Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction
2. Turning The Tables Around to See In The Eyes of a
Jew
The Unlikely Scenario
We Are All Prejudice
3. The Land – Who Ruled It?
ISRAEL Did The Arabs Rule The Land?
A Land of Desolation
AND THE WORLD'S MOCK TRIAL The Palestinians, Are They Ishmaelites or Philistines?
THE SHAME The Jews of Russia
Who’s Land – Ishmael or Isaac?
By Walid Shoebat. The New Testament Ends Land Issue
The Prophecies of Israel Fulfilled in the Past
Bible Confirmation
4. Israel’s Victory Against the Arabs – Psalm 83, The
Most Ignored Prophecy
The Persecution of the Jews By The Arabs
The Dark Era on Jewish Life under Thimmidude
5. The Nazi – Islam Connection
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Nazi – Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Iraq
Arabia Prior to 1948 After 1948
Let’s Not Forget The Armenian Holocaust Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Spain
by the Muslims
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in The Jews – Guilty For Any Trumped up Charge
Morocco After 1948
Libelous Accusations
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Yemen
Prior to 1948 The Jews Are Illegitimate
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in The Jews Are The Devil
Tunisia Prior to 1948
The Jews Are Racist
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Libya
Prior to 1948 The Jews Spread Disease
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in The Jews Spill Blood
Algeria Prior to 1948
The Jews Are Leaches
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Syria
Prior to 1948 The Jews Are Shylocks
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Egypt The Jews Are Blood Suckers
Prior to 1948
The Face of Peace
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in
Iran/Persia Prior to 1948 Historical Fabrications
Nazi Islam Connection, The Persecution of Jews in Iraq Palestinian Schools
Prior to 1948
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The Muslim Clergy In Jerusalem The Persecution of Jews by ‘Christendom’
Jews Are Nazis Gentile Christians – Should They be Zionists
Arafat Revealed Who Wanted to Kill Who?
Martin Luther – The X Catholic Monk Is God Through with the Jew
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Who’s Temple Mount constituted treason. Selling land to immigrant Jews was forbidden
while it was a norm for someone like Haj AlAmeen AlHusseni to
The Eastern Gate sell his soul to Satan by collaborating with Hitler and enticing the
masses to kill and pillage Jewish immigrants. But as usual the
12. EMEU, AlSabeel, Al Bushra, Abuna Chacour – What innocent is butchered while the guilty is set free.
Are Their Ecumenical Goals?
My grand father liked everyone, he had no problem selling land to
13. Conclusion Jewish or Christians immigrants the village had much land with only
a handful of families that immigrated in the last decade prior to the
1948 war. Yet he was not free to do with his land whatever he wished,
so the mock trial went on with Abdul Qader AlHusseni and his men,
after kidnapping my grand father and taking him to the village of Al
▲ Khader.
INTRODUCTION A few moments later and after someone summoned my great grand
father Abdullah Ali, known for his great physical strength, bravery
My grand father Daud was the Mukhtar (chieftain) of the Shoebat and courage, walked in on the scene in which a rope was prepared and
clan in the village of Beit Sahur of the district of Bethlehem. He had my grand father standing ready for the execution. Abdullah Ali
owned much land in his village and as a landowner and "Mukhtar" he pleaded for his soninlaw's life. My grand father was given his last
entertained Arab leaders with feasts and songs, hiring special cooks warning, and so he was set free.
for the preparation of lambs and delicate dishes for men of great
stature. Men like Abdul Qader AlHusseni leader of the Palestinian Today, I believe that many who are blind to truth will accuse us folk
Revolution and Haj AlAmeen AlHusseni the religious grand Mufti who change our minds with high treason and quickly give us a mock
of Jerusalem, who was a staunch friend of Adolf Hitler. trial. To such people I ask: Don't we all deserve a fare and just trial,
yet many are judged without even examining the facts?
It is rarely mentioned that the grand mufti of Jerusalem was with
Adolf Hitler on the eve of the "Final Solution" to the world's "Jewish The Holocaust was not the only shame people ever committed, the
Problem" on November 21, 1941 (see photo: *, *, see also *, *, *, *).
greatest man of history the Jewish Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef one day
One of the Grand Mufti's accomplishments was a letter written to was put on trial, and His testimony was not even taken, yet He was
Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs asking him to stop the
condemned to death like a criminal in a world that stood silent. Must
immigration of half million Hungarian Jews. The letter was honored we all do the same? How can mankind be so truthseeking, and full of
and all were put to death in the extermination camps. That was a
justice and do such a thing? Then to later on, slap the guilt of such
shame. My grand father being a friend to such a man is a shame I evil doing on the Jews alone, when it was clear that the first believers
cannot change, the only thing I can do is to teach my children to love
and supporters of this Jewish Rabbi were practically all Jews who
Jews like any other. stood at the cross weeping while the rest mocked? Yet the Jew
unwillingly earned the title "Christ killer" when the Bible clearly
My grand father also survived a mock trial by Abdul Qader Al states that we "all" killed Christ, each and every sinner, for He came
Husseni the leader of the Palestinian revolution for selling land to to die for our sins.
Jews. The facts are many were selling land but to the revolution this
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To me the truth exists, but before we can be able to find it, we need a see things from the eyes of a Jew who was put on a mock trial, His
process of clearing the murky waters between Jew and Gentile by name was Yeshua ben Yosef identified by gentiles as the name of
carefully examining the facts. It is then when we get to see what God Jesus of Nazareth. I concluded that the only way to reach peace in this
really wants us to be. I have seen so many antiIsrael material these turbulent world, is for us to remove ourselves for a while, enter
days, speaking only half truths, and without presenting the other's behind the eyes of this Jewish Messiah, see how He sees, feel the way
case, I took it upon myself to speak out and write, for I hate mock He feels, and understand how and why things are the way they are.
trials. (The Author)
I began to see things differently, having lived in the Holy Land I
failed during all these trips to Jerusalem, to see why the Jews were
only allowed a Wailing Wall as the holiest place for them. Why was
the Jew not allowed to worship on the Temple Mount or even be
allowed to rebuild it if the Muslim world has Mecca, the Catholic
world has the Vatican, and many Christian pilgrims are allowed to
visit all the holy sites, yet the Jew is barred to have a Temple,
especially when the Temple was originally theirs? The world would
be in uproar if someone other than Muslims were to take over Mecca!
▲ We have seen in history the numerous wars of the crusades over
allowing the Christian pilgrims to visit their holy sites in Jerusalem
TURNING THE TABLES AROUND TO SEE IN THE EYES OF but here we have Jews in Israel having the upper hand, being more
A JEW
powerful than their enemy, yet they allow their most holy site to still
be trodden down by the Muslim Gentiles, especially when Sheik
A common Palestinian's opinion: Ikrimeh Sabri, Jerusalem's Grand Mufti, preaches daily sermons from
Israel's first and foremost holiest site calling for the destruction of the
"I like Jews but I hate Zionism" Jews. These folk have to listen to the loud speakers while they
worship outside under the weather elements, and in the bottom
"I have nothing against Jews, but I don't like Israel." western side designated for the Jews, to only hear that the Wailing
Wall area is in reality an Islamic site called "AlBuraq", and it too
I used to hate words like "Yerushalayim", "Shalom", "Yesrael", or belongs to the Muslims: "The 'AlBuraq' Wall [the Western Wall] is a
anything Jewish as I considered them foreign words forced into my part of the AlAqsa Mosque. The Jews have no relation to it, whether
homeland of what I and my people called "Palestine". To me Israel or not a decision to expropriate it was made." (Grand Mufti of
was an occupier, an oppressor, a thief in the night who snuk in one Jerusalem Ikrama Sabri in the Palestinian daily AlAyyam, November
day to rob me of my home, heritage, and land. 22, 1997.
I hated the Jews in Israel and was determined on their destruction, to While Mecca is the only place demanded for Muslims in the Quran,
the point that I resorted to rioting and terrorism. By any means Israel Judaism is the only religion in which the city of Jerusalem is an
must be terminated. Later on, and for unknown reasons I wanted to inseparable part of religious faith. Jews alone are mandated by
put myself in the shoes of a Jew and started studying the Bible. I biblical law to celebrate their religion in Jerusalem. Muslims refer to
realized then that studying an important portion of scripture made me some tradition of extra "Haj" requirements to visit Jerusalem, yet such
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practice seem to have never been followed from time immemorial. would you assume that Arab and Muslim masses will do to these
Jerusalem seems to have gained importance only when the Jews laid Jews? It could be possible that Mecca's Grand Mufti will make an
claim to it. exception to allow the sacrifice during the Haj be both sheep and Jew.
Yet, the Jew who has never taken over Mecca or occupied and Arab
How is it that the Jew and under all the circumstances, must remain nation, suffers such things, and dares to remain silent, and instead of
silent? Why is it that much of the world is in denial when the facts are his outcry, he is being sacrificed throughout history for simply being
that the Temple Mount is known to have had the first and second Jew.
temples built on that site by Jews and for Jews? Does a Muslim
mosque on the Temple Mount make it null and void of it being We have seen throughout history and during every war against the
Jewish? Jew in the Middle East the cry of the Arab leaders to kill the Jew were
ever they are found. Even after they are dead they seem not to escape
Then you have the Palestinian prominent historian Jarid AlKidwa the wrath, in their holiest city 2,500yearold Jewish cemetery on the
announced from the Palestinian TV that: "The stories of the Torah Mount of Olives, a road was dug through it using Jewish tombstones
and the Bible did not take place in the Land of Israelthey occurred in for a pathway to the Arab Legion army latrine. Yet the Jew have not
the Arabian peninsula, primarily in Yemen. The identity of our father revenged, he remains silent. This silence in front of a world of false
Ibrahim [Abraham] who is mentioned in the Koran is clear. From the accusers is quite amazing.
Koran's description of him it arises that he lived in the southern Hejaz
[Saudi Arabia], near Mecca." Mr. AlKidwa also announced that the Studying The Bible taught me more then how it is like to be a Jew,
Arab in reality has the true Jewish blood while the Jew is from a but how to look at things after clearing the murky water. Being a
Khazarian race. Christian from the Bible's perspective is in reality being a "Spiritual"
Jew. Christianity is not a new religion, it is simply the original Jewish
faith fulfilled in Messiah. It is only then I realized that the way to true
and everlasting peace, is to see how God in the Bible is able to
THE UNLIKELY SCENARIO reconcile between Jew and Christian. I started to realize that God is
indeed a God of peace and that the God of Islam is indeed bent on
Assuming that the Jews decided for one reason or another to agree destructing the Jew. The Bile did not have a single verse calling the
with Mr. AlKidwa that Mecca has really been built by the their father Christians to destroy Jews, yet the tyrants of Christendom spoke on
Abraham, and some day they fought an Arab resistance which their own accord and the Muslim God was not the same God
prohibited the Jew from worshiping in Mecca and Israel decided to mentioned in scripture. How is it then that Christendom claims to
take over Saudi Arabia, put their Kohanim HaGadol (High Priest) follow God's commandments, yet from long ago they failed to have
over that holy site, take out everything Arabic, and have Hebrew peace with the Jew?
calligraphy written all around the Cabba's wall, and make it an
abomination for any Muslim to set foot on it's ground. Yet can this That facts are many Christian movements have always existed
scenario be allowed in the Muslim and Christian world? This would throughout history, these "spiritual" Jews followed the Bible, and not
be unthinkable!!! Things are different when we turn the tables around. only were successful to make peace with the Jew, but aided them to
obtain freedom at last. True Christianity will always reconcile
Now let us assume that the Arabs decided after all these harassments, between Jew and Gentile. But with this reconciliation always comes
to overcome the Jew and take back Saudi Arabia, will the Mullahs of persecution and mock trials.
Islam stand silent and allow all this sacrilege to continue? What
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It is after I removed the scales from my eyes, replacing my prejudiced similar to what we see in Communist and Nazi regimes, who think
heart, and study the simple facts, I decided to become a Christian. It's that their struggle is a struggle of justice, but always and ignorantly
a long testimony, but now I am amazed, and still have a difficult time following a lie and walking into the traps of evil tyrants. The sad
believing that I became quite the opposite of everything I was taught thing is, once they rid one tyrant, another more evil one seems to crop
and believed in. Whatever Popes declared or Martin Luther wrote up. The truth is, people have no right to complain since the tyrants
against the Jews was the works of their own hearts and had nothing to they seem to get is in reality the representation of their own hearts
do with our Lord. they condemn others, so they themselves are condemned. Corruption
only begets more corruption, and evil only begets more evil, it will
Today, I love Hebrew, the Jews, and Israel and ready to fight for her never stop until we have a change in heart.
rights of existence as long as their is still a breath left in my life.
Before you judge me, or accuse me of madness or treason, please put This book is written in simple English. Classical language, and
me on trial and read my lines and weigh the facts to see for yourself if perfect grammar are not the key to finding truth or peace, since many
what I am about to share is based on factual evidence. evil books were written with perfect grammar, and excellent style, yet
a book is not to be judged by it's cover, or colored photos but by it's
Defenders of Jews in Germany during Adolf Hitler's reign was looked content.
upon as traitors, but after the evil episode was over, these folk were
recognized as righteous gentiles. So why do people prefer to live a Art could be deceptive, when I first read the Bible I was turned off by
nightmare through to realize their errors? Why not wake up before it the simple language it was written in, the simple statements and
even starts? The Middle East and the Islamic World in general are declarations. No fancy words, no classical language, blunt, and to the
bent on destroying Israel, why not wake up and stop the repetition of point, yet it was filled with detailed facts, amazing prophecies, and an
history against the Jew? extremely accurate set of records on ancient history and future history
as well. It seems that God wanted it communicated to every simple
My conclusion of all of my life's research is this: Simply put, there is man on the face of this globe.
no freedom of speech, thought, or religion in any Arab or Muslim
nation. These nations once taken over by Islam, they have little ▲
difference in their ways from communism. Most of all, it has the same
inclination to export its ideas. It does not respect national borders, and
the end justifies the means: "While they promise them liberty, they
themselves are the servants of corruption.... " (2 Peter 2:19). I have
WE ARE ALL PREJUDICED
learned that once I expressed my opposing views and exercised these
rights my own people the Arabs and Muslims who claim to fight for
A Palestinian's opinion:
freedom, were the first to condemn me. In a debate over my thoughts
with a group of Muslims and Arabs on the internet, out of the whole
"I am not prejudiced, I only hate Jews who want to live in my land".
group, everyone but one lady declared that I must be killed as a result
of my "Apostate" opinions. Finally I have learned what it is like to be
a Jew. One day I decided to take my wife and children for a visit to the
Tolerance Museum in Los Angeles California, the end result that it
was proven to us, beyond any doubt, that we are ALL prejudiced.
The brainwashing of the Arab and Muslim masses by Islam's
propaganda has produced narrow minded cookie cut mentality,
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Today I am of the opinion that people in general are not truth seekers, God is in the business of making predictions and seeing them come
since most people constantly try to fit the facts to match their wishes. through, to make it known to man that He alone is in control and
Theology has been used by many; the KKK have found in the Bible despite what we like and wish, He does things His "strange" way and
reasons to hate black and Jew, the Pogroms found in the Bible reasons unlike man's "logical" ways. Don't men ever think, that if God did
to commit atrocities towards the Jew, and even schemers are seen things our ways He would be human?
daily on TV using the Bible like the old medicine man, offering
healing, signs, and wonders. The world will never stop producing sinister minds. The masses with
mediocre discernment are no match to professional deception. Today,
I believe that most convictions have nothing to do whatsoever with we still have plenty of mini Hitlers, and religious deception is on the
facts, the truth is, we are driven by culture and upbringing. It is these rise. No wonder God warned us to be as wise as serpents and innocent
that drive the minds of the masses and not the claim that we all are as doves.
truth seekers. Tradition plants a certain state and condition in our
hearts to the point of even slightly or greatly bending the facts in
order to fit and justify our traditional goals.
To me everyone is prejudice. If everyone really seek pure fact or even
true justice, why is it then that almost every German stood behind
Hitler? Almost every Palestinian Muslim stood behind Hitler's great
friend The Mufti Haj AlAmeen AlHusseni President of the Supreme
Muslim Council who called for the death of every Jew be it civilian or
soldier? Why is almost every Palestinian you speak to on the streets
of the West Bank antiIsrael? Even in the Christian communities who
supposed to be "truth" seekers, and God pleasers, almost all Christian
Arabs are for a Palestinian State against Israel, even with all the
scripture written concerning Israel? Could really it be that both the
proIsrael and antiIsrael are right? Does God have two different and
opposite opinions?
Again I say it, it is a condition of the heart. If we only lay our
feelings, thoughts, and whatever we learned aside, and look at
scripture which was written to be understood by simple peasants and
farmers in it's simple and clear words. If God wanted to send us a
message, he must make it simple. God's Word requires no attorney,
high priest, enlightened spiritists, Vatican, or Seminary graduates, to
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make to us clear what God made clear already. God is in the business
of making strange declarations, promises. He is the only one that THE LAND WHO RULED IT?
could fulfill them, and in very strange ways as well.
"For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I
will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and
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the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles shall see decay, no aging, no weakening, no decline of energy, no blunting of
thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory...I have set watchmen upon their wideawake dynamic spirit. Everything is mortal except the Jew.
thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor All other powers perish but he remains. What is the mystery of his
night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence. (The immortality? " (Mark Twain, 1899).
Bible, Isaiah 62:12 & 6).
Pope John Paul II opinion:
The Bible describes Israel as:
"[The] Shepherds Of Bethlehem are your ancestors" (Pope John Paul
"land upon which the eyes of God are always turned" (Deuteronomy the II speaking to a crowd of Palestinian Arabs in Dehaishe near
11:12). Bethlehem, March 22, 2000)
Islam describes the Jewish end as: A common Palestinian opinion:
"The Last Hour would not come till the Muslims fight against the "We didn't kick out the Jews the Romans did, and the Arabs came
Jews, and the Muslims will kill them until the Jews hide themselves there later, so why the Arab has to take the heat?".
behind the stones and trees, and the stones and trees would speak up
saying: "O Muslim! O slave of Allah! There is a Jew hiding behind "The land was always ruled by Arabs, what gives the Jews the right to
me; come and kill him." The _Ghardaq_ tree would speak, for it is the rule it?".
tree of the Jews." (Muhammad the prophet of Islam, narrated by Abu
Hurraira). A common Palestinian claim:
Mark Twain describing the Jews wrote: "The Arabs owned and governed the land for a millennium.".
"If the statistics are correct, the Jews represent merely one percent of "The land was Arab with majority Arab population from time
humanity an irrelevant spark in the light of the Milky Way. immemorial".
Normally speaking, the Jews should hardly be heard of, and yet we
heard and hear of them again and again. They can rival any people on "The land is Arab Palestine not Jewish Israel".
earth in fame, and their significance in economy and trade are in no
ratio to their population. Their contribution to the list of great names "The country was inhabited by Arabs throughout the centuries, in
in literature, natural science, art, music, finance, medicine and 1948 when Israel was established there were thriving cities like
profound learning is just as amazing. They have done extremely well Jerusalem, Yaffa, Hebron, Lud, and many others.".
in this world with their hands tied behind their backs. They could
rightly be proud of themselves. The Egyptians, Babylonians and PLO TV: "all the events surrounding Kings Saul, David and
Persians came into power, filled the earth with their glory, but Rehoboam occurred in Yemen, and no Hebrew remnants were found
perished. The Greeks and Romans followed, "made a lot of noise," in Israel, for a very simple reasonbecause they were never here."
and then disappeared. Other nations rose up, their torches burned for a (AlKidwa, Palestinian Historian on Palestine TV)
while, and then they were extinguished, and today they sit in the
twilight or have completely disappeared. The Jews saw it all. They Solomon's opinion: "He who states his case first seems right, until the
beat them all, and are today what they always were, showing no other comes and examines him." (Proverbs 18:17).
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Matthew 23: "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.",
predicting the destruction of the Temple and the Diaspora. This could
not have been any other desolation like the Babylonian desolation, DID THE ARABS RULE THE LAND?
only the Diaspora could fit this description in Matthew 23.
To give the Arabs the credit of hundreds of years ruling the land he
Ezekiel 36: "The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate sums up two dynasties in section 1.9 titled: "Palestine under the Arabs
in the sight of all who pass by. So they will say, 'This land that was and Seljuk Turks (632 1096)", stretching the times of the Arabs by
desolate has become like a garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate combining the two together.
and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited." .
To make things more murky, and since he realizes how short the
In a book "Whose Promised Land?" by Colin Chapman, the author Arabs lived in the land, instead of openly admitting the fact that Arabs
asks as to the validity of the Jewish claims. Although one cannot tell a have only ruled less then a century he writes: "While the Palestinian
book by the cover, in this case it is easy to see that when one Arabs cannot claim to be 'pure Arabs', they can maintain without any
questions the commonly known title to Israel "The Promised Land", it doubt that their ancestors however mixed racially they may be
would be obvious to see where the author is driving at. have been living in the land for thirteen centuries at the very least (i.e
since the seventh century AD)".
