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January 18, 2015

'What are you doing to my Jews?'

By Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison

That was the querulous question Winston Churchill barked at Colonial Secretary George Lloyd in the depths of World War II. It would be hard to imagine any other statesman asking such a question, speaking so paternally of the Jewish people. But weighed down with the burdens of fighting Hitler and the Japanese, Churchill nonetheless took time to bitterly accost his own cabinet member and upbraid him for trying to block immigration of desperate Jews into Palestine, then a British Mandate.

We certainly cannot imagine even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking such a question. Netanyahu recently flew, uninvited and not entirely welcome, to Paris. There, he exchanged brief frosty words with France’s Socialist president, François Hollande. They met outside the Grand Synagogue. Netanyahu was surely aware that even before the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo’s editorial offices and the kosher market, France’s climate of anti-Semitism had led 7,000 Jews to make Aliyah and seek refuge in Israel.

Had Netayahu confronted Hollande, asking Churchill’s famous question, Hollande might have replied: “We give French Jews the same protections we give every Frenchman. We forbid them to carry weapons and if they are attacked by a military-style SWAT team of terrorists, we send in unarmed policemen on bicycles.”

We certainly cannot imagine a U.S. statesman like Henry Kissinger asking such a question of the Soviet Communist bosses in the 1970s. They were oppressing the Jews of the USSR, but Kissinger loudly opposed the Jackson-Vanik Amendment that tied U.S.-Soviet trade to the Kremlin’s willingness to let persecuted Russian Jews escape to Israel.

Kissinger apparently never heard of Benjamin Disraeli’s dictum -- a watchword that Churchill repeated regularly: “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.”

We know what President Obama thinks of Benjamin Netanyahu. When then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy complained to our chief that he could not stand the Israeli prime minister, Obama sympathized, saying: “I have to deal with him every day.”

And how does our president deal with Israel every day? If French Jews and Ukrainian Jews leave their beloved home countries because of anti-Semitism, they flood into Israel, the haven of the Jewish people. There, they build apartments in East Jerusalem and settle into towns in Judea and Samaria, on the West Bank of the Jordan. These are historically Jewish areas.

But President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary Hillary Clinton, and current placeholder John Kerry have all denounced the Jewish settlements in Israel. They demand that Israel give up more territory to the PLO, those inventors of airline hijacking for terror purposes. In return for yielding more territory to their sworn enemies, the Israelis are going to get peace, or so the Obama administration assures us.

Just like they got peace for evacuating Gaza, for leaving South Lebanon, and for yielding up control of Bethlehem and Jericho. What they got is thousands of rockets launched against them and a constant drumbeat of incitement of young Arabs to kill all Jews.

President Obama presides over the most anti-Israel administration in U.S. history. While blocking sanctions against nuclear-chasing Iranian mullahs, his administration even toyed with sanctions against Israel. Only a bipartisan howl of outrage on Capitol Hill stayed Mr. Obama’s hand. (“I have to deal with him every day!”)

We suggest Mr. Obama emulate his model in Peace Prizing diplomacy, Jimmy Carter. We suggest he take some time to go up on the mountain at Camp David. But he should not bring his entire cabinet and then decide to fire the lot of them, as the flummoxed Carter did.

Instead, we respectfully suggest the president go by himself to Camp David to reflect and pray. He might consider his own place in history. He might contemplate Disraeli’s wise words: “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.”

And -- who knows? -- he just might hear that still small voice asking him: “What are you doing to my Jews?”

Monday, January 19, 2015

Wrong is Wrong

If God says something is wrong it is wrong. He said multiple times in His word that it is wrong for his chosen people, the Israelites, to mistreat strangers in their land.

It is astonishing and sickening to read the comments to articles like the one I posted below. There is a popular wave of hatred being nurtured against these refugees by Israelis. Without even bothering to deny that what they are doing is wrong, most of the comments simply dehumanize these people and justify the cruelty Any defender of these poor humans is immediately shouted down as, "Leftist, anti Israel etc."

Satan must be sitting back and roaring with laughter.....because the God of Israel will judge His chosen people for this, and judge them harshly.

This is wrong. I don't care how you idiots justify it, your God doesn't agree.

