What sort of Christians become Zionists?

"We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as a false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation" – The Jerusalem Declaration


Stuart Littlewood, Sabbah Report, 17 June 2010

Not all Jews are Zionists. Many reject the Zionist project and fight against it.
So why on earth would a non-Jew wish to be one? Indeed, how could a genuine Christian seriously consider becoming a Zionist? It has puzzled me for a long time. The two ideas are incompatible, are they not?
So consider for a moment Anglican Friends of Israel, as an example. Their stated aims include:

• To support the people of Israel and to secure defensible borders for the State of Israel.
• To recall the Church to G-d's Covenant with the Jewish people and to call the Church to affirm the centrality of Israel to the Jewish faith.
• To call Anglicans to repentance for the wrongs – of both word and deed – inflicted by Christians on the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.
• To fight all libels against Israel and the Jewish people and their State.
• To protect the Christian communities threatened by Islamic extremism in the Middle East.

Are they Zionists? It sounds very much like it. For them Israel can do no wrong and Christians need to apologise to the Jewish people… er, what for?
And what makes them think that Muslims are more of a threat than Israeli extremists to Christian communities?
You should also see the sort of stuff the Anglican Friends of Israel post on their website.

AFI Press Release: The Mavi Marmara
Written by Anglican Friends of Israel
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Anglican Friends of Israel are dismayed at international condemnation of Israel following attacks upon Israeli Defence Force personnel [by] a supposedly peaceful aid convoy… Israeli offers of peaceful means to deliver the aid into Gaza were refused. Video footage proves that the violence which tragically resulted in the deaths of some passengers and injuries to others including IDF personnel was begun by Aid convoy members… Terrorists in Gaza continue to fire rockets into Israel – over 60 this year so far – and to explode bombs in order to kill and maim Israeli citizens.
Western spokespersons might bear in mind that the terror threat to western nations springs from the same source as that faced daily by Israelis and be more circumspect in making demands on Israel before all relevant facts have emerged.

Anyone would be forgiven for thinking it was actually penned by the crapaganda unit in Tel Aviv. These Anglicans (if they are Anglicans) swallowed Israel's poisonous concoction hook, line and sinker and re-broadcast it while the abducted flotilla aid workers – witnesses to the murderous assault and executions – were incarcerated in Israeli jails and unable to tell the outside world what really happened.

I don't know of any danger to us from Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran, if those are the "terror" sources referred to. I doubt if groups who wish to see the Israeli nuclear threat to their region neutralised are also gunning for us, even though people like Anglican Friends of Israel and foreign secretary William Hague are doing their best to provoke them. But Israel of course wishes to make the British feel threatened and to draw us for strategic reasons into their schemes for permanent occupation and domination. There are always plenty of useful idiots to do their bidding.

A few days earlier the Anglicans issued a press release stating that the flotilla to Gaza was "a publicity stunt, not a genuine aid convoy". The item was actually a statement by the Israeli embassy repeated word for word and containing meaningless information like… "Since last year's January cease fire, 133 million liters of fuel entered Gaza from Israel – That's more than enough fuel to fill the fuel tank of every car and truck in Israel!" and "Since the ceasefire, well over a million tons of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Israel – That's almost a ton of aid for every man woman and child in Gaza."

Meaningless, because the figures lacked context. You have to go to the UN for that. Whatever Israel lets in, says the UN, it's only one-fifth of what's needed.

Some apparently responsible people, it seems, would rather accept without question the disinformation fed them by the Israeli authorities than on-the-spot assessments and reports by the UN and various charities.
Actually Israel is letting in only a quarter of what it let in before Hamas was elected.

Without question there was a publicity angle to the voyage. The organisers had a political point to make – the whole ugly US/UK-created mess out there is a political cesspit. The Israelis couldn't afford to see their illegal blockade breached. The evidence points to a planned execution raid on the Mavi Marmara in the dead of night with a pre-prepared hit-list.

And in a letter to the BBC these Anglicans insisted that Operation Cast Lead (Israel's blitzkrieg on Gaza after breaking the ceasefire with Hamas, subsequently killing 1400, maiming heaven knows how many and making hundreds of thousands homeless) was an act of "self-defense".

If you are as bewildered as I am why so-called Christians are persuaded to sign up to Zionism, a short paper explaining the phenomenon is available from Sadaka, The Ireland Palestine Alliance – see www.sadaka.ie. I found it very helpful.

"The destiny of the Jewish people is to return to the land of Israel and reclaim their inheritance promised to Abraham and his descendants forever. This inheritance extends from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates. Within their land, Jerusalem is recognised to be their exclusive, undivided and eternal capital, and therefore it cannot be shared or divided.
At the heart of Jerusalem will be the rebuilt Jewish temple, to which all the nations will come to worship God. Just prior to the return of Jesus, there will be seven years of calamities and war known as the tribulation, which will culminate in a great battle called Armageddon, during which the godless forces opposed to both God and Israel will be defeated.
Jesus will then return as the Jewish Messiah and king to reign in Jerusalem for a thousand years, and the Jewish people will enjoy a privileged status and role in the world."

That's the Zionist dream in a nutshell.

As I understand it, the Jews were expelled by the Roman occupation in 70AD, when the second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, and again in 135AD.

These days the right of return is regarded as an inalienable right. But it should be exercised as soon as the reason for expulsion (e.g. foreign occupation) ceases. In the Jews' case an opportunity would have occurred in the 4th century AD as the Roman Empire collapsed. But they didn't take it. They can hardly expect to change their mind 16 centuries later. Their right expired a very long time ago.

By comparison the Palestinians' right of return after being ethnically cleansed in 1948 and ever since is much stronger because the enemy occupation has not yet ended and the UN has endorsed their right.

Nevertheless Zionists claim Jerusalem is theirs by heavenly decree. However, this holiest of cities was already 2000 years old when King David captured it. It dates back 5000 years and was named after the Canaanite God of Dusk.

Historians say that Jerusalem, in its ‘City of David' form, lasted a mere 73 years. In 928BC the kingdom divided into Israel and Judah, and in 597BC the Babylonians conquered the city and destroyed Solomon's temple. The Jews recaptured it in 164BC but finally lost it to the Roman Empire in 63BC. Before the present-day conflict the Jews, in total, controlled Jerusalem for some 500 years, whereas it was subsequently ruled by Muslims for 1,277 years. Before the Jews it belonged to the Canaanites. And for nearly 90 years it was also a Christian kingdom. A lot of competing claims, then, which is probably why the UN declared it should be independently administered as an international city.