The difficulty in examining one sided arguments is that there is no
one else to introduce the missing elements needed but hidden by The great historian David George Hogarth who was described by
biased thinking. Arab writers as "one of the greatest authorities of his time on Arabian
history" said: "Arabs governed Arabs, through Arabs on an imperial
While the cover is proposing that both views are examined "What are scale for much less than a century. It is just the Umayyad Caliphate
the claims and counter claims", as the author puts it, a cross the Damascus period and no more".
examination as suggested by Solomon in Proverbs 18:17 will shed
different light on the the author's arguments. The exaggeration even gets worse, once a top official of the
Palestinian Authority is asked. In an interview between Zola Levitt
While Mr. Chapman only presented brief summary on the history of and Mr. Husseni, a right hand man to Yasser Arafat, in a Zola Levitt
the land, we insist to include main elements not known or for Television program, Mr. Husseni bluntly claimed that the Palestinians
whatever reason ignored or forgotten by the author. originated from the Jebusites before Abraham moved to Israel, he
clearly changed the historic fact to an American audience who lacks
In chapter one 16 1.6 the title "Palestine under the Babylonians, in Eastern History.
Persians, and Greeks", while there was never a name "Palestine"
during any of these empires, yet it is presented as a historical fact. Contrary to these arguments which plague the schools of the West
Bank, today's Palestinians are immigrants from many nations:
"Balkans, Greeks, Syrians, Latins, Egyptians, Turks, Armenians,
Italians, Persians, Kurds, Germans, Afghans, Circassians, Bosnians,
▲ Sudaneese, Samaritans, Algerians, Motawila, Tartars, Hungarians,
Scots, Navarese, Bretons, English, Franks, Ruthenians, Bohemians,
Bulgarians, Georgians, Syrians, Persian Nestorians, Indians, Copts,
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Maronites, and many other" (DeHass, History, p. 258. John of cannot see how he [Herzl] can be excused for describing Palestine to
Wuzburg list from Reinhold Rohricht edition, pp. 41, 69). European audiences as 'a land without a people'" (Chapter 5, p224).
In 438 CE There is conclusive historical and archaeological evidence
A LAND OF DESOLATION
that there has been an unbroken Jewish presence in Jerusalem since
438 CE, 200 years before the Arab conquest in 638 CD.
What is left out by many who argue this issue is that prior to the
1800's the land was hardly inhabited except for very small pockets of
The Jewish claim, therefore, is not based on biblical and historical
population scattered throughout the country.
rights alone. Jews have always been permanent residents of
Jerusalem. Since 1820, the Jews constituted the largest single
The fact from history contradicts the propagandists of today, the land
community there. Despite persecution and oppression, the Jewish
was not a thriving nation in the past 2000 years or so.
presence in Jerusalem was interrupted only twice: under Byzantine
rule between 135 and 438 CE, and during the Crusader Kingdom,
The Diaspora of the Jews which was prophesied by Christ and the
which lasted from 1099 to 1187 CE.
prophets before Him left Israel a land of desolation. Besides small
spots of population, the land was mostly empty. One historian after
Despite volumes of historical accounts on Israel's desolation
the other agrees to a major fact the Bible already predicted long ago:
Chapman concludes: "Given the situation of Palestine at the end of
the nineteenth century with 5 per cent Jews and 95 per cent Arabs
Dio Cassius describing Israel when it was destroyed by the Romans:
living under the Ottoman Empire", he lashes at Theodore Herzl "But I
"Of their forts the 50 strongest were razed to the ground, 985 of their
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best known villages were destroyed.....Thus the whole of Judea French poet, Alphonse de Lamartine, 1835 A.D writes: "Outside the
became desert, as indeed had been foretold to the Jews before the war. gates of Jerusalem we saw indeed no living object. Heard no living
For the Tomb of Solomon, whom these folks celebrate in their sacred sound. We found the same void, the same silence that we should have
rights, fell into it's own accord into fragments, and wolves and found before the entombed gates of Pompeii or of Greece. A complete
hyenas, many in number roamed howling through their cities" eternal silence reigns in the town, in the highways, in the country; the
(History of the Romans, lxix, 1214 cited by DeHass, History, pp 55 tomb of a whole people.".
56).
British Counsel in Palestine reported in 1857: "The country is in a
In 1590 A.D, an English visitor to Jerusalem road wrote, "nothing considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest
there to be seen but a little of the old walls, which is yet remaining need is that of a body of population".
and all the rest is grass, mosse and weeds much like to a piece of rank
or moist grounde." (Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration In 1863 Samuel Clemens writes: "a desolate country whose soil is
Fund, Quarterly Statement page 86). rich enough, but given over wholly to weeds a silent mournfull
expanse .... A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace
In 1697 Tiberius was being resettled by Jews from Papal states, wih the pomp of life and action... We never saw a human being on the
whose immigration was approved by a Papal bull, Nazareth was whole route." (The Innocence Abroad).
continuing it's decline. A Franciscan Pilgrim writes: "A house of
robbers, murderers, the inhabitants are Saracens...it is a lamentable
thing to see thus such a town. We saw nothing more stony, full of
thorns and desert.". (DeHass, History, p337, citing The Palestine In 1867, Mark Twain described the Jezerel Valley now verdant in
Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, 1925, p197). Galilee as being devoid of a single village; the Galilee "unpeopled
desert; Jericho is a moldering ruin; Bethlehem as untended by any
In the mid 1700's, British Archeologist Thomas Shaw wrote that the living creature"; and "renowned Jerusalem itself a pauper village."
land in Palestine was "lacking in people to till it's fertile soil." "Palestine sits in ashes," he lamented. "It is a hopeless, dreary,
(Thomas Shaw, Travels and Observations, London 1767, p331). heartbroken land....Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes.... desolate
and unlovely...it is a dreamland...desolate country whose soil is rich
1793, Count Constantine F. Volney claimed that the population of enough, but is given over wholly to weedsa silent mournful
Jerusalem was less then 14,000; Hebron had 900 men, and Bethlehem expanse....A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace
had only 600 adult men." with the pomp of life and action....We never saw a human being on
the whole route....There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even
J. S. Buckingham described his visit of 1816 to Jaffa, which "has all the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had
the appearances of a poor village, and every part of it that we saw was almost deserted the country.". (Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad,
of corresponding madness.". pp. 349).
Buckingham described Ramle, "where, as throughout the greater part Historian and writer De Haas records: "The real source of the interest
of Palestine, the ruined portion seemed more extensive then that in the problem was the condition of Palestine; empty, silent, waste,
which was inhabited.". After a visit in 1817 1818, travelers reported ruin between 1840 and 1880" (De Haas, History, p. 407).
that there was not "a single boat of any description on that lake
(Tiberius)". (J. S. Buckingham, Travels in Palestine, p 146).
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In 1840, Jerusalem's population of 15,000 of whom 8,000 Jews, 4,500 hillsides were denuded of trees and the valleys robbed of their
Muslims, and the rest Christians. (No. 238, report of Commerce of topsoil" (The Palestine Problem Today, Israel and It's Neighbors,
Jerusalem during the year 1863, F.O. 195/808, May 1864). Boston, 1953, p. 13).
The Arabs unfounded claim that Jerusalem was always predominately
ArabMuslim territory is negated by the statistics:
1889 Thirty thousand out of 40,000 people in Jerusalem are Jews.
1844 Jews 7,120 Moslems 5,000 Christians 3,390
Ernst Frankenstine "It was in 1878, Harsh conditions forced many
1896 Jews 28,112 Moslems 8,560 Christians 8,748 groups to immigrate to Palestine; Circassian, Algerians, Egyptians,
Druses, Turks, Kurds, Bosnians, and others. 141,000 settled Muslims
1922 Jews 33,971 Moslems 13,413 Christians 14,699 living in all of Palestine (all areas) in 1882, at least 25% of those
141,000 were new comers who arrived after 1831 from the Egyptian
1948 Jews 100,000 Muslims 40,000 Christians 25,000 conquest." (Ernst Frankenstine, Justice for my people, London,
Nicholson and Watson, 1943 p. 127).
1967 Jews 195,700 Muslims 54,963 Christians 12,646
All these people came no less than 150 years ago and were not even
1983 Jews 300,000 Muslims 105,000 Christians 15,000 Arabs, and even the Arab immigrant clans like AlNashasheebi, Al
Khalidi, and AlHusseni settled in Palestine in the same period and
(Turkish Census 1844; Calendar of Palestine 1895; British Census were given the status of "Efendi" which made them an upper class
1962; Israel Central Bureau; Jerusalem Municiplality Report). taking over the lands while the rest of the lower class "Falaheen" were
exploited.
In 1880, the American consul in Jerusalem reported the area was
continuing its historic decline. "The population and wealth of There is left little doubt from the historic and biblical facts that the
Palestine has not increased during the last forty years," he said. land remained a desolation.
These numbers are also confirmed by the British Consul in Jerusalem The great majority of what are called "the Palestinian Arabs" in fact
1863 report. are of a very recent origin starting in the nineteenth century by recent
immigration from many nations most of which are not even Arab.
De Hass writes: "The real source of the interest in the problem was
the condition of Palestine; empty, silent, waste, ruin between 1840 And recent history:
and 1880" (De Haas, History, p. 407).
The Report of the Palestine Royal Commission quotes an account of
Carl Herman Voss writes: "In the twelve and a half centuries between the Maritime Plain in 1913:
the Arab conquest in the seventh centuries and the beginning of the
Jewish return in the 1880's, Palestine was laid waste. It's ancient canal "The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track
and irrigation system were destroyed and the wondrous fertility of suitable for transport by camels and carts...no orange groves, orchards
which the Bible spoke vanished into desert and desolation...Under the or vineyards were to be seen until one reached [the Jewish village of]
Ottoman Empire of the Turks, the policy of disfoilation continued; the Yabna [Yavne]....Houses were all of mud. No windows were
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anywhere to be seen....The ploughs used were of wood....The yields of deeper insight. They knew that the country was for its original sons
were very poor....The sanitary conditions in the village were horrible. (abna'ihilasliyin), for all their differences, a sacred and beloved
Schools did not exist....The western part, towards the sea, was almost homeland. The return of these exiles (jaliya) to their homeland will
a desert....The villages in this area were few and thinly populated. prove materially and spiritually [to be] an experimental school for
Many ruins of villages were scattered over the area, as owing to the their brethren who are with them in the fields, factories, trades and in
prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by their all things connected with toil and labor."
inhabitants.".
1911 Baedeker's guide reports Jerusalem's total population as 70,000,
Lewis French, the British Director of Development wrote of i.e., 45,000 Jews, 15,000 Christians and 10,000 Muslims.
Palestine: "We found it inhabited by fellahin who lived in mud hovels
and suffered severely from the prevalent malaria....Large areas...were King Hussein foresaw, the regeneration of Palestine, and the growth
uncultivated....The fellahin, if not themselves cattle thieves, were of its population, came only after Jews returned in massive numbers.
always ready to harbor these and other criminals. The individual The Jewish population increased by 470,000 between World War I
plots...changed hands annually. There was little public security, and and World War II while the nonJewish population rose by 588,000.
the fellahin's lot was an alternation of pillage and blackmail by their In fact, the permanent nonJewish population increased 120 percent
neighbors, the Bedouin." between 1922 and 1947.
Surprisingly, many people who were not sympathetic to the Zionist This rapid growth was a result of several factors. One was
cause believed the Jews would improve the condition of Palestinian immigration from neighboring statesconstituting 37 percent of the
Arabs. For example, Dawood Barakat, editor of the Egyptian paper total immigration to prestate Israelby nonJews who wanted to take
AlAhram, wrote: "It is absolutely necessary that an entente be made advantage of the higher standard of living the Jews had made
between the Zionists and Arabs, because the war of words can only do possible. The Arab population also grew because of the improved
evil. The Zionists are necessary for the country: "The money which living conditions created by the Jews as they drained malarial swamps
they will bring, their knowledge and intelligence, and the and brought improved sanitation and health care to the region. Thus,
industriousness which characterizes them will contribute without for example, the Muslim infant mortality rate fell from 201 per
doubt to the regeneration of the country." thousand in 1925 to 94 per thousand in 1945 and life expectancy rose
from 37 years in 1926 to 49 in 1943.
Even a leading Arab nationalist believed the return of the Jews to
their homeland would help resuscitate the country. According to In fact, the nonJewish population increased the most in cities with
Sherif Hussein, the guardian of the Islamic Holy Places in Arabia: large Jewish populations that had created new economic
opportunities. From 19221947, the nonJewish population increased
"The resources of the country are still virgin soil and will be 290 percent in Haifa, 131 percent in Jerusalem and 158 percent in
developed by the Jewish immigrants. One of the most amazing things Jaffa. The growth in Arab towns was more modest: 42 percent in
until recent times was that the Palestinian used to leave his country, Nablus, 78 percent in Jenin and 37 percent in Bethlehem.
wandering over the high seas in every direction. His native soil could
not retain a hold on him, though his ancestors had lived on it for 1000 As Hussein foresaw, the regeneration of Palestine, and the growth of
years. At the same time we have seen the Jews from foreign countries its population, came only after Jews returned in massive numbers.
streaming to Palestine from Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, The Jewish population increased by 470,000 between World War I
America. The cause of causes could not escape those who had a gift and World War II while the nonJewish population rose by 588,000.
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In fact, the permanent Arab population increased 120 percent between show that the Palestinians were there before, and if the question is
1922 and 1947, only when the Jews settled the land. who legally deserve it, then the Arab issue is brought up. So it all
depends on what type of propaganda is being promoted, yet both
For the last 40 centuries, Arabs ruled the land less then one century. If views are in great error.
time is to be used as a valid claim, and I supported the Arab
movement, I'd rather drop this claim and find another answer. With the biblical evidence confirmed by history and decades of
archeological research, the Bible has been proven the most accurate
▲ book on Middle Eastern history. In it is recorded God's plan for
Canaan and it's peoples. In Exodus 33:13:
"Then the LORD said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and
the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I
promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it
to your descendants. I will send an angel before you and drive out the
Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites".
Num 21:23: "Then made this vow to the LORD: "If you will
deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities.
The LORD listened to Israel's plea and gave the Canaanites over to
them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place
was named Hormah". And today the Palestinian people cling to the
idea that they are a descendant of the Canaanites, Jebusites, and
THE PALESTINIANS, ARE THEY, ISHMAELITES, OR
Philistines."
PHILISTINES?
Why do many Palestinians cling to being Canaanite anyway? The first
Common Palestinian claim:
occupation of Canaan (the Promised Land) by the newly created
nation of Israel resulted in the revelation to man that God was One
"Today's Palestinians are the descendants of the Canaanites".
God: "Hear O Israel, the Lord thy God is One." This was a startling
revelation in the midst of the nations who were worshipping
" We know that there wasn't any Canaanite holocaust. What
innumerable "gods", yet clinging to the rejected heathen tribes prior to
happened to their descendents?"
Israel is not any honor. So why does Yasser Arafat and his cabinet
insist that they are of Canaanite and Jebusite origin? At the same time
"Palestine is in the Bible: "Yea, and what have ye to do with they also insist that they are Arabs as well and even to the extent of
me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render
making Jesus a Palestinian revolutionary.
me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will
I return your recompence upon your own head;"" [Joel 3:4]
How could Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians be Canaanites and
Arabs at the same time? Even the Christian educators of today's
Palestinian claims vary depending on the issue. If the question is
Palestine are plagued with Replacement Theology propaganda, in
about who was there first, then the Canaanite claim is proposed to corresponding with Mr. Bishara Awad, Dean of Bethlehem Bible
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College he argues: "You must try reading the New Testament, not the never used, only Israel, and no matter how they look at scripture it
Old when looking at such things [Israel in Prophecy]." always seems they have a problem fitting it to support their political
agenda. Even in the End Times, believers in the Israel areas are asked
As far as Joel 3:4, a biblical verse that cursed the Philistines is used to to: "But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for
prove the mention of Palestine. The Hebrew word translated in some verily I say to you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till
versions for Palestine is "Palasheth" which is Philistia the land of the the Son of man shall have come. (Matt. 10:23)
biblical Philistines, a nonSemetic people who lived in a small
portions SW on the coast land, they only included Joppa, Ashdod, So the land is clearly Israel before the coming of our Lord, while He
Ashkelon, and Gaza. This claim certainly will cause a major problem came (Matt. 2:2021), and just before His second coming as we have
since today's Palestinians claim to originate themselves as Semetic seen in Matt 10:23.
Arabs while this group is nonSemetic. This contradiction should be a
major problem for Arab propagandists. To claim a land of promise by And for Bishara Awad the Dean of Bethlehem Bible College who
misusing scripture attributing the land of promise to Ishmael, then to asks believers to look at the New Testament since Israel is replaced
show that they existed in the land before the Jews by jumping on the by the church, the Lord says in The New Testament:
bandwagon of being Philistines is a death blow for the Palestinian
argument. "Hath God cast away His people? God forbid. God hath not cast away
His people whom He foreknew." (Romans 11:12).
To address today's Israel as the land of the Philistines would require a
recreation of the other seven nations that made up the land of Canaan. "Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the
How does one relate today's supposedly Semitic Palestinians to the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who
nonSemitic Hevites, Perazites, and Jebusites? divideth the sea when its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name:
If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the
No one today can even trace any culture, language, religion, family seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.
origin to any Canaanites from Palestine, especially when there is Thus saith the Lord, If heaven above can be measured, and the
ample historical evidence showing the "true" origin of today's foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all
Palestinians as we have shown. the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.".
In 135 A.D by Emperor Hadrian applied the term Palestine to the This shall put the whole matter to the rest.
Land of Israel as a propaganda ploy to erase Israel his enemy and
place Israel's enemy instead The Philistines with a new Latin twist ▲
(Palestine). He replaced the shrines of the Jewish Temple and the
Sepulchre of Christ in Jerusalem with temples to pagan deities.
Hadrian was an enemy of the Bible, the question would be, if we THE JEWS OF RUSSIA
support Hadrian changing the name to Palestine, why then not support
the other changes, and convert the holy places to pagan shrines or at Common opinion:
least the pagan names that he forced on these places?
"The Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe are originally Khazars from
Turky who converted to Judaism in the 8th century".
Christian Arabs who focus only on The New Testament instead of the
Old ignore the fact that In the New Testament, the term Palestine is
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PLO Television: Prof. Karl Skorecki, a senior nephrologist (blood specialist) at
Rambam Hospital in Haifa is the head of molecular medicine at
"Most of the Khazars [a Turkish tribe that converted to Judaism in Israel's Technion's medical school. He and his colleagues published
medieval times] are the Ashkenazic Jews who arrived in Palestine. As their findings in Nature, a British science journal. This new genetic
Allah is my witness, in my blood flows more of the Children of Israel research shows the vast majority of kohanim, the Jewish priestly
and the ancient Hebrews than in the blood of Ariel Sharon and class, to be descended from a single ancestorscientific confirmation
Benjamin Netanyahu." (Palestinian Arab historian Jarid alKidwa, of an oral tradition passed down through 3,000 years .
PLO TV)
A worldwide project has been conducted using cuttingedge genetic
The Jews of Khazaria recounts the eventful history of the Turkic technology proved that at least 70 percent of kohanim families (5% of
kingdom of Khazaria, which was located in eastern Europe and Jewish men), have a common set of markers on their Y chromosome,
flourished as an independent state from about 650 to 1016. (The Jews the chromosome every male receives almost unchanged from his
of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook) father and, in effect, from his father, and father's father before him.
This genetic evidence was found in kohanim from both the Ashkenazi
Ancient communities of Jews existed in the Crimean Peninsula way (European) and the Sephardi (Spanish and Middle Eastern) branches
before the Khazars moved to the area, a fact proven by much of the worldwide Jewish population. This is a strong proof that the
archaeological evidence. It is significant that Crimea came under the Aaronic priesthood existed in the distant past as the Bible relates.
control of the Khazars later on. The Crimean Jewish communities
were later supplemented by refugee Jews fleeing the Mazdaq This provides fascinating evidence that the Jewish priesthood
rebellion in Persia, the persecutions of Byzantine emperors Leo III predated the division of the Jewish people into the Ashkenazi and the
and Romanus I Lecapenus. Sephardi branches, these two major ethnic groups, which occurred
approximately a 1,000 years ago during the Middle Ages.
Before the Khazars moved to Crimea original Jews came to Khazaria
from modernday Uzbekistan, Armenia, Hungary, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, The researchers' concluded that the tradition of the Jewish priesthood
and many other places, as documented by alMasudi, the Schechter (kehunah), has a genetic basis that does point to a single ancestor
Letter, Saadiah Gaon, and the Arabic writer Dimashqi. possibly Aaron.
