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New York, NY, June 11, 2009 … The shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum by a white supremacist and anti-Semite is not an isolated incident, but is part of a “wave of hate” targeting Jews and others, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors and fights anti-Semitism and extremism.

“The shooting at the Holocaust Mu-seum is part of a wave of hate targeting Jews and Jewish institutions and others,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “It serves as a painful reminder that the anti-Semites and racists are still out there, and are more prone to act out on their beliefs.”

In just the first six months of this year, there have been a number of violent at-tacks and plots in the United States in-volving “lone wolves” infected with anti-Semitic beliefs, or motivated by extremist sentiments.

“These violent crimes involve a certain amount of cross fertilization,” said Mr. Foxman. “Anti-Semitism is a common thread that runs through the extremism of many of these perpetrators, and then they combine it with other toxic ideologies.”

“These factors are creating an atmo-sphere where domestic terrorism seems to be on the rise,” said Mr. Foxman. “The danger is ever-present and we must remain vigilant.”

The wave of hate, documented on the League’s Web site, includes:

The plot by Muslim extremists to

Yes, everyone wants peace, and there has probably never been a time when so many false messiahs

and so-called peacemakers have come to the front of the stage of this world, pro-claiming the change towards a new world order in which all humans will be treated fairly and with equality. Who would not want such a world?

Barack Hussein Obama is doing this masterfully, reaching out to all religions, to the young and the old, the poor and

the rich. ‘No more walls of separation and discrimination,’ he promised the crowds that gathered to hear him in Berlin, and thus he has continued, stretching out his hand to the whole Muslim world in Cairo’s Muslim University. Later, standing with Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor and Eli Wiesel at the horrendous site of Buchenwald, to proclaim that what was done there is not the way human beings should act - Wiesel added in his speech the question: has the world of today really changed and learned this lesson? Of course not.

Wiesel could only make this historic speech at the ‘grave of his father,’ in freedom and respect in a changed Germany, because there were allied forces that - under God - set Europe - including Germany - free once more. Not through well-meaning speeches for peace and change - as Neville Chamberlain tried with Adolf Hitler, but yes, by brutal strength and unrestrained military might the world got another chance; by way of the sacrifice of thousands upon thousands of US-led soldiers, Europe got back its freedom and some Jews - among whom was the boy Eli Wiesel - survived.

It was done, not by appeasing words, but by the liberating mili-tary force of the Allies.

Equally today, there are Jews living as Israelis in the land of their fathers - the land promised to them by God Almighty - be-cause they were willing to fight, against all the odds; not because they were on a warpath, but because they had to, against the over-whelming forces of fanatized Islamic Arabs who were intent on finishing off those Hitler had left of the Jewish race.

By peace, Chamberlain enabled the destruction of Europe, and six million Jews died as a result.

We still live in a very evil world, as Elie Wiesel rightly laid it out before our eyes, when he spoke of Cambodia, Darfur, Sudan, Uganda and other places of mass killing; we live in an evil world with very evilly-minded men who will not be changed, not even by the most brilliant and charismatic speeches about change and peace.

A great deal more is needed for this world to really become a new place where nations will turn their swords (or nuclear arse-

nals) into plowshares, as the Jewish prophets foretold would one day truly happen.

But this change will not come from Washington DC or from any other capital of the Gentile nations. It is destined to come only from one place: the eternal city with a heavenly mission: Je-rusalem.

As God’s Word so clearly proclaims:The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Je-

rusalem. Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. (Isaiah 2:1-4)

The truly amazing thing about all this is, however, that God’s very key to peace for all the nations of this world, Jerusalem, is in-creasingly put forth as the obstacle endangering this utopian state of affairs that is heralded and sought for by all these globalists of our present world.

In the end, in their own arrogance and self-induced wisdom, they will hate the only true Prince of Peace - Jesus, and the only true capital and venue of peace: Jerusalem.

“You will be hated by all men for My sake” Jesus already warned His disciples. “As the world has hated Me they will also hate you.”

And Jerusalem? The city that is the only city through which mankind will one day live in true peace, equality and justice to-gether - the nations not making any more war with one another? This city will be equally hated and have war waged against it in the sick arrogance of those who think they know what is best for this world, which is: No ancient, biblical Jerusalem in the hands of God’s people - the Jews.

All those nations will dearly wound themselves. For those that choose to go against God’s plan with His people, His land and the city of the Great King - choose for war - even in the name of their utopian held peace!

As God’s Word already announces, the Lord “will seek to de-stroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” (Zechariah 12:9) Actually it is He Who allows and draws them all into this confrontation, that they may know that the God of Israel and no other is the true God of Israel and Father of our Lord.

On The Cover:Obama’s Peace Plan - The divi-

sion of Jerusalem.

With Peace He Will Destroy Many

See Shooting, page 5

By Jan Willem van der Hoven

Jan Willem van der Hoven

JAC

Jan Willem van der Hoeven, is the Director of the International Christian Zionist Center

Shooting At U.S. Holocaust Museum Part Of A ‘Wave Of Hate’ Against Jews

2 With Peace He Will Destroy Many

3 Shooting at U.S. Holocaust Museum

4 For the Record 6 A two-state peace isn’t the

Arab goal. 7 The Settlements Myth 8 Mashtapeam 9 A History of Muslim Terrorism

against Jews in the U.S. 10 Jack Kemp’s fight against anti-

Semitism 11 Ya’alon: We’ll go on building in

settlements 12 Religious Affairs: Jesus’s Zion-

ists 13 The American Mistake 14 Pastor issues apology to Jewish

community 15 Deciphering Obama in Cairo16 The Copper Scroll Team 18 The Voice of Christian Zionism 20 Speaking of the End Times 22 Faith Lessons from Israel 23 Myth & Fact 24 God, America and the Econo-

my 26 Welcome Back, Carter 28 Hebrew for the Goyim

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For The Record

Jim Hutchens

Obama’s Peace Plan

been finally broken, all things will be complet-ed.” (12:1, 7). “Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be handed over to the saints, the people of the Most High.” (7:27). The moral of the unfolding drama with Israel is that God’s grace will prevail. Read the end of the Book, we win!

A recent poll question on Lou Dobbs

Tonight was, “Is it a sign of the times that President Obama is called “a sort of god” (by Newsweek editor Evan Thomas) and “a false prophet” (by Jon Voight)? 86% agreed it was a sign of the times. 14% said no. We were heartened to see that 86% agree with us, but then it is our job to “Discern the signs of the times.”

After surveying the threats Israel faces, internally and externally, Aaron Klein con-cludes in his best selling book, The Late Great State of Israel, “I trust and believe that Israel will ultimately survive – against all odds and in spite of the threats from within and without – only by the grace of God. But for now, things don’t look good.”

Indeed they don’t. And the primary rea-son things don’t look good is because of President Obama’s peace plan that he in-tends to impose on Israel. Never mind the fact that he has toured the Muslim world assuring them that American values will not be imposed on the Muslims. But the hypocrisy of double-standards is readily apparent when the President is quick to impose on Israel his own values that re-quire a two-state solution with a divided Jerusalem. Caroline Glick, writing in the Jerusalem Post, is spot on when she con-cludes, “America’s betrayal of Israel by the present [Obama] government is a reality.”

While the evidence of that betrayal will evolve throughout the length of the Obama administration, the decision for that betrayal has evidently already been made. Does this mean the ultimate and final demise of Israel as the Palestinian Jihadists want? No, and the reason is be-cause of what Aaron Klein referred to in his astute insight – Israel will survive, “only by the grace of God.”

Not only does the two-state solution with a divided Jerusalem lack any rational basis politically, economically, socially or militarily, but it is based on either the total disregard or ignorance of God’s declared promise of this land as a national home land for the Jewish people. As a matter of fact the current U.S. policy regarding the Israel-Palestinian issue is founded on myth derived from an on-going revisionist his-tory. Not only are God’s covenants with Israel summarily dismissed (if known at all), but all international law respecting this

issue is totally ignored.As we have noted in our Jerusalem Con-

nection Peace Plan (see our web site www.tjci.org) “The legal validity of the modern state of Israel must be recognized as having been established by international law. This is confirmed by The Balfour Declaration of November 1917, determined at the San Remo Conference of April 1920, authenti-cated and formalized by the British Man-date of the League of Nations in July 1922, by the United Nations partition resolution of 1947, by the official recognition of the State of Israel by the United States in May of 1948 and Israel’s admission to the Unit-ed Nations in 1949.”

If Israel’s so-called Palestinian peace partners refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, refuse to denounce and stop violence against Israel and refuse to abide by any past agreements with Israel, where then is there any realistic hope for peace. There is none, and if the Obama adminis-tration thinks it can impose peace they are living in a fantasy land of their own mak-ing. Is there any hope?

Unfortunately 78% of American Jews voted for Obama. As they see the progres-sive erosion of support for Israel on the part of Obama, they should be jarred into action. The elected Jewish politicians, most of whom are Democrats, should demand a change in Obama’s policies toward Israel and be held accountable if they don’t. Only time will tell if they have the political cour-age to challenge their leader. As for Chris-tian Zionists, they have seen the folly of the two-state solution from the get go.

Sooner or later, and hopefully sooner, we will all see the numskull notion of Is-raelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and security as a figment of west-ern befuddled imagination. It’s simply not going to happen. There will be no peace until there is victory. Peace negotiations al-ways follow, never precede, victory on the battle field. Which means Israel will have

to decisively defeat all Palestinian Jihadists including Hizbollah, totally disarm them and destroy and dismantle their terrorist infrastructure. Any thing short of this is il-lusory.

However the sad reality of this is, if Is-rael does defeat the Palestinian Jihadists they will suffer the world’s condemnation. If they don’t, they have consigned them-selves to a never-ending fight for their own survival. The same is true whether or not they preemptively take out Iran’s nuclear capability. They are dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t.

Recently I was on a panel at a seminar hosted by the EMET Group and the Heri-tage Foundation dealing with New Solution to Old Problems related to the Israeli-Pales-tinian conflict. The panel included three prominent Israelis, including two Major Generals plus former CIA Director, James Woolsey and noted scholar and commenta-tor Daniel Pipes. The panel’s consensus conclusion was that the two-state solu-tion is no solution at all primarily because neither Israel nor the Palestinians want it – for different reasons, of course. Indeed, Aaron’s Klein’s word appears prophetic, “for now things don’t look good.”

Which brings me back to Klein’s more positive observation, “Israel will survive but only by the grace of God.” The prophet Daniel envisions a similar sce-nario. “There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. …It will be for three and a half years. When the power of the holy people has

Jim Hutchens speaking at EMET/Heritage Seminar on Israel.

bomb two synagogues in Riverdale, New York;

The shooting of American soldiers at a military recruiting center in Arkansas;

The shooting deaths of two persons and sexual assault on a third as part of a killing spree directed against Jews and non-whites in Brockton, Massachusetts.

The shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh police officers by a man with virulently rac-ist and anti-Semitic beliefs.

While not all of the incidents and plots outlined by ADL specifically targeted Jews directly, they all share certain key charac-teristics:

Many of the perpetrators do not belong to a specific extremist group or organiza-tion, but seem to be motivated to commit violence by their own radical ideologies.

Their ideologies often include a hatred of Jews, and they are willing to act out on their hate.

Many of the extremists are influenced by current events and conditions, includ-ing the economic crisis, the wars in Iraq

and Afghanistan, the immigration debate, and the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president.

ADL, one of the primary resources on extremism for law enforcement nation-wide, is also a leading provider of security information for Jewish community institu-tions.

The League has sent out an alert through its regional offices to Jewish com-munities across the country, providing time-critical information on the latest at-tacks and recommending that all institu-tions review their security policies, pro-cedures and training and implement any increased or higher alert statuses called for by those plans.

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The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world’s leading organi-zation fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

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President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be no more “dictating” to other countries. We should “forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions,” he told the G-20 summit. In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth “start by listening, because all too often the

United States starts by dictating.”An admirable sentiment. It applies to

everyone — Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syr-ia, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Is-rael is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: “a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions.”

What’s the issue? No “natural growth” means strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for them — not even within the existing town boundaries. Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like that. The obvious ob-jective is to undermine and destroy these towns — even before negotiations.

To what end? Over the past decade, the U.S. government has understood that any final peace treaty would involve Israel retain-ing some of the close-in settlements — and compensating the Pal-estinians accordingly with land from within Israel itself.

That was envisioned in the Clinton plan in the Camp David negotiations in 2000, and again at Taba in 2001. After all, why expel people from their homes and turn their towns to rubble when, instead, Arabs and Jews can stay in their homes if the 1949 armistice line is shifted slightly into the Palestinian side to capture the major close-in Jewish settlements, and then shifted into Israeli territory to capture Israeli land to give to the Palestinians?

