical world support Israel unconditionally and are opposed to Israel
negotiating a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
“The feeling among evangelicals is that any effort to create peace in the Middle East is
ultimately a trick,” Besser said. “If you pick up any of Hal Lindsay’s books or Pat Robertson’s books, it’s
all laid out there in quite a lot of detail by many of these popular evangelical authors.
The intransigence of certain Christian Evangelicals mirrors that of many right-wing Israelis,
notably the ultra-nationalist religious settlers on the West Bank who view the conquest of the West
Bank as part of a plan for divine redemption and who oppose a peace settlement that would involve
Israel ceding any inch of territory it controls.
For many of these settlers, rebuilding the Temple, an activity that would almost inevitably
involve the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, Islam’s third-holiest site, which is believed to lie on
the ruins of the old Temple, has become a rallying cry.
“Many of these settlers simply want to come in where Palestinians are living and say a Jew
lived here 75 years ago so they should be living here now, or that 1,500 years ago Jews controlled the
land so Jews now should control the land. There’s an attempt to use the Bible as a land deed claim,”.
If Christian scenarios of the end of time involving the anti-Christ and Armageddon sometimes
seem outlandish or bizarre, Evangelical Jewish schemes for redemption can appear no less so.
Efforts are underway by some Zionist groups to track down the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, who
disappeared in 276 B.C. when they were carried off into captivity. Scouts are looking for the
descendents of these tribes in Africa and Asia, and a group of people in Burma and another in Peru are
being seriously investigated.
“The hope is that these people will discover their Jewishness, reconvert to Judaism and therefore
they will need a place to live and then it will be legitimate to displace the Arabs who are living [in the
occupied territories.] …
Reading the Bible as a set of predictions about the future sends chills through many
mainstream theologians. “No reputable Catholic theologian or certainly no reputable mainline
Protestant theologian would look at the Bible this way,” said Jesuit Fr. John R. Sachs, who teaches at
Weston Jesuit School of Theology near Boston.
Americans’ growing interest in the apocalypse forms part of a worldwide phenomenon, said
Sachs, with conservative & Evangelical movements taking place in the world today.
Decrying Christian Evangelical theology and its influence on U.S. Mideast policy strikes Baylor
University professor Marc Ellis as hypocritical.
“Most of the Christian and Jewish support for the state of Israel has come from liberal sources.
Now liberal Christians are beginning to understand that something is wrong with those policies, but
those policies have already had their effect,” said Ellis.
“Liberal Christians supported Israel out of guilt over the Holocaust. Evangelical Christians have
supported Israel because of biblical eschatology,” said Ellis.
What Ellis called “the political naiveté” of liberal Christians who saw Jews only as innocents has
played a large role in contributing to a steady deterioration in the conditions Palestinians live in that he
said threatens to get worse still if the United States invades Iraq.
Now there are three million Palestinians on the West Bank (and two million in the Gaza
Strip) who are in virtual prison, or worse. They are under closure. No one delivers their food. You have
an entire population in prison but without the perks of prison,” said Ellis.
Close to 400,000 settlers now live in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza
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To Whom Does the Land of Palestine Belong?
by Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson1.html
Mr. Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
In January of 1997, an Israeli soldier opened fire on Arab civilians in the city of Hebron in occupied
Palestine, killing some and wounding others. His motive was to prevent the return of Israeli-occupied
lands to the Arabs.
This soldier was convinced that God has given the land of Palestine to the Jews. Many evangelical
Christians, agree with him that the Jews have a divine title deed to Israel and that the land must NOT be
given back to the Palestinians.
Christian Zionists who believe this way, when asked to cite a Biblical justification for their
views, usually go all the way back to Genesis 12 and 13 in the Old Testament. Many such Zionists are
dispensationalists, who teach that the Old Testament and the Law of Moses are not for today, and that
only selected parts of the New Testament are to be followed.
However, they never quote from the New Testament to justify their Zionist convictions, for the
simple reason that no New Testament teaching exists that would possibly back up such beliefs.
Zionists prefer to rely on the Old Testament, citing Genesis 13:15 where God said to Abraham,
"For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." They construe this as a
large chunk of the Middle East still belongs to the Jews today, including the ancient lands of Edom and
Moab.
Christian Zionists regard God's covenant with Abraham, including the land grant, as an
unconditional covenant. They admit that the Jews have broken that covenant, and have rejected their
Messiah, but insist that Palestine still belongs to the Jews because God gave it to them "forever."
However, the Bible teaches that God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants was a
conditional covenant, not unconditional. In Genesis 17:9-14 the Jews were warned that they must keep
the covenant or be cut off from God's people. Leviticus 26:40-45 teaches that the Jews must confess and
forsake their sins in order to maintain the covenant.
Deuteronomy 7:12, 1 Kings 9:6-9 and Exodus 19:5-6 teach that the covenant was conditional.
Joshua 23:15-16 and 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 teach that the covenant was conditional, but they also specify
that the Jews would lose their land grant if they broke the covenant.
The same reasoning applies to the land grant of Palestine to the Jews. Not only is that land grant
no longer in effect in the new dispensation of grace, but it is also very clear that the Jews were given
that land under a conditional covenant, and that they broke that covenant when they rejected and
crucified their Messiah.
The covenant and the land promise to the Jews were not eternal, to last until the end of time.
The Jews did not keep the conditions of the covenant, and for this reason God took away the kingdom
of God from them, Matthew 21:42-45, and gave it to the New Israel (Galatians 6:16,) the Church which
consists of believing Jews and Gentiles.
The inheritance of the new Spiritual Israel is not land in the Middle East, but rather the new
Jerusalem in heaven. The old Jerusalem on earth is of absolutely no importance to God's people, John
4:21, Galatians 4:24-28, Hebrews 12:18-24. The Apostle Paul in Galatians 4:25 condemns as children of
Hagar all those whose focus is on the earthly Jerusalem.
In Hebrews 8:13 we read that the old covenant with Abraham was about to disappear. The final
disappearance of the old covenant took place in 70 AD when the Romans destroyed the Temple, the City
of Jerusalem, and the Jewish state.
The genealogical records of the Jews were destroyed also, meaning there is no Jew alive today
who can trace his ancestry back to the Palestinian Jews of the First Century.
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There is no statement or hint in the New Testament that God will revive the Jewish state. There
is no prophetic significance in these human restorations of the Jewish state, and Christians are under no
obligation to support such a political entity.
Some Zionists accuse American Jews of greed, saying that they belong in Israel and have stayed
in America so they can make more money here.
Nowadays there are prominent evangelists who preach to their followers that God never fulfilled
His promise of giving all the land of Palestine to the Jews. They support whatever action necessary,
even nuclear war, to obtain Arab lands in the Middle East and give them to the Jews. This belief is
totally mistaken and unscriptural.
God did give all of the land promised to the Jews. If God says that He did, who are we to say that
He did not? It is not necessary for us to start a war in the Middle East to fulfill a promise that God
already fulfilled 3400 years ago.
As for the Old Testament promises that Israel would be restored some day, these prophecies
were fulfilled by the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC. The prophet Jeremiah is quoted to
prove that God promised a restoration of the land to Jews and that the promise began to be fulfilled in
1948 AD.
Christian Zionism and dispensationalism represent a giant step backward in our theological
progress. Instead of resting in the once-for-ever sacrifice by Christ on the Cross for our sins, Zionists look
to the building of another temple in Jerusalem with animal sacrifices.
Instead of inviting our precious, beloved Jewish friends to partake in the eternal blessings of the
heavenly Jerusalem, they try to send them back to the Old Jerusalem, even though they believe that
2/3 of them will be slaughtered in a 7-year period of Tribulation to come very soon.
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Should Christians Support the Construction
of a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem?
by Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson1.html
Mr. Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
In recent years, there have been many reports about various Jewish organizations in Israel who
are preparing to construct a Temple for the resumption of animal sacrifices in Jerusalem.
Such a temple would replace Herod’s Temple which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, as
predicted by Christ (Matthew 24:1-2), as a judgment on the Jewish people for rejecting and crucifying
their Messiah.
What does the Bible have to say about all this?
Should Christians come to the aid of those Jews who want to construct a Temple for animal
sacrifices in Jerusalem? In the Old Testament dispensation, it was clear that God wanted all true
worship to be centralized in one place, Deuteronomy 16:6, 16.
Jerusalem, which had been the Holy City for 1000 years, was soon to lose that distinction. Jesus
told the woman at the well, "Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this
mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father," John 4:21
The Apostle Paul emphasized that as Christians, our allegiance is to the heavenly Jerusalem, not
the earthly city in Palestine:
The author of the epistle to the Hebrews advised his readers to decisively reject all the obsolete,
outmoded forms of the Jewish religion, including the Temple sacrifices, in favor of the heavenly
Jerusalem: Hebrews 12:22-23
The main theme of the epistle to the Hebrews is that the Temple sacrifices had been replaced
forever by the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross (Hebrews (9: 8-12, 10:1-14, etc.) and that for the Hebrew
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Christians to return to such sacrifices would be a rejection of Christ and an unforgivable act of
apostasy (Hebrews 6:6, 10:26-31).
We are assured that the patriarchs, including Father Abraham, have absolutely no interest in the
earthly Jerusalem – they are in a much better place, the heavenly Jerusalem:
In the light of Bible teaching on this subject, it is evident that we as Christians should give no
encouragement to Jews who are seeking to regain control over territory in Jerusalem and/or
reinstitute the Old Testament sacrifices.
As a practical matter, the Muslims now occupy the Temple site, as they have for 1300 years. To
dislodge them would take possibly nuclear in nature. In my humble opinion, it is not worth all that
trouble, just to transfer title of the Temple Mount from one non-Christian (Islam) to another (Judaism).
Let’s concentrate on preaching the Gospel and getting people ready for the Jerusalem that is
above, which is the mother of us all.
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Dispensationalism and Racism
by Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson1.html
Mr. Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
What would you think of a religious sect that taught that there is one race that is by nature
superior, and another race that is by nature inferior?
And suppose that this sect taught that the superior race has a divine right to dispossess
members of the inferior race and take their properties without compensation, and to ethnically
cleanse those who resist this expropriation, using?
And suppose that this sect believed so strongly in this system of racism and ethnic cleansing that
it was willing to plunge the world into war in order to fulfill its objectives.
And suppose that this sect claimed 70,000,000 adherents in the world's most powerful nation,
and had a stranglehold on the foreign policy of that nation, so that the military and financial might of
that nation was helping the superior race and suppressing the inferior race?
Welcome to the wonderful world of American dispensationalism. Dispensationalists, follow the
theological beliefs that ethnic Jews constitute a superior race who are destined to take over Palestine,
then the entire Middle East and finally the world.
This naturally leads to a resentment of Palestinian Arabs, and all other Middle Eastern nations
that sympathize with the Palestinians in their resistance to the program of pushing them out of their
historic homelands. Dispensationalism is racism.
A few dispensationalists display personal animosity and hatred toward members of Middle
Eastern ethnic groups they dislike, while most attempt to maintain cordial relations with individuals
from such groups.
Having made these disclaimers, it must be admitted that the modern dispensational movement
produces a lot of rhetoric and propaganda against the Arab peoples that is racist.
The web site of Cutting Edge Ministries of Attleboro, Massachusetts, in an article entitled "White
Hot Genocidal Arab Hatred of Israel and All Jews is Setting the Stage for End of the Age Prophecy,"
In October, 2000, Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham who has built a reputation for
fighting racism, stunned observers with this attack on the Arabs, made during a "Festival" in Lexington,
Kentucky: "The Arabs will not be happy until every Jew is dead. They hate the state of Israel. They all
hate the Jews. God gave that land to the Jews. The Arabs will never accept that.
Dispensationalist followers of the Grahams were undisturbed by this declaration that all Arabs are
evil and that they have no civil or property rights in the land of their birth.
In his Last Call newsletter, Pastor F. M. Riley of Roswell, New Mexico denounces the
Palestinians as "lazy" and accuse them of stealing Palestine from the Jews, saying, "The Palestinians
(and other Arabs) have never been anything but 'squatters' on land that never belonged to them."
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Even dispensationalists who do not indulge in overt racist condemnations of the Arabs often
follow the assumption that the Palestinians are meant to be subservient to the recent Jewish colonists
and settlers who have taken over their country, and that Palestinians are not entitled to the same basic
human rights as all other peoples and ethnic groups are.
This is an inherently racist ideology. Another common teaching among dispensationalists is
that the Palestinians Arabs are Edomites, or the "House of Esau," and that it is God's will that all the
Old Testament curses and judgments on the ancient Edomites are meant to fall upon Palestinians.
Much anti-Arab prejudice is based on a totally false application of Old Testament prophecies
against ancient Edom (similar to application which places the "curse of Ham" upon modern blacks).
Meanwhile, although Iran is a non-Arab country, the current government of Iran has sided with
the Palestinians. As a result, some dispensationalists regard the existence of Iran and the Iranian people
as a threat to their theological belief that Israel must take over the Middle East and therefore Iran must
be bashed also.
Jimmy DeYoung in an article in the Zionist magazine "Israel My Glory," in which he states,
contrary to all Biblical and historical evidence, that "Persia, that ancient biblical enemy of the Jewish
people, is the modern state of Iran. The hatred the Persians had for the Jewish people has carried over
to the Iran of today."
So, many modern dispensationalists are displeased with the Arabs and the Iranians, for
supposedly hindering the divine plan for Jewish hegemony in the Middle East.
But it turns out that many of these dispensationalists are equally irritated with the Jews and
will even vocally condemn Jews, for their alleged sin of choosing to live in America and other Western
countries, instead of moving to Israel where they supposedly belong.
Here we have a paradox - Gentiles are allowed to live in America or anywhere else they wish
(unless you are a Palestinian desiring to live in Palestine, which is forbidden).
But Jews, who are supposedly the master, superior race, are not allowed to choose where they
can live like everyone else - they must live in Israel, the new ghetto set aside for them, or suffer the
divine displeasure. Some have even suggested that the Holocaust was God's punishment upon the Jews
for not relocating to Israel, and part of God's plan to force them to go there anyway.
Any theological teaching that gives Jews a place of privilege over Palestinians or Gentiles in
general, or that places any added burdens and restrictions upon the Jews because of their ethnicity, is a
relic of an unenlightened past, should be erased from our thinking or preaching.
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Zionism versus the Bible
by Thomas Williamson http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamson1.html
Mr. Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Much of our Christian emphasis on foreign policy in the Middle East today is based on the
promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
The first half of this verse is a promise that God made to just one person, Abraham. Matthew
Henry’s commentary states of Genesis 12:3a that "This made it a kind of league, offensive and defensive,
between God and Abram."
Of the second half of the verse, Matthew Henry says, This was the promise that crowned all the
rest; for it points to the Messiah, in whom ‘all the promises are yea and amen.’ Note, (1), Jesus Christ is
the great blessing of the world, the greatest that ever the world blessed with."
Recently Genesis 12:3 has been spiritualized by Christian Zionist preachers, who say that this
verse applies not just to Abraham, but also to Abraham’s descendants, specifically to the modern state
of Israel founded in 1948.
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Supposedly, it means that evangelical Christians as individuals, and America as a nation, are
bound to provide unquestioning support, financial and otherwise, to the state of Israel.
It is said that if America fails to back up Israel in every way possible, financially, militarily and
otherwise, then God will be through with America and will have us nuked.
When it is pointed out that the various Arabs nations, including Palestine, are also descended
from Abraham, the Christian Zionists say that the promise of Genesis 12"3 applies only to the
descendants of Isaac.
Zionists say, based on their non-literal, speculative, spiritualized interpretation of Genesis 12:3,
that we are to give total, unquestioned support to some of Abraham’s children, while others of
Abraham’s children are to be hated, persecuted, ethnically cleansed, bombed back into the Stone Age,
maybe even nuked.
But in Genesis 21:13, 17-18 God also bestows His blessing on Ishmael and his descendants,
saying, "For I will make him a great nation."
According to the same principles of interpretation by which we have made Genesis 12:3 a
command for political support of the modern nation of Israel, Genesis 21:18 must be taken as a
command for political support of the modern Arab nations. (Anybody want to start up a "Christian
Ishmaelist" movement to lobby for Arab national greatness?)
Christian Zionists claim to have 70,000,000 followers in America, who insists that our politicians
render unquestioning obedience to the military and political agenda of the Israeli Government. Does
God really demand that we support all actions and activities of the Israeli Government, even if those
actions violate God’s moral standards of righteousness?
But nowadays, when the Israeli government expropriates the lands and properties of
Palestinians without compensation, we look the other way and say nothing about it.
In Jeremiah 27:6-17, the prophet advocated the surrender of Israel’s territory to the King of
Babylon, in return for peace – today, we would call it "land for peace." But today, our warmongering
televangelists denounce "land for peace" as unthinkable for any reason whatsoever, and threaten God’s
wrath against anyone who would support such a thing.
Supposedly it is better for Jewish and Arab children of Abraham to keep on killing each other
over the land (while these sanctimonious war profiteers collect the money from sales of their
Armageddon videos.
Could it be a conflict of interest to allow US foreign policy to be dictated by these megamillionaire preachers, who stand to make a profit if there is a war in the Middle East?)
We have seen that God’s inspired prophets did not meet the Christian Zionist standard of blind,
unquestioning support for Israel.
Whenever the modern Israeli government takes any action that does not fit in with the
speculative doomsday scenarios of the Armageddon Theology, the Christian Zionists will loudly protest
and insist that the Israelis are doing wrong.
For instance, in 1994 Christian Zionist leaders, including Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed, publicly
condemned the policies of the Israeli government under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was seeking
a peace settlement with the Palestinians.
It seems hypocritical for Christian Zionists to threaten the wrath of God against those who
express disagreement with any policy of the Israeli government when they have done the same thing
themselves.
Modern-day Israelis and other Jews are well aware of the fact that the Christian Zionists believe,
based on a mistaken interpretation of Zechariah 13:8, that there must be a devastating war in the
Middle East in which two-thirds of all the Jews will be slaughtered.
It is commonly understood that the Christian Zionists do not really care about what is best for
the Jews, as evidenced by their constant lobbying efforts to stir up World War III in the Middle East.
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Million Jews may wind up dead, but it will be good for sales of the Armageddon videos that are
peddled on the televangelists’ broadcasts and web-sites.
This raises the question who is really "blessing Israel;" those who are working for peace in the
Middle East, or those who are agitating for a war designed to get two-thirds of all Jews wiped out?
Gershom Gorenberg, in his book "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the
Temple Mount," says, "I’ve listened to….American evangelical ministers who insist on their deep love
for Israel and nevertheless eagerly await apocalyptic battles on Israel’s soil so terrible that the dry
river bed will, they predict, fill with rivers of blood."
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, has stated that
"People who say there can be no peace are not really friends of Israel."
Robert O. Freedman, political science professor at Baltimore Hebrew University, says concerning
Christian Zionists, "Once you get in bed with them, you are, to a certain extent, subscribing to their
view of what America ought to be. And that, in my view, is not in the best interests of the Jewish
people."
Former Shin Bet secret chief Carmi Gillon and former police commissioner Assaf Hefetz,
commenting on the activities of Temple Mount extremists who are financially supported by Evangelical
Americans, warned that an attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem "would lead to an all-out war
and unleash destructive forces that would imperil Israel’s existence."
