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* CHRISTIAN ACTION FOR ISRAEL NEWSLETTER #105 *
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"ON YOUR WALLS, O JERUSALEM, I HAVE APPOINTED WATCHMEN"
Isaiah 62:6
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Friday, October 11, 2002
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. THANK GOD FOR THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS
2. ISRAEL TO BE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
WITH CHRISTIANITY AS FOREIGN POLICY
3. THE OTHER SHOE DROPS ?
4. MY TRIP TO ISRAEL, AUGUST 2002
5. THE NOBEL APPEASEMENT PRIZE
6. QUOTES TO NOTE
7. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES
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1. THANK GOD FOR THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS
by George K. Bernstein
Here's the weekly talk I gave last Sunday.
Good Afternoon.
THANK GOD FOR THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS.
With the exception of a few Jewish organizations
such as the Zionist Organization of America and
Americans for a Safe Israel, (Editor's Note: and
the Freeman Center) evangelical Christian groups,
such as the Christian Coalition of America, the
Christian Friends of Israel and CIPAC [Ed.: the
Australian based Christians' Israel Public Action
Campaign], are Israel's most loyal supporters
in the United States.
I am not troubled by their Messianic beliefs
involving Jerusalem. When the Messiah comes, it
will be time enough to speculate on Israel's future.
Right now, I'm worried about Israel's survival -
today and tomorrow.
Well before the Oslo Accords, fringe groups,
such as Peace Now and Tikkun, pressured Israel to
surrender Judea, Samaria and Gaza and supported
the establishment of another Palestinian State.
Some of their spokesmen likened Israel to
apartheid South Africa.
With the advent of Oslo, most of the American
rabbinate, Jewish organizations and Jewish members
of the media joined the "peace at any price"
movement and tried to make pariahs of those who
opposed appeasement and defended Israel's
historical rights.
They argued that if only the Jewish State
would retreat to pre-67 borders, share Jerusalem,
create another Palestinian State, recognize a right
of return for Arab refugees and not respond to the
murder of its innocents, it would be loved by
the world and find peace with its Arab brothers.
The folly of these American Jews was exceeded
only by that of the Israeli fantasists who
negotiated Oslo, armed the Arab enemy, and ceded
sacred and strategically essential land to a
proven group of anti-semitic murderers and
terrorists.
These American Jews welcomed Arafat and his
henchmen in their synagogues and conventions.
It was only fair, they claimed, to hear the other side.
And anyway, wasn't there going to be a
"New Middle East"
where, according to Shimon Peres, economic
self-interest would erase religious and ethnic
differences between Arab and Jew?
Most American Jewish organizations, including
those with the highest access to policymakers in
our government, opposed conditioning aid to Arafat
on his compliance with Oslo, opposed moving our
embassy to Jerusalem and opposed indicting Arab
murderers of Americans in Israel. They even covered
up Israeli documentation of the Palestinian
Authority's stockpiling of arms, sheltering and
support of terrorists and anti-semitic
incitement to violence.
In the name of the "peace process," they
always found an excuse for Arafat's transgressions.
We still hear rabbis and Jewish columnists
condemning Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount
as the cause of the current intifada, although
it was planned months earlier, immediately after
Arafat's incredible rejection of Barak's
suicidal proposals at Camp David.
Thank God for the Christian supporters of
Israel! They have been telling the truth about
the disaster of Oslo from the beginning. They
have endorsed Israel's unconditional right to
defend itself against those committed to its
destruction.
These Christians, in coalition with the
National Unity Coalition for Israel, [Ed.: formerly]
Voices United for Israel and a few committed Jewish
groups, have spoken out against another Palestinian
state and the peril to Israel's temporal and
spiritual existence of surrendering any portion of
Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem.
Unlike most American Jews, evangelical
Christians are not too timid to quote the Torah
and cite Israel's biblical heritage.
They are not afraid to attribute to God,
Israel's right to the promised land.
The Jewish People owe a debt of gratitude
to these Christian defenders of Israel. I am ashamed
that so many Jews have shown less commitment to the
Jewish State.
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2. Israel to Be Only Country in the World
with Christianity as Foreign Policy
[Author's Note: Before anyone yells at me about
this article, please remember that it is SATIRE.]
By Dr. Steven Plaut
Thursday, October 10, 2002
It was shortly after the Zinni-Tenet-Mitchell
ceasefire was introduced into the Middle East in
2003 when the world decided that the time had
come to get serious about reaching a resolution
of the Middle East conflict.
The nations of the world gathered at the United
Nations headquarters in New York. All other matters
were stripped from the agenda and tabled, everything
from the mass murders in Algeria to the war against
Al-Qaeida to the violence in India. Only one
subject occupied the attention of all.
