WEST IS BLINDED BY ISLAM,
SEE ISRAEL BY GOD’S WORD,
OPEN YOUR WESTERN EYES,
SEE HAMAS IN JEWISH EYES!
March 22, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I do agree with the excerpt from the New York Jewish Week Article by Eric H. Yoffie and the article from Haaretz by Bradley Burston, which both follow our heading.
I have lived, worked, traveled, and served off and on in the midst of all the descendants of the Middle East from the loins of Abraham through the wombs of Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah. I learned to love and trust the Jews and to tolerate the Palestinians. And I must honestly confess favor toward the Jews based on experience. It is unjustly insane to condemn the Jews for their air and ground attacks against Palestinians, which the IAF and IDF conduct in response to the Palestinian rocket and suicide bomber attacks launched against them. It is a certainty Israel would not attack the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank if they did not attack them.
The United Nations has become little more than a “Jew-Bashing” society held somewhat in check by a small handful of nations.
I WOULD ADVISE THE NATIONS OF THIS WORLD TO BE WISE IN THE WAY THEY JUDGE THE APPLE OF GOD’S EYE. THE FOLLOWING VERSES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BY NATIONS AS THEY DEAL WITH ISRAEL.
SOON THE DAUGHTER OF ZION WILL SING AND REJOICE AS HER LORD COMES TO DWELL IN THE MIDST OF HER.
I WONDER WHICH NATIONS WILL BE JOINED TO HER LORD IN THAT COMING DAY?
Zechariah 2:8-13 –For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. [9] For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. [10] Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will d well
in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. [11] And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. [12] And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
[13] Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
Zechariah 14:16-21 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. [17] And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. [18] And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
[19] This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. [20] In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. [21] Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Jewish Affairs – Daily Alert
Preparing U.S. Jews for Assault on Gaza
Eric H. Yoffie
(New York Jewish Week)
March 20, 2008
Israel’s response to the rocket fire directed at its cities has been far more restrained than what would be expected from any other civilized, democratic government.
Since 2001, more than 7,000 rockets have been fired from Gaza at civilian targets in Israel. A “proportionate” response would involve 7,000 Israeli rockets fired at civilians in Gaza.
Is the “occupation” responsible for the rocket fire? Prime Minister Sharon pulled out of every inch of Gaza in 2005, yet there has not been a single day of quiet following that withdrawal. Indeed, rocket strikes significantly increased after it was completed. The simple fact is that if terror and rocket fire were to come to an end in Gaza, Palestinian suffering there would end as well.
Virtually all of Israel’s political leaders are reluctant to escalate the military conflict with Hamas, but most of those to whom I spoke indicated that there would soon be no alternative to an Israeli move against Hamas forces in Gaza. Israel will almost surely decide that it can no longer protect Palestinian civilians at the cost of sacrificing the well being of its own.
Confronted by challenges to its sovereignty, by expand ing attacks on its civilian population, and by the unrelent
ing hatred of an anti-Semitic, religiously fanatic regime, it is moving toward the military action in Gaza that it had desperately hoped to avoid.
This is not a welcome scenario. It would be preferable by far if international diplomacy could arrange a cease-fire that would end the rocket fire without allowing Hamas to build up its forces for future attacks. But chances for such a diplomatic resolution are small, and Israel must prepare
for the worst.
An Israeli attack on Gaza is certain to unleash a barrage of international criticism.
American support will be essential if Israel’s military is to have the time it needs to complete its mission. Our task now is to support Israel in its time of need, to make its case to our fellow citizens, and to do all that we can to rally the Jewish people and good people everywhere to its side.
Rabbi Yoffie is president of the Union for Reform Juda
ism.
Begin Haaretz Article
To the Westerner who ‘understands’ the terrorist
By Bradley Burston
March 8, 2008
Spare us the explanations.
Spare us the learned, sociology-drenched justifications.
Spare us the reasons why you “get” Palestinians when they gun Jews down in cold blood.
Spare us the chapter and verse on how the plight of the Palestinians is at the root of Islamic terrorism the world over, and if the Palestinians were to receive full justice, Islamic terrorism would pass from the world.
Spare us.
You may well believe, with the blind faith of the hopeful and the fear-stricken, that when these people are through with the Jews, they won’t come for you.
Think again.
Spare us the post-modernism and the radical chic and the guff.
Open your eyes.
When a gunman walks into a Jewish religious seminary at the main entrance to that part of Jerusalem which has been Jewish since 1948, and which was stolen from no one, pay attention.
When he opens fire on religious students hunched over books in a library, firing and firing until blood soaks holy book bindings and open pages of Talmud and the whole of the floor, pay close attention to the reactions of the self-styled people of faith who run Hamas.
Spare us the conclusion that the only reason Hamas kills Jews, and that its underlying motive for encouraging others to do the same, is to force Israel to agree to a cease-fire.
Spare us the “Israel’s policies are responsible for the bloodshed” and “the seminary is, after all, an ideological bastion and symbol of the religious right” and all the other scholarly, arrogant, condescending and amoral ways of saying “they had it coming to them.”
Spare us the understanding for the motivations of the mass murdere
r who kills with God on his lips. Spare us the understanding of the words of the Hamas official who says that after all the Israeli killings of Palestinians, the Jerusalem killings are “our only joy.”
Spare us the sight of the thanksgiving prayers for the great victory, prayers that began in Gaza City mosques just after the slaughter of the Jews. Spare us the sight of the sweets being handed out by little children to motorists in passing cars in the Strip, sweets to celebrate the young Jews dead on the floor, the young Jews dead at their desks, the Jews killed for the crime of being Jews in that place of study and worship.
Spare us the righteousness of those who condemned Baruch Goldstein for entering a holy place with an assault rifle and murdering Palestinians, but who can understand why a Palestinian might do the very same thing,
Open your eyes.
Last week, when Israeli forces drove into Gaza, and some 120 Palestinians were killed, many of them were gunmen, but with children making up another sixth of the total, one grieving father spoke with quiet eloquence, saying “Other places in the world, when this happens, there is a great outcry. When this happens here, the world is silent. No one cares.”
He’s right. The world has grown content to let Palestinians die. The reason is not simple callousness.
And it is not, as Ham
as proclaims to its followers in Gaza, that the Jews control the world media and world finance, and thus Western government as well.
The reason is terrorism.
The world has grown weary of the Islamist’s creed, that only the armed struggle can resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and that the only proper resolution is the end of Israel.
Even the Israeli left, which for decades championed the Palestinian with courage and determination, has, in large part, had it with the Palestinians. The reason is terrorism. The reason is murder. The reason is that the rulers of Gaza are people who see an intrinsic value in the killing of Jews for the sake of increasing the number of dead Jews in the world.
The rulers of Gaza cannot bring themselves to accept the concept of sharing the Holy Land with the Jews.
The best that the rulers of Gaza can do is to bring an end to hope among their own people and ours as well.
They believe that the Jewish state is temporary, and that they Jews will soon abandon it to Islamic rule.
After all this time, you’d think they’d know the Jews a little better.
End of Haaretz Article
MY FIRST MIDDLE EAST ASSIGNMENT WAS IN 1952 AND 1953.
MY LAST TRAVEL THERE WAS IN 1999. MY HEALTH HAS NOT ALLOWED ME TO RETURN IN THIS CENTURY, BUT I DO HAVE A HOPE OF RETURNING ONE MORE TIME.
I AM GLAD I GOT TO KNOW THE JEWS A LITTLE BETTER IN MY LIFETIME.
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