The eagerness of some televangelists, to get a war going in the Middle East (along with their
vociferous Arab-bashing and Muslim-baiting), must be considered in context of their belief in the
infamous Armageddon Theology, which insists that 2/3 of all the Jews must die.
Grace Halsell, in her book "Prophecy and Politics" observed: "Convinced that a nuclear
Armageddon is an inevitable event within the divine scheme of things, many evangelical
dispensationalists have committed themselves to a course for Israel that, by their own admission, will
lead directly to a holocaust indescribably more savage and widespread than could have generated in
Adolf Hitler’s criminal mind."
Massive wars in the Middle East that would be contrary to the interests of the Israeli people. Not
everyone is going to agree that stirring up a war to get 2/3 of all Jews killed is a good thing for the
Jews. Nor should we forget that our Prime Directive as Christians is found in the Great Commission. Our
mission is to evangelize, baptize and teach, not to try to hasten Christ’s coming by agitating war and
violence in the Middle East.
Zionism is based on a total misunderstanding of what the Bible teaches. It is true that God gave
Palestine to Hebrews in ancient times. But the Bible teaches that their possession of the land was under
a conditional covenant with Jehovah. If the Hebrews disobeyed their God, they would lose the land. This
is clearly taught in Genesis 17:9-14, Exodus 19:4-5, Leviticus 26:40-45, Deuteronomy 7:12, Joshua 23:1516, 1 Kings 9:6-9, 2 Chronicles 7:19-22, Jeremiah 34:12-22, Ezekiel 33:23-29, Matthew 21:43, etc.
When the Jews rejected their Messiah, God sent the Romans to dispossess the Jews from their
land in 70 AD. This was God’s complete punishment on the Jews for crucifying Christ – therefore, the
Jews today should not be persecuted for something that happened 2000 years ago.
However, their former title deed on the land of Palestine is now abrogated. The New
Testament teaches that Christians are to focus on the heavenly Jerusalem, not the earthly one, John
4:21, Galatians 4:24-28, Hebrews 12:18-24. We are told in Hebrews 11:13-16 that even Abraham has no
further interest in a restored Jewish state on earth, because he is in a much better place in heaven.
Christian Zionism is a movement that claims to be based on the Bible, but as we have seen, it is
actually contrary to what the Bible teaches. All Christians should repudiate Zionism and should work for
a peace settlement in the Middle East that will be of mutual benefit to Abraham’s Jewish and Arab
children in Palestine.
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Christians and Zion – Donald Wagner
Donald Wagner is professor of religion and Middle Eastern studies at North Park University in Chicago
and executive director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He wrote this text, the third in a series
of five on Christian Zionism, for THE DAILY STAR
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Christians and Zion: British stirrings
Part 1 in a series of 5 articles on Christian Zionism:
by Donald Wagner
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4959.htm
One of the early expressions of fascination with the idea of Israel was the monograph Apocalypsis
Apocalypseos, written by Anglican clergyman Thomas Brightman in 1585. Brightman urged the British
people to support the return of the Jews to Palestine in order to hasten a series of prophetic events
that would culminate in the return of Jesus.
In 1621, a prominent member of the British Parliament, attorney Henry Finch, advanced a similar
perspective when he wrote: “The (Jews) shall repair to their own country, shall inherit all of the land as
before, shall live in safety, and shall continue in it forever.” Finch argued that based on his
interpretation of Genesis 12:3, God would bless those nations that supported the Jews’ return.
However, his idea did not find support from fellow legislators.
During the decade that followed the year 1800, several Christian writers and preachers began to
reflect on the events leading to Jesus’ would-be imminent return, among them Louis Way, an Anglican
clergyman. Way taught that it was necessary for the Jews to return to Palestine as the first stage prior
to the Messianic Age, and he offered speculation as to the timing of Jesus’ second coming.
A number of influential proto-Christian Zionists emerged in the generation that followed Way.
John Nelson Darby (1800-81), a renegade Irish Anglican priest, added several unique features to Way’s
teachings, including the doctrine of “the Rapture,” whereby “born again Christians” would be literally
removed from history and transferred to heaven prior to Jesus’ return. Only true (“born again”)
Christians would be removed from history prior to the final battle of Armageddon through the Rapture
.
Darby’s extensive writings and 60-year career as a missionary consolidated a form of
fundamentalism called “premillennialism” (Jesus would return prior to the Battle of Armageddon and
his millennial rule on earth). Darby made six missionary journeys to North America, where he became a
popular teacher and preacher.
Christian Zionism is the direct product of this unusual and recent Western form of Protestant
theology. Found primarily in North America and England, it is now exported around the globe via
satellite television, the internet, best-selling novels such as the Left Behind series, films and a new breed
of missionaries. These unique doctrines were found among fringe movements in Christianity throughout
the ages, which most Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches regarded as extreme and
marginal, if not heretical.
One of the influential British social reformers to be influenced by premillennial theology was Lord
Shaftesbury, a conservative evangelical Christian who was intimately linked to leading members of the
British Parliament. In 1839, Shaftesbury published an essay in the distinguished literary journal the
Quarterly Review, titled “The State and Restoration of the Jews,” where he argued: “The Jews must be
encouraged to return (to Palestine) in yet greater numbers and become once more the husbandman of
Judea and Galilee.”
One of the most important figures in the development of Christian Zionism was the
Anglican chaplain in Vienna during the 1880s, William Hechler, who became an acquaintance of Herzl.
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Hechler saw Herzl and the Zionist project as ordained by God in order to fulfill the prophetic
scriptures. He used his extensive political connections to assist the Zionist leader in his quest for an
international sponsor of the Zionist project.
Hechler arranged meetings with the Ottoman sultan and the German kaiser, but it was his
indirect contacts with the British elite that led to a meeting with the politician Arthur Balfour. That
meeting in 1905 would eventually lead to Balfour’s November 1917 declaration on a Jewish homeland,
which brought the Zionists their initial international legitimacy.
Then-British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George was perhaps even more predisposed to the
Zionist ideology than Balfour. Journalist Christopher Sykes noted that Lloyd-George’s political advisers
were unable to train his mind on the map of Palestine during negotiations prior to the Treaty of
Versailles, due to his training by Evangelical Christian parents and churches on the geography of ancient
Israel. Lloyd-George admitted that he was far more familiar with the cities and regions of Biblical
Israel than with the geography of his native Wales or of England itself.
British imperial designs were undoubtedly the primary political motivation in drawing influential
British politicians to support the Zionist project. However, it is clear that the latter were predisposed to
Zionism and to enthusiastically supporting the proposals of Herzl and leading Zionist officials such as
Chaim Weizmann due to their Christian Zionist backgrounds.
Balfour’s famous speech of 1919 makes the point: “For in Palestine we do not propose even to
go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country…The four great
powers are committed to Zionism, and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long
traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices
of 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.”
The phrases “rooted in age-long traditions” and “future hopes” were perhaps grounded in
Balfour’s British imperial vision, but they were also buttressed by his understanding of Bible prophecy,
which undergirded his bias toward the Zionist project as well as his grand designs for Britain’s colonialist
policy.
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Christian Zionists, Israel and the ‘ second coming’
Part 2 in a series of 5 articles on Christian Zionism:
by Donald Wagner
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4930.htm
10/09/03: (Daily Star)
The term Christian Zionism is of relatively recent vintage and was rarely used prior to the early
1990s. Self-proclaimed Christian Zionist organizations such as the International Christian EmbassyJerusalem and the US-based Bridges for Peace, both with offices in Jerusalem, have been operating for
20 years, but were under the radar of most Middle East experts and the mainstream media until after
Sept. 11, 2001.
Briefly stated, Christian Zionism is a movement within Protestant fundamentalism that sees the
modern state of Israel as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and thus deserving of political, financial
and religious support. Christian Zionists work closely with the Israeli government, religious and secular
Jewish Zionist organizations, and are particularly empowered during periods when the more
conservative Likud Party is in control of the Knesset.
Christian Zionism grew out of a particular theological system called “premillennial
dispensationalism,” which emerged during the early 19th century in England, when there was an
outpouring of millennial doctrines.
The preaching and writings of a renegade Irish clergyman, John Nelson Darby emphasized the
literal and future fulfillment of such Biblical teachings as “the rapture,” the rise of the Antichrist, the
Battle of Armageddon and the central role that a revived nation-state of Israel would play during the
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latter days.
Premillennialism is a type of Christian theology as old as Christianity itself. It has its roots in
Jewish apocalyptic thought and generally holds that Jesus will return to earth before he establishes,
literally, a millennial kingdom under his sovereignty.
Darby added the distinctive elements of the rapture (or removal to heaven) of true, born-again
Christians prior to Jesus’ return, and interpreted all major prophetic texts as having predictive value. He
also marked world history according to certain periods called “dispensations,” that served to guide
believers in how they should conduct themselves.
Darby’s ideas became a central feature in the teachings of many of the great preachers of the
1880-1900 period, including Cyrus I. Scofield. Gradually, the Scofield Bible became the only version
used by most evangelical and Evangelical Christians for the next 95 years.
Christian Zionism is a 19th and 20th century movement within Protestant fundamentalism that
(particularly last century and today) supports the maximalist claims of Jewish political Zionism, including
Israel’s sovereignty over all of historic Palestine, including Jerusalem. The modern state of Israel, as a
fulfillment of prophetic scriptures, is regarded as a necessary stage prior to the second coming of Jesus.
Christian Zionism is marked by the following convictions: God’s covenant with Israel is eternal &
exclusive and will not be abrogated. Genesis 12:1-7; 15:4-7; 17:1-8; Leviticus 26:44-45; and
Deuteronomy 7:7-8.
There are two distinct and parallel covenants in the Bible, one with Israel that is never revoked
and the other with the Church that is superseded by the covenant with Israel. The Church is a “mere
parenthesis” in God’s plan, and as such it will be removed from history during the Rapture (1
Thessalonians 4:13-17 and 5:1-11). At that point, Israel, as a nation, will be restored as the primary
instrument of God on earth.
Christian Zionists claim that Genesis 12:3 (“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who
curse you”) should be interpreted literally and lead to political, economic, moral and spiritual support
for the state of Israel and for the Jewish people in general.
Christian Zionists adopt a dispensationalist approach to history as advanced by Darby and
popularized by Scofield’s version of the Bible, published by Oxford University Press in 1909. Because
Evangelical leaders, clergymen, Bible colleges, institutes and seminaries used the Scofield Bible, it paved
the way for Christian Zionism.
Christian Zionists and premillennial dispensationalists have a pessimistic view of history and wait
in eager anticipation for the unfolding of a series of wars and tragedies pointing to the return of Jesus.
The establishment of the state of Israel, the rebuilding of the Third Temple, the rise of the Antichrist
and the buildup of armies poised to attack Israel, are among the signs leading to the final battle and
Jesus’ return.
Leading Christian Zionist authorities in Bible prophecy seek to interpret political developments
according to the prophetic schedule of events that should unfold according to their view of scripture.
As an apocalyptic theology, the movement looks in history for the influence of satanic forces
aligned to the Antichrist, who, as the end draws near, will do battle with Israel and those aligned with it.
Judgment will befall nations and individuals according to how they “bless Israel” (Genesis 12:3).
Christian Zionism differs from church doctrine, due in part to its being developed by anti-state
church clergymen and theologians in England. Today its views find significant support among the
charismatic, Pentecostal and independent Bible churches in Protestant fundamentalism.
Christian Zionists often view mainline Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic denominations with
hostility and have at times considered the World Council of Churches and related bodies to be tools of
the Antichrist.
In the Holy Land, Christian Zionists have been hostile toward Palestinian Christians and
generally detest Muslims as evil forces worshipping another God.
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Recent comments by Christian Zionists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Franklin
Graham (the son of evangelist Billy Graham) have added to the suspicion with which many Muslims
view the Christian West.
Christian Zionism is a growing political and religious movement within the most conservative
branches of Protestant fundamentalism, but it can also be found in the broader evangelical branches of
Christianity.
It thrives during periods of political and economic unrest characterized by international
terrorism, global recession and fear of wars in the Middle East.
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Bible and Sword: US Christian Zionists discover Israel
Part 3 in a series of 5 articles on Christian Zionism:
by Donald Wagner
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4950.htm
10/10/03: (Daily Star) The first lobbying effort on behalf of a Jewish state in Palestine was not
organized or initiated by Jews. It occurred in 1891, when a popular Evangelical Christian writer and laypreacher, William E. Blackstone, organized a national campaign to appeal to the then-president of the
United States, Benjamin Harrison, to support the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
Blackstone gained notoriety through his 1882 national bestseller Jesus is Coming, his summary of
end-of-time premillennial doctrines. He saw a need to politically support the Jewish people after hearing
horrifying stories of the pogroms in Russia.
Blackstone appealed to multimillionaire friends such as oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, publisher
Charles B. Scribner and industrialist JP Morgan to finance advertisements and a petition campaign that
were carried in major newspapers from Boston to the Mississippi.
Aside from wealthy financiers, Blackstone also received support from most members of the US
Senate and House of Representatives and the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
A previously small and marginalized school of Biblical interpretation called “premillennialism”
began to assert itself within the larger evangelical Protestant community. Israel and the Cold War were
usually linked by premillennial preachers and authors who interpreted them using selected prophecy
texts.
According to their prophetic timetable, as the end of history approached an evil global empire
would emerge under the leadership of a mysterious world leader called the “Antichrist” and attack
Israel, leading to the climactic Battle of Armageddon. Israel was understood by conservative Christians
to be at the center of these Biblical events, and thus commanded unconditional financial and spiritual
support.
When Israel captured Jerusalem and the West Bank (not to mention Gaza, Sinai and the Golan
Heights) in the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, conservative Christians sensed that history had entered the
latter days. L. Nelson Bell, the father-in-law of evangelist Billy Graham and editor of the influential
journal Christianity Today, wrote in July 1967: “That for the first time in more than 2,000 years
Jerusalem is now in the hands of the Jews gives the students of the Bible a thrill and a renewed faith in
the accuracy and validity of the Bible.”
First, Evangelical and evangelical churches became the fastest growing sector of American
Christianity, as mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic branches saw a decline in their members,
budgets and missions.
Second, Jimmy Carter, an evangelical from the “Bible Belt,” was elected president of the United
States, giving increased legitimacy to evangelicals.
Third, following the 1967 war, Israel gained an increased share of US foreign and military
budgets, becoming the “western pillar” of the US strategic alliance against a Soviet incursion into the
Middle East, particularly after the revolution in Iran took the country out of the US orbit. It is during this
period that AIPAC and other pro-Israel organizations started shaping US foreign policy.
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Fourth, the Roman Catholic Church and mainstream Protestant denominations began to
develop a more balanced approach to the Middle East, bringing them closer to the international
consensus on the Palestine question.
Pro-Israel organizations interpreted this shift as being anti-Israeli and, in turn, began to court
conservative Christians. American Jewish Committee captured this sentiment well when he told the
Washington Post: “The evangelical community is the largest and fastest-growing bloc of pro-Jewish
sentiment in this country.”
Forging the Evangelical Christian-Zionist alliance, occurred when Carter inserted the clause
“Palestinians deserve a right to their homeland”. The pro-Israel lobby and the Christian right responded
with full-page ads.
Their text stated: “The time has come for evangelical Christians to affirm their belief in biblical
prophecy and Israel’s divine right to the land.” “We affirm as evangelicals our belief in the promised
land to the Jewish people … We would view with grave concern any effort to carve out of the Jewish
homeland another.”
“The evangelicals are Carter’s constituency and he (had) better listen to them … The real source
of strength the Jews have in this country is from the evangelicals.” An estimated 20 million Evangelical
and evangelical Christians voted for Reagan and against Carter’s brand of evangelical Christianity that
failed the test of unconditional support for Israel.
On at least seven public occasions Reagan expressed belief in a final Battle of Armageddon.
During one of his private conversations with AIPAC director Tom Dine, Reagan said: “You know, I turn
back to your ancient prophets in the Old Testament and the signs foretelling Armageddon, and I find
myself wondering if if we’re the generation that is going to see that come about.”
A feature of the Reagan White House was the series of seminars organized by the
administration and the Christian right with assistance from the pro-Israel lobby.
Participation by the Christian right in gala dinner briefings at the White House reads like a Who’s
Who of the movement, including author Hal Lindsay, Jerry Falwell, the head of the Moral Majority, and
evangelist Pat Robertson, as well as Tim LeHaye (co-author of the influential Left Behind series) and
Moral Majority strategist Ed McAteer. State Department official Robert McFarlane, one of those
implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal, led several briefings. Quietly working in the background was
another Christian Evangelical, Marine Colonel Oliver North.
Israel developed a close relationship with leading Evangelicals, such as Falwell, who later
received a Learjet from the Israeli government for his personal travel and in 1981 was honored with
the Jabotinsky Award in an elaborate ceremony in New York. When Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak
nuclear reactor in 1981, Begin made his first telephone call to Falwell.
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Christian Zionism in the Clinton years
Part 4 in a series of 5 articles on Christian Zionism:
by Donald Wagner
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4951.htm
10/11/03: (Daily Star) During his two mandates, former US President Bill Clinton increasingly took
on the role of chief negotiator and mediator of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although his background
had a hint of Southern Baptist evangelicalism, Clinton was more inclined toward the secular Labor Party
in Israel and found a close affinity with the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Meanwhile, the LikudChristian Zionist alliance, which opposed the Oslo Accords, found itself on the political sidelines.
In May 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s prime minister, defeating Shimon Peres. Once
again Likud ideology dominated Israeli policy.
Netanyahu had long been a favorite of the Christian Zionists, a relationship that developed
during his years as Israel’s representative to the UN, and he was a frequent speaker at important
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Christian Zionist functions, whether the Feast of Tabernacles hosted by the International Christian
Embassy-Jerusalem or the annual National Prayer Breakfast for Israel held in Washington.
Within a few months of his election, Netanyahu convened the Israel Christian Advocacy Council,
bringing 17 American Evangelical leaders to Israel for an update on the Mideast situation. It concluded
with a conference statement that reflected Likud’s political platform.
The Evangelical leaders signed a pledge stating, “America will never, never desert Israel.”
Among the other pledges were statements of support for Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Gaza
and the Golan Heights, and for a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. Each declaration was
upheld by Biblical citations.
The Christian Zionist leaders returned to the United States and launched a national campaign with
full-page advertisements in major newspapers under the banner “Christians call for a united Jerusalem.”
Of little concern to the Christian Zionists was the fact that their positions were in conflict with official US
policy.
Signed onto by Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Ralph Reed, then
director of the conservative Christian Coalition, prominent minister Jerry Falwell and Ed McAteer of the
Religious Roundtable, the campaign was one of Likud’s answers to the Clinton-Labor strategy. It was
also a direct challenge to the mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic campaign led by Churches for
Middle East Peace that called for a “shared Jerusalem.”
Likud also turned to the Christian Zionists for help in offsetting the dramatic decline in
contributions to Israel from the American Jewish establishment during the conflict between the
Orthodox and Reform-Conservative branches of Judaism.
When the latter cut back on their contributions to the Jewish National Fund in the late 1990s,
several Christian Zionist-oriented churches were asked to make up the difference.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, led by a former Anti-Defamation League
Orthodox rabbi, Yechiel Eckstein, claimed to have raised over $5 million, mostly from Evangelical
Christian sources.
