tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47242966350324539342024-03-14T04:04:54.592-05:00Israel Watcher General issues with a reach into Israel and/or related to the Israeli Body of Messiah both Jew and Arab.Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-30714354741545350942019-04-02T12:20:00.002-05:002019-04-02T12:23:31.476-05:00Israel Related News You Can Trust April 2, 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://kehilanews.com/2019/03/30/approaching-israeli-elections-in-2019/">Approaching
Israeli elections in 2019</a> | Netanel R, Kehila News | As we approach the
2019 elections in Israel, many outside Israel are wondering about how elections
work in Israel and what is likely to unfold in the upcoming elections.</div>
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<a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/36344/Default.aspx">Interview:
The First Messianic Jew to Run for Knesset</a> | David Lazarus, Israel Today |
Israel's national election is just one week away. Meet the Messianic Jew who
hopes to win a seat on April 9 </div>
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<a href="https://tikkun.tv/democrats-absence-at-aipac-cause-for-concern/">Democrats’
absence at AIPAC cause for concern</a> | Ron Cantor | Speaking at the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee annual conference on Monday, Pence noted that
the Democrat Party is no longer a reliable supporter of Israel and has been
“co-opted by people who promote rank anti-Semitic rhetoric.”</div>
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year of the "March of Return" on the Gaza Strip border: Statistics of
violence</a> | Israel Foreign Ministry<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|
November 2018 saw the biggest surge in the number of rocket launches, with 460
confirmed incidents. While over 100 of those were intercepted by the IDF Iron
Dome air defense system, the rocket fire has nevertheless inflicted casualties.
The total number of border incidents since 30 March 2018 stands at 2199,
including: 1,233 rocket/mortar bomb launches | 18 incidents of gunfire from the
Gaza Strip | 94 IED incidents, where one or several explosive devices were
hurled across the security barrier | 600 Molotov cocktail incidents | 152 incidents
of arson/burning tires/hurling of various objects</div>
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<a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=27582">PA prioritizes
salaries to terrorists over medical care for Palestinians</a> | Maurice Hirsch,
Adv. and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch | PA to stop giving
Palestinians medical care in Israel which cost them $100 million a year,
because Israel cut from the PA what the PA spends on terrorists' salaries -
$138 million a year. </div>
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<a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13983/palestinians-fleeing-lebanon">Why
Palestinians are Fleeing Lebanon</a> | Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute |
International journalists based in the Middle East seem to care precious little
about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon, who, for several
decades now, have been protesting the apartheid and discrimination practiced by
an Arab country....The Arab and Western silence towards the plight of the
Palestinians in Lebanon achieves one thing alone: aggravating Palestinian
agony. Yet the only evil the Arab leaders and the international community see
is the supposed evil that they link to Israel.</div>
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<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/04/02/un-funded-social-studies-textbook-says-zionist-occupation-started-in-1856/">UN-Funded
Social Studies Textbook Says ‘Zionist Occupation Started in 1856’</a> | JNS.org
| A 2017 United Nations-funded school textbook for Arab students offers a
revisionist history of Israel as part of its goal to incite violence against
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Confirms Existence of Six Tunnels in South Lebanon</a> |Anna Ahronheim,
Jerusalem Post | Two tunnels confirmed to have crossed into Israeli territory;
U.N. head Guterres expressed “deep concern” about Hezbollah’s tunnels.</div>
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<a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-eyes-new-front-to-combat-iran-in-golan-heights/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6838e8bb8f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_01_08_41_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6838e8bb8f-46110913">U.S.
Eyes New Front to Combat Iran in Golan Heights</a> | Adam Kredo, Washington
Free Beacon | U.S. officials say recognition of territory is key to fight
against Iran terror</div>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Good-job-Grenell-585377?utm_source=inforumail&utm_campaign=editorials+1+april+2019+">Good
Job, Grenell</a> |The Jerusalem Post editorial praises the unyielding efforts
of US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, to ensure that German companies
cooperate with the US sanctions on Iran despite German government actions
actively aimed at attempting to increase business with Tehran and circumvent US
sanctions, and declares: “As the largest economy in the EU, German cooperation
with sanctions would go a long way in hindering Iran’s ability to spread its
death and destruction across the globe. Grenell should be commended for working
overtime toward that goal. And Germany should reverse its course.” </div>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Germany-refuses-to-disclose-Iranian-attempts-to-buy-nuclear-missile-technology-584512">Germany
Refuses to Disclose Iranian Attempts to Buy Nuclear, Missile Technology</a> |
Jerusalem Post | Germany is concealing important data that could establish
Iranian regime violations of the 2015 nuclear deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/03/31/ex-london-mayor-ken-livingstone-calls-accusations-of-labour-antisemitism-lies-and-smears/">Ex-London
Mayor Ken Livingstone: ‘It’s Not Antisemitic to Hate the Jews of Israel’</a> |
Algemeiner | Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone — no stranger to controversy –
has stirred outrage again, telling a meeting of supporters of far-left Labour </div>
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<a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13975/uk-unwelcome-christians">UK:
Radical Muslims Welcome, Persecuted Christians Need Not Apply</a> | Raymond
Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute | In rejecting the claim for asylum of a man who
converted from Islam to Christianity, and presumably compelling his return to
Iran, the British government is effectively sentencing him to death. At the
same time, the Home Office allowed a Pakistani cleric, Syed Muzaffar Shah
Qadri, considered so extreme that he is banned even from his native Pakistan,
to come and lecture in UK mosques.</div>
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<a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13984/christchurch-murders-accomplices">Christchurch
Murders: The Real Accomplices</a> | Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute | Two
days before the tribute to the victims and the broadcasting of the call to
prayer, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern invited an imam to read the
Koranic verses of Surah al Baqarah before the opening of a parliamentary
session. Surah al Baqarah speaks of "those who are killed in the way of
Allah" and evokes a "great punishment" for "those who
disbelieve". ...The real accomplices of Christchurch mass murderer are not
those who sounded the alarm about Muslim immigration to the West, but those in
the West who embrace this passive submission, weakness and cultural suicide and
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/after-the-new-zealand-mosque-attacks-pointing-fingers-of-blame/">After
the New Zealand mosque attacks, pointing fingers of blame</a> | Melanie
Phillips, JNS | Much of this Orwellian frenzy is part of the campaign to
silence all criticism of the Islamic world through character assassination of
its legitimate and necessary critics.</div>
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<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/03/20/sarah-halimis-lawyers-relatives-express-fury-as-prospect-of-criminal-trial-in-french-antisemitic-murder-case-again-recedes/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/">Sarah
Halimi’s Lawyers, Relatives, Express Fury as Prospect of Criminal Trial in
French Antisemitic Murder Case Again Recedes</a> | Ben Cohen, Alegmeiner |
Lawyers representing the family of the Jewish doctor murdered during a frenzied
antisemitic assault inside her Paris apartment in 2017 have expressed angry
frustration at the news that the accused killer may yet escape a criminal
trial.</div>
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<a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2019/03/20/never-forget-cairs-dirty-deeds-n2543406">Never
Forget: CAIR's Dirty Deeds</a> | Michelle Malkin, Town Hall | When unappeasable
CAIR is ascendant, our free speech rights, religious liberty and national
security are at risk.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;">The Purim
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Signs Document Officially Recognizing Israeli Control Over Golan</a> | Herb
Keinon, Jerusalem Post | "Today I am taking historic action to promote
Israel’s ability to defend itself, and really to have very powerful and very
strong national security, which they are entitled to have.”<br /><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/roncan/videos/10216966793215394/">Ron Cantor
Debunks Reports that Trump's Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty over the Golan
Heights is No Big Deal</a>.</b> Ron says WRONG<b>:
<span style="color: red;">It is a big deal that released something positive in the spiritual realm.</span></b> The
courage of President Trump's pro-Israel moves has given other nations the
courage to follow his lead. </span></div>
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Trump’s Golan Heights Gesture Won’t Derail Peace</a> | Jonathan S. Tobin,
National Review | And the clear message it sends to allies and enemies of
Israel. Since there’s no peace process worthy of the name, it’s better to stand
with our ally — and send a warning to Iran.</div>
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/reaction-to-trumps-golan-move-illustrates-the-growing-divide-over-israel/">Reaction
to Trump’s Golan move illustrates the growing divide over Israel</a> | Jonathan
S Tobin, JNS Daily Syndicate | Democrats aren’t cheering the president’s
embrace of a consensus Israeli position, while their leading presidential
contenders are boycotting AIPAC.</div>
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Secretary of State Pompeo Makes Unprecedented Visit to Western Wall in
Jerusalem</a> | Algemeiner Staff | This marked the first-ever tour of the
Jewish holy site by a top American diplomat accompanied by an Israeli official.
In the past, the US government had sought to avoid tacitly recognizing Israel’s
sovereignty over the parts of Jerusalem it took control of in the 1967 Six-Day
War.</div>
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Leadership: Time to Favor Israel <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sanctions Iran’s Nuclear Research Unit, Urges Tehran to Negotiate</a> | Reuters
and Algemeiner Staff | “The US government is taking decisive action against
actors at all levels in connection with Iran‘s Organization of Defensive
Innovation and Research (SPND) who have supported the Iranian regime’s defense
sector,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.</div>
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<a href="https://www.jta.org/2019/03/22/global/in-first-eu-states-vote-against-permanent-anti-israel-item-on-un-human-rights-council?utm_source=JTA%20Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-9720-262837">These
EU states just took an unprecedented stand for Israel at the UN Human Rights
Council</a> | by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA | In a major policy reversal by Western
members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, all its European Union
member states voted against a permanent item singling out Israel.</div>
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<a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13912/uk-bans-hezbollah">UK Bans
Hezbollah</a> | Judith Bergman, Gatestone Institute | "Hezbollah
themselves have laughed off the suggestion there is a difference. I've
carefully considered the evidence and I'm satisfied they are one and the same
with the entire organisation linked to terrorism." — UK Home Secretary
Sajid Javid.</div>
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Islamist Terrorism is Always Anti-Israel<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Chancellor Says Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism ‘Two Sides of the Same Coin’</a>
| Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner | In an address at a conference held by the
American Jewish Committee’s Transatlantic Institute on Thursday, Austrian
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said, “In today’s political climate, antisemitism and
anti-Zionism are often two sides of the same coin.”</div>
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<a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/7846/israel-designates-hamas-al-aqsa-tv-as-a-terrorist">IPT
Exclusive: Anti-Israel AMP's Inadvertent "Truth"</a> | IPT News |
"Speaking truth to power" was the theme Sunday for the American
Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Chicago chapter's fundraising dinner. At least five
AMP officials and speakers were part of a defunct network created by the Muslim
Brotherhood in America called the "Palestine Committee." It was
tasked with helping Hamas politically and financially, court records show. An
investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism also found that the AMP
carries out tasks similar to the old Palestine Committee, including
fundraising, propaganda and lobbying.</div>
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So it was little surprise that
the AMP dinner honored Marc Lamont Hill with its "Al Quds [Jerusalem]
Award." Hill warned Palestinian supporters last October against adhering
to "a civil rights tradition which romanticizes nonviolence." He also
falsely accuses Israel of poisoning Palestinian water.</div>
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Holding Secret Fundraisers With Islamic Groups Tied to Terror</a> | By Adam
Kredo, Washington Free Beacon | Democratic freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.)
has been holding a series of secret fundraisers with groups that have been tied
to the support of terrorism, appearances that have been closed to the press and
hidden from public view. </div>
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<a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/7866/the-campaign-to-make-omar-anti-semitism">The
Campaign to Make Omar's Anti-Semitism Unassailable</a> | IPT News | Two
prominent American-Islamist political activists, both avowed opponents of
Israel's existence, renewed complaints Monday that the recent controversy
involving U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's series of anti-Semitic statements was unjust.</div>
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-media-goes-to-bat-for-congressional-anti-semitism/">The
Media Goes to Bat for Congressional Antisemitism</a> | Sean Durns, JNS |
“Sunlight,” the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said
to be the best disinfectant.” However, the press is failing to provide such
light with full and honest reporting about the mainstreaming of antisemitism in
Congress. Their failure will enable the virus to spread.</div>
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<a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/7846/israel-designates-hamas-al-aqsa-tv-as-a-terrorist">Israel
Designates Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV as a Terrorist Organization</a> | IPT | Israeli
authorities revealed last month that Hamas recruiters posing as journalists
conveyed secret messages to West Bank operatives via al-Aqsa TV. According to a
recent report from the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center,
Palestinian terrorists often rely on media affiliations to communicate with
operatives and avoid being targeted by Israel during conflicts.</div>
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<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-protests-hamas-dont-want-you-to-see/">The
protests Hamas don’t want you to see</a> | Joshua S Block, Times of Israel
blogs | Gazans have spent 12 years under a tyrannical regime that spends its
vast sums on arms rather than food for its people. Those who follow events in
the Middle East are no stranger to the weekly riots on the Gaza-Israeli border,
but there are other protests going on you probably haven’t heard much about.
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Hizballah Terror Network in Syria Exposed</a> | Yaakov Lappin for IPT News | The
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced last week that it uncovered a new, covert
Hizballah terrorist network operating in southern Syria with the backing of
Iran. The announcement is an indication that the radical Shi'ite axis has not
stopped in its efforts turn Syria into a base of operations.</span></div>
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Commander: All of Israel within reach of Hezbollah's missiles</a> | Jerusalem
Post | Tehran deployed some of its warships to Bab el-Mandeb strait, which
connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.<br />
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Unloads on Pro-Iran Deal Forces in Trump Administration</a> | Adam Kredo for
Free Beacon |Top GOP lawmakers unite against bid to grant Iran reprieve from
sanctions. A debate has been raging inside the Trump administration for months
over how far it will go to sanction the Iranian regime. While President Donald
Trump has promised a "maximum pressure" campaign to choke off
Tehran's resources, the State and Treasury Departments have advocated in favor
of waivers permitting Iran to continue sensitive nuclear work as well as its
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Declares West Bank and Golan No Longer “Occupied Territories”</a> | Israel
Today | For first time ever, the US State Department's annual human rights
report doesn't call Golan and West Bank "occupied"<br />
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IDF-Hezbollah-building-terror-network-on-the-Syrian-Golan-Heights-583272">IDF:
Hezbollah head of Golan operations murdered U.S. troops in Iraq</a> (WATCH) |
Jerusalem Post | The Hezbollah terrorist organization has begun an attempt to
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</span></b><a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/omar-headlines-for-cair.php">Omar
Headlines for CAIR</a> | John Hinderaker for Powerline | The Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is, like al Qaeda and Hamas, an offshoot of
the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR masquerades as a civil rights organization, but is
actually a supporter of terrorism, as was demonstrated in the Holy Land
Foundation case, where CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator. CAIR is also viciously
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petition calls for investigation of Omar, Tlaib and CAIR</a> | Jerusalem
Post<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>| An online petition started by the
group Stop Antisemitism calls on the US attorney general William Barr and
special antisemitism envoy Elan Carr to take a deep look at the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, CAIR.</span></div>
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</span>Clash at UN: Experts Refute UN Gaza Inquiry's Findings </b>| UN Watch
briefing email |GENEVA, March 18, 2019 — In testimony this morning at the
United Nations, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a panel of military and
legal experts rejected</b> a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">report
presented by the UN Human Rights Council</b> which accuses Israeli soldiers of
alleged “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” on the Gaza border, and
calls for their arrest. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrf9i5CED35rlfDl-muhkADvI6nwZLSWd">CLICK
HERE FOR VIDEO</a>.</span></div>
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Mayor Take a Stand against Barring Israelis</a> | Alegemeiner |The mayor of
Santa Teresa Gallura, Italy, recently cancelled an international jazz festival
set to be held in August in the city after the program’s artistic director
expressed support for barring Israeli artists from participating in the event,
the blog Israellycool reported on Friday.</span></div>
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planned Israel trip explains why J Street is losing the fight with the far-left</a>
| Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS | The left-wing group’s effort to compete with
Birthright Israel represents a backhanded acknowledgement of Jewish state’s
centrality that its anti-Zionist allies abhor.</span></div>
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Red Crescent to host BDS conference</a> | By Maurice Hirsch, Adv. and Nan
Jacques Zilberdik for PMW Palestinian Media Watch | In direct breach of its
commitments, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which is a member of
the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC), is set to host a BDS conference.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Center fires its co-founder, Morris Dees |</b> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/dont-stop-with-morris-dees-former-employees-told-splc-to-clean-house-at-the-top/?utm_source=PJMCoffeeBreak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=March2019">Don't
Stop With Morris Dees: Former Employees Told SPLC to 'Clean House at the Top'</a>
| PJ Media | The SPLC Claims the U.S. Is Three Times More Hateful Than It
Actually Is ...."cares more about raising money than anything else. The
amount of money they rake in, is totally out of proportion to the work that
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unfair and inevitable</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> | by Jonathan S Tobin, JNS
| The charges against the prime minister set an unfortunate precedent in more
ways than one. Here are four takeaways
from the charges against him. First, the corruption allegations are, in fact,
highly questionable, and it’s hard to believe they can be sustained in a fair
court of law. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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decision to charge the prime minister with bribery and breach of trust may
spell trouble for the future of Israeli democracy. The criminal charges against
the prime minister lack legal substance, and they threaten both the rule of law
in Israel and the health of its democracy. Professor Alan Dershowitz said as
much in several op-eds and an open letter to Mandelblit in recent months, and
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Backwards as Israel Prepares for Elections</a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> | by
Khaled Abu Toameh , Gatestone Institute | Instead of marching Palestinians
towards democracy, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have chosen the
model of totalitarianism as a way of governing their people. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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response to explosive balloons</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> | Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem
Post | 8,000 Palestinians took part in Gaza riots. IDF aircraft struck multiple
Hamas positions in the southern Gaza Strip in response to the launching of
explosive balloons towards Israel Saturday night.</span></span><br />
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Series About Anti-Semitism on the Left</a></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 115%;"> | The Investigative Project on Terrorism | Polling shows a growing
divide within the Democratic Party when it comes to support for Israel. he
party's younger, more liberal members increasingly support the Palestinians
more than Israel, which could lead to changes in the party platform, and
perhaps, U.S. support. Three new members of Congress are amplifying that
agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Theology</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 115%;"> | Liel Leibovitz, Tablet
Magazine | Why the left is repeating Christianity’s most dangerous historical
mistakes, and why it’s very, very bad for the Jews<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Wrongfully Attacks Israel</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 115%;"> |
by Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute | Mistakes and falsehoods such as those
we encounter throughout the UCC's misnamed guide to "Promoting a Just
Peace in Palestine-Israel", each one seemingly trivial, cannot be
dismissed as the results of a moment's inattention. Much effort has gone into
the writing of this Guide, and factual errors, which take up so much of the
text, are clearly the result of conscious assumptions that have never been
checked against reputable facts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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inflammatory Facebook posts</a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> | Ron Cantor, Messiah's
