Why Do We Support Israel?

BREAKING NEWS: Israel Strike Near Gaza Church Kills Dozens.....

Friday, January 2, 2009 (9:35 am)
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with BosNewsLife sources and reporting from the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem

GAZA CITY/JERUSALEM (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in the Gaza Strip have mourned dozens of people who were killed when an Israeli air strike damaged a Baptist church while hitting a nearby police station, as part of Israel's military campaign against the Islamic militant group Hamas, BosNewsLife established Friday, January 2.

News of the attack emerged as Hamas vowed revenge for an Israeli strike Thursday, January 1, that killed cleric Nizar Rayyan, the first senior leader of the group to die in the offensive. Israel's seven-day offensive against Hamas killed nearly 420 Palestinians and wounded about 2,000 others, according to Palestinian sources.

The bombing near Gaza Baptist Church happened just before the Christian minority ushered in the New Year and underscored international concern that Christians in the Gaza Strip are in the crossfire between Israeli and Islamic attacks, BosNewsLife learned Friday, January 2.

Witnesses said the church was located right across the street from a police station which was targeted by Israelis. The church was nearly destroyed with windows blown and other damage reported. Israel's government said it has been trying to avoid civilian casualties in one of the world's most densely populated areas, but vowed to continue to target Hamas because it launches rockets deep into Israel.  
www.bosnewslife.com/4850-breaking-news-israel-strike-near-gaza-church-kills-dozens-hamas-warns-retaliation

On Dec. 29, 1977, Christians in Israel and the occupied territories protested a new law passed by the Israeli parliament making it illegal for missionaries to proselytize Jews. Protestant churches charged that the law had been “hastily pushed through parliament during the Christmas period when Christians were busily engaged in preparing for and celebrating their major festival.” The law made missionaries liable to five years’ imprisonment for attempting to persuade people to change their religion, and three years’ imprisonment for any Jew who converted. The United Christian Council complained that the law could be “misused in restricting religious freedom in Israel.”

Nonetheless, it came into force on April 1, 1978, prohibiting the offering of “material inducement” for a person to change his religion. A material inducement could be something as minor as the giving of a Bible. Although the Likud government of Menachem Begin assured the Christian community that the law applied equally to all religions and did not specifically mention Christians, the United Christian Council of Israel charged that it was biased and aimed specifically at Christians since only Christians openly proselytized. Council representatives also cited anti-Christian speeches made in the parliament during debate on the law. Parliament member Binyamin Halevy had called missionaries “a cancer in the body of the nation.
www.ifamericansknew.org/history/rel-christians.html

Israel is the largest recipient of US. aid in the entire world. It receives more aid than that given to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, put together.

Israel receives about $7 million dollars per day from the United States, and there is evidence that the total cost to American taxpayers is closer to $15 million a day. Yet this information is almost never printed in American newspapers. Coverage of the Middle East in general, and of Israel in particular, virtually never reports this enormous American connection with this region.

Empowered by American money, Israel is occupying land that does not belong to it, is breaking numerous international laws and conventions of which it is a signatory, and is promulgating policies of brutality that have been condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, the National Council of Churches, Amnesty International, the International Red Cross, and numerous other international bodies. This truth is also rarely reported.

Through the money and weaponry provided by the United States, Israel is imposing an ethnically discriminatory nation on land that was previously multicultural. There is ethnic and religious discrimination inherent in its national identity, and a doctrine of the supremacy of one group over all others permeates its political, financial, and military policies. This also is virtually never reported.

There are a variety of organizations and individuals in Israel who are protesting their government's policies, and who are working strenuously and courageously on behalf of human rights and justice. It is their intent to create a just and fair nation with equal rights for all its citizens. They are refusing to serve in the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and are actively trying to prevent Palestinian homes from being bulldozed. These actions are also not covered in the American media.

American support of the Israeli government is against our national interest on every level: It places us at war with populations whose desperate plight we are helping to create, and who, quite correctly, place the responsibility for their sufferings on us. It makes us an accomplice to war crimes and an accessory to oppression. This also is not reported.

In analyzing the American media, we are increasingly discovering a cover-up of appalling proportions. Israel is being protected, the news about Palestinians in particular and Arabs in general is being distorted, and the American public is being manipulated.

We believe strongly that if Americans knew the truth about Israel and Palestine -- about the massive amount of our tax money that is being given away to Israel, and about the human costs of Israel's American-financed militarism -- they would demand an immediate re-thinking of our policies in this region.

It is the goal of If Americans Knew to inform the American public accurately about this area. Most of all, it is to inform Americans about our enormous, and too often invisible, personal connection to it.

Americans, through our blank check to Israel, are empowering the worst elements of Israeli society, and undermining those working for a just, peaceful, and nondiscriminatory nation.

We are driving the violence in this region.
We can stop it.

Please help!
www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/

If you listen to "Christian" leaders today, like David Jeremiah, you will probably come away thinking Israel is God's chosen people, because that is what is being taught.  