Also, this argument by no means discounts the Israeli nation as being "It was incredibly exciting to find something that could be tracing
foreign. The Jewish people never assimilated into the gentile world paternallyinherited traits over 40 to 50 generations, three or four
while the Khazars was quite different, it was a gentile nation who thousand years of history. This is the first time ever we have been
assimilated to follow the Jewish faith. able to make a correlation with the ethnographic record over this time
scale. Some people keep records that go back three, maybe four
If the Jews of Eastern Europe and Russia descended strictly from the generations. But 50 generations!" . . .
Khazars what can be said of the recent genetic research showing the
lineage of the Kohanim?
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▲ Mr. Chapman tries in his book to connect the land by Ishmael since
he is a descendant of Abraham.
The Bible clearly puts to rest the issue when God told Isaac:
WHOSE LAND – ISHMAEL OR ISAAC?
"Stay in this land (the land of Israel) for a while and I will be with you
and bless you for to you and your descendants I will give all these
Common opinion:
lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. I will
make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will
"God promised the land to Abraham and his seed. Since Ishmael is his
give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on
seed, they too have the right to the land of Israel."
earth shall be blessed." (Genesis 26:34).
"Ishmael was Abraham's seed [Genesis 21:13]. To whom was the
Yet later on, God restricts the same promise to Jacob (Israel) alone:
promise of the land made? To Abraham and his seed, no exceptions
[Genesis 12:17, 13:15, 15:18]. Thus now, even from the Bible, the
"The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you and I will
Arabs are included in the promise".
give this land to your descendants after you." (Genesis 35:12)
"Does God play favorites?"
Notice that the promise runs through a certain, specific line from
Abraham to Isaac to Jacob and on to their descendants. In Psalm 105
"Is God a Zionist because He has been supernaturally assisting the
the psalmist uses the following terms to describe the extent of God's
Jews?"
commitment to this purpose: covenant, word, command, oath, decree
and everlasting covenant. There is no language used in the Bible that
God uses the word "My" in two connections: "My people Israel" and
could give stronger emphasis to God's commitment.
"My land". In each case He, in a particular way, identifies Himself
with them:
"He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. He
remembers His covenant forever, the Word He commanded, for a
"I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me
thousand generations, the covenant He made with Abraham, the oath
and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come to
He swore to Isaac, He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an
be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole
everlasting covenant: 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the
land of Canaan where you are now an alien, I will give as an
portion you will inherit.'" (Psalm 105:711)
everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you and I
will be their God." (Genesis 17:78)
So all three connect, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) forever. The word
"everlasting" makes null and void any other claim to the land. To say
God promises to give the whole land to Abraham and his descendants
that the land is no more an issue is in contradiction to God's word
for an everlasting possession. This is established by a covenant of
regardless how angry people get over God's decision. If we believe
God and God declares in Psalm 89:34 His covenant He will never
the Bible to be the Word of God, there can remain no doubt as to
break. But to which of his descendants? Ishmael? Isaac? or both?
God's purpose for the land. Furthermore, nothing has changed in
God's purpose from the time that it was spoken until this time of
restoration which was predicted by Jeremiah:
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"Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you. The days are the divinely approved Temple, the keeper of the oracles of God, and
coming, declares the Lord, when I will bring My people, Israel and the capital nation of the returning crucified and risen King of Kings.
Judah, back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their Thus page after page, book after book in the Old and New Testaments
forefathers to possess, says the Lord." (Jeremiah 30:23) deal with these issues that mean little or nothing to world powers or
historians. Israel is the central theme of the Bible. "Thus saith the
While if we look at the context of scripture, we can easily see who Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the
this seed is: nations, to which they are gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land (Ezek. 37:21).".
"But you, O Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, you
descendants of Abraham my friend, I took you from the ends of the So these promises of land and return clearly involves Israel not
earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, 'You are my Ishmael. The question is why are these Christians trying to fit the
servant; I have chosen you and have not rejected you." Isaiah 41:8,9 Bible to match Muslim claims? Even a book like the Quran was
Jacob was chosen, not Ishmael or the Arabs. vague as to who was the child of promise was, but the Bible was so
clear it left no doubt. The only doubt is left, are what the false seeds
"Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the Replacement Theology are trying to plant.
ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who
divideth the sea when its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name: The statement by Pope John Paul II that the "shepherds of Bethlehem"
If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the when Christianity was founded, 2000 years ago, were the "ancestors"
seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me of today's Palestinian Arabs was false. In fact, those shepherds were
forever.(Jer 31:35). Jews, not Arabs.
By this we know that the seed of Abraham is meant Jacob, and the ▲
land is Israel, as it is exactly mentioned and fulfilled by most of the
Biblical Prophecy in both Old and New Testaments.
If Ishmael's promoters way of confused argumentation is accepted,
THE NEW TESTAMENT ENDS THE LAND ISSUE
Jesus the seed of promise can end up being an Ishmaelite, since God
told Abraham concerning the Messianic blessing that out of his seed
Common opinion:
the whole world will be blessed (Gen 22:18).
"Jesus never mentioned Israel being in the land, this is a Christian
Yet ignorance of scripture is not an excuse with God, since the rest of
Zionist invention."
scripture as we presented directs us to the rest of the story as to whom
this seed will be. The same way the promises of the land in the
In page 136, Mr. Chapman writes: "He[Jesus] said nothing at all
Abrahamic Covenant is strictly given to Jacob who was later called
about what would follow the times of the Gentiles, and didn't give any
Israel. I don't need to quote more verses here, since the entire Bible is
clue about the significance of Jerusalem coming once again under
written with this promise in God's mind.
Jewish rule".
The Bible concentrates on Israel as the Chosen Nation, the repository
of the Covenants, the channel of the Messianic Hope, the custodian of
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At first, in Christian theology Jesus is author of all scripture and Another "two fold" prophecy. Obviously when Jesus says "until the
everything created: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and Son of Man comes" pertains to His "second" coming since He is there
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in talking to them. How is it then the believers will not "finish going
righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly through" until "The Son of Man comes"?
furnished unto all good works. (2 Tim 3:1617).
And who is He telling them to witness to? None other than Jews "But
We cannot isolate Jesus first mission (redemption) from the rest of he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
scripture concluding that God did away with the rest of scripture house of Israel."(Matt 15:24).
fulfillment.
And what where is Israel before "The Son of Man comes"?
Israel will be His focus prior to and after His second coming written
in much detail. In fact ALL the Bible, OLD and NEW Testaments What did Jesus tell the Jews of their Disapora?
with the prophets, Christ, and the apostles when speaking in the
context of Christ's second coming, in ALL scripture Israel is in the "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest
land as they were in His first coming. them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
This is so obvious in every verse and every prophecy: wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you
desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye
Was not Christ to rule Israel Matthew 2:6: "And thou Bethlehem, in shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. (Matt
the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of 23:3739).
thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Jesus was talking to them of Jerusalem while He was in Jerusalem,
So when Christ is to rule Israel in this verse were would Israel be? and He will not return to establish the Kingdom unless they are in
This "two fold" prophecy with the rule over Israel part is obviously of Jerusalem crying "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord".
His second coming with Israel in the land. This return to Israel with Jews in it, is emphasized by every prophet in
the Old Testament and all the way into the Book of Revelation.
Even the Replacement Theology advocates would agree that this is a
two fold prophecy, yet they will not accept the "other" "two fold" Matthew 19:28: "And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, that you
prophecies? who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will
sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
One could question: "But these verses pertain to the Jews returning judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
after Christ establishes His Kingdom, not before".
Where is Israel being judged in this verse? And where will His
Is that so? glorious Throne be?
Matthew 10:23: "But whenever they persecute you in one city, flee to "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the lord; AND
the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the ALL THE NATIONS SHALL BE GATHERED UNTO IT, to the
cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes." name of the Lord, to Jerusalem; neither shall they walk anymore after
the stubbornness of their evil heart." (Jeremiah 3:17)
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The Church will return with Christ to Israel, and will rule with Him Gentiles[desolation] until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled[end of
for a thousand years (Rev. 20:15). Christ and the disciples will rule Gentile beginning of Jew]".
over the 12 tribes of Israel in the restoration. Thus, Israel has not been
forgotten in God's plan. This is confirmed leaving no doubt in Romans:
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
To add confusion to his readers Mr. Chapman on the next page states happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And
regarding Luke's testimony "we had hoped that he[Christ] was the one so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of
who was going to redeem Israel" (Luke 24:21), and quoting Luke Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For
24:2527 regarding the fulfillment of the scripture in His Messiaship this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
to which he concluded that "He wanted them to understand that all (Rom 11:2527)
that the prophets had said about Israel and it's redemption had been
fulfilled in himself", yet without supplying any verse to this statement This national redemption is confirmed perfectly when the Times of
he isolates Luke 24:2527 and since it has no mention of Israel's the Gentiles is fulfilled. Reading the passage in context and the
redemption to mean that Israel's national redemption is no more, by previous verse in Romans 11 sheds much light here. Jesus is giving
that a return to the land is null and void. them the 'full' picture, He is showing them the 'full circle' of events in
one single sentence; fall, desolation, Diaspora, then Return. This "full
How could a return be null and void when Christ spoke of predictions circle" scenario is strictly and only for Israel and the Jewish people.
about the future of Jerusalem:
The Gentile world will end in judgment, Joel chapter 3 is strictly over
"And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away Israel and it's division. In Matthew 25:32 "All the nations[Gentiles]
captive into all nations: and Jerusalem would be trampled down by will be gathered, and this judgment mentioned by Christ is also
the Gentiles [nonJews], until the fullness of the Gentiles be fulfilled." describing the treatment of the Jews during the Tribulation Period and
(Luke 21:24). the world's persecution of Israel's believers.
While Replacement Theology advocates claim that the "fullness of The problems such writers get into concluding that Jesus was "silent
the Gentiles" is the end of Israel, Christ clearly made this verse plain about the future of the land", is isolation of verses from the context of
that a Jewish rule (nonGentile) is what is destined for Israel. Any scripture, when the simple truth is that Christ on His first coming
attempt to make this fit the Church of Replacement Theology requires came to die for sins as concluded by the author himself. Jesus
surgical procedures to scripture which will prove fatal to whomever instructed His disciples to "go only to the lost sheep of the House of
tries it. Israel" and He reminded a Gentile that "Salvation is through the Jews"
(John 4:22). Subsequently, however, it became evident that salvation
Let's look at the context of the verse in Luke 21:24. Jesus is speaking was designed for all mankind, beginning from Jerusalem.
concerning Jerusalem and Israel, it's destruction, desolation, Diaspora,
and return. The part the author ignores is the previous verse, in Yet much emphasis was made on salvation by no means negates the
context we can see clearly: "And they [Israel] will fall by the edge of many other references of His second coming were the land is
the sword[destruction], and be away captive into all mentioned. Isolating scripture is like looking at one piece of a puzzle
nations[Diaspora], and Jerusalem will be trampled by the
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were only a piece of a cardboard is seen. The excitement is found Jerusalem... When the people are gathered together, and the
when we put everything together. kingdoms, to serve the Lord"' (Psalm 102:1322).
Colin Chapman in his book "Whose Promised Land" instead of Here the Lord(Christ) build up[the land of] Zion, He shall appear in
shedding light attempts to shuffle different issues together to make his His glory[The Kingdom, second coming], while the kingdoms[the
point stick, his obvious mixing between "The Kingdom of Heaven" world] come and serve the Lord in Jerusalem. In light of this verse
and the Restoration of the Jews to Israel is obvious. On page 127 he and many others, the author of "Whose Promised Land" continues:
compares Matthew 8:1012 "And I say unto you, That many shall "Luke's version of the discourse therefore points to the same
come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and conclusions as the discourse in Mark: that Jesus was silent about the
Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven." with Isaiah 43:56 "Fear future of the land".
not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather
thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, ▲
Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the
ends of the earth".
THE PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL FULFILLED IN THE PAST?
Mr. Chapman argues that these verses speak of the same event "The
Common claim:
Kingdom of Heaven". So he argues that the usage of Isaiah speaking
of Israel's return is invalid since the two verses are in perfect
The Bible already fulfilled the desolation and return of the Jews after
harmony.
the Babylonian Captivity. The claims many modern interpreters make
of the recent establishment of the state of Israel have no foundation in
But are they?
the Bible since all the prophecies they use pertain to the return after
the Babylonian captivity after which there will be a Diaspora with no
Matthew speaks of the "many" while Isaiah strictly speaks of Jacob's
return, therby this modern state is not biblical.
"seed" Israel, but by combining the two an attempt is made to twist
scripture to make a return only of the believers in the Kingdom of
Heaven and ignoring Israel's return before God sanctifies her. ▲
The Kingdom of Heaven as Unger's Bible Dictionary describes it, to BIBLE CONFIRMATION
be: "The Kingdom of Heaven more precisely "The Kingdom of the
Heavens", is a term descriptive of any kind of ruler ship God may The "common" view held by the majority of today's world who stand
assert on The Earth at a given period ... According to Matt 13 the against the recent establishment of the state of Israel is as it has been
present gospel age represents the mystery form of the kingdom since in the past the view which had more support since Israel's first
the kingdom of heaven is no other then the rule of God on Earth...". entrance as slaves from Egypt, and their second entrance from
Babylon were not popular either.
"Thou shall arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favour her,
yes the set time, is come... When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall God calls Israel specifically "My Land". Above all other pieces of
appear in his glory... This shall be written for the generation to territory in the earth God has laid a special claim, for His sovereign
come... .To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in purposes, to that little strip of territory which is Israel. In Ezekiel He
warns the northern invader:
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" to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, judgment against them concerning My inheritance, My people Israel,
and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have for they scattered My people among the nations and divided up My
gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land... In days to land." (Joel 3:2).
come, O Gog, I will bring you against My land so that the nations
may know Me when I show Myself holy through you before their The same points can be made from this verse, and an additional
eyes." (Ezekiel 38:16) important factor "The division of the land" which is taking place
currently after 1993 Oslo Peace Accord.
While the "Gog and Magog" prophecy is agreed by most scholars as
have not yet happened and will occur in the End Times proving that These prophecies are so clear and plain that they leave little or no
Israel must be in the land prior to the fulfillment of this prophecy. room for questions.
This prophecy and many others which has not happened assure every
Bible believers that Israel WILL have another return before the end. To show how absurd the doubters of these prophecies are an example
of such a book "Whose Promised Land" by Colin Chapman, on page
In the "Gog and Magog" prophecy Israel is described as: 115, he provides the "Scholars interpretation of the land", in it he
shares allegoric interpretation by a certain philosophertheologian
God's land Philo who allegorizes the prophecies about Israel's final regathering
to the land of Israel and changes the meaning to "promised land" to
Became desolate "fruitful wisdom".
Then inhabited. At first we ask, where in the Bible that God intended that certain
scholars interpret scripture? Also, since there are many scholars who
In Ezekiel and all the prophets who describe a "gathering from the give opposing views on this issue, what makes this one the correct
nations" not from Assyria or Babylonia. interpretation?
The subject of Ezekiel 38 is a battle between Israel and many We are not saying that we don't need scholars. What we are saying is
nations who never attacked Israel at once in the past. that we need to weed through and sift carefully what certain scholars
write. Today we even have scholars who deny the holocaust ever
This regathering to a "desolate" land is an event in the far future existed and many believe them and follow such absurd teaching.
from Ezekiel's time.
Here is a scenario which presents a problem. Assume that we are
Fact today are the very enemies mentioned by name; Libya, Persia, living in the time of Christ, and we are to adhere to common
Ethiopia, Rosh(Russia), and many others who today hate Israel and interpretation of Messianic prophecies believed by the masses at the
accumulating much armaments in preparation for battle and are likely time of Christ, one of which that Messiah in His first coming must
to be invading Israel soon. establish Himself to be a king over Israel. This was a "common"
interpretation by many Rabbinical schools which even caused the
Again in Joel God declares: Romans to fix a sign on the cross as "Jesus King of the Jews".
"I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Other Rabbinical schools thought there will be two Messiahs,
Jehoshaphat (which means 'the Lord judges'); then I will enter into Messiah son of Joseph (suffering Messiah), and Messiah son of David
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(King Messiah). Yet many viewed the plain scripture in light of Bible Prophecy was sent by God without side interpretation or even
"occurring events" and accepted Jesus as Messiah while the majority scholarly interpretation, it was intended to be interpreted as it said it
followed the "flawed common interpretation". Replacement Theology should, firstly by the Bible itself with cross referencing of the events
advocates do believe that these "few" and "less common" ideas who and teachings, also by the fulfillments:
saw in Jesus the fulfillment of the Messianic prophecies for His first
coming were correct, as to them Jesus was the Messiah, and if today's "Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show
antiIsrael advocates were living at the time, they too would re us the former things, what they were, That we may consider them,
interpret scripture according to new findings that Jesus came, and His And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us the things to come."
coming shed new light on the meaning of the Messianic verses. Today (Isaiah 41:22).
these advocates agree with proIsrael advocates on the interpretation
of the Messianic prophecies despite the many rabbinical schools So the "latter end of them" would be the fulfillment, since we cannot
errors. Why not then open there minds to the Christian Zionist see how God will fulfill prophecy we must wait and see, if the
understanding of scripture? predictions ever come to pass then we know that it was God's will, it
is only then that we see how exactly the plan of God is carried out.
Facts and new findings should always be studied and compared with
scripture. God reveals to us in His own timing His plan on how In order to see the full picture, one must look at a chapter or two. In
certain prophecies are to be fulfilled. So to say that we must stick with the following we will examine Zechariah 12 and 14:
"old" and "common" interpretation is in opposition to the reasoning of
Replacement Theology advocates, since they too agree that at times Zech 12:26:
the "common" interpretations of the "expert" San Hadrian schools
were wrong, for they should have seen that Messiah came first to die "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
for sin, then come again at a later time to be king and defeat the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah
enemies of Israel as the Bible described. Why cannot they see that and against Jerusalem."
there will be two Diasporas after they have established Israel and two
regatherings? The nations of the world will surround Jerusalem:
The Jews on the other hand would be regathered in unbelief at first, "though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. And
then later would be on His second coming redeemed, which is in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
obvious in scripture. Why then not use the same logic to interpret all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the
Messianic prophecies when looking at Israel? Why not look at the people of the earth be gathered together against it. In that day, saith
Bible in light of occuring events? Is it possible the many have been the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider
wrongly interpreting Israel? with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah,
and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. And the
Is it possible that the Jew after the Holocaust decide after almost governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of
being totally anihilated to rise to power, come to Israel 2 years later Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God. In
just in order to make the Bible fit their wishes? Did Israel fulfill these that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire
on purpose? Hardly likely in light of the historic fact that the Jews among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall
were almost anihilated from the face of the Earth. devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left:
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and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in "And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine
Jerusalem." hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the
house of my friends."
How could we have governors of Judah unless we have Israel in the
land? Especially when verse emphasizes to all that "JERUSALEM The pierced Messiah will have the signs left on His hands, Israel
SHALL BE INHABITED AGAIN IN HER OWN PLACE EVEN wonders of these wounds.
JERUSALEM." while verse 3 emphasized that at this regathering
"THOUGH ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH BE GATHERED Zech 14:14:
TOGETHER AGAINST IT."
"Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided
This has never happened unless we have a world United Nations, and in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to
we ask, when did the "WORLD" ever gather against Jerusalem while battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the
the Jews were in Israel? The Gentiles will come against the Jews in a women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and
final showdown, yet again, and against all odds the Jew will be the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city."
triumphant:
Again "ALL NATIONS".
Zech 12:810:
In this battle there will be some losses for Israel, rape, pillage, and
"In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of half Jerusalem will be taken. The World's mock trial and the sinister
Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as plots finally culminate in an attempt to execute the world's scapegoat.
David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the
LORD before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will "Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as
seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that
pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east,
the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it
that is in bitterness for his firstborn." toward the south." Israel's defender will finally intervene, and His feet
like a mighty judge's hammer, strikes the earth for His judgment. The
The "Lord" who was "pierced" (verse 10), will fight for Judah. When Lord's FEET will stand on the Mount of Olives? When did the Lord
has the Lord who was pierced fought for Judah in a battle? This is have feet?
obviously His second coming, and obviously when Israel will be in
the land. Then Christ will pour upon Israel His Holy Spirit and has Christ in the flesh at His second coming will defend Israel and assure
mercy on them, thus a national redemption to Israel is fulfilled. it's right to the land and it's eternal existence, in fact Christ comes to
the aid of Israel to fulfill His promise: "And I will bring again the
Zech 13:614:4: captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and
inhabit them...and I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, sayeth
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the Lord thy God." (Amos 9:14,15). "AND THEY SHALL NO Ezek 11:17: "Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even
MORE BE PULLED UP". gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries
where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.".