Mandate | The Palestinian president’s party is under fire for incendiary posts
on its Facebook page that include drawings of Jews being murdered and praise
for terrorists who killed dozens of Israelis, including children, among other
inflammatory posts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Blasphemy Laws</span></a><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> | Judith Bergman, Gatestone
| Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now appears to be more intent on censorship than
ever. In a recent memo, written in mind-numbing, bureaucratic obfuscatese, he
described his plan to discourage "borderline content", a concept
appearing to be so meaningless as to encompass anything that Zuckerberg and
Facebook might ever want to censor..... It should, however, be of little
surprise that CAIR executives are able to wield such power over social media.</span></div>
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Esther-Like Fast After Syria Pullout Decision</a></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 115%;"> | CBN News | The fast was initiated by Succat Hallel, a 24/7 house of
prayer overlooking the Temple Mount. "There are some urgent developments
in the Middle East that are so important that we believe decisions will be made
in these next two months that could affect the destiny—the fate of millions of
people in this region and even the future of Israel," Rick Ridings,
founder of Succat Hallel, explains in a video.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/sea-of-galilee-level-rises-after-heavy-weekend-rain/">Sea
of Galilee level rises after heavy weekend rain</a> | The water level of
Israel’s main freshwater reservoir has risen by an additional 7.5 centimeters
(three inches) following this weekend’s heavy rain, the national Water
Authority said on Sunday.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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abstinence of married men roils the Hasidic sects of Gur, Slonim, and Toledot
Aharon</a></span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 115%;"> | By Benjamin Brown, Tablet
| Kedushah (holiness) was developed as a pietistic ideal for the virtuous few,
encouraging married men to limit to the minimum the frequency and modes of
sexual intercourse with their wives. Today, the Hasidic groups of Gur, Slonim,
and Toledot Aharon (Toldes Aaron) have radicalized this ideal by imposing it on
the community as a whole.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px;">Israel</span><br />
</b><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/25/kushner-on-trumps-israeli-palestinian-initiative-we-want-to-bring-peace-not-fear/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Kushner on Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian Initiative: ‘We
Want to Bring Peace, Not Fear’</span></span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px;"> | by
Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner | White House senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke
publicly on Monday for the first time on the details of the Trump
administration’s yet-to-be-unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan....<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Kushner described the plan as “very
detailed,” touching on all aspects of the conflict, including the “redrawing of
boundaries and resolving final status issues.”<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jns.org/gulf-states-offering-de-facto-recognition-of-israel/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Gulf states offering ‘de facto’ recognition of Israel</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | Yaakov Lappin, JNS.org | It is possible that both
sides are also cooperating on covert operations in Iran, according to Mideast
analysts.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Sisi-If-Jews-return-to-Egypt-well-build-synagogues-581664"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sisi: 'If Jews return to Egypt, we'll build
synagogues’<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>| Herb Keinon,
Jerusalem Post | “President Sisi spoke fondly not only of Egypt's past vibrant
Jewish community, but also said that should there be a resurgence of the Jewish
community in Egypt."<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/36020/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=*%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=4718"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Exposed: World Council of Churches Spying Against
Israel</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | David Lazarus, Israel Today
| Major global Christian organization has dramatically increased its
anti-Israel activity, and is possibly breaking the law<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Hamas-attempts-to-recruit-West-Bank-Jerusalem-residents-via-satellite-580520"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Hamas recruits terrorists from Jerusalem via satellite</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | Jerusalem Post | Hamas agents used agreed upon
codes via Al-Aqsa TV to gain the trust of those they wanted to recruit to carry
out terrorist attacks in Israel.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestinians-clash-with-police-on-Temple-Mount-amid-efforts-to-end-crisis-581137"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Palestinians clash with police on Temple Mount amid
efforts to end crisis</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | Jerusalem
Post | The Palestinians entered the site, also known as the Gate of Mercy,
despite reports that Israel and Jordan had reached understandings to end the
crisis over the area.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/36030/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=*%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=4720"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Muslims Still Trying to Keep Messiah Out of Jerusalem</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | David Lazarus, Israel Today | Muslims storm Golden
Gate area of Temple Mount; Palestinians hail it as a victory for their cause
and for Islam<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Iran-launches-large-scale-maritime-war-games-in-the-Persian-Gulf-581323"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Iran launches large-scale maritime war games in the
Persian Gulf </span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>| Jerusalem Post<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editors-Notes-The-anatomy-of-a-diplomatic-crisis-581441"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">The Anatomy of a Diplomatic Crisis</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | by Yaacov Katz, Jerusalem Post | Leaders in both
Israel and Poland will need to find a path out of this crisis in a way that
preserves Jewish history as well as Polish national pride.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/24/can-israel-defeat-hamas-without-toppling-it/?utm_content=opinion1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Can Israel Defeat Hamas Without Toppling It?</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | Yaakov Lappin, Algemeiner | Despite its radical
Islamist ideology and long-term commitment to Israel’s destruction, Hamas in
the Gaza Strip is — for now — avoiding high intensity armed conflict.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://tikkun.tv/tiny-israel-is-fourth-country-to-go-to-the-moon/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Tiny Israel is Fourth Country to go to the Moon</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | Tikkun.TV Staff | Israel became just the fourth
nation to go to the moon, joining Russia, China and of course, the United
States.</span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="color: #1f497d; margin: 0px;"><br />
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Britain/Western Europe</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13532/eu-full-orwell"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">EU: Going Full Orwell</span></span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px;"> | by Judith Bergman, GatestoneInstitute.org | The EU
has launched a comprehensive Action Plan against Disinformation — protecting
Islam.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://ukmediawatch.org/2019/02/12/guardian-falsely-accuses-israel-of-massacring-civilians-in-gaza/?fbclid=IwAR3Yd1vQAccHV-QmPNAEzajxJNk5tMtV7vOhZzUezcXZP22vVNeJyWvWPhI"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Guardian Again Falsely Accuses Israel of 'Massacring
Civilians' in Gaza</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | CAMERA Alert |
Another smear from the Guardian (British newspaper)<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/13/german-government-records-60-surge-in-violent-attacks-targeting-jews-during-2018/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">German Government Records 60% Surge in Violent Attacks
Targeting Jews During 2018</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | by Ben
Cohen, Algemeiner | In yet another dramatic sign of rising antisemitism on the
European continent, Germany’s government disclosed on Wednesday that violent
attacks...<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/19/ca-suffit-thousands-demonstrate-in-paris-and-across-france-against-surging-antisemitism/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Thousands Demonstrate in Paris and Across France
Against Surging Antisemitism</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | by Ben
Cohen, Algemeiner | More than 20,000 demonstrators filled the Place de la
Republique in Paris on Tuesday night in response to a nationwide call for...<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13762/europe-iran-legitimacy"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Europe: Trying to Legitimize Iran's Regime</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | Giulio Meotti, GatestoneInstitute.org |<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>|"The E.U. only seems to care about the
nuclear agreement and trade ties. It pretends that the regime is legitimate and
that Iranians have no alternatives to living under tyranny"<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/24/uk-newspaper-investigation-uncovers-links-between-top-corbyn-aide-and-anti-israel-terror-groups/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">UK Newspaper Investigation Uncovers Extensive Links
Between Top Corbyn Aide and Anti-Israel Terror Groups</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> | by Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner | A top aide to
controversial UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has long-standing ties to
anti-Israel terrorist groups and would likely be denied a...</span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="color: #1f497d; margin: 0px;"></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/7831/ipt-launches-two-part-series-about-anti-semitism"><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">IPT Launches Two-Part Series About
Anti-Semitism on the Left</span></span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> | The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) | Alarming two-part
series documenting the sudden rise of anti-Semitism on the left, including Democratic
Party politics, the U.S. Congress, the LGBTQ community and the progressive
Left.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jns.org/amid-fallout-with-turkey-trump-signs-legislation-blocking-transfer-of-f-35-fighter-jets/"><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Amid a fallout with Turkey, Trump
signs legislation blocking transfer of F-35 fighter jets</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> | by Jackson Richman, JNS |<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/7813/israel-hating-islamists-fundraise-off-ilhan-omar"><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Israel-hating Islamists Fundraise Off
of {US MN-Rep} Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitism</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> | IPT News <br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/while-hoaxes-make-headlines-real-attacks-on-jews-keep-happening/"><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">While hoaxes make headlines, real
attacks on Jews keep happening</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> | by Melanie Phillips, JNS | Such falsifications are
justified on the grounds that they illustrate a “broader truth.” But they are
in fact lies.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/columnist/294171/why-downplay-hate-crimes-against-jews/"><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Why The Media Downplay Hate Crimes
Against Jews</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> | Ben
Shapiro for Jewish Journal | Jews most targeted group in America<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.jns.org/new-us-envoy-on-anti-semitism-no-distinction-between-anti-zionism-and-anti-semitism/"><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">New US envoy on anti-Semitism: No
distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> | JNS.org | “I will work to
eradicate the attempted distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
There is no distinction,” said United States’ new envoy to combat
anti-Semitism.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/25/new-york-times-issues-correction-to-front-page-attack-on-netanyahu/?utm_content=blog1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/"><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">New York Times Issues Correction to
Front-Page Attack on Netanyahu</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> | by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner | The New York Times has already
issued a correction to its latest front-page attack on Israel’s prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About 150 years ago the
first and only Jew to ever serve as British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli
said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and
statistics." <br />
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At least that is who Mark Twain attributed the quote to, and who doesn't trust
Mark Twain?<br />
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If you guessed that this is part two of what I was arguing a couple of weeks
ago about the manipulated statistics reported by the ADL regarding a
"surge" in White Supremacy groups in the United States since Trump took
office, you are right. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The manipulated ADL
statistics are a false assertion that <u>must</u> be exposed especially among
people of faith. We are to know the truth and not be taken in as so many are by
"the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to
bolster weak arguments." We cannot make informed decisions in our voting
responsibilities if we have been convinced of lies based on manipulated
statistics. <br />
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I'm sure the Anti-Defamation League, like the Southern Poverty Law Center,
started out with noble motives, but today they are riding on a past reputation
that has been spoiled. ADL and SPLC are too politically biased against Republicans
and for Democrats to deliver the unvarnished facts about anti-Semitism in
America. If they were, they would be forced to reveal that the source of the
great majority of rising anti-Semitism comes from Leftist activists and much of
it is originating on college campuses across the USA.<br />
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That is why it was disturbing to me to see the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs
(headed by Naftali Bennett) publish the false statistics of the Anti-Defamation
League with the indication that there was a rise of Right Wing anti-Semitism starting
with the Trump presidency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
false assertion that has been made across the liberal American news media, and
the Israeli news media is just as Leftist leaning as their American
counterparts in bias against conservative Republican leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This seems counter-intuitive
because one would think that Israeli news media would be more interested in
seeking the facts when it comes to issues directly impacting Israeli security.
Apparently the Israeli news media are just as agenda driven as the American
news media. Perhaps it is because they want to oust Benjamin Netanyahu from
office in a guilt-by-association-to-Trump mentality. For certain the Israeli
media smacks of anti-Trumpism and do follow the lead of liberal American Jews
on that point. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is hard to see how
denigrating the pro-Israel constituency
in the United States, but rather supporting those who side with the enemies of
Israel, could ever produce good outcomes for Israelis... but that is what is
happening.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the very least the
Israeli news media needs to recognize that the ADL statistics are so skewed, it
really is a detriment to Israel's national security to make decisions based on
them. Trump is not the cause of anti-Semitism in America and is the most
pro-Israel president in my 67-year old lifetime. But fake statistics die as
hard as fake news, and the ADL statistics are fake statistics that are being
widely distributed for political agendas - not a pro-Israel agenda or even a
pro-Jew agenda, but for American Jewish Liberal Democrat political agenda. Is
that really what Israelis want?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's break it down to why the
ADL numbers are fake. First the stats are too generalized. Reporting the ADL's
report, the New York Times headline read simply: "Anti-Semitic hate crimes
are on the rise, up 57 percent in 2017 from 2016." But that statistic
covers 3 categories of incidents: vandalism, harassment, and assault.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the ADL:
"The sharp rise, reported in ADL's Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, was in
part due to a significant increase in incidents in schools and on college
campuses, which nearly doubled for the second year in a row."<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vandalism accounts for much of the
overall increase, with harassment also seeing an increase, largely due to the
series of false bomb threats made by a troubled Israeli teenager on Jewish
institutions across the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The assault
category actually saw a 47% decrease. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We know that the precursor
to assault is harassment and vandalism, which points us back to the Leftist
activist rhetoric on college campuses as the ground zero of anti-Semitic
incidents —not Trump, who by great contrast is consistently vocal on his pro-Jew
and pro-Israel sentiments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We count on our government and our media to get it right, but what happens when
their political agendas get in the way of relaying solid facts? We have to be
on our toes in a propaganda-rich environment as information-overloaded as the
world is today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How do we do that? The old
fashioned way: we have to know the source — the original source of the
information, and the reliability of the source publishing the information. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We always have to ask, does this source have
an agenda beyond providing me with facts? Usually they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's why I am devoting more focus in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arrows from Zion</i> to highlighting important
news stories from sources I consider to be reliable. <br />
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There are many individual ministry leaders that I personally count on to shed
light on the news in and about Israel. There are also Israeli <u>Messianic</u>
Jewish news platforms that are able to sift through and bring the news stories
that are most pertinent to international Christians and Messianic Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These Israeli believer sources and platforms
are what should be our Ground Zero for obtaining the news we need related
Israel, although I will also include reliable secular news stories and sources
too.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">— Donna Diorio</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-27124730815791985992019-02-06T14:22:00.001-06:002019-02-06T14:22:08.663-06:00In Another League<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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Historically considered a wise point of etiquette, the admonition to </span><span style="color: #262626; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Never
discuss politics or religion in polite company" does not seem to apply to
the times we live in. When polite runs head on into the dangers of remaining
silent, we had better start talking with others about our religion and our
politics, or so it seems to me. <br />
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That is why this week I want to put in front of you some of the things that are
being said about the upcoming election for Prime Minister in Israel by
Messianic Israelis along with some of the directions Israel's Liberal news
media are saying. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #262626;">First, </span>let me say
that I do not know who would make the best Prime Minister for Israel in the
coming season.<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am confident however that God
does know and that He will have the last say in how the vote goes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a scripture verse that says of God, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"He removes kings and establishes
them."</i> But Daniel 2:21 goes on to say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the
discerning."</i></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It seems
to me there is an invitation there <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from
God to believers</i> to be with Him in our prayer petitions to Him for the next
Prime Minister of Israel. God can do anything He wants, but what He really
wants is for us to be on the same page with Him, because when we aren't, He has
been known to give us what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wanted</i> that was in opposition to what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He wanted</i> for us. King Saul instead of
David, for example.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
believers in the United States were voting in the Israeli elections, there is
little doubt that Benjamin Netanyahu would win this election hands down. The
majority of Israel-supporting Christians are conservatives (Republicans) who
relate to Netanyahu's strong Israel-national security positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To us, Netanyahu is a Trump-like figure,
something the Israeli news media really doesn't like and writes to dispel. <br />
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For example, today in the Jerusalem Post </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Trump-shares-Netanyahus-billboard-photo-election-interference-579731?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=21-2-2018&utm_content=trump-shares-netanyahus-billboard-photo-election-interference-579731"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Did Trump
Interfere in Israel's Election by Sharing Netanyahu Instagram Post?</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> the
paper took issue with President Trump's re-tweet of the above pictured
political billboard bearing the slogan,"Netanyahu: In a different
League."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the
U.S. that will be seen as a plus among Christian Israel-supporters but the trouble
is, they are not well versed in the religious side of the coin. US Christians
don't really know the factors shared in Daniel Juster's recent article about
the political alliance Netanyahu is overly dependent on. Because of Bibi's need
for the religious parties in his government coalition, it gives power for the
religious persecution of the Israeli believing community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is something we need a real breakthrough
in of understanding among international Christians, so please read
Juster's,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://restorationfromzion.com/the-painful-rule-of-the-shas-party/?fbclid=IwAR3bbgwQUIoo93m1hzt2gMMFS0-tnZzd9Y6Yk7WcDS7d9f6jK_z_ILcjte8"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Painful Rule of the Shas Party</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There is
also misunderstanding even within the Israeli Messianic community about the
main source of rising anti-Semitism in the United States. The Israeli news
media continually stress that it originates primarily in the conservative Right
wing of US politics. Nothing could be farther than the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This misunderstanding is based on liberal
Israeli news media flat out misreporting and misrepresenting the facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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You can take that from the US liberal left Jews or from the liberal right Jews,
but know this: "Republicans now sympathize with Israel (as opposed to the
Palestinians) by a whopping 52-point margin over Democrats—79 percent to 27
percent—the greatest spread between the two parties in the last 40 years.