(For the record, the Eritreans and Sudanese are refugees.)

ref·u·gee

noun \ˌre-fyu̇-ˈjē, ˈre-fyu̇-ˌ\

: someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or for religious or political reasons

For Israel’s migrants, a hell frozen over

The open detention center at Holot houses more than 2,000 African migrants; to activists and residents, it’s a blight on the country’s democracy

By Debra Kamin January 19, 2015, 3:27 am 42

The Holot Detention Facility in early January. (photo credit: Anwar Suliman)

The view on the road from Tel Aviv to the Holot Open Detention center turns to sand very quickly. Hills of beige and gold, dotted with black stubble and slanting acacia trees, roll by each side of Route 211, which snakes southwest from Beersheba and cuts a course toward Israel’s border with the Sinai desert.

At the end of that road, in what feels like the most middle-of-nowhere place in the small country, Mutasim Ali waits for his friends.

Ali, 28, is one of the most famous faces at Holot, the so-called “open prison” built in 2011 as an alternative solution to the Saharonim Prison, where thousands of African asylum seekers have been held after crossing illegally into Israel on foot. Ali himself did his time in Saharonim, staying at that facility for one month in 2010 after fleeing his war-torn home of Darfur, Sudan and arriving in Israel.

And like so many of the 2,200 Sudanese and Eritrean men who now live at Holot, Ali was quickly released from Saharonim, given a bus ticket to south Tel Aviv, and left alone to start a life here in Israel.

Mutasim Ali stands in front of an electrical box at Holot, on which detainees have scrawled, “UN We Need Freedom.” (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

For several years, as both Sudan and Eritrea choked on their own blood and African migrants began trekking on foot toward Israel from the Horn of Africa and the Nile Valley, this was the government’s unofficial policy: Let the migrants enter, detain them briefly, and then bus them to Tel Aviv or Beersheva with a temporary visa that required four renewals a year and forbade them to work or go to school.

Ali received his summons eight months ago, and now lives here, amid the spiky shrubbery and the floating piles of trash and the spires of barbed wire that jut against the desert sky.

In South Tel Aviv, though, Ali learned Hebrew. He polished his already-impressive English. He began working with the African Refugee Development Center, a Tel Aviv nonprofit that helps African refugees in Israel, and soon he became the organization’s director.

In 2013, however, Israel began re-detaining many of its thousands of African migrants, citing a new anti-infiltration law, which has undergone four additional amendments in the past two years. One after another, as migrants who had settled in Israel went to the Ministry of Interior to renew their three-month residency permits, they found themselves slapped with a summons to report to Holot. Ali received his summons eight months ago, and now lives here, amid the spiky shrubbery and the floating piles of trash and the spires of barbed wire that jut against the desert sky.

Holot is a so-called open facility, meaning its residents are free to leave after 6 a.m. each day, but must be back and signed in at the facility by 10 p.m. each night. But to the hundreds of residents – all of them African men over the age of 18, the vast majority with asylum petitions that have gone ignored by the Israeli government – the open gates are nothing but a red herring.

Elliot Glassenberg, far left, stands with refugees and activists at the entrance to Holot, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

They are so far out in the middle of nowhere, they say, that they can’t ever really leave and get back in time for curfew. There is no medical care here, they say. No education, either. They can’t bring in produce or dairy from the outside, but the food, they say, is both sparse and inedible. Many men complain of food poisoning.

And at night in these winter months, they add, the temperature sometimes hovers near freezing. (After a series of reports earlier this month that residents were having their private space heaters confiscated, the Israeli government ruled that every room in Holot would be outfitted with a heater/air conditioning unit in the next seven days).

Detainees at Holot Detention Center, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. (photo credit: Nehama Shimnovic)

Ali agrees that the food is often inedible, that promises of education and teachers have never been fulfilled, and that the facility’s one doctor is ill-equipped to handle the medical cases of 2,200 migrant men. But he is not surprised by any of it, he says.

“There is one reason that they do all of this to us,” he says. “They want to make it very difficult here [in Israel], so that people will want to return [to Africa].”

Zacki Mohammed Abdullah, 26, tells his story about living at Holot. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

There are currently about 47,000 African migrants living in Israel, the vast majority of whom claim to be asylum seekers. More than 90 percent of them come from Eritrea, Sudan and the Congo, but Israel has recognized fewer than 1 percent of asylum claims, and since 2009, less than 0.15 percent — the lowest rate in the Western world.

“There is one reason that they do all of this to us. They want to make it very difficult here, so that people will want to return.”

