A Christian Arab's View of Israel

Source: www.israelmybeloved.com

As a child I had the desire to get to know God. I, a Christian Arab, was brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church, but went to the Roman Catholic School, as it was the best in the area.

     Looking at the nuns who taught the girls, I was convinced that the only way to get to God was to become one of them. But my father refused to even think of such a possibility, and as I was ten years old then, I had to accept that situation.

     When I was thirteen years old, I met a school girl-friend who told me about the all-sufficient death of Jesus of Nazareth. She made it clear to me that good deeds would never bring me to God, only faith in Jesus and the salvation He provides freely to all that come to Him. So I committed my life to the Lord.

     Up till then, I had no respect for the Jews. As an Arab girl, I was taught that they should be hated and despised, that they are liars and cheats. I was not allowed to socialize with two Jewish girls whom I knew at school. When I decided to follow the Lord, He made it very clear to me that I could not love Him and hate His people the Jews. I accepted this, as I could never understand the unreasonable hatred for the Jews with which I was brought up.

     It was a lonely time for me and I did not get much help from the missionaries where the Jews and Israel were concerned. I started to read the Old Testament with great zeal and saw God's great love for His people, and His plan to bring them back to their land. I was also troubled by the fact that the missionaries did not teach us that hatred of the Jews is a sin.

     The more I studied in the Bible about the Arabs, the more I found out that the hatred of my people towards God's people was Satan inspired and therefore they are also against God. One of the passages in the Bible that reveals this very clearly is Psalm 83:

     "... O God, Thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken counsel against thy people. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance ..."

     With the birth of the State of Israel, the old dormant enmity of the Islamic-Arab world was revived. The "Jihad" - spirit of holy war - got a new incentive and ever since, Arab rulers have tried to unite the Arab world through this hatred against Israel for the cause of a purified Islamic pan-Arabic empire. There is also a new worldwide missionary endeavor.

     This power that 1) enslaves and deceives the Arab multitude, 2) threatens with destruction the Jewish State of Israel and 3) endangers the support for Israel from the West through the powerful weapon of oil, needs to be dealt with in intercessory prayer.

     God may have to use the sword of Israel to destroy this Jihad power that came by the sword, and through the sword enslaved so many Arabs for whom Christ died. It is this breaking that is seen in Isaiah 19 as God's way to prepare the Arab nations for a new day of blessing:

     "And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, everyone that makes mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which He hath determined against it ... And the Lord shall smite Egypt: He shall smite and heal it: and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them."

     It is then that God's real blessing of Abraham will flow to the descendants of both Ishmael and Isaac - the two children of Abraham - Arabs and Jews - when the Lord promises:

"In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land. Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance."

     Together they will be blessed, but as long as Ishmael tried to usurp Israel's God-given land, he will face judgment. If only the Christian Arabs would believe that Israel is God's key of blessing to the Middle East, and turn their hatred or dislike of her to love and acceptance, they could become the bridges for a new day of hope and peace in the Middle East.

 

Australia Expands Its Pro-Israel Shift by Atara Beck,
Staff Writer/Editor, United with Israel

Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

     In accordance with current Australian government policy, Attorney-General George Brandis asserted that the current administration does not consider the eastern section of the united capital of Jerusalem to be "occupied."

     The next day, in a statement drafted in coordination with Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop and Peter Varghese, secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Brandis reinforced the message of support for Israel:

     "The description of east Jerusalem as 'occupied East Jerusalem' is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful. It should not and will not be the practice of the Australian government to describe areas of negotiation in such judgmental language.

     In 1967, in the Six Day War a war of defense against surrounding Arab nations bent on the destruction of the Jewish State Israel liberated East Jerusalem and the ancient Jewish territory of Judea and Samaria, commonly referred to as the West Bank. Between 1948 and 1967, when east Jerusalem was under Jordanian rule, Jews were prohibited from visiting the holy sites.

     The Australian government refuses to label East Jeru-salem as "occupied territory," signaling the current regime's pro-Israel policy and a change from the previous adminis-tration. Australian Foreign Minister  Julie Bishop (photo on right) and Attorney - General George Brandis refuse to label East Jerusalem "occupied" territory.

     Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, while still leader of the Liberal opposition in December 2012, told Haaretz "that a government he leads will be unashamedly and unapologetically pro-Israel, akin to that of Stephen Harper's Conservative Party."

     The statement that Australia does not consider East Jerusalem to occupied territory was made exactly 47 years after the liberation of Jerusalem, which occurred on June 5, 1967.

         

Boycott the Jews!

A short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khomenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people. In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

     "Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, Because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.

     "A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube. Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

     If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

     Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.  Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

     Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the "Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

     "Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

     They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk. "Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

     Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

     "In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

     Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

     Meanwhile I ask, what contributions to the world have the Muslims made? (Well, they did invent algebra. Thanks a lot for that one! RAC)

     The Global Islamic population is over 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. Jews are about 1/4 of 1% of the world's population.

     The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in restaurants.

Jihadis Display 'Power of

Islam' on Donkey Victims

by Raymond Ibrahim, FrontPage Magazine

     Very graphic videos recently appeared on Arabic-language media portraying Islamic jihadis in Syria slaughtering donkeys in order to consume them.

     The main point made by some of these websites is that the jihadis are hypocrites for (again) violating Islamic law, which bans the eating of domesticated donkeys.

     In the words of a fatwa, or Islamic decree, titled "Is it permissible to eat donkey meat?"

Praise be to Allah.

It is permissible to eat the meat of onagers ("wild donkeys") and it is haraam [forbidden] to eat the meat of domesticated donkeys. The first is permitted because of the report narrated by al-Bukhaari (5492) and Muslim (1196) from Abu Qataadah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who hunted an onager and brought a piece of it to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and he ate some of it, and he said to his companions: "It is halaal [permissible], eat it."

With regard to domesticated donkeys, their meat was permitted at first, then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) declared it to be haraam [forbidden] on the day of Khaybar.

Questions of wild or domesticated aside—and the donkeys do appear to be domesticated—this is yet another example of the fact that, for those waging jihad to empower Allah's word, dispensations are always available.

     As discussed here, it is precisely because the strictures of Islamic law are relaxed for the jihadi—often permitting the indulgence of depraved behavior—that the jihad has always been an appealing option.

     While killing animals for consumption is commonplace, what is notable about these videos is the "supremacist" demeanor of the jihadis towards the donkeys—as if the animals are also "infidels" to be treated with contempt and brutality.

     Watching them slaugh-ter the donkeys is like watching them slaughter human "infidels"—with all the triumphant theatrics. In one video, "Allahu Akbar!" is heard while a donkey is being decapitated.

     Jihadis habitually cry "Allahu Akbar" (Islam' supremacist war-cry, which literally means Allah is "greater") whenever striking down infidels—especially when ceremoniously beheading them.  But why say it while slaughtering a donkey—an animal—for consumption?

     In another video, the animals are very inhumanely treated—sadistically dumped out of a truck, then struck on the head with a club, followed by decapitation—all to background laughter and snickers (reminiscent of yet another video of a donkey being set on fire, apparently "for laughs," in some Arab nation, possibly Algeria.)

     Again, why is the act of slaughtering an animal for consumption videotaped and disseminated on the Internet in the first place—and sensationalized as if it were an infidel enemy, not a dumb animal, that was being "overcome"?

     As for the sadistic abuse of animals—full of supremacism and power displays—that's apparently standard, as suggested by this December 2013 report:

Shocking footage of cattle exported from Australia being tortured and killed in the streets of Gaza is being described by an Australian animal rights group as the worst animal cruelty case it has ever seen in the live export industry, The West Australian news reported Thursday. Footage compiled by Animals Australia shows bulls being "knee-capped by a man armed with an assault rifle, another stabbed in the eye and other[s] having their throats hacked open in the streets."… "So acceptable is this brutal treatment to locals that they are cheering and filming the spectacle on mobile phones," Animals Australia campaign director Lyn White said (emphasis added).