Republicans have never been more favorably disposed toward Israel, while for
Democrats, the opposite holds true."<br />
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Jonathan Tobin of the Jewish News Syndicate writes, </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2018/11/02/no-theres-no-trump-fueled-surge-in-anti-semitism/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">No,
there’s no Trump-fueled surge in anti-Semitism</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Tobin
cites false data by the ADL and other the false claims that Trump is
responsible for provoking revival of right-wing extremism that targets
Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Christian Family Research
Council begins to clear up some of the false narrative in </span><a href="https://www.frc.org/antisemitism"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Left-Wing Anti-Semitism: The Greatest Campus
Threat Is Ignored by the SPLC</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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Benjamin Weingarten notes in </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/israel-partisan-issue-15737.html?fbclid=IwAR3_FmzGolhcAAXhAOHu_F1io_8egUX7xesmIsB0vYcJcCtN1nptjkUY-BM"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Israel as
a Partisan issue</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> that "The Democrats have ceded the Jewish State to the GOP for
future political gain" and asks, "Could it be that liberal Democrats
have grown more Arabist, consistent with the growing anti-Zionist nature of the
progressive movement?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Aligning
with the Jewish Liberal Left in the USA who are mostly Democrats, Israeli news
media have naturally adopted the same narratives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This leaves two big problems: (1) the real roots
of rising anti-Semitism in the US goes unaddressed by Jews. (2) Israeli
Messianic Jews may not be as questioning of the narratives they read in their
own newspapers regarding <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">politics
concerning Jews and the United States</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On
Twitter I see consistent false narratives from Israeli news sources about
Trump, where American anti-semitism is originating from and our politics in
general. To be like the men of Issachar in our day, we need to develop a sense
of what subjects our news sources are trustworthy in reporting on, and what
subjects they simply are not. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israel Today</i> I noticed an article by
Tsvi Sadan titled, </span><a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/35859/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=*%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=4680"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Democracy
in Danger: A Call for Revolt</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> where he notes that "Israel's left is
becoming increasingly hysteric in its outlook, now openly calling for violent
revolt and even civil war." This is what we have been dealing with in the
United States throughout the Trump presidency, plus all the accompanying dirty
tricks of the so-called "deep state,"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the entrenched powers seeking to halt drag Trump from office by hook or
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Anyone
who follows Israeli politics is well aware that this is how the political game
is played in Israel too, which means we need to be cautious about narratives,
which are not the facts, and turn up our God-given discernment to the highest
level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our nations are so on the line
but God wants to give us understanding of our times so we can enter into
unreserved agreement with Him as to which way we should go. We can turn our
discernment into action in the voting booth - and we should!<br />
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If you remember my recent article </span><a href="https://figtreefruit-israelwatcher.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-cave-of-adullam.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Cave
of Adullam & The 3 anointings of David</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, when David fled from the
jealousy of King Saul, he was joined immediately by 400 men from the tribe of
Judah. But that wasn't the end of it because 1 Samuel 22 tells us that after
that, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Day after day men came to
help David, until he had a great army, like the army of God." <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Among
them where the men of Issachar, who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"came
to David at Ziklag, while he was still banished from the presence of Saul son
of Kish." </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I Chronicles 12:32
says of the men of Issachar, they were men <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"who
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We are like those men who came day
after day to help King David (a type of Yeshua) until he had a great army like
the army of God. We are also like those men of Issachar who came to David to
cooperate with the will of God in setting up David as their king and fighting
with him until it was done. The men of Issachar were those who were
especially<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>granted the gifts of God in </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"wisdom to the wise </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and knowledge to the
discerning</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> —</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">as are we!</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ourselves in a new light, not merely being politically opinionated like
everyone else in our nations, but being in another league of Spirit-led
understanding of the times and what Israel should do, so we may enter into full
agreement with whatever God wants to do next. - Donna Diorio<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Post Script:</i></b> After
writing this yesterday, President Trump delivered his State of the Union
message to the American people in which he could not have made a stronger
statement as to his personal commitment to the Jewish people when he concluded
the SOTU speech with a strong emphasis on honoring Holocaust survivors, a
Pittsburgh Synagogue survivor and strongly opposing anti-Semitism. See a small
portion in this <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/02/05/trump-holocaust-survivors-honored-at-state-of-the-union.html" href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/02/05/trump-holocaust-survivors-honored-at-state-of-the-union.html" target="_blank">video
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Caspari Media Review</b></i> gives a summary on Anti-Semitism articles in the
Hebrew press, one of which highlights exactly what I wrote about in my opening
commentary, <i>In Another League</i>. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Diaspora
Affairs, headed by MK Naftali Bennett got bad (false) statistics from the US
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<b>I don't know about Europe, but as far as the United
States, that conclusion is a bold faced lie, likely based on the deceptive
reporting habits of long trusted Jewish sources that are no longer credible</b>
due to falsification of statistics by the ADL, SPLC and other trackers.</span></div>
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<b> Israelis need to wake up that this is part
of the narrative battle that is being played out in the politics of the US</b>,
<b>false narratives which are repeated as factual by the Liberal news media in
Israel. </b>This is a battle for the truth and the truth in certainly that the
uptick of anti-Semitism in the USA is coming from Left-Wing activist groups,
Islamists and their adherents. Right Wing anti-Semitism is <u>factually
miniscule in comparison</u>.</span></div>
<br />Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-10341827816807615042017-10-30T13:39:00.003-05:002017-10-31T10:01:30.476-05:00The Road to Hell is Paved with Good IntentionsI found it alarming on October 24th, when I received an email from IMRA, the Independent Media Review, that the, <a href="http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=698PqXa92241045501a698PqX" target="_blank">"US Consul General Launches campaign to attract Palestinian students to United States."</a><br />
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Is this really in the realm of good intentions when Palestinians are raised cradle to the grave on hatred of Israelis and Jews, and currently American college campuses are ground zero for the growing American anti-Israel and anti-Jew movements? This is not just my perception but backed up by a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/devastating-survey-shows-huge-loss-of-israel-support-among-jewish-college-students/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=6aacff63b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-6aacff63b5-54433197" target="_blank">‘Devastating’ survey shows huge loss of Israel support among Jewish college students</a> as "Brand Israel Group raises the alarm on a widening gap in the US between older supporters and the increasingly pro-Palestinian next generation" - a June 21, 2017 headline from the Times of Israel.<br />
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First, off, let's note that US Consul General Donald Blome who launched the campaign in Ramallah to encourage more Palestinian students to study in the United States, is a 2015 Obama-appointment who is <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/270837-does-the-us-jerusalem-consulate-ignore-jews" target="_blank">known to cater to West Bank and East Jerusalem Palestinians with consular services and assistance while ignoring Jews who live in the same area</a>.<br />
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According to the IMRA report, the #PalStudyUSA2018 campaign "will include social media outreach to identify Palestinian participants for an elite 'boot camp' examining all aspects of study in the U.S., a series of week-long information sessions with Amideast at American Spaces in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Salfeet, Nablus, and Gaza; and a series of television, print, and social media stories by Palestinian journalists on Palestinian students studying in the United States which will air later this year. The sessions, for potential students and their parents, will focus on admissions, testing, and financial aid, highlighting the ongoing educational advising services provided by the Consulate’s partner Amideast."<br /><br />It should be noted that Amideast is an outgrowth of an anti-Zionist organization called the “American Friends of the Middle East”. It is also the recipient of funding from George Soros (as documented by <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/soros.pdf" target="_blank">NGO Monitor</a>).<br />
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"Consul General Blome announced a number of new higher education cooperation initiatives at the event, including a $1 million project funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative to support cooperation between Notre Dame and Palestinian university partners to build a shared research hub; a $400,000 project between Palestine Polytechnic University and University of Michigan to promote critical thinking and entrepreneurship; and a $100,000 Tech Camp with the State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs and Partners for Sustainable Development to build teams of university students that will tackle problems provided by Palestinian businesses."<br />
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Do we need MORE Palestinians on US college campuses/ We are importing even more anti-Israel voices into the already dire environment? This should be prayed against and challenged, because it will not produce a more stable Palestinian economic situation because it does not address the anti-Israeli/anti-Jew indoctrination that is rampant in Palestinian society.<br />
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According to the co-founder of Brand Israel Group Fern Oppenheim, on college campuses, “We are allowing Israel to be defined by its detractors.” There is no longer nuance in campus conversations about Israel, she said. Instead, the “atmosphere is oppressor versus victim. Israel is just another symbol of this.”<br />
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The Brand Israel Group survey discovered that 31% of Jewish students reported experiencing anti-Semitism and 59% of them linked the incidents as being linked to anti-Israel attitudes. The incidents, however, did not sway their general opinions of Israel. In fact, between the 2010 and the 2016 surveys, Jewish college students dropped 27 percentage points on the question of whether they lean towards the Israeli side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<br />
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This is a real problem in the US, not just among the Jews on college campuses, but in general among the Christians everywhere. Young Christians generally dismiss the support of older Christians toward Israel as unenlightened old think. That is happening on several levels from views of homosexuality, racial issues and the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Like the lady said, we are allowing those issues to be defined humanistic values rather than Biblical values.<br />
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The younger generations are being greatly swayed by social justice issues which lean strongly toward the Palestinian narrative that Israel is the aggressor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not only that, but young Christians are not being taught God's exciting vision of the one new man in Messiah of Ephesian 2:14-17 "For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one...so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross.<br />
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As long as the Church cannot see the full vision of what God is doing which heavily includes Israel, those who are most influencing the younger generation of Christians will play a part in the deterioration of Israel support in the American public. <br />
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We must pray for Christian young people to begin to understand Biblical social justice, and to catch the vision of the one new man with the body of Christ. Many of the mega churches in America are full of excited young Christians <i>and almost none of them</i> have a vision for the salvation of Israel even on their radar. This must change and we must address it.Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-39066465545298655822017-07-16T16:13:00.001-05:002017-07-16T16:13:32.851-05:00Remembering Israel's 1992 Mass Deportation of Sharia Supremacist Terrorists & Inciters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is rather mind boggling all the things international opinion has forced Israel to put up with from the terrorist threat against them. Public opinion has always pushed them to make concessions to mortal enemies in order to achieve a little peace, but of course, the peace was never really part of the deal their enemies were prepared to give.<span> </span><br /><br />This was underscored yesterday when I got a news emai<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">l saying that after the terrorist attack that left two Druze Israeli policemen dead on the Temple Mount, that Netanyahu was going to put into effect some long overdue security measures: 1. A metal detector checkpoint for Muslims entering the Temple Mount and 2) security cameras with a view of the outside of the Temple Mount.<br /><br />I remember in 1992 when Israel rounded up all the terrorist figures they knew of in the country, 400+ of them and deported. This was in the Rabin government and the action was taken because of the murders of six Israeli Security Military Forces.<span> </span><br /><br />The inciters were mostly taken from prisons where they were serving sentences, but some were taken from their residences. They lived in camps outside of the borders and international press teams flocked to them to hear their sob story about mean old Israel. That these Hamas and other terrorist operatives worked continuously to create chaos within the nation of Israel was of no interest to the international press. The nations did not care about that part. They only cared about "the poor Palestinians".<br /><br />There are so many real events that have taken place when the nations forced Israel not to protect its own best interests - the returning of the Sinai, giving over Gaza to enemy control, leaving Muslims in control on the Temple Mount. It is always concessions, concessions, concessions and always on Israel's part, Palestinians getting a free ride thanks to the nations.<br /><br />I have said many times that I believed that as the nations have done to Israel, so the nations will be forced to taste their own medicine first hand. You can see this throughout Europe and the UK. You can see the same thing forming up here in the US as the intimidation strength of Sharia Supremacy continues to arise in America.<span> </span><br /><br />Remembering the Israeli deportation of the terrorism activists in 1992, I am certain that before long some of the European nations will screw up enough courage to begin to deport the Muslim Sharia Supremacists within their countries and they are going to taste the full brunt of international outrage by the media and the Leftists. I believe they will be forced to give up their quest of ridding their nations of complete chaos and Islamist takeover.<br /><br />I don't say that prophetically. I only say that it is the pattern that I have been observing develop before my eyes for several years. I say this as someone who knows the history of Israel through watching current events and news regarding Israel and Islam for several decades now.<span> </span><br /><br />What I have been seeing in recent years is how the nations are reaping what they have sown against Israel concerning Islamist terror warfare. I see no reason why this deportation incident will not be repeated in the nations who are now overrun with Islamic enemies within that they at first welcomed and coddled. As they forced Israel not to deal with Islamic terrorism effectively and decisively, so they will not be able to either.<br /><br />Nothing should turn back Israel's determination to execute these security measures on the Temple Mount.<br /><br />Donna Diorio<br />July 16, 2017</span></div>
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Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-52689333873312413042016-08-15T11:57:00.000-05:002016-08-15T12:04:30.524-05:00The Spirit Behind Mein Kampf is StirringTHE SPIRIT BEHIND MEIN KAMPF IS STIRRING | Martin Sarvis in Jerusalem<br />
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Many years ago I (Martin) remember coming across a translation of Hitler’s infamous book Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”), lying out on a carrel in the University library where I worked. Curious, I spent the next few hours scanning through the book. I found it a poorly-written and tedious jumble of bitter thoughts about his own youth, the problems of societies in general, and an argument for shaping a society based on of his Nazi convictions, especially as regarded race.<br />
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Hitler divided up humanity into categories regarding physical appearance, those with “Aryan” (i.e. Germanic) characteristics being at the top and supreme. Racially “inferior” peoples included Slavs (especially Poles, Czechs and Russians) —and Jews. Regarding the Nazi ideology, he wrote, “It by no means believes in an equality of races, but along with their difference it recognizes their higher or lesser value and feels itself obligated to promote the victory of the better and stronger, and demand the subordination of the inferior and weaker in accordance with the eternal will that dominates this universe.” (Cited in Wikipedia; Emphases ours.)<br />
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It is significant that Hitler cited a spiritual “will that dominates” behind the system he was developing. It was not an “eternal” (and certainly not a holy) spirit—but it was powerful enough soon to be released, through the agency of a charismatic personality, into a financially and spiritually depressed society, one whose soul had become weakened by a century of spiritual compromise. Within twelve years this ancient and occult “will” had swallowed up and “dominated” the will of nations.<br />
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For all the pages of material in Mein Kampf I scanned and flipped past that day in the library, I came away with really one terrible and lasting impression—he hated Jews. And he expressed this hatred in rhetoric which gave the impression that he truly believed it to be the most natural and rational viewpoint in the world.<br />
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He obviously felt it to be his high mission to enlighten those who hadn’t yet quite put it together, that the Jewish race was a blight on the earth, which, given time and means, should be finally eliminated.
Hitler wrote this “autobiography” (actually dictated most of it to his friend Rudolph Hess) in his early 30’s while in prison for taking part in an attempted coup. It was published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926.<br />
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Mein Kampf was directed at those sympathetic to its author’s National Socialism ideals, and addresses many aspects of those ideals. Throughout is an over-arching focus on what he referred to as “the Jewish peril.”
Hitler chronicles his own journey from considering himself opposed to anti-Semitism, to becoming an adherent of it. He wrote, “the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated.”<br />
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And in a passage relating to the 1st World War, “If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain.” (Ibid.)<br />
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Hitler refers throughout Mein Kampf to Jews as “parasites, liars, dirty, crafty, sly, wily, clever, without any true culture, a sponger, a middleman, a maggot, eternal blood suckers, repulsive, unscrupulous, monsters, foreign, menace, bloodthirsty, avaricious…” (“The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Hitler’s BOOK “Mein Kampf’”; The History Place, 1996)<br />
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The book gained in popularity with the rise of the National Socialist state—by 1939 it is thought to have sold 5.2 million copies in eleven languages. By the end of the war, some 10 million copies had been sold or distributed in Germany, where copies are said to have been given freely to newly-wed couples and to soldiers fighting on the Nazi front (Ibid.). Although generally available in other countries, Mein Kampf has been held under a copyright by the Bavarian state government and not allowed to be published in Germany—until that copyright expired last year, 70 years after the death of its author.
Suddenly, a fascination with the book has awakened in Europe and across the world.<br />
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On January 1, 2016, the book now having entered the public domain in Germany, Munich’s Institute for Contemporary History decided to republish it in an annotated version. The book reportedly sold out within hours on the German Amazon site.<br />
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The fascination was most blatantly manifest when in June the Italian newspaper Il Giornale began distributing free copies of an annotated Mein Kampf for subscribers who purchased a paid supplement in its Saturday edition. The owners of the daily defended their sales pitch, saying that its purpose is to study what is evil to avoid its return.” (“Italian newspaper under fire for giving away copies of Mein Kampf”: The Guardian, 11 June 2016).