In 1187 Saladin restored the city to Islam while allowing Jews and Christians to remain. Today Jewish religious groups want control of the city for their spiritual centre and for a third temple to be built in accordance with ancient prophecies. The plan to make the Israeli occupation permanent threatens especially the Muslim but also the Christian holy places and serves to keep political tension boiling. It is no surprise, given Israel's reliance on ‘black' propaganda, that when the Iranian president quoted the late Ayatollah Khomeini as saying the unfriendly regime occupying Jerusalem "must vanish from the page of time", he was immediately reported as wanting to wipe Israel off the map.

Sadaka puts the genuine Christian position by quoting The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism, a statement by the Latin Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued in 2006…

We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as a false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation.
We further reject the contemporary alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations with elements in the governments of Israel and the United States that are presently imposing their unilateral pre-emptive borders and domination over Palestine. This inevitably leads to unending cycles of violence that undermine the security of allpeoples of the Middle East and the rest of world.
We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that facilitate and support these policies as they advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war rather than the gospel of universal love, redemption and reconciliation taught by Jesus Christ. Rather than condemn the world to the doom of Armageddon we call upon everyone to liberate themselves from ideologies of militarism and occupation. Instead, let them pursue the healing of the nations!

The Declaration, explains Sadaka, asserts that "Christian Zionists have aggressively imposed an aberrant expression of the Christian faith and an erroneous interpretation of the Bible, which is subservient to the political agenda of the modern State of Israel… Christian Zionism thrives on a literal and futurist hermeneutic in which Old Testament promises made to the ancient Jewish people are transferred to the contemporary State of Israel in anticipation of a final future fulfillment."

I haven't yet seen credible response from the Christian Zionists.

Alarmingly, the US-based Unity Coalition for Israel brings together over 200 organisations and is the largest pro-Israel network in the world. They claim to have 40 million active members and lobby on behalf of Israel through 1,700 religious radio stations, 245 Christian TV stations and 120 Christian newspapers.

The question I'd like answered is this. Are we to believe that an all-powerful supernatural Being has chosen and elevated one group of humans to a position of supremacy above all others, and has approved the use any means including murder and brutal eviction to achieve their goal, and now mobilizes millions of lesser mortals from around the globe, like those who regard themselves as upstanding Christians, to serve as tools and sing the praises of this ‘Grand Design'?

In the meantime I'm with the Churches of Jerusalem on this one.

It took an 89-year old woman, the formidable White House correspondent Helen Thomas, to prick the Zionists' over-inflated balloon when she said last week that the Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home… to Germany, Poland, America and everywhere else."

The hatchet squad roaming America's den of iniquity promptly fell on her. They may have silenced her, and may even have destroyed this frail lady, but the power of her words will live on…

* Stuart Littlewood is author of the book Radio Free Palestine, which tells the plight of the Palestinians under occupation. Read other articles by Stuart, or visit Stuart's website.


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Christian Zionism Is Not Biblical

2011/05/25

Christian Zionism Is Not Biblical

In the 1980s America  experienced a revival of religious fundamentalism, following the more left-leaning Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Religion and politics became intrinsically tied together in the 1979 with the founding of the evangelical lobbyist organization, Moral Majority.

Southern Baptists, was a powerful force in Southern conservative, voting Ronald Reagan into the White House in 1980 over a fellow Southern Baptist, Jimmy Carter.

Jerry Falwell, an evangelical Souther Baptist and televangelist, advocated American nationalism and Christian conservative values.

Along with powerful evangelical voices like Pat Robertson, Tim LeHaye and Ed McAteer, Jerry Falwell became responsible for Christian Zionism as a geopolitical power.

“Begin developed a close relationship with leading fundamentalists, such as Falwell, who later received a Learjet from the Israeli government for his personal travel and in 1981 was honored with the Jabotinsky Award in an elaborate ceremony in New York”, writes Donald Wagner, professor of religion and Middle Eastern studies at North Park University in Chicago and executive director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.


Menachem Begin was a terrorist, member of the notorious Zionist terrorist group Irgun Zvei Leumi, who conducted the first great act of terrorism against Hotel King David on July 22, 1946, killing 91 of various nationalities and injuring 46.


Begin was elected as Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. In 1982, in a speech to Knesset, Menachim Begin said:



"The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs."

Christian Geopolitical Scheming

Another anecdote further illustrates the level of power held by the evangelist, and the enormous sway Israel gained over American politics: Menachem Begin made his first telephone call after the Israeli bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, to Falwell, asking him to explain to the Christian public the reasons for the bombing. Only later did he call Ronald Reagan.

“Falwell also converted former Senator Jesse Helms from a critic of Israel into one of its staunchest allies in the US Senate, where he chaired the influential Foreign Relations Committee”, writes Donald Wagner.

A ripple of enthusiasm went through the evangelical communities worldwide, calling for Christians to not only support Israel morally and politically, but to raise funds to help more Jews settle in Israel under Aliyah Bet, the Law of Return allowing anybody who can document their Jewishness to gain Israeli citizenship.

The movement was popularly known as Exodus Two, simplistically viewing the return of Jews to Israel as a repetition of the Hebrew conquest of Canaan described in the Old Testament book, Exodus.

Darrell G. Young, in "Focus on Jerusalem Prophesy Ministry", explains the Jewish possession of Israel as central to God’s plan:

“God's mission for Israel to the world as spelled out in the Abrahamic Covenant is inseparably linked with her possession and presence in her own land. (For this reason Satan is actively marshaling his forces to oppose Israel's possession of the Promised Land).”

Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 - 1974, had already in a 1971 interview with Le Monde expressed the same fanaticism:

"This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."

Controlling the Minds of Christians

Since Satan opposes God’s plan, all who opposes the total control of the entire disputed territory, are considered agents of Satan and accursed:

Christian Zionism dates as far back as to the late 19^th century, but during the time of the Exodus Two Movement, Zionism became not only the dominant perspective on the Middle East conflict in the evangelical churches, but a political movement so powerful it effectively replaced core Christian beliefs.

“Christian Zionism is a standard position among the Evangelical protestant religious right, especially in the United States of America", writes Ibrahim Abraham and Roland Boer; “God Doesn’t Care: The Contradictions of Christian Zionism” (2009).

John Hagee, in 2007, bragged that he could make any Christian who states he believes in the Bible pro-Israel, “or they will have to denounce their fate.”

He added, quite arrogantly: “So I have Christians over a barrel you might say.”


The empowerment of Zionism through financial, military and moral support from the world's largest superpower, USA, has emboldened Israeli politicans to believe that Israel exists outside the rule of law, and that it is a country with no accountability to anyone.

On March 25 2001 then Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, was quoted in BBC News Online for saying:

"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial".