This idea is not only logical, not only accepted by both Demo-cratic and Republican administrations for the past decade, but was agreed to in writing in the letters of understanding exchanged be-tween Israel and the United States in 2004 — and subsequently overwhelmingly endorsed by a concurrent resolution of Con-gress.

Yet the Obama State Department has repeatedly refused to endorse these agreements or even say it will honor them. This from a president who piously insists that all parties to the conflict

honor previous obligations. And who now expects Israel to accept new American assurances in return for concrete and irreversible Israeli concessions, when he himself has just cynically discarded past American assurances.

The entire “natural growth” issue is a concoction. Is the peace process moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Quarter of Je-rusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren? It is perverse to make this the center point of the peace process at a time when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and when Mahmoud Ab-bas, having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert’s peace of-fers, brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode — waiting for Hamas to become moderate and for Israel to cave — before he’ll do anything to advance peace.

In his much-heralded “Muslim world” address in Cairo, Obama de-clared that the Palestinian people’s “situation” is “intolerable.” Indeed it is, the result of 60 years of Palestinian leadership that gave its people corrup-tion, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced militarization; leadership that for three generations rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and despair rather than ac-cept any settlement not accompanied by the extinction of Israel.

That’s why Haj Amin al-Husseini chose war rather than a two-state solution in 1947. Why Yasser Arafat turned down a Palestin-ian state in 2000. And why Abbas rejected Olmert’s even more generous December 2008 offer.

In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders built no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, none of the fundamental state in-stitutions that would relieve their people’s suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts.

Obama says he came to Cairo to tell the truth. But he uttered not a word of that. Instead, among all the bromides and lofty sen-timents, he issued but one concrete declaration of new American policy: “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of con-tinued Israeli settlements,” thus reinforcing the myth that Pales-tinian misery and statelessness are the fault of Israel and the settle-ments.

Blaming Israel and picking a fight over “natural growth” may curry favor with the Muslim “street.” But it will only induce the Arab states to do like Abbas: sit and wait for America to deliver Israel on a platter. Which makes the Obama strategy not just dis-honorable but self-defeating.

Who favors a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict?

President Obama does, of course, as he made clear in welcoming Is-rael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in May . So does for-mer President George W. Bush, who began advocating Palestinian statehood in 2002 and continued until his final days in office. The Democratic Party’s national platform endorses a two-state solution; the Republi-can platform does, too. The UN Security Council unanimously reaffirmed its sup-

port. The European Union is strongly in favor as well -- so strongly that the EU’s foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana, has been warning Israel that its relations with Europe “will be very, very different” if it drops the two-state ball.

Pope Benedict XVI called for a Palestin-ian state during his recent visit to the Holy Land, thereby aligning himself -- on this issue, at least -- with the editorial boards of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los Ange-les Times. And, for that matter, with most Israelis. A new poll shows �8 percent of the Israeli public backing a two-state solution; prominent supporters include Netanyahu’s

three predecessors -- former prime min-isters Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak -- as well as president Shimon Peres.

The consensus, it would seem, is over-whelming. As Henri Guaino, a senior ad-viser to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, put it in speaking to reporters on Sunday: “Everyone wants peace. The whole world wants a Palestinian state.”

It isn’t going to happen.International consensus or no, the two-

state solution is a chimera. Peace will not be achieved by granting sovereignty to the Palestinians, because Palestinian sov-ereignty has never been the Arabs’ goal. Time and time again, a two-state solution has been proposed. Time and time again, the Arabs have turned it down.

In 19�6, when Palestine was still under British rule, a royal commission headed by Lord Peel was sent to investigate the steadi-ly worsening Arab violence. After a detailed inquiry, the Peel Commission concluded that “an irrepressible conflict has arisen between two national communities within the narrow bounds of one small country.” It recommended a two-state solution -- a partition of the land into separate Arab and Jewish states. “Partition offers a chance of ultimate peace,” the commission reported. “No other plan does.”

But the Arab leaders, more intent on preventing Jewish sovereignty in Palestine than in achieving a state for themselves, re-jected the Peel plan out of hand. The fore-most Palestinian leader, Haj Amin al-Hus-seini, actively supported the Nazi regime in Germany. In return, Husseini wrote in his memoirs, Hitler promised him “a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Pal-estine and the Arab world.”

In 1947, the Palestinians were again presented with a two-state proposal. Again they spurned it. Like the Peel Commission, the United Nations concluded that only a division of the land into adjacent states, one

A two-state peace isn’t the Arab goal

By Jeff Jacoby

Charles Krauthammer is a syndicated columnist and prominent political commentator. Writing on foreign and domestic policy, his column appears weekly in The Washington Post.

JAC

The Settlements Myth

See Two-State, page 27

“The entire “natural growth” is-sue is a concoction. Is the peace process moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren?”

By Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer

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The Obama pressure cooker is gearing up to full capacity. One of the first acts of the Obama regime has been formation of a broad coalition of forces, including American Jewish leaders, to pressure the State of Israel into abandoning and relinquishing land to the Arabs.

Obama’s early success can be exemplified by a headline in the daily Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, from May 4, 2009: “AIPAC delegates to lobby for two-state solution.” The article explains: “participants at the American Israel Public Affairs Com-mittee Policy Conference will this week be urging their elected representatives to press President Barack Obama for precisely that. (a Palestinian state)… AIPAC thousands will be asking their congressmen to sign on to a letter addressed to Obama that ex-plicitly posits the need for a “viable Palestinian state.”

Obama also successfully manipulated other Jews and even Is-raelis to participate in his anti-Israel coalition. Speaking at the

same 2009 convention, former Israeli Foreign minister Tzippi Livni stated: “we need to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel. This is not a technical matter, it is a matter of our survival. And in the choice between giving up our values, the raison d’etre of Israel, and giving up part of the land - I choose the land. It is for this reason that I believe that embracing the vision of two states for two peoples - a vision that was recognized by the UN in 1947, and embraced by the United States - is not an Israeli concession but an Israeli interest. This is the only way to end the conflict.”

Even recently elected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while publicly opposing a ‘Palestinian state’ joined forces with Obama by appointing Prof. Michael Oren as the Israeli ambassa-dor to the United States. Oren was quoted in HaAretz newspaper as having said: “The only alternative for Israel to save itself as a Jewish state is by unilaterally withdrawing from the West Bank and evacuating most of the settlements.”

Oren also stated that the eviction of thousands of Jews from Gush Katif was not a mistake, despite the attacks on Israeli cities from the abandoned communities: “The mistake was Israel’s fail-ure to react to the Qassam fire, which sent a message of weakness to the entire Middle East.”

Another Jew in a major leadership position, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, linked American efforts preventing Iran from fully developing nuclear weapons with Israeli concessions. “the ability to confront Iran will depend on the ability to make progress on the Palestinian front. Solving the conflict will make it possible to advance the handling of the main threat posed by Iran.”

Obama’s national security advisor, Gen. James Jones, told a high ranking European diplomat that Obama will be “forceful” with Israel.

Undoubtedly, the most damaging American special interest lobby dealing with Israel is AIPAC. Steve Grossman, AIPAC president in the early-middle 1990s, was quoted as saying “There were people in AIPAC who felt Oslo was a bad idea, but I’m still proud of the fact that the first American Jewish organization to support Rabin and Peres and the Oslo accords was AIPAC.”

In an article called “AIPAC Lobbying,” AFSI president Herb Zweiban writes, “AIPAC President Steve Grossman has declared that he supports sending $�00- million in U.S. aid to the PLO, despite the PLO’s massive violations of the Oslo Accords.” (JTA, Dec. �, 1994) While other pro-Israel groups endorsed legisla-tion to pressure the PLO (e.g. the Specter-Shelby Amendment), AIPAC worked behind the scenes to “discourage congressional measures aimed at supervising administration grants to the PLO.” (Jerusalem Post, Nov. 10, 1994)”

A JTA article headlined, “AIPAC offers strong backing for withdrawal plan” says, “Sharon already has won the endorsement of an array of national Jewish groups...but AIPAC’s endorsement is the plum.” And further on, “We’re very pleased that AIPAC has given its formal endorsement to the U.S. government’s sup-

By David Wilder

port for the disengagement initiative,” said Debra DeLee, Ameri-can for Peace Now’s president. In an article by Uriel Heilman, he writes, “AIPAC has been lobbying for strong US support for Israel’s disengagement plan....”

AIPAC initiated a letter, signed by US Congressman, showing support for the abandonment of Gush Katif. The AIPAC web site declares, “the letter recognizes the historic opportunity presented by Israeli disengagement from 2� settlements in Gaza, and advises President George W. Bush to press Palestinian President Mah-moud Abbas for reciprocal peace efforts and democratic reforms inside the Palestinian Authority.”

In an article by Beth Goodtree called “AIPAC of lies,” she writes that “ Natan Sharansky begged to speak at the 2004 confer-ence and was unceremoniously turned down because he wanted to warn that giving up Jewish land to a group of terrorists who had no intention of having a true democracy was a roadmap to disaster for Israel.”

In the past AIPAC’s ‘official policy’ was to toe the state line – whatever the Israeli government favored was good enough for them. Those policies, such as Oslo and the expulsion from Gush Katif, have cost thousands of Israeli lives. However presently, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is on record as opposing a ‘two-state solution.’ During his satellite-broadcast speech to the AIPAC convention yesterday, he did not mention the term ‘Pal-estinian state,’ rather he demanded that any negotiations be pre-

ceded by an official PA recognition that Israel is a ‘Jewish State.’ Yet AIPAC is actively lobbying in Congress, pressuring American representatives to support establishment of a ‘palestinian state.’

In other words, AIPAC has began a new phase in its infamous dealings with Israel; rather than just backing State policy, they are now attempting to determine that policy and force it down Isra-el’s throat. Anyone calling the AIPAC offices and asking whether AIPAC representatives are pushing Congress to support a ‘Pales-tinian state’ are answered affirmatively.

Clearly, AIPAC is fostering policies which are labeled in He-brew, ‘Mashtap’ – an abbreviation for ‘mishatef peula’, which means, in English, collaborating with the enemy. AIPAC is a large group of Jews, whose collective effort is focused on initiating and supporting policies which could lead to the destruction of the State of Israel. A Palestinian state is nothing less than a death trap, waiting to be sprung at a fateful moment in the future.

However, this should not surprise us. This is not the first time Jews have connived with the enemy.

The initials may remain the same, but the words have changed:

Americans Inciting for the Palestinian Authority Committee (AIPAC) aka the AJC (the American Judenrat Committee).

David Wilder is a spokesman for the jewish Community of Hebron. Visit his blog at www.davidwilder.blogspot.com.

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By Daniel Pipes

A History of Muslim Terrorism against Jews in the United States

The arrest [on May 20] of four would-be jihadis before they could attack two syn-agogues in New York City brings to mind a long list of terrorist assaults in the United States by Muslims on Jews. These began in 1977 and have continued regularly since, as suggested by the following list of major in-cidents (ignoring lesser ones that did dam-age only to property, such a series of attacks on Chicago-area synagogues):

March 1977: Hanafi Muslims seized three buildings in Washington, including the headquarters of B’nai B’rith, and held hostages for �9 hours, leading to one death and one severe injury.

November 1990: El Sayyid Nosair as-sassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane in a New York hotel.

February 1993: Ramzi Yusuf, the mas-termind of the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, which claimed 7 lives and injured more than a thousand people,, declared the towers not a civilian target but a military one, by virtue of the fact that it

might house a “Zionist official.”June 1993: “Boom! Broken windows.

Jews in the street,” is how one of the plot-ters described the carnage that would ensue from a planned “day of terror” with simul-taneous bombings of the United Nations complex, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and other New York landmarks..

March 1994: Rashid Baz, a Palestinian immigrant, opened fire on a van carrying Orthodox Jewish boys across the Brooklyn Bridge, killing 16-year-old Ari Halbers-tam.

July 1997: ‘Ali Hasan Abu Kamal, a 69-year-old Palestinian, shot seven tourists atop the Empire State building, killing one and severely wounding another; in his sui-cide note, he accused the United States of using Israel as “an instrument” against the Palestinians.

July 1997: Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar’s near-explosion of a pipe bomb in the New York City subway system.

July 2002: Hesham Mohamed Ali Ha-dayet’s attack on the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two.

September 2005: Jam’iyyat Ul-Is-lam Is-Saheeh plot against two Los An-geles-area synagogues, disrupted due to a dropped mobile phone.

May 2009: Four arrested in attempt to blow up two New York City synagogues.

COMMENTS:(1) Inexplicably, Muslim-on-Jewish vio-

lence peaked in the years 1990-97 and has declined since.

(2) Muslims of immigrant and of Afri-can-American origins have each engaged in a share of the attacks roughly proportion-ate to their demographics.

(3) As I concluded in a 200� article on this subject, “Even though most Jews re-sist acknowledging it, the Muslim threat is changing Jewish life in the United States. The golden age of American Jewry is com-ing to an end.” (May 21, 2009)

Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. His bi-weekly column appears regularly in the Jerusalem Post and other newspapers around the globe.