For example, John Hagee, pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, announced in
February 1997 that his church was donating over $1 million to Israel. Hagee claimed the funds would be
used to help resettle Jews from the Soviet Union in the West Bank and Jerusalem. “We feel like the
coming of Soviet Jews to Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy,” Hagee stated.
When asked if he realized that support of Likud’s policies and the increase in Jewish settlements
was at cross-purposes with US policy, Hagee answered: “I am a Bible scholar and a theologian, and from
my perspective the law of God transcends the laws of the United States government and the US State
Department.”
The Netanyahu government used American Christian Zionists in another way as it sought to
undermine the faltering Oslo negotiations.
On Oct. 22, 1997, Israel Radio claimed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was persecuting
Christians. Two days later the Jerusalem Post published an article citing “classified information” made
known to the Israeli government in which it was claimed that Palestinian Christians faced relentless and
brutal persecution from the “predominantly Muslim PA.”
The report alleged that “Christian cemeteries have been destroyed, monasteries have had their
telephone lines cut, and there have been break-ins in convents.”
t went on to claim that the PA had “taken control of the churches and was pressuring Christian
leaders to serve as mouthpieces for Yasser Arafat and opponents of Israel.”
Within a month, US Congressman J. C. Watts, an Oklahoma Republican, reiterated these charges
in a Washington Times opinion piece, blaming Arafat for the Christian exodus from the Holy Land and
calling for a review and possible freeze on the $307 million in grants pledged to the PA by the United
States.
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The campaign grew, thanks in part to publicity generated by the articles of A.M. Rosenthal and
William Safire of the New York Times, and pressure exerted on Congress by Michael Horowitz, a proIsrael lobbyist. Palestinian Christians were quick to denounce the charges. Mayor Hanna Nasser of
Bethlehem stated: “Our churches have complete freedom, and I’ve never heard that they’ve been
under pressure.”
Together with the international evangelical leader “Brother Andrew,” president of the
Netherlands based Open Doors led a May 1998 investigation of the Israeli charges on behalf of
Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding. We interviewed more than 60 Muslim and Christian leaders,
people at the grass roots level throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip and officials and leaders from
the PA and Israeli government.
We found no evidence of PA or Muslim persecution of Palestinian Christians, although there
were three isolated cases of Christian-Muslim family disputes over intermarriage.
The most telling interview was with Uri Mor, the director of the Department of Christian
Communities at the Israeli Ministry of Religious Affairs, which oversees all Christian activities in Israel
and the Occupied Territories. Mor said the charges were traceable to David Bar-Ilan, Netanyahu’s chief
spokesman, and told our team that Bar-Ilan used shreds of information as his “bread and butter” in the
propaganda campaign against the Palestinians.
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Heavenly Match: Bush & Christian Zionists
Part 5 in a series of 5 articles on Christian Zionism:
by Donald Wagner
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4960.htm
10/12/03: (Daily Star) When Israel responded to the Netanya suicide bombing in March 2002 by
reinvading the West Bank and besieging Jenin, the ensuing international outcry led US President George
W. Bush to order Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw his forces from Palestinian areas.
Bush sent a strong message to Sharon at an April 2 news conference: “Withdraw! Withdraw
your troops immediately!”
At that point longtime Christian Zionist spokesman and pro-Israel advocate Jerry Falwell and
other Christian Zionist leaders, working closely with pro-Israel groups, used their media and internet
outlets to mobilize their constituencies to deliver tens of thousands of telephone calls, e-mails and
letters to the president, telling him to refrain from pressuring Sharon and to allow Israel to finish its job.
In the aftermath of that campaign, Bush did not utter another word of opposition to Israeli military
actions. Falwell told the CBS news program 60 Minutes that after the incident, Israel could count on
Bush to “do the right thing for Israel every time.”
The lesson was that even when the Bush administration criticized Israel, the Israelis, conscious
of the extensive support they enjoy in the US Congress, would not take it seriously. As Falwell said:
“The Bible Belt is Israel’s safety net in the US.” .
Among these interest groups, of which we can broadly identify six, is, first of all, the right wing
of the Republican Party. By 2000, a shift had taken place in the Republican Party. It began embracing
the doctrines of neoconservative ideologues who advocated US unilateralism and favored military
solutions over diplomacy.
This more aggressive approach was put into action after Sept. 11, Israel’s war against the
Palestinians and its other enemies was soon linked to the US “war on terrorism.”
A second interest group was comprised of neoconservatives, among them Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (who is Jewish), who submitted a strategy paper during the first Bush
administration in 1991 advocating unilateralist and pre-emptive doctrines. Baker and advisers to the
president, who viewed the document as too extreme, buried it.
In 1996, the Project for a New American Century was born, based on neoconservative doctrine,
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and the same year several neocon leading lights issued a strategy paper for Benjamin Netanyahu, the
Likud candidate for prime minister in Israel’s elections, titled A Clean Break.
The paper recommended that Israel abandon the Oslo Accords and adopt a strategy of military
aggression toward the Palestinians and Arab countries. The strategy helped win Netanyahu victory and
became the modus operandi not only of his government but also that of Sharon.
Bush’s election and Sept. 11 gave the neocons the opportunity to shift US foreign policy
toward more military, imperial and unilateralist approaches.
Other interest groups are multinational construction firms and the petroleum industry on the one
hand, and the arms industry on the other. The US arms industry has also benefited from US Middle East
policy, particularly after Sept. 11, thanks to the heightened security atmosphere, the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq and the post-war situations in both countries. Israel, meanwhile, has long been a favorite of US
arms producers.
A fifth group is made up of the pro-Israel lobby and think tanks. The lobby works closely with a
variety of special interest groups, including the Christian right. By bringing pressure and policy
recommendations to elected officials on a daily basis, pro-Israel organizations outpace counter
initiatives, whether from Middle Eastern interest groups, academia, or mainstream churches.
It is crucial to understand that the range of pro-Israel groups does not merely include Jews, so
that the appellation the “Jewish lobby” is simply inaccurate.
Proof of this is the existence of a sixth interest group whose interests were also served during the
Bush administration: Evangelical Christian Zionists. During the past two or three decades, the Evangelical
movement has been the fastest growing sector within the American Christian churches.
Estimates of the number of evangelicals range from 100-130 million, out of which 20-25 percent
could be classified as Evangelical some 20-26 million Americans. Most (not all) Evangelicals support the
Christian Zionist position.
A recent poll by the Pew Research Center noted that 58 percent of evangelicals believe in the
Battle of Armageddon. They would be predisposed to Christian Zionism.
Today, Christian Zionists form the largest base of support for pro-Israeli interests in the US.
Working since the late 1970s, the pro-Israel lobby has mobilized both economic and political support for
Israel among Evangelicals. For example, a relatively new organization, Stand for Israel, has emerged in
the past two years to work closely with AIPAC, the leading pro-Israel lobby.
Last April 2, Stand for Israel held a convention and lobbying day immediately after the annual
AIPAC convention, inviting many of the same speakers and adopting several of the same policies.
Former US Presidential candidate Gary Bauer, a co-founder of Stand for Israel, addressed the
convention and urged attendees to oppose the Palestinian-Israeli “road map” and an exchange of land
for peace. Bauer declared: “Whoever sits in the confines of Washington, and suggests to the people of
Israel that they have to give up more land in exchange for peace, that’s an obscenity.”
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WHOSE 'ROAD MAP'?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j050503.html
European Anti-Semitism & the Religious Right
Jon Basil Utley Nov13, 2003
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/utley10.html
The Dangerous Potent Elixir of Christian Zionism
By Pat Morrison
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 2007, pages 58-59
Anxious for Armageddonhttp://www.wrmea.com/archives/April_2007/0704058.html
By Grace Halsell Washington Report, March 2000
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0300/0003016.html
Israeli Extremists and Christian Evangelicals: The Alliance By Grace Halsell
Washington Report, December 1988, Page 31
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Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War By Grace Halsell
Washington Report, September 8, 1986, Page 15 Book Review
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We Hold These Truths – Project Strait Gate Ministry
Christian Zionists Snap at a Man From Galilee Charles E. Carlson
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=3053
Israel’s Death Culture
Charles E. Carlson April 03, 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2984
'Christians' Tour Israel: Gaza Extermination Goes On Charles E. Carlson 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
The Lie That Justifies Mass Murder:
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2916
Charles E. Carlson Jan 01, 2008
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2770
The Roots of Christian Zionism Part I Charles E. Carlson Dec 08, 2008
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
Christian Zionist's End Times
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2724
Charles E. Carlson Nov 05, 2008
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2670
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Introduction
Ariel is a Jewish settlement in the West Bank of Palestine, and Faith Bible Chapel is one of
hundreds of Christian Zionist Churches funding settlements like Ariel. From The Christian Science
Monitor, April 25, 1998. Then came faith. Faith Bible Chapel, that is, an Aurora, Colo., evangelical
church whose members made it their mission to "adopt" Ariel.
Would Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip be able to survive without massive
support from Christian Zionists in the United States? This is the question this web page is exploring.
Christian Zionism: Christian Zionism is based on God's covenant with Abraham from Genesis of
the Old Testament Bible.
Jewish Zionism: Jewish Zionism was not based on Scripture. The early Jewish Zionists were
reacting to the fierce Anti-Semitism that was rampant throughout Europe.
Israel: Establishment of the State of Israel was seen by Christian Zionists as fulfillment of God's
Covenant with Abraham. In contrast, it was seen by most Jewish Zionists as a place where Jews would
be safe.
After the War of 1967, which Israel won in just six days, Israel occupied the ancient Jewish lands
of Samaria and Judea in the West Bank along with the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Desert to the South, the
Golan Heights in the North and all of the city of Jerusalem.
That war was seen by Christian Zionists and some ultra-orthodox Jews as a sign that God was
further fulfilling His promise to Abraham.
Likud And Falwell
Government support of settlement building accelerated dramatically in 1977 when Menachem
Begin became Prime Minister. Begin's ultranationalist notions had made him a figure on the fringe for
the first three decades of Israel's existence, but his Likud Party had finally come to power.
Begin refused to discuss the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And this is where our
story begins - the year that the Camp David Accords were signed.
figure on the fringe for the first three decades of Israel's existence, but his Likud Party had finally come
to power. Begin refused to discuss the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And this is where
our story begins - the year that the Camp David Accords were signed.
That year, 1978, Begin invited The Reverend Jerry Falwell for his first official visit to Israel, and the
following year, 1979, his government gave Falwell a gift -- a Lear Jet. Begin's timing was perfect. He
began working seriously with Christian Zionists at the precise moment that Christian Evangelicals in
America were discovering their political voice.
The same year that Falwell received his Lear Jet, 1979, he formed the Moral Majority, an
organization that changed the political landscape in the United States. What was Falwell's interest in
Israel? He was a Dispensationalist. Dispensationalism is a system of theology that believes the Jews must
return to Israel as part of God's plan for Christ to return.
An Expanded Israel
In order to fulfill Biblical prophecy, Dispensationalists have been working hard to ensure that
the world's Jews return to Israel and occupy all of Palestine. Dispensationalists have been leading
groups of pilgrims to Israel since Falwell's first visit in order to win financial and political support for the
Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Grace Halsell, author of Prophecy and Politics, participated in two Falwell pilgrimages to Israel in
1983 and 1985, and quotes a fellow Christian pilgrim on the tour: "The Jews must own all of the land
promised by God before Christ can return. The Arabs have to leave this land because this land belongs
only to the Jews. God gave all of this land to the Jews." (p.87)
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The late Ed MacAteer, considered to be the godfather of the Religious Right, talked about his
expansionist dreams for Israel in an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes: Zion's Christian Soldiers. "I believe
that we are seeing prophecy unfold so rapidly and dramatically and wonderfully and, without
exaggerating, makes me breathless.
Every grain of sand between the Dead Sea, the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea
belongs to the Jew." When asked if that includes the West Bank and Gaza, his answer "Every bit of it."
The day after Christmas, Tim LaHaye's "Left Behind Prophecy Club" sent out its daily e-mail
message with a 2005 "Year in Review" summary The teaser stated: "Are we living in the End Times?
Could events of today signify that the Rapture and Tribulation could occur during our generation? Five
important Signs from 2005 say yes!"
The Settlements
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, writing for the New Yorker magazine, estimates there are roughly
150 settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with a total population estimated at 243,000.
Goldberg writes: Perhaps three-quarters of the Jews in the West Bank and Gaza could be considered
economic settlers ... The remainder of the settlers, fifty thousand or so, came to the territories for
reasons of faith.
While Christian Zionists have formed strong working relationships with settlers of faith, this web
site is concerned primarily with economic settlers, many of whom live in the settlements due to financial
support from the Christian Zionists.
A survey taken by the Israeli organization Peace Now in July, 2003 indicates that more than 70
percent of settlers, a significant increase from previous polls, would agree to eventually leave the West
Bank and Gaza if they were compensated, while 29 percent are ready to leave right away. (From New
York Times, August 2, 2003).
Subsidizing Settlements
It's not known how much money for settlements comes from the Israeli government, supported
by U.S. dollars, and how much comes from Christian Zionists. The financial support of Christian Zionists,
however, appears to be substantial enabling settlers to buy attractive homes at a very reasonable price.
Lawrence Shafer, a businessman, moved to the settlement of Ariel for economic reasons. He told
television producer
Bob Abeshouse on Bill Moyer's: There's a lot of people in the outside world think that we all live
here because we're all very right wing fanatics. No, we're people who do not have enough money to
afford to buy a flat. We've always wanted to buy our own house. And to buy a house inside inland Israel
costs three times what it costs in Ariel.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, led by a former Anti-Defamation League
employee and Orthodox rabbi, Yechiel Eckstein, claimed to have raised over $5 million, mostly from
Evangelical Christian sources.
Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, based in Colorado, is one of the many organizations
that runs an Adopt-a-Settlement Program. From their web site: The focus of Christian Friends of Israeli
Communities (CFOIC) is to link settlements in Israel with Christian churches and individuals throughout
the world.
$25 / month
Partner of CFOIC-Israel
$50 / month
Friend of Biblical Israel
$100 / month
Patron of Biblical Israel
$500 / month
Pillar of Biblical Israel
$1,000 / month
Guardian of Biblical Israel
The above opportunity to invest comes from Project Focus of Christian Friends of Israeli
Communities. Sondra Oster Baras is the director of the Israel office of Christian Friends of Israeli
Communities.
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She told the San Francisco Chronicle that she estimated "one-third of the 145 Israeli
settlements receive funds from Christians." The Jerusalem Prayer Team prays .. for peace in Jerusalem
because the Scriptures tell us to in Psalm 122:6.
Also, the Great Commission proclaims that we would be a witness unto Him in Jerusalem, Judea,
and Samaria. From the Middle East Information Center, the goal of the Jerusalem Prayer Team .. is to
raise enough to give a gift of $55 apiece to 14,000 settlers. Eventually we hope [to raise money for all]
200,000.
From Bridges for Peace: Many Christians have felt this desire to reach out and help in the
prophetic restoration of Israel, in a tangible way, by blessing individuals (new immigrants and veteran
Israeli alike) with material gifts. Bridges for Peace has done just that.
From Prophecy and Politics, 1986, about the American Christian Trust headed by Mrs. Bobi
Hormas: "The trust enjoys 501(c)(3) status and receives funds from private individuals, estates and large
evangelical-Evangelical organizations. The Trust gives this money for Jewish settlements in the West
Bank. Mrs Hormas told me the Trust planned to raise a hundred million dollars to purchase land for
Jewish settlements in the West Bank. This I was told would help fulfill biblical prophesy. (p,170-171)
Populating the Settlements: Funding Jewish Immigration to Israel
In addition to buying land and subsidizing settlements, Christian Zionists have played a major role
in supporting Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Republics to populate the settlements.
From Donald Wagner: John Hagee, pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas,
announced in February 1997 that his church was donating over $1 million to Israel. Hagee claimed the
funds would be used to help resettle Jews from the Soviet Union in the West Bank and Jerusalem. "We
feel like the coming of Soviet Jews to Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy," Hagee stated.
The Gratefully Grafted Ministries is one of the international organizations that supports
immigration to Jerusalem and West Bank settlements through their Israel Fund: All funds are used
toward serving the Body of Messiah in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the Galilee and beyond.
Their ministry sponsors the Ebenezer Emergency Fund and Operation Exodus: From 1991
through the Fall of 2004, Ebenezer has brought more than 100,000 olim back to Israel.
If their numbers are accurate, and if most of their "olim" end up in the settlements, they could
have brought into the West Bank and Gaza Strip as much as 41% of the settlers.
(Author's note - Gratefully Grafted Ministries' website changes from time to time, so the quotes
on this page my no longer exist in their site.)
Christians for Israel is helping the Jews home to Israel from the former Soviet Union. This is an
international project known as Operation Aliyah. It is more than just a humanitarian project - it is a
divine calling for the Church to assist the Jewish people in their physical return and restoration of the
land of Israel.
Why does Operation Aliyah exist?
In the fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy. The Jewish people were scattered throughout the nations
according to God's word, because of their disobedience. God beckons to the gentiles to assist in the
return of the Jewish people to Israel. Jeremiah prophesied that the return will be of greater magnitude
than the exodus from Egypt and will involve all the tribes of Israel.
This time they will remain in their land. I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more
be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God. Amos 9:15
Influencing Washington
Akiva Eldar, journalist for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, claims that Christian Zionists are
pouring money into Israel. "But that's not the only way they are supporting Israeli settlement of the
West Bank." The most important thing is that they have so much influence in Washington, that they are
so influential in the White House and in Congress.
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Jerry Falwell told 60 Minutes: There are 70 million of us. And if there's one thing that brings us
together quickly it's whenever we begin to detect our government becoming a little anti-Israel. Pastor
John Hagee's Cornerstone Church raised $1 million dollars in 1977.
When asked if he realized that support of Likud's policies and the increase in Jewish settlements
was at cross-purposes with US policy, Hagee answered: I am a Bible scholar and a theologian, and from
my perspective the law of God transcends the laws of the United States government and the US State
Department.
The Village Voice, May 18, 2004, documented that National Security Council Near East and North
African Affairs director for President George W. Bush, Elliott Abrams, actually met with the Apostolic
Congress, a dispensationalist organization, to discuss their theological concerns. Three weeks after that
meeting President Bush reversed long-standing U.S. policy, endorsing Israeli sovereignty over parts of
the West Bank in exchange for Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
From Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy In Focus, June, 2004: It appears, then, that right-wing
Christian Zionists are, at this point, more significant in the formulation of U.S. policy toward Israel
than are Jewish Zionists, as illustrated by three recent incidents.
After the Bush administration's initial condemnation of the attempted assassination of militant
Palestinian Islamist Abdel Aziz Rantisi in June 2003, the Christian Right mobilized its constituents to send
thousands of e-mails to the White House protesting the criticism.
A key element in these e-mails was the threat that if such pressure continued to be placed upon
Israel, the Christian Right would stay home on Election Day. Within 24 hours, there was a notable
change in tone by the president. Indeed, when Rantisi fell victim to a successful Israeli assassination in
April 2004, the administration-as it did with the assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin the
previous month defended the Israeli action.
When the Bush administration insisted that Israel stop its April 2002 military offensive in the
West Bank, the White House received over 100,000 e-mails from Christian conservatives in protest of
its criticism. Almost immediately, President Bush came to Israel's defense.