The hubris is complete, facilitated by the dangerous ignorance of Christian Zionism which, according to "the largest and fastest growing pro-Israel group", has funelled millions of US dollars into Israel, outside of US aid, thereby supporting a fascist regime bent on the annihilation of the indigenous population.


Surely this cannot be the work of God.

Reason 1: Zionism is an Atheist, Socialist, Nationalist Project

Zionism is a socialist, atheist and nationalist project created by Theodor Herzl, an Austrian Jewish journalist.

The corner stone is not the Torah, known to Christians as The Old Testament, but a small book that was published on February 15. 1896 by the publisher M. Breitenstein in Vienna, titled Der Judenstaat: Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage (The Jewish State: Attempt at a modern solution to the Jewish question).

Theodor Herzl was the editor of Neue Freie Presse, a well known Viennese magazine. Theodor Herzl was a self-professed atheist and opposed to Judaism and religious Jews.

"When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys ... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred...", wrote Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, “the amiable dreamer of Nazareth” referring, of course, to Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity.

Theodor Herzl’s words are from 1898, following a visit to Jerusalem.

The publication of Der Judenstaat was not fortunate for Herzl. Short after the publication of Der Judenstaat Herzl was divorced, and he lost his fortune, and died in 1904, only 44 years old. There was no great blessing for Theodor Herzl.

Today USA is at the brink of bankruptcy, and still the country continues to funnel millions of dollars every year to support the Israeli military apparatus. There was no great blessing for USA either.

And Israel, in spite of her military prowess and her wealth, is still a stranger to peace.

“He that lives by the sword shall fall by the sword”, said Jesus Christ. 

"All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not detect it," says Obadiah 1:7, instructing the reader not to rely on the temporary comfort of powerful allies.

Those words are conveniently forgotten by the Christian Zionist lobby.

Reason 2: Christian Zionism is Heresy, a new form of Judaization of Christians and Perversion of Faith

All but the so-called Messianic Jews, a small and largely scorned minority of Jews in Israel as well as worldwide, reject Jesus as the Messiah or Christ.

It is clearly stated in the New Testament, the foundation of Christian faith, that all who reject Jesus as the Messiah, will perish. Only those who accept Jesus and follows his teachings will be saved.

Christian Zionists are effectively supporting a secular regime as a replacement for the essential vision of Christianity, as it is laid out in the New Testament:

That the chosen people of God are all who profess a Christian faith, and that salvation and status as a child of God is not reserved to any race or nationality.

It is the fundamental assumption in all of Christianity that the “old contract” between God and the Jewish people has passed away, replaced by the “new contract” or “pact”, known as the New Testament.

St. Paul makes a point of describing how he confronted the twelve apostles to remind them how they deviated from their commission to preach the gospel and to accept into the fold of Christianity people of all nationalities – gentiles.

The apostles were conservative about it. A group of converted Pharisees argued that gentiles – non-Jewish Christians – should also keep the Judaic Law. Paul rebuked them for their discrimination, and for adopting the hypocritical doctrines of the so-called Judaizers.

“When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray,” Paul writes in Galatians 22.

Cephas was a nick-name for Peter, one of the most trusted of Jesus’ disciples. Paul says he “stood condemned” by his own actions.

Paul goes even further in Galatians 22:14:

“When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, ‘You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?’”

These “customs” Paul spoke of weren’t merely customs. They were The Law, the legacy of Moses and thought to be the direct instructions from God himself. Paul, himself a Jew, had the audacity to call these standards, the Holy Law, for merely “Jewish customs.”

17 years after his conversion on the road to Damascus Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus, openly stood up against the assembly of apostles and opposed their leader, Simon Peter, calling him out for having betrayed the gospel and The Great Commission by making it more difficult for gentiles who embraced faith in Jesus.

Modern day Christian Zionism does not try to enforce legalistic religious obedience on Christians, but they do submit faith in Christ to faith in Jerusalem, making Israel and not the cross the centre of worship and the redeeming factor.

“I firmly believe God has blessed America because America has blessed the Jew. If this nation wants her fields to remain white with grain, her scientific achievements to remain notable, and her freedom to remain intact, America must continue to stand with Israel”, said Jerry Falwell, linking America’s preeminence to the Zionist project of a Jewish nation-state.

The idea that prosperity follows those who bless the Jews, whereas poverty is inflicted on those who oppose them, is a core doctrine in Christian Zionism.

God’s favor is dependent on support for a specific political purpose, not confession of faith in Jesus, and not obedience to his moral edicts.

Christian Zionism is a heresy as gross as they come. It is a modern form of Judaization, proselyting not for Jesus, but for a stronger Israel.

Christian Zionists are only dissimilar from the Judaizers of arcane Christianity in the way they have replaced Judaism with Zionism, Jewish nationalism.

Regardless of how you feel about Israel, Christian Zionism is a perversion of faith.

Reason 3: Christian Zionism is a Worldly Vision Contradictory to Both Christian Conservative Values and Basic Spirituality

Among the American Christian Right there are two other dominant themes: Abortion and homosexuality.

In Israel 40,000 abortions are carried out every year, and Israel is among the leaders in equality for sexual minorities.

“Israel today is one of the world's most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities. Politically, legally, and culturally, the community has moved from life at the margins of Israeli society to visibility and growing acceptance”, writes Lee Walzer, author of “Between Sodom and Eden: A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel and Gay Rights on Trial.”

It is not the point here to criticize liberal abortion standards or homosexual rights, but simply to point out a major discrepancy between the alleged beliefs of Christian Zionists and their practice.

Modern day Israel is not a “Holy Land” if you judge by Biblical standards. If judged by the Judaic Law Israel is an abomination.

Worldliness is rejected in the New Testament, not just in the common form indicated by Jesus, when he says that “he who loves the world and the things in it does not have the love of the Father in him.”

It isn’t just plain secularism Jesus denounces, but also any form of physical manifestation of his heavenly rule:

“Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”(Luke 17:20)

Like the Pharisees Jesus was responding to, the Christian Zionists expect to see the kingdom of God as a physical manifestation, as an invincible Israeli nation-state.

But Jesus told his disciples:

"For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst." (Matthew 18:20)

Christian Zionists replace their spiritual home with a physical homeland, identifying so strongly with Israel the forget the ethereal nature of the preaching of their own Savior.

Their vision is taken not from the New Testament, but from the Jewish Midrash Tanchuma.

As the navel is set in the centre of the human body, so is the land of Israel the navel of the world... situated in the centre of the world, and Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel, and the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem, and the holy place in the centre of the sanctuary, and the ark in the centre of the holy place, and the foundation stone before the holy place, because from it the world was founded.

