Archive for November, 2009
May God Yet Bless America
Nov 26th
Christian Americans, my friends over there tell me, are on the move. Like soldiers emerging shell-shocked from a battle where they have been bombarded with round after round of high explosive, they are starting to shake off the stupor created in the ten months since the US became the Obamanation.
Today is Thanksgiving. And today, as with Jacob and Esau in the womb, it appears as if two nations are struggling together inside the borders of that great country in a way some see as portending another civil war.
Millions are thanking Father God for founding and building and keeping and using America – a city set on a hill.
Millions of others are thanking mother nature; liberal humanism; their lucky stars; Hollywood – anything but the Creator – for the headway they have made in steering America away from its Christian roots, especially now that they have in the White House a man who champions their vision.
From the expressions of outrage, shock, anger and rejection that have come from enormous numbers of patriotic Americans these last months, it seems the Obama administration has most effectively employed political blitzkrieg against them. The president and his democrats on the hill have stunned and overwhelmed many.
Will they win, or will the very enormity of the negative impact they are making on their Christian countrymen generate a backlash strong enough to unseat them and to reverse the destructive policies they are trying to force upon America?
In Israel, we are watching keenly. Washington has been squeezing the Netanyahu government mercilessly to stop building homes for Jews in the Jews’ homeland. President Obama does not have many friends here.
And there are those of us who see the connection very clearly between the way America’s leaders deal with Israel and what happens internally in the United States.
I am a Christian with American roots going all the way back to the Mayflower. For years I have been concerned (for America’s sake, not only for Israel’s) about the ever-widening rift between these two countries. On my own, and with my family, I have traveled across the US to appeal to Christians not to allow their government to impose a “two state solution” upon the people of Israel. Still the attempt to do so continues; today more intensely than ever.
And yet, on this Thanksgiving, I thank God for America. I thank God for the enormous good America has contributed to mankind all across the globe, and for the many ways in which America has blessed Israel.
I thank God too that there ARE millions of God-fearing Americans who will not lie down and let their country be taken away from them. Together with non-American friends of the United States around the world I pray that God will remember what He has always purposed that country to be, that through His people He will move to roll back the darkness and restore His light from one side of America to the other.
It’s a big prayer, but it’s not too big.
As I finished writing this, a “US Warrior” in Augusta, GA, emailed me.
“This is running on all the blogs over here in America,” she said. “We are going to get our country back, very shortly! We are going to rally!”
She’d attached the following:
On October 3, 1789 President George Washington released this proclamation:
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions– to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually–to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Two hundred and twenty years ago, the President of the United States wrote those words.
Untold numbers of American citizens are invoking them today.
May God hear the prayers of His people. May God bless them.
And may God YET bless the United States of America.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem …
Nov 20th
By Victor Sharpe
White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, was ordered by the Obama apparatchiks to express displeasure at the decision by Israel to build houses in the East Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But Gibbs failed to disclose that lands on which Gilo was built, as with other suburbs in “disputed” parts of East Jerusalem, were home to many Jews who were driven out in 1948 by the British officered Arab Legion of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
It wasn’t liberated by Israel, or the land restored, until the June, 1967 Six Day War, nineteen years later. King Hussein of Jordan had thrown in his lot with the Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdul Nasser, who was boasting how he was on the verge of destroying the Jewish state. The King believed Nasser’s claims and attacked along the entire Jordanian – Israel front (including Jerusalem) despite pleas by Israel for him to not follow Nasser’s aggression. History might have been very different if Hussein had listened to Israel’s pleas.
In the nineteen years that the Jordanians occupied the territory, they never remotely considered it as anything but Jordanian. Certainly they never thought it belonged to another Arab and primarily Muslim people who later called themselves Palestinians. As it was, Jordan’s illegal occupation of East Jerusalem as well as of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) was recognized by only two countries, Britain and Pakistan.
But the Obama White House, and the relentlessly anti-Israel State Department, nevertheless have decided to continue echoing the demands of the Palestinian Authority and call for Israel to stop building homes, not only in Judea and Samaria, but even within Jewish suburbs of Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem; this while Arab settlement building continues unchecked throughout the area at a feverish pace.
It matters not to Obama that Jerusalem, east, west, north and south, has been described as the eternal city of the eternal people.