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Jack Kemp, who passed away on May 1, will be widely remem-bered as a prominent voice of conservatism who shaped the tax-cut policies of the Reagan administration. But he also de-

serves to be remembered for his willingness to cross party lines to challenge a Republican administration on the issue of anti-Semi-tism.

Throughout his life, Kemp defied the old stereotype of conser-vatives who were indifferent to the concerns of racial or religious minorities.

As an American Football League star in 196�, he pressured the league to move its all-star game out of New Orleans because Afri-can-American players were excluded from the city’s nightclubs. As secretary of housing and urban development from 1988 to 1992, he promoted projects to help disadvantaged inner-city residents. And in 2004, he played a leading role in a crucial fight against the rising tide of global anti-Semitism.

That year, US Rep. Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, in-troduced legislation requiring the US government to create an office to monitor anti-Semitism around the world and devise ways to combat it. In view of the proliferation of anti-Semitic violence in many European countries and government-sponsored anti-Se-mitic propaganda in the Muslim world, US action was overdue.

The Lantos bill ran into opposition from the Bush administra-tion. The State Department claimed it was unfair to show “favor-itism” to Jews by “extending exclusive status to one religious or ethnic group.” This, despite the fact that the State Department already had offices that extend “exclusive status” to various other groups or issues of concern, among them human rights in Tibet, hu-man trafficking and women’s rights. The State Department seemed unwilling to acknowl-edge that anti-Semites were singling out Jews, which is why the fight against anti-Semitism deserved specific and focused at-tention.

The State Department’s po-sition called to mind its moral failures during the Hitler era, when it blocked opportunities to rescue Jews and did its best to downplay the Jewish identity of Hitler’s victims. Even though the Nazi regime had clearly singled out Jews for annihilation, state-ments by US officials about Nazi

atrocities rarely mentioned the Jews by name, thus diverting pub-lic attention from the ongoing annihilation of millions of Jews.

To break the logjam of opposition to the Lantos bill, the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies began organizing a bi-partisan letter by prominent Americans to demonstrate the broad range of public support for the legislation. Former congressman Stephen Solarz became the lead Democrat on the letter. But which Republicans would have the political courage to publicly challenge a Republican administration on this issue?

Jack Kemp was one of the first to do so. (Others included for-mer US ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and former senator Rudy Boschwitz.) His participation helped lift the issue of combating anti-Semitism above the partisan fray.

From the other side of the aisle, signatories included the Clin-ton administration’s CIA director, R. James Woolsey, national security adviser Anthony Lake and the special US envoy for Holocaust matters, Stuart Eizenstat. Ultimately, more than 100 prominent political figures, diplomats, theologians, writers, artists and entertainers from across the political and religious spectrum joined.

A coalition this broad could not be ignored. The Bush admin-istration soon dropped its opposition. The bill was adopted by Congress and signed into law by the president in October 2004. Congressman Lantos publicly credited the protest letter for mak-ing the difference.

It was not long before the initiative showed results. The bill’s first requirement was a report by the State Department on anti-Semitism around the world. Issued in early 200�, the report pre-sented the first official US government definition of anti-Semi-tism and, significantly, it stated that “the demonization of Israel or

vilification of Israeli leaders, some-times through comparisons with Nazi leaders, and through the use of Nazi symbols to caricature them, indicates an anti-Semitic bias rather than a valid criticism of policy concerning a controver-sial issue.”

Equally important was that the report specifically included instances of Holocaust-denial in various countries as examples of anti-Semitism. There was no pretending that denying the Ho-locaust is just another interpreta-tion of history.

Such achievements are more than merely symbolic, because it is the United States which sets the standard for the international

Jack Kemp’s fight against anti-SemitismBy Rafael Medoff

community on such issues. Turning the tide against the haters re-quires firm American leadership on the battlefield of ideas. The creation of the US office for monitoring anti-Semitism was an important first step in that process, and Jack Kemp played an im-portant role in its creation.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the positions he took on specific issues, Kemp will be remembered as a man of integrity,

who would not allow partisan political considerations to interfere with his principles - including the principle of combating anti-Semitism.

Rafael Medoff is director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. www.WymanInstitute.org

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Ya’alon: We’ll go on building in settlements

“We will n o t f o l -

low American dic-tates. We will not halt construction in the settlements,” Strate-gic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Channel 2’s Meet the Press.

Ya’alon was refer-ring to the American demand that Israel halt all settlement activity, voiced by US President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Binyamin

Netanyahu during their meeting last week. “Settlements are not the reason that the diplomatic process

failed,” Ya’alon said. “The settlements were not an obstacle to peace at any point [in the talks]. Even when Israel evacuated swathes of land, terrorism continued. Even when we uprooted communities, all we got in return was ‘Hamastan’. This is why I suggest we think it over - but not with slogans or dictates.”

The former IDF chief of staff emphasized that the govern-ment will not allow the establishment of new outposts, but clar-ified: “We will not halt the expansion of settlements which is a result of natural growth. There are people living here, raising their children here. We need to build homes for families’ resi-dence - it’s not this which has prevented peace.”

“What the US demands,” he said, is “not a dictate. We’ll see how they translate the statements into policy. Their envoy [to the Middle East, George] Mitchell will come, and we will talk to him. I suggest that neither the US, nor us, decide on a time-table in advance.”

“From the banks of the Potomac, you don’t always fully un-derstand the situation, and here Israel’s job is to help its ally,” Ya’alon said, also criticizing dissent from within: “The dialogue in Israel presents us as peace objectors - the problem is within us.”

This article first appeared in Arutz 7.

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For some weeks now, commentators have been telling us that if only Israel agrees to accept the US position regarding the two-state solution, it would be possible to progress quickly and secure a final-status agreement.

This hypothesis is premised on seven assumptions, all of which are false. Had the US administration undertaken a real assessment and examined the fundamental assumptions underlining the solu-tion, it may have reached different conclusions.

So what are the seven false assumptions?1. “Establishing a Palestinian state in line with the 1967

borders is the essence of the Palestinians’ national aspi-ration.” It is true that the Palestinians wish to get rid of the Israeli occupation, yet a small and divided state whose estab-lishment would force them to agree to end the conflict and their demands is the Palestinians’ nightmare, rather than their national aspiration. They could have secured such a state three times in the past (19�7, 1947, and 2000) yet three times they rejected the offer with horror. What is the basis for assuming that the Palestinian ethos, which is premised on a “desire for justice,” need for revenge, recognition of their victimhood, and mostly the “right of return” has changed all of a sudden?

2. “The gap between the Israeli and Palestinian positions is bridgeable.” Reality is different. The maximum an Israeli government (any Israeli government) can offer the Palestin-ians and still survive politically is far from the minimum that a Palestinian government (any Palestinian government) would be able to accept and survive politically.

�. “Egypt and Jordan want to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolved, and therefore they will be a contribut-ing factor.” Reality is different: Both Egypt and Jordan prefer the status quo to continue, whereby the conflict continues and they can continue to blame Israel. As long as the conflict ex-ists, Egypt has the ultimate excuse for all domestic and regional troubles. Meanwhile, for the Jordanians, a neighboring Pales-tinian state - likely under Hamas’ rule - would mark the end of the Hashemite Kingdom.

4. “A final-status agreement would bring stability and secu-rity to the region.” The exact opposite is true. There is no chance that the small and divided Palestinian state would be vi-able. The frustration to be created by such a situation (certainly in Gaza,) with Israel being stripped of defensible borders, is an obvious foundation for instability.

�. “At this time we have an opportunity that must not be missed.” If we compare the situation that prevails today to the situation that prevailed in 2000, we reach the clear conclusion that the chance of securing an agreement back then was much greater than it is currently, yet it didn’t happen. Is it possible at this time to reach an agreement in Judea and Samaria, not to mention Gaza, when Hamas is the dominant Palestinian movement?

6. “Progress on the Palestinian front is vital in order to en-list the support of Arab states against Iran.” How are these two issues related? Arab states (such as Egypt and Saudi Ara-bia) have a supreme interest in curbing Iran, irrespective of the Palestinian issue.

7. “There’s only one solution to the conflict.” What is this assumption based on? When was a thorough examination that looked into the range of possibilities been undertaken last, here or in the US? Alternate solutions, whereby the Palestinians are no longer under Israel’s control, can be presented easily.Regrettably, and irrespective of the manner in which the

American assessment was undertaken, the Obama administration’s conclusions are clear-cut. The chances of securing a final-status agreement on the basis of the two-state formula and implement-ing it successfully are not much greater than the prospects in 199� (Oslo,) 2000 (Camp David,) and 2007 (Annapolis.)

We should hope that the almost assured failure would not have negative ramifications on other fronts, such as the effort to curb Iran or Israel-US ties.

The American MistakeUS administration’s view on conflict based on seven false assumptions

By Giora Eiland

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland is the former head of the Israeli National Security Council. General Eiland was also a participant in Israel Seminar referrred to page 5.

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Like most religious Zionists, Aryeh Bar-David sees the hand of God in the establishment of the Jewish state and the Jewish people’s repeated victories against its enemies. Yom Ha’atzmaut has religious meaning as a tangible sign that God is fulfilling his biblical promises to the Jewish people. “God’s intervention in the course of history is so clear that, for me, it is absurd that people think we are just another secular democratic country,” said Bar-David, who met me on Remembrance Day outside the Old City’s Damascus Gate.

“This,” said Bar-David, gesturing toward the outer wall of the Old City, “is the manifestation of God’s prophecies as stated in Ezekiel, Jeremiah and other places in the Bible,” referring to the victory in the Six Day War which gave Israel control of east Jeru-salem, including the Old City.

Also similar to many religious Zionists, Bar-David, a veteran of four wars, is convinced that his religious faith helped him cope with life-and-death situations in combat. Under Ariel Sharon, he took part in some of the bloodi-est battles for control of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War. As platoon sergeant, Bar-David was forced to take over command when the platoon commander was killed in an ambush. “No matter how dangerous things got, I never feared anything. In a way I had a longing to be in heaven, closer to God. So I was not ever scared by the prospect of dying.”

But, unlike most Jewish religious Zionists - who see the es-tablishment of the state as a precursor to the yet-to be-revealed messiah - Bar-David has a radically different eschatology. That’s because Bar-David is a Messianic Jew.

“Days are coming when the Jewish people will be forced to realize that Yeshua is the only solution to all our troubles,” said Bar-David, using the Hebrew name for Jesus.

Bar-David, 62, is a second-generation Messianic Jew, whose father, a Bulgarian Jew, “came to the faith” while studying in Swit-zerland and immigrated to Israel before the Holocaust.

Bar-David is one of about 10,000 Messianic Jews living here who believe that Jesus is the messiah and the son of God, and that accepting him as such is a precondition for spiritual redemption. They call themselves Jewish because most were born to a Jewish mother or father.

Still, the belief that Jesus is the messiah who already revealed himself once and will be making a second coming normally places someone squarely outside the Jewish fold. In fact, it is difficult to imagine anything less Jewish. Historically, one of the centerpieces of the Jewish faith was its categorical rejection of Christianity. Throughout the ages since the advent of Christianity, thousands of Jews have preferred martyrdom to accepting Jesus.

But Bar-David and other members of the Messianic communi-

ty see themselves not only as Jews, but also as ardent Zionists and patriotic Israelis. They reject Christian replacement theology that sees, for instance, the Catholic Church, as the new chosen people. For the Messianic community, the Jewish people are still God’s chosen people, even if they rejected Jesus. The establishment of Israel is a tangible manifestation of the prophecies of the Bible. The ingathering of the exiles, the return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel, is part of God’s master plan for the final redemp-tion. Fighting in the IDF against Israel’s enemies is tantamount to taking part in the fulfillment of biblical prophecies. To be on Israel’s side means to be on God’s side.

This “faith-based” Zionism is what motivated about 2,000 Messianic Jews and Evangelical Christians from all over Europe including Finland, Norway, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy and Cyprus to meet in Geneva and demonstrate against Durban II.

“I’d say we were probably the largest single pro-Israel contin-gent in Geneva,” said Calev My-ers, a Jerusalem-based attorney who heads the Jerusalem Insti-tute of Justice, a legal advocacy group for religious rights that represents mostly Evangelical Christians and Messianic Jews.

Myers, who works in the law firm established by Gideon

Hausner, the attorney-general who prosecuted Adolf Eichmann, gave a speech in Geneva in which he strongly defended Zionism and called Iran, China, Libya and other countries that took part in Durban II members of the “fourth Reich.”

But Messianic Jews’ variety of religious Zionism is not always appreciated. In probably the most violent attack against a Mes-sianic Jew that took place, Ami Ortiz, 1�, a dual American-Israeli citizen and the son of a Messianic Jewish pastor, was seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in his home in Ariel on Purim (March 20) last year. The bomb was concealed in a gift basket placed on the doorstep.