The text explains the deep significance of Israel to Jews, and their attachment to the land, the city and temple. Christian Zionists identify with these Jewish aspirations for the land of Israel, for Jerusalem and the Temple, to the point of renouncing their  own faith.

In Hebrews 12:18 it is even more clearly pointed out that the physical Israel is not the spiritual Israel:

“You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm…” the author instructs, continuing in verse 22-24:

“But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.”

The blood of Abel cried to heaven for vengeance, but the blood of Christ spoke of forgiveness, and reconciliation. In choosing the physical Israel over Heaven the Christian Zionists writes themselves off the list of those who belong to heaven, and onto the list of those calling for blood in retaliation for blood.

Reason 4: Christian Zionism Promotes Hatred and Cultural Conflict, and it Obstructs The Gospel

Theologically, Christian Zionism replaces the idea of a spiritual homeland with a political vision.

Believers are subjected to an ideological project, a mundane project, and condemned if they do not.

In the process the universality of the gospel is sacrificed, for sectarianism inside the church, and for racism outside:

On a practical level, by promoting a special emphasis on Israeli Jews, the Christian Zionists effectively blocks not only peace in the Middle East, but any reasonable chance for the gospel to be preached to the 1.5 billion Muslims who are largely outraged by the displacement and oppression of the Palestinian population.

Tied to Christian Zionism you see a malicious anti-Muslim and even anti-Arab current in which Palestinians are equated with the Philistines or, even worse, with the Amalekites, neither of which were Arabs.

Christian preachers have called Palestinians “dogs”, “a defeated tribe” and “enemies of God” for opposing the Zionist vision, which effectively renders them either second-class citizens in their own country, prisoners or refugees.

The Bible says:

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” (Luke 6:27-28)

In the passage known as The Great Commission Jesus states:

“…go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” (Matthew 28:19)

Christian Zionists violate both those commands by spreading irrational fear and even hatred of Muslims, thereby effectively preventing Muslims who might be compelled by the gospel from converting.

Christian Zionists fuel a political conflict to the point risking world peace, pitting the Christian world against the Muslim world, making it a horrific social experience for a Muslim to convert to Christianity.

Not only will they face the ostracization and possible persecution from Muslims, but they will also face suspicion, scrutiny and resentment from Christians.

A desperate need for cultural assimilation is often the reason both secular and Christian “Muslims” are more fierce critics of Islam than even Western islamophobes.

Islam may have an intrinsic opposition to out-conversion, but the radicalism of it is enhanced by the ferocity of anti-Islamism in the Christian world, and to a large extent the oppression of the Palestinian Arabs.

Paul states that “a man of God should not be in strife with anybody.” He instructs the Christians to act wisely among those who do not share their faith.

Acts 17:26 establishes the universal worth and equality of every nation:

“From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.”

Revelations 7:9 establishes the vision of all nations, tribes, peoples and languages united in worship of Christ:

“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.”

We must assume the vision includes at least a significant portion of Arab, North African, Turkish and Persian populations.

Christian Zionists are among the most guilty of standing in the way of the gospel by whipping up anti-Christian sentiment, indirectly through their support for Israeli Zionism and directly by consciously utilizing anti-Islamism as a rhetorical instrument in their quest to consolidate Israel immunity to criticism.

The Christian Zionists are promoting their view to a point, where they support the oppression of even their own brothers in faith.

In 1922, according to the British Mandate estimates, 9.5% of Palestinians were Christians. Today the majority of Palestinian Christians live outside of Palestine due to the 1949 War and the Six-Day War in 1967, and subsequent occupation.

There are approximately 4% Christian Palestinians in the West Bank, about 1% in Gaza and nearly 10% in Israel. Their hopes, and their happiness, is flushed out with the bath water, for the sake of the glory of Israel.

This is how deep Christian Zionists fall, when they replace a spiritual object with a physical object.

Reason 5: Christian Zionism is a False Hope, Idolatry and Road to Destruction

There is no hope in Jerusalem, and there is no certainty for Israel.

Even in The Old Testament, the former pact between God and man – represented by the Hebrew tribe – Israel is invaded repeatedly, and overthrown many times, most notably by the Babylonian empire and by the Roman Empire.

Jews have been in Diaspora many times in history, before Emperor Titus of Rome battered the walls of Jerusalem down and destroyed the temple in 70 AD.

During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.

Every time such disasters happened to Jews it was due to the sins of the Jews.

It was punishment, retribution, directly sent from God  – according to the Bible itself, and that would be the Torah, not the New Testament or any other Christian theology superimposed on Judaism.

It is constantly pointed out that enemies of Israel are raised up by God because of the wickedness of the Jews.

Jesus prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem, before he was crucified, and most likely that prophesy was among the key reasons the Sanhedrin decided he was to be removed.

Most notably the terms of possession of Israel are given in Deuteronomy 28:

“All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.”

But for disobedience the punishment is fierce:

“The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.”

The passage, in similar terms as the equally gloomy Ezekiel 5, also foresees exile:

“The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you… You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity… The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail….

It foretells invasions by foreign empires:

“The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.”

Christian Zionists are eager to use Biblical prophesies of Jews returning to Israel as proof that God is behind the Zionist project, but these prophesies have been fulfilled many times before.

Long before Israel formed its “special relationship” with the United States of America, she had a long-standing alliance with the Egyptian empire from where the Hebrews originally were said to have escaped.

Whatever happened before, because the Jews were indifferent to the commandments of their God not only may happen again, but will happen again, at least if you believe the Bible is the word of God.

Modern day Israel is far from the standard laid down by God in the Old Testament, and as such – if you believe the covenant between God and the Jews is still operative – every single curse is upon Israel.

It is only a question of time before its fragile supremacy in the region will falter.

Israel is challenged from all sides and depending on arguably the most decadent nation in the world seen from a Christian perspective, USA, a country bordering on bankruptcy and effectively becoming a Third World country in spite of her aid to Israel.

Seven times in the Old Testament Israel is admonished not to oppress "the stranger in the land." It is likened to crimes against orphans and exploitation of the fatherless, and the same severe penalty is threatened for racism against "strangers". On several occasions, Israel is reminded that they were themselves "strangers in Egypt" and should know what how the stranger feels.

Even if you adopt the flawed view that Jews are entitled to Israel the appalling treatment of the indigenous Palestinian population, the dispossession, displacement and land-grabbing, constitutes a crime.

In Conclusion: Christian Zionists are False Prophets

Judaism, in its pure form, is not practiced anywhere in Israel. It cannot be practiced, because the prescribed burnt sacrifices cannot be performed.