One wonders, realistically speaking, are the masses frequenting newsstands really intent on “studying what is evil in order to avoid its return?”<br />
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In a bazaar twist, which one suspects would have appalled recently deceased survivor Eli Wiesel, the Boston-based publishing company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which has published some version of the book for decades, decided last month to avoid criticism by donating proceeds and royalties from Mein Kampf to Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Boston for “direct support of the health and human services needs of (Holocaust) survivors. (“ ‘Mein Kampf’ proceeds to aid Holocaust survivors”: “jewish world” ynet.news.com, 06/30/16 1417).<br />
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We are not mentioning all this because we are afraid that thousands will be captivated by Mein Kampf, or because we think the book should be banned. Rather, we think it is important that intercessors be aware that a book whose chief notoriety is its attempt to render the abhorrence of Jews palatable has achieved an awakened fascination in our day—becoming a best-seller in the place of its birth and being mass-marketed along the Mediterranean where much of its ideology was embraced less than 80 years ago “in accordance with the eternal will that dominates this universe.”<br />
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We must be aware that this same “will”, which through Hitler came to “dominate” much of the universe then, is today rapidly resurfacing in other forms. “Islam” means “submission”—and at its core (read the Koran) is a despising of the Covenant People. The new “anti-Zionism,” championed by intellectuals in Europe, at its root hates and denigrates those partaking in the “return to Zion” to which the Hebrew race is divinely called.<br />
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We see the resurfacing of a fascination with Mein Kampf as only one symptom of a spiritual ground-work presently being laid for making hostility against Jews and Zion “understandable” if not openly embraced in the West. With this is in place, given the right catalyst (such as sharp economic decline), the ancient spectre of “The Jew” as being behind global conspiracies governing the economy, can easily re-awaken as being all too credible, even in supposedly “enlightened” societies. There is indeed a “conspiracy”—it is a spiritual conspiracy, and it is beginning to deceive a sleeping world.<br />
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<b>PLEASE PRAY:</b>
* That the Body of Messiah around the world will awaken to an awareness that the covenant-hating spirit of anti-Semitism is re-awakening in different arenas of society…but that the LORD is our Banner, who is also at war with this spirit (Ex. 17:14-16).<br />
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* That the remnant in the Nations would be granted insight as to how to pray and act in holding back this evil in their lands—that nothing be allowed to manifest outside the timings of the Most High.<br />
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* That those in the Body in the Nations whom the Spirit is moving to prepare the way for assisting Jews in their return to Israel (even involving covering and protection under coming persecution), will hear and respond.<br />
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* That Jews will hear the Aliyah-shofar sounding, and turn their sights towards Zion.<br />
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* That Israel will receive divine guidance in preparing for massive Aliyah.<br />
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* That laws barring Messianic Jews from returning to Israel will come down. Pray YHVH drive out darkness from the gates, so that all who worship the King of Glory in spirit and in truth may come in!Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-73709305718485532015-08-08T10:35:00.000-05:002016-03-14T10:25:09.107-05:00The Mystery of Romans 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">who </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">are</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> natural </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">branches,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br />be grafted into their own olive tree?</span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">Like all good mysteries of God, the clues revealing the details of the mystery are hidden throughout the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. Such is the mystery of the end times restoration and redemption of Israel, and how there is a direct impact on the international Church, as well as a significant role that God calls the Church to plan in His Divine plan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">The Spirit of God has to give us </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">eyes to see and ears to hear, but that does not absolve us from closing our eyes and ears to what He is saying. I think that is pretty clear from the apostle Paul's warning in to the church in Rome:<br /><br /><i>"For I do not desire, brethren, that you should not understand this mystery, lest you should be conceited, mindful only of your own interests, that blindness ~in part~ has happened to Israel until the Gentiles have come into their fullness. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written"</i><br /><br />Track with me: <i>"And so all Israel will be saved" </i>What does the And so refer to? It refers to the international Church coming into their spiritual fullness.<br /><br />Some people thing God has set some numbers quota on how many Gentiles will be saved before all Israel is saved, but that is not the point. The point is that for all Israel to be saved, it will necessarily take the international Church, as many that will come to their spiritual fullness and enter into God's plan for -<br /><br /><i>"For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy."</i><br /><br />Did you catch that? through the Church's mercy all Israel will be saved? And why? Because God set them up in His mysterious plan, <i>"For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">It is not only in Romans where Paul spelled out the Divine plan to restore Israel through redemption by faith in Yeshua, but also to use the Church to bring it out (which the apostle Paul called our <i>"duty" </i>as the Church).<br /><br />Back to the fullness of the Gentiles, I have just ordered a book that delves into the area of how the restoration of spiritual fullness of the Church has a deep parallel to the markers of God's restoration of Israel, and that book is based on the author's study of Ezra and Nehemiah. (Example, the holy language of tongues was restored to the Church the same year as the restoration of Hebrew as a modern language, used not just for religious services but as a used language.)<br /><br />My Israeli friend, <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000468720255&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/eitan.shishkoff" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Eitan Shishkoff</a> has written the insights about the Christian role in the spiritual re-building of Israel that are contained in the story of how Hiram and Solomon partnered to bulid the temple in his book, <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=300960290039286&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/shishkoffwhataboutus" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">What About Us?</a> The book that answers Christian questions about, How do Christians fit into the raising of up of Jewish believers in the faith of Jesus.<br /><br />Since the early 1990's when God began to show me why He stirred my heart toward Israel, and specifically toward the growing Body of Messiah in Israel, I have had many Christians go automatically defensive as if the very mention of loving Israel meant a rejection of Christianity.<br /><br />That is not the plan of God and it is not how He has led me. But honestly, it become wearisome to see some Christian ministers sniff at my advocacy of the believers in Israel as somehow excluding my concern for ALL people groups. Come on. The vision for Israel's restoration, as Paul says, means blessing for the whole church, <i>"For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?" </i><br /><br />If you only knew the promised release of God's spiritual blessings - restoring those things that the Church has lost from the gifts and power we started out with in the gospels and Acts - then you would be rushing to take your place in the restoration and redemption of Israel.<br /><br />Whatever is holding you back from considering the things referred to here, it hurts you more than you know.<br /><br />When my friend Asher Intrater of <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=326770580739640&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/reviveisraelmedia" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Revive Israel</a> first immigrated to Israel he was praying at the Wall in Jerusalem one day when God gave him a vision. God told him that the restoration of Israel to her inheritance by faith in Yeshua was too great for all the Messianic Jews in all the world. That they would have to partner with the Church in order to see all Israel saved.<br /><br />Why is that? Because God has bound us up together so that neither the Church nor the Messianic Jews can come into fullness without coming into partnership and unity together.<br /><br />Listen to me: we as the Church can enjoy our current level of the restored gifts and power of God, but we are not going to come into the fullness of restored gifts, power and apostolic-prophetic administrations by ignoring our role in the restoration of Israel to faith.<br /><br />We are going to get to the place that God has destined for Jews and Gentiles in Messiah to come. I intend to be among that number and you should understand that you are making the same choice whether you will stay in your current state of holding the body of Messiah in Israel as not significant to your Christian concerns, or whether you will allow yourself to seriously consider that there is a part of God's mysterious plan that you've been missing. Your choice.<br /><br />He gives the choice to us, but He is going to take those that are willing to the fullness of His mysterious and wonderful plan.</span></span></div>
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Intrater of <a href="http://reviveisrael.org/" target="_blank">Revive Israel</a> in Jerusalem preach twice this weekend. First on
Saturday to a Messianic crowd at Baruch HaShem Messianic Synagogue, then on
Sunday to a Christian crowd at Destiny Healing Center. There were similar core themes touched on in
both messages that were uniquely addressed to the two very different
congregations of believers. <br />
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<b>The messages pertained to the right alignment of the international Church
and the Body of Messiah in Israel. If there is one word to describe Asher's
message before both groups of believers, it is a tone that I have never sensed
from Asher: Urgency.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was an urgency like I have never heard before from Asher about the
necessity for the Christian Church and the believing community in Israel to
come into right alignment so the purposes of God can be accomplished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Church cannot get to where it is destined until it rightly aligns
with the Body in Israel, and the Body of Israel cannot get to where it is
destined until it is rightly aligned with the Church. To get there <i>both sides</i> have to humble themselves <i>to each other</i> - but it is our prophetic
destiny according to the Word of God, to become one new man in Messiah. Then as Israel is coming to faith there is a
parallel release of Divine power to the international Church see us through the
growing deep darkness over the people of the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We are losing over there." Asher said this several times in
the message at Destiny Church, saying, "We can't do this without
you." What did Asher mean?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago I wrote that I was stunned when Eitan Shishkoff, a 30-year ministry partner with Asher and perhaps the most upbeat Israeli minister I know
of, admitted to the Baruch HaShem congregation audience that at times due to
the intensity of the opposition, he has days where he feels he has been hit by
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What these two Israeli ministry
leaders and friends said is stunning to me because they are also highly
effective in their ministry labors. Good things are happening in their
ministries. So this is news that I want
to emphasize with urgency to intercessors for the sake of ALL THE MINISTRIES OF
ISRAEL: THEY NEED US LIKE NEVER
BEFORE. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Asher shared about the array of oppressive forces that are bearing down
on Israel, and bearing down on the believing community of faith in Israel: <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Hitler rose up with a genocidal plan for Jews, that was just the
devil infuriated that his time is growing short and the Nazis were used in hopes
to cut off God's plan by wiping out the Jews before they can get to the day we
are all rushing toward. Asher said (paraphrasing), We know we win in the end,
but <i>right this moment we believers in
Israel</i> really need the help of the international church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this present darkness we are faced with all kinds of forces of
darkness including the genocidal Islamic hordes which form an almost complete
circle around the nation of Israel. From the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to
Gaza Hamas; from Lebanon Hezballah to Syrian AlQaeda; from Iraq Isis to the
Iranian Persian dynasty; from Yemen AlQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to
the Libyan Isis, and the Nigerian Boko Haram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are armies encircled around Israel and like the Nazis, are a
demonic attempt to cut off the Jews before God's purposes can be manifested in
them. What are God's purposes? That "all Israel" shall be saved, and
the parallel release of Divine power go out into the international Church. And the nations of the world are not
resisting this threat. Even the long time alliance of the USA, Israelis
understand is dissolving under current leadership. Israelis are increasingly
recognizing that the only international force standing with them are the Israel
supporting Christians. Not even American
Jews can be counted on at this point to support Israel in crisis with
Islam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Israel - the center of the demonic storm - it is not just Islam but
religious persecution against the believers seeking to stop the message of
Yeshua going to Israelis; the LGBT community seeking to shut down a Messianic
community source of funds; government corruption denying lawful benefits
strictly based on issues of faith. All these things are a continual press upon
the believers in Israel, and these are why the Body in Israel needs the
international church to join them in the battle to fulfill God's vision and
plans for Israel. Without the Church, the battle is too pitched.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Body in Israel needs us in the Church, but we in Church need the Body
of Israel: Asher also touched on the
parallels between the restoration of Israel that has seen a parallel release of
restoration of the gifts of the Spirit in the Church. He spoke about this at
Destiny Church and I will be on the lookout for more on that subject from
Asher. In a nutshell, when Hebrew was restored as a language to the Jews in the
1900's, in the church was the restoration of tongues. When Israel became a
nation in 1948, there was a restoration of healings in the church; when
Jerusalem was restored to Israeli control in 1967...I will search for the
message to be exact on. The point is summed up in Romans 11:15: For if their
rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be
but life from the dead?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no way I can do justice to all the red meat that Asher was
pouring out in these two urgent messages to the Messianic and the Gentile
Christian churches this weekend. But I can encourage you to listen to the BHS
message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, I want tell you that Pastor Jerry Howell at Destiny Christian
Center heard from the LORD by the end of the message to enter into right
alignment with the Body in Israel and to receive Asher Intrater as an apostle
and prophet of Israel that he is. <br /><br />In a
moving response, the pastor on behalf of his church, moved to come alongside of
the believers of Israel as never before. Pastor Howell told Asher that they
were not seeking to add to his burden by recognizing him as an apostle to their
house, but for the purpose of coming into right alignment so they could do
their part to lift up the arms of the believers of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May the response we witnessed today from this pastor and this church body
be multiplied 10,000 times over as the Church contends with Messianic Israel
for God's purposes for such a time as this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>One of the fascinating things Asher Intrater spoke about in his Baruch
HaShem Messianic Synagogue message</b> relates to the Matthew 24
passage when Yeshua's disciples ask Him what will be the signs of the end
times. Verses 23-26 speak of a proliferation of false messiahs and He warns not
to follow them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I have heard taught that everything in this Mt 24 passage has already
taken place in 70 AD, but I want to tell you that often in scripture a prophecy
for the end times also takes place in the immediate times it was spoken as well
- so don't let that deter you from understanding Matthew 24 as relevant to 70
AD and to our day too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this relation, Asher spoke about the mostly ultra-Orthodox
proliferation of false messiahs that are evident in Israel and they are all
rabbis. He named off four of them from different ultra-Orthodox sects whose
followers believe their rabbi will become the messiah king of Israel. Rabbi
Schneerson, Nachman of Breslev, both long dead, and others. There are
billboards with their photos proclaiming they are the messiah. People go to
their gravesides to receive healing and miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ultra-Orthodox generally do not believe in the secular state of
Israel, but believe Israel is only legitimized as a state when one of their
rabbis, or the followers of the rabbi, becomes the Prime Minister (king) of
Israel. That is one reason many among
these sects they think they are a law unto themselves - so they can strike with
impunity against the believers in Yeshua in Israel, they can attack LGBT's participating
in the a Gay pride parade as one did just last week, or also firebomb
Palestinians as some also did last week claiming the death of baby. These are
fundamentalist terrorists, in the same way that Hamas, or al Qaeda produces
religious fundamentalist terrorists, and they are becoming increasingly prone
to violent acts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The threat from these religious zealots is real. When Jack Teitel placed
a package bomb at the doorstep of the Ortiz family in Tiberias, nearly
murdering their 15-year old son who opened the bomb that detonated in his
hands, Teitel was dropped off on the street by religious co-conspirators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I'm not saying all this NOT to stir hatred toward the religious, but
hopefully to snap some attention into Christian consciousness! It seems that
Christians get focused on the Jews who are the easiest to identify as Jews, and
that would surely be the ultra-Orthodox with the black 18th century garb,
tzitzit and payot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">REMEMBER: the apostle Paul clearly said these are enemies of the gospel for
you sake. They are STILL enemies of the gospel and they are enemies of the
Jewish believers of Yeshua in Israel TODAY.
So who do you think, as a Christian, you ought to be excited about in
Israel - the enemies of the gospel or the emissaries of the gospel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember also what Jesus said when questioned by some religious Jews,
Yeshua said, <i>“Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the
kingdom of God before you."</i> This remarkable statement - very prophetic -
remains true today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Church has been delighted to entertain religious Israeli groups like
the Temple Mount Faithful and others on their TV networks, in huge gatherings
for Israel-supporting Christians <i>while at
the same time giving the cold shoulder to Israeli Jewish believers and
ministries in Israel!</i> So hosting and supporting the enemies of the gospel
while ignoring the emissaries of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can we justify that? Just quit that - repent of it and get with GOD's
plan for the right alignment with the Body of the LORD in Israel. The time is
NOW. The prayer shield for the Body of
Messiah in Israel, and especially for the ministry leaders must arise
throughout the international Church. The
urgency is for such a time as this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen to <a href="http://baruchhashemsynagogue.org/?page_id=147">Asher's message at BHS</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can also hear more messages by Asher on the <a href="http://reviveisrael.org/">website of Revive Israel</a></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rise is "anti-missionary" activism against the believers in Israel.
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The rise in persecution has a correlation to the recent Israeli elections where
the right-wing religious parties became a critical factor in the coalition that
Prime Minister Netanyahu formed.
Whenever an Israeli government coalition becomes dependent on the support
of the religious parties for national security purposes, the tradeoff is
religious parties are free to exercise their power in religious persecution.
It's the dilemma of the faithful Body in Israel who are strongly national
security conscious, but also suffer when the religious parties gain political
muscle in government positions. <br />
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loathe to dwell on the issue of religious persecution, it is important for
international intercessors to be aware when the environment of freedom of
religious expression in Israel begins to undergo change. This is such a time and you are intercessors
for Israel for such a time as this!</b> <br />
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So, let me brief you on recent incidents of concern that we have seen popping
up in the Israeli news media. First it is worth mentioning that the Israeli
news media in general has become much more factual when reporting on the
Israeli Messianic community in recent years. This is a good sign that religious persecution
of the believers is becoming much less acceptable among the news media as the
news media becomes more educated in the facts and exposed to Messianic Jews as
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First on the ELAV conference.
There are a couple of news items you can read on this. The first is an article that was issued a few
days before the conference by a news outfit that leans to the religious right
in Israel - which means its bias is with the anti-missionary activists, not
with the freedom of Messianic Jews to chose Who and how they worship. The second news report is after an incident
during the conference.<br />
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<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197808#.VZxPY_lVikp">Massive
Missionary Conference in the Heart of Jerusalem</a></div>
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Anti-assimilation group Lehava calls for public protest Wednesday
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Lehava for disturbing public order</i></b></a></div>
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Next up is a report we saw a couple of days ago. We called for prayer during the forming of
Netanyahu's government that he would not give the power over the Interior Ministry to the religious parties. This is because that ministry in the hands of
religious parties inflicts much damage against the believers in Israel - those
who have already immigrated and those that desire to immigrate. <br />
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The bureaucracy of the Interior Ministry is already heavily entrenched with an
anti-Messianic perspective, and there is ongoing, illegal interaction with
anti-missionary groups bringing accusations against individual Messianic
believers. When the religious parties
are in control of the Interior Ministry the persecution increases. Fortunately,
Netanyahu did not place that power of the Interior Ministry in the hands of the
religious parties, but did place them in charge of the Finance Ministry, so the
religious have another way to strike at Messianic Jews - through their recently
expanded non-profit status. </div>
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<a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2015/July/Knesset-Cuts-Tax-Benefits-to-Messianic-Group/"><b><i>Knesset
Cuts Tax Benefits to Messianic Group</i></b></a><br />
Despite Finance Committee chairman's comments, <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">the decision is
illegal under Israeli law so the congregation has firm footing to appeal and
win a reversal. <br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">* In an update from KehilaNews.com we have learned that the Messianic group denied non-profit status is the Maoz Ministries, which includes the Tiferet Yeshua Congregation in Tel Aviv. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Last week we also brought attention to the
backlash that came after the large Christian Empowered21 met in Jerusalem
seeking the outpouring as experienced by the first believers in Acts 2, as
prophesied by the prophet Joel. The
un-intended consequence of the charismatic pastors in Jerusalem is that the
ultra-Orthodox and anti-missionary activists used the meeting to create an
uproar about "evangelistic" meetings and consequently got the
Jerusalem municipality to agree to let the rabbis approve or disapprove ALL
groups meeting in the new Jerusalem Sports Arena. <br />
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Now we see that a clear, strong push among the anti-Messianic opposition in
Israel is in progress, so ALL groups who come to Israel for any kind of event
need to be cognizant of this fact and do their utmost to avoid increasing the
persecution of the local Israeli Body of Messiah. There is no question that Christian groups
have a desire to associate themselves with Israel. Jerusalem is a choice
location to hold an event. But it is time for the local community of believers
to be factored in. <br />
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At the very least, if we are going to hold meetings in Jerusalem, the local
Israeli believing community should not be an after-thought in our
meetings. They should be consulted from
the very germination of the event idea - and the Body of Messiah in Israel
ought to receive major benefit from every Christian group using Israel as a
choice for tours and event locations.
What does that mean? It means
that groups who meet in Israel ought to carve out a portion of the event
mission to make awareness of the increasing Body of believers in Israel, the
Israeli ministries, as part of their
tour or event vision. <br />
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We should not go into Israel blind to the situation of the community of
believers in Israel. We should first
make sure we do them no harm, but also make sure that as we organize an event
or tour in Israel, that we consider how we will honor and respect those fellow
believers in Jesus who live and minister in Israel. Estimates of how many they
number range from 15 to 20,000 Israeli Messianic Jewish believers. Time to
factor them in. <br /><br />- Donna Diorio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-32365651629507239642015-02-09T08:50:00.000-06:002015-02-09T08:50:05.075-06:00Islamism: Discerning Friend & Foe<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Saturday
afternoon I witnessed a circular firing squad on Twitter among several
of the counter-terrorism writers in the United States. They were
attacking an article - actually a response to attacks on himself - by Dr
Zhudi Jasser, a Muslim man who speaks the truth about radical Islam on
news programs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, I know that many of you dearly love Pamela
Geller, but she is chief among those who accuse other counter-terrorism
people. Dr. Jasser is just one in a line of CT experts that I know of
that Geller has attacked furiously and unfairly. I don't know if she is
just a hot head or if it is professional jealousy over those who have
been given a much greater platform to speak on the news programs. I
think the latter has been the case with 3 TOP names in anti-slamist
experts I've watched Geller attack over the years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The reason
that news programs don't use Geller is very likely because she makes a
lot of emotional accusations that she can't back up and is certainly
seen as a loose cannon. Not to mention what a publicity hound she is. Of
course many in the public feed on that kind of thing but not honest
news media platforms with any crediblity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I understand that
Islam is a dead end street. If the foundations are demonic, which I
believe they are, then good fruit cannot be borne from a bad root tree.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HOWEVER, and this is big: Any time you have an honest Muslim
like Dr. Jasser willing to take a lead in calling out not only the
radical jihadists who commit terror attacks, but also the stealth
jihadists of political Islam - those wolves in sheep's clothing seeking
to overtake through political strength - then you better support that
Muslim and not attack them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That's exactly what I was seeing in
the Twitter war that broke out against Dr. Jasser who was objecting to
the Geller characterization of him as a stealth jihadist practicing
taqiya on the American public. That is a STUPID accusation and the
circular firing squad got it completely wrong. One way I know that is
because Dr. Jasser is attacked equally furiously by the political
Islamists in this country like CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood
associated stealth jihadists. Geller knows that too, which is why it is
so baffling that she would try to destroy Jasser's credibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We better wake up and realize that if we attack our friends the same way
we attack our real enemies that we are doing harm to ourselves and our
cause. There are honest Muslims speaking out against radical Islam and
political Islam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you will remember, Mosad Hassan was not a
Christian first and then an informer for the MOSSAD on his father's own
HAMAS group. Mosab began as just an honest man seeking justice and
recoiling from what he percieved as evil. It didn't matter to him that
his own dad was a spiritual founder of Hamas because God was stirring in
Mosab to discern good from evil. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> If Israel had treated Mosab
like some US counterterrorism people are treating Dr. Jasser, do you
think that Mosab would have continued to expose the plans of Hamas? No.
And we need to give room to Muslims like Mosab and Dr. Jasser to speak
and act on their honest assessment of the evil, and also leave the room
for the Holy Spirit to call those to the LORD whom He has chosen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I realize that it is often difficult to discern those who are
walking in deception in US political Jihad. Our government is filled up
with many of those purposefully deceiving and this administration is in
particular willfully blind about the true intent of these political
Islamists. This administration above all the others in the past don't
want to know the truth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which is why it is doubly tragic that
anti-Islamist counterterrorism experts should attack a true voice Dr.
Jasser who has NO TIES to all the stealth jidhad organizations in the
U.S. and abroad. If anyone should know better that Jasser's ties are
not to those people, it was the people I saw attacking Jasser yesterday
on Twitter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jesus made two opposing statements that illuminates
how to tell the difference between those who are serving the purposes of
God and those who are opposing it whether they are opposing openly or
not:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mathew 12:30 <i>He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Luke 9:50 <i>Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We can tell steal-jihadists who claim innocence yet continually work in
the public realm to condemn and accuse God's people - Christians and
Jews. These are represented in groups like CAIR and other Muslim
Brotherhood affiliated groups who are political Islam. In the end plan,
political Islamists will merge back with their terroristic brothers
when they have achieved enough political strength to oppress and
dominate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those that are within our ranks as Christian and
Messianic in faith, those who are dividing the Body rather than
gathering the Body together, are those Yeshua was referring to in
Matthew 12:30). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr. Jasser, like Mosab Hassan before him, (and others!) is to be found in Luke 9:50.</span><br />
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The polarity here is a matter of discernment, and how to assess those
who are within our ranks but are merely devisive, or those who are not
part of us at all, but do not wage against us. In the first example are
the stealth jihadists or political Islam; in the second example is Dr.