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (Regnery, April, 2013) is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

 

Homosexuals Destroy Israeli Messianic Business

David Lazarus, www.IsraelToday.co.il

The Jerusalem District Court has ordered Moshav Yad Hashmonah, a community of Messianic Jews and Evangelical Christians, to pay compensation to two lesbians after it refused to host a same-sex wedding. "We knew we were breaking the law. Somebody needed to do it," says Ayelet Ronen, general secretary for the village. Judge Moshe Yoad Cohen upheld a lower court ruling that the Moshav violated a law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Even though Israeli law does not recognize same-sex marriages taking place in Israel. RAC)

     During the trial, representatives of the Moshav quoted from both Old and New Testaments. "We do not hate homosexuals or lesbians. We love them. We simply told the court that it is God's word in the Bible that calls homosexuality an abomination," Ronen told Israel Today.

     She continues: "As a faith-based community we need to be able to refuse events that blatantly oppose our religious beliefs. We explained to the judge that a same-sex celebration would ruin our business. The majority of our clientele are Christians who oppose gay marriage."

     The lesbians' lawyer accused members of Yad Hashmonah of "homophobia," pointing to an announcement published by the Moshav that "no homosexual organization will be allowed to rent space for functions on our premises."

     That announcement came in response to a flood of requests for same-sex celebrations on the Moshav from gays and lesbians hoping to pass more court decisions requiring the Messianic community to pay out huge compensations.

     As a result, the Moshav was forced to shutter their events-hosting business, resulting in huge financial losses. "We used to host an average of 35-50 weddings a year over the past 12 years. Israelis from all over the country, religious and secular, loved to come here. Now there are none," says Ronen.

     Judge Cohen held that the Moshav cannot refuse to host a same-sex wedding reception even if doing so goes against their own conscious.

     According to Ronen, "a lot of religious Jews and rabbis have secretly told us 'good for you. We are glad that you take this stand.' But they will not stand with [Messianic Jews] to change the law. They hate us too much and would never work with us."

     In his ruling, the judge upheld the earlier verdict of the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, ordering Yad Hashmonah to pay the two lesbians damages of 60,000 shekels ($17,000) plus another 30,000 shekels for attorneys' fees for both the original suit and the appeal.

Holy Cow!  A Red Heifer

Born in the USA!

Tsvi Sadan, www.IsraelToday.co.il

Finding a red heifer is like finding a needle in a hay stack. But some overly industrious Jew managed to do just that in the United States of America. Jews read in the synagogue ... the mysterious commandment of the Red Heifer: “Tell the Israelites to procure for you a red heifer that is free from every blemish and defect and on which no yoke has ever been laid…” (Num. 19:2ff).

     The Red Heifer is an extremely rare creature. According to Jewish tradition, during the two thousand years from the time this commandment was given until the destruction of the Second Temple in the first century AD, only 9 red cows that met the biblical criteria were ever found.

     For a cow to be a Red Heifer it has to be without blemish, one that was never put to work and completely reddish. Jewish law requires keeping the young cow under strict care until it reaches three years old. Leaning on the cow, or even putting a piece of cloth on its back disqualifies it from becoming a Red Heifer.

     Strict rules also apply to its color. Two single hairs of a color other than red automatically disqualify it from becoming a Red Heifer. A Red Heifer candidate that that was discovered in 2000 was disqualified after two black hairs were found on it. Likewise, a cow that meets all other criteria, but is older than four is disqualified. The present calf has a long way until, if at all, it will become a real Red Heifer.

     In biblical times, the Red Heifer was to be completely burnt by a priest outside the Temple. After being burnt, the Red Heifer’s ashes were mixed with water called the “water of remission,” which was used to purify people, especially those defiled by touching corpses. This most serious form of defilement required Jews to undergo a ceremonial cleansing with the ash of a Red Heifer before they could again enter the Temple courtyards. In other words, without the Red Heifer, Jewish Temple worship (with sacrifices) on the Temple Mount is not possible.

     The discovery of a red calf that could potentially become a Red Heifer excites many Jews who believe that Moses prepared the first Red Heifer and Messiah will prepare the last one.

     The possibility of finding a real Red Heifer prompted the Temple Institute to make the logistic preparations needed for bringing the American calf to Israel and to train priests that will perform this sacred and rare sacrificial ceremony.

At least in theory, this calf could help Jews sufficiently purify themselves to engage in real Temple activities. For now, however, believers will have to chew their nails for two and a half years before it will be known whether or not this import is the Red Heifer.