The Temple doesn’t exist anymore, and that is one good reason; another is modern standards of animal protection making it a grotesque assumption that burnt sacrifices would be resumed.

If you, as the Christian Zionists, believe that modern day Israel is fulfillment of scripture, you must also believe that the utter destruction of Israel will take place again.

It follows logically from the Biblical scriptures in which the terms of Israel as God’s chosen people are laid out.

There are over 613 “mitzvot” or commandments in the Torah to be observed by all of Israel’s 5.4 million Jews for the blessings to take effect.

Israel was founded on a secular basis. Zionist Israel is rejected by the majority of Orthodox Jews as an invention of God.

It cannot be an invention of God, because it took place without any process of repentance.

It was an atheist, socialist program that laid the foundation, and independence was established on the basis of widespread terrorism, against the British Mandate as well as the local Palestinian population.

From a Biblical perspective Israeli Jews have done nothing to deserve the apparent “blessings”, its wealth and its military prowess.

All the accomplishments of Israeli scientists, scholars, inventers and engineers are merely human accomplishments, drawn from the well of Western secularism, not from divine inspiration.

The statutes of the Torah itself speaks against modern day Israel being a divine project.

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that God has no end time purpose for the Jewish race or the Jewish religion, except to save a limited number of Jews.

“Save” doesn’t mean rescue from possible invasion, but to bestow eternal life on the exact same terms that as gentiles – non-Jews: By the confession that Jesus is Messiah.

God’s great purpose for the Jews has already been played out: They were to form the basis of Jesus’ 3 ½ year ministry on Earth, a platform for the gospel to be preached, and a first audience.

As the ruling majority denounced his words, the old covenant was overthrown, and replaced by a new universal agreement between God and man: The New Testament.

It does not matter much if you are a Jew and believe in the Torah, or if you are a Christian and believe in Jesus: The modern day Jewish nation-state cannot be justified as a divine project according to neither of the doctrines.

You can argue in favor of Israel with political, economic, social, cultural, ideological and strategic arguments, but if you believe in either the New Testament or the Bible in its entirety as Christians do, you must reject Christian Zionism as heresy.

This is obvious for anybody with even superficial knowledge of the Bible. And for those who have no such knowledge, the Bible is freely available to anyone in the world, and its core doctrines can be investigated without any theological training or scholarly background.

Nothing will change the fact that modern day Israel cannot be justified with Biblical argument, whether from the perspective of Judaism or from the perspective of Christianity.

Those who attempt to do so condemn selves according to the precepts of their own faith.

They are mislead, and they mislead others, as it is so frequently stated about the “false prophets” in their own sacred scripture.

Christian Zionists stand condemned, not only by conscience itself, but by the doctrines of their own belief.

Christian Zionists do not have Christians “over the barrel.”

Christian Zionists are the ones who must either change their mind, or abandon their faith.

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Why Do Churches Refuse to Question Israel's Actions?

Jewish Psychologist Mark Braverman uses his upbringing and experience to create an understanding of why so many mainstream Christian churches refuse to question the racist and immoral behavior of Israel's Zionist government. In a plea to Christians, Braverman talks passionately about not allowing Christians to do what is not Christian and, likewise, not looking the other way when Jews do what is not Jewish. Braverman's comment are germane in view the recent Israeli military attacks of the flotilla going to deliver supplies and aid to Gazans struggling to survive a three-year blockade imposed by the Israeli government. The flotilla was not sent by a government or a church, but by individuals acting in the interest of justice and peace for all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSveCnwC-_M&feature=player_embedded

Evangelicals Who serve the Anti-Christ!

David Duke Online Radio Report 01-25-2003
Evangelicals Who serve the Anti-Christ!
by David Duke
Broadcast Date 01-25-2003
www.davidduke.com/radio

I am a Christian. I must also state that I am tolerant of other religious beliefs, and I am committed to the right of people to have and practice whatever religious belief they so choose. Freedom of thought, conscience, belief and speech is fundamental to traditional European communities. I oppose religious intolerance, just as I oppose political tyranny and the suffocating encroachment of world government. Although Europe has suffered from times of political and religious oppression, Western civilization from its classical roots in Greece and Rome to modern Europe has been the most ardent defender of freedom of thought and conscience. It is no accident that the most isolated pocket of ancient Europeans, Iceland, has the longest standing parliament in the world.
I seldom delve into religious matters, as I don’t have the honor of being a pastor or priest. However, policies of the Christian churches are critical to the well-being of European Americans as the overwhelming majority of Europeans are Christian as I am. Organized Christian churches have dramatic influence on our society, especially in America. On some matters, I feel I must speak out both as a Christian and as a European American.

Recently, I have been shocked and appalled by the unqualified support by some Christian televangelists for the most anti-Christian religion on the face of the earth, Judaism. They also support the corrupt, Jewish supremacist, anti-Christian Israeli state. I know that some of you reading this may respond by saying that Islam is really the most anti-Christian religion and that Judaism is a friendly faith. Many mistakenly think that Judaism is a sister religion to Christianity. The term “Judeo-Christian” has entered our modern lexicon to the point where no politician, George Bush on down, would dare even invoke the term “Christian heritage” without adding the prefix, “Judeo” to it. The term “Judeo-Christian” didn’t even come into existence until after the Second World War when Jews became supreme in their influence over major media.

The truth is that there is no such thing as Judeo-Christianity. That would be like saying Satanic-Christianity. The religion now called Judaism did not even come formally into existence until six hundred years after Jesus Christ. It began with the codification of the Babylonian Talmud. In Judaism, the Talmud is the supreme scripture, not the Old Testament. Only Satanism can rival Judaism’s vicious hatred for Jesus Christ. The Talmud even claims that Jesus Christ is being punished in hell by “being boiled in hot semen!”1 When I first read this hateful Talmudic quote, I just couldn’t believe it. Maybe you don’t believe what I am saying right now, but read on and I will prove to you that this quotation is accurate and that Judaism is intrinsically and viciously anti-Christian. Judaism it the embodiment of the same Satanic tradition that Christ condemned when He referred to “the synagogue of Satan.” (Rev. 2-9) What I say here I can prove in the documented words of the most sacred texts of Judaism and in the clearly documented words of the highest authorities of Judaism itself, and even more importantly, in the scriptures of the New Testament.

Interestingly enough, Islam is much closer to Christianity than Judaism. For instance, Judaism condemns the Virgin Mary as a prostitute and viciously condemns Jesus an evil sorcerer and a bastard. The Talmud even claims Jesus was a sexual pervert who had intercourse relations with his donkey. In stark contrast, although Islam certainly does not share all the Christian views of Jesus Christ, it views Christ as a true prophet of God, virgin-born, and that God resurrected Jesus from the dead. Ironically, the chief religious book of Islam, the Qur’an, actually defends Jesus Christ from the obscene slanders made against Him in the Jewish Talmud.

