DISHONOURING Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, and especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around A. D. 200 for pious Jews. In the past, when the danger of anti-Semitic hostility was a real one, the pious Jews were commanded by their rabbis either to spit so that the reason for doing so would be unknown, or to spit onto their chests, not actually on the cross or openly before the church.
The increasing strength of the Jewish state has caused these customs to become more open again but there should be no mistake: The spitting on the cross for converts from Christianity to Judaisrn, organized in Kibbutz Sa'ad and financed by the Israel government is an act of traditional Jewish piety. It does not cease to be barbaric, horrifying and wicked because of this! On the contrary, it is worse because it is so traditional, and much more dangerous as well, just as the renewed anti-Semitism of the Nazis was dangerous, because in part, it played on the traditional Anti-Semitic past.
This barbarous attitude of contempt and hate for Christian religious symbols has grown in Israel. In the1950s Israel issued a series of stamps representing pictures of Israeli cities. In the picture of Nazareth, there was a church and on its top a cross - almost invisible, about a millimetre. Nevertheless, the religious parties, supported by many on the Zionist 'left' made a scandal and the stamps were quickly withdrawn and replaced by an almost identical series from which the microscopic cross was withdrawn.
Then there was the long drawn-out battle about the Christian influence in elementary arithmetic. Pious Jews object to the international plus sign because it is a cross, and it may in their opinion, influence little children to convert to Christianity. Another 'explanation' holds it would then be difficult to 'educate' them to spit on the cross, if they become used to it in their arithmetic exercises. Until the early 1970s two different sets of arithmetic exercise books were used in Israel: one for the secular schools, employing the inverted 'T' sign. In the early '70s' the religious fanatics converted the Labour Party to the great danger of the cross in arithmetic, and from that time, in all Hebrew elementary schools (and now many high schools as well) the international plus sign has been forbidden.
Similar development is visible in other areas of education. Teaching the New Testament was always forbidden, but in the old time conscientious teachers of history used to circumvent the prohibition, by organising seminars or sending the students to libraries (not the school libraries, of course). About 10 years ago there was a wave of denouncing such teachers. One in Jerusalem was almost sacked for advising her history pupils, who were studying the history of Jews in Palestine around A.D. 30-40, that it would he a good thing if they read a few chapters of the New Testament as a historical aid. She kept her job only by humbly promising not to do this again. However in recent years, anti-Christian feelings are literally exploding in Israel (and among Israel - worshipping Jews in the Diaspora)) together with an increase in Jewish fanaticism in other areas.
The real enemies of Truth here, as in many other aspects of the Israel reality, are the 'socialists', 'liberals', 'radicals', etc. in the U.S.A. Imagine the reaction of the U.S. Liberals, and of such papers as The Nation and New York Times if in any state whatsoever, the government financed spitting on a Star of David! But when here in Israel, the government finances the spitting on a cross, they are and will continue to be, quite silent. More than this, they help to finance it. United States taxpayers, who are of course mostly Christians, are financing at least half the Israel budget, one way or another and, therefore, the spitting on the cross.
(Courtesy The New Covenant Times)
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Edward Peck: Publik AS Hanya Membaca Apa yang Keluar Dari Mulut Tel Aviv
Saturday, 19 June 2010 09:32
Edward Peck menjabat sebagai Kepala Misi di Baghdad (Irak 1977-1980) di masa presiden Jimmy Carter dan kemudian menduduki jabatan senior di Washington dan luar negeri. Dia juga menjabat sebagai Foreign Service Officer di Maroko, Aljazair, Tunisia dan Mesir, dan sebagai Duta Besar di Mauritania.
Di Departemen Luar Negeri ia menjabat sebagai Deputi Direktur Intelijen Terselubung Program, Direktur Kantor Urusan Mesir dan sebagai Asisten Khusus Wakil Menteri untuk Urusan Politik. Ia menjabat sebagai wakil direktur Gedung Putih Satuan Tugas Terorisme dalam Administrasi Reagan. Dia adalah presiden Luar Services International, sebuah perusahaan konsultan yang bekerja dengan pemerintah, bisnis dan lembaga-lembaga pendidikan di seluruh dunia.
Edward Peck merupakan salah satu orang yang ikut dalam kapal Mavi Marmara. Mantan Dubes AS untuk Mauritania yang pernah berkarier di Kementerian Luar Negeri AS selama 30 tahun tersebut ikut ditangkap pasukan Israel dan dideportase Israel.
Dalam wawancara beberapa hari lalu, dia menyesalkan pemberitaan media-media AS yang cenderung mendukung Israel. Dia menilai publik AS hanya membaca apa yang keluar dari mulut Tel Aviv. Dia juga menolak pemberitaan media yang menyebut tentara Israel diserang, baginya ini merupakan kenyataan yang menyedihkan. Kesimpulannya bisa terbalik, "siapayang menyerang dan siapa yang diserang?" kata mantan diplomat karir di Kemlu AS. Seolah olah tentara Israel saat Hu mempertahankan diri kepada situs Salon.
Masalah Timteng sangat akrab di dalam kepalanya, lantaran dia pernah bertugas sebagai diplomat AS di Mesir, Aljazair, Maroko, dan Tunisia. Dia juga pernah menjadi Kepala Misi AS di Baghdad tahun 1977-1980. Dalam pemerintahan Reagen dia pernah menjabat sebagai Deputi Direktur Pasukan Khusus Terorisme di Gedung Putih.