The resolution was introduced by a coalition of
European countries. It was very simple. The
resolution declared that Israel would henceforth
be the only nation on earth to practice
Christianity as its foreign policy.
The resolution was quickly endorsed by a
surprising number of countries. The State
Department of Colin Powell welcomed the idea as an
original promising new approach, and President
Bush agreed. Every Christian nation represented
in the United Nations voted in favor of the
resolution, as did all Moslem countries. The
only hesitant voice came from the Vatican; the
Pope demanded to know why the countries that had
proposed the resolution were themselves not
practicing Christianity as THEIR foreign policies. The
sponsoring countries told the Pope to butt out
and, besides, look how many of THEM have
crosses on THEIR flags.
According to the resolution, Israeli would be
declared the only true Christian nation on earth.
It would henceforth respond to all acts of Arab
violence by turning the other cheek. It would
react to all provocations by forgiving its enemies.
It would lecture the world about how all men have
some good and some evil in them, and so Palestinian
terrorists should have their good nurtured. The
resolution declared that if God could forgive
murdering terrorists, why should not the Jews?
The world had long ago forgiven the Germans for
murdering the Jews, so why not the Palestinians?
Reactions to the resolution among Jews were varied.
The Religious Action Center of the Reform synagogue
movement and the Reconstructionist movement
immediately endorsed the idea of accepting the
resolution. After all, said the RAC's David
Saperstein, we had no interest in practicing
Judaism anyway. Tikkun magazine ran a special
issue showing the Israeli flag melting down
into a nice cross. But others were not so sure.
Within Israel, the debate over the resolution
was simpler. The Israeli Labor Party took the
lead in advocating that Israel embrace the
resolution with enthusiasm and without reservation.
After all, explained Yossi Beilin, we have known
all along that there is no solution to the
problems of war besides turning the other cheek,
and if there WERE--it should never be used.
Meretz agreed and Yossi Sarid changed his name
to Saint Joey. The Shinui Party of Tommy Lapid
welcomed the idea as a way to end the religious
coercion of Jewish Orthodox cicles.
The Likud however was split. President Katsav
supported the idea of going to Ramallah to
forgive Arafat and the terrorists. Other Likud
backbenchers agreed. But some felt uncomfortable
about the idea, because they feared the National
Religious Party would vote against them if they
changed the flag to a nice blue cross on white
cloth. These dissidents proposed instead a simple
all-white banner be used as the new flag.
Israeli university professors endorsed the idea
of a Christian foreign policy in huge numbers.
So did the communist parties in Israel, on condition
that no party members be asked to attend any
church services. The Four Mothers organization
and its sister groups banded together and renamed
themselves Jews for Jesus. They led a march to
the Ramallah headquarters of the PLO, singing
hosannas. Amos Oz and Israeli poets sponsored
special recitations of the Sermon on the Mount.
As part of the new foreign policy, the Israeli
government voted to dismember all tanks, planes,
and instruments of violence. As a special
demonstration of its commitment to a Christian
foreign policy, it turned all of the churches
in Nazareth over to the Moslem Waqf.
Overseas, a handful of protesters took to the
streets of American and European cities to
demand that other countries besides Israel adopt
pure Christianity as THEIR foreign policies as
well, but these were whisked off to prison.
Just before newstime this evening we reported
a large army of soldiers from Syria, Egypt,
and Iraq marching towards the Holy Land singing
Onward Christian Soldiers.
But we have to break now for the baseball game.
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3. THE OTHER SHOE DROPS ?
Palestinians: Settlement Expansion Forces
Reevaluation Of Two State Solution
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Palestinian envoy warned top US officials this
week that the Palestinians may have to "re-evaluate"
support for a two-state solution - Palestine alongside
Israel - if Jewish settlement expansion continues,
according to a document released Friday.
The warning was delivered by Palestinian Finance
Minister Salam Fayad, who met in Washington with US
Secretary of State Colin Powell and National
Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
It marked the first time Palestinian Authority
officials suggested that a two-state solution to
the conflict with Israel may no longer be feasible.
In Washington, Fayad presented a 10-page document
and maps outlining settlement activity in the West
Bank and traditionally Arab east Jerusalem, as well
as Israel's construction of a "security fence" that
is to run through the West Bank to keep Palestinian
militants out of Israel.
Settlement expansion and other unilateral Israeli
measures "are effectively pre-empting the possibility
of a two-state solution of a viable Palestinian
state alongside Israel," said the document.
"If the international community remains unwilling
to rein in Israeli colony construction and expansion,
irreversible 'facts on the ground' and the de facto
apartheid system such facts create will force
Palestinian policy makers to re-evaluate the
plausibility of a two-state solution," the document said.