Over the objections of the State Department, the Republican-led Congress adopted resolutions
supporting Israel's actions and blaming the violence exclusively on the Palestinians.
When President Bush announced his support for the Road Map for Middle East peace, the White
House received more than 50,000 postcards over the next two weeks from Christian conservatives
opposing any plan that called for the establishment of a Palestinian state. The administration quickly
backpedaled, and the once-highly touted Road Map essentially died.
The Tragedy of the Settlements
Soon after the war of 1967, Israel's founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, by that time
retired, spoke to the Knesset, Israel's Parliament. His prophetic words were recorded by Jewish scholar
Arthur Hertzberg in The Tragedy of Victory.
Ben Gurion said: All of the territories that had been captured had to be given back, very
quickly, for holding on to them would distort, and might ultimately destroy, the Jewish state.
A delegation of United States church leaders visited Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and
Palestine in 2002.They declared: We emphasize the urgency of the crisis in the region and our sense that
the Middle East and, indeed, the entire world, stands on the brink of a catastrophe if a comprehensive
peace is not achieved soon.
Much of the world has come to see Israel as an occupier nation, a perception that has isolated
Israel in the United Nations and led to anti-semitism around the world.
Amidst all the tensions created by the settlements, Jerry Falwell told 60 Minutes, "The Bible Belt
in America is Israel 's only safety belt right now." Falwell and the movement he helped create have
played a major role in supporting the construction and maintenance of the settlements.
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They helped bring tens of thousands of Eastern European Jews to Israel to increase the
population of the settlements. They have made it politically risky for any American president to
promote a peace plan.
Because of their passion to see Israel permanently expand its borders, Christian Zionists have
added fuel to the flames of anti-semitism worldwide. Their work has also served to isolate Israel,
particularly in the United Nations. And then Falwell has the chutzpah to say, "The Bible Belt in America
is Israel 's only safety belt."
Postmillennialism and Premillennialism
Postmillennialists are not Christian Zionists. They are adherents of Christian Reconstructionism or
Dominion Theology. They represent the most extreme constituency of the Religious Right. They are the
activists who claim the United States is a "Christian nation," calling for the United States to return to
Old Testament Biblical law.
They don't believe in the rapture theory, or that we are living in the End Times before Christ
returns. Leading Reconstructionist author, the late David Chilton, explains that the last days ended with
the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D: the expression "the last days" and similar terms, are used in the
Bible to refer, not to the end of the physical world, but to the last days of the nation of Israel, the "last
days" which ended with the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. (Paradise, p12)
Gary North, a prolific Christian Reconstruction writer points out in The Unannounced Reason
Behind American Fundamentalism's Support for the State of Israel: In order for most of today's
Christians to escape physical death, two-thirds of the Jews in Israel must perish, soon. It should be
clear why they believe that Israel must be defended at all costs by the West.
Postmillennialists believe that Christians must take dominion, or control over most of the secular
institutions in the world in order for Christ to return. Therefore, they encourage Christians who share
their biblical worldview to become politically active. From George Grant The Changing of the Guard ,
Biblical Principles for Political Action:
Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the
land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and
godliness.
But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice.
It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.
It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world
with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less... Thus, Christian politics has
as its primary intent the conquest of the land -- of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts,
and governments for the Kingdom of Christ. (pp. 50-51)
Christian Zionists Are Premillenniallists
Of the many theories about when Christ will return, the most popular is called premillennial
dispensationalism. Premillennialists believe that since God has a plan, the future is already set in
motion. It might seem logical that if events taking place on earth are part of God's pre-ordained plan,
then political activism is unnecessary. But the Reverend Tim LaHaye explains why Christians who share
his Biblical worldview should be politically active.
LaHaye named humanism as the great evil threatening to destroy America and coined the term
"pre-tribulation tribulation" to characterize what will come about if humanists are allowed to take
control of the government.
In 1980 LaHaye published The Battle for the Mind where he asked, "Is a Humanist Tribulation
Necessary?" LaHaye answered that the Great Tribulation, is predestined and will surely come to pass.
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But the pre-Tribulation tribulation -- that is the tribulation that will engulf this country if liberal
humanists are permitted to take control of our government.
But it will deluge the entire land in the next few years, unless Christians are willing to become
much more assertive in defense of morality and decency than they have been during the past three
decades." (Battle for the Mind, 1980, pp. 217-218)
LaHaye urged Christians to pray and witness as usual and also to help the victims of humanism ...
to join the national drive to register Christian voters ... to run for public office ... (pp. 69). [Falwell]
argued that unless born-again Christians acted politically ... they would lose their ... [ability] to fulfill
Biblical prophecy. (p. 70).
In other words, political involvement is required to get raptured. While pre and post
millennialism differs on the subject of Israel, adherents share similar political goals for the United States
government: dominion by those Christians who share their Biblical worldview. People of both belief
systems support political candidates who support their narrow theocratic agenda, and oppose the
secular government, or godless Constitution that our founders gave us.
What does George W. Bush believe? It's not clear. Unlike former President Ronald Reagan, who
talked openly about his fascination with Armageddon, President Bush has not mentioned the Rapture
or Armageddon.
His road map for peace calls for a Palestinian state -- something opposed by Christian Zionists.
His domestic policies, however, are consistent with Dominion Theology.
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America's 'Conservative' Christians – and the Middle East's
by Christopher Deliso
May 8, 2003
As the second phase of the Iraqi occupation unfolds, pro-Israel extremists are teaming up with
America's evangelical Christians, in the hopes of an ethnically "cleansed" Israel. This is just one of the
logical outcomes of Washington's warmongering in the Middle East.
Since the election of George W. Bush in 2000, the world has gaped, in horrified fascination at
an administration based on good and evil, righteous war, and the fundamental duty to proselytize.
Behind these ideas are America's powerful evangelical Christians – the representatives of "conservative"
Christianity.
However, this label is tenuous at best. To be sure, the evangelicals represent a certain kind of
conservatism – the intolerant, prudish, and anti-scientific variety. As we will see, however, their
fundamental claim to the conservative throne is totally bogus, compared to the real conservative
Christians – who inhabit the very countries Washington bombs, or would like to bomb – Iraq, Syria,
Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt.
All of these countries have age-old Christian communities that speak the original languages
and follow the original rites of Jesus' early
followers.
Some Dangers of Fundamentalism
It would be one thing if the evangelicals would just live out their miserable lives and leave well
enough alone. If someone wants to believe in creationism, or an upcoming photo op with the Good
Lord Jesus Christ – or even hand-to-hand combat with an oozing, sulphurous Beelzebub – well, that's
their business.
However, in seeking to forcibly impose a specific belief system on everyone else, America's
evangelical Christians display cultural intolerance and fascism. Like Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and
Scientologists, they exhibit traits of indoctrinating, quasi-spiritual cults. At their worst, they tend to spit
the same venom as any Islamic, Jewish, Hindu or other Evangelical groups. Ironically, though these
groups inevitably profess the deepest of mutual hatreds, they actually have a lot in common.
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Indeed, the rest of us would be better off if they – and all the other religious nutballs out there
– were thrown together into some empty, high-walled desert where they could proselytize and
condemn to their hearts' content.
A Unique Crusade
As Muslims have long feared, a modern-day "purifying" crusade is being demanded by
evangelical groups who, under the pious President Bush, are enjoying unprecedented power. Since 9/11,
Secretary of State Colin Powell's repeated statements about religious tolerance have been continually
undermined by the hateful words of "spiritual" leaders such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.
Their crusade seek to rid the world of Islam. It may also seek to rid the world of Christianity –
that is, all denominations besides evangelical Americans.
On to Iraq!
The sinister mission is well underway in Iraq, reports the Independent:
"…evangelical charities with an overt hostility to Islam are preparing to distribute food, water, medicine
and building materials in Iraq, all in the name of Jesus.
One of these (Samaritan's Purse) is run by Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham,
who declared after 9/11 that Islam was "a very evil and wicked religion." The Southern Baptist
Convention, former president described the Prophet Mohammed as "a demon-possessed paedophile."
Disturbingly, it would seem that these folks are literally state-sponsored extremists: "…Franklin
Graham, a long-standing friend of the President, was invited to participate in this year's Good Friday
prayer service at the Pentagon, angering many in the Defence Department. Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman
for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the invitation "sends entirely the wrong message to
the Muslim and Arab world… this kind of incident can undo any kind of bridges built by a hundred public
affairs officers at the Pentagon."
According to Graham's latest book, Christianity and Islam "…are destined to fight each other
until the second coming of Christ, which he says is imminent." During a 2002 book tour, he declared
that Islam posed "a greater threat than anyone's willing to speak." The same message was proclaimed
by veteran televangelist Jerry Falwell, who also called Islam "evil" and Mohammed, a "terrorist."
Unfortunately, the evangelicals' newfound political power means that things are no longer so
innocuous as when Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey (as the "Church Lady") mocked the religious right
over a decade ago. Things are now much worse.
A World of Lost Souls
The second charity mentioned by the Independent, the Southern Baptist Convention, has big
ambitions. The SBC administers the International Mission Board; as we learn from the IMB's
comprehensive "map of lostness," much of the word is in dire need of salvation.
The IMB sends out missionaries disguised as "English teachers," "mountaineers," "businessmen"
and even "tea drinkers." Refreshingly, the IMB dubs its foreign missions "cell groups." The terrorist
analogy is sustained by the group's own stated method:
"IMB personnel are organized into teams. Each team focuses on a people group or population segment.
Their goal is to do whatever it takes to begin and nurture a church-planting movement among the
people." "Whatever it takes?" The concept of holy war, blamed on the Saudis, bin Laden, et al, is lurking
a little closer to home.
Christian Jihad: Two Justifications
Indeed, the IMB is determined to share the "God of love" – if not the love of god – with the
Muslims. The SBC mission, known as "Partners in the Harvest," is quite direct:
"…it is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus
Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations."
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And, should even believers fall into despair, comforts the SBC, they can always take succour in
the impending apocalypse:
"…when that (evangelical) work is done and when the church of Jesus Christ is complete, that is
when God will bring down the curtain on the affairs of this sad world. May God help us that we may have
that special view of the world which comes from dwelling near the throne."
The End Times – for Rational Leadership, That Is
A similar line is taken up by Pat Robertson's powerful Christian Broadcasting Network.
According to its website,
"…the mission of CBN and its affiliated organizations is to prepare the United States of
America and the nations of the world for the coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the
Kingdom of God on earth. Our ultimate goal is to achieve a time in history when "the knowledge of the
Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." A sympathetic Australian report reveals a detail
about the "team":
"…it is huge and it caused Bush to tear up in front of the White House press corps. Every few
weeks, an email goes out to those whose email addresses are registered with an office affiliated with the
White House and, on behalf of Bush, they are asked for their prayers over a specific challenge facing the
President and his cabinet."
It is gratifying to know that the efficacy of the decisions made by the most powerful man on
earth are determined by the prayers of the evangelist flock.
The Divine Right of… Presidents?
However, this very connection between leadership capability and "morality" is being made by
the evangelicals to justify the war of a "moral president" – proving again that America is headed back to
the Middle Ages. Frighteningly, the Southern Baptists have adapted this concept to fit today's
"democratic" government. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports that:
"…Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention says even if Bush were not a born-again
Christian, evangelicals are inclined to fall behind rather than stand against their government in times of
war. Why? Because it is God who places people in positions of governmental authority."
How Will Candidate Bush Benefit?
It is well known that Bush has strong affinities with the evangelicals. But what makes these
"conservative" Christians politically significant is their new alliance with the Israeli lobby. Even last year,
it was noted that Iraq would be "America's and Israel's war."
This most dangerous alliance has united religious nutballs, neocons and Israel-firsters.
Enraptured by dreams of the biblical Israel, charged with messianic and imperialist rhetoric.
A leading group is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, led by the Rabbi Yechiel
Eckstein and Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition. Evangelical Reed also
heads a subsidiary site, Stand for Israel.
This union means that the Republicans win the Jewish vote. The Bushies hope that, when the
time comes, Jewish voters will remember that the real goal behind the neocons' constant
warmongering has been to protect Israel.
But Who Are the Real Christian Conservatives?
Poised to counter Shiite desires for a Taliban-esque Islamic state are America's evangelicals,
who long for a final apocalyptic battle between Christianity and Islam.
Their arrogant missionary view presupposes that their beliefs (as with American democracy)
are superior to those of the outside world – and so must be exported, whatever the price.
The Catholics – Conservative Enough?
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The Pope has taken a courageous anti-war stand. On 18 March, as the threat of war hung
ominously over all, he called into question President Bush's spiritual legitimacy:
"Whoever decides that all peaceful means under international law have been exhausted is
assuming a grave responsibility before God, and his conscience," Vatican spokesman said."
The Pope has led world religious leaders in opposing the Iraq war. Should his voice not be
heeded? Indeed, the Catholic Church is far older than the evangelical orders.
The Catholic Church has older Christian predecessors. These, the Orthodox churches, view the
Vatican as guilty of minor theological "innovations" and the arbitrary elevation of the pope above the
seven traditional patriarchs.
Historically misunderstood and mistrusted by fellow Christians, the Orthodox practice the
oldest forms of Christianity – and especially those in the Middle East, which America would like to
bomb into oblivion.
An Iraqi Easter Full of Foreboding
While predominantly Muslim, Iraq is also home to Christian minority denominations of great
antiquity. Among them are Assyrian, Armenian and Chaldaean Christians.
“ The Chaldeans, members of a church founded by St. Thomas in the first century, celebrated
their traditional midnight mass on Saturday afternoon."
"Christians here say they enjoyed as many rights and freedoms as any other Iraqis under
Saddam Hussein, who made one of their number, Tariq Aziz, an influential deputy prime minister.
"'We enjoyed total religious freedom and there was no religious discrimination' against
Christians, said Armenian Archbishop Avak Asadourian."
Of the 650,000 Christians in Iraq, most are Chaldeans, but Syrians, Latins, Armenians and others
are also to be found. In neighboring Syria, where the neocons and evangelicals would like to bomb
next, the Christian tradition is even richer.
Syria's Christians
The next country in Washington's crosshairs is Syria, where Aramaic – the language of Jesus
Christ – is kept alive by Christians with ties to earliest Christianity. In Roman and early Byzantine times,
the patriarchy of Antioch was one of the most powerful and influential of the eastern patriarchies.
Syria's Christians preserve the living and textual histories that enable historians to learn about
Christianity's early days.
Monasticism also has a rich tradition here. Virtual visitors can also check out the Syrian Orthodox
Church's innocuously musical homepage.
Syrian Christians hoped that the Pope's 2001 visit would bring the different Christian churches
closer, and also improve Syria's image. Father Tawfiq Eid, told the BBC:
"…his visit to Syria will bring a different way of looking at things here, [it will show] that Syria is
not a terrorist country, so the world will know Syria better."
Palestine and Lebanon
Jesus, of course, was a Jew with other plans and no place can boast closer ties with ancient
Christianity than Palestine. The Israeli government is frequently at odds with the Patriarch over the
Orthodox Church's landholdings in Jerusalem.
Egypt
Egypthas one of the richest Christian heritages in the world. Best known is the monastery of St.
Catherine on Mt. Sinai. Here are preserved ancient Christian texts and relics.
Egypt's Christians are the Copts, and whose church was founded in the first century by Saint
Mark. Then Greek-speaking Alexandria, site of one of the seven original patriarchates, was also home to
important early bishops (such as St. Athanasius). Athanasius, in fact, authored the universally used
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Nicene Creed, and inaugurated the hagiographical tradition with his Life of St. Antony. The first of the
"desert fathers," Saint Anthony pioneered monasticism.
Early redactions of the Bible and other important texts are preserved in thousands of Coptic
manuscripts worldwide. Of Egypt’s population of 57 million, over 9 million are Copts.
The End Times – but for Who?
Today, Christians in the Middle East face an uncertain future. They may suffer misplaced Islamic
rage. These true Christian conservatives – who speak the languages of Christianity's earliest days,
follow the same rituals, and worship in the same churches as the founders of the faith – are in danger
because of the destructive messianic fever of America's "Christian" charlatans. Their inflammatory,
anti-Muslim statements are whipping up general anti-Christian sentiment from Muslims the world over.
Even if the real Evangelical fantasy here – the resurrection of the Biblical Israel – is not presaged
by the arrival of a gleaming red heifer, it is possible that Jesus will come back soon enough – if just to
knock some sense into these people.
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WHOSE 'ROAD MAP'?
May 5, 2003
George W. Bush has a 'road map' to peace in the Middle East – and so does would-be ethnic
cleanser Benny Elon. The administration is touting its peace plan to give the appearance of the U.S. as
an honest Middle East broker, but there's just one problem: that dog won't bark. The reason it won't is
that the Israeli right-wing won't let it, nor will the American Likudniks in this country, who are far to
the right of Ariel Sharon.
The former responded quickly to the Ameican initiative: neo-fascist National Union politician
Benny Elon is on a tour of the United States, promoting his own ghastly program of ethnic cleansing as
the only solution – one might even say the final solution – to Israel's Palestinian problem.
The Elon plan, entitled "In the Wake of the War in Iraq - A Historic Opportunity for a Regional
Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," calls for the uprooting and mass transfer of the Palestinians
to "neighboring countries," principally Jordan:
"The international community will recognize the Hashemite Kingdom as the sole representative of
the Palestinians, and will help it economically as it absorbs a limited number of refugees; "Israel will
become sovereign over Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and the Arabs living there will be Jordanian citizens
living under a form of autonomy to-be-determined;
"The exchange of Jewish and Arab populations begun in 1948 will be completed …"
This isn't some marginal figure in Israeli politics, but the Minister of Tourism speaking. That's how
far the Israeli political landscape has shifted toward the Twilight Zone.
It is as if Bush had appointed Amiri Baraka the national poet laureate, or Dr. Peter Duesberg the
AIDS czar. "Come to Israel, the land of ethnic cleansing" – how's that for a marketing angle?
Elon's party, the National Union, is not an isolated grouping of a few storm troopers, but a mass
movement with real influence inside Sharon's Likud party
Elon is a notorious figure in Israel, where his billboard campaign covered the country in signs
reading "Only transfer will bring peace." As the Christian Science Monitor reported:
"Elon says that under conditions of war, Israel has the right to bring upon the Palestinians
'another nakba,' or catastrophe, similar to 1948, when an estimated 700,000 of them were expelled or
fled during the Arab-Israeli war."s
Elon puts it: "People are saying we have had enough, we have seen wars and we have seen the
Oslo agreement with all of its bloodshed. I want to remind them of this platform and to remove the
taboo."
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The degree that Elon's ideas become representative of Israeli opinion is the extent to which Israel
ceases to be a civilized nation – and the poll numbers don't look good.
Last year, according to the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, 46 percent of
Jews in Israel supported the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 31
percent of those polled supported the "transfer" of Israeli Arabs, while 60 percent liked the idea of
strongly "encouraging" Arabs to leave Israel. The numbers are bound to be higher today.
Joining the neo-fascist Elon in his anti-"road map" campaign is a star-studded cavalcade of Israelfirsters, including Martin Peretz, publisher of The New Republic. He appeared on a local news program
denouncing the "quartet" and advocating a road map of his own: a unilateral American "settlement"
that would dissolve the Palestinian Authority and effectively foreclose the possibility of an agreement.