This is not an isolated incident. The U.S. State Department’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, released in September 2008, pointed to a marked rise in violence against Messianic Jews. Some of the incidents mentioned included a pub-lic burning of the New Testament in Or Yehuda in May 2008, and the fire-bombing of the Baptist church on Jerusalem’s Rehov Narkiss, the meeting place of a Russian-language Messianic Jew-ish congregation.

Members of the Messianic community are also singled out by the Interior Ministry. For instance, a Christian Chinese couple who came for a pilgrimage was recently detained at Ben-Gurion Airport after they gave border-control officials the name of a Mes-sianic Jew as a contact person here. They were released only after they signed an affidavit assuring they would not proselytize during their visit.

By Matthew Wagner

Jesus’s Zionists

See Jesus’s Zionists, page 25

“But, unlike most Jewish religious Zi-onists - who see the establishment of the state as a precursor to the yet-to be-revealed messiah - Bar-David has a radically different eschatology. That’s because Bar-David is a Messianic Jew.”

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By and large, President Obama’s address in Cairo has been well re-ceived in both the so-called “Muslim world” and by other audiences. Nobody may be happier with it, though, than the Muslim Brother-

hood - the global organization that seeks to impose authoritative Islam’s theo-political-legal program known as “Shariah” through stealthy means where violent ones are not practicable. Egyptian Muslim Brothers were prominent among the guests in the audience at Cairo University and Brother-hood-associated organizations in America, like the Council on American Islamic Re-lations (CAIR), have rapturously endorsed the speech. The Brotherhood has ample reason for its delight. Accordingly, Ameri-cans who love freedom - whether or not they recognize the threat Shariah repre-sents to it - have abundant cause for con-cern about “The Speech,” and what it por-tends for U.S. policy and interests.

Right out of the box, Mr. Obama mis-characterized what is causing a “time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world.” He attrib-uted the problem first and foremost to “violent extremists [who] have exploited these tensions in a small but potent mi-nority of Muslims.” The President never mentioned - not even once - a central re-ality: The minority in question, including the Muslim Brotherhood, subscribes to the authoritative writings, teachings, tradi-tions and institutions of their faith, namely Shariah. It is the fact that their practice is thus grounded that makes them, whatever their numbers (the exact percentage is a

matter of considerable debate), to use Mr. Obama’s euphemistic term, “potent.”

Instead, the President’s address charac-terized the problem as a “cycle of suspicion and discord,” a turn of phrase redolent of the moral equivalence so evident in the Mideast peace process with its “cycle of violence.” There was not one reference to terrorism, let alone Islamic terrorism. Indeed, any connection between the two is treated as evidence of some popular de-lusion. “The attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against

civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. This has bred more fear and mistrust.”

Then there was this uplifting, but ulti-mately meaningless, blather: “So long as our relationship is defined by our differ-ences, we will empower those who sow ha-tred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity.”

More often than not, the President por-trayed Muslims as the Brotherhood always does: as victims of crimes perpetrated by the West against them - from colonialism to manipulation by Cold War superpowers to the menace of “modernity and global-

ization that led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.” Again, no mention of the hostility towards the infidel West ingrained in “the tradi-tions of Islam.” This fits with the meme of the Shariah-adherent, but not the facts.

Here’s the irony: Even as President Obama professed his determination to “speak the truth,” he perpetrated a fraud. He falsely portrayed what amounts to au-thoritative Islam, namely Shariah Islam, as something that is “not exclusive,” that “overlaps” and “need not be in competi-tion” with America.” Actually, Shariah is, by its very nature, a program that obliges its adherents to demand submission of all others, Muslims (especially secular and apostate ones) and non-Muslims, alike.

This exclusiveness (read, Islamic su-premacism) applies most especially with respect to democratic nations like Ameri-ca, nations founded in the alternative and highly competitive belief that men, not God, should make laws. Ditto nations that stand in the way of the establishment of the Caliphate, the global theocracy that Shariah dictates must impose its medieval agenda worldwide. In practice, Shariah is the very antithesis of Mr. Obama’s stated goal of “progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” Its “justice” can only be considered by civilized societies to be a kind of codified barbarism.

At least as troubling are what amount to instances of presidential dawa, the Arabic term for Islamic proselytization. For ex-ample, Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to “the Holy Koran.” It seems unimaginable that he ever would ever use the adjective to describe the Bible or the Book of Mormon.

Then, the man now happy to call him-self Barack Hussein Obama (in contrast to his attitude during the campaign) boasts of having “known Islam on three conti-nents before coming to the region where

Two local religious figures came together Saturday to heal a 40-year-old divide when James M. Young Jr., senior pastor of the Abundant Life Christian Church, issued a public apology to Rabbi Jerry Keyes, of the Mishkan Messianic Congregation, for what he says is the way Jews were treated by black leaders in the wake of the civil rights movement. “When you see film or pictures of the marches, you see a lot of white people that took part and stood with us in trying to get our civil rights,” Young said.

After watching a PBS documentary titled “The Jewish Ameri-cans,” Young learned that nearly two-thirds of the 1,000 out-of-state volunteers who participated in 1964’s Freedom Summer campaign to register black voters in Mississippi were Jewish and that they had risked their lives and businesses on behalf of the civil rights movement.

More than 80 of the volunteers were beaten for their efforts and, on June 21 of that year, three were murdered: James Chaney, a black activist native to Mississippi; and Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both Jewish men from New York.

“After we got our rights, the black power advocates began to arise and basically told our Jewish brothers that we don’t need you anymore and that you are part of the problem,” Young said. “I heard a Jewish woman on the program say how much it had hurt when that happened. When I heard that, it really cut to the core; I said that, if nothing else, there needs to be some kind of reconcili-ation.”

During their many years of religious service, Keyes and Young feel they have become experts at reconciliation.

Keyes says he was a Rabbi for several years before inspiration filled him with a need to share his knowledge with people beyond his congregation. He says he spoke at hundreds of churches, be-ginning with a dialogue involving members of Young’s church. “It was the first experience I had going to a church building,” Keyes said.

“From the very beginning, God’s plans were for all of the peo-ple to come together,” Keyes said, citing passages in Deuteronomy and Exodus that urge the faithful to welcome strangers.

Keyes said he feels he is helping bring people together through his teaching efforts, and is helping those who are receptive to his message overcome centuries of misapprehensions and misunder-standings.

“I just talk from my heart,” Keyes said. “Almost all of the meet-ings were lucrative from a mental viewpoint.”

Young says he learned the art of reconciliation through the merging of his church with like-minded groups and a decade spent as co-pastor of combined congregations.

He says he also witnessed reconciliation on a massive scale at the 1996 Promise Keepers conference in Atlanta, where �9,000 clergymen formally committed themselves to crossing denomina-tional and racial divides.

“We became a very unusual ministry because we had a black pastor, a white pastor and a Jewish pastor,” he said.

Although Young prided himself on the multi-ethnic congrega-tion, he says he eventually recognized that his flock had not truly integrated because the white and black members weren’t interact-ing outside of church functions.

According to Young, he and his co-pastor held a ceremony at the church in which an apology for historical wrongs was offered and accepted, and “it was at that point that we became an inte-grated congregation.” He went on to state that, “reconciliation is only possible when someone admits to doing wrong and asks for forgiveness, and someone else is willing to forgive.”

“True Christianity is about relationships. It is about your re-lationship with God and it is about your relationship with your fellow man,” Young said. “He wants us to forgive one another, to be reconciled with one another and to love one another. That is why we’re doing what we’re doing.”

“The bottom line is that we did them a grave wrong, and we owe them an apology,” Young said, stating to the Jewish people: “You came, you showed love to us, you put your lives on the line for us, and the way that we responded was wrong.”

Keyes says he is gladdened by Young’s drive to bridge the gap between their people. “Saying I love you is fine, but it’s not the full picture,” Keyes said, adding, by acting upon his feelings and working toward a reconciliation, Young has proven his dedication to his beliefs and accepted the responsibility of sharing knowledge with others.

Pastor issues apology to Jewish communityBy Michael Oppermann

See Obama, page 21

Pastor James M. Young Jr. hugs a member of the congregation and gives him a copy of The Jerusalem Connection’s special issue: The Black/Israel Nexus.

By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Deciphering ObamainCairo

...Mr. Obama mis-characterized what is causing a “time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world.”

Reprinted with permission, Ocala Star-Banner, www.ocala.com.

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The Copper Scroll Team. Back to front and left to right. Mac, Todd, Casey, Shelley, Larry, Chris, Steven, Linda, Don, Ken, and Shawn.

The Copper Scroll Team

Dr i v i n g down Isra-el’s High-

way 90 in a nine pas-senger rental van, a group of explorers stare silently at the Judean desert out-side. They’ve come from Oklahoma and North Texas and their stories leading

them here are as varied as their silhouettes against the van windows. They are united in this, they each know that somewhere out there, hidden under thousands of years of dust and rock, lies the priestly vestments, the urn of the red heifer, and the gold and silver contained in the ancient temple of Israel. Maybe more is waiting, maybe the Ark of the Covenant itself. They’re con-vinced they know where to look, and in a matter of hours shovels will finally break ground.

The team’s boss is Jim Barfield. A retired fire marshal, Barfield has a deep tan and thick white hair that falls below his shoul-der blades, making him look more Native American than he can actually account for. Two years ago, he applied his arson inves-tigation skills to the Copper Scroll, a trea-sure map found hidden in a cave with other Dead Sea Scrolls. He believes he’s “cracked the code” to the treasure locations that have eluded scholars for fifty years. Barfield has no university degree but he retired young so he could have more time for study and research, which usually takes place at a lo-cal Starbucks in Lawton, Oklahoma.

As for the rest of the team, each is as unlikely as the next to be included in some-thing like this. Mac—a successful cattle rancher who’d been gored by a bull the day before leaving for Israel—had never been on an airplane before. His seven foot frame made for an interesting contortion in economy class. The last time Larry was in an international city was Saigon during Vietnam. Ken invented a remote control

robot on wheels mounted with an infra-red camera to use at some of the harder to reach sites. Shawn, the project’s videogra-pher, is Barfield’s son. Laid-back with his director’s goatee and vintage clothing, he’s documented every important moment leading up to the dig. Linda is a surgical nurse and Messianic who made sure that on the weekends the team had proper Shabbats. Chris is an online tractor dealer who some consider Barfield’s armor-bearer. Barfield’s right hand man from the begin-ning, he’s never missed an exploratory trip to Israel, speaking engagement, or plan-ning meeting.

April 21 is the first scheduled dig day for The Copper Scroll Proj-ect and the group has to drive from Arad—where they have been loaned a free house to stay—to the Dead Sea area. Highway 90, the only way to get there, is a roller-coaster of a road where the driver has no option but to ride the breaks all the way down the wind-ing decline. Reaching the lowest place on Earth isn’t easy.

As the team piles out from the van, the archeologist, Oren, from the Israel Antiq-uities Authority (IAA) is already waiting. Soft-spoken by Is-raeli standards, Oren has a large frame, wears a black pair of Oakley sunglasses, and ties a white shirt to the top of his bald head for sun protec-tion. He hadn’t been warned that such a large group was com-ing with Barfield, but he politely shakes hands and introduces

everyone to his three Palestinian diggers, his work companions for the last seventeen years.

Within thirty minutes black tarps with large holes are loosely tied to metal poles stuck in the ground. The digging is about to commence. For all the technological advances of the modern world, the archeo-logical process is still surprisingly primi-tive: picks, shovels, and buckets.

Barfield is allowed to select the place where he wants to start the dig. He chooses the last place listed in the Copper Scroll, but the most important because it prom-ises another scroll that clarifies all the hid-ing spots.

Item 64: “In the tunnel which is in Sechab, to the North of Kochlit, which opens towards the North and has graves in its entrance: a copy of this text and its explanation and its measurements and the inventory of everything, item by item.”

No one from the team is allowed to help with the digging but they are too excited to sit passively and watch. Each person finds their own non-intrusive perch, out from the tarp and away from Oren and Barfield, but close enough that they won’t miss a thing. After thirty minutes, before the dig-gers break a sweat, a strange lip forms in a part of the rock indicating an empty cavity. The diggers follow with their picks where the lip curves under. Ken gives the group a hopeful wink and Chris sneaks a thumbs up. Shawn adjusts his camera for a better angle while whispering to his dad, “Maybe

after this we can go search for Atlantis.” Barfield stays quiet and never takes his eyes off the shovels. Linda prays aloud, anoint-ing the caves contents. Oren moves the diggers aside to get a better look.

The Palestinians pull out thirty buckets of dirt and one scorpion before they hit solid rock behind the lip. Oren brushes the area off for a final examination and reports without emotion, “It’s nothing.” The gid-dy chatter turns into a deflated silence. If they’re looking for a cave entry, solid rock equals dead end. Barfield sends a few team members back to the van to get chairs and ice chests. Shawn turns one camera off; he’s thinking about conserving battery now.