And here is the final blow to any who argue the Biblical support of
Israel's restoration from the Babylonian captivity as the only In Ezekiel 20:41 it says, "I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I
biblically supported regathering. How can it be true that there was a bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries
Diaspora after Christ's first coming and this verse strictly emphasizes where you have been scattered."
that Israel "SHALL NO MORE BE PULLED UP"? At which
regathering is Israel promised never to be scattered? "Prophesy therefore concerning the Land of Israel and say... I will
settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at
This is the dilemma of the nations, several wars and Israel winning your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the Lord." (Ezekiel
against all odds, even when the whole world goes against her, the 36:6,11)
plans will be destroyed when God (Christ) Himself intervenes.
First a regathering to the land, then a regathering back to God
These verses and tens others have been ignored by the author, on page "know that I am the Lord".
119 Zechariah is skipped over with no mention of Messiah's defense
for Israel, and on page 120 the author on a section "Hope for the This is "regathering" in unbelief is confirmed in another verse:
Nation" with no verses or references to anything in Zechariah or even
to anything in scripture concluded his own summary what the "But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had
prophets said, Chapman commented "Would these promises ever be profaned ... therefore, I do not this for your sakes, 0 house of Israel,
fulfilled? If so, when and how?". but for my holy name's sake ... and I will sanctify my great name..
.and the heathen (Gentiles) shall know that I am the Lord when I shall
The sound of doubts and empty hope "If so" causes confusion not be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among
edification of the Body of Christ, especially when on page 112 the the heathen, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you
author even puts doubt on the authenticity of the book of Isaiah into your own land. THEN will I sprinkle clean water upon you... A
"Whether the rest of the book[Isaiah] (chapter 4046) was written by new heart also will I give you..." (Ezekiel 36:2126)
the same writer or by a later writer during the exile", which is a whole
other discussion usually taken by liberals, atheists, and agnostics who God gathers Israel for His glory first then to sanctify them.
argue that Isaiah was not even the author. This accusation was
shattered, especially when the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed that the book Ezekiel 34: 1215,28 reads: "As the shepherd seeks out his flock on
of Isaiah had not even a break between the alleged "two Isaiahs". the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My
sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered.
An issue hardly deserves the recommendation of Christianity Today And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the
on the back of the cover. Indeed one wonders the degree of the countries and will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on
Churches fall to support this? the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and all the inhabited places of
the country. And they shall no longer be a prey to the nations. Nor
On page 117, 118 the author only references Ezekiel with scattered shall other lands devour them. But they shall dwell safely and no one
comments and half sentences ignoring much truth that opposes his shall make them afraid."
views:
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God will feed them "on the mountains of Israel" and they "shall no This destruction announced by president Nasser of Egypt who
longer be a prey to the nations[Gentiles] Nor shall other lands devour declared, "Our basic goal is the destruction of Israel". (Laqueur, op.
them. Is it not true that Israel for two millennia were a "prey" to the cit., pp. 175185). Azaam Pasha, secretarygeneral of he Arab League
Gentiles? How can we exchange Israel to be the Church and make announced, "This will be a war of extermination and momentous
sense of these verses? massacre which will be spoken of like the mongolian massacres and
Crusades."
And again in Ezekiel 36:23 & 36: "And I will sanctify My great name
which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned Psalm 83 describes these nations as:
in their midst, and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says
the LORD God, when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. Then Edom, Moab, Ammon, children of Lot: Currently Jordan and the
the nations which are left all around you shall know that I the LORD Jordanian people (children of Lot).
have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I the
LORD have spoken it and I will do it." Gebal: Current location in Lebanon 25 miles N of Beirut (Unger, p
460)
Ezekiel 39:29, "I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I
shall have poured out My Spirit upon the whole house of Israel,' says The inhabitants of Tyre: Currently the People of Lebanon. The
the LORD God." A full puzzle is seen, not just one piece. reference to "The people of Tyre", instead of using "Tyre", is likely
because Tyre would have been completly destroyed as prophecied in
In light of these presented evidence, this should make a turn in this Ezekiel 26, but the inhabitants still living in what is called today
case of whose promised land? As a closing statement that could end Lebanon.
any arguments a crucial question could be asked: Where in scripture
has the land been given to eventually be controled by the mixed Philistia: Gaza, Ekron, Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Gath. The
multitudes of the Palestinians? If only this question is answered, this Palestinians, who after the 1948 War of Indepenance many of which
would end this discussion forever. settled as refugees on The West Bank.
▲ Ishmaelites and Hagarites: Currently The Arabs.
Assyria: Iraq.
ISRAEL'S VICTORY AGAINST THE ARABS PSALM 83,
THE MOST IGNORED PROPHECY
Amalek: Southern Arabia or possibly the Jordanians SW of The Dead
Sea (Gen 14:7)
I have rarely read publications discussing one of the most important
verses regarding the rebirth of Israel and it's struggle with her
This prophecy uses either the name of location or the name of a
enemies, yet this prophecy is generally ignored. The Arab Allies
people, since certain people moved, and other mixed occupy certain
gather to destroy Israel as soon as it's born
nations. If a nation is mentioned the prophecy could have intended to
focus on whatever peoples who occupy that land, and if a people are
"They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,
mentioned would include whatever lands they currently occupy today.
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.". (Psalm 83:4).
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Fulfillment: 1948 Arab Israeli War, 1967 Six Days War, Israel enemies encompassed us about, yea they encompassed us about and
triumphed which paralleled Israel's first birth when Joshua had a Six arose to destroy us as a people. Yet has their counsel been destroyed
Day War and on the seventh triumphed. and their schemes will not be accomplished.".
Evidence: While I was a young boy in Jericho, I still remember The American
Council came from Jerusalem just as they had information on a major
In Psalm 83:5: "For they have consulted together with one war about to erupt. They started to evacuate all the Americans in the
consent, they form a confederacy against you(Israel)". area, since my mother was an American, they came to the rescue, but
my father refused and had to turn them down because he loved his
This is the only time that these nations and peoples ever country.
formed a "confederacy" alliance to fight Israel which culminated in
what is called the ArabIsraeli War, which was a united army. The Six Day War began The Jews captured old Jerusalem and the rest
of Palestine. This was a great disappointment to Arabs and Muslims
The loss of this alliance is also predicted in Psalm 83:16: worldwide. I still remember many things during the war; the thunder
"Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O of the bombs and chatter of machine guns that went on day and night
Lord.". for six days.
verse 4: "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, Many Arab citizens in Jericho started looting stores and houses as
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.". The usage of people ran and crossed the Jordan river from fear of the Israelis. The
"They have said" and "us" refers to the confederacy of nations united Israeli soldiers announced that everyone post a white flag on it's gate.
in one voice. It is a remider of the Arab outcry to throw the Jews in The war was called the six day war because it was won in six days
the Medditerranean Sea. To "cut off" in Biblical terms is to destroy. and on the seventh day a Rabbi by the name of Goren blew the ram's
"From being a nation", is obviously from "becoming a nation" as to horn on the wailing wall in Jerusalem declaring the victory.
stop the rebirth of Israel. "That the name of Israel be remembered no
more" (verse 1). Many see this as a parallel to Joshua when he went around the walls
of Jericho six times, then on the seventh day seven times, and on that
Assyria(Iraq) came to help the children of Lot (Jordan) as day the priests blew the trumpets and everyone shouted with one
Jordan requested Iraq for help during he war (verse 8). voice, then the walls came tumbling down, and the Israelites took the
city.
The evidence of this prophecy being the 1948 War is most amazing.
The appeal that God makes to the enemies of Israel is not one of hate, To my father it seemed that the walls have tumbled down on him,
as it is an appeal to these nations to reconcile with God and recognize during the war he was always listening to the Jordanian radio station,
His authority and will "That they may seek Your name O Lord" (16) he used to say that the Arabs are wining the war, but he was listening
"That men may know that You [The God of Israel], whose name to the wrong station, the Israeli station who was announcing the truth
alone is the Lord" (18). of their soon coming victory, instead my father chose to believe the
Arabs who claimed that the Israelis are promoting propaganda.
We are reminded of Menachem Begin's Prayer On his first visit to the
liberated Western Wall, in 1967: "GD OF OUR FATHERS The Arabs have been loosing the wars against Israel exactly as the
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Lord of Hosts, be Thou our help. Our Bible prophesied in the examples I have shown. The Quran teaches. I
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lived in Israel during the Six Day War, the P.L.O resistance, the Common Palestinian opinion:
Jordanian black September civil war, the bloody wars in Lebanon,
and the war of Yom Kippur, with more blood spilt among ourselves "The Arab hate towards the Jews wasn't what forced the Jews into
and with no hope to destroy Israel. moving to Palestine, they are all after the Jews entered Palestine
forcefully in 1948, after the Jews started killing our people".
All these losses and we still hoped for that one victory since that is all
what it takes to destroy them. Many Muslims in the land claim that "Before the promises to create or before the existence of the state of
Israel is God's punishment to them for allowing bad government to Israel, did we do anything against you[The Jews]? Please, ask the
rule the Islamic world. That is one reason why we see attempts to good Jews who lived in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran,
topple Governments with majority Muslim population. The Islamic Palestine, Syria and Lebanon Arab Muslims welcomed you always,
world is on its way to try to destroy Israel. The best way to prove this they did not fight with you for at least the last 1000 years. ". (Al
is to quote the Syrian president Hafez Asad: Bushra Website, an Arab Christian view)
"There are still one hundred wars to come with Israel. All we need to Colin Chapman in "Whose Promised Land" ignores the most
defeat Israel is One". important factor of Jewish persecution by the Arabs and Muslims and
includes only the persecution of the Jews in Europe, leaving the hands
The God of Israel promised "and they shall not be pulled up", yet the of the Arabs and Muslims cleaner than Pontius Pilate's after the
Arab and Muslim world will try again. God in the Bible promised that judgment of Christ. In fact he concludes his closing arguments by
they will fail. stating: "the Arabs were being made to suffer for the crimes of
Europe. Is one view right and the other wrong?" (Chapter 5, page
In verse 18 of Psalm 83, "That men may know that You, whose name 223).
Alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth". Here the
Lord wants to redirect the Arabs to himself (the true God), and Him This type of representation would be half of the truth, in fact it is even
Alone is the true God, that is the God of Israel, and no one else. God's a mock trial where the evidence for a murder case is ignored allowing
promises never changes, and he fulfills them to the letter. Arabs think the defendant to go scotfree, also the study that was presented was
that the God of the Bible is biased towards the Jews, but we can't concerning the Arabs and Jews and the question over the land. But
avoid the many verses of punishment declared on Israel in the Bible; since he brought up right or wrong, we must present the missing facts.
After rejecting Christ the great "Diaspora" started and they were
scattered into all the earth, separated from their homeland, and far While what we will present here is a tiny glimpse of the full picture,
from Jerusalem. God allowed them to be killed and tormented more all the centuries of persecution culminated with the Arabs forcing the
than any other people in the world. No other people in history tasted Jews to leave between 1918 and 1948 and after centuries of
the agony of war and pain more than the Jews, they have been in persecution by the Arabs towards the Jews. In fact one can fill pages
known in history to be the refugees of the world, today they are on the persecution of Arabs towards the Jews way before 1948.
finally home with very angry neighbours... as usual.
The supposed golden age for Jews living under Islamic and Arab rule
▲ is in reality plagued with death, torture, expulsion, rape, slavery,
annihilation, and extradition of mass proportions.
THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS BY THE ARABS
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To say that it was only the immigration of Jews to Palestine was the upper hand, may they be subjugated(humiliated)'...And if the person
cause of these persecutions is an excuse. Much of the persecution that was a Jew, he must wear on his shoulder a red or yellow banner, so he
went on in Arab nations had much of it's influence from Islam and is recognized as a Jew. And if the person is a Christian, he needs to
Nazi Germany as we shall see: wear harsh clothes, with a large pocket in the chest area like women.
As for Christian women, they must wear shoes with different colors,
Here are the facts: one black and the other white. And if a Jew or a Christian goes into a
public bath, he must wear an iron, copper, or lead made collar around
▲ his neck so he can be identified from Muslims. Never a Jew or a
Christian can build houses higher than a Muslim. They are not to
crowed public roads but need to use narrow alley ways, and small
THE DARK ERA ON JEWISH LIFE UNDER THIMMITUDE streets. They are not to be saluted, nor their graves can be extended
beyond the surface of the ground". (Omar bin AlKhattab, Islam's
Common Arab opinion "Arabs as Semites cannot possibly be anti second Caliph after Muhammad the prophet of Islam, reference
Semitic." Faqeeh AlMuluk, volume 2, pages 124136, The Omar covenant).
This, however, is a semantic distortion that ignores the reality of Arab Much of the Islamic success and its prosperity is to be credited to the
discrimination and hostility toward Jews. Arabs, like any other
Eastern Jews. It was the oppressed Persian Jews who helped the
people, can indeed be antiSemitic. Muslims to subdue and conquer the Persians. The relationship
between the Jews and the Muslims was constantly changing. At the
The term "antiSemite" was coined in Germany in 1879 by Wilhelm time of AlMutawakil, in the beginning of the eighth century, was
Marrih to refer to the antiJewish manifestations of the period and to very hard upon the Jews and Christians alike. He was a persecutor of
give Jew hatred a more scientific sounding name (Bernard Lewis, the Jews and Christians. The Muslim Caliph AlMamun (813832),
Semites & AntiSemites, (NY: WW Norton & Co., 1986), p. 81.) He and the rest of the Muslim rulers knew how much from all that
they desired could be learned from the Jews in their midst. Jewish
Jews were no strangers to persecution and humiliation among the physicians, teachers, and merchants became quite the fashion. Fleets
Arabs and Muslim nations, Princeton University historian Bernard of trading vessels commanded by Jewish captains were sailing in the
Lewis wrote: "The Golden Age of equal rights was a myth, and belief Mediterranean. In the beginning of the Ninth century the Jews called
in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam." the Gaonim contributed many scholars and schools, the Bible was
(Bernard Lewis, "The ProIslamic Jews," p. 401.) translated for the first time into Arabic by a Jew, Saadia ben Joseph
(892942).
Throughout the centuries, the Jew suffered under the "Omar Charter"
which declared: Rabbi Menachim ben Saruk, compiled and completed the first Bible
dictionary. The Gaonim schools flourished until 997 A.D. Hai was the
"The necks of thimmis(Jew and Christians) are to be sealed when last of the Gaonim when the Caliph got jealous of the wealth of the
collecting the Jezzieh(tax imposed on Jews and Christians). The Gaonim, he made up some false charges and imprisoned Hai and his
method of sealing is to bind the necks of the person with a collar, in it father, and confiscated their wealth. Hai escaped, and a little later, the
is a piece of led, stamped on it the amount of his payment, the collar last attempt was made to reconstruct the Gaonim schools failed by a
is not to be broken until the payment is completed. This is in Hezekiah. The last Gaonim was executed (1036) by the order of the
accordance to the Quranic verse 'Until they pay the Jezzieh by an Caliph. All Jewish schools were closed, and the scholars were
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scattered. Palestine and the whole of the Byzantine Empire became The thriving relationship between the Arab/Muslim world and Nazi
almost deserted by Jews. Germany was well documented. Sabri's very own predecessor before
him, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin elHusseni, recruited
As distinguished Orientalist G.E. von Grunebaum has written: Hitler's BosnianMuslim troops a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber)
Division" of the Waffen SS.
"It would not be difficult to put together the names of a very sizeable
number of Jewish subjects or citizens of the Islamic area who have And way before him, little is known that in many Arab and Islamic
attained to high rank, to power, to great financial influence, to countries Jews were forced to wear distinctive clothing and even a
significant and recognized intellectual attainment; and the same could "yellow badge" on their shoulders. In the ninth century, for example,
be done for Christians. But it would again not be difficult to compile a Baghdad's Caliph AlMutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews,
lengthy list of persecutions, arbitrary confiscations, attempted forced setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi
conversions, or pogroms." (Bat Ye'or, p.61) Germany. The facts are that such systems were not an invention that
started in Germany's Nazi era. A comparison between Nazi law
The attitude of the Muslims toward the Christians and the Jews is that towards Jews and Dhimmi Law in the Omar Charter will find much in
of a master towards slaves, whom he treats with a certain lordly common:
tolerance so long as they keep their place. Any sign of pretension to
equality is promptly repressed. (Middle Eastern Studies, (1971), p. Nazism: Jews need to wear an identifiable mark on their clothing to
232.) identify them as Jews. The star of David for an identification with the
word (Jude) on the chest. A yellow banner is to be fixed around the
▲ shoulder or arm, as to be recognized as a Jew. They must live in the
Jewish Ghettos.
THE NAZI – ISLAM CONNECTION
Islam: Dhimmis (Jews & Christians) must wear identifiable clothing
and live in a clearly marked house. For Jews, a yellow banner is to be
Common Arab opinion:
fixed around the shoulder or arm, as to be recognized as a Jew. (Omar
Charter, Faqeeh AlMuluk, volume 2, pages 124136).
"the Islamic treatment to nonMuslims in general has been good
compared to how other religions have treated infidels".
Nazism: Jews are not admitted to serve in the army or navy. They are
not allowed to bear arms.
The opinion of The Grand Muslim leader the Mufti Ikrima Sabri of
Jerusalem:
Islam: He must not ride a horse or bear arms. He must yield the right
ofway to Muslims. (Omar Charter, Faqeeh AlMuluk, volume 2,
"[the Holocaust] is not my problem. Muslims didn't do anything on pages 124136).
this issue. It's the doing of Hitler who hated the Jews,".
Nazism: Jews cannot hold public offices, whether national state, or
"It's not my fault if Hitler hated the Jews. Anyway, they hate them municipal. salaried or honorary, are closed to Jews. Jews cannot be
just about everywhere." (Ikrima Sabri The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,
Judges in criminal and disciplinary cases. Jews cannot serve on juries.
hours before hosting the Pope). (The War Against The Jews, AntiJewish Legislation, Lucy
Dawidowicz, p72).
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Islam: Dhimmis (Jews & Christians) cannot be a witness in a legal 4. Mohammad practiced and ordered ethnic cleansing by removing all
court except in matters relating to other "dhimmis" (Jews & Jews,
Christians) or be a judge in a Muslim court. (Omar Charter, Faqeeh
AlMuluk, volume 2, pages 124136). Christians and Pagans from the Arabian Peninsula [Saheeh Bukhari
4:392 and 5:716]
Nazism: A compensation for the protection that Jews enjoy as aliens,
they must pay double the taxes the Germans pay. (The War Against 5. Muslims are ordered to push the nonMuslims to the narrowest part
The Jews, AntiJewish Legislation, Lucy Dawidowicz, p75). of the road when meeting them [Saheeh Muslim 25:5389]
Islam: A compensation for the protection that dhimmis (Jews & 6. From the Pact of Omar we read that Christians:
Christians) enjoy, they must pay "Jezzieh", a special tax to be
imposed on dhimmis (Jews & Christians) only. (Omar Charter, a. Cannot build any new houses of worship in their neighborhoods,
Faqeeh AlMuluk, volume 2, pages 124136). and can't repair the ones that fall into ruin
Nazism: The marriage with Jews is prohibited. Adoption of Jews and b. Cannot evangelize, and yet they cannot forbid their kin from
by Jews is prohibited. (The War Against The Jews, AntiJewish becoming Muslims
Legislation, Lucy Dawidowicz, p84).
c. Cannot wear clothes that could make them look like Muslims, and
Islam: He cannot be the guardian of a Muslim child, the owner of a they must wear distinguishing clothes.
Muslim slave.
d. Cannot engrave Arabic inscription on their seals.
(Omar Charter, Faqeeh AlMuluk, volume 2, pages 124136).
e. They cannot do anything pertaining to their religion publicly (show
It is argued that the Omar Pact was not part of Quran or Sunna. their crosses, be heard worshipping, etc...)
However, it was Omar who derived his covenant from the highest of
Islamic sources: f. Cannot take slaves who have been allotted to Muslims (viceversa
is possible)
1. Killing of converts (after being warned for three days)
g. Cannot build houses overtopping the houses of the Muslims
[Saheeh Bukhari 9:57]
Malik reports: "Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that
2. Orders that nonMuslims are to be fought until they believe in Umar ibn Abd alAziz gave a decision that when a Jew or Christian
Islam or pay AlJizyah Tax [Quran 9:5,29 and Saheeh Bukhari 4:196] was killed, his bloodmoney was half the bloodmoney of a free
muslim." (Malik Book 43, #43.15.8b)
3. In a Muslims society, if a Muslim kills a nonMuslim, the Muslim
isn't killed [Saheeh Bukhari 9:50] while a Muslim who kills a Muslim In the Quran Surah 9:2 :
and a nonMuslim who kills a Muslim is to be killed [Quran 2:178
and Sunan AlTarmithi 1401]
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"...Fight against such of those who have been given the Scriptures Such hatred carried on from time immemorial, being "Muhammad
[Jews & Christians] as believe not in Allah nor the last day, and like", the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseni and the friend of
forbid not that which Allah has forbidden by his Messenger and Adolf Hitler stated, "I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers!
follow not the religion of truth [Islam], until they *pay tribute* (taxes Murder the Jews! Murder them all!" (Leonard J. Davis and M. Decter.
paid by Jews & Christians who do not want to renounce their Myths and facts 1982; a Concise Record of the ArabIsraeli Conflict,
religion), being brought low.." (Quran, Sura 9 verse 9). Washington DC: near east report, 1982, p. 199).