Writing in Commentary magazine, Adam Sofaer chimes in, denouncing not only the "so-called"
road map, but also the United States for supposedly enabling the violence-prone Palestinians.
Talk about blaming America first! Compared to this, Noam Chomsky, Ted Rall, and the Dixie
Chicks are super-patriots. It takes a lot of gall to blame the U.S. for the suicide bombers – especially
when we subsidize the state of Israel to the tune of $3 billion per year.
For Sharon to accept the U.S. demand that the settlements be rolled back would likely bring
down his government, and so the American supporters of Likud are fighting this tooth and nail, in
collusion with Israeli extremists and the followers of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
Elon is scheduled to meet with officials of the Christian Coalition and the Christian Broadcasting
Network, as well as Gary Bauer and Christian talk show host Janet Parshall: he is also going to meet with
unspecified "leaders of the US Senate and the House of Representatives." This is according to Elon's
spokesperson Ronn Torossian, who has an interesting record, to say the least.
Torossian is an Israeli national associated with the right-wing Likud Party, media director of the
Christian Coalition – and also a member of an openly fascist organization known as "Betar." Speaking at
a New York City rally, Torossian issued a terrorist threat against Adam Shapiro, the pro-peace JewishAmerican activist: "Shapiro is a traitor, a piece of garbage, and we are going to make his life and his
parents' lives a living hell."
The shameless Reverends Falwell and Robertson are Elon's natural hosts, but why is this Israeli
equivalent of David Duke being greeted and feted by members of Congress? Let's find out which
Senators and House members are meeting with Elon and collaborating with his hate-crazed followers, so
that each of them can experience their Trent Lott moment.
"I talk about the Road Map, but those who know me know that I'm here to preserve the Land of
Israel, not divide it… But we have to work smartly and cleverly. Why fight with Bush if we can talk nicely
to him? After all, nothing will come out of this Road Map plan anyway…"
Sharon is right. Congress is already on record as leery of the President's plan: an open letter,
initiated by congressmen Tom Lantos, Roy Blunt, Stenny Hoyner and Henry Hyde, asking the President
to please stop leaning on poor little Israel, had 315 signatures: a similar letter originating in the
Senate bore 88.
Pat Buchanan was excoriated for accurately describing Congress as "Israeli-occupied territory,"
but this confirms the dead-on accuracy of his quip. The majority of the GOP congressional caucus is
clearly siding with the American Likudniks over their own President.
Haggai goes on to quote more from Sharon:
In the long-range, the only chance to prevent an erosion of our position depends on the settlers
[the Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza]. They're the only ones who are separating between
the Arabs and their dreams.
Without them, a Palestinian state would long have been established in all of Yesha. In the merit of
their stubbornness, their willingness to sacrifice, it can still be possibly stopped or at least neutralized.
Does this sound like someone who is about to give up the settlements, and move on to a new era
of peace? For the record: The whole "road map" idea is a losing proposition for the U.S., a useless
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charade made possible and even necessary by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. To counter-balance our obvious
tilt toward Israel – this war was, after all, nothing but a proxy war on Israel's behalf – the Bushies feel
obligated to "reach out" to the Arab world, in belated recognition that we'll need their help in the
ongoing war on Al Qaeda.
Without U.S. military and economic aid the Israeli occupation of Arab lands would not be
possible in the first place.
It is interesting to watch how the pro-Israel lobby is frenetically working to undermine what is,
after all, the President's own plan for Middle East peace. In attacking Powell's trip to Damascus as
"ludicrous", that meeting with the Syrian strongman is like meeting with Bin Laden or the Taliban.
What I find interesting is how Minister Elon thinks he can directly influence the White House. As
one news account framed it:
"Many Evangelical Christians in the USA have eschatological views which views the
establishment of the state of Israel as necessary for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Many therefore
find themselves in opposition to such a 'two state' solution as the one on offer.
"'We have to strengthen our ties with those connected to and who influence Bush. He has the
strength to stand up to international opinion,' Elon had said.
"Noting that Bush is a religious man and pays close attention to Christian interests, Elon had
added, 'He is a man who prays daily. He knows the Bible...'"
In appealing to Bush's religious views Elon may not be far off the mark. But just in case this
kind of gentle persuasion doesn't work, Elon's meetings with Christian Coalition leaders and others are
designed to exert another less subtle kind of pressure as the President's reelection campaign gets
underway
Blackmail is something that is usually done in the dark. To see such tactics being openly used
to derail the road map looks really bad, and the spectacle of the hate-monger Elon touring the
country, spreading his particular variety of poison, doesn't help.
There are two road maps to peace in the Middle East on the table: the Bush-Powell version
and the Elon plan. Sharon is covertly supporting the latter while pretending to uphold the former, while
Israel's supporters in this country are mobilizing their forces for a preemptive strike against the State
Department.
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http://www.antiwar.com/orig/utley10.html
European Anti-Semitism and the Religious Right
by Jon Basil Utley
November 13, 2003
New polling shows that most Europeans – 59% from 15 European Union countries – see Israel
as "the greatest threat to world peace." (See Eldar article below)
These views of course come from Israel's expansion of settlements, the brutal occupation,
vicious reprisals and consequent disruption in the whole Muslim world, contribution to terrorism and so
on.
The United States, which pays for it all, is consequently also hated, but many Americans don't
comprehend all this because U.S. television coverage is sanitized (Jewish owned) compared to what
the rest of the world sees.
What is not understood in Europe is the power of the Religious Right (RR) in Congress and how
responsible it has become for Israel's policies, because it provides cover and money for everything that
Sharon does. The RR was also a main supporter of the attack on Iraq. Today its members are called
"Christian Zionists."
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American foreign policy being made for religious reasons is not much reported in the media but
is well commented upon by Georgie Anne Geyer's column in the Chicago Tribune. She argues that
religion is replacing national interest in American foreign policy.
Jewish objections and fears are well documented in such reports as the following: From Refuge
for Jews to Danger for Jews, by Akiva Eldar (excerpts):
"… politicians who turn a local, national conflict into a global religious war bear a great deal of
responsibility for the safety of Jews worldwide."
"…….They warned that the 'pure' East European anti-Semitism, and the West European antiSemitism rooted in the radical left, are giving way to a case of hatred of Israel, the U.S., and the alliance
between them."
"…..The images of the war conducted by Israel in the occupied territories like the images of the
war America is conducting in Afghanistan and Iraq is regarded by many Muslims worldwide as part of
a Judeo-Christian plot to humiliate Islam.
The huge amount of support the Americans give to the Jewish state's policy in its war against
mostly Muslim Palestinians strengthens their view of the Bush administration as an enemy of
Islam." {Remember that American TV is usually "sanitized" of Israeli violence compared to what world
sees, Ed}
"……. it takes an anti-Semite to call the Israeli government's policies of 2003 a danger to world
peace is a contemptible cheapening of the term anti-Semitism."
It is not "all" of the Religious Right, but rather many of its well known leaders such as Jerry
Falwell, Gary Bauer, Pat Robertson, Cal Thomas, et al who espouse the Armageddonite fantasies and
are turning the war against terrorism into war against Muslims.
They have moved from forecasting the end of the world to trying to "help God" bring it about.
Anyone traveling in Western and Southern America will see late night TV "info-mercials"
(advertisements) raising money to pay for Jewish settlers to leave Europe (arguing strongly that their
lives are in danger in Europe) and go to the West Bank settlements.
"Biblically" they believe that God needs most diaspora Jews to return to Israel as a pre-condition
for Him to get Armageddon rolling.
Of course the ads don't say the rest of "God's plan," that is to destroy all Jews who don't convert
to born again Christianity. And there's never a word about what will happen to millions of Arab
Christians. They are non-existent in most of their Armageddon scenarios.
Foxman denounces efforts to target Jewish persons for evangelism, citing Southern Baptists in
particular.
"An ongoing theme of particularist theology is the notion that Christians ought to devote their
energies to 'saving' the Jews – that is, to converting them into Christians. Although this is supposedly
motivated by love for the Jews, this idea is inherently anti-Semitic in that it implicitly denigrates the value
of Jewish belief."
Foxman credits the Catholic Church for formally renouncing efforts aimed at converting Jews
but criticizes the Southern Baptist Convention for moving in the opposite direction, citing an SBC
resolution in 1996 urging evangelization of Jews and a 1999 call for prayers that Jews would convert
during that fall's High Holy Days.
But Foxman finds even more troubling the tendency of the religious right to carry such ideas into
the public arena. He refers to efforts to define America as a "Christian nation," which he says implies
that non-Christians aren't real Americans, and attacking the separation of church and state as a
falsehood by liberals.
As far as "turning local conflicts into global religious war" just follow the General Boykin (Our God
is bigger than theirs, theirs is an idol) controversy.
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Boykin is supported by the Religious Right. He undercuts President Bush efforts to prevent the
wars in Iraq & Afghanistan from becoming America against the Muslim world, nearly a quarter of the
human race.
According to Time magazine 11/3 "Boykin told a Florida audience last year that he collapsed in his
bunk that day, angry that God had let him down, 'There is no God,'" Boykin sobbed in the wake of the
death of men he commanded in Mogadishu). "If there was a God, he would have been here to protect
my soldiers."
And what do such men care about freedom, limited government, lower taxes or other temporal
issues? After all, if God is going to end the world soon anyway, what do they matter? And they also
get a free pass to heaven if Armageddon can just come soon while they are still alive.
See Gary North's analysis of how some 20 million of them believe. Continued chaos in the Middle
East and terrorism fits" their Biblical prophesy. This is what Georgie Anne Geyer deplores in her column
cited above. Religion and foreign policy don't mix.
Jon Basil Utley is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. A former
correspondent for Knight/Ridder in South America, Utley has written for the Harvard Business Review on
foreign nationalism and Insight Magazine on preparation for terrorist threats. He is director of
Americans Against World Empire.
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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 2007, pages 58-59
The Dangerous Potent Elixir of Christian Zionism
By Pat Morrison
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/April_2007/0704058.html
WHAT MAY BE potentially the greatest U.S.-born political threat to peace is not terrorist
sleeper cells or even the deployment of more U.S. troops to the Middle East. Instead, it’s the prolific
spread of a brand of Evangelical Christian “End Times” pseudotheology linked to massive support—
military and financial—for the state of Israel. The threat goes by the name Christian Zionism.
According to expert observers and critics, the movement is harnessing incredible religious,
political and financial power, thanks largely to highly visible and well-funded preachers, their churches
and congregations’ financial commitment. The implications of Christian Zionism’s belief systempolitical agenda are frightening.
One of those experts watching the rise of Christian Zionism—and alerting mainline Christians, as
well as Muslims, Jews and the public in general to its danger—is the Rev. Donald Wagner. An ordained
Presbyterian minister, Wagner is associate professor of religion and Middle Eastern studies at North
Park University in Chicago and executive director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His most
recent book is Anxious for Armageddon, a critique of Christian Zionism (and available from the AET Book
Club).
In a packed presentation last fall at the Kansas City Sabeel Conference, Wagner outlined the
movement’s growth, major proponents and political agenda.
According to Wagner, these include: 1) growth of a “fear factor” in the United States since
9/11, fueled by 2) the millennium and “End Times” prophecy, as well as intensely marketed Christian
fiction like the Left Behind series; and 3) the rise of right-wing political conservatism in the United
States.
The Bush administration’s talk about “the axis of evil” and its “Crusader” mindset, coupled with
the neocons’ constant language of empire, captured the imagination of many Christians who already
were reading and identifying with End Times biblical interpretation.
Although popular TV Evangelical preachers like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are enthusiastic
supporters of Israel, Christian Zionism’s newest and most ardent promoter is Dr. John C. Hagee. Hagee,
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who is founder and pastor of the 18,000-member non-denominational evangelical Cornerstone Church
in San Antonio, Texas, has a worldwide following.
Some commentators have described the charismatic and avuncular Hagee as a “kinder, gentler”
Rush Limbaugh look-alike, of similar political persuasion.
Today Hagee is perhaps best known as founder of an ultra-right wing Christian Zionist political
lobby in Washington, Christians United for Israel, or CUFI.
According to Wagner, CUFI is completely aligned to AIPAC, the pro-Israel U.S. lobby, and
“defends a hard-right maximalist Israeli agenda: They support Israel having control of all of the West
Bank and Gaza because ‘God gave it to the Jews exclusively.’”
CUFI also fully supports the Israeli settler movement, Wagner said, and financially underwrites
the relocation of European Jews to illegal settlements because Israel is “their land” promised them by
God.
At the February 2006 launch of CUFI, Hagee stated that Christians United for Israel “will [soon]
have organized offices in every state in the union, mobilizing every Christian and whoever will work with
us on a pro-Israeli agenda.”
By mid-July of last year, Wagner said, Hagee had 3,500 CUFI supporters “deployed to every
congressional office in Washington, pressing for more arms to be sent to Israel [during the IsraeliHezbollah war] but also calling for the U.S. to attack Iran [because Hagee sees war with Iran as a prelude
to Armageddon].”
In San Antonio last October, more than 10,000 CUFI supporters gathered to work on their
political platform and strategies. Among the key conference presenters was former CIA director James
Woolsey, a close supporter of AIPAC and outspoken opponent of the peace movement and of churches
active in it.
Hagee coined the term “Islamofascist” at CUFI’s founding conference, Wagner noted, “and within
a week [President] Bush was using it and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.”
Wagner said his two greatest concerns about Christian Zionism—which claims to count up to 100,0000
evangelical believers around the world—is that it is extremely Islamophobic and anti-islamic, and that it
projects a militant image of Christianity throughout the world.
“What [Christian Zionists] are projecting is a Western white, militant Zionist image of
Christianity into the region,” Wagner said. “And what this does is give global Muslims, and global
Christians, the impression that Christianity is really a militant, Crusader type of religion. In the end,
even Jesus comes back in warrior fashion! ”
In fact, he said, Christian leaders in the Holy Land are so worried about Christian Zionism’s
harmful effects in the region that Catholic, Lutheran and Orthodox church leaders invited Wagner and
a group of other experts to speak to them and help them inform their people about the movement’s
dangers and its impact on the Muslim world.
Christian Zionism seriously damages Christian-Muslim and Christian-Jewish relations, especially in
the Middle East. But what is even more worrisome, Wagner warned, is that because the resources of
movement leaders like Falwell, Robertson and Hagee include worldwide missionaries and media outlets,
they “have the reach to inflame the entire region.”
Pat Morrison writes from Dayton, Ohio. She has covered the Middle East, especially Israel/Palestine,
extensively.
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Washington Report, March 2000, Pages 16-17
Anxious for Armageddon
By Grace Halsell
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0300/0003016.html
For three decades, Gershon Solomon, a militant Israeli who heads an organization dedicated to
the destruction of Jerusalem’s most holy Islamic shrine, has led Zionist zealots in armed assaults on the
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Muslim grounds of Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, that encloses both the Dome of the Rock and Al
Aqsa mosque.
I first heard about the Israeli militants’ intent to destroy the mosque in 1979 when I went to
Jerusalem. I talked at length with Bobby Brown, a third-generation American from Brooklyn who, flying
to the Jewish state and instantly becoming a new citizen, confiscated land from Palestinians to help
build an illegal Jewish settlement.
“The mosque,” he told me, “has to go. It is a blot on our land.” Militant Jews such as Brown and
Solomon want a Jerusalem that is “pure” Jewish—without evidence of inhabitants of the other
monotheistic faiths and their shrines. Surprisingly, millions of U.S. evangelical Christians endorse &
financially support this Jewish plan.
Jews such as Stanley Goldfoot, one of the perpetrators of the dynamiting in 1946 of the King
David Hotel which killed some 100 Christian, Muslim and Jewish civilians, want the mosque destroyed
for political reasons. Other Jews believe that the building of a temple on the Muslim grounds will
usher in the Jewish Messiah (The Real One - Not Jesus Christ).
A growing number of Christians embrace the idea that in all history, Israel is on center stage.
They say God has planned epochs of time (“dispensations”) such as an “in-gathering” of Jews in the
ancient land of Canaan.
One epoch, they say, includes the present time when Jews are obligated to build a Jewish
temple and re-institute animal sacrifice. Such epochs or “dispensations” are necessary, they say,
before Christ can return. They believe Christ can only land in a “safe” area near Jerusalem, they make a
cult of the land. They thus give total, unquestioned support to Israel.
Goldfoot and Solomon are welcome in countless U.S. pulpits, where Christian Zionists give
generous donations of money, as well as their gold wedding rings and gold earrings to finance the
mosque’s destruction.
They push Armageddon along, saying they, as “Born-Again Christians,” will be spared any
suffering, because they will be “Raptured,” wafted up to heaven to view the slaughter below. “I’m not
worried,” Lynchburg, Virginia televangelist Jerry Falwell shouts. “You know why? I ain’t gonna be here!”
No political leader—or religious leader—in Israel or the U.S. has addressed the issue. In the
case of Israeli rabbis, if they themselves have not aided and abetted planned assaults on the mosque,
they have kept silent. In the case of all major U.S. Christian church leaders—the voices that are heard
throughout the land—if they themselves are not raising money to destroy the mosque, they keep
silent about the conspiracy.
“I don’t favor it,” one Christian told me. “But if it happens” –the destruction of the mosque—“it
doesn’t mean I won’t support it.”
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Assaults on the Mosque
Two groups in particular are dedicated to the destruction of Jerusalem’s most sacred Islamic
shrine: the militant Bloc of the Faithful or Gush Emunim, led by rabbis such as Moshe Levinger; and
Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish yeshiva composed of militant Jewish students and their rabbis. Evangelical,
militant Christians, who also want the mosque destroyed, give support and financial aid to both of these
Israeli organizations, as do wealthy American Jews.
Beginning in 1967, when Israel militarily seized Arab East Jerusalem, Jewish terrorists on more
than 100 occasions have laid siege to the Muslim mosque. Here are a few of the assaults:
August 1967. Chief Chaplain of the Armed Forces Shlomo Goren—later Israel’s chief rabbi—
leads 50 armed extremists onto Haram al-Sharif. “It is a holy commandment,” Goren said, for Jews to go
to the Muslim grounds, which Jews call the Temple Mount. Writing in an Israeli publication, Eti Ronel
reports: “Many rabbis, including members of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate, support…Jewish
sovereignty” over Haram al-Sharif.
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August 21, 1969. Jewish extremists set fire to Al Aqsa, destroying a priceless wood and ivory
pulpit sent from Aleppo by the Muslim ruler Saladin. The arson prompts the United Nations Security
Council to condemn Israel’s failure to curb terrorist attacks on Islam’s shrine. Four months later
(12/19/69) a group of militant Jews storm their way to Haram al-Sharif, in order, they claim, “to conduct
Hanukkah prayers.”
March 3, 1971. Gershon Solomon leads Temple Mount Faithful followers onto Haram al-Sharif.
After struggling with Palestinian guards, they are expelled. Three years later (3/3/74) Solomon again,
with followers, storms the mosque. Again (7/14/78) Solomon leads militant Jews onto the Islamic holy
grounds. Palestinians stage protests. Israeli troops hurl tear gas to quell the rioting.
August 10, 1980. Three hundred Gush Emunim fanatics, heavily armed, overcome Palestinian
police and storm the grounds, but are later dispersed. A month later (9/15/80) armed Gush Emunim
settlers associated with Stanley Goldfoot and the Temple Mount Faithful again force their way onto the
mosque grounds. After scuffling with police they are evicted.