The lip is just a small portion of the potential cave site and the diggers go for five more hours, wrapping around the rock heap to a depth of about three feet. When the tarps no longer protect them from the midday sun, the work pace slows and water

breaks increase. The team is hot and start-ing to admit to each other that at this pace it will be a longer pro-cess than anyone first thought. They creep under the tarp, figur-ing if they stay quiet than they can enjoy the shade without bothering Oren and the diggers.

At that moment, Oren says he wants to stop digging at the cave and move on to test another site. “There is no sign of humans being here—no pottery, no noth-ing. It’s just natural dirt.” Barfield, who has not sat down all day, stands there in his battle dress uniform—a white V-neck shirt, camoflauge pants, and a leather explorer hat which could easily land him a role in an Indiana Jones sequel. Barfield’s confidence in his theory isn’t shaken but he knows that for the cave to be

fully tested they will have to dig another six feet down and ten feet back. Not want-ing to get the dig bogged down but also wanting to leave the door open to return at some point to the rock, Barfield negotiates. “That’s fine.” He says. “All I ask is that the dirt not be filled back in.” Oren agrees.

Item 9: “And in the gutter which is in it: ten talents.”

On day two of the dig Oren suggests testing the gutter, the ninth site listed in the scroll. A year earlier on a scouting trip, Barfield and Chris casually peaked into this gutter’s opening, spotting a jewel seven inches long lying in the dirt. What they thought was the biggest diamond they’d ever seen was actually a 1�-sided prism used in New Age ceremonies for Earth healing (similar ones on Ebay go for a thousand dollars). Since that day, Barfield has hoped that if a prism could be on the dirt’s surface then greater things could lie underneath.

Without knowing exactly where the items in the gutter are buried, the entire length of the shaft needs to be excavated, about twenty feet. Ken’s robot camera sits in the van on standby. Only two diggers can work at a time and each shovel of dirt is ex-amined for artifacts. Since over two-thou-sand years at least a foot of dirt has blown into the gutter, getting past cigarette butts and grocery bags to a first century level takes two hours. The diggers have trouble getting at the correct angle to properly ex-cavate the shaft.

After finding no more than pottery shards, Oren decides it’s time to test a third site. Barfield shows no hint of dejection but does speak up. “The depths the Scroll mentions are around six feet below virgin soil.” He says. “We haven’t gotten close to that.” Oren advises that it’s best to return later to the gutter with a metal detector.

Item 44 and 45: In the cistern which is to the North of the mouth of nar-row pass of Beth-Tamer, in the rocky ground of Ger Pela, everything which is there is a sacred offering. In the dovecote of the fortress of Nabata […]

Barfield wants to avoid repeating the same problems as the first two dig sites and believes its time to visit one of the

By Shelley Neese

Shelley Neese

See Copper Scroll, page 27


Christian Zionists, Past and PresentBy Victor Sharpe

The Voice of Christian ZionismThe Voice of Christian Zionism

Zionism, simply put, is the Jewish people’s national liberation move-ment. Put in Biblical terms, it is the

return from exile of the Jews to Zion - to that very special land promised by God to the first Jew, Abraham, and through his descendants, Isaac and Jacob, to the Jewish people forever.

The Hebrew Scriptures equate Zion with the holiest city in Judaism, Israel’s capital of Jerusalem. You can read numer-ous references in the Bible and the Psalms to the word Zion, such as in Psalm 1��:21, II Samuel �:7 and Isaiah 24:2�.

The Biblical yearning of the ancient Jews to return to their ancestral homeland is mirrored in the modern political usage of the term Zionism, first employed in 1890 by the Jewish author and poet, Nathan Birnbaum.

Theodore Herzl, an assimilated Jew-ish journalist from Vienna, became the father of modern Zionism in the late nine-teenth century. He had been so moved by the hopelessness of the lives of the Jews in Europe, that he helped create the political movement calling for the return of the Jews to the ancient homeland, which resulted fi-nally in the rebirth of Israel in 1948. Herzl himself wrote in 1898. “One thing is to me certain, high above any doubt: the move-ment will continue. I know not when I shall die, but Zionism will never die.” Herzl died young, his heart unable to withstand his fe-verish restlessness and the enormous strain he placed upon it.

But this article deals with the Christians who found within their faith the Biblical signposts, which showed them the impera-tive need to support the return of the Jews to ancient Zion and the Land of Israel. Who were some of these Christians and what did they find in the Scriptures that moved them so profoundly?

Perhaps the first Christians to reject the belief - found among the majority of Cath-olics and Protestants - that the Church is the “new Israel” and that Christians are the “new Jews” occurred some �00 years ago as a result of the printing of the King James Version of the Bible. They realized that

such an old and pernicious belief held by the Church was the fuel that fed the fires of the Catholic Inquisition and of the mas-sacres of Jewish populations throughout much of Europe during the Crusades. That idea is known today primarily as “Replace-ment Theology” and is employed chiefly as a weapon against the reconstitution of the Jewish State of Israel in its ancestral and Biblical homeland.

In about 1�60, Henry Finch, an Eng-

lishman who was a jurist, legal writer, member of the British Parliament and He-braist, encouraged the Jews in Europe to assert their claim to the Promised Land. He spoke and wrote in Hebrew but could not speak to Jews directly for they had been driven out of England in 1290 by Edward I, after the barons and the kings had re-peatedly exploited, impoverished and mas-sacred them. It was not until 16�7 that they were to return during the time of Oliver Cromwell, who himself was moved to sup-port the rights of the Jews to live again in England and to return to Zion.

Finch was moved by the words of the Jewish prophet Isaiah, and particularly by Chapter 4�:4-7 in which the Lord God of Israel declares that he will “bring back His people from the East, the West, the North and the South.” Henry Finch was thus one of the early Christian Zionists. Many Christians have been moved to embrace the return of the Jews to Eretz Yisrael, the

Land of Israel, by what the Jewish prophet Jeremiah wrote in chapter �1:10-12. “Hear the Word of the Lord, O ye nations. De-clare it and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him: therefore, they shall come and sing again in the heights of Zion.”

In 1910, a young British Army officer with the unlikely name, Richard Meinertz-hagen, was dining with the British Consul in Odessa when a pogrom broke out in the streets outside. Meinertzhagen watched with growing but impotent rage as Jew-ish shops and businesses erupted in flames and Jewish men, women and children were hunted down, beaten, murdered and left to lie in the gutter while the police stood by and watched. He wrote in his journal, “I am deeply moved by these terrible deeds and have resolved that whenever or where I can help the Jews, I shall do so to the best of my ability.” Young Richard Meinertzha-gen became a lifelong Zionist and, though a nominal Christian, wrote that he was much influenced by the “Divine Promise that the Holy Land will forever remain Israel’s inheritance.”

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen went on to become a great fighter for the Zionist cause at a time when many members of the British Government and military, such as Prime Ministers Lord Arthur Balfour and Lloyd George were Christian Zionists.

Meinertzhagen, perhaps, played an even more fundamental role in helping the British and Anzac (Australian and New Zealand) forces defeat the Ottoman Turks than Colonel T. E. Lawrence – the famed Lawrence of Arabia - ever did. Meinertz-hagen’s espousal of the Jewish cause and of the rights of the Jews to return to their homeland led him to visit Adolph Hitler and Joachim Von Ribbentrop in Berlin just three months before the Second World War began on September �, 19�9..

With a loaded revolver in his pocket, he had gone to seek assurances from Hitler that the Jews of Germany would be safe-guarded. The fuehrer had thrown up his hand in the Nazi salute and shouted “Heil Hitler.” Meinertzhagen, thinking he was being polite, raised his own hand and re-

plied, “Heil Meinertzhagen.” It was the wrong thing to do and Hitler launched into a forty-minute tirade, translated by Von Ribbentrop. Needless to say, Hitler did not give the assurances that Richard Meinertzhagen sought and to the end of his days Meinertzhagen regretted not us-ing the revolver. Indeed he wrote in his di-ary. “If the war breaks out, as I feel sure it will, then I shall feel very much to blame for not killing these two.”

There were many Christians who were inspired by the Bible to become Zionists. In 1714, John Toland of Ireland, published his book, Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland on the Same Foot-ing with all Other Nations. He knew about the appalling incarceration of the Jews in ghettos throughout Europe from which they could not escape. His work helped to finally allow the Jews in 1866 to enter Parliament, which led the most famous nineteenth century English Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, to serve two terms as Prime Min-ister.

In Denmark, Holeger Paulli (1644-1714) published books and pamphlets, which he sent to the kings of France and England urging them to help fulfill the de-sire and yearnings of the Jews to return and regain their statehood.

In the nineteenth century there was a flowering of support by Christians for the Jewish yearning to return home. The French author Emile Zola had been horri-fied and outraged at the trumped up charg-es that led to the imprisonment on Devil’s Island of the Jewish Captain Alfred Drey-fus. Such anti-Semitism as existed in the French officer corps led Zola to publish his withering attack on the French army and on anti-Semitism in his book J’Accuse. Wil-liam Blake began the first lines of one of his greatest poems, “England, awake, awake,

awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls. Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death, and close her from thy ancient walls? Thy gates beheld sweet Zion’s ways: Then was a time of joy and love.”

Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Sec-retary, wrote in 1840: “There exists at the present time among the Jews dispersed over Europe a strong notion that the time is approaching when their nation is to re-turn to Palestine. It would be of manifest importance to Turkey to encourage the Jews to return and settle in Palestine… ”

Disraeli wrote some years later, and well before Israel was reborn as an independent State, that “A people that persists in cel-ebrating their vintage, although they have no fruits to gather, will regain their vine-yards.”

Leo Tolstoy, Gorky, Rousseau, Sir Walter Scott, Longfellow, Walt Whit-man, Mark Twain, Lord Shaftesbury, J.C. Smuts, Winston Churchill and hundreds and thousands of other Christians found the same signposts in the Bible, which led them to support the Zionist cause and the redemption of Israel.

In the United States, President Abraham Lincoln overruled some of the anti-Jewish sentiments of General Ulysses S. Grant. President Woodrow Wilson was in favor of the Zionist ideal and President Harry Truman described himself as the “mod-ern day Cyrus” because he had refused to accept the State Department’s preference not to recognize the independence of the newly reborn Jewish State in 1948. In do-ing so, he repeated what his ancient Per-sian counterpart, King Cyrus, had done millennia before in recognizing the Jewish people’s eternal attachment to its ancestral homeland.

Today many millions of Christians sup-port Israel even as it becomes increasingly

isolated in a hostile world. Organizations such as the International Christian Embas-sy in Jerusalem, Bridges for Peace, Chris-tians United for Israel (CUFI), and The Je-rusalem Connection International, among others, help refute the relentless anti-Israel propaganda campaign against Israel by its Arab and pro-Arab enemies. They educate their fellow Christians about Israel’s cause, while at the same time providing material assistance and moral support to the belea-guered citizens of the Jewish State.

The second President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, was moved by the fulfillment of the ancient prophecies and by the support of many Christian supporters of Israel’s rebirth. He commented as follows: “We are witnessing today the wondrous process of the joining of the tribes of Israel, bone to bone and flesh to flesh; the merging of them into one nation. I pray that the Rock and Redeemer of Israel may prosper our ways and that in our days Judah may be saved and Israel dwell securely.”

Now in the first decade of the 21st cen-tury, the continued survival of the reconsti-tuted Land of Israel is being tested by an infernal coalition of enemies. Never has the blessed help and support of individual Christians and Christian Zionist organi-zations been more needed by the Zionist cause and by the embattled men, women and children of Israel. And never has it been so appreciated by them as now when the world is turning its cold face against Zion. JAC

Copyright © Victor Sharpe 2009. Victor Sharpe writes about Jewish history and the Israel-Islamist conflict. He is the author of several books including: Politicide - The attempted murder of the Jewish state. Both books available from publisher (www.lulu.com)

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it was first revealed.” An interesting choice of words that, “first revealed.” Not “established,” “founded” or “invented.” The President is, after all, a careful writer, so he must have deliberately eschewed verbs that reflect man’s role, in favor of the theological version of events promoted by Islam. Thus, Mr. Obama has gone beyond the kind of “respectful language” he has pledged to use towards Islam. He is employing what amounts to code - bespeak-ing the kind of submissive attitude Islam demands of all, believers and non-believers alike.

Elsewhere in the speech, Mr. Obama actually declared that “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” Note that, although he referred in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict to “vile stereotypes” of Jews, he did not describe it as “part of his responsibility as President” to counter anti-Semitic representations.

Unremarked was the fact that such incitement is daily fare served up by the state media controlled by his host in Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak, by the Palestinian Author-ity’s Mahmoud Abbas and by every other despot in the region with whom Mr. Obama seeks to “engage.” Worse yet, no mention was made of the fact that some of those “vile stereotypes” - notably, that Jews are “descendants of apes and pigs” - are to be found in “the Holy Koran,” itself.

