Saturday, August 8, 2015

The Mystery of Romans 11

It doesn't have to be a mystery.


For if you were cut out of the olive tree
which is wild by nature, 

and were grafted contrary to nature 
into a cultivated olive tree,
how much more will these, 

who are natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree?

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.

The Spirit of God has to give us 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:

"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"

Track with me: "And so all Israel will be saved" What does the And so refer to? It refers to the international Church coming into their spiritual fullness.

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 -

"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."

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, "For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all."
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 "duty" as the Church).

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.)

My Israeli friend, Eitan Shishkoff 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, What About Us? The book that answers Christian questions about, How do Christians fit into the raising of up of Jewish believers in the faith of Jesus.

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.

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, "For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?" 

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.

Whatever is holding you back from considering the things referred to here, it hurts you more than you know.

When my friend Asher Intrater of Revive Israel 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Monday, August 3, 2015

New Urgency in Message for Right Alignment of the Body


DALLAS:  I was very fortunate to be able to see Asher Intrater of Revive Israel 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.

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.

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.

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 both sides have to humble themselves to each other - 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.

"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?

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 truck. 

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. 

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: 

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 right this moment we believers in Israel really need the help of the international church.

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.

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. 

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.

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?

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.

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. 

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.

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.

One of the fascinating things Asher Intrater spoke about in his Baruch HaShem Messianic Synagogue message 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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Remember also what Jesus said when questioned by some religious Jews, Yeshua said, “Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you." This remarkable statement - very prophetic - remains true today.

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 while at the same time giving the cold shoulder to Israeli Jewish believers and ministries in Israel! So hosting and supporting the enemies of the gospel while ignoring the emissaries of the gospel.

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.


You can also hear more messages by Asher on the website of Revive Israel

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

A Word on Religious Persecution of Israeli Believers

The recent news reports on the Elav conference touches briefly on the recent rise is "anti-missionary" activism against the believers in Israel.

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.

Although the Israeli Body of Messiah is 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! 

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 good people. This will influence how the regular public views these incidents.

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.

Massive Missionary Conference in the Heart of Jerusalem
Anti-assimilation group Lehava calls for public protest Wednesday outside 3-day missionary event in municipally owned compound.


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. 

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.

Knesset Cuts Tax Benefits to Messianic Group
Despite Finance Committee chairman's comments, the decision is illegal under Israeli law so the congregation has firm footing to appeal and win a reversal.

* 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.  

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

- Donna Diorio

Monday, February 9, 2015

Islamism: Discerning Friend & Foe

This is an article that will not make sense to those of you who are not Christians or Messianic Jews.  I didn't write it for you, so understand that upfront.  - Donna Diorio
 


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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:

Mathew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.

Luke 9:50 Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

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.

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).

Dr. Jasser, like Mosab Hassan before him, (and others!) is to be found in Luke 9:50.
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.

This is the link 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.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Israel is Ground Zero & We really are Charlie

  Post Charlie Hebdo:Je suis Charlie”
We really are Charlie, we just don’t recognize it yet

by Donna Diorio
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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

It is not poverty that motivates Islamic terrorism and no one is going to cure the problem by handing out rewarding jobs to jihadis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

 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.