Let me quote the words from 1918 of the great Rabbi J.H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, at the thanksgiving service for the liberation of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks by British forces. He spoke of the nearly 4,000 years of history that bound the Jews to their spiritual and physical capital city and of their fate in defending it against its many conquerors:
“Like the Jew, this Holy City of Israel is deathless; fire and sword and all the engines of destruction have been hurled against it in vain. The Babylonians burnt it and deported its population; the Romans slew a million of its inhabitants, razed it to the ground, passed the ploughshare over it and strewed its furors with salt; Hadrian banished its very name from the lips of men, changed it to Aelia Capitolina and forbade any Jew from entering it on pain of death. Persians and Arabs, Barbarians and Crusaders and Turks took it and re-took it, ravaged it and burnt it; and yet, marvelous to relate, it ever rises from its ashes to renewed life and glory.”
Rabbi Hertz was talking on the very day that 2,080 years earlier, Judah Maccabee, the legendary Jewish hero, led his warriors against the Greek-Syrians to liberate the Holy city from its heathen occupiers, entered the Temple, and re-dedicated it to the glory of the One and Only God. Rabbi Hertz ended his speech by proclaiming the prophetic teaching of the Maccabean Festival, we know as Hanukah, in Zechariah, 4:6: “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.”
It is well to dwell on what has been said by both Jews and non-Jews in the past about Jerusalem for there is a government and a Prime Minister in Israel today under ruthless assault by President Obama who demands that Israel abandon parts of eternal Jerusalem and give it away to those who hate the Jewish People and who have set their face against accepting any Jewish independence or sovereignty in the Land of Israel.
Jerusalem and Zion are interchangeable. One can go back through the mists of time and read as far back as the towering words in Isaiah 2:1 and Micah 4:2: “For out of Zion shall come forth the Torah, and the word of God from Jerusalem.”
In the Jewish Bible (the Torah and Tanach) the words Jerusalem and Zion appear 821 times with Jerusalem appearing 667 times and Zion appearing 154 times. In the Christian Bible, the name Jerusalem appears 154 times and Zion seven.
In the Muslim Koran, Jerusalem and Zion do not appear at all. Indeed, it was only after the Arabs, under their new banner of Islam, conquered Jerusalem in the year 638 that they invented Islamic history in and around Jerusalem. We are told that Mohammed flew on his magic horse, Barak, to a place called Al Aksa, which means simply the farthest place. Only much later, and for political reasons to do with historic and spiritual Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem, Muslims named the holy city as the actual destination.
According to the much loved correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, the late Moshe Kohn:
“Jewish sources speak of the seventy names by which Jerusalem is referred to in the classical Jewish sources. These include Ariel/lion of God (Isaiah 29:1); Kirya Neemana/Faithful City (Isaiah 1:25); Ir Ha’emet (City of Truth (Zechariah 8:3); Klilat Yofi/Paragon of Beauty (Lamentations 2:15); Yefay Nof/ Beautiful Panorama (Psalms 48:3); and the ancient commentary of Rabbi Akiva in Sanhedrin 58a on 1 Chronicles 29:11 Hanetza/Eternity.”
But what of now? The modern State of Israel endures a world willing, even anxious, to divide Jerusalem again – even as it celebrates the reunification of Berlin – and to give away ancestral and biblical Jewish lands to an enemy led by a Holocaust denier, Mahmoud Abbas, whose own Fatah organization continues to murder Jews and gleefully claim credit for its crimes.
After taking colossal risks for peace, Israel abandoned parts of Judea including Jericho and Hebron, the ten mile wide security zone in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip to the Arabs. They, in turn, showed their contempt for peace by not creating a civilized society in Gaza, for example, but by sliding into 7th century barbarism and Islamism. They rained thousands of missiles upon Israeli towns and villages adjacent to the terror infested, Arab occupied territories in southern Lebanon and Gaza and the world stood by in silence. Now that same world demands that a similar fate befall Jerusalem.
That has been the sorry pattern of Israel’s suicidal policy of “land for peace” whereby the Arab aggressors receive land from Israel only to then launch new terrorism against the embattled Jewish state from abandoned territory. In turn, Israel never receives peace.
This failed and tragic policy has been pressed upon Israel by successive American Secretaries of State and Presidents but never more so than by the current American president whose formative years were deeply influenced by Islam.