I know that I am shocking many of you who are hearing this for the first time. I am sure some of you are thinking that this cannot be true! I don’t blame you for thinking so because many of you have never been told of these facts by the Jewish-dominated media or by the televangelists. So, I will document these things for you right now in the little space I have here. Also, remember that for a more complete and thorough documentation of this issue, you can go to my chapter on Judaism and Christianity in my autobiography, My Awakening. You can also find it in my new book, Jewish Supremacism. The chapter on Judaism found in My Awakening is at http://www.duke.org/awakening/chapter17_01.html. It is fully documented and footnoted.

The Talmud not the Torah (Bible) is the chief authority of Judaism

Most Christians are under the impression that Judaism is primarily based on the biblical Old Testament. Actually the ultimate authority for Judaism is not the Bible but on what they call the Babylonian Talmud, a series of writings set down in Babylon in the sixth century after Christ.

The American Heritage Dictionary describes the Talmud as “constituting the basis of religious authority for traditional Judaism.”

The authoritative Universal Jewish Encyclopedia compiled by the leading Rabbinic organizations of the world, makes it very clear that the Talmud, not the Torah or Old Testament, is the supreme authority for Judaism.

Thus the ultimate authority for Orthodoxy is the Babylonian Talmud. The Bible itself ranks second to it in reality, if not in theory. (Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, “Authority,” pg. 637)2

What does the Talmud, the chief authority of Judaism, have to say about Jesus Christ?

Balaam [Jesus] fornicated with his jackass. (Sanhedrin 105a-b)3
Jewish priests raised Balaam [Jesus] from the dead and punished him in boiling hot semen.(57a Gittin)4
She who was the descendant of princes and governors [The Virgin Mary] played the harlot with a carpenter. (Sanhedrin 106a) [Jesus] was lowered into a pit of dung up to his armpits. Then a hard cloth was placed within a soft one, wound round his neck, and the two ends pulled in opposite directions until he was dead. (Sanhedrin 52b) 5
Now obviously, I am not saying that all Jews share this hateful attitude toward Jesus Christ, but the official position of Judaism is defined by the quotations I just read. Obviously, it is important that Jewish groups don’t let Christians know the truth about the hateful Judaic attitude toward Jesus Christ. Some Jews seek to deflect Christian criticism by saying that Balaam was not the name that Jews used to denote Christ. Yet, no less a major authority than the Jewish Encyclopedia, an encyclopedia compiled by the leading rabbinic organizations in the world, says that Balaam is the name they use to denote Jesus Christ. Under the heading “Balaam,” it says, “…the pseudonym ‘Balaam’ given to Jesus in Sanhedrin 106b and Gittin 57a.”6 Such use of deceptive terms such as “Balaam” was a common practice in the middle ages as Jews tried to disguise their anti-Jesus and anti-Christian hatred from Gentiles who might dare to pry into the Talmud.

Now some Christians might think that these are simply old beliefs of the Jewish religion, and that Judaism might have softened its attitudes toward Jesus Christ and Christians. In actual fact, these are the formal policies of the Israeli state. In fact, In Jewish schools in Israel it is forbidden to even read from the New Testament gospels or even mention the name of Jesus Christ. It is even a criminal offense in Israel for a Christian to preach the salvation of Jesus Christ to a Jew. Israel so hates the Christian cross that they have specified that elementary schools use a “T” instead of a plus sign because it so resembles the hated Christian cross! The Israeli government has even supported public burnings of the New Testament!

One of the Jews I have most respected, the man to whom I dedicated my book, Jewish Supremacism, is the late Dr. Israel Shahak. He was a holocaust survivor and professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Professor Shahak reported that the Zionists publicly and ceremoniously burned hundreds of copies of the New Testament in Jerusalem on March 23, 1980. They were destroyed under the auspices of Yad Le’akhim, a Jewish religious organization subsidized by the Israeli Ministry of Religions.7 Here are some direct quotations from this courageous Jew, Professor Israel Shahak:

Judaism is imbued with a very deep hatred toward Christianity combined with ignorance about it…

According to the Talmud, Jesus was executed by a proper rabbinical court for idolatry, inciting other Jews to idolatry, and contempt of rabbinical authority. All classical Jewish sources which mention his execution are quite happy to take responsibility for it; in the Talmudic account the Romans are not even mentioned. . .

The very name Jesus was for Jews a symbol of all that is abominable, and this popular tradition still persists. The Gospels are equally detested, and they are not allowed to be quoted (let alone taught) even in modern Israeli schools. 8

To think that this is the same anti-Christian, Israeli government that some Christian ministers want us to support with American tax dollars! Dr. Shahak also exposes the vicious hatred against Christians taught to Jewish Children in Israel:

Jewish children are actually taught – passages such as that which commands every Jew, whenever passing near a cemetery, to utter a blessing if it is Jewish, but to curse the mothers of the dead if it is non-Jewish. . . it became customary to spit (usually three times) upon seeing a church or a crucifix …9

Imagine for a moment if Christians were taught that when they pass Jewish cemeteries they should “curse the mothers of the dead” and that they should spit three times when seeing a synagogue or a Star of David. Would not the media react to that kind of vicious hatred with outrage? Evangelical leaders such as Falwell would forcefully condemn Christians who would utter such vile curses against Jews, but why don’t they dare condemn the hatred of Jews who utter vile curses against Christians.

Not only does Israel act against Christianity, so does every major organized Jewish group in the United States. The American Jewish Committee, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith) and a host of other Jewish organizations in America have been at the forefront destroying Christian traditions in the United States. They have led the fight, not only to ban simple prayers in school, but even to prohibit Christmas carols to be sung in schools or in any public facility. They have been the leaders of the movement for legalized abortion, something which every evangelical opposes. They have been at the forefront of the cultural war that Jewish Hollywood has waged against Christian tradition, belief and ethics. Jews also led early Bolshevism in Russia, which was the greatest suppresser and mass murderer of Christians in the history of the world. Millions of Christians were murdered by the Jewish Bolsheviks. And now, some evangelical leaders such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are urging Christians to financially support Israel and the Jewish supremacist establishment around the world, by far the most powerful enemy of Jesus Christ on the planet.