Pada 1 Juni lalu dia sempat memberikan sambutan dalam demonstrasi menentang serangan tentara Zionis-Israel terhadap kapal Mavi Marmara di depan Gedung Putih. Bersama ratusan demonstran dia menegaskan bahwa pendudukan Zionis-Israel atas Gaza merupakan tindakan illegal.
Dia juga tercatat sebagai pengkritik keras kebijakan mantan Presiden AS George W. Bush yang menginvasi Irak pada 2008 saat penggulingan Saddam Hussein. Berikut wawancara selengkapnya:
Bagaimana Anda melihat pemberitaan media AS mengenai serangan Israel terhadap kapal kemanusiaan?
Begini. Saya baru saja diwanwancarai sebuah radio. Salah satu hal yang membuat saya sulit mengatakan adalah ternyata Israel telah berhasil, misalnya membuat publik Amerika bertanya kenapa penumpang kapal bantuan Turki itu menyerang tentara Israel.
Saya katakan, tunggu dulu, tunggu dulu, mereka mempertahankan kapalnya dari para penyerang. Anda terbalik. Mereka itu semua orang sipil, laki-laki dan perempuan, di sebuah kapal berbendera Turki di perairan internasional. Dan di sinilah datang sekelompok orang bersenjata berat dan mereka membajaknya, lalu memaksa kapal itu menuju ke Israel, di mana para penumpang tidak ingin ke sana. Lalu mereka mengambil kursi-kursi itu untuk melawan pasukan tentara yang bersenjata lengkap, dan itulah mengapa mereka lalu menyerang. Itulah yang sedikit mengagetkan saya.
Di luar peristiwa berdarah itu semua, masalah ini menjadi perang opini. Publik Amerika membaca laporan dari Tel Aviv yang dikutip media AS sehingga akhirnya relawan di dalam kapal itu digambarkan sebagai teroris yang dibenci Israel, pendukung Hamas, dan pembunuh. Saya berkata dalam hati saya, apa yang Anda ingin dengar dari orang Israel menyebut orang-orang itu; para pecinta alam yang menanam pohon? Tidak, mereka semua pembunuh, semuanya. Ini menjadi fitnah atas orang yang menolaknya. Dan media tampaknya ingin menggambarkan seperti itu. Dan saya menyimpulkan hal itu menyedihkan. Dan inilah penggunaan bahasa yang saya perhatikan. Siapa yang mempertahankan diri dan siapa yang menyerang.”
Lalu pertanyaan apakah yang seharusnya dilontarkan oleh media-media saat ini?
Mereka harus terfokus pada sebuah fakta bahwa Israel secara illegal menguasai Gaza, seperti yang dipahami oleh dunia. Malah Israel mengatakan, Anda tidak bisa masuk ke wilayah ini karena kami sedang mempertahankan diri. Namun jika mengambil alih kapal di pantai Somalia itu dinamakan pembajakan, maka jika Israel mengklaim mereka mempertahankan diri dengan mengusir kapal itu, mereka dapat lakukan ini, tidak ada yang dapat menghentikan polah mereka, bahkan mengkritik mereka sekalipun karena perbuatannya ini. Namun ini adalah illegal.
Saya akan memberi ilustrasi lebih dalam. Ketika kami ditangkap dan diarahkan ke Ashdod, salah seorang pejabat Israel bertanya kepada saya bahwa saya akan dideportasi. Saya jawab, Ok. Lalu dia berkata, Anda telah melanggar hukum Israel. Lalu saya jawab maaf, saya diarahkan ke sini, hukum Israel apa yang saya langgar?” Dan dia menjawab Anda masuk ke wilayah Israel secara illegal. Saya bilang, OK, kapal ditangkap secara paksa dan saya dibawa kemari dengan paksa, di bawah tekanan, dan terpaksa masuk ke negara Anda yang bertolak belakang dengan keinginan saya, dan Anda sebut saya masuk secara illegal” Lalu kita berbicara dengan bahasa dan pijakan yang berbeda. Namun itulah mengapa mereka mendeportasi saya, karena saya masuk secara illegal (padahal) saya tidak ingin masuk ke sana.
Orang Amerika harus sadar bahwa tidak ada satu pun terbersit keinginan sesuatu yang buruk terjadi, baik kepada Israel, kepada Palestina, dan dalam kasus saya, terhadap seorang Amerika. Namun situasi yang buruk telah terjadi, sedang terjadi, dan akan terjadi.
Dua wartawan Thomas Friedman dan Jeffrey Goldberg menilai, armada kapal itu bukanlah kapal yang bermisi kemanusiaan, namun sebuah skenario politik, apa tanggapan Anda?
Saya harus bertanya pada Anda, bagaimana mereka tahu? Mereka hanya duduk-duduk di belakang meja di mana pun mereka berada. Dan pertanyaan kedua adalah, apakah mereka pernah mengkritik Israel? Dan jawabannya adalah: tidak. Saya tidak menyalahkan keduanya dalam hal ini, namun mereka dikenal sebagai pendukung Israel. OK silakan lakukan sesuka Anda. Tapi jangan berharap saya akan mendengarkan kata-kata mereka sebagai sebuah kebenaran yang terbantahkan. Kedua orang itu merupakan wartawan yang terkemuka, namun pandangannya berbeda dengan saya. Jadi jika Anda bertanya, apa kesan saya terhadap tulisan mereka, saya akan jawab dengan sorakan—seperti ketika Anda menjulurkan lidah dengan suara keras.