Perhaps the most stunning bit of dawa of all was a phrase the President employed that, on its face, denies the divinity of Jesus - something surprising from a self-described committed Christian. In connection with his discussion of the “situation between Israe-lis, Palestinians and Arabs,” Mr. Obama said, “...When Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Moham-med (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.”

Muslims use the term “peace be upon them” to ask for bless-ings on deceased holy men. In other words, its use construes all three in the way Islam does - as dead prophets - a treatment wholly at odds with the teachings of Christianity which, of course, holds Jesus as the immortal Son of God.

If Mr. Obama were genuinely ignorant about Islam, such a statement might be ascribed to nothing more than a sop to “in-terfaith dialogue.” For a man who now pridefully boasts of his intimate familiarity with Muslims and their faith, it raises trou-bling questions about his own religious beliefs. At the very least, it conveys a strongly discordant message to “the Muslim world” about a fundamental tenet of the faith he professes.

Finally, what are we to make of Mr. Obama’s statements about America and Islam? Since he took office, the President has en-gaged repeatedly in the sort of hyping of Muslims and their role in the United States that is standard Muslim Brotherhood fare. In his inaugural address, he described our nation as one of “Chris-tians, Muslims and Jews.” Shortly thereafter, he further reversed the demographic ordering of these populations by size in his first

broadcast interview (with the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya network), calling America a country of “Muslims, Christians and Jews.”

Yesterday in Cairo, the President declared that “Islam has al-ways been a part of America’s story.” Now, to be sure, Muslims, like peoples of other faiths, have made contributions to U.S. his-tory. But they have generally done so in the same way others have, namely as Americans - not as some separate community, but as part of the “E pluribus unum” (out of many, one) that Mr. Obama properly extolled in The Speech.

Unfortunately, a pattern is being established whereby Presi-dent Obama routinely exaggerates the Muslim character of Amer-ica. For example, at Cairo University, he claimed there are nearly seven million Muslims in this country - a falsehood promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood and its friends - when the actual num-ber is well-less than half that. Shortly before The Speech, in an interview with a French network, Mr. Obama said, “If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

Incredible as these statements may seem, even more astound-ing is their implication for those who adhere to Shariah. The

President’s remarks about America as a Muslim nation would give rise to its treatment by them as part of dar al-Islam, the world of Islam, as opposed to dar al-harb (i.e., the non-Muslim world).

Were the former to be the case, Shariah requires faithful Muslims to rid the United States of infidel control or occupation. And we know from last

year’s successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation - a so-called “charity” engaged in money-laundering for one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist operations, Hamas - that such an agenda tracks precisely with the Brothers’ mission here: “To de-stroy Western civilization from within America, by its own miser-able hand.”

This reality makes one of Mr. Obama’s promises in Cairo espe-cially chilling. Near the end of his address, the President expressed concern that religious freedom in the United States was being im-pinged by “rules on charitable giving [that] have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation.” He went on to pledge: “That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.”

Let us be clear: Muslim charities have run into difficulty with “the rules” because they have been convicted in federal court of using the Muslim obligation to perform zakat (tithing to charity) to funnel money to terrorists. At this writing, it is unclear precise-ly what Mr. Obama has in mind with respect to this commitment to “ensure [Muslims] can fulfill zakat.” But you can bet that the Brotherhood will try to translate it into the release of their impris-oned operatives and new latitude to raise money for their Shariah-promoting, and therefore seditious, activities in America.

I could go on, but you get the point. The Speech contained a number of statements about the laudable qualities of America, the need for freedom in the Muslim world, about women’s rights and the desirability of peace. But its preponderant and much more important message was one that could have been crafted by the

The hatred and animosities of Ish-mael and Esau toward the Jews was instilled in their descendants.

There has been a continuous, perpetual hatred of the descendants of Esau and Ishmael against the Jews characterized especially by the Ishmaelites, descendants of Ishmael and the Edomites, descendants of Esau. An example which shows how early the descendants had this animosity is found in Numbers 20:14-21:

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: and when we cried unto Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border. Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border. And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee. And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof: let me only, without doing

anything else, pass through on my feet. And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

In the book of Judges we often read of Ishmaelites, Edomites, and other descendants of Ishmael and Esau inflicting damage upon Israel. In Psalm 8�:1-8, the psalmist describes the situation in the Middle East in this time, as well as prophetically. He describes a united conspiracy and confederacy whose aim is to destroy the nation of Israel. It is no accident that various modern Arab leaders (Egypt’s Nassar, for example, just before the Six Day War) have virtually paraphrased these verses. In verses 6-8 the psalmist lists these various nations that come together against Israel. While these are all various ancient names, today they comprise the modern Arab states. For instance, in verse 6, Edom was in southern Jordan; Ishmael was the father of the Ishmaelites, one segment of the Arab world; Moab was in central Jordan; the Hagarenes were from Egypt. In verse 7, Gebal was up in Lebanon; Ammon was northern Jordan; Amalek was in the Sinai Peninsula; Philistia was in the Gaza Strip; Tyre was up in Lebanon. In verse 8, Assyria comprises all of what is today Iraq and quite a bit of Syria. Only since 1948 have all these nations combined forces against Israel. Such a total Arab alignment never occurred in ancient times. After the Six Day War of 1967, one Arab leader after another has clearly stated that the

only way of gaining peace in the Middle East is by the total annihilation of Israel as a nation.

There are other passages in the Bible which describe this perpetual hatred of the Arab nations against Israel, such as Ezekiel ��:1-� and Obadiah 10-14.

THE FUTURE OF THE CONFLICT

Ultimately, there will be peace between Israel and the Arab states, but it will take one of three forms: (1) by means of occupation; (2) by means of destruction; or (�) by means of conversion

By Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum

The Arab States in Prophecy

JAC

Obama from page 15

Copyright © 2005, Ariel Ministries. This is an

excerpt from Dr. Fruchtenbaum’s Messianic Bible

Study #mbs-008, dealing with a most relevant

topic nowadays and directly related to Israel’s

future: the future of today’s Arab countries

according to the Word of God is a subject that

most believers do not know much about. If you

want to understand the conflict between the

Arab nations and the Jewish people you will

certainly enjoy this study.

“Unfortunately, a pattern is be-ing established whereby Presi-dent Obama routinely exagger-ates the Muslim character of America.”

See Obama, page 27

Expulsion of Ishmael and His Mother by Abraham, part of art by Gustave Doré.


“There is urgency to resolve the Palestinian-Israel conflict.”

President Barak Obama has said the Palestinian-Israeli conflict “is a critical issue to deal with, in part because it is in the United States’ interest to achieve peace; that the absence of peace between Palestinians and Israelis is a impediment to a whole host of other areas of increased cooperation and more stable security for people in the region, as well as the United States.”

It may be argued that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is urgent for the United States if you believe that the conflict is really an impediment to Arab coopera-tion on the Iranian nuclear issue. The evidence, however, is that the Arab states have never seriously cared about the Palestinians and that they have their own self-interest in seeing Iran’s nuclear ambitions thwarted, an issue which has nothing to do with the Palestinian question.

The parties also do not see any urgency. In fact, in September 2008, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turned down then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s sweeping offer for Palestinian statehood that would have given the Palestin-ians 98.1% of the West Bank and allowed thousands of Palestinians to return to Israel.Yet, Abbas turned down the offer, claiming there were “gaps,”and failed to offer a viable counteroffer.

Following his May 2009 meeting with President Obama, Abbas also made clear the Palestinians are in no hurry to negotiate with Israel, let alone make any concessions. He expressed the view that Obama’s opposition to Israeli settlements would eventually bring down the Netanyahu government and he was content to put off any peace talks until Netanyahu is out of office. Jackson Diehl wrote in The Washington Post that “Abbas and his team.. plan to sit back and watch while U.S. pressure slowly squeezes the Israeli prime minister from office. ‘It will take a couple of years,’ one official breezily predicted.”Until then, Abbas stated, “in the West Bank we have a good reality.. we are having a good life”.

This statement contrasts starkly with the typical image projected by the PA and the media of the Palestinians as an impoverished, suffering people. Abbas also left no doubt that the Palestinian leadership feels no urgency for a resumption of the peace process. Abbas told Obama, “There’s just about nothing you can do.”

Israelis also see no urgency. While the Israeli public and prime minister are com-mitted to peace with the Palestinians they are very cognizant of the Palestinians’ obsti-nate position. Furthermore, Israelis see no chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinians so long as their leadership remains splintered with Hamas controlling the Gaza Strip and the West Bank barely controlled by the unpopular and politically weak Abbas.

Israelis also need confidence building time to recover from fighting three wars in the last nine years that have cost more than 1,200 Israeli lives and forced parts of the country to live in a state of almost constant anxiety as a result of years of rocket bom-bardments. Indeed, during Obama’s meeting with Abbas, the president told the Pales-tinian president that the Israelis have good reason to be concerned about security. The American president should therefore understand that now is not the time for a rush to diplomacy and that the first priority should be creating a sense of security in Israel.

“Peace now” is not just a slogan, it is what every Israeli wants. President Obama should be applauded for sharing this desire and wanting to make it a reality; however, the conditions in the region will have to radically improve before it will be possible to achieve the goal Americans and Israelis share.

MYTH:

FACT:

By Mitchell G. Bard

Myths Facts&Faith Lessons from Israel:

Walking past the aromatic date palms and ancient sycamores of Jeri-cho, Jesus quietly reflected on the reality that only seventeen more miles separated him from the bit-ter taste of death.

Later that day or the next he would top the crest of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem to prepare for his destiny on a nearby hill called Calvary. Six miles to the east of Jeri-cho the tired Jordan River also neared its final resting place just eight miles further south where it would empty into the buoy-ant, lifeless waters of the Dead Sea.

Pleased by their good fortune, the lo-cal merchants happily sold bushels of fruits and vegetables to the hungry pilgrims who jammed the main road through Jeri-cho on their way to the annual Passover celebration in Jerusalem just beyond the mountains of the Judean wilderness to the southwest. Jericho’s alluvial soil, tropical sunshine and numerous freshwater springs made it an attractive resort oasis and win-ter haven for the wealthy and likewise a popular place for beggars who longed for a penny or crumb of hope to fall from the palms of the merciful.

Covered with dust from the well-trav-eled road, blind Bartimaeus sat in his usual spot on the outskirts of town with a gar-ment spread before him to receive the day’s alms. Overhearing the mundane chatter of travelers, Bartimaeus suddenly realized that his ordinary day had taken a surprise turn, for he had heard that Jesus was pass-

ing that way. Desperate hearts cannot easily be deterred from doing what they must. The starving man will accept de-grading work to keep his family fed. The mother of a baby with a soaring fever will pound on the door of strangers at midnight to get to a phone and call for help. The blind man will cry out for assistance from Jesus even if a crowd scolds him for being a nuisance. Bartimaeus could not see, but he still had a fine set of pipes in him, and his desperation compelled him to call out to Jesus about whom he had heard many wonderful things. No doubt Bartimaeus had been taught the prophetic promise of Isaiah, “‘Behold your God will come . . . . He will come and save you.’ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened” (Isaiah ��:4-�). Bartimaeus believed that Jesus had come as Israel’s Messiah, and Jesus, responding to the heart-sight of the beg-gar, touched him and said, “Your faith has

made you well” (Mark 10:�2). Or more literally, “Your faith has saved you,” just as Isaiah had predicted that the com-ing Messiah would do. After receiving the healing touch of his Savior, Bartimaeus joined all those who followed Jesus up to Jerusalem “with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads” (Isaiah ��:10).

Leaving Jericho today on Highway 417 for Jerusalem you will see no church or his-torical sign that marks the spot where Bartimaeus might have sat, calling out in desperation to Jesus. Instead you will see children playing soccer, moth-ers headed for the market or a businessman offering camel rides for a few shekels. Tired lives, desperate hearts. But nothing could keep the des-perate blind man from his Savior—not the rebuke of the

Jericho Healing of blind BartimaeusMark 10:48, “Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, ‘Son of

David, have mercy on me!’”

By Dr. Daniel McCabe

Daniel McCabe

Dr. Daniel McCabe is the pastor of Faith Bible Church in Spring, Texas. He is a con-tributing editor for The Jerusalem Con-nection. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

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crowd nor the demands of cleaning up after a hurricane. Not the duties of motherhood nor the pressures of a full-time load in col-lege. Nothing. Desperate hearts cannot easily be deterred from doing what they must.

Let us too live desperate lives. Let us al-low nothing to keep us from our Savior—to keep us from being with him, from study-ing his word, from worshipping him with others. Don’t be deterred by the tug or the teasing of the crowd. Cry out to Jesus. He will hear your cry. “He will come and save you.”