"Abu Musa said, "I came to the Prophet along with two men of The Mufti was always in close contacts with the Nazi Party. He had
Ash'ariyin, one on my right and the other on my left, while Allah's communications with Himmler and was an excellent friend of Adolf
Apostle was brushing his teeth, and both men asked him for some Hitler and coordinated with Hitler the "final solution" to the Jews on
employment. The Prophet said, 'O Abu Musa (O 'Abdullah bin November 21, 1941. It was pure hate fed from religion to schools, and
Qais!).' I said, 'By Him Who sent you with the Truth, these two men Arab media that caused severe persecution in the Arab world, even
did not tell me what was in their hearts and I did not feel (realize) that the prominent Egyptian writer Anis Mansour, who is respected by
they were seeking employment.' As if I were looking now at his almost every Arab wrote: "People all over the world come to realize
Siwak(tooth brush) being drawn to a corner under his lips, and he that Hitler was right, since Jews are bloodsuckers...interested in
said, 'We never appoint for our affairs anyone who seeks to be destroying the whole world which has ...expelled them and despised
employed. But O Abu Musa, go to Yemen. The Prophet then sent them for centuries ... and burnt them in Hitler's crematoria ... one
Mu'adh bin Jabal after him and when Mu'adh reached him, he spread million ... six millions. Would that he had finished it!" (Anis Mansour
out a cushion for him and requested him to get down (and sit on the 1973).
cushion). Behold: There was a fettered man beside Abu Musa.
Mu'adh asked, "Who is this (man)?" Abu Musa said, "He was a Jew The Führer's puppet , who fled Palestine after agitating against the
and became a Muslim and then reverted back to Judaism." Then Abu British during the Arab Revolt of 193639 found refuge in Iraq after
Musa requested Mu'adh to sit down but Mu'adh said, "I will not sit instigating the Iraqi coup of 1941 orchestrated by Hitler. When
down till he has been killed. This is the judgment of Allah and His Britain crushed the rebellion, the Mufti escaped to Berlin. In Berlin he
Apostle [for such cases] and repeated it three times. Then Abu Musa was enthusiastically received by the "Islamische Zentralinstitut" and
ordered that the man be killed, and he was killed. Abu Musa added, welcomed him as the "Führer of the Arabic world." In an introductory
"Then we discussed the night prayers and one of us said, 'I pray and speech, he called the Jews the "most fierce enemies of the Muslims"
sleep, and I hope that Allah will reward me for my sleep as well as for and an "ever corruptive element" in the world.
my prayers.'" (Volume 9, Book 84, Number 58: Narrated Abu Burda)
Husseni soon became an honored guest of the Nazi leadership and
This hatred towards Jews stems from the prophet of Islam himself: met on several occasions with Hitler. He personally lobbied the
Führer against the plan to let Jews leave Hungary, fearing they would
"I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: "None has the immigrate to Palestine. He also strongly intervened when Adolf
right to be worshipped but Allah, " and if they say so, pray our Eichman tried to cut a deal with the British government to exchange
prayers face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, their blood and German POWs for 5000 Jewish children who also could have fled to
property will be sacred to us." (Narrated Anas Bin Malik, Hadith Palestine. The Mufti's protests with the SS were successful, as the
Sahih Bukhari Vol.1 # 387.) children were sent to death camps in Poland instead. One German
officer noted in his journals that the Mufti would liked to have seen
the Jews "preferably all killed." On a visit to Auschwitz, he reportedly
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admonished the guards running the gas chambers to work more Himmler, October 3, 1994 to "Reichsfuhrer and Reichsminister"
diligently. Throughout the war, he appeared regularly on German offered the Arab Legion for use against the Allies. In a letter from
radio broadcasts to the Middle East, preaching his proNazi, anti Rome, June 28, 1943, the Mufti sends a letter to the Minister of
Semitic message to the Arab masses back home. Foreign Affairs for Hungary asking him to send one half of a million
Jews to Poland, and as a sequel to this evil request a half million Jews
To show gratitude towards his hosts, in 1943 the Mufti traveled were killed in the death camps.
several times to Bosnia, where on orders of the SS he recruited the
notorious "Hanjar troopers," a special Bosnian Waffen SS company When war broke out in 1967, Jewish homes and property were
which slaughtered 90% of Bosnia's Jews and burned countless confiscated. Egypt's attitude toward Jews at that time was reflected in
Serbian churches and villages. These Bosnian Muslim recruits rapidly its treatment of former Nazis. Hundreds were allowed to take up
found favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who established a residence in Egypt and given positions in the government. The head
special Mullah Military school in Dresden. The only condition the of the Polish Gestapo, Leopold Gleim (who had been sentenced to
Mufti set for his help was that after Hitler won the war, the entire death in absentia), controlled the Egyptian secret police.
Jewish population in Palestine should be liquidated.
Syria's Nazi connection sheltered Alois Brunner, one of the most
After the war, Husseni fled to Switzerland and from there escaped via notorious Nazi war criminals. Brunner was a chief aide to Adolf
France to Cairo, were he was warmly received. The Mufti used funds Eichmann who served as an adviser to the Assad regime. (Newsday,
received earlier from the Hitler regime to finance the Naziinspired November 1, 1987 by Rep. Michael McNulty.)
Arab Liberation Army that terrorized Jews in Palestine. The
American Christian Palestine Committee wrote, "Of the long list of Today amongst the Palestinians. Hitler is one of the heroes of
hundreds of Arab agents on the German payroll, only a few are Palestinian youth, reveal researchers from the University of Hamburg,
mentioned. Of the numerous cases of sabotage, only a few are who are conducting an international study on the perceptions of
recorded. Of the thousands of available documents, fewer then a democracy among young people around the world. Booksellers in the
dozen are published here." (Arab War Effort, p.3). territories report that Hitler's book Mein Kampf is one of the most
popular there, a bestseller from their point of view. The book is being
"The Arab riots of 1936 in Palestine were carried out by the Mufti distributed by AlShurouq, a Ramallah based book distributor, to East
with funds supplied by the Nazis" (Arab Higher Committee, Jerusalem and territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
submitted to the United Nations, May 1947).
According to Agence France Presse (Sept. 8), the book, previously
Even the captured files of the German High Command in Flensburg, banned by Israel, has been allowed by the PA and is 6th on the
Germany, indicated that: "Only through funds available by Germany Palestinian bestseller list. Bisan publishers in Lebanon first published
to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was it possible to carry out the revolt this edition in 1963 and again in 1995. The book costs about $10. The
in Palestine.". The Mufti demanded Hitler, Ribbentrop, and the cover shows a picture of Hitler, a swastika, and the title in both
Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Rumanian governments keep their promise German and Arabic. The translator, Luis AlHaj, wrote the following
of "the destruction of the socalled Jewish National Home: introduction:
"I asked you, Reichsfuhrer, to take all measures to prevent the Jews "Hitler the soldier left behind not only a legend stained by tragedy
from going". Further proof of the Muft's collaboration, this same itself; the tragedy of a state whose dreams were shattered, a regime
Muslim Mufti of Jerusalem in a letter to the notorious Heinrich whose pillars were torn down, and a political party that was crushed.
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Hitler was a man of ideology who bequeathed an ideological heritage The newspapers are filled with pictures of Jews who were mowed
whose decay is inconceivable. This ideological heritage includes down by Hitler's machine guns, and of Jews being led to the gas
politics, society, science, culture, and war as science and culture." ovens. In these pictures they concentrated on women, babies and old
people, and they took advantage of it, in order to elicit sympathy
"The National Socialism that Hitler preached for and whose towards them, when they demand financial reparations, contributions
characteristics were presented in his book My Struggle, and whose and grants from all over the world. The truth is that the persecution of
principles he explained in his speeches before he took power, as well the Jews is a myth, that the Jews dubbed "the tragedy of the
as during the 13 years he spent at the head of the German nation this Holocaust" and took advantage of, in order to elicit sympathy towards
National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its them.".
seeds multiplied under each star."
Even the crossword puzzles that appear in the newspapers contain
"We cannot really understand the efforts of this man without definitions such as "a Jewish center for commemorating the
examining the principles enclosed in his book My Struggle that the Holocaust and the lie," as a definition for Yad Vashem.
Nazis turned into the "Gospel of National Socialism."
"Some of them go hand in glove with the Holocaust deniers," says
"This translation of the book My Struggle has never been presented to Esti Vebman, researcher of antiSemitism. "It is true that there have
Arab speakers. It is taken from the original text of the author, Adolf been of late intellectual circles that are willing to agree that such a
Hitler. The text was untouched by the censor. We made a point to historical incident, like the Holocaust, did indeed happen, but from
deliver Hitler's opinions and theories on nationalism, regimes, and the deniers' point of view there were no gas chambers and no six
ethnicity without any changes because they are not yet outmoded and million who died.
because we, in the Arab world, still proceed haphazardly in all three
fields." In summary it was the Arab Nazilike bursts of brutality, and mass
extradition of the Jews from all the Arab lands which forced the Jews
Palestinian journalists are in the habit of comparing Israel's actions in to immigrate to Israel. In fact it was the Nazi and Arab hate of the
the territories with those of the Nazis. Alongside the antiSemitic Jews that caused Israel to be created. Of more than 850,000 Jews in
publications, Israeli leaders are portrayed as oppressors: Binyamin Arab lands fewer than 29,000 remained forced to leave to Israel.
Netanyahu, while serving as prime minister, was portrayed as a Nazi (American Jewish Yearbook, 1983, New York).
and described as "a Zionist terrorist who is worse than Hitler." Now
Ehud Barak, in Arafat's eyes, is worse than Netanyahu. Moreover, the The problem remains, Nazism was still awaiting them, even in their
Holocaust has become a tool for undermining in the hands of homeland. The difference is the Jew is in power while a hostile world
Palestinian Holocaust deniers: surrounds him.
"It was a good day for the Jews, when the Nazi Hitler began his ▲
campaign of persecution against them," writes Sif Ali Algeruan of Al
Hayat AlJedida a Palestinian News Paper.
NAZI ISLAM CONNECTION, THE PERSECUTION OF
JEWS IN ARABIA PRIOR TO 1948.
"They began to disseminate, in a terrifying manner, pictures of mass
shootings in directed at them, and to invent the shocking story about
the gas ovens in which, according to them, Hitler used to burn them.
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The rise of Islam, with whose power the Arabian Jews came in given permission to sacrifice a young goat on the feast of Adha). He
contact when it was yet in its infancy, marks the beginning of a new said, 'Let Muhayyisa strike him and Abu Burda finish him off.' So
period in Jewish history. Several centuries before Mohammed's birth Muhayyisa fetched him a blow, which did not cut in properly, and
(c. 570), the Jews had effected important settlements in Arabia, and in Abu Burda dispatched him and gave him the finishing stroke.
the course of time, they had acquired a considerable influence upon Huwayyisa, who was still an unbeliever, said to his brother,
the heathen population. In fact in Yemen, an ArabJewish kingdom Muhayyisa, 'Did you kill Ka'b b. Yahudha?', and when he said he did,
existed . The Arabian Jews were numerous and powerful, in the he said, 'By God, much of the flesh on your belly comes from his
Hedjaz, north of Yemen. To win the Israelites to his cause, the wealth; you are a miserable fellow, Muhayyisa.' He replied, 'If the one
"prophet" made various concessions to their religion and adopted who ordered me to kill him had ordered me to kill you, I would have
some of their customs. As this was useless, and as the Jews were a done so.' He was amazed at this remark and went away astounded.
constant menace to his cause, he resolved to get rid of their tribes one They say that he used to wake up in the night astonished at his
after another. He first put an end to the Jews in the vicinity of Medina, brother's words, until in the morning he said, 'By God, this is indeed a
and next (628) subjected those of the district of Khaibar and of Wadi religion.' Then he came to the prophet and accepted Islam. Muhayyisa
alKura. then spoke the lines which we have written above." (Ibn Ishaq, page
752).
The Jewish community in Arabia was totally destroyed or extradited
from Saudi Arabia in barbaric fashion by Muhammad the originator In the writings of AlKindy during the second century, a sample of
of Islam. Banu Qurayza were all killed and the women and children Muhammad's killings to Jews he writes:
became a loot, much of the other tribes like Banu Qaynuqa, and Al
Natheer were either killed, sold to slavery, or extradited. The Jew in "Abu Afek, also a Jew. This last was an aged man, decrepit and
Saudi Arabia were accused of treason, and in few days trenches were helpless, whom Ibn Omeir perfidiously stabbed to death while asleep
dug in the marketplace in Medina, and the men of Qurayza were at night upon his bed, because he had spoken despitefully of thy
brought out in groups and their necks were struck. Estimates of those Master. Tell me, now, I pray thee, whether thou hast anywhere heard
killed vary from 400 to 900: or read of so unjustifiable an act. Hath any revelation ever sanctioned
it; and what kind of ordinance is this, to slay a man simply for
"Abu 'Ubayda told me on the authority of Abu 'Amr, the Medinan, speaking of blame? Had this aged man done anything worthy at all of
when the apostle got the better of the Banu (tribe of) Qurayza he death, much less of being assassinated unawares? If he spake the
seized about four hundred men from the Jews who had been allies of truth, should he have been slain for the same? And if he lied, still
Aus against Khazraj, and ordered that they should be beheaded. even for that, one is not to be put to death, but rather chastised that he
Accordingly Khazraj began to cut off their heads with great may in time to come refrain therefrom. My friend, thou well knowest
satisfaction. The apostle saw that the faces of Khazraj showed their (the Lord be gracious unto thee!) how that it is unlawful to disturb a
pleasure, but there was no such indication on the part of Aus, and he bird resting in its little nest by night; how much more to slay a man,
suspected that that was because of the alliance that had existed sleeping securely in his bed, and that for only speaking words of
between them and the B. Qurayza. When there were only twelve of blame! Is this aught but murder? I find not that such an act is justified
them left he gave them over to Aus, assigning one Jew to every two of either by the law of God, of reason, or of nature. Nay, by my life! it is
Aus, saying, 'Let soandso strike him and soandso finish him off.' but the old work of Satan towards Adam and his race ever since he
One of those who was so handed over to them was Ka'b b. Yahudha, wrought his fall. And how consisteth all this with the saying of thine
who was an important man among them. He gave him to Muhayyisa (the Lord guide thee aright, my friend!) that thy Master 'was sent a
and Abu Burda b. Niyar (it was Abu Burda to whom the apostle had Blessing and a Mercy to all mankind." (AlKindy, page 47).
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The killing of the men went on day and night, one by one was be Armenian name in Turkey, once and for all.". (refer to the Armenian
headed and thrown into a ditch. The women were split among the Atrocities, Na'aeem Bek, page 43).
Muslims, Muhammad the prophet of Islam had (Zaynab), the wife of
the tribe's leader, after he killed her husband and her brother, he took And following this order, one million and a half Armenian were
his "God given" trophy on the same night. butchered. It was done to destroy Christianity in an Islamic Ottomon
Empire.
Like the false Christians in Europe under the banner of Christianity,
Muhammad destroyed the Jews under the banner of God. Muslims ▲
simply write off these atrocities with the same excuses used by
everyone who hated the Jews, He used mock trials and accused them
NAZI ISLAM CONNECTION, THE PERSECUTION OF
of treason. The excuses presented by the Hadith is the typical one, a
JEWS IN PALESTINE PRIOR TO 1948
Jew was chosen "Sa'd b. Mu'adh" to pass judgment, and the death
penalty was given, so the Jew was blamed.
Arab terrorism in the Holy Land originated centuries before the recent
"tool" of the Palestinian cause was invented. In towns where Jews
Then and as it is now, Holocaust deniers and Muslim apologists
lived for hundreds of years were periodically robbed, raped, and
blame the Jews for "inventing" the story: "His contemporary, the early
massacred. The survivors were obliged to abandon their possessions
traditionist and jurist Malik, called him [Ibn Ishaq] unequivocally "a
and run. At the beginning of this century Jews were recorded in nearly
liar" and "an impostor...who transmits his stories from the Jews".
every town that is today considered to have been "purely Arab". It
(From Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
was Jewish refugees who were forced to flee from their homes within
Ireland,(1976) Uyun alathar, I, 167.)
Palestine to other areas in Palestine. David Landes in "Palestine
Before the Zionists", writes: "Jews had to pass Muslims on their left
So the typical mock trial continues.
side, because that was the side of Satan. They had to yield the right of
way, step off the pavement to let the Arab go by, above all make sure
▲ not to touch him in passing, because this could provoke a violent
response. In the same way, anything that reminded the Muslims of the
LET’S NOT FORGET THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST presence of alternative religions, any demonstration of alternative
forms of worship, had to be avoided, so synagogues were places in
A pause must be taken to remember the year 1915 A.D, works of humble, hidden places, and the sounds of Jewish prayers carefully
Talaiat Basha, the Minister of Interior in the Ottoman Government. muted". DeHass also writes: "Murad III decreed that all Jews
An order came from him to the Governor of the city of Halab Nuri throughout his empire be executed", this decree was prevented by
Bek: "Despite a previous decision concerning the elimination of the Solomon Ashkenazi, Murad's confidential agent. In 1576 Sultan
Armenia Race, as the necessities of time did not allow the fulfillment Murad III enacted legislation to uproot and deport a 1000 of the
of this holy intent, and now, after we eliminated all obstacles, and 15,000 of Safed's Jews to Cyprus.
seeing that the time has come to redeem our nation from the
dangerous race. We have intrusted you, and we insist, that you do not In the 16th century in Jerusalem the Jews were so taxed to the point of
surrender yourselves to the feelings of pity, as you face their extortion and most of Jerusalem's Jews ran to Hebron, Gaza, and
miserable situation. For the cause of putting an end to their existence, Tiberius to become refugees. Bedouin raiders, general anarchy, tax
you need to work with all your strength, to completely destroy the corruption, with additional tax burden was aimed only at the Jews, yet
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they held steadfast in JudahcumPalestine. The Jerusalem Jews were Later Muftism by Haj AlAmeen ElHusseni started fatwas (religious
bitterly and mercilessly persecuted during the 17th century reign of an decrees) against all the Jews as a response to the Zionist movement.
Arab ruler Ibn Barouk who bought the rule from Murad IV. In 1660 His collaboration with Hitler on the Eve of The Final Solution left an
the entire Jewish community was massacred by Arabs with only one everlasting mark on the history of Muftism in The Holy Land. Letters
survivor. of collaboration with Heinrich Himmler and the Hungarian Prime
Minister resulted in the death of 400,000 Jews when he succeeded to
Little is known by Arabs as to why Ahmad Basha ElJazzar[The stop them from immigrating to the Holy Land. Till now, no apology,
butcher] held this name, his sadistic wanton exploits became legend hearing, or condemnation was made by any Arab government or
during the 1800s, who was known to travel accompanied by an religious official.
executioner. When The Butcher encountered a subject who was
adjudged to be misbehaving, "The criminal bowed his neck, the ▲
executioner struck, and the head fell" (DeHass). Hayim Farhi, the
only Jew who has risen to power in the area was imprisoned by The
NAZI ISLAM CONNECTION, THE PERSECUTION OF
Butcher, cutting off his nose, ear, and gouging out his eye. The Jews
JEWS IN MOROCCO PRIOR TO 1948
were at the bottom of the heap of peoples in status who had to pay to
pray on the Wailing Wall, protection money was always collected
The Jewish community of presentday Morocco dates back more than
against destruction and vandalism of the Jewish burial grounds, and to
2,000 years. There were Jewish colonies in the country before it
prevent molestation of Jewish travelers.
became a Roman province. in 1032 AD, 6000 Jews were murdered.
Indeed the greatest persecution by the Arabs towards the Jews was in
In the 1830s havoc was created during the Egyptian reign of
Fez, Morocco, nothing was worse than the slaughter of 120,000 Jews
Palestine, and the Jews were persecuted brutally throughout the
in 1146 and before that In 1160 Maimonides in his Epistle concerning
country. In 1834 the inhabitants of Eastern Palestine crossed the
apostasy writes his fellow Jews: "Now we are asked to render the
Jordan River to join natives of Nablus, Hebron, and Bethlehem,
active homage to heathenism but only to recite an empty formula
40,000 of them rushed on Jerusalem and looted the city for 5 days
which the Moslems themselves knew we utter insincerely in order to
were the Jews had their homes sacked and their women raped.
circumvent the bigot ... indeed, any Jew who, after uttering the
(DeHass, History, vol V, p.393).