Saya cenderung menyaring informasi dari mereka yang anti-Israel dan pro-Israel, karena akan mendapatkan opini mereka yang jauh dari fakta-fakta penting.
Kenapa insiden ini begitu banyak mendapatkan perhatian di AS, berbeda dengan peristiwa perang Gaza pada 2009?
Salah satu alasannya adalah para relawan itu terdiri dari 30 negara. Ini merupakan pekerjaan besar dari penyelenggara sehingga misi ini terlaksana dengan melibatkan sejumlah aktifis kemanusiaan, yang menaruh kepedulian apa yang terjadi dan tidak terjadi di Gaza. Anda dapat katakan misi ini bermotif politis. Dalam beberapa hal ada benarnya. Namun niat ini lebih kepada program kemanusiaan.
http://indonesianvoices.com/index.php/components/com_comment/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=320:edward-peck-publik-as-hanya-membaca-apa-yang-keluar-dari-mulut-tel-aviv&catid=37:isu-kemerdekaan-universal&Itemid=58
Edward Peck menjabat sebagai Kepala Misi di Baghdad (Irak 1977-1980) di masa presiden Jimmy Carter dan kemudian menduduki jabatan senior di Washington dan luar negeri. Dia juga menjabat sebagai Foreign Service Officer di Maroko, Aljazair, Tunisia dan Mesir, dan sebagai Duta Besar di Mauritania.
Di Departemen Luar Negeri ia menjabat sebagai Deputi Direktur Intelijen Terselubung Program, Direktur Kantor Urusan Mesir dan sebagai Asisten Khusus Wakil Menteri untuk Urusan Politik. Ia menjabat sebagai wakil direktur Gedung Putih Satuan Tugas Terorisme dalam Administrasi Reagan. Dia adalah presiden Luar Services International, sebuah perusahaan konsultan yang bekerja dengan pemerintah, bisnis dan lembaga-lembaga pendidikan di seluruh dunia.
Edward Peck merupakan salah satu orang yang ikut dalam kapal Mavi Marmara. Mantan Dubes AS untuk Mauritania yang pernah berkarier di Kementerian Luar Negeri AS selama 30 tahun tersebut ikut ditangkap pasukan Israel dan dideportase Israel.
Dalam wawancara beberapa hari lalu, dia menyesalkan pemberitaan media-media AS yang cenderung mendukung Israel. Dia menilai publik AS hanya membaca apa yang keluar dari mulut Tel Aviv. Dia juga menolak pemberitaan media yang menyebut tentara Israel diserang, baginya ini merupakan kenyataan yang menyedihkan. Kesimpulannya bisa terbalik, "siapayang menyerang dan siapa yang diserang?" kata mantan diplomat karir di Kemlu AS. Seolah olah tentara Israel saat Hu mempertahankan diri kepada situs Salon.
Masalah Timteng sangat akrab di dalam kepalanya, lantaran dia pernah bertugas sebagai diplomat AS di Mesir, Aljazair, Maroko, dan Tunisia. Dia juga pernah menjadi Kepala Misi AS di Baghdad tahun 1977-1980. Dalam pemerintahan Reagen dia pernah menjabat sebagai Deputi Direktur Pasukan Khusus Terorisme di Gedung Putih.
Pada 1 Juni lalu dia sempat memberikan sambutan dalam demonstrasi menentang serangan tentara Zionis-Israel terhadap kapal Mavi Marmara di depan Gedung Putih. Bersama ratusan demonstran dia menegaskan bahwa pendudukan Zionis-Israel atas Gaza merupakan tindakan illegal.
Dia juga tercatat sebagai pengkritik keras kebijakan mantan Presiden AS George W. Bush yang menginvasi Irak pada 2008 saat penggulingan Saddam Hussein. Berikut wawancara selengkapnya:
Bagaimana Anda melihat pemberitaan media AS mengenai serangan Israel terhadap kapal kemanusiaan?
Begini. Saya baru saja diwanwancarai sebuah radio. Salah satu hal yang membuat saya sulit mengatakan adalah ternyata Israel telah berhasil, misalnya membuat publik Amerika bertanya kenapa penumpang kapal bantuan Turki itu menyerang tentara Israel.
Saya katakan, tunggu dulu, tunggu dulu, mereka mempertahankan kapalnya dari para penyerang. Anda terbalik. Mereka itu semua orang sipil, laki-laki dan perempuan, di sebuah kapal berbendera Turki di perairan internasional. Dan di sinilah datang sekelompok orang bersenjata berat dan mereka membajaknya, lalu memaksa kapal itu menuju ke Israel, di mana para penumpang tidak ingin ke sana. Lalu mereka mengambil kursi-kursi itu untuk melawan pasukan tentara yang bersenjata lengkap, dan itulah mengapa mereka lalu menyerang. Itulah yang sedikit mengagetkan saya.