Further Reading: Matthew 20:29-�4; Mark 10:46-�2; Luke 18:��-4�


6. From complacency to apathy7. From apathy to dependence8. From dependence back into bondage”

In view of this statement, where do you think America is in the progression?

This is the second of six articles on America in Bible prophecy. The articles are excerpts from Dr. Booker’s new book, “The End of all Things is at Hand—are You Ready?” All Americans need to un-derstand what the Bible says about the future and how to prepare for peril-ous times. In “The End of all Things is at Hand—are You Ready?” Dr. Booker explains prophetic events revealing that God is in charge of His world and how

His people can embrace the future with faith, hope and peace. To get the full text, order this book directly from Dr. Booker’s web site at www.rbooker.com.

Where is America in Bible Prophecy?In part one of this series I explained that America is not men-

tioned in Bible prophecy. I pointed out that those of us who are Americans should be alarmed by this omission of our great coun-try in God’s Holy Word.

With all of our problems, America is still the greatest nation in the history of nations. America is the only superpower in the world. Our military, our economy, our form of government, our wealth and prosperity, with all its faults, far exceeds all the other nations in our world today and is still the envy of every nation.

Yet when we read the prophecies in the Bible about the end times, we don’t find any mention of America. There is not even the vaguest reference to America in the Bible. As American people who love our country and enjoy the “the good life” of living here, thinking that it will go on forever, we should ponder why America is not mentioned in all the great end-time events. What could this mean? The question that should concern all of is “Where is Amer-ica in Bible Prophecy.” It is a sobering question.

I explained that the Bible has both general prophecies and spe-cific prophecies about the nations. America is not mentioned spe-cifically but is included in the general prophecies about the nations during the end times. “Why is America not specifically mentioned in Bible prophecy?” The best our human minds can understand is because America will not be the superpower that it is today. What are some reasons that could cause the demise of America as the leading superpower of the world? In the following articles I want to briefly mention six possibilities. In this article I deal with Amer-ica’s economic collapse.

Economic CollapseThe first reason I believe America is not mentioned in Bible

prophecy is economic collapse. When God judges a nation, He does so by judging the gods of the nations. This is what He did in Egypt with the 10 plagues. The plagues were against the gods of Egypt. So, if we want to know how God would judge America, all we have to do is list the gods of America. And at the very top of the list is money.

It should be clear to anyone that money is the American god. The One True God in heaven wants us to prosper and have mon-ey. We can’t do God’s work, nor can we have much of a quality of life without money. But what God doesn’t want is money to have us. The Bible does not say that “money is the root of all evil.” In the New Testament, the Bible says that the “love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10).

It should be obvious to all of us that greed will destroy America. With all of our great wealth as a nation, America has become a debtor nation. That means we owe more than we have. Every in-dividual household understands this. If you keep spending more than you are earning, eventually you go bankrupt.

Our government debt is in the trillions of dollars. The rate of our debt increases in billions of dollars every day. Regardless of our government’s fiscal and monetary policies, or maybe because of them, we will never be able to balance the books. And sooner or later, probably sooner, the economy will collapse under the weight of our debt. Without our economic power, America will no longer be a superpower. This could happen overnight as we have seen in the weakening of the dollar, the panic on Wall Street and the bail-ing out of our financial system.

In 1787, about the time America established its independence from Britain, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edin-burgh named Alexander Tyler made the following comment about the fall of Athens. This comment was posted on the internet.

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will con-tinue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that mo-ment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that ev-ery democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

Tyler continues, “The average age of the world’s greatest civi-lizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith2. From spiritual faith to great courage�. From courage to liberty4. From liberty to abundance�. From abundance to complacency

By Dr. Richard Booker

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Jesus’s Zionists, from page 12

As a result, men like Daniel Yahav, the son of Holocaust sur-vivors who “came to the faith” as a young man and now serves as pastor of a Messianic congregation in Tiberias, are wary of media exposure which might attract unwanted attention. Yahav preferred not to divulge the name of his congregation or its size.

Yahav said that the open animosity some Israelis show toward Messianic Jews does not dampen his or others’ Zionist fervor. “We are willing to stand up for our beliefs, even if most Israelis reject them, and that shows our sincerity and faith,” said Yahav, who said that he was the first Messianic Jew to become an officer after the IDF changed its exclusionary policies in the 1980s.

Do messianic Jews seek out suffering for their faith as a way of emulating Jesus?

“No one wants to suffer,” Yahav said. “We want to live a com-fortable life like everyone else. Still, when suffering comes, it is a merit, and there will be reward in heaven for it.”

An interesting phenomenon that arises again and again in con-versations with Messianic Jews is their strong commitment to military service as part of their loyalty to the state. Yahav said that there are two IAF pilots who are members of his congregation, and several others who belong to elite combat units. The situation is similar at Moshav Yad Hashmona, a small cooperative settlement of about 20 families, most of them Messianic Jews, located west of Jerusalem, according to Ayelet Ronen, its secretary.

Like the Orthodox religious Zionists who see their military ser-vice as a mitzva, Messianic Jews also see it in religious terms. In fact, several Messianic Jews said they respected religious Zionists for their selfless service to the state, and felt they had many things in common with them - except, of course, for the belief in Jesus.

Messianic Jews’ dedication to the military is based on their be-lief that one must be a good citizen and pray for the success of the state no matter where one lives. But it also has to do with a type of religious Zionism.

“Part of Messianic community’s success in military service has to do with discipline,” said Ronen. “We put a lot of emphasis on behavior and conduct. For instance, premarital sex is not accepted, and young people are expected to act in a responsible way. These values seem to help our young people when they get to the IDF.

“Also, our youths are encouraged to reach a deep level of reli-gious conviction independently. Faith is not forced on them. So when someone does commit himself to the faith, it is a result of an internal, not an external, process. And this gives them a lot of

strength. But most importantly, we know that when we fight for the Jewish people, we are fighting on God’s side.”

According to Michael - who helps run Mercaz Netiva, a youth organization for Messianic Jews aged 1� through 17 that includes a one-week premilitary preparation course called Netzor - there are presently 200-�00 Messianic Jews serving in the IDF.

Messianic Jews see no contradiction between Jesus’s pacifist teachings, such as the Sermon on the Mount, in which the faithful are taught to turn the other cheek to their enemies, and Messianic Jews’ service in the IDF.

Michael, who is an officer in the Givati Brigade, believes that Jesus’s teachings make military service more of a challenge.

“As believers, we are obligated to love and respect our enemies. But we are also citizens of Israel, which obligates us to serve in the IDF. Every believer has to ask if he is doing what is right and good. The most difficult test is when we are involved in policing the Palestinian population at checkpoints or during patrols inside Palestinian villages.

“I personally see it as an opportunity to behave in a compassion-ate, ethical way, and serve as a witness for Jesus’s teachings. There are about 200 or �00 of us spread out throughout the IDF having a positive impact, serving as examples.

“We believe this state of affairs will not last forever, though. Eventually, there will be a time of peace ushered in by the prince of peace. In that day, everyone will recognize that Jesus is the mes-siah.”

This article originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post (April 30, 2009).

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God, America, and the economy

Part 2


Arab and one Jewish, could put an end to the conflict. On Nov. 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly debated -- and by a vote of ��-1� adopted -- Resolution 181, partitioning Palestine on the basis of population. Had the Arabs accepted the UN decision, the Palestinian state that “the whole world wants” would today be 61 years old. Instead, the Arab League vowed to block Jewish sovereignty by waging “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre.”

Over and over this pattern has been repeated. Following its stunning victory in the 1967 Six Day War, Israel offered to exchange the land it had won for per-manent peace with its neighbors. From their summit in Khartoum came the Ar-abs’ notorious response: “No peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel.”

At Camp David in 2000, Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians virtually every-thing they claimed to be seeking -- a sovereign state with its capital in East Jerusalem, 97 percent of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, tens of billions of dollars in “compensation” for the plight of Pal-estinian refugees. Yasser Arafat refused the offer, and launched the bloodiest wave of terrorism in Israel’s history.

To this day, the charters of Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian factions, call for Israel’s liquidation. “The whole world” may want peace and a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians want some-thing very different. Until that changes, there is no two-state solution.

Two-State from page 6

Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe where this article was originally printed. Read other articles by Jacoby at: www.JeffJacoby.com

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most pinpointed of the sixty total loca-tions. Oren chooses a different site along a broken wall, which the team fears has all the same problems as the other two. It will require a further depth than Oren may be willing to check. Normally very talkative, Barfield nods, avoiding any conflict with his archeologist.

“I wish I could get in there and do the digging myself,” Mac says aloud to anyone who’ll listen. Larry paces the dirt and for-mulates conspiracies to explain who in the Israeli government is stopping these items from being found. Shawn has the look of a concerned son. He has his own ambitions to make a career-defining documentary, but he sets the camera down and watches his father, looking for any sign of disap-pointment. He sees only a determined fa-ther who doesn’t give up easy, but he leans over to me saying, “What will Paw tell ev-eryone back home at Starbucks if we have to quit already?”

To properly excavate around the wall, the Palestinian diggers will need to go at least eight feet deep and stretch the entire breadth of the wall. They look confused when Oren gives these directions as their excavation routine never goes past virgin soil. The Arabic banter increases and their mood becomes testy, but they ultimately exhume a hole four feet deep and three feet wide. Mac stands in the hole and it stops around his chest.

None of the three sites are filled back in because Oren wants to use a metal de-tector over them before making a conclu-sion. The morning they meet to metal detect also happens to be Israel’s Memo-rial Day for fallen soldiers of war. Oren is active in the reserves and is scheduled to be part of the day’s ceremonies. “We have just one hour to do this.” He tells Barfield. “I have to be back for the ceremonies at nine.” Barfield knows one hour is a des-perate attempt at best. “Okay,” he mutters back, “glad we’re on time. Let’s see what we can do.” Oren pulls a White’s metal

detector out of his truck, a good brand but it will not detect metal more than three feet deep. Oren makes an unusual request: no videotaping while he is detecting. He rushes off with Barfield and Chris to go over the sites. The only time the detector beeps is when it touches Oren’s steel-toed shoe or picks up the occasional gum wrap-per.

As the group walks back to the car frus-trated from the course of the short day, Oren senses the disappointment. “Arche-ology requires patience.” He offers to the group. “And I have a lot of it.”

Nervous silence engulfs the van now on its way back to Arad. All eyes are on Barfield, and he knows the next words spoken must be his own. “This operation has been like having a huge bowl of your favorite ice cream placed in front of you,” he says, “and only getting one lick.” He stops at the next gas station and sponsors ice cream bars for all.

When Jim Barfield first cracked the code on the Copper Scroll he was in his home office in Oklahoma and had no idea what to do with the information. Just two years later, he was beaming at the site of the first shovels breaking ground. “I still can’t get over that we are here and the dig is actually happening.” He says. “I have to be thankful it has come this far.”

Nothing in Barfield’s research has been proven, but nothing has been disproven either. For now the project goes on even as the group returns home to the U.S. They remain as loyal and confident as ever, if not a little battle-hardened. All they need is a fresh dose of patience, and the next dig schedule.

All Copper Scroll quotes are from: Floren-tino Garcia Martinez, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated, Wilfred G. E. Watson, trans., 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1996), p. 460-463

Shelley Neese is managing editor of The Jerusalem Connection

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Copper Scroll from page 17

Shelley Neese, managing editor for The Jerusalem Connection, has been exclusively following the story of the Copper Scroll Project for a year. Mrs. Neese went to Israel in April for three weeks to document every phase of the dig and will continue to cover future excavations. To read her previous articles about The Copper Scroll and Jim Barfield’s research, visit our website (www.TJCI.org) and go to the article archives page.

Welcome Back, CarterWell, I’m glad

that’s over! Now that our silver-tongued president has gone to Cairo to soothe Mus-lims’ hurt feelings, they love us again! Muslims in Paki-stan expressed their appreciation

for President Barack Obama’s speech by bombing a fancy hotel in Peshawar this week.

Operating on the liberal premise that what Arabs really respect is weakness, Obama listed, incorrectly, Muslims’ his-torical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Bab-ylonians), the compass (that was the Chi-nese), pens (the Chinese again) and medi-cal discoveries (huh?).

But why be picky? All these inventions came in mighty handy on Sept. 11, 2001! Thanks, Muslims!!

Obama bravely told the Cairo audience that 9/11 was a very nasty thing for Mus-lims to do to us, but on the other hand, they are victims of colonization.

Except we didn’t colonize them. The French and the British did. So why are Ar-abs flying planes into our buildings and not the Arc de Triomphe? (And gosh, haven’t the Arabs done a lot with the Middle East since the French and the British left!)

In another sharks-to-kittens compari-son, Obama said, “Now let me be clear, is-sues of women’s equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.” No, he said, “the struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American life.”

So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the oth-er hand, we still don’t have enough female firefighters here in America.