Zhudi Jasser. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/02/american_islamists_find_common.html" target="_blank">link</a> to the response article by Dr. Jasser that
drew out CT news media against Jasser and for Geller. My stand is with
Dr. Jasser, as it was with the other CT experts when Geller was
attacking them.</span><br />
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Charlie Hebdo:<i> “</i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Je
suis </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie” </span><br />
</span></span></i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We really are Charlie, we just don’t recognize it yet</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by Donna Diorio </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am working on an article. Here are some excerpts that I wanted to share after reading a tweet today about how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was mistreated in Paris. It made me so angry, I cannot hold off. <br /><br />The French didn't want Netanyahu in the march at all, then tried to stick him in the second row where he was not so visible. They even tried to keep him from traveling to the bus where the national leaders traveled to the march, trying to stick him in bus #2 where all the underlings rode. Yet they were perfectly comfortable with the participation of Palestinian president Abbas in a unity government with the terrorist group Hamas, and also the Hezballah terrorist group leader.<br /><br />This tells me all I need to know about whether the French, and some of the other European leaders are really serious about doing something about radical Islam. As long as they refuse to understand that Israel is ground zero of the battle against radical Islam, and that Israel is fighting a defensive war out of necessity to survive, well there is nothing that such international leaders can possibly come up with to protect their own nations. The hypocrisy is so great it has to be a stench in the nostrils of God! I do include the U.S. in that.<br /><br />Does that mean that we are all doomed? No - for those of us who know better, it means we must keep up the spiritual fight. Israel is the issue that is demonstrating whether the people of each nation is choosing God's side, or making a pact with death.<br /><br />A few days ago I was listening from the other room when a former military intelligence man, Andrew Peek, was telling Fox News (America's News HQ) that in the early 70's terrorism was not Islamic, but came from other groups. That is not really true. <br /><br />Although Israel was the only target, Islamic terrorism was being established by Yasser Arafat as early as 1958 as he began to form terror cells. By the late 1960's, Arafat's Fatah terrorists were doing guerrilla attacks and terror sky-jackings. The "Father of Terrorism" was Yasser Arafat. He was not a particularly religious man but that did not stop him from using radical Islamist doctrines to stir supporters. <br /><br />Peek's point was that depending on where you think terrorism has sprung up from will determine how you think it ought to be fixed. Like a great many people, Peek apparently believes that Islamic terrorism is the result of jobless, disaffected youth, who have no hope for opportunity in the world. <br /><br />Think about this. Yasser Arafat had a long career as a terrorist trying to convince Jews they should just give up on the Israeli homeland. Finally Europe was convinced that if they just reinvented Yasser Arafat calling him a diplomat instead of a terrorist, that they could neutralize terrorism. They were wrong; all they did is multiply terrorism.<br /><br />It is not poverty that motivates Islamic terrorism and no one is going to cure the problem by handing out rewarding jobs to jihadis.<br /><br />Many in America think that the U.S. does not have the same problems as Europe because the EU didn't do a good enough job assimilating Muslims as America has. It's a wrong conclusion because the truth is that the US is about 15 years behind Europe and the UK in being Islamisized. Too many Muslims in the Western nations don't want assimilation, they want to overtake us. <br /><br />People in the West have yet to come to grips with that truth, but it doesn't make it any less true. No, not all Muslims are evil or radical, but most of America has not awakened to the facts about Islam. The UK and EU are just beginning to be forced to. Unfortunately, the current US president has accelerated the process by emboldening the Islamists to come out of the proverbial closet.<br /><br />Unfortunately, human nature has a history of ignoring approaching disaster until it is on the verge of too late. We are seeing this in the Jews being forced to flee France in fear for their lives, as they soon will also flee other European nations like Belgium, and also the UK. <br /><br />Unfortunately, even though we disdain Neville Chamberlain, at the time he was saying what Brits wanted to hear and Winston Churchill was not. Churchill was shunned - until disaster hit and all of Europe was on the verge of too late. If the US had not entered the fight, it would have been too late for them.<br /><br />The popular Fox News program The Kelly File asks what we can learn from Israel's fight with terrorism. My answer is EVERYTHING. Israel is ground zero of the Islamic terrorism that plagues the world today. Israel's fight is our fight, yet one of the primary reasons that the nations are plagued with the terrorism threat today is because of their hypocrisy in not backing Israel in years past. <br /><br />If the nations had not given legitimization to terrorists like Yasser Arafat, making him out as if he were a world leader instead of the terrorist he was until the day he died, then we could have stopped Islamic terror where it was birthed. <br /><br /> Instead of backing the victim of terrorism, Israel, we winked and nodded at terrorist acts, calling Israel's defensive of herself the moral equivalent of Islamic terrorism against Israel. The terrorism that the nations are reaping now, are exactly what they have sown in hypocrisy with Israel. That doesn't make me happy to say, but it is the truth of the matter. </span></span>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-43142137412699790942014-11-14T13:33:00.003-06:002014-11-14T13:33:54.638-06:00A Vision of The Temple Mount, A Menacing Dragon, And A Season of Increasing Shakings<div style="text-align: center;">
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has been steadily increasing on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and in Muslim
nations (particularly Jordan) related to Israel's attempts to contain the
unrest there. This week we submit for your prayerful consideration what we see
to be an extremely timely prophetic Word released this week by Rick Ridings
regarding this volatile situation. Rick with his wife Patti are founders and
directors of <i>Succat Hallel,</i> a 24/7 house of worship and intercession,
which faces the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. -Martin Sarvis, Jerusalem] </span></div>
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2014, during our worship in Succat Hallel, I saw a vision of a huge black
dragon that was circling in a menacing manner above the Temple Mount here in
Jerusalem.</i></b> Each time it breathed fire from its mouth, violence was
released on the Temple Mount. But I knew this time it was planning something
really much larger. Suddenly I saw in the heavens two words: "NOT NOW". Then
a huge foot descended from the heavens and pinned the dragon to the ground.
Next, the Lord reached down and put shackles on the dragon's feet and imprisoned
the dragon in the underground mosque on the southeast corner of the Temple
Mount. As I was seeing this in the vision, our worship leader started singing
from Psalm 149 about us through high praise putting the kings in chains and the
nobles in shackles. </span></div>
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hand put a lock on the door to where the dragon was imprisoned, and then put a
lock on it with a timer, seeming to indicate it would be released to do
something quite "big" in the timing of the Lord, but that now was not the
time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>Then the hands of
the Lord continued to shake and thresh the Temple Mount in a flat threshing
basket,</i></b> as I had seen in previous visions on 17 June and 14 October.
The Lord was tossing the Temple Mount into the air in a way similar to the
ancient threshing method of tossing grain into the air, after which the chaff
would be blown away by the wind, and the good grain would fall into the
threshing basket. I felt the Lord was speaking, <b>"This is still a season in
which I am sifting and discerning the hearts of men and nations". </b> I
realized He was showing mercy to those who really were searching for truth and
righteousness. Even on the Temple Mount, in the midst of the shakings, water
came out from between the stones, splashed into the eyes of those Muslims who
were sincerely seeking righteousness, and washed away deception, and opened
their eyes to Jesus as Messiah, Savior, and Lord. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>Then on 29 October,
a Palestinian attempted to assassinate Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who had just given a
lecture to a small group in the Menachem Begin Heritage Center,</i></b> expressing his belief that Jews and Christians should also be allowed to pray
on the Temple Mt., and not only Moslems, as is the status quo. Four shots were
fired into him at point-blank range. Miraculously, he not only survived, but
is recovering. His Palestinian killer was from the neighborhood (Abu Tor) in
which we have our 24/7 prayer and worship center, <i>Succat Hallel</i>. He
fired back at the police when they tried to capture him, and was killed in the
ensuing shootout. Many predicted the next few days would be a time of huge
violence and the start of a new "intifada" (uprising) in Jerusalem, similar to
what took place in 2000, and was followed by four years of numerous suicide and
bus bombings in Jerusalem. We strongly prayed into the words from my Oct 21
vision "Not Now! On Saturday 1 November, great violence was predicted, but
rain fell quite heavily in the morning. (News sources even credited the rain
with helping to calm down the situation.) That afternoon, in Succat Hallel we
were singing over Jerusalem: "His love never fails, never gives up, never runs
out on you. It's higher than the mountains that you face, and stronger than
the power of the grave." At that exact moment, a huge rainbow appeared, and
seemed to be touching the Temple Mount!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>Then on 4 November,
I had another vision concerning the dragon in which I saw the dragon shrieking,
and trying to break out of the dungeon in which it had been imprisoned.</i></b>
I saw a rainbow hammer come down to make the door even more secure. But I saw
the dragon was sending frog-like demon spirits from its mouth (similar to what
is described in Revelation 16:13). These spirits were going into various
terrorist leaders and giving them words to incite to terror. The same spirits
were also working through characters on Muslim children's television, inciting
them to violence, urging them to "Kill the Jews". I felt the Lord say we were
to ask Him as the Judge of the Universe to give a "gag and restraining order"
to silence the dragon for this time period. I saw a throne with seven lions
down each side, and the Lamb in the middle. As the Lord gave this restraining
order, I then saw believing children in the Middle East who were worshipping
the Lamb. Then angels began to go to Muslim children and whisper in their
ears: "Love the Jews".</span></div>
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confirmation, I was asked to share at a meeting here in Jerusalem on 6 November
with Chuck Pierce.</i></b> Chuck did not know about the vision I had of the
dragon, but said that as he and his team flew into Israel, they saw a sunset
that seemed more like glory was arising over Jerusalem, rather than going
down. But in the sky above this light they all saw a cloud that looked clearly
like a dragon, and had the sense there was a dragon spirit trying to swallow up
the glory that was about to be poured out in Jerusalem.</span></div>
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sovereignty of the Holy One of Israel over His Holy Hill, the Temple Mount, in
Jerusalem.</b> Proclaim Ezekiel 43:6,7: "While
the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the
temple. He said: "Son of man, this is the place of
my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live
among the Israelites forever." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>2. Proclaim "Not Now"
to the forces of evil trying to stir up something big, like a prolonged violent
uprising in Jerusalem, or even a regional war in the Middle East. </b></span></div>
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revelation of Jesus on the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem, and across the Middle East. </b></span></div>
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down of the incitement to killing, especially that aimed at children and
youth. Pray for a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the children and
youth of the Middle East. </b></span></div>
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upon men and nations whose hearts are being "sifted and threshed" by the events
taking place in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount.</b> On January 1, 2014, my
wife, Patti, had received a strong word that this was a year of "shifting and
sifting". I believe we are still in that season, even here in Jerusalem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>ACTION POINT: </b>Give
towards the support of Jewish messianic and Arab believing staff that are
helping lead our 24/7 worship and prayer facing the Temple Mount. in
Jerusalem. For more information, go to: <a href="http://www.succathallel.com/donate/" target="_blank"><b>http://www.succathallel.com/donate/</b></a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank you for standing
with Jerusalem in your prayers during this very strategic season!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><em>Rick Ridings<br />
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</b><b>9 November, 2014</b></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>When I first read in the spring of 2011 what Uzi was telling us about the unwarranted building of mosques and minarets in a town nearby to their own Israeli village in the West Bank, I realized there was a parallel to all the unwarranted mosque building that Islamists have been doing in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European nations - building more and bigger mosques than the population can support should be raising suspicions on intended purposes. <br /><br />That's why I added the sub-title, <b>What happens in Israel doesn't stay in Israel. </b>The battles that Israel has and does face in combating the terrorist Islamist enemy is the forerunner of the battles that the whole of Western civilization is and will engage in to defend ourselves against radical Islamists.<br /><br />As you will read in Uzi Lotan's post-Gaza war article, we can know even more detail about the parallels, and especially why it is of extreme danger for national security forces to have a 'hands off' approach to known radical-Islamist preaching mosques. Why? Because those mosques are not just houses of worship but are being used as safe havens and strategic military infrastructure for terrorists. What as we saw unfold recently in Gaza is not just a Gaza-Hamas phenomenon. <br /><br />In just the past week, Israeli newspapers reported that according to captured Hamas men during the Gaza war, there was a plot among Hamas to stage a coup in the Palestinian Authority held West Bank. Hamas planned to attack the PA and take over control of the West Bank as they had Gaza. That is why the reporting by Lotan in 2011, and now again after the discovery of the extensive tunnel network under Gaza, begs the question: </i><b><i><br /><br />What were they building in Hamas' West Bank Stronghold of Qalqilyah?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By Uzi Lotan of Beit Hallel<br /><br /><b><i>West Bank 7 Sept 2014:</i></b> Peace and quiet have been restored to Alfei Menashe At least, on the surface, that seems to be the case, since the agreement to this last ceasefire came into effect 2 weeks ago.<br /><br />Noise has been everywhere for the past 3 consecutive months! It started with June, the month of Ramadan, with its 24-hour-a-day disturbances. Then followed by 51 days of July-August, with the noise of War - Operation Protective Edge. Fighter jets flying overhead every 1 and a half minutes, then all international flights to Ben Gurion airport, having been re-routed and starting to land right over our home, every 3 and half minutes. Add to this cacophony the war-sirens and booms in the distance, making even the regular calls from the mosques in the 5 villages surrounding us, fade in comparison. Silence could not be found anywhere: even the abundance of birds that usually frequent our garden - seemed to leave us for quieter habitats.<br /><br />Even though we have some respite, we still need to be watchmen, and therefore we are compelled to relay to you what is happening here, in Samaria (politically known as the West Bank).<br /><br />Just as Gaza, the Kingdom of Jordan and the Golan Heights, are each one a gateway into Israel, within its current borders, so is Samaria. The main road into Israel, from Samaria, runs between Alfei Menashe and a major Hamas stronghold - the Palestinian city of Qalqilyah. <br /><br /><b>On the Subject of Mosques & Tunnels </b> | At the beginning of the war, when Israel began to discover the extent of the force that they were facing, Prime Minister Netanyahu rightly announced that we could not give Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority, or we would have 20 more 'Gazas' to contend with.<br /><br />During 2010, we noticed unusual numbers of mosques being built in Qalqilyah. (<a href="http://israelwatcherasecondopinion.blogspot.com/2011/04/mosques-minarets-and-military-training.html" target="_blank"><i>Mosques, Minarets and Military Training</i></a>). We asked you then to pray with us concerning this area. It was later revealed that the building of the mosques, side by side, and with tunnels underneath them, was indeed for jihadist activities, training, weapon-manufacturing and storage facilities.<br /><br />And here we are, 4 years later, and we are asking you to pray with us once again, for this same area for this terrorist use has been confirmed once more by the testimonies of Hamas militants that were captured by the IDF, during this Operation. [Source: <i>Israel Today</i>, 28 Aug 2014 - <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hMCmwpsOGn3jvjj8KR6HmwTbZvyLodYyM9vsV9dsQVhKUSqcu_IpoA4ys2uF-Z81Spp8oaKDkl1r1u3Yhg0Y1HJF_DUgamC2CAliLtCLNWW0rbBhwovcHUbRQ5gseBkZjXeFRvCAF7W20YWJWlfkY49KN6MsFed4EYPt6p7LGxlhsBtA118-0CgBaHiWm0ppFjmiNhP4Uw_VciksScL9R_j5iLANItghsEUvPkeLU-jaex2aoKjVlrFb_jj_2dhOKqJ3u4GAbDiXOCg5dPq6uMHcSgAHqcHq8r1EQq3XTLg5R-JMiUiu_QrZif7pbB_YzZWLv86N2YSCf3f48kFy2z19GETK9Fc7K88pADDTRlb_gBMiRf1r5g==&c=1pIG4uoTr-op5jKM4rvMZAuoBx9wOiAVOLoEXcWS4YaSmyITo3SLbQ==&ch=ILI-Ma6MDg-nZFpBo7EqnJX4nh7Ok8x8IihLjXCaSrVLw-bNL5CmCw==" target="_blank">Testimonies of Captured Hamas Militants</a>] <br /><br />Next to the town of Qalqilyah, which is a Hamas stronghold, the landscape has been changing during the past 18 months, and even much faster these past 6 months. <br /><br />On various news bulletins, we have heard that when building the tunnels, they first cover them with loose sand, and then several loads of topsoil. For the past 12 months there has been fervent activity taking place with earth moving equipment, and bulldozers clearing areas, dumping enormous amounts of soil, and finally moving hundreds and hundreds of mature, fully-grown trees onto the property, ready for sale. This is taking place next to existing nurseries, and is overlooking the main Israeli highway that runs from north to south across the country.<br /><br />Do we have tunnels much closer to home? Our answer is: yes! We believe that the Holy Spirit has alerted us to pray, and to encourage others to pray, that what is hidden will be uncovered.<br /><br />As the IDF continually patrols this area, we have no doubt that they are aware of what is going on, on the ground, and underground. Yet, the IDF is the natural army, and we are the spiritual army. Our fight is not against flesh and blood, but it is against the powers and principalities of this dark world. (Ephesians 6:12) <br /><br /><b>Iran - a Peace Loving Nation indeed </b> | In its recent series of negotiations with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), Teheran claimed that all of its huge nuclear projects are for "peaceful purposes only". Yet, at the same time, it issued a further threat to our area in the form of proclamations that it will arm the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria with missiles, and it intends doing so before the next war. The former Tehran defense adviser has said that Tel Aviv and Haifa will be much easier to hit from Judea and Samaria, as the distance is much shorter than from Gaza, therefore only short-range missiles will be required. [Sources: <i>Times of Israel </i>staff 30 July 2014 - <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hMCmwpsOGn3jvjj8KR6HmwTbZvyLodYyM9vsV9dsQVhKUSqcu_IpoA4ys2uF-Z81j8eHaAkTPr9RPpGnOy-8-ZxtagFFIxh5E9MPgIxnfy1oxjyAYvg7mkfHLunV1KUaUcWMq45w8CqrmogKENrflxZsSInoZJTRpiTeszeIkTAEK2jZPw6aYMm6vN5mEj1BAGeRwwRWnyfgOT3M7mB3lH-Q08VhEN0Le-esxo5GyHPv6HQhPsRf3g==&c=1pIG4uoTr-op5jKM4rvMZAuoBx9wOiAVOLoEXcWS4YaSmyITo3SLbQ==&ch=ILI-Ma6MDg-nZFpBo7EqnJX4nh7Ok8x8IihLjXCaSrVLw-bNL5CmCw==" target="_blank">Iran will arm West bank with missiles</a>; <i>Times of Israel </i>staff 25 Aug 2014 - <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hMCmwpsOGn3jvjj8KR6HmwTbZvyLodYyM9vsV9dsQVhKUSqcu_IpoA4ys2uF-Z81Oq2_KthSuqcn8Em6mzWgDFtlBu51lmcgFeWRZKMB-zk8r8WtrPs-FQnUG7WbZ3eCQB72ZaofflIxQuuFCY5MViyNrFWz64dnY7OpO0vqImVcm2TCL_HkvlDUTJKe4Wgqn00dBmUsNK8nce3rS5Q8CzEj7WGFDALZfei2C6YAa4NobvtHIt9YOqb0fXrq9Zhv&c=1pIG4uoTr-op5jKM4rvMZAuoBx9wOiAVOLoEXcWS4YaSmyITo3SLbQ==&ch=ILI-Ma6MDg-nZFpBo7EqnJX4nh7Ok8x8IihLjXCaSrVLw-bNL5CmCw==" target="_blank">Iran will arm Palestinian</a>s; <i>Israel Today</i>, 31 Aug 2014 -<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hMCmwpsOGn3jvjj8KR6HmwTbZvyLodYyM9vsV9dsQVhKUSqcu_IpoA4ys2uF-Z81VAlndGN8qhmDpeKK0GWQLH__OHnk8niwzVkKeLyufm6GEZxesMtJeL1jc65fv4t0GWVf2kAolmWG4OCNG2maqwT4R5Pfsz10ivgtL7V6zNvqXamauX1T39lyqbuTFjZyyGzV9yDO_wMzFIxS0vg6DLv1jr1AWaKsorlgtpM71C6W344-q8DXoReLwsWQ3377i7-2rR0K12JZYZF0RLbZS4b7tkJF2iMEqFe96ohVNa5Ii_lzGOo9R8m9c9PFXHImWkBbWCV1yg1DbJKyeTXWAANWTHW0t-ckWHST26Jjm3sqwQYQCn_knw==&c=1pIG4uoTr-op5jKM4rvMZAuoBx9wOiAVOLoEXcWS4YaSmyITo3SLbQ==&ch=ILI-Ma6MDg-nZFpBo7EqnJX4nh7Ok8x8IihLjXCaSrVLw-bNL5CmCw==" target="_blank"> Iran arming Palestinians before next war</a>]<br /><br />If Iran is able to arm the West Bank with short range missiles (as stated in the above links), and there are tunnels right here, 8 kilometers from Kfar Sabba, a major Israeli city, this could mean mass destruction.