International law embraces a non-refoulment policy, which forbids expelling people who have fled war or genocide back to the country that they came from. Ali and his fellow migrants, as well as the busload of volunteers and activists who visited them on Saturday, believe that Israel is trying instead to make the migrants miserable enough to want to go home by their own free will.

Detractors say that crime and vandalism has skyrocketed in south Tel Aviv as the area has been flooded with migrants. They point out that the vast majority of Africans pleading for asylum are men between 18 and 35 years of age – the exact profile of economic migrants, not political ones. The UNHCR has said that the traffic of Africans toward Israel is a mixed migration, meaning it is stemming from both economic motives and the need to flee political oppression.

The entrance to Holot. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

To the activists who work in south Tel Aviv and make regular visits to Holot, however, those claims are irrelevant. Nothing, they say, justifies herding several thousand men into a penitentiary without a trial or accusation of a crime.

“Holot should not exist. Holot should be closed. People should not be put in incarceration without trial, in a democratic country, or in any country,” says Elliott Glassenberg, one of the activists who organized Saturday’s solidarity ride down to the facility. “People who have suffered trauma, who came to this country and have requested asylum, should not, by a moral or legal standpoint, be incarcerated.”

When we pull up at Holot, around noon, it is sunny but cool. The migrants who greet us are in coats and hats, and several have scarves pulled up around their faces. Three hours later, however, with several hours of daylight still ahead of us, the wind turns sharply cold. It’s clear that winter nights in this place are decidedly bitter.

Detainees at the entrance to Holot. (photo credit: Nehama Shimnovic)

Nearly all of the migrants tell the same story – death and genocide turning their homelands to smoke, decisions of either staying and dying or fleeing and risking their fate, and a journey of many, many miles by foot. Most arrived in Egypt and soon realized that that nation’s government, which is allied with Sudan, was never going to welcome them. So they continued walking, and after three days, came to the border with Israel, where the military welcomed them and promised them safety.

“We chose to cross to Israel because Israel is a democratic country. We thought, they will protect us and give us rights,” says Zacki Mohammed Abdullah, a burly 26-year-old whose starched white shirt is blindingly bright against his inky skin.

For Glassenberg, Israel should, as the Jewish state, be leading the world in its treatment of those who seek asylum within in its borders.

Two detainees at Holot, Adil and Tashome, tell their stories. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

“You shall love the stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt,” he says, quoting Exodus. “To me this is the essence of what it means to be a Jew. To know what it’s like to be oppressed and to fight against marginalization and oppression anywhere.”

“We chose to cross to Israel because Israel is a democratic country. We thought, they will protect us and give us rights.”

In late 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that Holot was violating basic human rights laws and would be closed by December 26. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Interior Ministry then scrambled to make Israel’s anti-infiltration law, overturning the closure ruling by passing an amendment that allows for illegal immigrants to be detained for 20 months with no trial.

Holot, for the time being, remains open.

“We are not the enemy. We open our hearts to the Israeli people. We want to make ourselves and our lives better,” Abdullah says. “No one wants to be a refugee, but this life picked us.”

Op-Ed: The West Cannot Win this War

The West doesn't want to make the changes that will allow it to win

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Published: Monday, January 19, 2015 12:50 AM