Muslim formula, wishes to observe the whole 613 precepts in the
privacy of his home, may do so without hindrance. Nevertheless, if,
The Jewish story in Palestine was like the story of a rape victim,
even under circumstances, a Jew surrenders his life for the
blamed for being there at the time. In the following few decades
sanctification of the name of God before men, he has done nobly and
(1848 1878) scores of incidents involving antiJewish violence,
his reward is great before the Lord. But if a man asked me, "shall I be
persecution, and extortions filled page after page of documented
slain or utter the formula of Islam?" I answer, "utter the formula and
reports from the British Consulate in Jerusalem too overwhelming to
live ... "". In 1391 a wave of Jewish refugees expelled from Spain
show in these pages.
brought new life to the community, as did new arrivals from Spain
and Portugal in 1492 and 1497. From 1438, the Jews of Fez were
Throughout the 19th century Jews were victims of mass hunger and of
forced to live in special quarters called mellahs, a name derived from
Arab attacks. The 1929 Arab riots resulted in the rape and massacre of
the Arabic word for salt because the Jews in Morocco were forced to
most of Hebron's Jewish community.
carry out the job of salting the heads of executed prisoners prior to
their public display.
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Chouraqui sums it up when he wrote: "such restriction and NAZI ISLAM CONNECTION, THE PERSECUTION OF
humiliation as to exceed anything in Europe". Charles de Foucauld in JEWS IN YEMEN PRIOR TO 1948
1883 who was not generally sympathetic to Jews writes of the Jews:
"They are the most unfortunate of men, every Jew belongs body and In Yemen from the seventh century on the Jewish populations
soul to his seigneur, the sid[Arab master]". suffered the severest possible interpretation of the Charter of Omar.
For about 4 centuries, the Jews suffered under the fierce fanatical
Similarly, in 1465, Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, edict of the most intolerant Islamic sects. The Yemen Epistle by
leaving only 11 alive, after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a Muslim Rambam in which he commiserated with Yemen's Jewry and
woman in "an offensive manner." The killings touched off a wave of besought them to keep the faith, and in 1724 fanatical rulers ordered
similar massacres throughout Morocco. synagogues destroyed, and Jewish public prayers were forbidden. The
Jews were exiled, many died from starvation and the survivors were
▲ ordered to settle in Mausa, but later, this order was annulled by a
decree in 1781 due to the need of their skilled craftsmen.
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Jacob Sappir a Jerusalem writer describes Yemeni Jews in Yemen in
JEWS IN MOROCCO AFTER 1948
1886:
In June 1948, bloody riots in Oujda and Djerada killed 44 Jews and
"The Arab natives have always considered the Jew unclean, but his
wounded scores more. That same year, an unofficial economic
blood for them was not considered unclean. They lay claims to all his
boycott was instigated against Moroccan Jews.
belongings, and if he is unwilling, they employ force...The Jews live
outside the town in dark dwellings like prison cells or caves out of
In 1956, Morocco declared its independence, and Jewish emigration
fear...for the least offense, he is sentenced to outrageous fines, which
to Israel was suspended. In 1963, emigration resumed, allowing more
he is quite unable to pay. In case of nonpayment, he is put in chains
than 100,000 Moroccan Jews to reach Israel.
and cruelly beaten every day. Before the punishment is inflicted, the
Cadi[judge] addresses him in gentle tones and urges him to change his
In 1965, Moroccan writer Said Ghallab described the attitude of his
faith and obtain a share of all the glory of this world and of the world
fellow Muslims toward their Jewish neighbors:
beyond. His refusal is again regarded as penal obstinacy. On the other
hand, it is not open to the Jew to prosecute a Muslim, as the Muslim
The worst insult that a Moroccan could possibly offer was to treat by right of law can dispose of the life and the property of the Jew, and
someone as a Jew....My childhood friends have remained antiJewish.
it is only to be regarded as an act of magnanimity if the Jews are
They hide their virulent antiSemitism by contending that the State of allowed to live. The Jew is not admissible as a witness, nor has his
Israel was the creature of Western imperialism....A whole Hitlerite
oath any validity.".
myth is being cultivated among the populace. The massacres of the
Jews by Hitler are exalted ecstatically. It is even credited that Hitler is
DanishGerman explorer Garsten Neibuhr visited Yemen in 1762
not dead, but alive and well, and his arrival is awaited to deliver the
described Jewish life in Yemen: "By day they work in their shops in
Arabs from Israel. (Said Ghallab, "Les Juifs sont en enfer," in Les
San'a, but by night they must withdraw to their isolated dwellings,
Temps Modernes, (April 1965), pp. 22472251. ).
shortly before my arrival, 12 of the 14 synagogues of the Jews were
torn down, and all their beautiful houses wrecked".
▲
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The Jews did not improve until the establishment of the French presence, and several sages mentioned in the Talmud lived in this area
Protectorate in 1912, when they were given equality and religious from the 2nd to the 4th centuries.
autonomy. However, during World War II, when France was ruled by
the antiSemitic Vichy government, King Muhammed V prevented During the Byzantine period, the condition of the community took a
the deportation of Jews from Morocco. turn for the worse. An edict issued by Justinian in 535 excluded Jews
from public office, prohibited Jewish practice, and resulted in the
In 1922, the government of Yemen reintroduced an ancient Islamic transformation of synagogues into churches. Many fled to the Berber
law that decreed that Jewish orphans under age 12 were to be forcibly communities in the mountains and in the desert.
converted to Islam.
After the Arab conquest of Tunisia in the 7th century, Jews lived
In 1947, after the partition vote, Muslim rioters, joined by the local under satisfactory conditions, despite discriminatory measures such as
police force, engaged in a bloody pogrom in Aden that killed 82 Jews a poll tax.
and destroyed hundreds of Jewish homes. Aden's Jewish community
was economically paralyzed, as most of the Jewish stores and From 7th century Arab conquest down through the Almahdiyeen
businesses were destroyed. Early in 1948, looting occurred after six atrocities, Tunisia fared little better than its neighbors. The complete
Jews were falsely accused of the ritual murder of two Arab girls. expulsion of Jews from Kairouan near Tunis occurred after years of
(Howard Sachar, A History of Israel). hardship, in the 13 century when Kairouan was anointed as a holy city
of Islam.
By 1948 there were some 270,000 Jews in Morocco. In an atmosphere
of uncertainty and grinding poverty, many Jews elected to leave for In the 16th century, the "hated and despised" Jews of Tunis were
Israel, France, the United States, and Canada. periodically attacked by violence and they were subjected to
"vehement antiJewish policy" during the various political struggles
Finally, nearly 50,000 traditionally religious Yemeni Jews, who had of the period. In 1869 Muslims butchered many Jews in the
never seen a plane, were airlifted to Israel in 1949 and in 1950 in defenseless ghetto.
Operation "Magic Carpet.". Since the Book of Isaiah promised, "They
shall mount up with wings, as eagles". The Jewish community Conditions worsened during the Spanish invasions of 15351574,
bordered "The Eagles" contentedly; to the pilots consternation some resulting in the flight of Jews from the coastal areas. The situation of
of them lit a bon fire aboard, to cook there food. the community improved once more under Ottoman rule.
▲ During this period, the community also split due to strong cultural
differences between the Touransa (native Tunisians) and the Grana
(those adhering to Spanish or Italian customs).
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JEWS IN TUNISIA PRIOR TO 1948
Improvements in the condition of the community occurred during the
reign of Ahmed Bey, which began in 1837. He and his successors
The first documented evidence of Jews in this area dates back to 200
implemented liberal legislation, and a large number of Jews rose to
A.D and demonstrates the existence of a community in Latin Carthage
positions of political power during this reign.
under Roman rule. Latin Carthage contained a significant Jewish
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Under French rule, Jews were gradually emancipated. However, Jews were subject to terrible repression. Still, by 1941, the Jews
beginning in November 1940, when the country was ruled by the accounted for a quarter of the population of Tripoli and maintained 44
Vichy authorities, Jews were subject to antiSemitic laws. From synagogues. In 1942 the Germans occupied the Jewish quarter of
November 1942 until May 1943, the country was occupied by Benghazi, plundered shops, and deported more than 2,000 Jews
German forces. During that time, the condition of the Jews across the desert, where more than onefifth of them perished. Many
deteriorated further, and many were deported to labor camps and had Jews from Tripoli were also sent to forced labor camps.
their property seized.
Conditions did not greatly improve following the liberation. During
Jews suffered once more in 1956, when the country achieved the British occupation, there was a series of pogroms, the worst of
independence. The rabbinical tribunal was abolished in 1957, and a which, in 1945, resulted in the deaths of more than 100 Jews in
year later, Jewish community councils were dissolved. In addition, the Tripoli and other towns and the destruction of five synagogues.
Jewish quarter of Tunis was destroyed by the government. Anti
Jewish rioting followed the outbreak of the SixDay War; Muslims The establishment of the State of Israel, led many Jews to leave the
burned down the Great Synagogue of Tunis. While the community country.
was compensated for the damage, these events increased the steady
stream of emigration. A savage pogrom in Tripoli on November 5, 1945 were more than
140 Jews were massacred and almost every synagogue looted.
▲ (Howard Sachar, A History of Israel).
In June 1948, rioters murdered another 12 Jews and destroyed 280
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Jewish homes. Thousands of Jews fled the country after Libya was
JEWS IN LIBYA PRIOR TO 1948
granted independence and membership in the Arab League in 1951.
(Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times).
The Jewish community of Libya traces its origin back to the 3rd
century B.C Under Roman rule, Jews prospered.
After the SixDay War, the Jewish population of 7,000 was
again subjected to pogroms in which 18 were killed, and many more
In 73 A.D, a zealot from Israel, Jonathan the Weaver, incited the poor
injured, sparking a neartotal exodus that left fewer than 100 Jews in
of the community in Cyrene to revolt. The Romans reacted with swift
Libya. When Col. Qaddafi came to power in 1969, all Jewish property
vengeance, murdering him and his followers and executing other
was confiscated and all debts to Jews cancelled. Today, no Jews are
wealthy Jews in the community. This revolt foreshadowed that of 115
believed to live in Libya.
A.D, which broke out not only in Cyrene, but in Egypt and Cyprus as
well.
Although emigration was illegal, more than 3,000 Jews succeeded to
leave to Israel. When the British legalized emigration in 1949, more
In 1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews.
than 30,000 Jews fled Libya. At the time of Colonel Qaddafi's coup in
1969, some 500 Jews remained in Libya. Qaddafi subsequently
With the Italian occupation of Libya in 1911, the situation remained
confiscated all Jewish property and cancelled all debts owed to Jews.
good and the Jews made great strides in education. At that time, there
By 1974 there were no more than 20 Jews, and it is believed that the
were about 21,000 Jews in the country, the majority in Tripoli. In the
Jewish presence has passed out of existence.
late 1930s, Fascist antiJewish laws were gradually enforced, and
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▲ Spain, and the original eastern Jews of Damascus, called Must'arab.
Today only a tiny remnant of these communities remains.
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The Jewish presence in Syria dates back to biblical times and is
JEWS IN ALGERIA PRIOR TO 1948
intertwined with the history of Jews in neighboring Eretz Israel. With
the advent of Christianity, restrictions were imposed on the
Jewish settlement in presentday Algeria can be traced back to the
community. The Arab conquest in 636 A.D, however, greatly
first centuries of the Common Era. In the 14th century, with the
improved the lot of the Jews. Unrest in neighboring Iraq in the 10th
deterioration of conditions in Spain, many Spanish Jews moved to
century resulted in Jewish migration to Syria and brought about a
Algeria. Among them were a number of outstanding scholars,
boom in commerce, banking, and crafts. During the reign of the
including the Ribash and the Rashbatz. After the French occupation of
Fatimids, the Jew Menashe Ibrahim ElKazzaz ran the Syrian
the country in 1830, Jews gradually adopted French culture and were
administration, and he granted Jews positions in the government.
granted French citizenship.
Syrian Jewry supported the aspirations of the Arab nationalists and
On the eve of the civil war that gripped the country in the late 1950s,
Zionism, and Syrian Jews believed that the two parties could be
there were some 130,000 Jews in Algeria, approximately 30,000 of
reconciled and that the conflict in Palestine could be resolved.
whom lived in the capital. Nearly all Algerian Jews fled the country
However, following Syrian independence from France in 1946,
shortly after it gained independence from France in 1962. Most of the
attacks against Jews and their property increased, culminating in the
remaining Jews live in Algiers, but there are individual Jews in Oran
pogroms of 1947, which left all shops and synagogues in Aleppo in
and Blida. A single synagogue functions in Algiers, although there is
ruins. Thousands of Jews fled the country, and their homes and
no resident rabbi. All other synagogues have been taken over for use
property were taken over by the local Muslims.
as mosques.
For the next decades, Syrian Jews were, in effect, hostages of a hostile
In 1934, a Naziincited pogrom in Constantine left 25 Jews dead and
regime. They could leave Syria only on the condition that they leave
scores injured. After being granted independence in 1962, the
members of their family behind. Thus the community lived under
Algerian government harassed the Jewish community and deprived
siege, constantly under fearful surveillance of the secret police. This
Jews of their principle economic rights. As a result, almost 130,000
much was allowed due to an international effort to secure the human
Algerian Jews immigrated to France. Since 1948, 25,681 Algerian
rights of the Jews, the changing world order, and the Syrian need for
Jews have emigrated to Israel.
Western support; so the conditions of the Jews improved somewhat.
▲ ▲
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JEWS IN SYRIA BEFORE 1948
JEWS IN EGYPT PRIOR TO 1948
The last Jews who wanted to leave Syria departed with the chief rabbi
Jews have lived in Egypt since Biblical times, and the conditions of
in October 1994. Prior to 1947, there were some 30,000 Jews made up
the community have constantly fluctuated with the political situation
of three distinct communities, each with its own traditions: the
of the land. Israelite tribes first moved to the Land of Goshen (the
Kurdishspeaking Jews of Kamishli, the Jews of Aleppo with roots in
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northeastern edge of the Nile Delta) during the reign of the Egyptian and detention camps. On November 23, 1956, a proclamation signed
pharaoh Amenhotep IV (13751358 B.C). by the Minister of Religious Affairs, and read aloud in mosques
throughout Egypt, declared that "all Jews are Zionists and enemies of
During the reign of Ramses II (12981232 B.C), they were enslaved the state," and promised that they would be soon expelled.
for the Pharaoh's building projects. His successor, Merneptah,
continued the same antiJewish policies, and around the year 1220 Thousands of Jews were ordered to leave the country. They were
B.C, the Jews revolted and escaped across the Sinai to Canaan. This is allowed to take only one suitcase and a small sum of cash, and forced
the biblical Exodus commemorated in the holiday of Passover. Over to sign declarations "donating" their property to the Egyptian
the years, many Jews in Eretz Israel who were not deported to government. Foreign observers reported that members of Jewish
Babylon sought shelter in Egypt, among them the prophet Jeremiah. families were taken hostage, apparently to insure that those forced to
By 1897 there were more than 25,000 Jews in Egypt, concentrated in leave did not speak out against the Egyptian government. AP,
Cairo and Alexandria. In 1937 the population reached a peak of (November 26 and 29th 1956); New York World Telegram).
63,500.
In 1979, the Egyptian Jewish community became the first in the Arab
Friedman wrote in "The Myth of Arab Tolerance", "One Caliph, Al world to establish official contact with Israel. Israel now has an
Hakem of the Fatimids devised particularly insidious humiliations for embassy in Cairo and a consulate general in Alexandria. At present,
the Jews in his attempt to perform what he deemed his roll as the few remaining Jews are free to practice Judaism without any
"Redeemer of mankind", first the Jews were forced to wear miniature restrictions or harassment. Shaar Hashamayim is the only functioning
golden calf images around their necks, as though they still worshipped synagogue in Cairo. Of the many synagogues in Alexandria only the
the golden calf, but the Jews refused to convert. Next they wore bells, Eliahu Hanabi is open for worship.
and after that six pound wooden blocks were hung around their necks.
In fury at his failure, the Caliph had the Cairo Jewish quarter By 1957 it had fallen to 15,000. In 1967, after the SixDay War, there
destroyed, along with it's Jewish residence, in". was a renewed wave of persecution, and the community dropped to
2,500. By the 1970s, after the remaining Jews were given permission
In 1945, with the rise of Egyptian nationalism and the cultivation of to leave the country, the community dwindled to a few families.
antiWestern and antiJewish sentiment, riots erupted. In the violence, Jewish rights were finally restored in 1979 after President Anwar
10 Jews were killed, 350 injured, and a synagogue, a Jewish hospital, Sadat signed the Camp David Accords with Israel. Only then was the
and an oldage home were burned down. The establishment of the community allowed to establish ties with Israel and with world Jewry.
State of Israel led to still further antiJewish feeling: Between June The majority of Jews reside in Cairo, but there are still a handful in
and November 1948, bombs set off in the Jewish Quarter killed more Alexandria. In addition there are about 15 Karaites in the community.
than 70 Jews and wounded nearly 200. 2,000 Jews were arrested and Nearly all the Jews are elderly, and the community is on the verge of
many had their property confiscated. Rioting over the next few extinction.
months resulted in many more Jewish deaths. Between June and
November 1948, bombs set off in the Jewish Quarter killed more than ▲
70 Jews and wounded nearly 200.
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Jews In 1956, the Egyptian government used the Sinai Campaign as a
JEWS IN IRAN/PERSIA BEFORE 1948
pretext for expelling almost 25,000 Egyptian Jews and confiscating
their property. Approximately 1,000 more Jews were sent to prisons
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The Jewish community of Persia, modernday Iran, is one of the ▲
oldest in the Diaspora, and its historical roots reach back to the 6th
century B.C, the time of the First Temple. Their history in the pre
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Islamic period is intertwined with that of the Jews of neighboring
JEWS IN IRAQ PRIOR TO 1948
Babylon.
The Iraqi Jews took pride in their distinguished Jewish community,
Cyrus, the first Achaemid emperor, conquered Babylon in 539 B.C,
with it's history of scholarship and dignity. Jews had prospered in
and permitted by special decree the return of the Jewish exiles to the
what was then Babylonia for 1200 years before the Muslim conquest
Land of Israel; this brought the First Exile to an end. The Jewish
in AD 634; it was not until the 9th century that Dhimmi laws such as
colonies were scattered from centers in Babylon to Persian provinces
the yellow patch, heavy head tax, and residence restriction enforced.
and cities such as Hamadan and Susa.
Capricious and extreme oppression under some Arab caliphs and
Momlukes brought taxation amounting to expropriation in AD 1000,
The books of Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel give a
and 1333 the persecution culminated in pillage and destruction of the
favorable description of the relationship of the Jews to the court of the
Bagdad Sanctuary. in 1776, there was a slaughter of Jews at Bosra,
Achaemids at Susa.
and in bitterness of anti Jewish measures taken by Turkish Muslim
rulers in the 18th century caused many Jews to flea.
Under the Sassanid dynasty (226642 A.D), the Jewish population in
Persia grew considerably and spread throughout the region, yet Jews
nevertheless suffered intermittent oppression and persecution. The
invasion by Arab Muslims in 642 A.D terminated the independence of
The Iraqi Jewish community is one of the oldest in the world and has
Persia, installed Islam as the state religion, and made a deep impact
a great history of learning and scholarship. Abraham, the father of the
on the Jews by changing their sociopolitical status.
Jewish people, was born in Ur of the Chaldees, in southern Iraq,
around 2,000 A.D. The community traces its history back to 6th
Throughout the 19th century, Jews were persecuted and discriminated
century A.D, when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judea and sent most
against. Sometimes whole communities were forced to convert.
of the population into exile in Babylonia.
During the 19th century, there was considerable emigration to the
Land of Israel, and the Zionist movement spread throughout the
The community also maintained strong ties with the Land of Israel
community.
and, with the aid of rabbis from Israel, succeeded in establishing
many prominent rabbinical academies. By the 3rd century, Babylonia
In 1925, Under the Phalevi Dynasty, the country was secularized and
became the center of Jewish scholarship, as is attested to by the
oriented towards the West. This greatly benefited the Jews who were
community's most influential creation, the Babylonian Talmud.
emancipated and played an important role in the economy and in
cultural life. On the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were
Under Muslim rule, beginning in the 7th century, the situation of the
80,000 Jews in Iran, concentrated in Teheran (60,000), Shiraz (8,000),
community fluctuated. Many Jews held high positions in government
Kermanshah (4,000), Isfahan (3,000), and in the cities of Kuzistahn.
or prospered in commerce and trade. At the same time, Jews were
In the wake of the upheaval, tens of thousands of Jews, especially the
subjected to special taxes, restrictions on their professional activity,
wealthy, left the country, leaving behind vast amounts of property.
and antiJewish incitement among the masses.
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Under British rule, which began in 1917, Jews fared well hanged two Jews after falsely charging them with hurling a bomb at
economically, and many were elected to government posts. This the Baghdad office of the U.S. Information Agency.
traditionally observant community was also allowed to found Zionist
organizations and to pursue Hebrew studies. All of this progress With the rise of competing Ba'ath factions in 1963, additional
ended when Iraq gained independence in 1932. restrictions were placed on the remaining Iraqi Jews. The sale of
property was forbidden and all Jews were forced to carry yellow
In June 1941, the Muftiinspired, proNazi coup of Rashid Ali identity cards. After the SixDay War, more repressive measures were
sparked rioting and a pogrom in Baghdad. Armed Iraqi mobs, with the imposed: Jewish property was expropriated; Jewish bank accounts
complicity of the police and the army, murdered 180 Jews and were frozen; Jews were dismissed from public posts; businesses were
wounded almost 1,000. shut; trading permits were cancelled; telephones were disconnected.