THE DOCUMENT DID NOT LIST ALTERNATIVES
TO A TWO-STATE SOLUTION. (emphasis CAFI)
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said Palestinian
statehood is inevitable. However, like his predecessors,
Sharon has said he would not hand back all of the
West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, the
areas Israel captured in 1967.
More than 200,000 Israelis live in about 150
settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel
also built several large Jewish neighborhoods
in east Jerusalem.
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CAFI NOTE: One can only surmise what the PA
"alternative" to a two-state solution would be....
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4. MY TRIP TO ISRAEL, AUGUST 2002
By Sherrie Sicam October 10, 2002
Feeling compelled to be in Israel at this time and
to show my support for the Jewish State, I traveled
to Israel at the end of August. I traveled to Israel
in spite of the State Department warnings and the
concerns of family and friends. My biggest encouragement
came from my son who accompanied me on the trip. He
made all the travel and car rental arrangements. I
admit I did have apprehensions, but my strong desire
to show solidarity with Israel and to visit friends
helped me overcome any doubts and fears I had had.
We divided our time between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
In Jerusalem, where most of the horrific terrorist
attacks by Muslim extremists have taken place, we
sensed a determination and vitality among the people
that life must and will go on. In fact, I felt
re-vitalized in being there. The city municipality
offered various activities in downtown Jerusalem in
order to encourage people to return to the center of
town. Every night thousands of men, women, and children
crowded the streets enjoying arts and crafts fairs,
musical performances, kosher and non-kosher food,
and late hour shopping. We, too, joined the throngs
and walked up and down Ben Yehuda Street, ate falafel,
and bought tsaktsehs for gifts to bring home. Security
was high. Police, soldiers, and security personnel
provided vigilance of the area.
We walked by the Sbarro restaurant and other sites
in which innocent children, teenagers, families have
been victims of terrorist acts. On several occasions
we saw recent victims of these terror attacks. We
saw a man with no feet or hands sitting in a wheel-bed.
He had endured a horror no human should ever have to
undergo. Yet here he was readying himself to
reenter society.
Some people are afraid to leave their houses,
thinking that once they leave their house, they
don't know if they will return, so they avoid crowded
areas like Ben Yehuda Street. However, most people
continue to live day-to-day, more cautiously, but
determined to live life to the fullest in spite of
this hideous battle the terrorists are perpetrating.
In Tel Aviv we joined swimmers and sunbathers on
the crowded beaches and strolled the 'Tiyelet,' the
boardwalk along the Mediterranean Sea, lined with
restaurants and teeming with Tel Avivians. We saw
many familiar stores - the Gap, Home Depot, Best Buy,
McDonald's, Burger King, Ben and Jerrys. The
nightlife of Tel Aviv, a city of over 1 million
people, was at its liveliest. It seemed as if
everyone was out enjoying the sights and sounds
of the exciting beach atmosphere. Military
helicopters patrolled the coast, keeping the
beaches safe and providing extra security
on the beachfront.
In Jerusalem, and in Tel Aviv, Arabs walked
freely wherever we were - downtown Jerusalem, the
malls, banks, grocery stores, Hebrew University,
and the zoo. We saw Arab men, women, and children
enjoying the freedoms that democracy offers in
Israel. They do not have to worry about being
accosted, threatened or killed, as Jews and
Israelis would have to worry about in the
Palestinian areas, or in an Arab country.
My son and I witnessed the Jewish State of Israel
in wartime, and yet its people choose life over
death, survival over surrender. In Israel, just
like in New York City, or Washington DC, after
September 11, 2001 you never know when, where,
or how terror will strike your home turf, but
life must, and will go on.
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5. THE NOBEL APPEASEMENT PRIZE
>From "The Best of the Web Today - Wall Street Journael
One-eighth of a cheer for the Norwegian Nobel
Committee, which greeted us this morning with a new
punchline: Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize in
2002. A press release says the committee is honoring
the former president "for his decades of untiring
effort to find peaceful solutions to international
conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights,
and to promote economic and social development."
Back in May, columnist Jonah Goldberg called Carter
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20020515.shtml
(borrowing a line from "The Simpsons")
"history's greatest monster":
While the first President Bush was trying to
orchestrate an international coalition to remove
Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, Carter wrote a letter
to the U.N. Security Council asking its members
to stymie Bush's efforts.
As the "human rights president," Carter noted
that Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito was also "a man
who believes in human rights." Carter saluted
the dictator as "a great and courageous leader"
who "has led his people and protected their
freedom almost for the last 40 years." He
publicly told Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu,
"Our goals are the same. . . . We believe in
enhancing human rights. We believe that we
should enhance, as independent nations, the
freedom of our own people." He told the
Stalinist first secretary of Communist Poland,
Edward Gierek, "Our concept of human rights
is preserved in Poland."