By supporting anti-Christian Israel, they are directly supporting the murder, torture and oppression of thousands of our fellow Christians in the Mideast. Falwell and Robertson have not informed their flocks that large numbers of Palestinians are Christians. For instance, in the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians have historically been a majority of the population, a figure that is dropping rapidly because of their abandonment by evangelicals like Falwell and Robertson. What kind of Christian chooses to support murderous anti-Christian Jews rather then their own Christian brethren. It is no wonder that Christianity is losing ground in the Mideast, when major Christian leaders will support the killing of Palestinian Christians by anti-Christian, Israeli Jews. When Israel indiscriminately sends bombs and missiles and bullets into Palestinian neighborhoods, many of the children and adults murdered are in fact, Christians.

Maranatha Christian Journal had a report entitled: Palestinian Christians Claim Western Church Ignores Them. It quotes Husam Misleh of a Christian Palestinian organization called the American Federation of Ramallah, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

“(Conservative Protestant leaders) Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are on the air all the time portraying Israel to be our best friend; at the same time, there are Palestinian Christians dying daily, and they don’t speak out on that subject at all. It’s an atrocity in itself.”

The article goes on to quote Rateb Rabie, director of the Holy Land Ecumenical Foundation in Silver Spring, Maryland.

“It breaks your heart when you get calls every day from churches (in the Holy Land), and the priests and the clergy are asking for help, and you are tied here; you cannot help them.”

Just a few weeks ago, Israelis were firing, bombing and killing Christians in Bethlehem and even laying siege to one of the most holy sites of Christianity, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, the Church of the Nativity. It turned my stomach to turn on the TV and see Evangelical leaders such a Falwell and Robertson telling Christians to send more money to the anti-Christian Jewish state of Israel which at that moment was murdering and terrorizing Christians in the very birthplace of Christ.

Not only do these pro-Israel ministers immorally support the suppression and murder of our fellow Christians in Palestine, they spread the easily refuted lie that modern Jews are currently God’s Chosen people. Traditional Christian theology for almost 2000 years has held that God had a covenant with the tribes of Israel, and that after the Jews broke that covenant and crucified Jesus Christ, God then made a new covenant based on belief in Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews in the New Testament makes this abundantly clear.

For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (Hebrews 8:6-7, 9-10) 10

There is no way a Christian who reads the scripture can get around the fact that God views the Jews as having, “continued not in my covenant.” Of course, God made the New Covenant for Israelites and everyone else that was solely based on faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That whole idea is one of the founding principles of the Christian religion and one understood by almost every Christian, until the distortions and lies of the last 30 years, the thirty years since the Jewish supremacists obtained control of the American media establishment. Another clear scripture tells the story of the true Christian viewpoint toward organized Jewish power.

. . .for you suffered like things of your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out and displease God, and oppose all men. . . But God’s wrath has come upon them at last.(1 Thessalonians 2:14-16)11

The Palestinians can certainly relate to that scriptural quote. Read it again and let it sink in. If this exact quote was made by any man in politics in America or the Christian clergy he would be condemned as a quote “anti-Semite,” yet these are the exact words of the Holy Scripture. Is the Holy Scripture anti-Semitic?

Have not the Palestinian Christians and the Moslems suffered from the Jews, who have been and remain enemies of Christianity and Jesus Christ? Have they not been driven out? Tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians have been murdered, maimed and tortured: tens of thousands more have been driven out by Jewish terrorism from their homes, their businesses, their farms. The process goes on even as I speak these very words. Israeli murder and mayhem, curfews, suppression have the purpose of driving out the Palestinians who naturally want a decent life for themselves and their children in the land of their fathers. For evangelical Christians to support these atrocities against their own Christian brethren or indeed against people of any faith is the height of un-Christian immorality. And that brings me to another myth being promoted by the Jewish, anti-Christian media and parroted by the preachers who are subservient to the anti-Christ, Jewish supremacists.

We constantly hear how the biggest enemy of Christianity and America are Moslems.

The truth is that although Moslems do not share all Christian beliefs, Islam is far closer to Christianity than Judaism. I already quoted the obscene attacks made on Jesus Christ by the Jewish Talmud. How many American Christians even realize that the Holy Qur’an of Islam actually defends Jesus Christ and His mother Mary from the hateful slanders of Judaism? As I pointed out earlier, the Talmud claims that the Gospels lie about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Talmud actually boasts that the Jews and not the Romans were the ones who actually nailed Jesus to the Cross. These Talmudic Jews hate Jesus so much that they want to take all the credit for his murder. Amazingly, the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an disputes this Jewish lie and actually defends the truth of the gospel.

They (Jews) have incurred divine displeasure: in that they broke the covenant… And little is it they believe.
That they rejected faith and they uttered against Mary a grave false charge…
That they said (in boast) “we killed Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah- but they killed him not, nor crucified him. But so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts… (Sura 4 AlNisa 153- 159)

If you are an evangelical Christian, do you still need more proof of the anti-Christian evil of Israel? A perfect example can be found in one of the evil tactics that Israel uses to destroy Palestinian resistance. The French Press Agency (AFP), much like AP in the United States, of March 2, 2002, had a report on the Israeli occupation of Ramallah last year. I quote:

In the recent Israeli occupation of the Palestinian town Ramallah, the army took over three of the four television stations. In control of the three stations, Al-Watan, Ammwaj, and Al-Sharaq channels.
The Israelis began broadcasting hard-core pornography into the Palestinian homes beginning about 3:30 pm in the first day of their occupation. The reaction of the devoutly religious Palestinians, both Christian and Moslem, to the Israeli pornography been pointed.

The article quotes a some of the Palestinians on this latest Israeli outrage, I quote:

Anita, a 52-year-old mother of three children, complained about “the deliberate psychological damage caused by these broadcasts”.
“I am furious, these are the people who are shooting at us that also play this disgusting trick on us,” she said.

Yes, the supposedly moral, upstanding nation of Israel that some Christian televangelist leaders support, is broadcasting hardcore pornography as part of their war to destroy the Palestinian people. Next time a Christian minister says we should support Israel; ask him if we should send our money to Israel so that it can broadcast hardcore pornography to Palestinian Christian and Moslem children.

There are two things you always hear from those ministers who support anti-Christian Israel: (1) that the Jews of today are the “chosen people of God” and have a covenant with God that we must respect, and: (2) that the Bible says that, “I will bless thee that blesses you and curse thee that curses you.”
As I showed earlier, clear New Testament scripture quotes Jesus as saying that the Jews “whose fathers were led out of the land of Egypt” had “no longer continued in God’s covenant saith The Lord.” The coming of Jesus Christ made a new covenant for those Israelites and for all people who accepted the salvation of Christ. Belief in Jesus Christ is the one and only requirement to join the New Covenant. Those who don’t accept Jesus Christ are clearly not in this New Covenant. Those who embrace Judaism, a religion that hates and rejects Jesus Christ are certainly not in this New Covenant. Those who believe in Jesus Christ have become the Chosen of God, the elect, regardless of ethnic descent. By Christian principle, those that hate Jesus Christ are obviously in the service of Satan and not God and His son and are certainly not in the Covenant. Christ himself describes them as “the Synagogue of Satan.”

