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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.)

The world of Nick Venedi ….: The end of democracy?

lawatwork.blogspot.com11/20/11

The end of democracy? There are those who say that the recent financial crisis has given rise to undemocratic factors who are in control of our destiny. It is not governments I think that create global problems but a small …

NYT's Krugman: Depression, democracy, and the end of the …

www.againstdumb.com12/12/11

Boris Vian, the Prince of Saint-Germain. -. Joan Didion and Privilege. -. Geoff Dyer on Martin Amis. -. NYT's Krugman: Depression, democracy, and the end of the European dream. -. High-speed rail will never happen in the US …

But They Can’t See It Coming

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According to a new grammar rule in the Netherlands and Belgium, the name “Christ” must now be written with a lower-case “c”.

The Dutch word for “jews” (joden) must now be written with a capital “J” when referring to nationality and with a lower-case “j” when referring to the religion, but whether Islam should be written as islam or not is not stated.

Non-Muslims (kafirs) are perhaps waging a war against terror, but they are not defending themselves against a World Caliphate and a world governed by Sharia.

Kafir – a derogatory term for a person who is not a Muslim; a nonbeliever, an infidel.
Caliph – a Muslim religious or political leader.
Caliphate – dominion of a caliph.
Sharia – Islamic code of law based on the Koran.

Non-Muslims should be at war with those who believe that:

Death in defense of the faith is the highest possible good.
Cartoonists should be killed for caricaturing the prophet.
A Muslim who loses his faith should be slaughtered in the name of apostasy.

Moderate And Extremist Muslims.

We continually hear liberal pleas that extremist Muslims are a tiny majority and that the majority are not, but Muslims that publicly condemn extremism and jihad can be counted on one hand and so called moderates who say that they wouldn’t themselves commit an act of terror frequently add that they wouldn’t inform on somebody that wasn’t going to carry one out.

Many studies have found that the most radicalized Muslims tend to have better-than-average educations and economic opportunities, so Muslim terrorism doesn’t therefore spring from economic despair, lack of education, American militarism or Israel’s existence and numerous appeasers would have us believe.

The Liberal Failure

Since liberals pride themselves with being reasonable and tolerant of diversity they should be especially sensitive to the dangers of religious fanaticism, but they aren’t and in the U.S. it’s the Christian right that is pointing out the dangers of a creeping Islamic takeover and the doctrine of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe even more blind to impending doom than America, and those who do speak out against Islamization are quickly labeled as fascists.

Democracy Or Sharia?

The sad truth is that it probably already too late for most or even all of Europe because of the low indigenous birth rate which has been prevalent for several decades now. A birthrate of 2.1 is said to be necessary to maintain a population and when Muslim births are excluded those in all European countries are in the 1.2 -1.4 range, whereas when Muslim births are included the rate rises to 4-5%.

Given the above numbers, it should be apparent that Europe will soon be left with one of two choices, Democracy or Sharia.

France for example will have a Muslim majority within twenty five years, and if it is still a democracy then its democracy will be used to overthrow it and a similar pattern will occur throughout Europe.

As a side note, it’s possibly interesting to compare the fall of Europe with the fall of the Roman Empire.

Following Rome’s decline, its women often wanted no more than one child and it’s men imported slaves from Africa to do the work.

Rome was defeated by an enemy that it would have swatted like a fly just a few decades earlier.

If the above rings a bell, then please answer the call!

There is a saying in the Middle East, “What is the difference between a moderate and an extremist Muslim?

The answer?

“The extremist wants to kill a kafir today and the moderate wants to kill him tomorrow!”