Israeli leaders have seemed unable to learn any lessons from their futile withdrawals from southern Lebanon and Gaza. If the Obama Administration has its way, the very ancestral Jewish homeland in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) will be lost, not by the ravages of an enemy host but by an Israeli government buckling under Obama’s brutal pressure and thus acquiescing in its own national suicide.
As Frank Gaffney wrote in an article some years ago about the delusional peace process:
“… The entire Annapolis house of cards is built on the fraudulent foundation that the Palestinian faction established by Abbas’ mentor, Yasser Arafat, is a reliable partner for peace. Only a zealot who has altogether lost any sense of reality could make such an assertion.”
Will Prime Minister Netanyahu withstand the brutal pressure from Barack Hussein Obama and not sell out Israel’s ability to remain a viable state with an undivided capital city in eternal Jerusalem? It remains to be seen.
But if Netanyahu falters, Israel may not be able to defend itself after being forced back within the nine mile wide pre-1967 borders, which an Israeli statesman, Abba Eban, once described as the “Auschwitz borders.”
Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.
About the Writers
Nov 20th
Jim Hutchens
Dr. James M. Hutchens is a man on a mission for Israel–a mission to make God’s purposes for Israel and the Jewish people an unavoidable issue. As President of The Jerusalem Connection, International and Editor of The Jerusalem Connection Report, he is on the forward edge of the battle area of informing, educating and activating the Christian community on issues related to Israel, from a Biblical perspective. From his military experience, Jim is well acquainted with the concept of “Mission.” He came to faith in Christ as an enlisted paratrooper, under the ministry of a chaplain. After college and seminary, Jim returned to the Army as a chaplain. Decorated for personal bravery in Vietnam, including the Purple Heart, where he served with the famous 173rd Airborne Brigade, and later with the celebrated “Green Berets,” he retired with the rank of Brigadier General in 1994. His book, Beyond Combat , tells of his experience as a combat chaplain in Vietnam.
Dr. Hutchens was ordained to the ministry in 1962 and has served, concurrent with his chaplain duties, as a church planter and senior pastor for over 24 years. His wife, Patty, is an exhibiting artist and teacher at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Northern Virginia Community College system. The Hutchens have three married children and eleven grand children. Jim and Patty tell of their life-long love for Israel in their newly released book, Guilty: Keeping God’s Covenant Love with Israel. “The General” now brings his military leadership skills and pastoral devotion to duty to accomplish the mission of The Jerusalem Connection, International.
Shelley Neese
Shelley Neese is currently the managing editor for The Jerusalem Connection Report. She writes a regular column for the Report, and her articles have also appeared in The Jerusalem Post, Arutz Sheva, and FrontPage Magazine. Shelley is also a public speaker for The Jerusalem Connection and is part of the Jewish National Fund’s speakers bureau.
While living in Boston, she had been the assistant to the Consul General at the Consulate of Israel to New England. In addition, Ms. Neese worked as a consultant at Conflict Management Group, a NGO connected to Harvard Law School, for their Middle East program portfolio.
Shelley studied in Beer Sheva, Israel from 2000 -2003, where she received her M.A in Middle Eastern Studies and completed her thesis on “Multiparty Mediation in Crisis Contexts: A Case Study of the Church of the Nativity Negotiations.” Currently she resides in San Antonio, TX with her husband–a family doctor for the U.S. Air Force–and their two children, Micah and Elisheva.
Pat Mercer Hutchens
Dr. Pat Mercer Hutchens has wide experience in teaching, writing and the visual arts, having earned an MFA from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), a Masters in Management & Development in Human Resources from National Lewis University (Evanston, IL) and a PhD in Theology from Louisiana Baptist University with a concentration in language and Hebrew studies, focusing attention on the languages of the Levant and the origins of written communications. She was chosen for inclusion in The National Honor Society (Hebrew Studies). With her husband, Dr. James M. Hutchens, she co-authored Guilty, Keeping God’s Covenant of Love with Israel as well as her own book, Hebrew for the Goyim (Bible Codes). Pat has taught at several schools, including the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC, George Mason University (VA), Northern Virginia Community College, Lord Fairfax College (VA) and Dominion Theological Seminary. Pat is the founder and director of Washington Artworks, and wrote and presented a paper on “Spirituality in the Visual Arts” for the Isley Washington Arts Group as part the USA team participating in the 300 year anniversary of St. Petersburg, Russia at the Hermitage. Pat writes for The Jerusalem Connection Report, an online magazine, and supports charities such as The National Museum of the American Indian, Children’s Inn at NIH, Princeton Hospital and other worthy causes for orphanages or children in need. She is presently working on a series of “Historical Paintings” of the Northern Virginia, Washington Metro area, concentrating on late 1800’s and early 1900’s, with a goal of publishing a book for children.