Di luar peristiwa berdarah itu semua, masalah ini menjadi perang opini. Publik Amerika membaca laporan dari Tel Aviv yang dikutip media AS sehingga akhirnya relawan di dalam kapal itu digambarkan sebagai teroris yang dibenci Israel, pendukung Hamas, dan pembunuh. Saya berkata dalam hati saya, apa yang Anda ingin dengar dari orang Israel menyebut orang-orang itu; para pecinta alam yang menanam pohon? Tidak, mereka semua pembunuh, semuanya. Ini menjadi fitnah atas orang yang menolaknya. Dan media tampaknya ingin menggambarkan seperti itu. Dan saya menyimpulkan hal itu menyedihkan. Dan inilah penggunaan bahasa yang saya perhatikan. Siapa yang mempertahankan diri dan siapa yang menyerang.”
Lalu pertanyaan apakah yang seharusnya dilontarkan oleh media-media saat ini?
Mereka harus terfokus pada sebuah fakta bahwa Israel secara illegal menguasai Gaza, seperti yang dipahami oleh dunia. Malah Israel mengatakan, Anda tidak bisa masuk ke wilayah ini karena kami sedang mempertahankan diri. Namun jika mengambil alih kapal di pantai Somalia itu dinamakan pembajakan, maka jika Israel mengklaim mereka mempertahankan diri dengan mengusir kapal itu, mereka dapat lakukan ini, tidak ada yang dapat menghentikan polah mereka, bahkan mengkritik mereka sekalipun karena perbuatannya ini. Namun ini adalah illegal.
Saya akan memberi ilustrasi lebih dalam. Ketika kami ditangkap dan diarahkan ke Ashdod, salah seorang pejabat Israel bertanya kepada saya bahwa saya akan dideportasi. Saya jawab, Ok. Lalu dia berkata, Anda telah melanggar hukum Israel. Lalu saya jawab maaf, saya diarahkan ke sini, hukum Israel apa yang saya langgar?” Dan dia menjawab Anda masuk ke wilayah Israel secara illegal. Saya bilang, OK, kapal ditangkap secara paksa dan saya dibawa kemari dengan paksa, di bawah tekanan, dan terpaksa masuk ke negara Anda yang bertolak belakang dengan keinginan saya, dan Anda sebut saya masuk secara illegal” Lalu kita berbicara dengan bahasa dan pijakan yang berbeda. Namun itulah mengapa mereka mendeportasi saya, karena saya masuk secara illegal (padahal) saya tidak ingin masuk ke sana.
Orang Amerika harus sadar bahwa tidak ada satu pun terbersit keinginan sesuatu yang buruk terjadi, baik kepada Israel, kepada Palestina, dan dalam kasus saya, terhadap seorang Amerika. Namun situasi yang buruk telah terjadi, sedang terjadi, dan akan terjadi.
Dua wartawan Thomas Friedman dan Jeffrey Goldberg menilai, armada kapal itu bukanlah kapal yang bermisi kemanusiaan, namun sebuah skenario politik, apa tanggapan Anda?
Saya harus bertanya pada Anda, bagaimana mereka tahu? Mereka hanya duduk-duduk di belakang meja di mana pun mereka berada. Dan pertanyaan kedua adalah, apakah mereka pernah mengkritik Israel? Dan jawabannya adalah: tidak. Saya tidak menyalahkan keduanya dalam hal ini, namun mereka dikenal sebagai pendukung Israel. OK silakan lakukan sesuka Anda. Tapi jangan berharap saya akan mendengarkan kata-kata mereka sebagai sebuah kebenaran yang terbantahkan. Kedua orang itu merupakan wartawan yang terkemuka, namun pandangannya berbeda dengan saya. Jadi jika Anda bertanya, apa kesan saya terhadap tulisan mereka, saya akan jawab dengan sorakan—seperti ketika Anda menjulurkan lidah dengan suara keras.
Saya cenderung menyaring informasi dari mereka yang anti-Israel dan pro-Israel, karena akan mendapatkan opini mereka yang jauh dari fakta-fakta penting.
Kenapa insiden ini begitu banyak mendapatkan perhatian di AS, berbeda dengan peristiwa perang Gaza pada 2009?
Salah satu alasannya adalah para relawan itu terdiri dari 30 negara. Ini merupakan pekerjaan besar dari penyelenggara sehingga misi ini terlaksana dengan melibatkan sejumlah aktifis kemanusiaan, yang menaruh kepedulian apa yang terjadi dan tidak terjadi di Gaza. Anda dapat katakan misi ini bermotif politis. Dalam beberapa hal ada benarnya. Namun niat ini lebih kepada program kemanusiaan.
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ISRAEL'S INCREASING ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
By Rev. Ted Pike
30 Dec 09
The period of the Great Crusades saw the forces of the Christian west and Muslim east engage in futile military efforts to decide who would control Palestine, with power to exclude others. After millions died, the exhausted combatants finally reached a compromise that has proved amicable for nearly a millennium: Each of the three great religions claiming special kinship to Israel—Christians, Jews and Muslims— would have freedom as pilgrims and even residents to worship in the sacred places of the Holy Land.Yet, with return of Jews to Israel in the 20 th century, a different mentality emerged, one shared by Christian evangelicals. The Jews returned to a land they considered entirely and unconditionally theirs—a land in which Jewish worship, customs and laws enjoyed a Biblical right to predominate.
Now Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox rabbinical authorities in Israel increasingly assert that Israel has the right to actually exclude Christians and Muslims from full participation in the religious life of the nation.