Giulio Meotti

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Take another look at the video filmed under the Charlie Hebdo’s building, the black car of the terrorists who had no fear of death and are advancing by shooting, while the white car of the policemen is forced to retreat.
We are capitulating.
The West cannot win this war. Take the last French mass rally with dozens of heads of states from around the world: it was a silent march, a mute show where nobody took the podium. As if these people didn’t know what to say. As if these Western leaders didn’t really believe in what they were doing in Paris.
A few days ago, Martin Wolf in the British daily Financial Times gave voice to the deep estrangement of Europe’s élite. He suggested using massive doses of multicultural recognition of equality between different cultures in order to combat Islamism. Mr. Wolf is implicitly saying that we must surrender, that we cannot win, that we have to contain terror and finally find a way to coexist with it.
The French horror doesn’t lie in the killings per se. A few hours later, in Nigeria, Boko Haram destroyed many villages and burned hundreds of people to death. Europe’s horror lies in the fact that the terrorists came from the heart of the continent. The Chouaci’s brothers, the British bombers and Theo Van Gogh’s killer didn’t came from Raqqa, in Syria, or Al Qaeda in Yemen. No, they were born and raised in European democracies.
Europe gave everything to these terrorists: schools, education, entartainment, sexual pleasures, salaries and freedom. The French terrorists rejected the French values of liberté, egalité and fraternité; the British suicide bombers rejected British multiculturalism, while Dutch terrorist Mohammed Bouyeri, who slaughtered the film maker in Amsterdam, rejected the Dutch mute values of moral indifference.
A few days ago, I was talking with Flemming Rose, the Danish journalist who first published the cartoons in 2006 and now lives protected by the police. He told me the shocking truth nobody wants to hear:
“I am pretty pessimistic about the future of free speech, though I am delighted that so many people came out to support Charlie Hebdo”, Rose told me. “I knew several of the cartoonists who were killed, and I was a witness in a criminal case against CH in 2007. My fear is that this support will not translate into real decisions and changed behavior when we get back to our day-to-day life. We have seen that before. Madrid 2004, Theo van Gogh 2004, London 2005, Kurt Westergaard 2008 and 2010 (one planned attack and another real attack in which he was nearly killed). Every time lots of support and solidarity with the victims, but very little has changed in reality, quite to the contrary, apart from CH no European newspapers have dared to publish Mohammed cartoons since 2008”.

They speak theology, we reply with logic. They use bullets, we march in the streets.

Charlie Hebdo’s journalists were brave people, defiant, but if they are the Western heroes, we have already lost. “Charb” and the other cartoonists didn’t believe in anything.
A few years ago, at my newspaper in Italy. I suggested we publish a letter that Mohammed Bouyeri released from his Dutch prison. Bouyeri says he does not feel remorse for what he did. The tone of the letter is marked by a kind of puerile candor. Bouyeri never mentions Van Gogh, but he makes it clear that he has fulfilled a religious duty by killing him.
The West cannot win this war. The price it would have to pay is the loss of European values: reducing the civil rights of many people, deporting them, declaring a war of values, sending boots on the ground in the Middle East, imposing Western civilization on them. Europe will never do that. Europe itself doesn’t believe in these values anymore. This is also one of the reason why Europe hates Israeli Jews who daily confront evil and fight it, so deeply.
The terrorists of Charlie Hebdo talk a religious language and use terms like honor, faith, prophet and loyalty, while the West replies to them with words such as freedom, democracy, rights, respect and tolerance. They speak theology, we reply with logic. They use bullets, we march in the streets.
It is a sad joke. The truth is that people in the West are relieved that they don’t have to fight, that we are surrendering, that life goes on as usual. Hurray, we are capitulating!

Friday, January 9, 2015

A eulogy to an inspiration, Joan Peters

Joan was best known for her landmark book: "From Time Immemorial,” published in 1984, which caused unprecedented heartache to detractors of Israel.

A man with an UNRWA flag in the southern Gaza Strip.. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Joan Peters died Monday night at her home in Chicago.

Her funeral will be on Thursday, January 8 at 10 AM at Anshe Emet, 3751 N. Broadway, in Chicago.

Joan was best known for her landmark book: "From Time Immemorial,” published in 1984, which caused unprecedented heartache to detractors of Israel.

Joan's book was the first academic study published in the modern era which documented how the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, perpetuates the refugee status of Arabs who were displaced, or left voluntarily, during the War of Independence.

Today, as Joan predicted would happen, UNRWA has become an integral part of efforts to undermine Israel's standing in the eyes of the world and in its own eyes.

A 1984 review of Joan's book by Dr. Daniel Pipes analyzes the strength of her research:

"Making use of work done by Kemal Karpat in the Ottoman records, Miss Peters ascertains the non-Jewish population in 1893 of the area that would later form Palestine under the British Mandate. She then divides this area into three parts: one without Jewish settlement, one with light Jewish settlement, and one with heavy Jewish settlement. She compares the non-Jewish population of each of these parts in 1893 and 1947, on the eve of Israel's independence. In the area of no Jewish settlement, the non-Jewish population stood in 1893 at 337,200; in 1947 it was 730,000, a growth of 116 percent. In the area of light Jewish settlement, the non-Jewish population grew in the same period from 38,900 to 110,900 or 185 percent. Finally, in the area of heavy Jewish settlement, the non-Jewish population grew from 92,300 in 1893 to 462,000 in 1947—or 401 percent. From these figures Miss Peters concludes that "the Arab population appears to have increased in direct proportion to the Jewish presence."