<br /><br /><b>More Threats & Ultimatums</b> | On Wednesday September 3rd, the Palestinian Authority (PA) issued an ultimatum for Israel's withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, enabling an independent Palestinian state, on the pre-1967 borders, to be established within 3 years.<br /><br />Again, the PA is threatening to take Israel to the international Criminal Court if its ultimatum is not met. This has come precisely at a time when Israel is more convinced than ever of the danger of such a move. [Source: <i>Israel today</i>, 3 Sept 2014 - <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hMCmwpsOGn3jvjj8KR6HmwTbZvyLodYyM9vsV9dsQVhKUSqcu_IpoA4ys2uF-Z81GiPXK12JuXUxCclf2vdyI_jAEnVNRfYSqSdUIpC0Ki_5sD0XBZP7BOHXDLZUOEVJUxa24lusszeHU8tZFRUO06sHtoQfvvykhbcVFvFOffPgTk8sRTFTAyfTHnfMufvp9w5cMp4rrAA-S1LiY-uvsvdUi9GgO9cMJaAyVwaVFXxm58yeFLqYgO1Go44J6H93c1a9g1FoqVJXV_Ua9PkJeGMjYgGa0eLLEVz8Is22cJR36feqpLA3JJPXNDvUlYWR773PN-J8EF2BzAvvDLVqMgi-x4nr1ShkLO68DxjnHZQO_6H5xV8FRw==&c=1pIG4uoTr-op5jKM4rvMZAuoBx9wOiAVOLoEXcWS4YaSmyITo3SLbQ==&ch=ILI-Ma6MDg-nZFpBo7EqnJX4nh7Ok8x8IihLjXCaSrVLw-bNL5CmCw==" target="_blank">Israel believes Palestinian ultimatum is dangerous</a>] <br /><br /><b>Fragmentation & Division? </b>| In the Middle East - situations and statements can change on a daily basis. , Only 4 days after Abbas' ultimatum to Israel, he made another speech, and this time only stated that he was losing patience with Israel, but seriously threatened to break partnership with Hamas. He added that there could only be one source of authority ruling over the Palestinians, and their future state, and that if there is to be war, Hamas has no right to call for it.<br /><br />"If Hamas won't accept a Palestinian State with one government, one law, and one weapon - then there won't be any partnership between us," said Abbas. "This is our condition, and we won't back away from it." <br /><br />The Palestinian Authority seem to be determined to eradicate Hamas from Judea and Samaria. However, Hamas has called on its operatives not to co-operate with the investigations of the PA security forces, and has condemned the escalation in the amount of summons and arrests being issued by the PA to their men in the West Bank, which they claim is without reason. [Source: <i>Ynet</i>, 7 Sept 2014 - <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hMCmwpsOGn3jvjj8KR6HmwTbZvyLodYyM9vsV9dsQVhKUSqcu_IpoA4ys2uF-Z81jC_EGRXS6Anw2zh8F9nO_z2uaythq5SZ0z0V5AHkGOBWAopaRtDwmgHRkJxPp2_pfg6_fNQ0hxK_CxX2l3_Ce1_5d5ktsnsIM59lHqQHplMlzg4k6lzfXOKSCyQt4W1srj0Hcqp6QA_OvlGPxKffTmOtdDnNC8ny&c=1pIG4uoTr-op5jKM4rvMZAuoBx9wOiAVOLoEXcWS4YaSmyITo3SLbQ==&ch=ILI-Ma6MDg-nZFpBo7EqnJX4nh7Ok8x8IihLjXCaSrVLw-bNL5CmCw==" target="_blank">Abbas Threatens to break partnership with Hamas</a>]<br /><br /><b>The Spread of the ISIS Cancer </b> | On Friday September 5th, the Shabach, which is the Israeli Internal Security (like FBI in the USA) announced that they have arrested 10 Israeli Arab Citizens, that are affiliated to ISIS. <br /><br />Although we have not heard of any Palestinian citizens being arrested for being affiliated with ISIS, declarations have been made and there have been ISIS flags flown on the Temple Mount, and in some areas of Judea and Samaria, where there have been frequent riots against Israel. Please pray with us that all those affiliated with ISIS will be swiftly apprehended and completely uprooted from within our nation, as well as from the areas controlled by the Palestinian authority. <br /><br /><b>Samaria - in Biblical Context </b>| As we read God's word, there is no doubt that He loves this mountainous area of Samaria, and He has a definite plan. We also know that His timing and ours are not the same, but until He notifies us of His change of plan, we need to continue to intercede and be watchmen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We need to reiterate that Samaria in Hebrew is Shomron, and it has the same root as the Hebrew word "shomer" - this means the guard, or keeper. We are the spiritual gatekeepers on the seam line, from Samaria into Israel, and we literally pass the Hamas stronghold each day, as we enter through the gateway.<br /><br />There are many in Israel that have been called to intercession for this nation. God gives us each different assignments. We have been placed here, as watchmen, on the hill, overlooking this area as an eagle watches from the sky. <b>Would you pray with us, that everything that is hidden, will be brought to light ? <i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">I'm thinking about the outbreaks of severe
anti-semitism in places like France, Britain, Ukraine and the growing
threat that is even showing its ugly head in the great refuge of the
United States of America. This should not surprise us since the apostle
John said that even in the time he lived that there were many
antichrists whereby we knew it was the last days, so for certa<span class="text_exposed_show">in there many more evident today.<br /> <br />
You may say, Wait a minute! John was talking about antichrists not
anti-semites! Same difference. Why do you think anti-semites hate Jews?
Because Jesus came from and is coming back to them.<br /> <br /> Right now
we are seeing another wave of Jews scattered throughout the nations
being driven by hatred back to the Land of God, the land they were led
by God to in the first place, and the land that God is going to make His
last stand against evil. <br /> <br /> When I say last stand, I'm not
saying that like there is any question who will come out the Victor in
the dispute over the land of Israel, and over that Holy Mountain where
God placed His name, and thus His ownership, long ago. The prophets all
spoke about God's "holy mountain" and the future of it. Islam may be
making a claim on it now, but when Yeshua the Messiah of Israel rises up
to take His throne there, Islamists will not be able to hold onto it. <br /> <br />
That's why they fight so hard now - the demons will try to kill as many
Jews as possible saying, If I can't have it, I will make sure you can't
either. That is where we are today, but where are Christians standing
in that matter? Too many are backing the demonic claim. Israel is not
yet all saved, but the promise of God is toward them. <br /><br /><b>Wake up
Christianity, or you in your blindness will choose to fight with the
hounds of hell.</b><br /> <br /> God's Holy Mountain is not just an invisible
"spiritual Zion" but a solid physical, geographical reality just as
the prophets indicated, like Zechariah 8: <i> "Thus says the LORD; I am
returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and
Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD
of hosts the holy mountain." </i><br /> <br /> You can't spiritualize away the
specific location that God has marked as His. The Dome of the Rock may
stand there now, but it is strictly temporary. Islam and the
antichrists that support Islamists are the reason that God <i>Himself</i> will make
His ownership of that mountain unquestionable. <br /> <br /> (Not the unsaved rabbis of various temple mount movements - but <i>Yeshua</i> will make the final ownership claim of that mountain.)<br /> <br />
Many Americans don't think that American Jews will flee to Israel like
they are now fleeing from other nations, but it is coming. The
antichrist spirits in America have certainly joined forces with the
God-haters of Islam. Together they are already waging a covert war on
Christians in the US, and the wave of anti-semitism-disguised-as-anti-Zionism is becoming more and more bold here.<br /> <br /> Last week a
famous British anti-semite, George Galloway, a member of the British
Parliament, declared the northern city of Bradford an "Israel free
zone". His remarks - which are under police investigation - came out of
pro-Gaza (pro-Hamas) demonstrations much like the ones we've been
seeing here in the U.S. Ours are not <i>yet</i> as violent as theirs.<br /> <br /> Don't assume that the USA is immune
to becoming an anti-semitic, hate-spewing crowd like we are seeing from
European nations. Not when a rabbi is shot dead in the streets of Miami
just two blocks from a synagogue that just had hate speech written on
its walls - including the word Hamas.<br /> <br /> Hatred is driving Jews
back to God's land that is surrounded by seething hatred from demonized
Islamists who cannot stand the superior claim that Jews have to the Land
and to that Holy Mountain of God.<br /> <br /> You will notice that the war
in Islamist states is not just against Jews, it is also against
Christians. Our country has tried to build relationship with Islamic
states for strategic economic reasons, and have been trying to bring them
into the modern world. That has meant a willingness to turn a blind eye
to the mistreatment of Christians in some Islamist nations. That goes
back much farther than Barack Obama, unfortunately, but under Obama the
abuse and murder of Christians in Islamist nations has increased
exponentially. It is at a blood-lusting frenzy right now in Syria, Iraq,
Libya and Nigeria.<br /> <br /> Even here in the United States, as the
antichrist spirits continue to rise among the God-haters on the Left,
Christians are seeing the beginning swell of antichrist persecution.
Remember in Nazi Germany the persecution began in restriction and
regulations, and wearing an instant identification so citizens could
avoid contact with Jews.<br /> <br /> We better remember that we are
fighting for our own freedom while we are also standing up for Israel's
right to exist. The hatred of Christianity is ultimately tied in with
the hatred of Israel - Jews are the Saturday people and Christians are
the Sunday people that Islamists are intent to deal with. <br /> <br /> The
hatred of the only people on earth who were ever singled out by God as a
nation to stand before Him, should be a big clue to the reality of our
spiritual kinship, because we are individuals who have been singled out
by God to become a holy nation before Him. Our Individual singling out
cannot erase their national singling out. <br /> <br /> We are in this
battle to the finish which is why it is important to choose our side
wisely in the battle between demonic hatred of Israel and Jews.</span></span></span></span>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-90298453377488505852014-07-24T15:05:00.001-05:002014-07-24T15:24:53.683-05:00When Some of the Wounded IDF Soldiers Open Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br /></b><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Uzi notes</b>, "The basic quotes were taken from listening to injured soldiers on The Voice of Israel Channel 2 (BET) RADIO Stations – all in Hebrew, of course. The date of the interviews on Reshet Bet: 22 July 2014, midday.<br /><br />"This is essentially the account of the interviews, as I wrote them down, while listening. As you may understand from the comments above, this very much relates to my personal testimony and hard experiences of war.<b> I wanted to draw the audience’s attention to the magnitude of the trauma, which caused these soldiers to start off-loading so quickly."</b></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span>The bitterest and toughest battles apparently took place in a suburb of Gaza called Shja'iya. The fact that some of them are indeed talking, is either a sign indicating that they are naturally-open characters, or more likely, that the trauma they experienced was of an enormous magnitude that if they won't talk, they'll explode! Uzi believes that the latter reason is the valid reason.<br /><br /><b>The Gazan Human Shields</b> | And this is what the soldiers are telling:<br /><br />"We went into Shuja'iya, to discover and destroy the Hamas' terrorist tunnels. We discovered there an entire underground-city, with multi-shaft, wide tunnels, with Wi-Fi & air-conditioning systems, concrete walls, and stocked to the ceiling with weapons and explosives. Some of the tunnels are so wide, that they can ride back and forwards on Vespa type scooters..."<br /><br />"And then came the worst! The Hamas 'fighters' started sending towards us 13- and 14-year-old Palestinian children, running at us, wearing explosive-laden suicide-bomber belts! Those children were death-trapped, and became human-bombs, by their community's adults!<br /><br />"We were trained to fight adult-soldiers or any other skilled adults, enabling us to defend our families and countrymen. But this? We had no other option but, in self-defense, to shoot them at as far a range from us as we could, before the 'responsible-adult' that sent them used his mobile-phone to detonate the belts, and kill us".<br /><br />One of the injured soldiers ended up by saying: "I do not know if I'll ever be able to sleep again: the pictures of those poor children, killed by my gun, will probably never leave me!"<br /><br />Let us conclude with the sad words of one of Israel's past Prime Ministers, the late Mrs. Golda Meir: "We may be able to forgive the Arabs for the killing of our children. We cannot however forgive them, for forcing us to kill theirs! Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us!".<br /><br /><br /></span>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-18312095033152850542014-07-20T11:42:00.001-05:002014-07-20T11:42:09.177-05:00Israeli Messianic Leader: The expected sacrifice has begun....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Israel awoke this morning to the 13th day of the Gaza War. In the distance, the explosions of the ongoing battle can be heard. And on the TV screens, pictures of the terrible cost of this war that has been forced upon us are broadcast continually.<br /><br />The expected sacrifice has begun. Five young men have died. Each with a life and a future. Each with families and loved ones. Each with a destiny that could have blessed many. And each with a part to play in the building of this nation. Today, their loved ones are mourning, those destinies have been cut off and the part that each might have played in building this nation is forever gone. <br /><br />In a few hours, the funerals will begin as Israel honors those who have fallen in battle. Sadly, this has always been a part of our nation's history. Each Passover we recite; “In every generation there have been those who have risen up against us.” Today it is Hamas, yesterday it was Hezbollah in Lebanon, a few generations ago, it was Germany. We have never initiated these battles. We have never done anything to deserve them. And yet, even while we bury our dead, we continue to pray that the God of peace would bring peace to all Israel.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;"><i>Front Line Reports</i></span><br />Tunnel Destruction</b> | Over the years, Hamas has built a large number of tunnels, many of them originating from under private homes and exiting into Israel. The purpose of these tunnels is to give Hamas terrorists access into Israel so that they can carry out terrorist attacks and kidnap soldiers and civilians. The destruction of these tunnels is the first goal of the ground action in Gaza. As of this morning, fifteen of them have been destroyed. Yesterday 2 soldiers were killed when terrorists exited one of these hidden tunnels within Israel and fired on an army vehicle patrolling the area.<br /><br />Last night the government authorized a broadening of the offensive, as the IDF looks towards the cities of Gaza, where most of Hamas' weapons are hidden. The placement of these weapons under hospitals, schools and other civilian locations in the midst of crowded neighborhoods is not only a flagrant violation of international law but a sinister part of the enemy's strategy to ensure that there will be many civilian casualties. Hamas willingly sacrifices its innocent people to ensure that world opinion turns against Israel.<br /><br />It would be far safer and easier for Israel to destroy these weapons from the air but this nation's commitment to minimize civilian casualties necessitates the entry of Israeli troops into these incredibly crowded locations. In contrast to Hamas, Israel will put its soldiers in harm's way to save Palestinian lives. How strange modern warfare is!<br /><br />During the night, large numbers of additional infantry and tanks have entered into Gaza in preparation for this next phase of the battle.<br /><br />To date, fifteen soldiers have been wounded with two in serious condition. [<span style="font-size: x-small;">At the time of this posting, Israel has since reported 13 IDF soldiers killed overnight from the Golani Brigade</span>]<br /><br /><b>Attacks Against Israel's Population Centers</b> | The number of rocket attacks against Israel decreased by 30% yesterday, a measure of progress against Hamas.<br /><br />Yesterday, a Hamas missile fell on a Bedouin family killing the father and seriously wounding a young child. This casualty highlights the obvious truth that every missile that is fired into Israel is aimed at civilians.<br /><br />Numerous homes and apartments have been damaged by the ongoing barrage of rockets on Israel's population centers but miraculously the cost in human life has been remarkably low. Israel has called up over 50,000 reservists to active duty. That is the equilavent of the US calling up 3,000,000 reservists to serve in the army!<br /><b><br />World Opinion </b> | London, Paris, Holland, Chile, Turkey, Egypt and the United States is a short list of the nations that are being shaken by demonstrations against Israel's actions in this current war. And even more ominous is the overwhelming hatred of Jews that is being expressed in many of these demonstrations. In Paris, the cry rang out in the night air: “Kill the Jews”. From Turkey comes the accusation that “Israel is worse than Hitler”. In London, a Jewish man fled for his life as an angry mob chased him because he is a Jew. (Click on picture to see video of riots in Paris.)<br /><br />Yeshua said that in the Last Days men would call evil good and good evil. One of the hallmarks of these demonstrations is the inability of people to rightly discern truth. Israel did not commit aggression in the current war. It started when Hamas began to indiscriminately fire missiles into Israel's cities. Hamas is the aggressor. Israel is the victim. Hamas is openly and publicly committed to the destruction of Israel. Israel has repeatedly called for peace and coexistence. If the world loved truth, then demonstrations would be against Hamas, not Israel. The willingness of people to gather against Israel and ignore the incomprehensible evil that is being lived out on the global stage today, only highlights that the spirit of antisemitism is alive and thriving in today's world.<br /><br />The violent demonstrations in Europe's democracies are particularly frightening as these were the very nations that fought and sacrificed so much against the forces of evil in the Second World War. The popularity of hating Jews and Israel in these nations and the complete absence of any demonstration of support for Israel is symptomatic of the Islamization of many of these nations. Their populations will soon discover that human rights, democracy and Islam do not coexist.<br /><br />As Israel commits its soldiers to the battle, the determination of this nation is only increasing. We understand that the struggle will be hard, the cost high. Already Israel's important tourist industry has taken a significant turn downward. (If you are one of those who is considering canceling your soon trip to Israel, I encourage you to please come. Your presence is a great encouragement to the people) The financial cost of this war is huge and the price that we are paying in human life and suffering is immeasurable. As difficult as it is, there is no choice. May God have mercy.<br /><br />We are deeply grateful for your love and support. Together we will see the goodness of God victorious on the earth.<br /><br /><b>Prayer Points | This is a critical moment and we ask you to please join us in prayer.</b><br /><br /> Thousands of Israeli men are in danger as they do battle in the Gaza Strip. Pray for God's protection on each one of them.<br /> Pray for the families of those who lost loved ones in the current battle<br /> Pray that God would raise up voices of truth to counter the anti-Israel dialogue that is so prevalent.<br /> Pray for wisdom for Israel's leaders.<br /> Pray that the Palestinian people would begin to see how they are being exploited by their leaders.<br /> Pray for the knowledge of Yeshua to be manifest in the hearts of many, both Jews and Palestinians during this war. <br /><br />We send you our love from Zion</span>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-15648194377482466012014-05-27T15:55:00.003-05:002014-05-31T09:48:45.253-05:00The State of Religious Freedom in Israel | A So-Called “Price Tag” Attack on Messianic Believers in Beer Sheva<div style="text-align: center;">
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Beer Sheva church ahead of the Pope’s visit, and I immediately followed the link
because I figured the “church” was in fact, the Messianic congregation led by
my friend Howard Bass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not find
anything to indicate that was the case from the article, so I went on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of days later I learned that indeed
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“Price Tag” attacks are acts of vandalism by extreme religious settlers who say that
these attacks are the ‘price tag’ for Israel dismantling illegal Jewish
outposts in territories north of Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This "Price Tag" attack on the Yeshua's Inheritance
congregation in Beer Sheva is unusual, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as press reports note, because they </span></span></span>do not occur in the south. The attacks occur in north where illegal outposts are, not
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readers is that the Beer Sheva attack was probably NOT an authentic “Price Tag”
attack by the northern religious settlers, but rather the ongoing persecution
of the Beer Sheva congregation by their nearby neighbors – made up of a religious yeshiva
and local religious leaders who have made it their seeming life goal to intimidate,
harass and threaten the believers of the Nachalat Yeshua congregation whenever it suits them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apparently Israeli authorities or the Israeli press would rather fold this ongoing religious intolerance of the
Messianic Beer Sheva believers into the unrelated “Price Tag” attacks in the
north, and too many Israel-supporting Christians are probably fine with not getting into