Richard Booker
Richard Booker, MBA, Ph.D., is an ordained Christian minister, President of Sounds of the Trumpet, Inc., and the Founder/Director of the Institute for Hebraic-Christian Studies. Prior to entering the ministry, Dr. Booker had a successful business career. He is the author of over thirty books which are used by churches and Bible schools around the world. He has also developed many seminars and Bible college level courses and writes regularly for Christian magazines.
Dr. Booker has traveled extensively for over thirty years teaching in churches and at conferences on various aspects of the Christian life as well as Israel, Jewish-Christian relationships, and the Hebraic roots of Christianity. He and his wife, Peggy, lead yearly tours to Israel where, for eighteen years, Richard was a speaker at the International Christian Celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. This gathering is attended by 5,000 Christians from 100 nations. He has made approximately 400 television programs on the above subjects.
Dr. Booker is a pioneer and spiritual father to many with a prophetic voice for our times. If you would like Dr. Booker to speak to your group, or order his materials, see his web site at www.rbooker.com.
Victor Sharpe
Born and educated in England, Victor Sharpe was a correspondent for the U.K magazine – Britain & Israel – produced and edited by the late, great Anglo-Irish Christian Zionist, the Hon. Terence Prittie. Sharpe is a featured writer for the Israel Hasbara (information) website and a freelance writer with many articles and essays published in newspapers, magazines and websites including FrontPageMag.com, Townhall.com, Outpost, Wall Street Journal, London Daily Telegraph, Jewish Review, Jewish Telegraph, American Thinker, Israel National News – Arutz Sheva, and many others. Sharpe has had his articles acknowledged by Melanie Phillips of the UK Daily Mail newspaper and Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America.
He is author of the book: Politicide – The attempted murder of the Jewish State and the book The Blue Hour and Other Strange Tales. Sharpe is currently working on a sequel to Politicide. Both books are available from his publisher www.lulu.com
Daniel McCabe
Daniel graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1989 with a Masters in Christian Education and in 1992 with a Masters in Theology. He also graduated from Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary with a Doctorate in Pastoral Ministry in 2005. Daniel has pastored churches in Lousiana and Texas and curretly serves as Pastor of Faith Bible Church in Spring, Texas.
Daniel also serves as adjunct instructor in the Bible and Theology department at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston, Texas.
Stan Goodenough
Jerusalem Watchman is Stan Goodenough; a Christian Zionist; a South African national; a Mayflower descendant; an 18-year resident of the State of Israel; husband to a wonderful wife; father to five extra-ordinary children; a journalist by profession; and a Bible-believer by God’s mercy and grace.
Hebrew for the Goyim by Pat Mercer Hutchens
Nov 10th
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Everyone knows Job’s wife told him, “Curse God and die.” Right? And that the Bible says, “Thou shalt not murder – so the death penalty should be abolished.” Right? Does anyone remember hearing the allegation that all black people (Africans) were cursed because of Ham’s sin? What if you knew for sure that the Bible does not say any of these things? “Leave that to theologians,” one might say. There is just one problem. Sometimes it is theologians who teach these things, mainly because they cannot read the original languages. What if you as a layman, clergy person, housewife, truck driver, teenager, doctor or lawyer knew you could search the Bible and find answers to many of your questions without leaving your job and going to seminary. Hebrew for the Goyim is just the book for you.