Only a year after the publication of "From Time Immemorial”, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution in December 1985 that rejected all efforts to require UNRWA to help Arab refugees engage in a process of resettlement and rehabilitation.

Joan Peters had written at the time that Mordecai Ben Porat, a minister in the Israeli government was asked by Israeli Prime Minister Begin to research ways to settle the Palestinian Arab refugees in humanitarian conditions. However, Ben Porat was indeed thwarted in his efforts by the UN resolution preventing their move to new quarters, as explained above and concluded in Ben Porat’s book, Will there Always Be Refugees, often cited by Peters: “Preservation of the image of miserable, homeless, and penniless refugees has … ruled out any possibility of dealing with the issues … the funds initially intended to erase the refugee problem have become a powerful instrument intent on preserving this very problem.”.

In an interview published in November, 2014 in the Sovereignty magazine, published in Jerusalem, Peters updated her scathing analysis of UNRWA

"UNRWA has been perpetrating fraud against the Jewish nation and against the world since they became the only 'refugee' organ solely dedicated to one group of the world's refugees. The Arab refugees, who really ran or were displaced during Israel's War of Independence, were a small group when compared to the world's hundreds of millions displaced during wars and strife. The Arabs were also a much smaller actual number than the Jewish Arab-born refugees forced to flee from Arab countries. But the Arabs were counted over and over, going back and forth from the refugee camps. As American congressmen have attested, fraud was committed constantly, aided by the almost totally Arab staff in the UNRWA employ",

Now for a personal word.

Joan's work inspired a metamorphosis in my career, as a social worker and as a journalist.

27 years of professional devotion to UNRWA reform emanated from the inspiration that I received from Joan Peters, whom I interviewed in 1987.

Joan Peters should be credited in her passing as the pioneer who generated concern over the fact that a bona fide agency of the UNITED NATIONS - UNRWA - actually preserves the indignity of Arabs confined to refugee conditions for 66 years under the specious premise of the "right of return" to Arab villages that existed before 1948.

Many years ago, when Joan Peters was staying at the King David Hotel, I took my children to express appreciation to her for her courage.

My I express that appreciation now to Joan Peters, as she is laid to rest.

The author is the Director of the Israel Resource News Agency at the Center for Near East Policy Research.

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Refuting The Antisemitic Lie Of Replacement Theology

Geri Ungurean | December 28, 2014 | 86 Comments

by NTEB Feature Story Contributor Geri Ungurean

Most of us have heard of the false teaching called Replacement Theology

“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.” Romans 11:25

This article is for those who either have never heard of it, or have had this preached to them Sunday after Sunday and just figured that it was biblical. I’m here to tell you – It’s a lie from the pit of hell.
Replacement Theology (RT), has been around for centuries. The term used by theologians is supersessionism. The church supersedes Israel. Theologians have cited the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD as proof that God was finished with the Jewish people.

There are two main schools of thought regarding RT:
Israel’s role as God’s Chosen was completed once Jesus came to earth (economic supersessionism). Because of her disobedience, Israel forfeited her role as Chosen of God because of her rejection of Jesus as Messiah (punitive supersessionism). Punitive supersessionism was clearly articulated by Martin Luther in his sermon: “On the Jews and Their Lies.”

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Have Christians Replaced The Jews As God’s Chosen People?

For such ruthless wrath of God is sufficient evidence that they [i.e., the Jewish people] assuredly have erred and gone astray. Even a child can comprehend this. For one dare not regard God as so cruel that he would punish his own people so long, so terrible, so unmercifully … Therefore this work of wrath is proof that the Jews, surely rejected by God, are no longer his people, and neither is he any longer their God. (“On the Jews and Their Lies,” Trans. Martin H. Bertram, in Luther’s Works [Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971], p. 265).

How could a man used of God as was Martin Luther come to such a conclusion about the Jews? It is written that later in his life, Luther was convinced that he was called of God to save the Jews. When his efforts failed, he became enraged. In one night, in response to his anti-Semitic sermon, synagogues were burned to the ground and over 2000 Jews were slaughtered. Martin Luther was used by God in a mighty way in the Great Reformation, but alas he was merely a man. His teachings about Jews had a dramatic impact on the church in Germany for many years to come. Hitler was a great fan of Luther. He carried the sermon: “On the Jews and Their Lies” to every SS meeting.