Delusionally, Obama bragged about his multiculti worldview, saying, “I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal.” In Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghani-

stan and other Muslim countries, women “choose” to cover their heads on pain of losing them.

Obama rolled out the crucial liberal talking point against America’s invasion of Iraq, saying Iraq was a “war of conve-nience,” while Afghanistan was a “war of necessity.” Liberals cling to this nonsense doggerel as a shield against their hypocrisy on Iraq. Either both wars were wars of ne-cessity or both wars were wars of choice.

Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan -- nor any country -- attacked us on 9/11. Both Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as many other Muslim countries, were sheltering those associated with the terrorists who did at-tack us on 9/11 -- and who hoped to attack us again.

The truth is, all wars are wars of choice, including the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Gulf War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. OK, maybe the war on teen obesity is a war of convenience, but that’s the only one I can think of.

The modern Democrat Party chooses -- really chooses, not like Saudi women “choosing” to wear hijabs -- to fight no wars. But the Democrats couldn’t say that immediately after 9/11, so they pretended to support the war in Afghanistan and then had to spend the next 7 1/2 years trying to come up with a distinction between Af-ghanistan and Iraq.

Maybe next they can tell us why fight-ing Hitler -- who never invaded the U.S. and had no plans to do so -- was a “neces-sity” in a way that fighting Saddam wasn’t. (Obama on Hitler: “Nazi ideology sought to subjugate, humiliate and exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale.” Whereas Saddam Hussein was just mess-ing with the Kuwaitis, Kurds and Shiites.)

Meanwhile, Muslims throughout the

Middle East are yearning for their own Sad-dam Husseins to be taken out by U.S. in-vaders so they can be liberated, too. (Then we’ll see how many women -- outside of an American college campus -- “choose” to wear hijabs.) The war-of-choice/war-of-necessity point must be as mystifying to a Muslim audience as a discussion of gay marriage.

Arabs aren’t afraid of us; they’re afraid of Iran. But our aspiring Jimmy Carter had no tough words for Iran. To the contrary, in Cairo, Obama endorsed Iran’s quest for nuclear “power,” while attacking -- brace yourself -- America for helping remove Iranian loon Mohammad Mossadegh.

The CIA’s taking out Mossadegh was probably the greatest thing that agency ever did. This was back in 19��, before it became a collection of lawyers and paper-pushers.

Mossadegh was as crazy as a March hare (which is really saying something when your competition is Moammar Gadhafi, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein). He gave interviews lying in bed in pink pajamas. He wept, he fainted, and he set his nation on a path of permanent impoverishment by “nationalizing” the oil wells, where they sat idle after the British companies that knew how to operate them pulled out.

But he was earthy and hated the British, so left-wing academics adored Mossadegh. The New York Times compared him to Thomas Jefferson.

True, Mossadegh had been “elected” by the Iranian parliament -- but only in the chaos following the assassination of the sit-ting prime minister.

In short order, the shah dismissed this clown, but Mossadegh refused to step down, so the CIA forcibly removed him and allowed the shah’s choice to assume the office. This “coup,” as liberal academ-ics term it, was approved by liberals’ favor-ite Republican president, Dwight Eisen-hower, and supported by such ponderous liberal blowhards as John Foster Dulles.

For Obama to be apologizing for one of the CIA’s greatest accomplishments isn’t just crazy, it’s Ramsey Clark crazy.

See Carter, page 29

By Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

Obama from page 21

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington. An abbreviated version of this article appeared in Newsmax, June 5, 2009.

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Muslim Brotherhood: America has a presi-dent who is, wittingly or not, advancing the Brotherhood’s agenda of masking the true nature of Shariah and encouraging the West’s submission to it.

“For Obama to be apolo-gizing for one of the CIA’s greatest accomplishments isn’t just crazy, it’s Ramsey Clark crazy.”


Hebrew for the Goyim© 2009, Pat Mercer Hutchens, Ph.D

Know before Whom you are Standing. High above the holy To-rah Scroll (Hebrew Scriptures) of a Washington, DC synagogue, these words are carved on the wall: snt t,t hn hbpk gs (Dah Lifney Mi Ata Omed, “Know before Whom you are standing”). In everyday words, “You’d better know Who you’re standing in front of.” They’re not talking about a Rabbi, Pastor, governor, President or some famous, important guest lecturer. No, no, they are talking about God, the All Powerful, All Knowing, All Seeing, Sovereign Lord of the Universe. In other words, when you go into the house of God, you need to know Who you’re dealing with there - God … and act accordingly.

Today’s culture. People over �0 may relate, but today the idea of fear or awesome respect for much of anything is rare. To-day people burn the flag, push in front of old ladies, rob men in wheel chairs, spout off at par-ents, laugh at religion and mock anything and everything sacred. Artists become famous for put-ting a statue of Jesus in urine or dung on the Virgin Mary. Peo-ple raised on the “Good Book,” as Mamma called it, had a differ-ent view point. In fact, I recall being less afraid of God than Mamma, whom I considered to be His Right Hand Representative. We were warned, “Pay attention to teachers, preachers or anyone speaking to you. Look them in the eye. Show respect.” I’d no more have used God’s name irrever-ently than I would hacked off my hand. When the parents called, you answered. When Dad said “No,” you said “Yes sir.” No one went to worship without being fully clothed. Men took off their hats. Women put theirs on. We knew Who we were dealing with.

What happened? Why does God allow it? Everyone has watched this break up in society and seen families and traditions broken up and lost. Whole sections of society not only do not know God, but could care less. Why doesn’t God do something? In I Peter �:�f, the Apostle explains why God puts up with disregard and disre-spect: “Be mindful of (1) the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and (2) the commandment of us and the apostles of the Lord and Savior; know this…there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, saying, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.’” The patriarchs and prophets knew God and waited

in faith for the Messiah, the One who would deliver and save. Believers through the ages knew God and waited. Most religious Jews and those who believe when Messiah comes, He will be Jesus, also know and wait. The Apostle further answers why God hasn’t “done something” yet: “the present heavens and the earth are kept by the same word of God (as in the days of Noah and the Flood), this time re-served for fire in the day of judgment. Beloved, do not be ignorant of this - one day is with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack (lazy, inactive) concerning His promise…

but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repen-tance.” God is waiting too. So what does “knowing” mean Biblically? Recall hi-eroglyphics and Hebrew letters and words have at least three levels of meaning. (1) a simple or “normal” meaning; (2) a sign or symbolic meaning of a con-cept or idea; (�) a deep spiritual meaning, often hidden. Here are Biblical passages using the word to know (yada - gsh).•Genesis 2:9. Tree (.g) of The (v) knowledge (daat ,gs) of good (c,) and evil (gr). This may be translated “tree of Heh’s (v short name for Yahweh)

knowledge of good and evil.” Perhaps it’s the first time Scripture speaks not just of trees or material substance, but of spiritual knowledge, of “eating” or “knowing” God (Good - tov c,) and thereby “knowing” the difference between good (c, - inward perfection) and evil (gr

- move toward physicality).• Genesis 4:1. “Adam knew (gsh) Eve his wife,” referring to

“carnal knowledge,” to physical intercourse. That sex was con-sidered an intimate, life-altering act and virginity was a prior-ity is shown in Genesis 14:16. Referring to Isaac’s soon-to-be bride, Rebeccah was called a “virgin, that is to say a man had not known her.” Numbers �1 includes a hard line passage revealing Moses instructions regarding war-captured Midianite women. After the battle, “Moses said to the priests and military lead-ers, ‘What? Have you saved all the women alive?...kill every woman that has known man by lying with him…all the women who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.’” After the “inspections” (you know what I mean) - �2,000 women and girls fit into that category and were incor-porated into the tribes of Israel.

• Genesis 29:�. Men in Haran were asked “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” “We know him,” they said. They were aware of who Laban was. One may “know” a bank teller, not knowing his name. One may “know” a city without seeing it. One may know about God but never really know God by experience.

• Yahweh told Moses who He was, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘Yahweh, God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God and Isaac and Jacob sent me to you. This is my name forever. This is my memorial from generation to generation” (Ex. �:1�). God told Moses (Ex. 6:�) that Abraham had not known God as Yahweh, but knew him as El Shadai (hsa kt). They were One and the same. Moses told Pharaoh that Yahweh said, “Let my people go.” Pharaoh answered, “Who is Yahweh that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know this Yahweh, nei-ther will I let Israel go” (Ex.�:2). Notice here that “knowing” God implies respect and obedience. If you know Who you are standing before, you obey. Pharaoh did neither.

What does it mean to know God? Proverbs �:�-6 enjoins “sons of the laws and commandments” to “Trust in (jyc - trust, depend, rely on) Yahweh with all your heart; do not lean (iga - depend, rely) on your own understanding (vbhc - insight, what is “born” (ic) of you). On the contrary, in all your ways KNOW (gs) Him (uv) and He shall direct your paths.” Daa Hu (uvgs) and He shall direct your paths. So how does one “daa Hu.”

Daa (gs or vgs) means knowledge, understanding, wisdom, insight. In its hieroglyphic meaning, it was the emblem of the universal qua-ternary…the source of all physical existence. As a symbolic image, it is the door through which one is born, the nourishing breast (sa) that sustains life (God is called El (kt) Shadai hsa). Dalet (s) the fourth letter, signifies propagation, abundance born of division.1 Perhaps this helps understand why God’s name has four letters (jujh). Yah (jh manifestation of Heh), Yahu (ujh Yah is Hu, Yah is the One) and Yahweh (jujh) all refer to The Eternal One. Some writers refer to the letters of The Name as Yod (Father), Heh (Spirit), Vov (Son) and Heh (Congregation of believers), the complete House of the Israel of God. All mankind is “made in God’s image” (Gen. 1:27), capable of knowing God. All humans are born physically. Believers, however, are also spiritually born from above. Each child of faith is “born” physically, then spiritually (from above),

thereby incorporated into the spiritual family of God.

Hu (uj) is Him - God! Therefore, to “know” Hu is to know God. It is to be born from God, to know God’s Word, know God’s Ways. Da (gs) Hu (uv - Him) or Heh (Jehovah) is to be linked to God’s life, to know from the inside what God would say and do, to per-sonally hear the Spirit of the Holy One speaking inside one’s heart and mind, to know WWAD. (What would Abba do?) WWJD. (What would Jesus do?) WWSD. (What would The Spirit do?) It means the believer is always listening, ready to obey, saturated with God’s Holy Word, filled with God’s Holy Spirit, and draw-ing directly from God. Just as one constantly breathes to live, so one who is not just born in the flesh but also spiritually born from above, constantly “breathes” to maintain spiritually.

Experiencing God. One of the best publications in recent times is Experiencing God, Knowing and Doing the Will of God, by Henry Blackaby and Claude King. Blackaby quotes Moses in Deuterono-my �2:46-47, “What does Yahweh your God ask of you but to fear Yah-weh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love Him, to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe Yahweh’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good.” Moses evidently sang these words as a song, as a blessing! Moses then goes on to say, “Rejoice nations (goyim - ohud), His people.” That includes you and me! Blackaby stresses that a love relationship with God is the foundation of the above command. We don’t have to settle for knowing about God. We can know God. God takes the initiative in reaching out to us. We respond and obey. Blackaby summarizes, “When you come to know God by experience, you will be convinced of His love. When you are convinced of his love, you can believe Him and trust Him. When you trust Him, you can obey Him. When you love Him, you have no problem obeying Him.”2 Therefore, if one has a problem with obedience, it’s a love problem. We usually say, “To know him is to love him.” But with God, “To love Him is to know Him.” And to remember, “Da Lifney Mi Ata Omed.”

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Obama also said that it was unfair that “some countries have weapons that others do not” and proclaimed that “any nation -- including Iran -- should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.”

Wait -- how about us? If a fanatical holocaust denier with messianic delusions can have nuclear power, can’t the U.S. at least build one nuclear power plant every �0 years?

I’m sure Iran’s compliance will be po-liced as well as North Korea’s was. Clin-

ton struck a much-heralded “peace deal” with North Korea in 1994, giving them $4 billion to construct nuclear facilities and �00,000 tons of fuel oil in return for a promise that they wouldn’t build nuclear weapons. The ink wasn’t dry before the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes.

But back to Iran, what precisely do Iranians need nuclear power for, again? They’re not exactly a manufacturing pow-erhouse. Iran is a primitive nation in the middle of a desert that happens to sit on top of a large percentage of the world’s oil and gas reserves. That’s not enough oil and gas to run household fans?

Obama’s “I’m OK, You’re OK” speech would be hilarious, if it weren’t so terrify-ing.

This article first appeared in Human Events

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1 Hebraic Tongue Restored, p. 318.2 Experiencing God, Blackaby and King, p. 63.

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Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for Human Events and author of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” “Slander,” “”How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” “Godless,” “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans” and most recently, “Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and their Assault on America.”

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