the details or facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing so
apparently supports both of their agendas of putting their heads in the sand
when it comes to Israel stepping up to its obligations as a democratic state.</span></span></span><br />
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As Howard Bass notes on his short website notice of the attack, “Six months
ago, during a Jews for Jesus evangelism campaign in Beer Sheva, Jewish teenage
yeshiva students, with their rabbi, were filmed defacing the same property, but
the police refused to take any action against them.”<br />
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In November 2013, when those incidents took place, Howard wrote in a prayer letter, “<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Despite
having captured them on cameras, the police have not taken any decisive action
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That, unfortunately, is the
pattern of most Israeli officials when they receive reports of religious intolerance
acts against Messianic believers and congregations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many Messianic congregations do not even
tell their followers in the international church what is happening, and certainly it
is a waste of time to tell the Israel-supporting international church, which
is mostly concerned about its ties with Israeli politicians, dignitaries and traditional religious
figures while completely ignoring the existence of the up to 20,000 member
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On December 24, 2005, the Beer
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citizens who had been agitated by the head rabbi in Beer Sheva along with the
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service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was intimidation of
congregants, punches landing, cars kicked, destruction of equipment and
property, while the spiritual leader of the congregation, Howard Bass, was thrown
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As Howard wrote on the day of the incident, “Even children participated in the
destructive and profane acts, and the parents admitted to teaching them to
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The 2005 incident wasn’t even the first time the Beer Sheva head rabbi led a
mob action against the Messianic congregation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1998 a mob of about 1,000 had been stirred
against the Beer Sheva congregation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
congregation is located just down the street from an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva, which
takes constant opportunity to curse and threaten the Messianic members. <br /><br />One Maariv reporter, Boaz Gaon, experienced the degree of threat firsthand when the yeshiva leader
threatened to gouge out the eye of Howard Bass with a key in the presence of the reporter after the 2005 mob incident. When Gaon identified himself as a reporter, the yeshiva leader justified the vile threats of physical harm, Gaon reported, by saying, "that's the only way to talk to them. . . you have to trample their honor, humiliate them." [<a href="http://amiortiz.com/amiortiz-com-press/blog/blog_categories/486" target="_blank"><i>The God of Vengeance</i></a>, translated]<br />
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Regardless, when the matter went to court, the judge found against the
Messianics saying that there was no specific proof that Rabbi Deri or Yad L’Achim had
purposefully lied to their flocks - inflating the planned baptism of two people
that was to take place that day into allegedly involving many more underage
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The judge simply ruled out
the evidence.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When the verdict came back upholding the mob instigators and holding the Beer
Sheva congregation responsible, just to add insult to injury, Christian and
Messianic publications <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israel Today</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charisma</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Compass Direct</i> found fault with Bass for bringing the suit. It was also reported that the lawsuit against Rabbi Deri and
Yad L’Achim missionaries had only been brought by Howard Bass for the money!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Generally, It is amazing to me how the
Israel-does-no-wrong crowd is willing to lie to themselves when Israel does something very wrong toward our spiritual brothers and
sisters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having recently been the target
of a rather heinous false accusation of defaming a victim of a terror attack in
Israel, I completely understand how Howard Bass feels about these false
accusations being repeated by fellow Messianic and Christian news media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is unconscionable that they also would not
revise their published accounts when presented with the facts of the case. </span></span></span><br />
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in Wayne King’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Compass Direct</i> report
on the verdict in the lawsuit the Beer Sheva congregation brought against Rabbi
Deri and Yad L’Achim, fell victim to bad editing and try as we might, the false
impression of Howard Bass’ motives in the case went out far and wide –
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for their alleged role in the attack, or $389,052 from the rabbi and Yad
L'Achim. The case, Bass said, was to 'honor the name of Jesus Christ in
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appreciate your intentions, but the juxtaposition of the comments and
the closed quotes definitely do not give a good impression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
I know that I never said the that the damages were in order to elicit
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criticism by other Israeli Messianics via <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israel
Today</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Comments by another Messianic
attorney on the verdict, without firsthand knowledge of the proceedings but
only reading the 18-page decision by the presiding judge, also cast the Beer
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enough evidence was provided by the plaintiffs to prove that Yad L’Achim or
Rabbi Deri were responsible for inciting the violence” did not give Bass’ case
the credibility it deserved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judge
Ruzin, in fact, disallowed admissions that were made on the radio by a bragging
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he still right to say there was not enough evidence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think so, and this is precisely why
open trials and open reporting of the evidence presented or denied in a trial
should be reported during the course of the trial and not just in the aftermath
when so many have already made up their minds based on assumptions.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span>The injury is that the police did not do their jobs, the Israeli courts
did not uphold the right of the Messianic congregation to meet without
religious persecution, and then even fellow believer news media accused the
victim rather than the perpetrators.</span></span></span></div>
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2005 Beer Sheva attack up close and personal, that every step taken by Howard
Bass and the congregation was done in consultation with Israeli Messianic
leaders, and by seeking God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For anyone,
much less believer news media, to accuse Bass of being in it for the money is
profoundly ignorant and arrogant – ignorant of the facts and ignorant of the
character of Howard Bass, and arrogant to report such a thing after the Israeli
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Some in Israel and many in the
international church just do not like owning up to the fact that Israel – a
nation besieged by those who hate God and hate His plans for Israel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– does not do right by the Messianic Jews and the wider evangelical community who
believe in Jesus within the nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
though the Israeli people have never been more open to hearing about Yeshua,
law enforcement and the courts are not defending the believers as they
ought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Unfortunately, for many believers, the attitude is that the persecution is really not
that bad, so it should be fine for the Messianic believers to just bear it in silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going further, I have even conversed with one Messianic leader
in the U.S. who earlier was in total denial about the Israeli believers being persecuted – at
least, that was his position prior to the 2008 religious terrorist bombing of the
Ortiz family in Ariel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that
Messianic Jewish pastor has changed his tune since then, after 15-year old Ami Ortiz
almost died after opening a bomb rigged Purim
basket at their kitchen table. The bombing was later confessed to by an Orthodox Jewish anti-missionary, Jack Teitel.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Right after the attack, renowned
Israel supporter John Hagee was in Israel, in fact in the city of Ariel itself
to dedicate a new sports center that his group helped sponsor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israelprayer
</i>received reports in the region of believers who informed the American
minister about the bombing of this Messianic family who have long been involved in Jewish and
Arab outreach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone expected that he
would reach out to comfort the distraught parents praying for the life of their
child, but there was not even a phone call made in the days, weeks or months to
follow to our knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>How is it that Israel-supporting Christians will fund religious schools and
numerous other ‘good deed’ projects of Israelis, yet will not openly or even
covertly acknowledge the Jewish believers in Israel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I don’t get that in the least.<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>R</b></span>ecently a friend who also is extremely concerned about the persecution against
Israeli believers, Jim Melnick of the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish
Evangelism, obtained some very interesting FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)
material from the U.S. State Department related to the anti-missionary activities of Yad L’Achim against
Howard Bass and the Beer Sheva congregation. The material also touched on the bombing of Amiel Ortiz in Ariel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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A State Department memo obtained under FOIA actually looked closely at the reports filed by Wayne King for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Compass
Direct</i>, with the recommendation
that they be factored into the State Department’s annual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">International Religious Freedom Report</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> From this one fact alone, we see that what </span>is written in Christian and Messianic
media about these issues not only count, but they count very much.</span></span></span></div>
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negative impression of his character and motives after the court case, it also
matters because the U.S. State Department, which keeps track of these issues
through its annual IRFReport is watching and noting what is happening and what is being written about it.</span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Another one of the interesting FOIA releases that my
associate, Jim Melnick received recently (several years after his request for
the materials) is a letter that was sent from the now deceased head of the
anti-missionary group Yad L’Achim, Dov Lipschitz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His letter is addressed to Michael Posner,
then Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S.
State Department in charge of producing the annual report on International
Religious Freedom. <br />[<i>See scanned copies of these two letters at the end of this article.</i>]</span></span></span></span><br />
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the U.S. regarding its ill-treatment of Israeli Messianic Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lipschitz admitted in his letter that Yad
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played the ‘Holocaust card’ in his letter to the then Assistant Secretary of
State, Michael Posner, who is also an Ashkenazi Jew. Lipschitz wrote, “In the
wake of the Holocaust, which claimed six million Jewish lives, Yad L’Achim
seeks to protect unsuspecting Jews from attempts by missionary groups to
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the response duty to Peter J. Kovach, Director of the Office of International
Religious Freedom Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor who replied to Lipschitz
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">“…you have encouraged those who break the law, who literally steal Jews from their people. The missionaries are taking advantage of your report – including its implicit support for their efforts – to advance their cause." <br /><br />“Moveover, your report caused harm both to a friendly U.S. government and to Yad L’Achim (some of our donors have withheld contributions as a result of the negative publicity).<br /><br /> “Clearly, the U.S. government has no interest in aiding and abetting those who lure Jews from their faith, especially after the Holocaust destroyed a third of our people. In the name of fairness, I ask that you publish this letter in your publications.” </span></span></li>
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second takeaway is that accurate reporting of persecution incidents causes
behind the scenes pressure being put on the Israeli government to do a better
job of protecting the religious freedom of its Messianic Jewish citizens.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br /> </span></span></span><br />
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raised concerns about religious freedom with the MFA [Ministry of Foreign
Affairs], the MOJ [Ministry of Justice], the police, the Chief Rabbinate, and
other government agencies. Issues included expanding the list of officially
recognized religious groups; investigating religiously motivated acts of
violence against minority religious groups, including Messianic Jews and
Jehovah's Witnesses; investigating vandalism of mosques and churches; upholding
women’s rights against religious or social coercion in public spaces and on
buses; and ensuring that the practice of preventing entry into the country
based on the MOI’s [Ministry of Interior] lists of suspected ‘missionaries’ was
indeed ended.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The MOI did not arrest, detain, require bail for entry or a written pledge to abstain from missionary activity, or refuse entry to anyone due to their religious beliefs. There was no indication that the MOI collected data on alleged missionaries from antimissionary groups and used it to deny entry to the country to foreign individuals. There was no official statement that the policy had changed, but no incidents were reported since the July 2011 action of a Jerusalem district court judge who reprimanded the MOI for the illegal procedure.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I</b></span>n fact, during the November 2013 Jews for Jesus annual campaign in Israel mentioned earlier by Howard Bass, a British Jews for Jesus volunteer participating in the campaign was arrested for merely holding up a banner about Jesus along with other JFJ participants. Barry Barnett was arrested after much anti-missionary opposition during the campaign. Barnett was deported after spending four days in an Israeli prison, an experience that left Barnett shaken. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What is clear is the reluctance of some Israeli Messianics to report incidents of harassment and persecution on the one hand (which may be noble in some circumstances), but the net result of keeping silent is that the rest of the international church and others who might be supportive are kept in the dark about the true situation. While some of the Church is willfully ignorant of these things, other parts of the Church will be willing to come alongside to help brothers and sisters if they only knew. Hopefully, this article will be read by many of the latter.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If this process deteriorates still further, the next step would be to consider filing complaints with international authorities regarding the maltreatment of some foreign tourists in Israel in their exercise of religious freedom. With Barry Barnett’s arrest, detention for several days in prison and then expulsion from Israel, the Israeli authorities have crossed a line. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Contact Jim Melnick at fsjmin@infionline.net </span> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2010:</b> “There were reports of abuses,
including detainees, in the country. Some tourists were temporarily detained
for religious reasons at Ben-Gurion Airport, prevented from entering Israel,
and sent back to their countries of origin because of the MOI's "suspicions
of missionary activity," as explained to them by the border control
officials at the airport. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #17365d;">According to a
government report cited in an April 4, 2010, Yediot Ahronot newspaper
article, 30 percent of the more than 110,000 tourists detained in 2009 at the
airport for rigorous security interrogations were on an MOI watch list, while
the others were on security watch lists.</span></i></b> There are no clearly
publicized regulations as to how the MOI places a person on the watch list or
on what grounds, but the questioning of such individuals often relates to
their religious beliefs.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2010:</b> “According to JIJ [Jerusalem
Institute of Justice] attorneys and representatives of affected religious
communities, Yad L'Achim pressured landlords, employers, and MOI officials to
assist its campaigns against groups it deemed ‘dangerous cults’."</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2010:</b> “Embassy officials maintained a
dialogue with NGOs focusing on human and civil rights, including religious
freedom, and promoted interfaith initiatives. Embassy representatives also
attended and spoke at meetings of such organizations and encouraged religious
leaders to advance regional peace and calm local tensions. The embassy
conducted programs that exposed Israelis to U.S. models of religious
diversity and civil society.</div>
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</span>“Proselytizing is legal in the country and missionaries of all religious
groups are allowed to proselytize all citizens. A 1977 law prohibits any
person from offering material benefits as an inducement to conversion. It is
also illegal to perform a conversion ceremony for persons under 18 years of
age unless one parent is an adherent of the religious group seeking to
convert the minor. Despite the legality of proselytism, the government has
taken a number of steps that discouraged proselytizing and encouraged the
popular perception that it is illegal.”</div>
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</span>“The MOI [Ministry of Interior] has cited proselytism as a reason to
deny student, work, and religious visa extensions, as well as to deny
permanent residency petitions.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2011:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“The MOI continued to collect data on alleged missionaries from
antimissionary groups like Yad L’Achim and used it to deny entry to the
country to foreign individuals. According to a July 3 Ma’ariv article, a
Jerusalem district court judge overturned a 2010 MOI decision to deny a
foreign pastor a clergy visa and deport him from the country due to an NGO’s
allegations of missionary activity. In his ruling the judge chided the MOI
for adopting an illegal procedure and relying on hearsay from religious
informants and instructed the MOI to limit its enforcement actions to those
strictly in accordance with the law.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2012:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“The Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty protects religious freedom
through reference to the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of
Israel. The declaration describes the country as a Jewish state with full
social and political equality, regardless of religious affiliation, and
provides for freedom of religion. However, governmental and legal
discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism
continued.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>The U.S. government engaged in
detailed discussions on religious freedom issues with the government and
religious and civil society organizations. Embassy officials raised such
issues as expanding the list of officially recognized religious groups,
investigating religiously motivated acts of violence against minority
religious groups, and the importance of a public response to vandalism of
religious places.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>According to the CBS [Central Bureau
of Statistics] report, <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9 percent of the Jewish population
identifies as Haredi (“ultra-Orthodox”), <br />
10 percent identifies as Orthodox, <br />
15 percent describe themselves as “traditional, religious,” <br />
23 percent call themselves “traditional, not so religious,” and <br />
43 percent describe themselves as “nonreligious/secular” Jews, most of whom
observe some Jewish traditions.<br />
“Although not differentiated in official statistics, a 2012 Guttman Institute
poll shows that approximately 500,000 traditional and secular Jews associate
themselves with the beliefs of the Conservative or Reform streams of Judaism.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There is also a community of
approximately 20,000 Messianic Jews.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>The Law of Return provides the
right for any Jew, or any child or grandchild of a Jew, to immigrate to
Israel from a foreign country with his or her spouse and children.