Jews were placed under house arrest for long periods of time or
Although emigration was prohibited, many Jews made their way to restricted to the cities.
Israel during this period with the aid of an underground movement. In
1950 the Iraqi parliament finally legalized emigration to Israel, and Persecution was at its worst at the end of 1968. Scores were jailed
between May 1950 and August 1951, the Jewish Agency and the upon the discovery of a local "spy ring" composed of Jewish
Israeli government succeeded in airlifting approximately 110,000 businessmen. Fourteen meneleven of them Jewswere sentenced to
Jews to Israel in Operations Ezra and Nehemiah. This figure includes death in staged trials and hanged in the public squares of Baghdad;
18,000 Kurdish Jews, who have many distinct traditions. Thus a others died of torture. On January 27, 1969, Baghdad Radio called
community that had reached a peak of 150,000 in 1947 dwindled to a upon Iraqis to "come and enjoy the feast." Some 500,000 men,
mere 6,000 after 1951. women and children paraded and danced past the scaffolds where the
bodies of the hanged Jews swung; the mob rhythmically chanted
Additional outbreaks of antiJewish rioting occurred between 1946 "Death to Israel" and "Death to all traitors." This display brought a
49. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, Zionism became a worldwide public outcry that Radio Baghdad dismissed by declaring:
capital crime. "We hanged spies, but the Jews crucified Christ." (Judith Miller and
Laurie Mylroie, Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, p. 34).
▲ Jews remained under constant surveillance by the Iraqi government.
Max Sawadayee, in "All Waiting to be Hanged" writes a testimony of
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an Iraqi Jew (who later escaped): "The dehumanization of the Jewish
JEWS IN IRAQ AFTER 1948
personality resulting from continuous humiliation and torment...have
dragged us down to the lowest level of our physical and mental
In 1950, Iraqi Jews were permitted to leave the country within a year
faculties, and deprived us of the power to recover.".
provided they forfeited their citizenship. A year later, however, the
property of Jews who emigrated was frozen and economic restrictions
In response to international pressure, the Baghdad government quietly
were placed on Jews who chose to remain in the country. From 1949
allowed most of the remaining Jews to emigrate in the early 1970's,
to 1951, 104,000 Jews were evacuated from Iraq in Operations Ezra
even while leaving other restrictions in force. Most of Iraq's
and Nehemiah; another 20,000 were smuggled out through Iran. In
remaining Jews are now too old to leave. They have been pressured
1952, Iraq's government barred Jews from emigrating and publicly
by the government to turn over title, without compensation, to more
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than $200 million worth of Jewish community property. (New York Issac, whom he greatly valued; the whole Jewish nation was
Times, February 18, 1973). historically judged by single specimens, which in this case influenced
the Caliph in his general policy towards the Jews.
Only one synagogue continues to function in Iraq, "a crumbling buff
colored building tucked away in an alleyway" in Baghdad. According Hanoch ben Moses, another Jew who had great powers and privileges
to the synagogue's administrator, "there are few children to be bar had the title of Nagid, or prince, of the Jewish community in Spain.
mitzvahed, or couples to be married. Jews can practice their religion Just like Daniel in Babylon and Joseph in Egypt, God appoints a Jew
but are not allowed to hold jobs in state enterprises or join the army." for the purpose of preserving His chosen people. He was one of the
(New York Times Magazine, February 3, 1985). most famous of the Jewish notables of Moslem Spain. Beginning life
as a shopkeeper, Samuel HaLevi ultimately became the chief minister
In 1991, prior to the Gulf War, the State Department said "there is no at the court of Granada. By virtue of this office he became the
recent evidence of overt persecution of Jews, but the regime restricts political head of the Jews in Granada and probably thus received the
travel, (particularly to Israel) and contacts with Jewish groups title Nagid ("Prince"), his name becoming Samuel HaNagid. He
abroad.". served his community as rabbi and did a great deal to further Jewish
learning throughout the world. Samuel was a fine linguist, a scholar, a
Persecutions continued, especially after the SixDay War in 1967, diplomat, and a distinguished soldier. His reputation in the Middle
when many of the remaining 3,000 Jews were arrested and dismissed Ages was based mainly on his excellent poetry, some of which was
from their jobs. Finally In Iraq all the Jews were forced to leave written even on the battlefield.
between 1948 and 1952 and leave everything behind. Jews were
publicly hanged in the center of Baghdad with enthusiastic mob as The following account of his life is taken from Sefer Seder ha
audience. Kabbalah ("The Line of Tradition"), a Hebrew historical work written
by Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo in 1161:
The Jews were persecuted throughout the centuries in all the Arabic
speaking countries. One time, Baghdad was onefifth Jewish and One of the great disciples of Rabbi Enoch [d. 1014], was Rabbi
other communities had first been established 2,500 years ago. Today, Samuel HaLevi, the Prince, the son of Joseph, who was known as Ibn
approximately 61 Jews are left in Baghdad and another 200 or so are Nagrela, of the community of Cordova. He was an unusually fine
in Kurdish areas in the north. Only one synagogue remains in Talmudic scholar and was also well versed in Arabic literature and
Bataween, once Baghdad's main Jewish neighborhood. The rabbi language. He was of the type that could occupy a high position in the
died in 1996 and none of the remaining Jews can perform the liturgy royal palace.
and only a couple know Hebrew. (Associated Press, March 28, 1998).
Samuel was a merchant, supporting himself with great difficulty until
▲ the devastating days in Spain which followed the fall of the Amirid
kingdom when the Berbers secured the power. [The civil war, which
began in Spain in 1009, reached its climax in 1012 in the sack of
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Cordova by the Berbers.]
JEWS IN SPAIN BY THE MUSLIMS
It was then that the land of Cordova began to decline and its
In Spain, the Caliphs had great interest in their scholarly Jews, in the
inhabitants fled. Some of them ran away to Saragossa, where their
reign of Caliph Abderahman III, had a Jewish minister, Hasdai ben
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descendants are even now; some fled to Toledo and their descendants as the successor, but all the rest of the people favored Badis. The
are known there even to this day. Jews, too, and among them Rabbi Joseph ibn Migas, Rabbi Isaac ben
Leon, and Rabbi Nehemiah, who was called Escafa, three Granada
This Rabbi Samuel HaLevi fled to Malaga. There he had a shop and notables, favored Bulukkin, but Rabbi Samuel HaLevi favored Badis.
was a petty merchant. His shop happened to be near the palace of Ibn
alArif, the vizier of King Habbus [10191038], the son of Maksan, the On the day that King Habbus died, the Berber princes and their
King of the Berbers, in Granada. At the request of a maid servant of distinguished men rose in the morning to crown his son Bulukkin.
the vizier, Samuel used to write letters for her to her master the vizier, Bulukkin, however, immediately went and kissed the hand of his
Abu alKasim ibn alArif. This latter saw his letters and was amazed at elder brother Badis. Thus Badis was crowned in the year 4787 [1027]
his wisdom. and the face of his enemies turned black like the bottom of a pot; and
against their will they had to crown Badis. [Badis was really crowned
Some time later this vizier, Ibn alArif, got permission of his king, in 1038 and died in 1073.]
Habbus, to return to his home in Malaga. There he asked the people of
his house: "Who used to write those letters that came to me from After this Bulukkin regretted that he had made his brother king and
you?" "A certain Jew," they answered, "who comes from the kept on getting the upper hand over his brother Badis, with the result
community of Cordova and lives near your palacehe used to write that King Badis was unable to do a thing, big or small, without his
them for us." Immediately the secretary issued a command and they brother's interference. But after this his brother Bulukkin became sick,
rushed Rabbi Samuel HaLevi to him. "It is unbecoming for you to sit and the King gave orders to the physician not to cure him. The
in a shop," he said to him. "Stay here with me." He did so and became physician obeyed, and Bulukkin died. Thus was the kingdom
his secretary and adviser. established in the hands of Badis. These three distinguished Jews of
the city, whom we have mentioned, fled to the land of Seville [then
The vizier used to advise the King according to the advice given by hostile to Granada].
Rabbi Samuel HaLevi, of blessed memory.
Rabbi Samuel HaLevi was appointed Prince in the year 4787 [1027],
All his advice was as though it came from God, and the King Habbus and he conferred great benefits on Israel in Spain, in northeastern and
prospered through it very much. After some time the vizier, Ibn north central Africa, in the land of Egypt, in Sicily, well as far as the
alArif, became mortally ill, and King Habbus, who came to visit him, Babylonian academy, and the Holy City, Jerusalem. All the students
said to him: "What shall I do? Who will advise me in the wars which who lived in those lands benefited by his generosity, for he bought
encompass me?" "I have never advised you," he answered him, "out numerous copies of the Holy Scriptures, the Mishnah, and the
of my own mind, but at the suggestion of this Jew, my secretary. Take Talmudthese, too, being holy writings. [Ibn Daud here refutes the
care of him, and he will be as a father and a minister to you. Do Karaites who denied the authority of the Mishnah and the Talmud.]
whatever he advises you, and God will help you." So after the death
of the vizier, King Habbus took Rabbi Samuel HaLevi and brought To every onein all the land of Spain and in all the lands that we have
him to his palace and he became his vizier and councillor. mentionedwho wanted to make the study of the Torah his profession,
he would give of his money. He had scribes who used to copy
In the year 4780 [l020] he was in the palace of the King Habbus. Mishnahs and Talmuds, and he would give them as a gift to students,
[Samuel was already an important official before 1020.] The king had in the academies of Spain or in the lands we have mentioned, who
two sons: the name of the elder was Badis, and the younger, were not able to buy them with their own means. [Printing was not yet
Bulukkin. All the Berber princes favored Bulukkin, the younger son, invented. Manuscripts were very expensive.] Besides this, he
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furnished olive oil every year for the lamps of the synagogues in In Almohade Dynasty (AlMahdeyeen), who were fanatic warriors.
Jerusalem. He spread the knowledge of the Torah [Jewish learning] AbdelMumen, gave two choices to both Jews and Christians, Islam
very widely and died an old man, at a ripe age, after having acquired or Exile. Many Jews and Christian secretly preferred to Exile than
the four crowns: the crown of the Torah, the crown of high station, the convert.
crown of Levitical descent, and what is more than all these, the crown
of a good name merited by good deeds. He died in the year 4815 Many other notable Jewish men contributed to the Islamic world.
[1055] and his son, Rabbi Joseph HaLevi, the Prince, succeeded him. Solomon Ibn Gabirol (10211070) in poetry and philosophy,
[It is more probable that Samuel died in 1056 or later when Joseph (b. Maimonaides (11351204) and many others. When Jews were
1035), succeeded him as vizier.] perceived as having achieved too comfortable a position in Islamic
society, antiSemitism would surface, often with devastating results:
Of all the good traits of his father, Joseph lacked but one. He was not On December 30, 1066, Joseph HaNagid, the Jewish vizier of
humble like his father because he grew up in riches, and he never had Granada, Spain, was crucified by an Arab mob that proceeded to raze
to bear the yoke [of poverty and discipline] in his youth. He was the Jewish quarter of the city and slaughter its 5,000 inhabitants. The
proud to his own hurt, and the Berber princes were jealous of him, riot was incited by Muslim preachers who had angrily objected to
with the result that on the Sabbath, on the 9th of Tebet in the year what they saw as inordinate Jewish political power.
4827 [Saturday, December 30, 1066], he and the Community of
Granada were murdered. [About 150 families were killed. This is the ▲
first known massacre of Jews in Spain by Moslems.]
NAZI ISLAM CONNECTION, THE PERSECUTION OF
All those who had come from distant lands to see his learning and his
JEWS CONCLUSION
greatness mourned for him, and the lament for him spread to all lands
and to all cities. Since the days of the ancient rabbis of blessed
These facts presented here are an important element necessary for a
memorywho wrote the Scroll of Fasts and decreed that the 9th of
just trial in the question presented by Colin Chapman and the
Tebet should be a fast, the reason for the decree was never known.
"common" opinions passed down by the power of tradition and one
But from this incident we know that they were directed by the Holy
sided historical reviews.In the light of all these historic facts, one
Spirit to fix this day. After his death his books and treasures were
would wonder, why would Colin Chapman concludes: "Both
scattered and dispersed throughout the world So also were the
people[Jew and Arab], know the meaning of the word 'suffering' and
disciples whom he had raised up. After his death they became the
'injustice" (Whose Promised Land, p196).
rabbis of Spain and the leaders of the generation. (Sassoon, D. S.,
"Diwan of the Vizier Samuel Hannaghid," The Jewish Chronicle,
For the suffering caused to Arabs from the wars, it is obvious the
(London), March 28, 1924).
Arabs suffered wars and losses from wars but the question remains
when were the Arabs persecuted by Jews? Asking such a question
Another Jew, Samuel haLevi ibinNagrela, or Samuel HaNagid, as
would have waves of answers, but after a close and honest
he was called, was a firstrate theologian, a poet and the minister for
examination the flood will prove to be just another mirage. It is
the Caliph. Later the Jews were accused with false charges of
important to mention that none of these facts presented in this section
converting their neighbors, 1,500 families were persecuted and had to
are taught in any Arab or Muslim society, Islam and the Middle East
leave Granada (1066) to other cities.
has no freedom of expression.
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▲ Regarding weapons in the hands of Arab terrorists, Arafat said,
"These weapons could be obtained only from high authorities with
great influence on the Israeli side." (Jerusalem Post, March 22, 1996)
WHAT DO THE PALESTINIANS TEACH IN SCHOOLS,
MEDIA, AND MOSQUES
"An unholy conspiracy of Israeli 'fanatics', who are members of a
shadowy group of exIDF people called 'OAS', and Moslem
▲ extremists were behind [the Feb.1996] suicide bombings, Palestinian
Authority President Yasser Arafat told foreign diplomats...Arafat is
THE JEWS GUILTY FOR ANY TRUMPED UP CHARGE known to have said last year, before [Ehud] Barak became [Israel's]
foreign minister, that 'Barak is one of the big bosses of the OAS'..."
My experience: (Jerusalem Post, Feb.27, 1996)
When I was a child a hungry young cousin of mine had picked up a Referring to the Arab terrorist attack in Beit Lid, in which 22 Israelis
piece of bread off the ground outside of the house. The kid was were killed, and other attacks in 1995, Arafat said, "I have evidences
caught by my grand mother just before she intended to eat it, she was that these terrorist activities have been done through coordination
reprimanded "Don't you know the Jews are putting bread in front of between these fanatic Islamic groups and some elements on the Israeli
Arab houses which are tainted with poison?". I never knew that side." (Washington Post, May 2, 1995)
grandma's suspicions would turn to a national accusation. Even while
going to school we are sometimes warned that the Jews would put "PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, in interviews published yesterday,
chemicals in the school water to cause sterility. (The Author). accused IDF troops of aiding the spread of arms in the territories in a
plot to create chaos in Palestinian selfrule areas...'This weapons trade
Today's reality is much worse then my grand mother's fairy tale, Israel is being carried out under the auspices of some Israeli officers in the
is even put on trial for countless false accusations as an amusement West Bank and Gaza. This is part of a wicked plan'..." (Jerusalem
for a world's mock trial. The bizarre array of surprise accusations by Post, Feb. 18 & Feb. 19, 1994)
top Palestinian officials, statesmen, doctors, lawyers, journalists,
religious clergy, laboratories, schools, researchers, advertisements, "Israel has been using chemical weapons against Palestinians in the
news media, and including Arafat himself along with the first lady territories for 27 months with the support of the U.S. It's not tear gas,
Suha Taweel. These volumes of accusations includes; arson attempts it's chemical weapons." (Yasir Arafat, Jerusalem Post, April 1, 1990)
on the Temple Mount area, destruction, and the digging of tunnels,
the creation of artificial earthquakes. Terrorist attacks on Jewish ▲
civilians including the spread of arms on the new Palestinian state are
blamed on Israel. Libelous accusations of spreading spoiled corn oil
LIBELOUS ACCUSATIONS
in the West Bank, along with English Cadbury chocolate tainted with
the 'Mad Cow' disease, use of a chemical agent in attempted
"Maher alDasuki, head of the Palestinian Consumer Protection
assassinations Palestinians, selling sexuallystimulating gums to
Council, said that spoiled corn oil is being distributed in the West
Palestinians, spreading cancer agents, even to the point of injecting
Bank. According to alDasuki, the oil is marketed after having been
Palestinian infants with the HIV virus causing Aids.
smuggled in from Israel, where the plastic bottle is refilled a second
time inside the settlements and then distributed with the help of
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collaborators...AlDasuki emphasized that residents must be on guard prisoners, the human rights organizations are being called upon
regarding chocolate produced in England, and especially that of today... to reexamine the cases of unexplained deaths in Israeli jails
Cadbury, which is widely available on Palestinian markets, since they and the cases of prisoners who died of unknown diseases." (Article,
make use of milk tainted with the 'Mad Cow' disease. AlDasuki said the Palestinian daily AlQuds, October 15, 1997.
that the sale of such chocolate is forbidden in Britain, but Israeli
merchants have smuggled it into the Palestinian areas and they entice "There is an Israeli mafia which is distributing spoiled food products
people to buy it via the teacups distributed for free along with the under the aegis of Israeli generals in the territories of the Palestinian
purchase of each pack." Authority... they are distributors of death." (PA Deputy Minister of
Supplies Abdel Hamid alQudsi in a speech before businessmen at the
from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda, Chamber of Commerce in Tulkarem (Itim news agency, July 9, 1997).
December 8, 1997
"Israel is distributing food containing material that causes cancer and
"Abd AlFatah Hamid, the Head of the Control and Inspection hormones that harm male virility and other spoiled food products in
Department in the PA Ministry of Supplies, said that a committee will the Palestinian Authority's territories in order to poison and harm the
work ...against spoiled goods and food supplies, which are one of Palestinian population. We absolutely feel that it is an organized plan
Israel's means in its war against Palestinian society. Hamid said that and conspiracy which is under the auspices of the Israel Defense
the source of most of the spoiled food was the settlements, and Forces... this is a planned and initiated war against the Palestinian
pointed to the fact that the Ministry puts much effort in tracking the people." (PA Deputy Minister of Supplies Abdel Hamid alQudsi in a
settlements and those smuggling spoiled food." (Palestinian paper, Al newspaper interview, Yediot Aharonot, June 25, 1997.)
Ayyam, October 29, 1997.)
"Laboratory tests made on seven brands of Israeli gum smuggled into
"Israel has been using chemical weapons against Palestinians in the the West Bank and Gaza showed they contain a sexuallystimulating
territories for 27 months with the support of the U.S. It's not tear gas, adrenaline substance." (Saleh Abdulal, Director of the Inspection
it's chemical weapons." (Yasir Arafat, Jerusalem Post, April 1, 1990) Department of the PA Ministry of Supplies, quoted by the official PA
newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda, May 26, 1997.)
"In order to establish the Temple in place of the AlAqsa mosque,
Israel employed different methods starting with arson attempts, "They brought Russian Jewish girls with AIDS to spread the disease
destruction, and the digging of tunnels... and ending with the creation among Palestinian youth." (AbdelRazek AlMajeeda, Commander of
of artificial earthquakes that can be triggered from afar which will the Palestinian General Security Service in Gaza, quoted by the
undermine its foundations and will destroy itand then Israel will not official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda, May 15, 1997.)
permit its renovation... but will use the opportunity to complete its
destruction and to establish the [Jewish] Temple in its place..." "Since the very beginning of the ArabIsraeli conflict, Israeli
(Article, "AlAqsa Surrounded by Conspiracies" in the official PA governments were anxious to apply the most dangerous ethnic
newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda, October 26, 1997.) cleansing theory against the Palestinian people. According to their
racist ideology, the Israeli policy makers were dedicated to capturing
"The failed attempt to assassinate Khaled Mish'al in Aman raises a land without a people for a people without a land." (PA Information
many questions... In light of the use of a chemical agent in the Ministry press release, March 29, 1997.)
attempted assassination and in light of repeated reports in the Israeli
press itself about medical experiments conducted on Palestinian
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"Israeli authorities... infected by injection 300 Palestinian children "The words 'State of Israel' should be replaced with 'Zionist entity' in
with the HIV virus during the years of the intifada." (Palestinian the Palestinian lexicon." (Suleiman Roumi, member of the PA
representative Nabil Ramlawi at a session of the United Nations Legislative Council (AlHayat AlJadeeda, August 10, 1997).