The fact that the New Testament in Revelation suggests that a small number of Jews will repent and accept Christ at the end of times does not change the fact that Jews who embrace anti-Christian Judaism have become the enemies of God and the allies of Satan.

To support anti-Christian Jews in their evil actions against Christians and Christianity is a betrayal of Jesus Christ Himself! Arguing that we should support a man’s evil deeds because the man doing it may someday repent is insane. A perfect example of this flawed and very anti-Christian belief can be found the statements made by Jerry Falwell last year.

Falwell said that the New Testament prophesizes the rise of a Jewish Anti-Christ born in what is today’s Israel. Falwell and other evangelists say that this Anti-Christ will murder and torture millions of Christians all over the world and install a horrific, Satanic rule over the world for seven years. The rise of the anti-Christ will foretell Christ’s return and the establishment of a kingdom of God. Of course, Jewish leaders condemned Falwell’s statement even though he has been one of the biggest supporters of Israel. Quote:

“‘We deplore the equation of an ultimate figure of evil with a Jewish individual, especially when made by an individual as prominent as Rev. Falwell is on the religious right,’ B’nai B’rith International President Richard D. Heideman said in a statement” (Caryle Murphy, The Washington Post, January 23, 1999).

If indeed the Anti-Christ is Jewish and is from modern Israel, are we not actually supporting him by supporting Israel and anti-Christian Judaism? Are we supposed to aid the Anti-Christ to come to power and support his evil actions because he is prophesized? Are not Christians commanded to oppose evil? Because Satan is prophesized to rule over the earth for seven years, are Christians supposed to support Satan? That is the craziest, anti-Christian idea I have ever heard, but that is precisely what Falwell and others are suggesting!

Falwell and Robertson who support anti-Christian Israel are actually supporting the biggest enemies of Christianity and Jesus on earth! And I can tell you why they deny the clear teachings of Jesus in the New Testament. It is because they know that if they dare to criticize the evil, anti-Christian teachings of Judaism and Israel, the Jewish power in America will destroy them. Even though Judaists hate the fundamentalist Christian teachings of Falwell and Robertson. they tolerate these subservient preachers because they mislead millions of Christians to support anti-Christian Israel!

Let me now address the other constantly used quote from the Old Testament about “blessing those who bless thee and cursing those who curse thee.” This scripture refers to blessing the true descendants of God’s word, those Israelites and all people who accept the salvation of Jesus Christ.
If this quotation actually refers to modern day anti-Christian, Judaism and Jews, I have a simple response.

Since the Second World War, America has never in its history more blessed the Jew. The Jew has risen to supremacy over our news media, movies, over our government, and almost all aspects of our culture. Without the massive support America has given to Israel, it wouldn’t even exist.

Now the question is, “Where are the blessings that we are supposed to receive from blessing the Jew?

Is our blessing the tens of millions of aborted babies that evangelicals claim have been murdered, a mass murder that many evangelicals say is the greatest Holocaust in the history of the world?

Is our blessing in the massive pornography and immorality inundating our nation from Jewish-run Hollywood?
Is our blessing the greatest number of broken families and greatest drug abuse of any nation on earth?
Is our blessing that our America leads the world in violent crime; including rape, murder and assault of the innocent?
Is our blessing the first mass-murder of thousands of Americans in the blowing up the World Trade Center?
Is our blessing the new PATRIOT ACT that takes away our most sacred Constitutional rights and liberties?

Are these the blessing we are supposed to receive from blessing anti-Christian Judaism and the anti-Christian state of Israel? Are these the blessings we receive from helping Anti-Christian Jews kill and maim, torture and oppress tens of thousands of Christian Palestinian men, women and children?
Most Americans and Europeans are Christians as I am; that’s why I have devoted this broadcast to discussing this critical issue. I also know that many listeners are not Christian and I know that I even have many Moslem listeners and indeed people of many different faiths all over the world. I hope this message has been enlightening to you as well as for Christians. For if Jewish power can so effectively corrupt Christian leaders to deny the founding principles of the Christian faith, a faith that even the Jews claim has historically been the most vigilant enemy of Judaism, they can certainly undermine any religious faith in the world. They have learned how to infiltrate, bribe and corrupt by their great power men who should be in service of both God and truth.

The evil elements which opposed Jesus Christ and orchestrated his crucifixion were of course the Pharisees, the very body which created modern Judaism and its Talmud six centuries after Jesus Christ. Jesus rebuked them in the same way as should every true Christian leader of the 21st Century.

…Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me.
…Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it.
…Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou are a Samaritan, and has a devil…(John 8:42-48)12

May all of us, religious or not, have the strength and the courage to use the truth to defend our people from the fathers of the lie.

There are a number of Christian ministers from many denominations who courageously stand up to the Jewish corruption of our Christian faith. They, and many Christian lay men dare to tell the truth about the Jews, face the same slanders and hatred that Christ faced. The New Testament repeatedly warns us of their power.

Yet for fear of the Jews, no man spoke openly of him. (John 7:13)

“Fear of the Jews” is just as real today as when at the when Jesus Christ walked the earth. Their great power to intimidate, slander, imprison and even murder is as great today as it was in those ancient times. We must understand that it is not only the Palestinians who are occupied by Jewish power, it is America, too. Until we stand up to their power, there will be no freedom for the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River or the Jewish-occupied East Bank of the Potomac, the heart of the federal government.

So this broadcast is dedicated and directed to my Christian listeners. May we not let “Fear of the Jews” prevent us from doing God’s will.

Sincerely,
David Duke

Footnotes

Talmud Sanhedrin, Simon, M. Trans. (1936). 57a Gittin. London. Soncino Press. p.261
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, “Authority” p. 637
Talmud, Sanhedrin (1935). Soncino Edition. 105a-b. p.717.
Simon, M. Trans. (1936). 57a Gittin. London. Soncino Press. p.261.
Talmud, Sanhedrin (1935). Soncino Edition. 52b. p.356.
Jewish Encyclopedia. (1907). Balaam. p.469.
Shahak, I. (1994). Jewish History, Jewish Religion. p.21.
Shahak, I. (1994). Jewish History, Jewish Religion. 97-98.
Shahak, I. (1994). Jewish History, Jewish Religion. 23 & 93.
KJV Hebrews 8:6-7, 9-10, and 13.
RSV 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16.
KJV John 8:42-48.

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