April 11, 1982. Alan Goodman, an Israeli citizen with a U.S. passport, marches into Al Aqsa with
an M-16 rifle and opens fire on worshippers, killing two Palestinians and wounding others. In November
1997, the Israeli government releases Goodman. Unrepentant, Goodman boasts, “I fulfilled my mission.”
July 25, 1982. Yoel Lerner, a member of the militant Meir Kahane Kach movement, storms the
mosquegrounds with plans to dynamite and destroy the Dome of the Rock.
March 10, 1983. Armed Gush Emunim fanatics climb walls onto Haram al-Sharif, attempting to
overcome security guards and take the mosque by storm. They have in their possession large quantities
of explosives, automatic rifles and pistols. Twenty-nine are charged and held for trial.
September 21, 1983. An Israeli court acquits the 29 Jewish terrorists who six months earlier
had laid siege on the mosque.
January 27, 1984. In the most ambitious plot to dynamite and destroy the mosque, Jewish
terrorists, armed with 250 pounds of explosives, including dozens of grenades, boxes of dynamite and
12 rounds of mortar, attempt to dynamite and destroy the mosque. They are led by Rabbi Moshe
Levinger, a Jewish extremists.
1994. The Israelis appoint Meir Davidson, a senior official of Ateret Cohanim, as a municipal
adviser on Palestinian properties. This signals the Israeli government will work closely with an
organization whose aim is destruction of the mosque.
September 1996. Ateret Cohanim, funded largely through tax-exempt dollars donated by rich
American Jews, including Miami millionaire Irving Moskowitz, opened a tunnel—excavated in secret
night-time operations—that runs the length of the Al Aqsa complex. The controversial tunnel sparked
intense fighting which claimed the lives of 60 Palestinians and 15 Israeli soldiers. Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu proudly visited the tunnel, as have Evangelical Christian leaders.
October 18, 1998. Gershon Solomon, with followers waving Israeli flags and blowing rams’
horns, mounts a ramp to the mosque grounds. “The time has come to rebuild the Jewish Temple,” said
Solomon. To underscore his point, Solomon parked near an Old City gate a flatbed truck carrying a 41—
G.H.
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Washington Report, December 1988, Page 31
Israeli Extremists and Christian Evangelicals
By Grace Halsell
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1288/8812031.htm
At the time I began my research for my book Prophecy and Politics, I discovered the average
American I met in Washington, DC, and New York was not interested in TV evangelists and their link to
Israel. Neither were book editors.
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I went to 25 top editors in New York with my book idea on religion and politics. Michael Korda of
Simon and Schuster was typical. "Jerry Falwell? Pat Robertson? Who is interested in those crazies?" By
the time my book came out those "crazies" were on the front page of every American newspaper and
news channel.
The press told us that Jim Baker had committed adultery and that Jimmy Swaggart regularly
visited a prostitute. A fellow marine said Pat Robertson never had to dodge bullets in Korea because
he had used his father's influence as a senator to escape front line duty.
But almost everyone ignored the biggest scandal of all: the peculiar mixture of prophecy and
politics professed by these and other Christian Zionists.
The Christian Zionists Message
What is the message of the Christian Zionist? Simply stated it is this: Every act taken by Israel is
orchestrated by God, and should be condoned, supported, and praised by us.
"Never mind what Israel does," say the Christian Zionists. "God wants this to happen." This
includes the invasion of Lebanon, which killed or injured an estimated 100,000 Lebanese and
Palestinians, most of them civilians; the bombing of sovereign nations such as Iraq; the deliberate,
methodical brutalizing of the Palestinians—breaking bones, shooting children, and demolishing
homes; and the expulsion of Palestinian Christians and Muslims from a land they have occupied for
over 2,000 years.
Christian Zionism is a dangerous and growing segment of Christianity, which was popularized by
Cyrus Scofield when he wrote into a Bible his interpretation of events in history. These events all
centered around Israel—past, present, and future. His Scofield Bible is today the most popular of the
reference Bibles.
Scofield said that Christ cannot return to earth until certain events occur: The Jews must return
to Palestine, gain control of Jerusalem and rebuild a temple, and then we all must engage in the final,
great battle called Armageddon.
Estimates vary, but most students of Armageddon theology agree that as a result of these
relatively recent interpretations of Biblical scripture, 10 to 40 million Americans believe Palestine is
God's chosen land for the Jews.
Has the power of the Christian Zionists diminished?
I do not think so. Rather, we are seeing how the Christian Zionists, motivated by religious beliefs,
are working hand in glove with politically motivated, militant Jewish Zionists around the world. It is the
Christian support of Zionism that emboldens Zionists to believe they can dictate to relatively weak and
dependent countries such as Austria, whom they may choose as their president.
It is the Christian support of Zionism that enables the militant Israelis to take over Palestinian
homes surrounding the Al-Aqsa mosque in pursuit of their well-documented plan to destroy
Jerusalem's most holy Islamic site, sacred to a billion Muslims around the world—one-fifth of
humanity.
Christian Zionists and the Iran-Contra Scandal
It was this Christian cult of Israel that brought us the Iran contra scandal, perhaps the most selfdestructive act in the history of the United States. Marine Col. Oliver North, the perpetrator of this
misguided series of actions, is a Christian Zionist.
A born-again charismatic figure, he endeared himself to the militant Israeli Zionists who
plotted Iran-contra. "He is more Israeli," said one Jewish general, "than we Israelis." This is often the
case. In his zealotry, the Christian Zionist can become more Zionist, more militant, than Jewish Zionist.
Christian Zionists: They believe that what Israel wants is what God wants. Therefore, it is
perfectly acceptable to give the green light to whatever it is Israel wants and then conceal this from
the American people. Anything, including lies, theft, even murder, is justified as long as Israel wants it.
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Despite the political problems and the scandals that rocked some of its TV ministries, this belief
system—this cult of Israel—has not been diminished.
Indeed, I hold that Christian Zionism threatens not just the lives of Palestinians and other Arabs,
but the very existence of the United States. Because of the cult of Israel, we have become a nation that
does not have its own Middle East policy, but the policy the government of Israel tells us to have.
Despite the terrifying aspects of the alliance of militant Christians with militant Jewish Zionists, I
find encouraging developments. In my visits to colleges, clubs, and churches around the country, I have
found strong support for warning in Prophecy and Politics.
It has come not only from liberal congregations, but from across the whole spectrum of
Christianity, including those Christians who call themselves Evangelicals. These supporters see Christ as
the bearer to humanity of God's message of peace, brotherhood, love, and reconciliation. These
Christians do not endorse either the cult of Israel or its killings and beatings of Palestinians.
I have found many such Christians in my frequent visits to my home state of Texas. There and all
over this slowly-awakening land of ours, I have found a small but increasing number of ministers and lay
people who are deeply alarmed by the cult of Israel and willing to stand up and speak out about it.
Grace Halsell's book,Prophecy and Politics. The Secret Alliance Between Israel and the US
Christian Right is available through the AET Book Club Catalog to readers of the Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs.
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Washington Report, September 8, 1986, Page 15 Book Review
Prophecy and Politics:
Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War
By Grace Halsell. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1986. 200 pp. $14.95.
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/090886/860908015.html
An earthly Eden just for Christians was always the goal, a paradise of this world rather than of
a heaven in some distant realm. Jews might be revered as the Chosen People, but, after they returned
to the Middle East, and after the Second Coming when Christ returned to rule the world from
Jerusalem for a thousand years (the Millennium), the Jews would have to accept Him as the Messiah.
Accept him or suffer eternal damnation.
In Prophecy and Politics Grace Halsell describes a frightening—and ultimately depressing—
reality of an actually established Jewish state and American television evangelists with millions of
followers just waiting, even with joyful anticipation, for the Millennium—even if billions are sacrificed in
a nuclear holocaust.
Author Halsell grew up in west Texas, in a devoutly religious, Bible-centered household. In her
research for Prophecy and Politics, which included two separate tours of Israel with the Reverend Jerry
Falwell and hundreds of his followers, Miss Halsell discovered a harsh, Judaic-centered "Christianity,"
ready, indeed welcoming, any violence, even total destruction, so long as this would hasten the "End
Times".
She also experienced tours conducted by Jewish tour guides only; that hardly mentioned the
physical and spiritual Jesus; that diverted attention from the two million Palestinians under, Israeli
control; and stressed the Old Testament’s angry God of vengeance.
On one chilling occasion in Jerusalem, Halsell saw hundreds of Falwell's people shouting
Hallelujahs and Amens as Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens depicted Israel's brutal 1982
aggression in Lebanon—in which 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians were killed—in terms of smiting
"enemies" and "Communists."
Before this sublime age can dawn, however, the Jews must have first been in-gathered in the
Holy Land, a climactic battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil—Armageddon with,
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yes, Russia as the Prince of Darkness—must be fought, and Christ must have appeared in a Second
Coming. Most of mankind, including most of the Jews, will have perished in a river of blood.
This almost unimaginable disaster is viewed with equanimity by the "born again" who will be
"raptured" into the clouds out of danger. When the fighting is over they come back down with Jesus to
enjoy the Millennium. The relatively small number of surviving Jews will enjoy it too for, in this belief
system, they will perceive that Christ was the Messiah after all.
Miss Halsell provides two fascinating pieces of information about television preacher Jerry
Falwell. First, his expensive private jet plane is a gift from the government of Israel. Second, before
1967 the now ever-so-political Falwell said preachers should stay out of politics. Falwell never talked of
modern-day Israel before 1967. Indeed, he is quoted in 1964 as having said that nothing could induce
him to stop preaching "the pure saving gospel of Jesus Christ."
On his money-making tours of Israel in recent years, however, Falwell appears, as noted, to
be neglecting Jesus Christ.
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Christian Zionists Snap at the Heels of a Man From Galilee
Charles E. Carlson May 06, 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=3053
An Israeli Arab Christian educator got mixed response at local area churches: a warmth and
respect from Presbyterians, and a mixture of love and ice water at an Israelist church.
Archbishop Elias Chacour is a rotund 69 year old dynamo. As a child of eight he was made
homeless by the Israeli army, but against all odds he stayed in Israel long after most of his villagers
became forced refugees elsewhere. He went on to become one of the most important educators of
Arab children, and a Christian citizen of Israel. There he built schools that teach some 4000 thousand
children in Galilee, northern Israel. Now he has been appointed Archbishop over several Melkite
Catholic Churches that are sanctioned by Israel within its territory. Bishop Chacour is author of Blood
Brothers (Arabs and Israelis) and is a proven advocate of peace, preaching love of all races as his “only
weapon.”
Archbishop Chacour remembers vividly when, in 1948, the state of Israel drove them from their
home the family had owned for generations.
He relates with the vivid memories of a child how the Israelis separated the village men from
their families, shipping the men including his own father to the borders of Israel.
The men
gone, they ordered the women and children out of their homes to seek refuge wherever they could
find it. Later, Israel’s new Air Force bombed the empty homes to rubble so no one could not sneak
back to live. It is this part of his life's story that, in part, seemed to arouse the ire of Christian Zionists in
his audience.
Archbishop Elias Chacour gave this story Sunday night at Valley Presbyterian Church to a near
full church, whose attendees treated him like a Christian brother from afar. On Monday night he spoke
at Scottsdale Bible Church (SBC) where the response was marred by the words of a few. It is this
strange and varied reaction to his words…words that have the unmistakable ring of truth supported by
undeniable history that we will now discuss in detail. From these few we must learn how to change
many.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Elias Chacour’s life seems to demonstrate peace, love and sacrifice. But he also challenges
Israel’s right to take life and property from his Christian and Muslim Arab friends. And he speaks with
passion to his belief that his Christian God hates killing regardless of what race of human is being killed.
And he emphasizes that God has no favored race held above His Commandments.
Chacour’s lecture, at which perhaps a hundred attended, was not, we are told, a formal function
of SBC, but was arranged privately and without church advertising, nor was the meeting even noted in
the Church bulletin. This seems to suggest that the church leadership had reason for concern about the
reaction to Chacour’s words. The invitation was spread, not by the church, but by word-of-mouth
through sponsors, Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding, and friends, including We Hold These
Truths.
“Christian Zionists,” are invariably preoccupied with what they consider political Israel and its
absolute right, as they see it, to take any and all land in the Middle East. And, if taking or holding land
involves killing Arabs they feel the Bible justifies killing. And, they invariably believe that political
Israel and its Jewish settlers are favored by God, and are still the “chosen people” of God. Finally, they
wrap these three beliefs around their borrowed “end times” eschatology, to come up with "Israelism,"
posing as evangelical Christianity.
The Pharisees again, attack a man from Galilee
We Hold These Truths has long held that Israelism (Christian Zionism is the advanced form) is a
religion separate and distinct from traditional, new covenant Christianity, which we think of as following
Christ as best we can. Archbishop Chacour is, I suspect, a Catholic, Arab, Israeli, educator, Christ
follower.
I should not have been surprised to see an organized response to Chacour’s talk at SBC. About
five made statements of sorts and others walked out together during the program.
An SBC member who identified himself was the first to contest Chacour’s firm assertion that
the Palestinians had a historic right to their houses and land before Israel was a state..that he at age
69 is older than Israel. This SBC member referred to the ancient story of the Abrahamic Covenant in
Genesis 12:3, from which he asserted that God gave the land to the State of Israel long ago (and
presumably before the Chacour family had it).
The great bible land swindle is the most common and most tragically illogical claim made by
both Israelis and Christian Zionists. The Genesis land grant is an invention, not of God, but comes from
the work of Cyrus I. Scofield in the 1967 edition to his bible, as written into the footnotes on Page 19:
“God made an unconditional promise of blessing through Abram’s seed to the nation of Israel
to inherit a specific territory forever.” Christian Zionists take the man-made footnote to be God’s
sacred promise, though the text says nothing like this.
The next speaker from the floor challenged to the Archbishop’s strong assertion that God
never favors killing. This bible educated churchgoer set out to prove that God does endorses killing if
he wants to.
Drawing on a large Study Bible, the floor speaker said Joshua received direct instructions from
God to annihilate entire tribes in the course of land acquisition. By inference he imputed this same
authority to political Israel now, which presumably may also annihilate the present day Philistines with
God’s Blessing.
Strangely, We Hold These Truths has found the logic expressed from the floor at SBC to be
entirely normal for Christian Zionists. They simply believe that the “Israel” of today inherited the right
to kill Philistines from the “Israel” of three or four thousand years ago.
Another floor speaker delivered a back handed poke in the eye question with deeply racist
implications. This British sounding chap twice demanded to know why the Palestinians live in shabby
circumstances while the Israelis live neat and tidy lives a few blocks away, which he said he had
observed while busing around Israel. (His Israeli guide might have suggested this, as they often do.)
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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His demanding question implied the Palestinians were somehow inferior to the Israelis
because they lived in ghetto conditions. This man would not let go even after Chacour patiently
explained the huge legal discrimination against Arab citizens like himself, and favoring Jews, such as the
fact that the former are allocated less water to drink, get only 1/4 as much application of tax money.
This superior race, or "God's chosen" argument is another standard Christian Zionist way of
saying what Israelis say more bluntly: “Palestinians are animals” or “dogs”. Christian Zionism is an
advanced infection of a common church spawned and Zionist fed virus we call “Israelism,” which we
believe has affected as many as 100,000 churches.
It holds as a primary unspoken tenant: “the present day political state of Israel is the fulfillment
of biblical prophesies.” Ergo, Israel’s leaders can really do no wrong, being not only God’s chosen, but
also being marked for a future part they are thought to play in the afterlife of Christians.
Christian Zionists seem to recognize theirs is a militant role as pit bulls for Israel. Their attack
target may be anyone who challenges that Israel is the chosen people, with an absolute right to
occupy land and control the lives (and deaths) of the Philistines of Gaza and the West Bank.
We have learned that the best answer to every argument that falls from the mouth of an Israelist
is: “Show me where the New Testament supports that statement.” The New Testament book of
Galatians tells us if we are Christ followers we are Abraham’s children and heirs to the promise, and
that Jesus is Abraham’s Seed, so there can be no chosen race.
Jesus does not support taking the life of even one human, and all races are made in God’s
image, as Archbishop Chacour asserted. Israel Has Become The New American Idol
Bishop Chacour correctly told his antagonists they were dragging verses out of context in
attribution of Genesis and Joshua to the present day Israel. We have found all logic fails with Christian
Zionists because they must rely upon the Old Testament, must welcome war, and are actually led to
deep resentment of all who seem to them not to worship Israel enough.
Stick to the New Testament whenever you are dealing with a Christian Zionist. Only with Jesus'
words can you change them.
(1) The Root of Christian Zionism, Charles Carlson; (http://www.whtt.org/show)
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Israel’s Death Culture, a Dragging Anchor
Charles E. Carlson April 03, 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2984
Israel Defense Forces trains snipers to kill, but who are they trained to target? Many of us had
military training at one time or another and the thought of killing a human is something soldiers must be
prepared for.
Something about Israel's sniper training must be different, for the thought of killing a woman,
much less a child, never entered the mind of any soldier I have known. These graduates of IDF sniper
school came out wearing t-shirts that promoted killing children, women, and especially graphically
about killing pregnant women. (Note 1)
Israel has played the “self defense” card since 1948. It no longer works. In recent Haaretz new
stories, veterans of the January campaign in Gaza revealed that they see nothing wrong with
executions. A soldier knows he can get away with any murder, so long as he does not do it at point
blank range in front of a camera held by an Arab news service like Aljazeera. If he makes this mistake,
then some minimum discipline may make him out as one bad apple in the Israeli barrel.
Israel’s death culture extends beyond the mass killing fields of Lebanon and Gaza. Israelis also kill
their own kind with impunity. They have aborted many more Jewish Israeli babies (some 20,000 a year
or more) than all the Philistine men, women, and children they have shot, burned, and starved in its
60 year life. Israel’s low live birth rate is the principle reason it cannot compete in a democratic society
with the Arabs. This should horrify Christian Zionists who claim to be pro-life almost to a man.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Arabs have families in both Israel and Gaza. They do not abort their children. Israelis, however,
have a high rate of abortion, subsidized by its national government. The most dangerous months of a
young Israeli’s life are not those spent carrying a gun in the IDF, but those spent in his mother’s
womb.
Blame for the ongoing abuse of the Palestinians rests with the Israelis, with American Zionist
Jews, the cowardly Congress, and flagrantly biased, Zionist-monitored media.
But the real villains who enable Israel’s Death Culture are the 70 million evangelical Christian
Zionists who are led by a handful of fanatical leaders who reap huge personal profits from their Israelworshiping donations and junkets.
“Christian Zionism” is the oxymoronic name we gave this biggest of all cults nine years ago, and it
stuck. We defined it as “Those who believe the State of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophesy.”
Christian Zionists worship Israel and feel they have authority to pronounce curses upon anyone who
criticizes Israel.
Israel is lionized by Jewish Zionists and deified by the American Christian Zionists movement,
but is not respected by anyone else in the world. Evangelical Christian Zionists can also no longer
afford their love affair with Israel because it is a toxic ungodly affection that abandons traditional Biblical
values. (Note3)
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'Christians' Tour Israel: Gaza Extermination Grinds On
Charles E. Carlson Mar 09, 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2916
The evidence is in: Israel and the US are together guilty of war crimes by any reasonable
measure. The USA financed the 23-day Christmas season Gaza extermination. Extermination is the
act of killing with the intention of eradicating demographics within a population.