First you will learn the basic origins of letters of the Hebrew alphabet, discovering most modern languages came from the same origins. You will learn that most of the letters were first a picture with a purpose, a drawing with a meaning called a “hieroglyph” (holy writing). Yes, there are codes in the Bible – in the letters. Then you will learn how letters were joined together into syllables and compound words, and how each letter affects the other. Originally everyday people knew the connection between the image and the meaning of the letter. In time these meanings were lost but in fact, each letter started as an image. After almost forty years studying Hebrew in Israel, the United States, in college and seminaries, and after combining that knowledge with the study of art theory and practice in graduate schools, this author found a gold mine which not only revolutionized personal study of the Bible, but answered any troubling questions. For the seeker with a hungry heart, there is a very exciting world waiting for you.
On our columns page we have downloadable pdf’s that have tons of great knowledge on the Hebrew language that anyone can learn from. Feel free to open or download any one of the lesson style pdf’s below! It takes just a minute to download.
The Imitation of Messiah Revisited by Pat Mercer Hutchens
Nov 8th
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The book, The Imitation of Christ, has been beside my bed for years. I read it time and time again and somehow never go away unblessed. The message of humility and denial of self found in this book is not unfamiliar to the ancient Hebrew Scriptures and it’s one that Jesus himself taught. I have been comforted by this book in the most difficult times of my life when our modern stance of self exertion and “I’m Okay” might appear to be more effective.
In the 1990s I started by rewriting and paraphrasing The Imitation of Christ just for myself, retitled The Imitation of Christ Revisited. As I went along, I decided I would give copies to my three children. Then a friend wanted a copy. Then another asked if she could make 100 copies for her friends, and on it went.
Let it be known that I do not wish to appear more knowledgeable or more spiritual then dear Brother Thomas A. Kempis. I simply take this jewel he wrote 500 years ago and humbly seek to cross cultures and make it not only readable, but somewhat closer to the original community where these ideas were born. Therefore, I am presenting it as The Imitation of Messiah Revisited.
Arabs to Israel: Juden raus
Nov 4th
By Victor Sharpe
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled, The Ugly Premise of Settlement Opponents, James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence under President Clinton, pointed out that the charter of the Fatah party – which is that of Palestinian Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas – foresees a “Palestine free of Jews.” He referred to the recent Fatah demand that:
Israel must give up all of Jerusalem before it would begin negotiations on a two-state solution.
Mr. Woolsey also referred to President Obama’s embrace of the Palestinian Arab’s judenrein policy in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as well as in the eastern half of Jerusalem.
The judenrein policy was employed by the German Nazis to ethnically cleanse areas of Jews throughout Europe, which the Wehrmacht had occupied. The chilling words, “Juden raus” (Jews out) were barked by German soldiers as they perpetrated the terrifying expulsions and massacres known as aktions.
Last June in Cairo, President Barack Hussein Obama further embraced the PA’s anti-Jewish policy by announcing that Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem are settlements.
In East Jerusalem, according to Israel National News:
300,000 Jews live in the neighborhoods of Gilo, French Hill, eastern Talpiot and Ramot, among others.
I have long urged Israelis and pro-Israelis alike to stop using the term, settlements, in English when describing Jewish communities in Israel and, instead, begin calling them what they are; villages, towns or cities.
After all, Arab communities are always referred to as villages, not settlements, even though many have existed for fewer years than Jewish villages. This is a double standard.
This word, settlement, in English has now become a pejorative term indicating that the Jewish communities are an alien and colonial presence imposed upon another people’s land.
This is a blatant falsehood for it is the Arabs who are largely the alien presence within the biblical and ancestral Jewish homeland and particularly in its very heartland known as Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). For over 3,000 years there has been a continual Jewish presence in the Land; small at times but with never a break in its continuity.
But, unlike the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, which reject the rights of Jews to live in Arab occupied territory, Arabs live within Israel as citizens with more democratic rights than they enjoy in most Arab countries.
During the British Mandate of Palestine, Arab immigration, mostly illegal, was condoned by London. Over 100,000 Arabs entered the Mandatory territory from neighboring Syria, Egypt and Transjordan with the connivance of British officials.
Indeed, if we look back at what the British Governor of Sinai from 1922-36 wryly noted in his contribution to the Palestine Commission Report, we find the following:
This illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to make a case out for the ‘misery’ of the Arabs if at the same time their compatriots from adjoining states could not be kept from going in to share that misery.
Sadly, Arab propaganda has been so effective that it has succeeded in framing the Arab imposed conflict in erroneous terms of Jewish settlement displacing Arabs.