Although Israel’s population is largely secular, the official religious position of the state is Orthodox. The Encyclopedia Judaica: “There are very few Reform or Conservative congregations in the State of Israel. Orthodoxy is the official religious position in Israel with the majority of rabbis belonging to the old school of Talmudic jurists.” [1] The Grand Rabbinate in Jerusalem determines what is “halakah,” or binding Jewish law, not only to lesser rabbinic authorities but in every level of the nation’s life and commerce—even in the military.
Unlike in America, there is no separation of synagogue and state in Israel. And, unlike in America, which was founded largely on respect for the Bible, Orthodoxy in Israel is established squarely on literal interpretations of the teachings of the ancient Pharisees as embodied in their Babylonian Talmud and its mystical/revolutionary companion, the Zohar or Kabbalah. [2] There is little tolerance from Orthodoxy in Israel for the liberal (secular) viewpoints of Conservative and Reform Judaism.
Both Talmud and Zohar are vehemently anti-Christian. The Talmud views Christ as the bastard son of Mary, a loose woman. He was also a false prophet who led Israel into apostasy. It says Jewish leaders righteously had Him crucified and He now languishes in hell, writhing in boiling semen. (See actual pages from the Talmud confirming this at the end of this article.) Considering such anti-Christian animus from Israel’s highest religious authority, it is understandable why Christian inhabitants of Palestine have fared poorly over the last century. The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem documents hundreds of acts of discrimination and persecution against Christians almost since the beginning of the Zionist experiment. [3] These include profanation of Christian churches and holy places as well as a general program of unpublicized harassment and discrimination. Much of the energy behind such anti-Christianity has emerged from the Grand Rabbinate in Jerusalem and the many Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox rabbis under its influence. (Ultra-Orthodox haredim differ from Orthodox primarily in their exaltation of the authority of the Zohar above the Talmud.)
At the turn of the 20 th century, upwards of 20 percent of the inhabitants of Palestine were Christian; but as a result of incessant, long-term discrimination, only 2 percent are Christian today – and that number is shrinking.
Rabbinic War on Christmas
Recent events in Israel leading up to Christmas confirm efforts by the Grand Rabbinate and lesser rabbinic councils to exclude Christianity from Palestine. A recent Ha’aretz article says the Rabbinate stands behind the “'Lobby for Jewish Values" in its attempts to eradicate Christian symbols from Jerusalem, especially during Christmas. They are “condemning the holiday and inciting the public to boycott restaurants and hotels that sell or put up Christmas trees and other ‘foolish’ Christian symbols…” Their intention is to revoke kosher certification for any business that allows a Christian symbol to be displayed, thus probably ruining them. (See Rabbis versus Christmas: Religious rivalry in Jerusalem benefits no one)Such behavior reflects a deep loathing for Christianity within Talmudic Orthodoxy. WorldNetDaily recently published Ha’aretz’s article “Christians in Jerusalem Want Jews to Stop Spitting on Them.” It begins: “A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting…When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked at the window. As the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.
"The clergyman preferred not to lodge a complaint with police and told an acquaintance that he was used to being spat at by Jews. Many Jerusalem clergy have been subjected to abuse of this kind.”
“According to Daniel Rossing, former advisor to the Religious Affairs Ministry on Christian Affairs…there has been an increase in the number of such incidents recently, ‘…as part of a general atmosphere of lack of tolerance in the country.’” It has occurred particularly during the Purim holiday (which celebrates Israel’s bloody revenge on Gentile persecutors in the book of Esther). Rossing said, “I know Christians who lock themselves indoors during the entire Purim holiday.”
Dr. Israel Shahak, an Israeli citizen, former WWII concentration camp inmate and founder of Israel's Human Rights League, says, "Dishonoring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, and especially on the crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, has been obligatory from around 200 AD for pious Jews… The increasing strength of the Jewish nation has caused these customs to become more open again but there should be no mistake: the spitting on the cross for converts from Christianity to Judaism, organized in Kibbutz Sa'ad and financed by the Israeli government, is an act of traditional Jewish piety." [4]
Much of the spitting is indulged in by Yeshiva students immersed in study of the Talmud, says former advisor on Christian affairs to the mayor, Shmuel Evyatar. He says the “rabbis of yeshivas ignore or even encourage it.” Police and courts are usually lax in punishment.
Such increasing intolerance in Israel also manifests itself as advice and authoritative decrees from Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox rabbinic courts, sanctioning discrimination, harassment, and even violence against Christians and Palestinians. The Talmud encourages murder of Gentiles ("goyim") if such can be performed indirectly or through trickery. It is vital that the Jew get away with it without causing shame to Israel. Otherwise, he causes “profanation of God’s holy name.” [5] One of a number of Talmudic passages often cited by rabbinical courts as they define halachic law to Israel’s military forces or to settlers is that of Simeon ben Yohai, one of Israel’s most highly esteemed sages, who said “the best of the Gentiles deserve to be killed.” [6] So enormous is esteem for ben Yohai that every year in Meron in southern Israel (ben Yohai’s birthplace) tens of thousands of Kabbalistic Jews (ultra-Orthodox haredim) sing and dance for a week in honor of his memory.