'Christian’ churches are high on the list of accomplices, with the blood of 1435 mostly innocent
souls on their hands. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics claims it entertained some 1.3 million tourists
last year. It contributes more than the $2.7 billion annually. This makes tourism a major financer of
Israel’s war budget.
According to Israel’s figures, 66% of visitors list themselves Christian, and Americans are the
largest incoming group. YNet Travel says 2008 was a record year when incoming tourism generated $3.8
billion for the Israeli economy.
On December 27, 2008, Israel attacked Gaza from the air. The starvation blockade was already
18 months old. Few in the civilized world, including this author, could imagine how people and
animals survived the lock down. We were to learn later that a life-sustaining flow of food, fuel, and life
essentials were being smuggled into the Gaza Strip through an unknown number of underground
tunnels into Egypt.
It was the use of these tunnels that triggered Israel’s bombing phase. Israel told the world that
Hamas homemade rocket fire was the cause of the attack. The bombing was suspended for the two
days before President Obama was inaugurated. On March 5th the killing resumed. Christian tourists
are still there.
Evangelical Zionist Church leaders have often told us proudly that they have made multiple trips
to Israel; one told me he’d gone 21 times. If their tour were to include Gaza, which it does not, they
might still smell the odor of decomposing flesh from body parts buried in thousands of demolished
homes.
Needless to say, the Israeli government does not allow tourists into areas where they will see
the effects of its Gaza extermination. Thousands of Christians dined with the Israelis in their posh
Jerusalem hotels, absorbing its propaganda, at the very hour that Gaza was being bombed and
burned to rubble.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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These junkets are not sightseeing tours. For American church members, they are religious
homage to the state of Israel. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, about 1,123,000 tourists
visited Bethlehem and Jericho during the first nine months of 2008.
This represents a 96.5% increase in the number of tourists visiting Bethlehem and a 42.3%
increase in the number visiting Jericho compared to the same period in 2007.
One of the visitors last year was a friend named Char, who told me of her experiences on a tour
sponsored by the Church of Christ. Char enjoyed the tour because of her commitment to learn about
Jesus’ life, and she has recommends it to others.
Her group took all meals together, and she had little chance or time to speak to anyone outside
the group and its company-hired guides. With the exception of one Arab Christian guide, all those who
ran the tour were Israelis, presumably Jewish.
During the days Char was touring but 60 miles from Gaza, huge international news was being
made there. We Hold These Truths posted on our website no less than 13 stories from the Israeli press,
most from Haaretz, about the blockade and attack on Gaza, all published in English.
On January 20th the Gazans, led by Hamas, broke the year-old blockade for one week by
blowing down the fence into Egypt and crossing the border to buy food and necessities in neighboring
Egyptian towns.
Our story went out January 28, summarizing the events of this month, “Prison Break from Gaza,
a Glimpse of a People Scheduled for Starvation.” On February 5th Haaretz carried a story about Israel
taking reprisals, killing Gaza police for the break out into Egypt. No wonder Israel sheltered Char and
other tourists from the news! (Note 2, Prison Break)
Char’s tour included several Israeli “historical” propaganda events that had nothing to do with
Christianity and were not optional, including Israel’s Holocaust Museum, Israel’s parliament (Knesset),
and a field trip to the legendary Jewish fortress at Masada.
The Holocaust Museum induces feelings of false guilt and the sense that they owe it to Israel
to believe its Gaza version, even if it is not believable. Meanwhile, Israel was deliberately starving the
people of Gaza by closing all its border crossings to incoming traffic; this included a blockade on land, air
transport, and sea transport.
During the Gaza extermination in December and January 2009, enterprising Israelis set up
observation posts on a bluff overlooking Gaza for those who wanted to watch; they even provided
coffee for the observers.
American tourists were not shown this sight, nor are they told Christians are among those trying
to survive in the Gaza gulag. Israelis are mostly militant, and many consider Arabs to be animals, but
they do not tell this to the church tourists. (Note 3) Israelis watch Gaza Extermination
There is no way that a reasonable person can believe Israel is a victim, and not the perpetrator
of a planned extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza. The world now sees Israel for what it is: a
nuclear-powered bully, whining that he was slapped first by the kid he has crushed under his boot.
But evangelical Zionists do not rely on reason. To evangelicals Israel is more than a state--it is a
God, incapable of wrongdoing…above criminality, no matter what evidence, proof, or witness
testimony is presented them. In their minds, the Philistines do not belong where they are, so Israel is
not wrong for murdering and starving them.
“Israel is currently outside of God’s grace, but the Bible is clear, Jews will return to God’s favor in
the last and final days when Christ comes back. They are always God’s chosen ones, even when they
commit terrible sins, God has commanded us to honor them, and God gave them the land.” ….or
words to this effect. The problem with this statement is that it is not Christian, having no support at all
in the New Testament. It is Zionism in disguise, the subject of WHTT movie, The Roots of Christian
Zionism. (Note 4)
Hampshire College students also know. They claim to be the first to force their college to
disinvest in American companies that profit from Israel's occupation of the lands of Palestinian Arabs.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Its student body presented the college’s president, Ralph Hexter, and trustees with simple logic
with which they agreed: the school should not have money invested in companies that benefit directly
from the killing of human beings and destruction of homes and property. One such company,
Caterpillar, makes and sells to Israel special armor plated bulldozers that have destroyed four thousand
houses in Gaza. Hampshire students wanted out of this stock.
The National Council of Churches also knows what is going on in Gaza. It published a paper in
January entitled “Why We Should Be Concerned About Christian Zionism.” It became the first large
church organization to warn: “It fosters fear and hatred of Muslims and non-Western Christians.” (note
6)
The primary Enablers of Israel’s acts are the church leaders and members who have stood
silent, pretending not to know about the war crimes being committed by Israel or justifying Israel’s
acts by twisting Christian scripture.
The question demanded by humankind, is, how can those who profess to be followers of the
Prince of Peace sit down over breakfast in an Israeli propaganda-disseminating five-star hotel when sixty
miles away, Israelis are systematically starving children and burning and burying their live bodies and
their families under the rubble of their bombed and bulldozed houses? What Jesus Christ-based
justification can there be for Christ followers to do this?
Neither benign ignorance nor willful denial can excuse the callousness of evangelical Zionists to
Palestinian suffering. Christians misled by atheist Israelis who pretend to care about our sacred places
but are only fishing for our money. The Apostle Paul might well say: Don't walk like the hypocrite
Israelis who murder children and make widows of mothers in Gaza, while they entertain you in their
villas.
American Christians and their churches should cancel all Junkets until all attacks on Gaza
end. Every Christian who goes to Israel is an accomplice to murder through his purse. The Israeli plan
to exterminate the entire Philistine population by starvation is as large as Hitler’s or Stalin’s wildest
dream.
There is no shortage of witnesses to the Israeli intent. Bob Simon, host of 60 Minutes, called
Gaza "the world's largest prison” and said on the Charlie Rose Show that Israel has gone too far in the
war process to go back to a “two-state solution.”
Asked what was left, he said, “Apartheid.” Simon did not use the word “extermination," but
the film he made all but tells us that apartheid Israeli-style means the continued internment and
systematic imprisonment and execution of Palestinians. (Note 7)
Norman Finkelstein, noted educator and author of “The Holocaust Industry” states: Let them
all (Israel) burn in hell for what they did to the people of Gaza. (Note 8)
We plead: Say No to the Gaza extermination by not giving one more cent of your money to Israel until
Christian and Muslim Arabs are granted equal rights with Israelis.
The Roots of Christian Zionism by Charles E. Carlson may be the first sympathetic and factual
explanation of Christianity's role in the Gaza Extermination, featuring its cures. Christian Zionists
believe that: GOD ORDAINED THE STATE OF ISRAEL
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The Lie That Justifies Mass Murder: "Hamas Hit Us First"
Charles E. Carlson Jan 01, 2008
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2770
The White House’s press release is exactly the same as the Zionist Israel position, blaming the
victims. It is imperative that we know why. Here is the official Israeli line, directly from Washington:
“It was "completely unacceptable" for Hamas, which controls Gaza, to launch attacks on Israel
after a truce lasting several months, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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Council. "These people are nothing but thugs, so Israel is going to defend its people against terrorists
like Hamas that indiscriminately kill their own people."
The reason the US Administration parrots Zionist Israel’s story is that there is a common agenda
that calls for more war in the Middle East. As we have written for years, ours is a war-based economy,
and Israel plays a large part in it because the USA’s targeted enemy is Islam. War, to those who direct
our course from above and beyond politics, is not about religion, but is a vehicle to force economic
growth where there is now stagnation.
Broader, bigger and more permanent wars is a part or the “Dilution Solution” planned to save
our economy, just as World War II was thought by many to be solution to the “Great Depression.”
We Hold These Truths opposes this policy, which will end when citizens demand it.
The USA, also, uses Israel to further the war agenda. Israeli politicians willingly play their part in
the US war schemes, that necessitates many secret meetings between the two.
Zionist politicians have their own political reasons for the unreasonable brutality which has
been discussed in the Arab press. Israel wants to regain political control over the Philistines, so to their
way of thinking, Hamas must go.
This writer uses the biblical “Philistine” in place of the popular “Palestinian” to emphasize that
Arabs are the historic occupants of the land, and they presently do not even have a state.
As a practical matter, Israel cannot kill all three or four million Philistines, although it has
been officially considered. And, Likud politicians will do it if they can. Past Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
actually stated he was capable and willing to kill all Palestinian Arabs if the Zionists could handle the
world heat it would generate.
Israel’s objective, instead, is to eliminate Hamas, so they can once again control the
Philistinesby controlling its leaders.
Israel with the help of the USA, trained Yassar Arafat to be its kind of Arab leader and helped
him to become a billionaire. In exchange Arafat created a terrorist image for his peace-seeking people,
but he never attacked Israeli political figures.
Before the spasms of violence by Philistine youths in the 1980s called “Intifada,” the Arab
population of some three million was in effect a low cost labor pool for Israel. Philistines did the menial
labor and farming, commuting from gulags in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel could and did build industry around this desperate labor force much as Germany provided
its war materials from slave labor camps populated by prisoners, many of whom were European Jews.
This writer wonders if Zionists did not borrow the idea from the National Socialists (NAZI). South Africa
was criticized and embargoed for using its black labor pool to build its industry, called Apartheid, but it
never bombed the slums where the laborers lived.
The PLO’s role was that of a controlled terrorist…controlled in that it made lots of press, but
never really gained any constructive ground for the Philistines. The PLO made everyone think Philistines
were terrorists, but it never really harmed the government of Israel.
Had the PLO desired to use its ample resources to hurt Zionists it could have organized general
strikes, peaceful sit and other non-violent methods of revolt. It had lots of people who needed a way to
participate, but it did not. .
This would have had an impact. Instead the PLO killed an aged couple on a cruise ship,
slaughtered 20- year old Olympic athletes, and hijacked airlines from other countries making enemies
out of them, and damaging the reputation of every Arab from every land.
Arafat was left alone to live a lavish lifestyle in Paris, married a young wife there, and
amassed an unknown personal fortune. Affectively he was an Israeli agent.
The Philistines knew all this, but the PLO had no competition until Hamas came along . Israel’s
agenda is to get Mahmoud Abbas back in power as the Philistine leader. According to reliable members
of the Arab Press Abbas’s term runs out on January 9. This gives Israel and the USA but one week to
destroy Hamas so they can keep Abbas in power.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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It should surprise no one that Bush has praised Abbas as a fine leader for the Palestinians.
On the first day of 2009 Israel bombed a 4 story apartment building in Gaza to kill one Hamas
leader. They were willing to kill eight members of his family, all women and children, plus four more
non-family members who lived in the same building!
The USA networks did not report the event. The US Administration supports these Zionist acts
of terrorism. Many Americans, especially evangelical Christians, choose to believe them.
Those who have been inside Gaza know Israel struck first, and Hamas’s response is only a
token for lack of serious armaments. A united Nations official in Gaza, an English woman named Karen,
stated she has lived in Gaza for six years, and whose job it is to organize distribution of UN purchased
food.
She set a Zionist friendly reporter straight. His loaded question was, “do the Gazans know that
only Hamas is to blame for their sufferings?”
Answering from her office in Gaza, Karen, the UN official, stated that her assistant, a Gazan,
was killed that very day by an Israeli bomb while doing his job delivering food, and that it was Israel, not
Hamas, who broke the six-month peace truce by keeping the border entrances sealed for months after
the "truce" began.
She put the reporter in his place about who bombed first, noting she was in Gaza under attack
several hours before Hamas retaliated with some sixty homemade rockets. She affirmed that Israel has
destroyed Gaza hospitals, mosques, schools, police stations, and private homes, all based on the
excuse of one lone homemade rocket the week before that hit no one, and did no damage. Our leaders
know all this but the truth does not further their agenda. The “Hamas hit us first” lie does.
Israelis often refer to Palestinians as “animals” in private conversation. Israel’s military
started the slaughter by starving the Gazans in hopes the victims would blame and reject Hamas.
When this did not work Israel trumped up a homemade, one rocket excuse to start bombing the
Gaza City, and is still trying to blame Hamas. In summary, there are a few simple truths that Israel
cannot stand, and that US politicians and the press never recognize:
1. Hamas is the lawfully elected government of Gaza and the West Bank as well. It still has the
respect of the people. It not only has the right to lead but has the responsibility, which Hamas
recognizes.
2. Israeli and American officials lie about Hamas routinely, it’s strictly business to lie, and they
are not ashamed when they are caught. A recent official Israeli statement claimed "Hamas came to
power in a bloody coup." In fact, the Palestinian election was supervised and certified to be fair and free
by an international team lead by a former US President, Carter.
3. Gazans do not train their children to be suicide bombers anymore than Americans do;
"Human Bombs" are the product of lost dreams and the frustrations of 40 years of occupation. Some
children who grow up without hope become dangerous adults. Anyone who goes to Gaza, as I did, will
learn they are not trained to hate us, nor to carry bombs. They learn to hate by being bombed.
4. Gaza children are considered a blessing. Most families have lots of them and half the
population is sixteen or under. As an example, abortion is practically unknown in Gaza; but in Israel it
is a government provided utility. It is fair to say the Gazans practice a life culture; Israelis practice a
death culture.
5. Gazans co-exist side by side, race and religion, Muslim and Christian, church beside mosque.
Their Children often go to the same school, Hamas and Muslim kids with Catholic, Orthodox, and a few
Baptists, until Israel bombs the school with US weapons. I have seen it and talked to the parents.
A massive USA/Israeli propaganda campaign has the objective of convincing Christians that
Muslims hate them.
The war plan is called the Project for the New American Century (PFNAC), which seeks to engulf
the entire Arab world into permanent wars of mass occupation. PFNAC postulates that more wars will
bail out our staggering economy.
Voltaire: “Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.”
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History shows serial wars always destroy the morality and the currency of the aggressor. Your
writer described this agenda in 1994, in a magazine feature story, Attacking Islam1. Gaza is viewed as a
trigger to spread World War III against Islam everywhere.
The Bush Administration wants Israel to pull the trigger on the Philistines and set the Islamic
world off to violent retaliation in which the USA will quickly be “forced” to be involved.
Christian Zionists, not corrupted politicians, are the biggest obstacle to peace in the USA.
America has an almost uncountable number of churches that meet regularly, but most do not fulfill
the role that Christ gave them, to stand for decency.
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The Roots of Christian Zionism: 1, The Cause of the Conflict
Charles E. Carlson Dec 08, 2008
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2724
America’s war based economy depends on Christians’ support Christian Zionists, by whatever
name, are the primary public enablers of serial wars upon Islamic states. Why? Because they have
been conditioned to think of Islam as an anathema to them, much as many of us were trained to
consider communists our ideological enemies a generation ago.
Most Christian celebrity media leaders have allowed themselves to be used as propagandists
against Islamic states with independent governments, including Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Somalia,
Bosnia, and in the future, Islamic states of Iran and Sudan. Our purpose is to examine why and how this
has been done.
The Christian Right’s world war on Islam was observed as early as 1983, and became official in
1991 with the first destruction on Iraq. Only Christian Zionists (known by many names) believe war is
an inevitable part of their religion, so they do little to resist it. Due to this un-Christ like error, they
have become the primary cause of our perpetual conflict.
Christian Zionists, by whatever name, are the only remaining faction of any size that supports
the war in Iraq. Therefore, they are largely responsible for the economic and social disaster, and due to
the distortion of their own faith, they are the seeds of their own destruction. We find them among our
friends and families,
Judeo-Christians can be easily swayed to support conflict, so long as a Muslim is on the receiving
end of our bombs and bullets, and so long as Israel is perceived to benefit from it.
I am in no way excusing cowardly Congressmen for knuckling under to the war lobby. We know
some few gain a lot financially from war, and work for it. But these professional War makers are far too
mercenary to believe that a God controls their eternal destiny. I also do not dismiss the influence of
Jewish Zionists, who consider war in the Middle East in their national interest. But for every Jewish
Zionist in America there are ten or twenty Christian Zionists doing the work of the former.
It is my belief, as a follower of Jesus Christ, that Christians who turn from Jesus’ words,
“Blessed are the peacemakers, and love your brother…even your enemies, as you love yourself”…these
“Christians” deserve the hottest places in hell, as Dante put it. For if those who claim they follow Christ
fail to stand for justice and protection of the innocent, who will?
Change can only come from understanding the Roots of Christian Zionism. Those who try to
follow Christ need to rescue decent souls to more orthodox Christianity, one by one.
Most Christian Zionists don’t know they are Zionists and might deny it. They usually describe
themselves as Evangelicalsor a “Born Again Christian.”
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Restoring the walk to Jesus’ Way can save America.
If Christian Zionism can be correctly exposed as a warring religion, America may be restored to
peace, justice. We suffer economic distress of the wars Christian Zionists have supported, because
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these wars please God and are necessary for Jesus’ return to earth.
At the apex of the Christian Zionist sect (which is only 100 years old) are leaders who include
media personalities such as John Hagee, Rod Parsley, Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell, Benny
Hinn, Joyce Meyer, and hundreds more. Each has openly expressed the view that war upon Islamic
states is necessary and welcome. Currently, most of them call for America’s next planned serial war
against Iran. Sudan is also on the war agenda.
Dispensational bible students can be found in almost any church of any denomination because
of the effectiveness of radio churches and giant international bible studies in homes and churches that
transcends denominational descriptions.
For instance, some Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans are Christian Zionists
because of their outside Bible studies and are ignoring the contradictions to orthodox Christianity
espoused by their own churchChristian Zionism is a disease or a parasite upon orthodox or traditional
Christianity.
How do you identify a Christian Zionist, and how do you know if you are one? We have
developed a 10 word litmus test that is non-invasive: "Do you believe the state of Israel is the
fulfillment of biblical prophesy?"
Tens of millions of Americans need to face this question, for if they believe Israel is the
fulfillment of biblical prophesies, then where does Jesus fit in? Simply stated, either Jesus or Israel is
the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Old Testament, but there is not room in Christianity for both. If
you have been taught that political Israel is in any way involved in your spiritual life, you are infected!