RT is closely related to Reformed or Covenant Theology, which is associated with John Calvin. If you’ve noticed that your pastor does not speak or teach on eschatology (the study of End Times) it’s most likely that the leadership of your church adhere to amillennialism. A view of eschatology which views End Times prophecy as “spiritual” instead of literal. It’s a convenient way of avoiding the promises made to Israel in the Word. Since the proponents of RT believe that the church inherited the promises made to Israel, there is no need to teach that End Times prophecy is literal. The prophecies are viewed more as allegorical.

It has always amazed me that churches who teach RT completely ignore some critically important words by the apostle Paul in Romans 11. I would HIGHLY recommend that you read all of Romans 11 (9 and 10 as well) but Romans 11 truly expresses why the Jews did not receive their Savior, and clearly shows that God is not done with His Chosen people.

I would love to print all of Romans 11, but I am placing what I consider to be the heart of this chapter:

^“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.” (Romans 11:25-32).

How could this be any clearer? God ordained that a blindness in part would happen to Israel, until all of the Gentiles who were to be saved would come into His Kingdom. It also states the gifts of and the calling of God are irrevocable.
God’s plan from the beginning was to offer salvation to the entire world. He used the Jewish people to bring His law to show His Holiness, and then through their lineage He would ultimately bring His Son to pay for all sin. What a merciful and loving God we serve!

Satan is determined to lie and deceive mankind. He uses just a little bit of truth (Scripture) and then twists it for his purposes. He knows the Word better than any one of us. His motivation for memorizing God’s Word is to seek and destroy God’s people. He started in the Garden of Eden with Eve. He tried it against Jesus in the wilderness. Jesus always fought him (and shut him down) with pure Scripture.

God made a Covenant with Israel. I’ve read articles by Bible teachers who claim that Israel relinquished the promises made by God because of their rebellion. God cannot lie. He made the promises. It has nothing to do with how good or bad Israel is. It has everything to do with God and His faithfulness.
As a student in the synagogue I attended when I was a child, the history of my people saddened me. I learned of the persecution by the Catholic Church. I learned that no matter where we went, ultimately we were placed in ghettos with locked gates. We were HATED. I would ponder in my mind why—what did we do to warrant such hatred and oppression? It wasn’t until I was born- again that I realized why. It was Satan all along. He placed hatred in the hearts of men and women for the Jews.

But I never thought that it would be this extreme. I’m shocked as I read the news and see the world flying the swastika flag all across the globe. It literally makes me sick. But I know that all things must happen according to His plan. It took the extermination of 6 million of my people to bring about the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948 – a prophecy that many proponents of RT did not expect.

Israel is Israel. The church is the church. In the Old Testament, Israel was under the Law. Jesus brought us the Covenant of Grace. We are FREE in Him.
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
(John 1:17).

“Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:8-11).

Jesus was sent to earth for one reason—to die. It was His precious blood which cleansed the repentant sinner, and made him/her righteous in the eyes of the Father. Every Jew needs to come to the Father through Jesus Christ. There is no special arrangement between the Jewish people and God.

So, if you are in a church that believes that God has cast away His people—the Jews, please understand that what is being taught is not truth. Have you noticed that most of the RT denominations are vehemently anti-Israel? Are you starting to see that Satan’s plan to destroy God’s children has worked in most of the mainline churches?

Here is a list of churches who believe the RT lie:
The Roman Catholic Church.
Baptist Church SBC (depends upon leadership)
The United Methodist Church.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.
African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Episcopal Church.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America .
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
United Church of Christ.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, Joplin, Mo.

Please understand that in each of these denominations, it is possible to have a pastor who is a true shepherd under the Great Shepherd Jesus. But these denominations are known to adhere to the RT lie.
These churches have declared their hatred for Israel and are supporting Hamas. This is exactly what the devil wants to happen. But our Lord, being omniscient, is using all of this to fulfill His prophetic Word concerning Israel.

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” (Zechariah 12:3)

I ask you this: Even if you have been in one church for years, if they are teaching a lie, would it not be the right thing to do to leave and attempt to find a gathering of brothers and sisters in Christ who believe the whole Word of God?
And a word to those seeking a place to worship:

ASK QUESTIONS. You have a right to know how leadership feels about very important issues.
Maranatha!
Shalom and blessings in Christ.

A Galilean View