Confirming the above, online article “Israeli Rabbi Approves Murder of Non-Jews” by the National Newspaper says, “A book published this week by a radical Jewish rabbi…endorsed by prominent religious right-wing figures, suggests killing any non-Jew including children and babies who pose a threat to Israel. [The book] reflects a growing antipathy toward Palestinians among Jews living in the occupied territory…Michael Warschawsky, the founder of the Jerusalem-based Alternative Information Centre, said the book went public with a concept that was already being promoted in a quieter way by dozens of settler rabbis…”
The King’s Torah is described by the mass-selling Israeli newspaper Maariv as “a guide to whoever is deliberating if and when it is necessary and permissible to take the life of someone who is not Jewish.”
“According to Israeli press reports that provided excerpts of the book, the rabbis do not shy away from calling for the killing of any non-Jew who may threaten the state of Israel. They write: ‘In any place that the presence of a gentile endangers the existence of Israel, it is allowed to kill him…also, if he is completely not to blame for the situation that has been created.’…Children, the authors insist, should not be exempt from this fate. They add: ‘There is a reasonable explanation for killing infants if it is clear that they will grow up to hurt us – and in this situation, the strike should be directed at them.’ According to the book, the children of a non-Jewish leader may be targeted as a means of applying pressure. The authors say that even innocent people are allowed to be killed if they belong to a state that Israel considers an enemy. The rabbis added that non-Jews could also be killed if they ‘violate…commandments’ such as the prohibition against…idol-worshipping.” (See Israeli Rabbi Approves Murder of Non-Jews)
Christians, the Talmud repeatedly emphasizes, are the most dangerous kind of idol worshippers – devotees of the false prophet Jesus. The Talmud says brotherly love need not extend to Christians; rather, they may legally be thrown into a pit to die. [7]
Speech Crime Laws Prevail in Israel
Although it touts itself as the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, under influence of Orthodoxy, has created “speech crimes” laws that outlaw any effective witness of Christians to Jews. On December 26, 1977, Knesset passed Israel’s anti-missionary law which imposes up to a five-year prison term for anyone who attempts to convert an Israeli with assistance of any material inducement such as a gospel tract or even a cup of coffee. All witnessing to Israeli youth under 18 is illegal, while any “conspicuous” witnessing to a Jewish person is against the law. While Israel, largely dependent on Christian evangelical tourist dollars, is loathe to generate bad publicity by imprisoning Christian evangelists, it is not reluctant to discreetly arrest and deport them (See Christian Deported From Israel).In the West Bank and central Israel, the anti-Christian dictums of haredi rabbis are particularly unrestrained, bringing many years of incessant persecution upon messianic Jewish citizens. In Arad, the messianic Jewish community is led by Lura Maimon Beckford and her husband. They reveal through articles and videos on their website (http://kingsmenarad.com/) the unending harassment this community of Jewish Christians endures under the dominant ultra-Orthodox. In collusion with local police, judges and rabbis, such persecution has continued for at least the past six years while the government of Israel does nothing. (See Christians in Israel: An Endangered Species)
Beckford, with foreboding, asks in her latest alert, "Please pray for us. Christmas time is here again!” She says, "….on Christian high holy days, like Christmas, Easter, and Passover, the Pharisees (ultra-Orthodox) and anti-missionary inflammatory groups… are apt to wage a barrage of hate crimes against Believers, our places, and things. Ironically, we don't have any problem with Israeli Arabs and Palestinians because they view Jesus as a Holy Prophet and respect Him." She says, " Israel passed its anti-mission law (five- to seven-year jail term for witnessing to anyone under 18) on Christmas Day 1977." On "Christmas Eve 2005, a huge mob of Pharisees (ultra-Orthodox) entered the Beersheva congregation throwing the pastor into the baptismal pool, slapping some of the old women around, and wrecking the place. YouTube video: click here."
Calev Myers, founder and chief counsel of The Jerusalem Institute, which provides legal advice and representation to persecuted Messianic Jews, says: " Israel is the only Western country where basic freedom of religion is denied."
Evangelicals Fund Persecutors
Anti-Christianity in Israel is not only fueled by the Orthodox establishment but, incredibly, by evangelical Christians themselves. The Jerusalem Post(Oct 23, 2009) says that evangelicals have donated $70 million a year to Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein’s “International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,” one of a number of Israeli charities accepting millions annually from Christians. But Eckstein admits now that much of it has gone toward support of the very Orthodox and haredi groups most responsible for harassment and persecution of Christians in Israel today! The Post says, “Various haredi organizations in Israel and abroad receive money from the IFCJ or have received support in the past.” Part of the evangelical millions, according to Eckstein, goes to fund orthodox and ultra-orthodox rabbinical organizations as far away as the Ukraine and Morocco, including the Rabbinate in Turkey. (See Christian donor to out haredi recipients)Every Christian is bound by Scripture to donate first to “those of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10) i.e. Christian churches, missionaries and charities. “Israel-first” evangelicals have no justification for this ungodly drain on Christian resources to assist the persecutors of their brethren. Like the church of Laodicea in the Book of Revelation, which thought itself both rich and wise, such evangelicals may be wealthy in worldly goods. Yet they fulfill Christ’s prophecy that in the end times “even the very elect if possible will be deceived.” (Matthew 24:24) They are blind where it really matters—in wisdom and caution concerning those whom Christ repeatedly called “the synagogue of Satan” and of whom He warned us to beware.
Footnotes:
- “Judaism.” Encyclopedia Judaica, p. 396.
- The accepted English translation of the Talmud throughout much of the 20 th century has been the Soncino edition, published by Soncino Press Ltd., London.