They will probably tell you about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel).  They will probably tell that God gave the law, through Moses to Israel, that the prophets were through Israel.  They will say how God gave us His Word through Israel, and how God also gave us a savior through Israel.  They will say that through this we have been blessed by the people of Israel, by the Jews.  And that would be a lie.  We have not been blessed by the Jews.  We have been blessed by God through Christ.  Israel was a chosen people for only one purpose, which was to send Christ into the world, that through Him, not the Jews, the world might be blessed.  

To declare that the Jews are God's chosen people would be to ignore the cross of Christ, and what was accomplished at the cross.  At the cross, the purpose for Israel was fulfilled.  At the cross, the effectiveness of the Old Covenant had come to an end, and a New and better Covenant came in force.  And, because the Israel established through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses, became a stiff-necked, rebellious and wicked people, God destroyed them at the hands of the Roman soldiers.  And when the temple was destroyed in AD70, that severed the relationship between God and the nation of Israel forever.  

Through Christ, there is a new Israel, a spiritual Israel, with whom Christ is the eternal King.  And the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.  The relationship between Christ and spiritual Israel will never be destroyed.  

But the Israel that David Jeremiah preached about this past Sunday (11-13-11) on the Daystar Network, is, as the younger folks say today, history.  

David Jeremiah said, "people that stand in the way of Israel's prosperity will find themselves standing in the direct path for God's purposes for Israel."   Well, I will gladly stand in the way of Israel's prosperity is I could, because present-day Israel is an impostor nation.  They are not the Israel established by God.  Present-day Israel was established by the United Nations.  And, I have never read anything in Scripture that comes close to indicating that the nation of Israel would be re-established by the political will of the world by an organization formed by that political will of the world called the United Nations.  

David Jeremiah said, this is what has to happen before Israel ceases to be a nation, then he read Jeremiah 31.35-37.  

David Jeremiah's interpretation of this passage in Jeremiah is faulty.  Here's why.  The word "seed"  It's singular.  It is the same word used in Genesis 22.18.  And the Apostle Paul explained this is Galatians 3.16, where it is written, "And to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made.  He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to your Seed,' who is Christ."

The message is clear in Jeremiah 31.35-37.  God was telling Jeremiah that kingdom of the "seed" which is Christ, will never end.  And that is stated several places in scripture.  And that is just the truth.

As I mentioned before, Israel that was established by God through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses came to an end in AD 70.  But who is present-day Israel?  They are obviously an impostor nation.  Where they come from, I'm sure only God knows for sure.  But there are quite a few theories as where they come from.  But one thing is for certain, they were not established by God.

Is this enough, or do you need more. That last one, young girl to the left, what she looked like after an Israeli airstrike to the right.

This is what John Hagee and American Christian Zionists approve of.

The video here of a BBC documentary shows what happened to the USS Liberty....



Why am I bringing this up now? Because I don't believe we, that is the United States, has ever responded enough to this attack. Remember what happened after Pearl Harbor? We did not shirk our responsibility to respond to that attack. Israel does the same thing, and we did nothing. Israel has to pay for that attack.

Am I suggesting we go to war with Israel? No. I will suggest terms with that murderous regime. 1. They must take responsibility for the murder of Rachel Corrie, and compensate the Corrie family for their loss. 2. They will stop murdering inoffensive, non-aggressive Palestinian people. 3. They will admit to the whole world their murderous ways since 1948. 4. They must agree to a Palestinian State in a two state solution.

Finally, we the people of the United States of America will no longer send our tax dollars to Israel. We will stop sending them weapons. Israel will have to fend for themselves.

What if Israel will not agree to the above terms, and they continue to murder innocent people, I will consider military action. As George W. Bush once said, "We will fight for the cause of peace."

I firmly believe that if it were not for Israel, there would be peace in the Middle East, or at least it would be easier to attain.

A vibrant young lady to the left. Her bleeding broken body after being run over by a bulldozer to the right.



How is it that we Americans can support the God damned butchers that did this to Rachel Corrie? She is one of our own. She was born in the State of Washington. And all she wanted was peace.

I promise this, when I am President, those butchers will pay for this.

My policy toward Israel will be based on the premise that Israel became our enemy on June 8, 1967, and any aid they have received since then from our Country is treason. Had we taken that murderous regime out of power back then, we could have saved a lot of innocent lives.

The evil, murderous regime of Benjamin Netanyahu must come to an end.

Some have mentioned Hamas as if they are a problem. And on the surface, it seems that way. But I believe that Hamas is defending its people, and are not the aggressor. But, I am open to evidence to the contrary.

Hence, when I become President, I will send a peacekeeping force to Israel with several objectives. 1. To keep Israelis from killing innocent civilian Palestinians. 2. Get Israeli Forces out of Palestinian Territories, eliminating checkpoints that keep Palestinians from living their lives. 3. Tearing down the wall that prevents Palestinian farmers from farming their own land. 4. To end Palestinian retaliation, which I believe would happen if Israel would stop killing Palestinians.

While it will be a peacekeeping force, and will not attack anyone, if I am the commander in chief, our military will have a standing order to defend themselves when necessary. And they will be armed at all times for that purpose.