Since Carter has left office, he's been even
more of a voluptuary of despots and dictators.
He told Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras
he was "ashamed of what my country has done to
your country." He's praised the mass-murdering
leaders of Syria and Ethiopia. He endorsed
Yasser Arafat's sham election and grumbled
about the legitimate vote that ousted
Sandanista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
And, I learned from a devastating critique by
my National Review colleague Jay Nordlinger,
Carter even volunteered to be Arafat's
speechwriter and go-fer, crafting palatable
messages for Arafat's Western audiences and
convincing the Saudis to continue funding
Arafat after the Palestinians sided with
Iraq against the United States.
ARAFAT WON A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1994.
It's probably an exaggeration to call Carter
a "monster"; he seems a well-intentioned naïf,
and he has done some worthwhile work for Habitat
for Humanity. But his record as president
illustrates the folly of seeking peace through
niceness. He lectured Americans on the foolishness
of their "inordinate fear of communism," and the
Soviets invaded Afghanistan. He tried to appease
the mullahs in Iran, and they answered him by
holding dozens of Americans hostage, releasing
them the moment Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.
Reagan, in fact, would have been a worthier
nominee for a peace prize; the world was far
more peaceful after his eight years in office
than after Carter's four.
The head of the Nobel Committee, Gunnar Berge,
says he and his colleagues meant to send a
message about current affairs: "With the
position Carter has taken . . . [the award]
can and must also be seen as criticism of the
line the current U.S. administration has taken
on Iraq," Reuters quotes him as saying.
(The Associated Press notes that some of Berge's
fellow committeemen have distanced themselve
from his view.) But sometimes you have to fight
a war in order to establish peace. With Saddam
out of power, Iraq will be a far more peaceful
nation, and the Iraqi people will be liberated
from decades of misery and repression. The Nobel
Committee disgraces itself when it rewards Jimmy
Carter for his moral preening while its chairman
denounces George W. Bush for taking a stand
that will actually promote peace.
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6. QUOTES TO NOTE
“[Those Palestinians who died] were all
terrorists with long resumes, except for
one innocent elderly woman. I advise you
to verify the details with Israel before you
publicize your reaction to IDF operations.”
—Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer angrily
rebutting the condemnation of Israel by visiting
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana,
who accused Israel of not exercising restraint to
avoid harming Palestinian civilians. [P.M. Sharon
told Solana that the IDF had no choice but to use
strong force to extricate soldiers who had come
under heavy sniper fire, while trying to arrest
two terrorist suspects in a building in Khan Yunis.]
(Nat’l. Post, Oct. 9; Jerusalem Post, BBC, Oct. 8)
“From the blood of the wounded heart of a
father who has lost what is most precious to
him in the world, I turn to the leaders of the
Palestinian factions, and at their head the
leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and their
sheikhs, who use religious rulings and statements
to urge more and more of the sons of Palestine
to their deaths, knowing full well that sending
young people to blow themselves up in the heart
of Israel deters no enemy and liberates no
land…On the contrary, [it] intensifies the
aggression…I ask, on my behalf and on behalf
of every father and mother informed that their
son has blown himself up: ‘By what right do
these leaders send the young people…in the
flower of their youth, to their deaths?’…”
—Abu Saber M.G., the father of a young Palestinian
who carried out a suicide bombing in an Israeli city,
in a letter to the editor of the London Arabic-language
daily Al-Hayat. (MEMRI, Dispatch No. 426, Oct. 8)
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7. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES ON THE SITE
EVANGELICAL ARGUMENT OVER ISRAEL
And, let's point out there's no shortage of
Israelis who believe Israel exists because God
intended it to. They only disagree with the
evangelicals over what God's intentions are.
And that argument is only going to be settled
on God's timetable.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/oct02/evangelical.html
SABOTAGING ISRAEL'S RED STAR OF DAVID
The Magen David Adom (MDA), the Red Star of David,
was born 52 years ago. It is the Red Cross, except
with a Jewish symbol. Its purpose is to protect
life and health and to alleviate human suffering.
It serves, without discrimination, the entire
Israeli population, including 1.1-million Israeli
Arabs, and Palestinian Arabs in need.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/oct02/magen.html
EURABIA: THE ROAD TO MUNICH...
America should not choose European ways: the road
back to Munich via appeasement, collaboration, and
dhimmitude. For decades at the instigation of
France, Europe backed Arafat — the godfather of
modern terrorism — as the champion of liberty,
and their hero.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/oct02/eurabia.html
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great things our Lord is doing for Israel and what great
things He will continue to do for her, His firstborn.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/witness/home1.html
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