- “Destruction and Desecration of Christian Holy Places and the Violation of Christian Religious Rights.” The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem. Volume 1, p. 397-412. Intercontinental Books, New York. 1991. This definitive, two-volume work, edited by Christian Palestinian lawyer and diplomat Dr. Issa Nakhleh, is available in most university libraries.
- From statement by Dr. Israel Shahak, quoted in The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, Vol. 1, pg. 403.
- Talmudic passages endorsing murder of both Gentiles and Christians include Choschen Hamishpat, 425, 5, Iore Dea 158, Hilcoth Akum X1, X7, Abodah Zarah 26b, and Sanhedrin 58a, b.
- Abodah Zarah 26b.
- The Soncino Talmud’s footnote to AZ 16b (pg. 84) says that “minuth” (plural, “minim”) refers to “heresy with special reference to Christianity.” “Minim, informers, and apostates may be cast in [to a pit to die] and need not be brought up.”
Here is the Talmud’s description of Christ in hell, Gittin 56b-57a
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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
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.
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.
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
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)
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 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.
“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.”
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.
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?
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.
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
…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
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.
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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Read past articles by David Duke about terrorism and Sept 11 at:
http://www.davidduke.com/writings/israeliarticles.shtml
http://www.davidduke.com/general/evangelicals-who-serve-the-anti-christ_100.html
Israel as a Terrorist State
As stated previously in The CIA as a Terrorist Organization "terrorism" is here taken to mean the practice of the deliberate inflicting (either directly or indirectly) of harm, injury, death and/or destruction upon a civilian target sufficient to cause horror, revulsion or despair among civilian populations and/or their political leaders, with the goal of causing those populations or political leaders to act in a way desired by the terrorists.
A terrorist state is a state which practices terrorism, even if it pretends (or rather, lies) to the world that it does not. It hardly needs to be pointed out that Israel is a terrorist state. Brutal repression of, and bloody attacks on, Palestinian civilians with the official Israeli aim of causing a change in the policies or actions of the Palestinian leadership is a clear case of terrorism.
One of the vilest acts of terrorism committed by Israel was the assassination on 2004-03-22 of the 67-year old spiritual head of Hamas, an organization which, as well as resisting Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank, attempts to provide educational, medical, etc., services to the Palestinian people, whose social infrastructure has been practically destroyed by Israel.
Hamas spiritual leader Shiekh Ahmed Yassin was killed at daybreak Monday when Israeli helicopters fired missiles at his car as he left a mosque near his house in Gaza City.
Kawther Salam: The assassination of Sheikh Yassin was written between the Lines of the U.S. Road Map
And then a month later Israel used the same method (a missile fired from a U.S.-supplied helicopter gunship) to murder Sheikh Yassin's successor, Abdel Aziz Rantissi (his son was also killed in the attack).
There is no limit to Israel's depravity. Every abomination is followed by a worse abomination. It is almost as if Israel is taunting the world by heaping evil on top of evil.
Israel has been a terrorist state from its beginning, and has its foundations in terrorism. Three Israeli prime ministers were or are terrorists:
- Menachim Begin took part in terrorist acts in the 1940s, including the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people.
Begin ordered ... the destruction of the central British administrative offices in the King David Hotel. — Jewish Virtual Library
In 1946, Jewish terrorists agitating for their own state in British-occupied Palestine blew up Jerusalem's King David Hotel, killing 91. Two years later, an independent Israel was established. "There were a lot of innocent British women and children killed there," says Hanson. "But in the end, it worked; the British left." — Some Dirty Little Secrets About Terrorism
- Yitzhak Shamir was the operations commander, and later leader, of the Stern Gang, a terrorist group which was responsible for a string of political assassinations.
Shamir was a member of two militant Jewish underground organizations which ... were active in counter-terrorist acts against Arabs as well as sabotage against the British. — The Department for Jewish Zionist Education (Note the use of the term counter-terrorist to disguise terrorism.)
In post-war British-mandated Palestine the words Stern Gang equalled "terrorism" — assassinations, bombings, the full works. ... Yitzhak Shamir had been the gang's operations commander. ... By appointing Shamir Foreign Minister, Prime Minister Menachem Begin had selected the organiser of two famous assassinations: the killing of Lord Moyne, the British Minister representative in the Middle East, in 1944, and that of Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN's special Mediator on Palestine, in 1948. — Stern Gang: what does 'mekhabbel' mean?
During the fight for Jewish statehood, extremist military groups sometimes resorted to the use of terrorist tactics. One such instance occurred in 1948 when members of the Jewish underground organization LEHI (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) killed UN Peace Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte to protest his diplomatic efforts to modify the Palestine partition plan. ... Yitzhak Shamir reputedly played a role in planning the assassination; however, he was never tried and went on to become Prime Minister of Israel. — The Assassination of Count Bernadotte
Ariel Sharon initiated the Sabra-Shatila massacre in which between 1000 and 3000 people (mostly Palestinians) were murdered, and now leads a terrorist campaign against all Palestinians living in the occupied territories of the West Bank.