The thousands of Arabs who illegally flooded into British Mandatory Palestine effectively destroyed the opportunities for continuing Jewish legal immigration. The descendants of these Arabs now call themselves Palestinians.
The PA claims that there are 2.5 million Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank but, according to Israeli Ambassador (Ret) Yoram Ettinger, in an article dated October 16, 2009 titled, The Case For Demographic Optimism, there are in reality 1.55 million Arabs. He writes:
An audit of Palestinian and Israeli documentation of births, deaths, school and voter registration and migration certifies a solid 67% Jewish majority over 98.5% of the land west of the Jordan River (without Gaza), compared with a 33% and an 8% Jewish minority in 1947 and 1900, respectively, west of the Jordan River.
The audit exposes a 66% distortion in the current number of Judea & Samaria Arabs – 1.55 million and not 2.5 million, as claimed by the Palestinian Authority. In 2006, the World Bank exposed a 32% bend in the number of Palestinian births. Inflated numbers have provided the Palestinians with inflated international foreign aid and inflated water supply by Israel.
Today there are still scores of Jewish properties, illegally occupied by Arabs, scattered throughout areas of east Jerusalem. They have remained in legal limbo because of international pressures against successive Israeli governments. This has led to endless delays in the return of the land and properties to their rightful owners.
But that truth is not acceptable to President Obama who joins an unholy chorus around the world in describing Jewish villages and homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem as illegitimate. This, while turning a blind eye to the massive illegal Arab settlement expansion, which is continuing apace.
Be assured, if Israel made the catastrophic error of abandoning its biblical heartland, it would not be long before the same unholy world chorus began referring to Jewish villages, towns and cities within the so-called 1949-1967 green line as illegitimate. James Woolsey continued:
The Obama administration seems committed to stopping growth of any kind in all Jewish settlements in the West Bank. This policy implies acquiescence in the banning of Jews from a future Palestinian state.”
He then went on to ask if 20% of Israel’s population is Arab, why is it so unacceptable for Jews to live within a proposed Arab state called Palestine? Why should such a Jewish minority be forbidden in Palestine?
Mr. Woolsey answered his own question by pointing out:
The Obama administration essentially urges us to accept that, because Palestinians will kill unprotected Jews, Jews cannot be permitted in a Palestinian state.
Any child will tell you that the Arabs, who call themselves Palestinians, are not interested in living side by side in true and lasting peace with a Jewish state. All territory they gain from Israeli concessions immediately becomes a launching pad for ever more terror and aggression against what is left of Israel.
In 1929, the Arabs massacred the Jewish community in Hebron while Britain occupied Mandatory Palestine. Hebron is one of the four holy Jewish cities, the others being, Safed, Tiberias and, the jewel in the crown, Jerusalem.
There was no reconstituted Israel in 1929 or the existence of any so-called Israeli occupied territories, yet the Muslim hatred of non-Muslims existed then as it exists today, and will tomorrow.
My earlier published article in the March 2009 edition of American Thinker magazine referred to the earlier British dismemberment of Mandatory Palestine in 1922 and the loss to the Jewish people of land east of the River Jordan. I wrote:
It is instructive to remember that upon the granting of the Palestine Mandate to Great Britain, an eminent British celebrity and supporter of Zionism, Josiah Wedgwood, addressed a Jewish audience of thousands at the Royal Albert Hall in London in which he urged them to stand up for Jewish rights in its homeland.
According to the late Shmuel Katz in his groundbreaking biography of the great Zionist leader, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, titled The Lone Wolf, Wedgwood, a Christian Zionist, said:
… This lesson I want the new Jewish nation to learn and to get by heart: Stand up for your rights. Let us have more of the spirit in the Jewish movement of my good and gallant friend, Jabotinsky.
I then went on to write:
Sadly, Israeli governments have become notoriously fearful of rejecting outright the deadly trap inherent in the so called two-state solution. Their muted responses have merely encouraged world leaders to repeatedly breathe new life into the discredited plan. The searing tragedy is that the two-state solution may presage for the Jewish people another Final Solution.
But one thing is for sure, Man Child in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama, will not be listening any time soon. Nor will Hillary Clinton. Sadly for them, political expediency trumps historical justice and simple morality.
Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish State. www.lulu.com