Prospective immigrants routinely face questioning about their religious
beliefs to determine their qualifications for citizenship. While Jews who are
atheists or who state their adherence to other religions are conferred
immigration benefits, Messianic Jews are routinely excluded, despite the
Supreme Court repeatedly upholding the right of Israeli Jews who believe
Jesus is the Messiah to retain citizenship.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>Proselytizing is legal for all
religious groups. A 1977 law prohibits offering a material benefit as an
inducement to conversion. It is also illegal to convert a person under 18
years of age unless one parent is an adherent of the religious group seeking
to convert the minor. Despite the legality of proselytism, the government
generally discourages proselytizing and encourages the popular perception
that it is illegal. The MOI occasionally cites proselytism as a reason to
deny student, work, and religious visa extensions, as well as to deny
permanent residency petitions.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>MOI officials continued to revoke
citizenship or deny services (such as child registration, social benefits,
identity cards, and passports) to some citizens based on their religious
beliefs, according to the JIJ. This included cases of individuals who
immigrated under the Law of Return as Jews but were discovered to hold
Messianic or Christian beliefs. According to the JIJ, on July 4 the MOI
granted residency to a Holocaust survivor whom it previously had refused in
May 2011 due to her profession of Messianic Jewish beliefs.”<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>The MOI did not arrest, detain,
require bail for entry or a written pledge to abstain from missionary
activity, or refuse entry to anyone due to their religious beliefs. There was
no indication that the MOI collected data on alleged missionaries from
antimissionary groups and used it to deny entry to the country to foreign
individuals. There was no official statement that the policy had changed, but
no incidents were reported since the July 2011 action of a Jerusalem district
court judge who reprimanded the MOI for the illegal procedure.”<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>On August 2, the Knesset amended
legislation from 2010 to apply tax exemptions to all places of religious
instruction equally.” <br />
“All recognized religious communities are exempt from taxation for places of
worship, according to the annually drafted Arrangements Law. In August,
following a petition from the Jerusalem Institute of Justice (JIJ), the
Knesset amended the municipal and property tax law to grant a 100 percent
exemption to all religious institutions that do not use their space for
commercial purposes, just as it had done solely for synagogues in 2010.”<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>The U.S. embassy consistently
raised concerns about religious freedom with the MFA, the MOJ, the police,
the Chief Rabbinate, and other government agencies. Issues included expanding
the list of officially recognized religious groups; investigating religiously
motivated acts of violence against minority religious groups, including
Messianic Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses; investigating vandalism of mosques
and churches; upholding women’s rights against religious or social coercion
in public spaces and on buses; and ensuring that the practice of preventing
entry into the country based on the MOI’s lists of suspected ‘missionaries’
was indeed ended.”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>Societal attitudes toward
missionary activities and conversion were generally negative. Most Jews
opposed missionary activity directed at Jews, and some were hostile to Jewish
converts to Christianity. Messianic Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses were harassed
regularly by Yad L’Achim and Lev L’Achim, Jewish religious organizations opposed
to missionary activity.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">America
is in a very dangerous state right now. In the early 1990's I began to
wonder how it was that a nation like Germany that was a long bastion of
Christianity managed to become such a brutal totalitarian state. I
specifically set out on a journey to do a personal study to investigate
why the Church failed to stand against the Nazis especially in relation
to the stripping of all Jewish rights, properties and ultimately their
lives.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I began with reading obvious books on the subject of Nazi
Germany and allowed what I read to lead me to other books and to many
different trails all related to the same. My main interest was why the
Church allowed itself to be quietly swept into support of the Nazis, as I
had heard the excuses that, #1. "They really weren't Christians" and #2
"They were fearful to oppose the Nazis." <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I did not buy either excuse and my year long study of the question convinced me that my gut on this was accurate. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Now the reason I am saying all this is because I did not start with the
rise of Nazi Germany and go forward, but I started prior to the rise of
Hitler and studied the conditions that were present as he began to rise
and as he was being seated in power. These types of power shifts have
to do with a moral power shift in the public and Hitler was able to
enact his ill-will because enough people of like-mindedness on political
issues were to be found in key places - like the German judicial system
and even German theologists which he used to convince German Christians
to support him, or at least have the "godliness" to not resist their
human authorities.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> What I'm getting at is conditions that existed
in Germany bureaucracies, as well as in misguided and easily
manipulated Christianity, played a huge part in the totalitarian
government that took hold of Germany under Hitler. Fear of resistance
came much later, when they could no longer resist with any
effectiveness.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I'm really concerned about the state of America.
If Americans really knew what the actual state of things were - and I'm
not talking about ANY conspiracy theories just the simple unvarnished
truth behind all the current scandals of this administration and his
like-minded bureaucrats - we would not go so stupidly quiet into this
dark night. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I will tell you this: you better pay careful
attention to the IRS scandal because it has the most potential to strip
you of your freedom of speech and freedom of religion. We are a frog in
a pot of warm water on the verge of bubbling into a rapid boil. We
better wake up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Do not grow scandal weary. These scandals of the
government are not political witch hunts, they are real abuses by
people who have a like-minded agenda for America that has no place for
the convictions of people of faith. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> These unrelated scandals of
our current government does not require that all these people be
directly related to a conspiracy network, because it is their mindset
that connects them. Many take direct individual actions within their
realms of authority - IRS, Homeland Security, Judicial, State Dept -
because the environment is ripe for action. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Writing in hopes
that we pay attention and take notice of the eroding of American
individual freedoms - and that we do everything within our power to
resist. When I did this study I discovered one German theologian,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who recognized the dangers early and who worked
exhaustively to warn not only Germany but the world - especially
Christians. But no one wanted to hear him. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Bonhoeffer gave his
life to resistance of the Nazis. We should learn the lessons of
history, rise early to resist America becoming totalitarian as this path
is certainly forming. I'm not advocating any crazy stuff, but I'm saying pay attention and fight it through the political and legal processes while we can.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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thing you need to know is that it was the Jerusalem Institute of Justice that ‘broke
the story’ of Christy</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> as they shared the platform at a conference on
Palestinian Human Rights week at Uppsala University in Sweden.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">JIJ’s Calev Myers also spoke at the Swedish
Parliament addressing Palestinian Human Rights violations.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can access many fascinating videos from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBhHJaoMPzo&list=UUTm8ge_A3hVV5DxXi0r7SIA&utm_source=Thank+you+for+signing+up+for+the+Jerusalem+Institute+of+Jerusalem!&utm_campaign=ffccb8949d-Year_End_Appeal_12_11_2012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3848dc1c9b-ffccb8949d-604">JIJ
time in Sweden at the JIJ channel on YouTube</a>, including this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_2kKYjVOP0&list=UUTm8ge_A3hVV5DxXi0r7SIA">Q&A
session with Mati Shoshani moderating and Calev Myers, Christy Anastas and Eli
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Second thing you need to know is
that Christy Anastas appeared along with her mother, Claire, in a 60 Minutes
segment by Bob Simon about Christians in the Holy Land in 2012.</b> That segment was universally denounced as
dishonest and misleading by Israelis, Jews and many Christians. During her talk at Uppsala University,
Christy directly contradicts the story Bob Simon told in his 2012 smear of Israel,
as CAMERA also did in 2012 <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=3&x_outlet=13&x_article=2226">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CAMERA put out an alert sharing Christy Anastas backstory and the video of her
talk at Uppsala University, making mention that it was the Jerusalem Institute
of Justice that first put up the video but later pulled it off YouTube. Christy shot a new intro and outro to
wrap-around her talk at Uppsala, and it was re-posted to YouTube by the Emmaus
Group, a Christian group in the UK that draw attention of mistreatment of
Christians in Muslim-majority settings. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clearly Christy wanted her talk on the web despite the death threats, so I
contacted Calev Myers at Jerusalem Institute of Justice to see if there was
anything I didn’t know that factored in to JIJ pulling the video. I suspected that they pulled the video out of
concerns for the death threats. Calev
confirmed that the information Christy shared was correct, and that JIJ had
taken the video down because of the death threats to not only Christy but also
the Anastas family. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Christy has been given asylum in the UK (still not a safe place from Islamists)
and her family members still live in
Bethlehem. Pray for them. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Christy says in the Uppsala video that she was Christian by birth but one day
she read the Bible and she became a different kind of Christian. One that recognizes, for instance, as th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">e <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ku6tukr">Times of Israel reports</a>, “I believe God
has given this land to the Jews as an everlasting covenant.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like many Palestinian Christians, Christy’s family rejects what Christy now
believes and speaks about Israel and the source of so much of the human rights
violations of Palestinians. This is not
unusual from Palestinian Christians – some of whom are fearful for their own
safety but also from some who are nominally Christian (born into a Christian
family but not with a living faith relationship). </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some get incensed over anyone making that distinction, but it is a reality that
is never clearer than on ground in the disputed territories where
denominationally-Christian Palestinians relate more to Islamists than to the international
Church of believers in Jesus. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is also a distinction that <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=3&x_outlet=13&x_article=2226">CAMERA
noted in their 2012 article</a> about certain Palestinian speakers of the
Christ at the Checkpoint conference. In
fact, I would recommend those who are interested in the recent controversy over
Messianic Jewish participation in the CATC conference in 2014, read CAMERA’s
report which contains many honest quotes from Palestinian Christians about the
rock & the hard place they occupy.<br />
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of faith to lay hold of. There are many resources in this short article to
educate even those who do not know what the issues are.</span></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Pray also for "Son of Hamas" Mosab Hassan Yousef. <br /><br />Did you know when Abbas claimed that Hamas would recognize Israel, it was Mosab's father, an imam who is a spiritual founder of Hamas, who said , Oh no we won't! Hamas will never recognize Israel's right to exist.<br /><br />One of the striking things that came out of the evidence of the Holy Land trial is how at the secretly wiretapped meeting of Islamists in America in a several day gathering in 1993, is<b> </b><i>how the men grappled with how to present themselves to appeal to the U.S. public without appearing to their own followers to be caving into core principles like never abandoning the cause of destroying Israel. </i><br /><br />When President Abbas threw out this claim that Hamas would recognize Israel simply as a political neutralizer of Israel saying a unity PA-Hamas govt ended any hope for a peace process, it was Sheik Hassan Youseff, speaking <b>as the SPIRITUAL authoritative voice of Hamas</b> who said what Hamas was going to do. </span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">I was reading Sunday in <a href="http://www.jnnnews.com/">Barry and Batya
Segal’s Jerusalem News Network</a> email about this and my eyes locked on the
name <a href="http://tinyurl.com/n3twmd8" target="_blank">Hassan Youseff quoted from a UK newspaper, </a><i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/n3twmd8" target="_blank">The Independent</a>. </i>If you will
remember, this is the father of Mosab Hassan Youseff, who is known as “The
Green Prince” in Israel. His book, “Son
of Hamas” about his ten years as a spy for Israel was made into a movie which
won awards a few months ago at the Sundance Film Festival. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Could father and son be any more far apart?
Mosab was not a Christian at the time he was spying for Israel, but he
saw in prison that Palestinians afflicted Palestinians more than Israelis
did. When he was released from prison he
became a valuable asset for Israel’s counterterrorism because he wanted to stop
terror attacks. Later Mosab’s pursuit of
justice and truth led him to become a Christian as well.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This week we have a Palestinian
daughter and a Palestinian son</b> <b>who went against everyone they hold
dear in order to stand in the truth.</b> Their influence cannot be truly measured. <b>This
is a clear call to pray for Palestinians to love the truth and follow it to the
ultimate truth who is Yeshua/Jesus.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Israel's Isolation</span></b><br />by Eddie Santoro<br /><a href="http://www.tikkunministries.org/donations.php?ministry=ZionsGlory" target="_blank">Zion's Glory Ministries</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Prophecy Fulfilled </b> | Zechariah 14 declares that in the time of the Lord's return, all the nations of the earth will be gathered together to fight against Jerusalem. In Revelation 19, we see the rider on a white horse and his armies of heaven who are coming down to make war against the kings of the earth who have gathered against him. The writers of these two books, although they lived over 600 years apart were seeing the same event; the uniting of the nations of the world against Israel in the last days. <br /><br />In Joel 3, the prophet declares that God "will enter into judgment against the nations concerning my inheritance, my people Israel." And what had the nations done to bring God's final judgement against them? According to the prophet, their crime was that "they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land."<br /><br />Amazingly, we are living in a day when that which was prophesied long ago is being fulfilled. From the rebirth of Israel 67 years ago to the increasing hostility of the nations against it, the history of the earth is unfolding according to God's Word. <br /><br />The past weeks have seen an escalation of the attacks against Israel, both in the international diplomatic arena and also on the borders of this nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Unprovoked Attacks </b> | Over the past months there has been a significant degeneration of Israel's security situation. The usually quiet border with Syria has erupted into violent and deadly escalations as Islamic Jihadist fighters who are warring against President Assad's government have taken advantage of their newly won proximity to Israel to launch unprovoked attacks against this nation.<br /><br />To our south, the Sinai, which not too long ago was a popular vacation destination for thousands of Israelis has become a launching pad for unprovoked radical Islamic attacks against Israel.<br /><br />Hezbollah in Lebanon has recently carried out unprovoked attacks against Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border. Their leader, Nasrallah is threatening that this is just a prelude to the coming war that will annihilate the nation of Israel.<br /><br />Hamas, our arch enemy that controls the Gaza Strip is continuing with its unprovoked missile attacks into southern Israel.<br /><br />The common word in all of these situations is unprovoked. Israel has done nothing to bring the wrath of their enemies against them. From an Islamic mind set, Israel's very existence is the core issue. Finally, it is not Israel's foreign policy or supposed aggression that makes this nation the hateful target of the entire Islamic world. It is that the nation simply exists.<br /><br /><b>The United Nations Human Rights Council </b> | The United Nations Human Rights Council led the diplomatic charge against Israel this past week. In their most recent session, the UNHRC passed five resolutions condemning Israel for its "occupation" of "Palestinian" lands and its treatment of Palestinians who live over the pre -1967 border. In a particularly irrational vote, the council felt that it was important to raise concern over Israel's treatment of Syrian residents who live on the Golan Heights, while ignoring the fate of the Syrian people who live in Syria and of whom 150,000 have been killed since the civil war erupted there several years ago.<br /><br />The council also felt it necessary to single out Israel by passing a resolution which mandates that every time the UNHRC meets, they MUST participate in a public discussion of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people.<br /><br />The passage of the resolutions condemning Israel was even more sobering when one considers that they were passed by a 46 - 1 majority and that Italy, France and Germany, the representative nations of the EU also voted in favor of the resolutions. Only the United States voted against, saying they were one sided and stating that the UNHRC was ignoring many of the world's worst human rights violations.<br /><br /><b>Growing International Isolation of Israel </b> | It is impossible to separate these resolutions and the growing international BDI (Boycott and Disinvestment from Israel) from God's Word which states that in the Last Days all the nations of the earth will turn against Israel. The conflict between the Palestinians and Israel is the only item on the world's agenda that everyone seems to agree on. Resolutions against Iran and North Korea whose populations suffer far greater human rights violations were also passed but none of them received the same overwhelming support that was given to the anti-Israel resolutions.<br /><br /><b>The Peace Process </b> | This one sided approach to the Israeli Palestinian conflict empowers the Palestinians to remain intransigent in their negotiating stand. <br /><br />The Palestinian position that refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish State, demands sovereign control over all of East Jerusalem, ignores Israel's very real security concerns and demands the "right of return" for millions of Palestinians and their descendants is a non starter for Israel.<br /><br />Recently Palestinian Authority Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud al-Habbash stated their official position that Israel has no historical claim to the land it now occupies, that Solomon's temple never existed and that the entire Biblical narrative concerning Israel and the Jewish people is nothing more than a myth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have been in East Jerusalem many times and have seen maps of their hoped for "Palestine". On those maps, not just East Jerusalem but Tel Aviv, Haifa and all of the land of Israel have been swallowed up in their vision of the final resolution of this conflict. The truth is not hidden and although the world has chosen to ignore it, Israel can not indulge in such a luxury. History has taught us that when our enemies speak of our destruction, they mean it.<br /><br />As the Word says, these last days will be the most difficult the world has every known and the center of those "birth pains" that will herald the return of Yeshua and the establishment of his Kingdom will be in Israel.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><b>Beyond a doubt the world's people will be divided into those who love the truth and those who are serving a lie. We praise God that in these days of escalating trials that we are connected with a people like you who love the truth. May each of us stand against the wave of darkness and deception that is sweeping the earth and may we be numbered among those who stood with Israel as a deceived world turned against her.<br /><br />We thank you for your prayers. We are confident that even this mountain will be thrown into the sea. The end will be good. Our God has promised! <br /><br /> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: black;">Eddie Santoro </span></b><span style="color: black;">leads the Love of Yeshua (Ahavat Yeshua) congregation in Jerusalem. </span></span>Along with his wife Jackie, </span><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the Santoro's lives are given to the establishment of the
local Body of Messiah in Israel and raising up a
generation of Israeli believers who will spearhead
the coming revival that must sweep that
nation.<br /><br />They help lead a community that integrates all ages,
discipling, counseling, providing hospitality and
equipping many for the work of ministry. Eddie and
Jackie also travel internationally, sharing and
teaching on Israel and the kingdom of God.<br /><br />Eddie Santoro is an astute discerner of the times in Israel and the Church.</span></span>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724296635032453934.post-31295938263074351032014-03-03T08:30:00.000-06:002014-03-03T10:53:05.010-06:00Moral Equivalence <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I was blogging in the 1990's on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the term "moral equivalence" was a major talking point. <br /><br />Wikipedia writes: "In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the term is commonly used by defenders of Israel. They accuse of moral equivalence those who describe acts of Palestinian terrorism, such as suicide bombing against civilians, on one hand, and the retaliatory acts of the Israeli Defense Forces, on the other, as equally reprehensible." <br /><br />Personally, I believe that if you don't fight back, regardless of what the onlookers say, that is morally reprehensible.<br /><br />Wikipedia also writes: "International conflicts are sometimes viewed similarly, and interested parties periodically urge both sides to conduct a ceasefire and negotiate their differences. However these negotiations may prove difficult in that both parties in a conflict believe that they are morally superior to the other, and are unwilling to negotiate on basis of moral equivalence."<br /><br />Today, we don't hear the term "moral equivalence' come up much in the talking points of the political debates between the pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli. Perhaps because it is like playing Tic Tac Toe over and over again without any winner. People come in and do not really know what the fight is about, or who actually holds the high ground; they just know they want it to stop. Viola! The moral equivalence argument is brought to bear. They no longer mention the phrase "moral equivalence" but they treat the conflict as such.<br /><br />When we are talking about a conflict that involves God's will for the summing up of all things in Messiah Yeshua, we should not expect anything about it to controversy free. Israel has always been the central focus of spiritual warfare and it will remain so to the very end when Yeshua must return.<br /><br />I believe that because America has acted so often as if there was moral equivalence in the terrorist actions against Israel, and Israel defending itself by targeting terrorist heads and cells, that has opened the United States up to our current state. In recent administrations, only in the Bush administration was the American policy an adamant: Israel has the right to defend itself.<br /><br />Both the Clinton administration and the Obama administration have applied the diplomatic strategy that both sides are equally at fault and must come to the table and compromise. Both the Clinton and Obama administrations opened the door allowing terrorist organizations to fund raise and propagandize radical Islam freely in the United States. <br /><br />This was predictable from before Obama's election in 2008 - I and others did predict that Obama would set back the U.S. war on terrorism by decades. What we did not predict is how fast and furious this administration could bring us to the brink of ruin. That is the thing about spiritual deception once it gets rolling downhill it multiplies.<br /><br />Americans have yet to come to the realization of how vulnerable this administration has made us to welcoming Islamists among us but for certain we all will come to realize it in the days ahead just as those in the UK and EU have begun to awaken to their Islamist nightmares.<br /><br />The argument over who holds the high ground is not winning the day, in case anyone in Israel hasn't noticed....and I know they have because I hear the complaint all the time that Israeli is just not being effective in getting their narrative out. The reason that is so is because all the opposition is not about effective narratives, it is about spiritual warfare.<br /><br />Those who do not understand that the opposition that is risen against Israel is the spiritual strategy to destroy Israelis before Israelis can be saved will never understand the dynamics of the conflict surrounding Israel.<br /><br />God is not going to allow Israel to be destroyed, but that does not mean many Israelis will not lose their lives because of natural warfare. Israelis will never again be plucked up from Israel and exiled. According to God's word two times is His limit. (Amos 9:14-15, Isaiah 11:11)<br /><br />So that means if we will impact the battle, we must put our resources behind the spiritual battle that revolves around God's intentions, which is what ALL the opposition in the natural is really about.<br /><br />When the order came from Pharaoh to kill all the little Hebrew babies in Egypt, it wasn't because the Hebrews babies did anything, it was because of the Deliverer that would arise from among them. The same is true when Herod ordered the slaughter of the Hebrew babes in Jesus' day, because the Messiah King was arising from among them.<br /><br />Today, there are deliverers filled with the Spirit of the Messiah who are rising in Israel for the salvation of Israel and the declaration of the coming kingdom of God ruled by Israel's hope, Messiah Yeshua. <br /><br />All of the warring is about this and this is what we must contend for spiritually.</span>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0