Orthodox or traditional Christians have always believed that Jesus, not Israel is the correct
answer. Only Christian Zionism (by definition) assumes that political Israel is in God’s plan for the
future, and that in spite of its intolerance, racism, and constant wars, political Israel is the chosen
people of God.
About one-third of the 210 million American adults who identify themselves in polls and census
as Christians, are influenced by Christian Zionism. That is about 70 million, most of whom vote, making
Christian Zionists the most powerful and coveted voting block, translating into some 26 million votes!
This means they are much coveted by every political candidate.
The most obvious example was John McCain’s reckless pursuit of Christian Right support that
had led him to gross embarrassment at the pulpit of both maniacal Zionists, John Hagee and Rod
Parsley, both of whom call for nuclear destruction of Iran.
The teachings of Jesus Christ inescapably demand peace and love of one’s neighbors. In the
mid-19th Century, America’s churches led the cry for peace in a world where wars were all too common.
At the turn of the 20th Century that Christian Zionism first took root. DeTocqueville wrote: “America is
great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
He could not know that the churches he saw as the source of conscience were under a moral
attack aimed at the very sense of justice.
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War seeds immorality
The most powerful theological attack on Christianity came from Oxford University Press in
England, which in 1908 published a false and intentionally misleading reference Bible called the Scofield
Reference Bible aimed at creating a new religion, with the future state of Israel a semi-God in it. The
term “dispensationalism” was taken from Scofield’s book, and is an assault on orthodox
Christianity. Oxford promoted it into the key places of study in America where opinion could cloud the
peacemaking tradition of Christianity.
Most pastors and teachers were unaware of any danger. A few foresaw the consequences of the
heresy that to most seemed foolish, outlandish, and embarrassing. Few guessed it would come to
dominate American Christianity when in 1948 the State of Israel came into existence.
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This new religion that chose the friendly pseudonym “evangelicalism” is the topic of our
discussion. Religion scholars on both sides often identified it as “Dispensationalism” or “Premillennialism,” and “Judeo-Christianity” which are popular synonyms.
The World Zionist movement was in full charge toward occupying Arab Palestine by 1913. It
was given a huge promotional boost when Oxford University Press published a new bible of Christian
Zionism in 1908 called the Scofield Reference Bible. This book would be used as the launching pad for a
methodical and spiritually deceptive growth of the new sect.
One of the few who saw the war making and heretical danger of the new sect, and actually called
it “Zionism” was a well-known attorney, Phillip Maurowho wrote a brilliant critique of the new cult in his
1927 book, Gospel of the Kingdom. Mauro wrote:
“Through a recent occurrence I was made aware of the extent- far greater than I had imagined –
to which the modern system of dispensationalism has found acceptance amongst orthodox Christians; to
which the recently published “Scofield Bible” has usurped the place of authority that belongs to God’s
Bible alone.”
“Let it be understood at the outset that my controversy is solely with the doctrine itself and not
at all with those who hold and teach it, or any of them. Indeed I was myself of their number for so long a
time that I can but feel a tender consideration and a profound sympathy likewise, for all such.”
Dr. F. Furman Kearley was another who saw the path to war in the errors of
dispensationalism. He was head of graduate studies at Adeline Christian University in 1983 when he
wrote of Christian Zionism’s evil fruit of perpetual war in the Middle East. He names radical prophet
Hal Lindsay, and the late Jerry Falwell, whom he said would lead us into endless war with Islamic
states.
Kearley noted: “When the concept of Armageddon, as in Revelation 16:16 is raised, those
who believe in a literal war at Armageddon often feel that Christians should work to start this war,
and should vigorously participate in it.
Dr. F. Furman Kearley explains the neo-Christians’ love affair with war as a religious fixation,
correctly stating: “Christians must (as a matter faith) pray for peace in the Middle
East. Premillenialists must pray and work for World War III, so Armageddon will come. They cannot
pray for peace.”
If a follower of Christian Zionism would only examine the simple teaching of Jesus in the
New Testament he will find not a single passage or phrase that would give a follower of Christ cause
to take the life of another man, or another man’s child. Certainly we must not kill people in a far-away
country.
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Christian Zionism Agonizes Family Members
Charles E. Carlson Nov 18, 2008
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt-christianzionism.blogspot.com
"Many friends and family members consider themselves evangelicals. They religiously watch,
listen and obey corrupt TBN evangelists and Family Christian Radio pastoral talk show hosts. “How do
I reconcile my complete frustration with their refusal to see the error in their interpretation of the
Bible and current events?”
In Answer to AN:
Christian Zionism is the biggest infection in America, more alcoholism though from this
prospective it receives little public attention.
AN, your question is not how to convince your friends and relatives they are wrong, for you
have already been reconciled to the difficulty of that task. Rather, ask how to deal with your own pain
and frustration. Yes, you would like to convince your family they are following a false god, but probably
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have had to give up persuading them in the interest of keeping a bare minimum of stilted
communication.
I’ve heard this story from Phil Tourney, who happened to be co-speaker at a forum in California
where my talk on Christian Zionism came first. Phil’s history is was familiar to me, and is true. He is a
wounded U.S. Navy survivor of Israel’s 1967 vicious attack on the USS Liberty, which became a
deliberate cover-up by military top brass under directives from President Johnson. In case you didn’t
know, Israel attacked and wounded half the crew and killed over 30 of Tourney’s crewmates.
Tourney rose with a question, and with pain in his voice he told the entire audience about his
own painful story of two adult daughters from whom he has been essentially estranged because he tried
to tell them about his life-changing experience of four decades ago. They refuse to listen because Israel
is involved.
Tourney’s story detailed how every one of the crew survivors was threatened by a general
officer of the Navy with “prison or worse” if he ever told anyone what really happened on the USS
Liberty. For two decades, Tourney did not even tell his wife.
And when he finally broke silence, as a number of his crewmembers had, his own daughters
rejected him. Both, he said, had become Judeo-Christian church members and believed that Israel was
ordained by God to occupy Palestine, and can do no wrong.
Most Judeo-Christians are taught anyone who speaks against Israel may be damned by God…
including their own father. Imagine the pain. Jim Tourney’s children should be proud of him, but
instead he is hurt that they view him an enemy of Israel and enemy of God.
We Hold These Truths has written since 2001 about the need to change Judeo-Christians for
their own sake as well as for those of us who are in Jim’s and your shoes. Judeo-Christianity is antiChristian and those who fall for it will support the gamut of every kind of practice by the Zionists who
control Israel, from mass assassination, land occupation, and government sponsored abortion.
Many Israelis and American Jews who can see the evil of supporting an ongoing killing
machine oppose the Zionist agenda. We can recommend many anti-Zionist Jews who act like they are
every bit as dedicated to their cause, not based on Jesus’ words, but based on simple common sense
and the undeniable record of Israeli brutality.
But Judeo-Christians cannot see the evil in Israel because they must not look. What they do see
they justify, based on Old Testament statements of the sovereignty of God to do as He wills. They assert
that it is God’s will to destroy anyone in Palestine who gets in the way of Jewish Israel. So Jim
Tourney’s daughters reject him because they think what Israel did to those on the USS Liberty was God’s
will, and they think Dad should accept it!
We Hold These Truths has explained why and how this movement was started, what keeps it
going, and how it has, in effect, written a new “bible” to justify its existence and Israel’s acts, and how
to refute its error most effectively. Scripture cannot support Christian Zionism and this is its Achilles
Heel; they do not debate; instead, they harangue.
AN has also asked a different question. “How do I reconcile my complete frustration with their
refusal to see the error in their interpretation of the Bible and current events?”
a) We start with a statement of encouragement. Christian Zionism is a lie that will have its
“end time” as all lies do. The lie that led to the Crusades lasted 200 years but it did die. And this
author cannot help but feel God will judge those who ignore His words. Theirs is an offense to God
made oblivious by willful men who mislead them.
Judeo Christianity is a prosperity sect like the one Jesus opposed. Following Christ limits the
time for computing wealth beyond what one needs to live. Christian Zionism is, and always has been, a
lie that is unsustainable.
b) We recommend you need to test your own faith to see to it that you are following Jesus
Christ on the narrow path. Study the New Testament without interpretations or study guides from
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anyone. We suggest you read alternately one Gospel (Matthew through John) and one book of the
Apostle Paul, starting with the book of Galatians.
c) Look for a church to attend that does not believe and teach that the State of Israel is
ordained by God. Eastern “Orthodox” churches, such as Armenian or Greek, are usually traditional
and do not believe God ordained political Israel. You will not find the “warm fuzzies” that attracts
millions to Christian Zionist mega-churches, but you will also not have to contend with the error of
Christian Zionism.
Similarly, some mainline churches are already recognizing the need to confront Judeo
Christians churches based on false theology. The test is to ask the Pastor if they believe Israel is the
fulfillment of Biblical prophesies.
The National Council of Churches, which has 110,000 member churches, has just announced an
excellent program to expose their evangelical brothers’ errors about Palestine.
d) Take your frustration out on the leaders of Judeo-Christian Churches by arranging quiet vigil
interventions once a month at one. Jesus confronted error. Paul challenged apostasy. Project Strait
Gate takes the frustration out of the equation by doing the same
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Christian Zionist's End Times: Election Reveals Cracks In Logic
Charles E. Carlson Nov 05, 2008
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2670
The 2008 election demonstrated the single mindedness of the Christian-Zionist voting block;
this time in a losing effort. They were the biggest group of supporters for John McCain, who received
over 62 million votes. The Pew Research Center estimated in advance that some 26 million “white
evangelicals,” members of Judeo-Christian Churches (like the one to which Sarah Palin belongs to) would
vote. They did!
When the smoke cleared Pew told us about 73% of the "evangelicals/born again" voted for
McCain and 26% for Obama. All other religious groups divided more evenly except Jews and Muslims.
Surprisingly 78% of Jewish voters picked Obama; "other faiths" including Muslim, went 73% for
Obama. Thus Christian Zionists voted 180 degrees from both the ethnic group they claim to love, and
the one they love to fear.
Most "Born Again Christians," as the Pew Exit Poll identifies them, qualify as Christian
Zionists by We Hold These Truth’s test, but they would prefer to be called, evangelicals,
dispensationlists, Judeo-Christians, or even "the Christian Right."
Unfortunately, their unity of purpose is confused about, and is not centered on Jesus'
words; Jesus has to defer to the needs and desires of Israel. Because they enthrone Israel, JudeoChristians have an endemic capacity to be misled on political issues, including war.
For instance they oppose abortion of unborn children, but never discuss or observe the
violent killing of Arab children in a war zone, nor do they object to Israel's massive state sponsored
abortion program. We have clearly explained their logic in a new DVD called The Roots of Christian
Zionism.
In spite of the “Obama landslide Christian remain the largest and most powerful single voting
faction, and the most easily manipulated one.
We think evangelicals want to be the first to share Jesus' values of loving your brother and
not killing his children. They did until they were shaped by Oxford University's Scofield Reference Bible,
and influence by world Zionist lobbies, such as AIPAC and Unity Coalition for Israel. They voted for
McCain/Palin for religious reasons, but in a significanlty lower percentage that voted for G. W. Bush four
years ago ( 82%).
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Judeo-Christians may have been the only group in America to take seriously the rumors that
Obama is a Muslim. Churches organized pre-election prayer sessions fearfully asking God to deliver
America from Obama; some referred to him as “anti-Christ."
Now deceased Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University gave its 10,000 students election-day off to
work the polls for McCain/Palin.
Obviously, Jewish voters thought otherwise voted overwhelmingly for Obama. It seems 26
million Judeo-Christians are out of touch with the 2 million Jewish voters. Perhaps, the latter are
not so anxious for Armageddon!
World Zionism and its Neo-Con think-tanks have switched tactics of promoting fear of
terrorism, as with Day911, to a new paradigm… fear and distrust of all Muslims, including the
neighbor and his children. Christian Zionists are the most susceptible to this phobia, perhaps thinking
McCain would protect them from the 1.5% or less, Muslim neighbors.
Tough guy, anti-Arab talk has become acceptable among Judeo-Christians, and is epidemic
on national network talk radio. Comments like “Nuke-em all” or “Turn it to Glass” or worse, are
commonplace. Film editor Tom Compton quips that his fellow churchmen are “my bloodthirsty
brothers in Christ.'
Christian Zionist leaders and neo-conservative think-tanks have spewed "islamophobia" on
“conservative” talk radio, and internet sites that cater to born-again listeners. Some radio celebrities
could be arrested for their inflammatory words, had hate crimes legislation not been repeatedly
rejected by Congress.
Neo-Conservatives who wrote The Project for the New American Century, calling for war in
Iraq, and international banking interests will pressure Obama to continue and even escalate warring
sanctions and occupations of Islamic states.
Jewish voters knew what they were doing when they voted for Obama, and Muslims may
have been grasping at straws. Both these are small groups compared to the many millions of Christian
Zionists who voted against Obama in fear.
No matter what Obama’s intent, we must not forget that he is a politician. And whatever is
inside him will be pressed hard to be sublimated to the Neo-Conservatives. A key was his choice of Chief
of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is a Zionist to the core.
The Judeo-Christians remain the only political faction driven directly by religious beliefs that
war and the support of the state of Israel is right, that distrust, even hatred, of Israel’s perceived
enemy Islam.
They ignore and refuse to discuss this question: Does killing of Arabs stand in the way
of one's hope for Heaven? Christian Zionists will change when they recognize that anti-Islam, or anti
any race, excludes following Christ, and is murder.
Laymen members need to walk out of Zionist churches in mass. Those who teach an antiscriptural, false faith will then collapse of their own error. Americans can only then reclaim their
heritage of a moral, Christian influenced government.
Well-meaning church members can be influenced by patience and logical challenge of Judeo
Christians teachings. The apostle Paul spoke of "reproving them" in his letter to the Ephesians. We
must not do less.
If we are to recover our influence over our own government we need help, and to whom shall
we turn? The answer remains in the moral church-going millions. Mainline and orthodox churches are
usually not Judeo-Christians and there are over 150,000 such traditional church congregations, but
they have been asleep at the switch.
With their help we could empirically re-educate many of the 70 million influenced by Christian
Zionism. Together we could actually influence what our government does.
Let us look to a future where the swing vote is not from a group with apocalyptic dreams of yet
another war to usher in mystic Armageddon. Come, be a part of it!
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Voting Religiously By Pew Research: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1022/exit-pollanalysis-religion
The Best Chance for Peace in the Land of the Philistines
Charles E Carlson Apr 26, 2009
WHTT & Straight Gate Ministries http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=3027
Hamas is the only qualified government, and that the United States and Israel must allow it to
negotiate. Instead, the negotiating has been done by the Palestinian Authority (formerly the Palestinian
Liberation Organization), which the people rejected two years ago in a free election. Corruption has
been exposed at the very top of the PA, just as it was in Yasser Arafat’s PLO, a blow to the PA, and
affirmation for Hamas.
Israel's reputation for honesty in office is worse. A Google search on the words “Israel
corruption” turns up no less than 688 articles containing the exact phrase. A broader search reveals
thousands of articles in Israeli publications about graft and criminal acts at the top of every
administration in Israel’s history.
From its very beginning, the Likud has a history of constant wars on its neighbors, and it has
campaigned on more war. Israel’s wars have destroyed two smaller, more helpless neighbors--Lebanon
and Gaza--in as many years; occupation and division have destroyed the West Bank. The 2009 coalition
government’s Avigdor Lieberman publicly boasted that the US Government will do anything Israel
wants it to do. He wants to bomb Iran tomorrow.
Americans are constantly reminded that the Palestinian Authority leaders are well-meaning but
bumbling drones who don’t cause much trouble and are ready to compromise for peace; Mahmoud
Abbas seems to be just such a drone…dull, pliable but honest. But we are learning that Mr. Abbas is a
profiteer, like his predecessor, Yassar Arafat.
Organizations change.
It is also well known that PLO leaders were at times protected by the USA government. The
Philistines only supported the PLO as long as there was no one else. It is natural they would turn to
Hamas because the PLO had a long history of losing ground every year while its leaders became more
wealthy.
We Hold These Truths listened to Jimmy Carter when he said the election that brought Hamas
to power in 2007 was legitimate and represented the will of the people.
His team had talked to the voters. Carter said democracy demands that the world recognize
Hamas and let the people work out their own problems. Carter stood for self-determination--a
decidedly American principle.
What more can a government do than help its citizen feed and care for themselves under
impossible conditions? For their life-saving efforts, many Hamas leaders and their families have been
systematically hunted and killed by Israelis.
Recent developments:
Yasser Abbas has emerged from nowhere as the wealthy 46 year old Canadian son of
Mahmoud Abbas. Mahmoud was a long-time assistant to former PLO President Yasser Arafat and
named his son after his boss. The son did right well, making millions with various enterprises operated
in his father's jurisdictions.
Yasser not only admits to complicity with the hated Israelis, but according to The Jerusalem
Post, “one of his smaller companies, Falcon Tobacco, has a monopoly over marketing US-made
cigarettes like Kent and Lucky in the West Bank and Gaza Strip…” Think of it, 1.5 million Gazans are
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locked inside a canary cage with food coming in through tunnels, and Abbas' son enjoys a franchise to
sell them American cigarettes.
Yasser's interview with The Jerusalem Post tells much about how the Palestinian Authority
deals secretly with Israel. Yasser is proud of it and sees nothing wrong. Asked if he was doing business
with Israelis, Yasser replied: "How can you get merchandise into the Gaza Strip if the Israeli and
Palestinian ministers of economy don't talk to each other? …Most Palestinians collaborate with Israel,
while the rest live on the rain."
"The Ramallah-based Abbas government has been propped up by the United States and Israel
since the PA's first democratic election in 2006, in which the Hamas terrorist organization won almost
twice the number of parliamentary seats as Fatah. Both Israel and the United States rejected the
election results, and instituted Fatah leader Abbas as PA "President," calling him a "moderate"
alternative to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and political bureau chief, Khaled Mashaal, who is
based in Damascus...
Israel has also thwarted several assassination attempts on Abbas by providing intelligence to
Ramallah-based PA officials before the attempts could take place."
While the Gazans "live on rain" deprived of the simplest necessities such as rice and beans that
must be smuggled in through tunnels, the PA president’s son can get American cigarettes in by dealing
with the hated Yahood, who just killed 1400 Gazans with American-made weapons of mass
destruction. Gazans with cash can get Lucky cigarettes to corrupt their lungs and to fatten the wallet
of Abbas’ son, but Israelis will not allow baby formula or drugs in. No wonder the Gazans respect
Hamas and despise Abbas’ Palestine Authority.
"The Lie That Justifies Mass Murder" provides the background for this one, and details Hamas'
enormous and seemingly impossible accomplishment in keeping most Gazans alive while blockaded for
two years.
As a practical matter, Israel cannot kill all three or four million Philistines, although it has
been officially considered. And, Likud politicians will do it if they can....
Israel’s objective, instead, is to eliminate Hamas, so they can once again control the Philistines, as they
have in the past, by controlling its leaders... Israel, with the help of the USA, trained Yasser Arafat to be
its kind of Arab leader and helped him to become a billionaire...
The PLO’s role was that of a controlled terrorist…controlled in that it made lots of press, but never
really gained any constructive ground for the Philistines...
Hamas is the lawfully elected government of Gaza and the West Bank as well...
Israeli and American officials lie about Hamas routinely, it’s strictly business to lie, and they are
not ashamed when they are caught...
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