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Counterpoint: Christian Zionists Are a Threat | JewishPress

www.jewishpress.com12/27/11

It is both naïve and misleading to deny the serious costs involved in Israel's unregulated relationship with impassioned evangelical Christians. … David Ha'ivri's appearance two weeks ago with Tommy Waller on the missionary God's Learning Channel (GLC) TV network, which strives to “help you see Yeshua (Jesus) in the Torah”, pushed the envelope into forbidden territory. Mr. Ha'ivri is a committed Jew and Zionist who works tirelessly for his land and people. …

MidEastTruth :: View topic – UK Churches are Anti-Israel

mideasttruth.com11/24/11

A survey of several major churches in the UK reveals that Christian Aid, an aid organization of the World Council of Churches (WCC) that propagates far-left anti-Israel views and supports groups that promote the boycott, …

Should Israel Accept Or Refuse Christian Aid?

This is a very serious and complicated dilemma because:

Devout Protestants were advocating the restoration of a Jewish State with Jerusalem as its capital long before Theodor Herzl.

And Anglicans of the 19th Century played a central role in the process that led to the State of Israel’s establishment.

So How Should Israel Respond To Christian Support?

The question about pro-Israel Christian activism cyclically surfaces in Israel and in the US public debate.

And right now the focus is on;

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney because:

His Mormon Church is charged with baptizing dead Jews, a rite that has been a Mormon practice for more than a century.

And the latest Simon Wiesenthal Center’s top 10 anti-Semitic slurs list features two Christian priests from Syria and the US.

How Do Different Christian Groups View Israel?

The Negative Ones

The United Church of Christ attended by US President Obama which is prominently anti-Israel.

The Vatican, which recently embraced a new aggressiveness towards Israel.

The Pro-Israel Ones

The US Evangelicals, which are the most pro-Israel, and some independent Protestant groups, like the Christians for Israel.

How Much Money Do Evangelicals And Others Donate To Israel?

In the last decade, US Christians donated tens and most likely hundreds of millions of dollars for school equipment, playgrounds, medical supplies and bulletproof buses to protect the Jews in Judea and Samaria, while other groups, such as Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein’s International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, raised money to protect Sderot’s residents from Hamas’ rockets.

So What’s The Problem With Evangelical Support?

Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman, is openly contemptuous of Evangelical support, stating that it’s members are motivated by the doctrine that sees Israel as having a special role in the final earthly battle in the "End of Days" during which most Jews are wiped out and the rest embrace Jesus.

It needs to be said however that most Evangelical leaders reject this theology, and a good many Evangelicals have curtailed their missionary activities among Israeli Jews, and the vast majority simply wants to bless Israel because that is what they believe they are called upon to do.

* The origins of Christian support can be traced back to the Gutenberg press (1456), which popularized ideas of "The Promised Land” and "The Chosen People".

Which Christians Are Most Dangerous To Israel?

The hostility toward Israel is actively encouraged by liberal Christians, such as the World Council of Churches and the Vatican, and they pose a much greater near-term threat to Jews than anything the evangelicals might believe or espouse.

Just last week, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales offered the Palestinians a powerful tool of propaganda.

"The comparison with Jesus’ passion!"

Archbishop Vincent Nichols said during his Christmas Mass sermon at Westminster Cathedral.

"We are to be freshly attentive to the needs of those who, like Jesus himself, are displaced and in discomfort, a shadow falls particularly heavily on the town of Bethlehem tonight".

What Should Israel’s Leaders Do?

Many Jews believe that Israel’s leaders need to counter the "Judeo-Christian” blend, which theologically fuses Jews and Christians together without protecting the Jewish faith and maintaining Israel as an independent single-faith Jewish community.

But the Bible teaches quite clearly that,

"If there is the "gentile” who is jealous and aggressive (Amalek), there is also a "Righteous gentile” who is admiring and willing to help (Jethro.)

Santorum Instructs Students On Same-Sex Marriage and Health …

jonathanturley.org1/5/12

When a student asked Santorum asked about health care, the student cited a 2009 Harvard study and noted that he did not “think God appreciates the fact that we have 50 to 100000 uninsured Americans dying due to a lack of healthcare every year.” He should know better to cite an academic study to Santorum …. Many have simply packed up and left the state (which helps keep the unemployment rate statewide low). Those who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly …

American Power: Santorum Sharpens Aim at Romney

americanpowerblog.blogspot.com1/6/12

"A lot of blue collar workers have been left behind in America," Mr. Santorum said Thursday in Manchester. Later, at a campaign event in Tilton, he said his family and his friends' families had worked in factories. To a man who …

What disturbs me most about this video is that the students from New England College are unable to follow the simple logic behind Santorum’s questions.

Santorum knows that his anti-g**-marriage stance will cost him votes, but he was at least patient and trying to make our next generation think a little.

But sadly, they were unable to.

Why Is That Important?

Because if our students aren’t either encouraged, or convinced to give up on their simplistic thinking, then America will soon lag behind a great many countries.

Consider perhaps the attitude that most US students have toward Israel.

They believe that Israel is the villain and that Palestinian land has been appropriated when in fact a Palestinian people never existed

People were displaced, both Jews and Arabs, but Israel absorbed the displaced Jews whereas Arab countries never absorbed displaced Arabs.

Both displaced peoples were around the same size; about a million people.

Why do they have that attitude?

Because they were seduced by simplistic propaganda when they could have checked out the facts easily and quickly, but they didn’t and don’t.

Why?

Because their professors are rabid left-wingers, and the students are lazy and want to be spoon-fed!

Every year, campus hate groups such as the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine join a festival of lies called the “Israel Apartheid Week” whose theme is that Israel is an apartheid state, in spite of the fact that Israel has Arab members of the Knesset; that Arab Israelis can and do vote without any restrictions; that Arabs use the same toilets, buses and restaurants etc. as Jewish Israelis.

Happily, and alternative is now being presented and it’s an honest one and not simply a propaganda one.

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