As commander of the notorious Unit 101, Sharon led attacks on Palestinian villages in which women and children were killed. The massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya, on October 14, 1953, was perhaps the most notorious. His troops blew up 45 houses and 69 Palestinian civilians — about half of them women and children — were killed. — The Electronic Intifada
No one has ever been tried for the massacre, but an official Israeli commission of inquiry found that Israel's defense minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, "bears personal responsibility" as well as "indirect responsibility." It was Sharon, after all, who had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to invade Beirut and surround the camps. ... Like Pinochet and other war criminals, Sharon and his Phalangist underlings should be brought to book; if they can successfully evade justice, then it will give heart to killers everywhere. — Marking a Massacre, The Nation
Sharon's preemptive logic undercuts all form of dialogue and negotiations. Its rule of thumb is violence, and then more violence, whether it manifests itself as a military attack or as an aggressive act of dispossession. So while it may seem that the bloody routine is in some way preordained, it is actually Sharon's preemptive zeal alongside Hamas' and Islamic Jihad's fundamentalism that has clouded the horizon and concealed, as Arendt might have said, the possibility for a better future. — Neve Gordon, Sharon's Preemptive Zeal, Counterpunch, 2003-09-24
See also:
The Likud Party was founded by terrorists.
The terrorists of the 1940's were given full amnesty after establishing their nation, so instead of being brought to justice, they were able eventually to take power and keep all dissenters in line through terror and fear. The terrorists have become statesmen of the Jewish State. They have little moral ground to condemn modern Arab terrorists for doing what they themselves did in the 1940's and 1950's and have continued to do to the present day. — Zionism in Bible Prophecy: Part 6
And, of course, the terrorist state of the U.S.A. continues to support the terrorist state of Israel by giving it tanks, planes, rocket launchers and financial support to the tune of three billion dollars a year (why?), with which Israel has built up the fourth-largest military machine in the world. Israel's hegemony over the Middle East will continue, however, only as long as American money makes it possible. One day this money will no longer be forthcoming, for one reason or another. That will be Israel's Day of Reckoning. And none too soon either.
See also:
- Ronald Bleier: In the Beginning, There Was Terror
- G. J. Neuberger: The Great Gulf Between Zionism and Judaism
Jacob de Haan, a former distinguished Dutch diplomat ... initiated talks with Arab leaders with a view toward the eventual establishments of a state there in which Jews and Arabs would have equal rights. In this way he hoped to forestall the creation of a Zionist state. Despite threats to his life, de Haan, fully aware of the ultimate dangers of a Zionist state, continued his talks and negotiations. On the eve of his departure in 1924 for Britain to meet with authorities there, he was assassinated by the Haganah, the Zionist paramilitary force, in the center of Jerusalem as he came from evening prayers.
- David Hirst: The Lavon Affair
In July 1954 Egypt was plagued by a series of bomb outrages directed mainly against American and British property in Cairo and Alexandria. ... The trial established that the bombings had indeed been carried out by an Israeli espionage and terrorist network.
- More Evidence Mossad Killed JFK Over Israeli Nukes
- Israel's 'Use' Of Its Nuclear Weapons Against US
- John Pilger: The Unmentionable Source of Terrorism
[Israel, the] creation, then guardian of the west's empire in the Middle East, the Zionist state remains the cause of more regional grievance and sheer terror than all the Muslim states combined. Read the melancholy Palestinian Monitor on the Internet; it chronicles the equivalent of Madrid's horror week after week, month after month, in occupied Palestine. No front pages in the West acknowledge this enduring bloodbath, let alone mourn its victims. Moreover, the Israeli army, a terrorist organisation by any reasonable measure, is protected and rewarded in the west.
- FBI evidence of Mossad involvement in September 11 attacks on the U.S.?!
- A short history of Israeli state terrorism
- Wayne Madsen: Rahm Emanuel's father specialized in bus bombings in Palestine
Is Israel Planning a Nuclear Terrorist Attack in the US?
- MadCow Morning News reported on 2004-05-20:
For the second time in the past two weeks Israelis in a moving van have been detained near a U.S. nuclear facility, this time at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base near St. Marys, GA., near Sea Island, host of the G-8 Summit next month.
- Paul Howard, 2004-05-27: Terror In The US? — Back To The Old Shell Game
The Bush administration has come out full force this week with what they claim are mountains of intelligence that claim Al Queda is determined to hit America before the elections in a massive attack. ...Could this be a way of trying to cover the fact that Israeli reservist teams have been found in this country working for "moving companies", yet they keep getting arrested around US nuclear facilities? And why do these people keep getting arrested, only to have the Feds step in to make sure they are released?
- R. Leland Lehrman: Israeli Nationals, Nukes, And Attacks On US Nuclear Facilities
The Assassination of Rafiq Hariri
A contributor to Al Jazeera's website wrote:
If some recent events are put together the finger pointing at Israel and the U.S. for Hariri's assassination will be more justified. The U.S. wants to attack Iran but fears that any attempt to do so will put Israel at risk from Hezbollah and Syrian troops. Being desperate, the U.S. connived with France to pass the most unacceptable and ridiculous resolution ever in UN history while they are in Iraq and Afghanistan, they want Syria out of Lebanon so that Israel has a free hand on Hezbollah in case of any attack on Iran. After the resolution failed to garner support, now the U.S. is using another strategy to cause a civil war in Lebanon. Al Hariri's assassination is clearly the combined efforts of the CIA and the Mossad.
See more on the assassination of Rafiq Hariri at Syria is Doomed.
And for a mention of a few acts of Israeli state terrorism from 1950 to the present see this article by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad: Motive and Precedent in the Gemayel Assassination
http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/israel_terr.htm
http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/israel_terr.htm
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