Commission on Human Rights in Geneva (Jerusalem Post, March 17,
1997). "Highranking officials in Israel's Religious Affairs Ministry and
Antiquities Office recently stole a stone from the Umayyad Palaces
▲ located in the vicinity of AlHaram AlKudsi [The AlAksa and
Dome of the Rock Mosques in Jerusalem]...This stone was sent to
Germany for special laboratory tests...in order to prove the claim that
THE JEWS ARE ILLEGITIMATE
the stone belonged to their alleged temple... Hamad Yusef, head of
The Institution for the Rejuvenation of the Palestinian Heritage, said
"The archeology of Jerusalem is diverse excavations in the Old City
that the aim in analyzing the stone was to prove the false historical
and the areas surrounding it revealed Umayyad Islamic palaces,
claim of the Jews in the holy city, a claim which they were unable to
Roman ruins, Armenian ruins and others, but nothing Jewish. Outside
prove in all of the excavations conducted by foreign groups for the
of what is mentioned written in the Old and New Testaments, there is
past hundred years, as well as in the Israeli excavations being carried
no tangible evidence of any Jewish traces remains in the old city of
out under the foundations of AlHaram AlKudsi for the past thirty
Jerusalem and its immediate vicinity."
years. Hamad accused the Israelis of unprecedented historical
forgeries, emphasizing the Palestinian, the Arab and the Islamic
PA Information Ministry Press Release, December 10, 1997.
nature of the holy city for the past 6000 years. Israel fails in her
attempt to find a historical connection to Jerusalem." (Article in the
"Why do the Jews from all over the world gather together to establish
Palestinian daily AlAyyam, July 18, 1997)
their false state on the Land of Palestine when the true owners of the
land are prevented from establishing their state on it?"
▲
from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
December 9, 1997. THE JEWS ARE THE DEVIL
"There is no people or land named Israel. Israel is our patriarch "It is important to conduct the conflict according to the foundations
Yaaqoub, peace be upon him, and the children of Israel are the sons of which both are leaning on...particularly the Jews...such as the Torah,
Yaaqoub... We are the children of Israel.... These people are the the Talmud and the Protocols [of the elders of Zion]... All signs
children of the Zionist entity, they are the children of the colonialist unequivocally prove that the conflict between the Jews and the
entity, they are nothing more than thieves. They came and took land Muslims is an eternal and ongoing conflict, even if it stops for short
which does not belong to them. Therefore, the normalization of intervals... This conflict resembles the conflict between man and
relations with them is impossible.... even if Palestine remains Satan... This is the fate of the Muslim nation, and beyond that the fate
occupied for hundreds of years... These Zionists are not fit to establish of all of the nations of the world, to be tormented by this nation [the
a nation or to have their own language or even their own religion. Jews]. The fate of the Palestinian people is to struggle against the
They are nothing more than a hodgepodge." (Iinterview with Islamic Jews on behalf of the Arab peoples, the Islamic peoples and the
author Safi Naz Kassam published in the official PA newspaper Al peoples of the entire world."(Palestinian Researcher Ahmed al
Hayat AlJadeeda, September 1, 1997. )
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Awadeh, published in the official PA newspaper AlHayat Al PA UnderSecretary for Culture Yihya Yakhlaf, AlAyyam,
Jadeeda, September 1, 1997. ) August 7, 1997.
▲ "The Israeli colonialist occupation of Palestine is turning into
aggression against all Islam and Christian holy sites. Zionist racism
reaches its peak with this Talmudic offensive, which tears the pages
THE JEWS ARE RACIST
of the Koran, and which offends the Master of Prophets, Muhammad,
Allah's blessing be with him, and the Blessed Virgin, mother of
"There are many indications that the American initiative, in case it is
Christ, may they rest in peace."
proposed, will reflect a strong bias toward the Zionistracist solution
to the Palestine problem... It will adopt the idea of giving the name
Hasan AlKashef, DirectorGeneral of the PA Information
'Palestinian State' to lands crowded with Palestinian population and
Ministry, quoted in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
construction in the West Bank and Gaza... Hard conditions will be
July 7, 1997.
forced on this state which will be demilitarized and limited [in
authority] enabling the Zionist entity to control its affairs in such a
way that will make this state to look like a series of "enclaves" within
the Zionistracist entity called 'Israel.'"
Please compare these awakening few recent quotations by their leader
Mr. Yasser Arafat the winner of a Noble Peace Prize, and leading
from an interview with Palestinian National Council member
corrupt figures in the Palestinian Authority to Nazi and Russian
Ahmad Sidqi alDajani which appeared in the official PA newspaper
Pogroms statements against the Jews:
AlHayat AlJadeeda on October 20, 1997.
"Zionist thought gave birth to political Zionism ... this blind military ▲
power and extreme racism. For one hundred years the Zionist
movement has been spreading the poison of Zionist ideology... What THE JEWS SPREAD DISEASE
is happening these days, expresses this ideology which their children
suckle with their mother's milk...When the UN General Assembly Muhammad Dahlan, head of Arafat's Preventive Security Service in
defined Zionism as a form of racism, it expressed this as a fact, a fact Gaza, in an interview with the Hamas newspaper AlRisallah (cited in
which is backed up by Israeli operations which the human conscience Ha'aretz, 15 June 1997) Slander against Israel: "Israel is distributing
cannot bear. Zionism remains ... another face of racism, despite all the food containing cancercausing material and hormones that harm
pressure the US has put in order to change the UN decision or to male virility and other spoiled food products in the Palestinian
cancel it... Accordingly, we are facing a Zionist ideology which Authority's territories, in order to poison and harm the Palestinian
belongs to a dynasty of dinosaurs. And if human history has population. We absolutely feel it is an organized plot and conspiracy
swallowed all the dynasties of dinosauran ideologies from Hulagu under the auspices of the Israel Defense Forces this is a planned and
[the Mongolian conqueror] to Hitler, in addition to the racist ideology initiated war against the Palestinian people.".
in South Africa, the survival of Zionist ideology on this piece of our
planet, is a deviant phenomenon and a historical lie..." "Israeli authorities... infected by injection 300 Palestinian children
with the HIV virus during the years of the Intifada." Palestinian
U.N. representative Nabil Ramlawi at a session of the United Nations
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Commission on Human Rights in Geneva (Jerusalem Post, 17 March "We believe that the Israelis are not adventuresome because the
1997). Jewish brain is cowardly and does not tend toward adventure, but
rather exchanges it for plotting... These things have to be said as a
These kind of accusations have been going on for centuries in order to description of the situation, and as a description of the baseness of this
condemn the Jews. The inquisitions, Russian Pogroms, Nazis, and reactionary and cruel American Jewish world."
Arab propaganda have always used sinister schemes in order to
promote hate to the Jew. These schemes are and has always been from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
expressed in the political, educational, and religious enteties in July 27, 1997.
Palestine.
▲
▲
THE JEWS ARE SHYLOCKS
THE JEWS SPILL BLOOD
"Whoever comes in contact with the banks discovers that they act in
"Jews Spread Death and Spill Blood": In an October 31, 1997 article Shylock's way.... We do not want Shylockstyle banks that empty our
in AlHayat AlJadeedah, Fuad Abu Hijla condemned "those who pockets, but national banks; we have had enough of the Shylock of
spread death and murder and spill blood, and who are said to be our the lands and settlements."
cousins and, like us, 'the children of Abraham,' despite the fact that
Abraham did not immigrate to Poland, did not visit New York and (Article "The Banks and Shylock" in the official PA newspaper Al
New Jersey, and did not live in Russia." Hayat AlJadeeda by the paper's editor Hafez alBarghouti, November
5, 1997.)
▲ from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
August 16, 1997.
THE JEWS ARE LEACHES
"We are fighting and struggling with an enemy who is Shylock. We
"...A doctor currently dealing with the national dialogue says: "...in
must know that he is Shylock."
my experience Israeli blood is AB minus which takes from everyone
and doesn't give to anyone except those of his own [blood] type
Othman Abu Gharbiya, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's Adviser on
while Palestinian blood is O minus which gives to everyone and
National Political Guidance, in an interview with the official PA radio
takes only from his own type..." Generosity is an Arab custom and
station the Voice of Palestine, March 15, 1997.
stinginess is a Jewish custom. Therefore, it is only natural that we
give and they take. We are killed and they incarcerate! We build and
they destroy! We agree and they refuse! We make commitments and ▲
they close us off!"
THE JEWS ARE BLOOD SUCKERS
from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
August 5, 1997. "The portrait of the usurious Jew painted by Shakespeare in his well
known masterpiece, "The Merchant of Venice" did not ignite a Jewish
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attack accusing him of antiSemitism, since it fit the general view On the basis of the Palestinian National Charter and the Political
held by Europeans at that time, when the European
continent...vomited the Jews to the periphery... The Israelis wish to Programme drawn up at the eleventh session, held from January 612,
contain Christian pilgrims in the year 2000...put them next to the
settlers who have their sights set on large financial compensation and 1973; and from its belief that it is impossible for a permanent and just
immediate profit out of land ownership which has been confiscated by
a mayor backed by fanatical religious and nationalistic trends and by a peace to be established in the area unless our Palestinian people
millionaire usurer who comes from across the ocean...At this moment
the portrait of the Shakespearean hero reappears...and all signs point recover all their national rights and, first and foremost, their rights
to the fact that this merchant of Venice will become a new Dracula."
to return and to selfdetermination on the whole of the soil of their
(The Legend of Jewish Superiority?!" in the Palestinian daily Al
Quds, November 11, 1997.) homeland; and in the light of a study of the new political
circumstances
"...It is impossible to rely on international or Arab national circles as
long as Netanyahu's claws of hatred dive into our Palestinian blood in that have come into existence in the period between the Council's last
search of oxygenrich blood cells...our movement found in Netanyahu
something it could not ignore which is the dismemberment of the and present sessions, resolves the following:
agreement by the fangs of hatred and the chewing of the peace by the
teeth of the Talmud... We must recognize that this stubborn enemy, 1. To reaffirm the Palestine Liberation Organization's previous
locks itself in the Talmud's cocoon..." attitude
"The [Palestinian] Authority cannot do a thing, except protect its Council therefore refuses to have anything to do with this resolution
people and itself from an enemy which bares its Jewish fangs from at
the four corners of the earth...
any level, Arab or international, including the Geneva Conference.
from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
August 6, 1997. 2. The Liberation Organization will employ all means, and first and
▲ foremost armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian territory and to
THE FACES OF PEACE establish the independent combatant national authority for the people
The Palestinian National Council: over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated. This will
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require further changes being effected in the balance of power in it will be able to perform its national duties and tasks.
favour
8. Once it is established, the Palestinian national authority will
of our people and their struggle.
strive to achieve a union of the confrontation countries, with the aim
3. The Liberation Organization will struggle against any proposal for
a of completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory, and as a step
Palestinian entity the price of which is recognition, peace, secure along the road to comprehensive Arab unity.
frontiers, renunciation of national rights and the deprival of our 9. The Liberation Organization will strive to strengthen its solidarity
people of their right to return and their right to selfdetermination on with the socialist countries, and with forces of liberation and progress
the soil of their homeland. throughout the world, with the aim of frustration all the schemes of
4. Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realization Zionism, reaction and imperialism.
of the Liberation Organization's strategy of establishing the 10. In light of this programme, the leadership of the revolution will
democratic
determine the tactics which will serve and make possible the
Palestinian state specified in the resolutions of previous realization
Palestinian National Councils. of these objectives.
5. Struggle along with the Jordanian national forces to establish The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization
will make every effort to implement this programme, and should a
a JordanianPalestinian national front whose aim will be to set up in situation arise affecting the destiny and the future of the Palestinian
Jordan a democratic national authority in close contact with the people, the National Assembly will be convened in extraordinary
Palestinian entity that is established through the struggle. session. (Political Programme Adopted at the 12th Session of the
Palestinian National Council Cairo, June 9, 1974).
6. The Liberation Organization will struggle to establish unity in
struggle between the two peoples and between all the forces of the ▲
Arab liberation movement that are in agreement on this programme.
HISTORICAL FABRICATIONS
7. In the light of this programme, the Liberation Organization will
struggle to strengthen national unity and to raise it to the level where
Yasir Arafat the Noble Peace Prize winner stated:
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"Abraham was neither Jewish nor a Hebrew, but was simply an Iraqi. Palestinian Arab Schools Promote Hatred, Not Peace. Arafat's Orders:
The Jews have no right to claim part of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Schools Must Teach That Israel's Existence Is A "Catastrophe"
Hebron, Abraham's resting place, as a synagogue. Rather, the whole
building should be a mosque." (Yasir Arafat, quoted in the Jerusalem "The Palestinian Education Ministry has decided that the topic
Report, Dec. 26, 1996) [Balfour Declaration] will now be introduced into the Palestinian
educational curriculum...every year, on November 2, teachers will
"The Palestinian Authority is now claiming that Rachel's Tomb in devote a lesson to studying the Balfour Declaration and its
Bethlehem is the traditional tomb of the Cushite servant of 'catastrophic' ramifications on the Palestinian people. Likewise, the
Mohammed." (Ha'aretz, Oct.9, 1996) Palestinian news media, including the radio and television, will
dedicate special programs to the topic...Teachers and educators were
"That is not the Western Wall at all, but a Moslem shrine." asked to explain to students that the anniversary is a 'painful'
(Yasir Arafat, quoted in Ma'ariv, Oct. 11, 1996) memorial and a 'disaster' for the Palestinian people." (Khaled Abu
Tuama, correspondent for the weekly Jerusalem newspaper)
"The people of Israel realize perfectly well that they have no temples
or ruins near Al Aqsa Mosque. According to the Koran, the people of Palestinian Arab denunciations of the Balfour Declaration are
Israel lived somewhere to the west of Bethlehem...they were living in therefore, a rejection of the idea that a Jewish state of any size has a
Bethlehem and not in Jerusalem." (Sheikh Ismail Jamal, the PLO's right to exist.
Director of the Islamic Wakf in Jericho, quoted in the Chicago Jewish
Sentinel, May 18, 1995) Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported describing the first of the PA's new
school textbook The New History of the Arabs and the World which
Arafat once "convened a conference of the international press to claim according to the report "compares Zionism with Nazism and describes
that an imprint of an ancient Judean coin on the Israeli 10agorot coin the Talmud as a book of hatred toward gentiles...is to be used in most
was Israel's imperialistic expansion map. This coin, he said, shows of the Palestinian Authority's schools...also claims Zionism advocated
that Israel plans to conquer Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and parts of Egypt the liquidation [of the Palestinian Arabs]..."the racist and aggressive
and Saudi Arabia." (Jerusalem Post, Feb. 22, 1995) nature of the Zionist movement,....the basic similarity between
Nazism, Fascism, and Zionism." (November 3, 1999)
"... 'Netanyahu's Plan' completely matches the foundations of the
greater Zionist plan which is organized according to specific stages ▲
that were determined when the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were
composed and when Herzl along with Weizmann traveled around the
THE MUSLIM CLERGY IN JERUSALEM
world in order to determine the appropriate location for the
implementation of this conspiracy." (article in the official PA
It seems that nothing changed since Haj AlAmeen AlHusseni's Nazi
newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda, November 30, 1997).
propaganda, Ikrima Sabri is another carbon copy of the original
Muftis:
▲
"Oh, Allah, destroy America for it is controlled by Zionist
PALESTINIAN SCHOOLS Jews...Allah will avenge, in the name of his Prophet, the colonialist
settlers who are the descendants of monkeys and pigs...forgive us, oh
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Muhammad, for the acts of these monkeys and pigs who wished to excerpt from the weekly Friday prayer sermon at AlAqsa mosque
profane your holiness". broadcast on the official PA radio station the Voice of Palestine,
October 24, 1997).
(from the weekly Friday prayer sermon by PA Mufti Ikrima Sabri
broadcast on the official PA radio station the Voice of Palestine, July ▲
11, 1997.
THE PALESTINIAN MEDIA
When comparing Sabri with his predecessors before him, it is
understood that much in common they have since Islamic
"Egypt declared its absolute refusal to grant a prize to Israelthe
fundamentals are what fuels their speeches and rhetoric. One could
convening of the Doha summitand displayed its indifference to
fairly say in Palestine "once a Mufti always a Mufti".
American pressuretactics employed by the Judaized Congress."
"Israeli authorities... infected by injection 300 Palestinian children
from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda
with the HIV virus during the years of the Intifada." (Friday prayer
by its editor Hafez alBarghouti, November 18, 1997.
sermon by PA Mufti Ikrima Sabri from the Temple Mount(AlAqsa
Mosque) broadcasted on the official PA radio station the Voice of
"There is a need to formulate a clear information plan... In order for
Palestine, July 11, 1997.).
us to oppose the Zionist media, which dominates more than half of the
media in the world newspapers, radio and television."
"Jerusalem is a symbol for every Muslim in the world. The claim of
the Jews to the right over it is false, and we recognize nothing but an
from a program on the official PA television station about the
entirely Islamic Jerusalem under Islamic supervision..." (PA Mufti
media, December 3, 1997.
Ikrama Sabri, AlBilad, July 31, 1997)
"Israeli society started feeling ashamed of Netanyahu's rise to the
"The Zionist entity exists on seized land. The Jews remain enemies
highest position of power...when all of his qualities amount to his
because they expropriate lands, build settlements and pay high sums
outdated Talmudic arrogance and his absolute belief that he is the
to buy properties. They are the greatest enemies of us Muslims." (PA
spoiled child of Brooklyn's nymphs."
Mufti Ikrama Sabri in a newspaper interview (The New York Times,
May 18, 1997)
from a communiqué issued by Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the
PLO, quoted in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
"The existing State of Israel is not worthy of ruling since they know
November 4, 1997.
no religion and no God." (Sheikh Hamid AlBitawi, chairman of the
Palestine Religious Scholars Association and head of the PA's Sharia
"We did not take into account the way of thinking of the other side
Court of Appeals in Nablus, in an interview with the official PA
which is a Jewish mentality based on the love of controlling
newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda, July 27, 1997.)
everything, and which does not easily grants others their rights..."
"...The Jews always set a trap for the community of Muslims... The
from an article in the Palestinian newspaper AlQuds (November
Koran repeatedly warns against the traps and plots of the "people of
1, 1997).
the book". They relentlessly scheme in all times and places and this is
what they do today and tomorrow against the Muslim camp..." (An
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US AmbassadorDesignate to Israel Edward Walker "underwent Hasan AlKashef, DirectorGeneral of the PA Information
extensive hearings in the Congress or, that is, in the 'Council of the Ministry, quoted in the official PA newspaper AlHayat AlJadeeda,
Elders of Zion', in order to win his post." July 7, 1997.
"...The rumor about the 'superior Jew' versus the 'stupid' others which
JEWS ARE NAZIS are not worthy of anything but of serving as subjects, is spread around
the world. The Jews put their best efforts into creating it. Every
"The appearance of the Zionist movement prompted the emergence of genius has to be of Jewish descent; if he is not of Jewish descent he is
terrorist, racist ideologies, such as, the Nazi ideology. There is great
forced to make one up for himself. Additionally, any talented military
similarity between the two ideologies: the Zionists believe that they commander, either his mother is Jewish if his name is reminiscent of
are "God's Chosen People," and that other nations were created to be
anything Jewish, or, if his mother is not Jewish then he ends up being
used and ridiculed... the Zionist Jews claim that they hate the nations a Jewish agent. The Jews succeeded, during their history, to turn the
since they persecute them out of jealousy of their wisdom, their
massacres they were subjected to into a 'weapon of mass destruction'
success and their being God's chosen. Similarly, the Nazis claim that against their adversaries and used the weapon of antiSemitism in an
the Aryans are the chosen and the pure and that antiSemitism is the
impressive way... In order to establish their "superiority" they
punishment of the Jewish Germans who betrayed their country... Of provided proof and claimed that the founder of modern psychology,
course the similarity between the two racist ideologies the Zionist
Sigmund Freud, is a Jew in origin and blood; that the father of the
and the Nazi is obvious and the despicable racial content of each of Theory of Relativity, who changed the face of science, Albert
them is clear. The Zionist movement, as well as Nazism, believes that
Einstein, is a Jew inside and out, and that Isaac Newton, who
it represents the absolute truth that must be maintained, otherwise it discovered Gravity, is wholeheartedly a Jew. The best proof of the
will lose its value. .. The Nazi ideology pushed the world into the hell
Jewish political ability is the Communist Karl Marx, who is also a
of the Second World War...and during the war applied all forms of Jew from birth. Regarding the millionaires... from Rothschild through
terrorism, exactly as the Zionists are doing now. After the passing of
Montefiore to Moskowitz: aren't they sufficient proof of Jewish
one hundred years since the establishment of Zionism, here comes 'superiority'?"
Benyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist enemy, and
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from an article in the Palestinian daily AlQuds, November 17,
1997.
"Netanyahu was blinded by the tyranny of power and is interested in
total Palestinian and Arab surrender to his unlimited desires... perhaps ▲
in the European style of the German armies so that he will be able to
impose greater Israel and establish the superiority of the Hebrew
MILITARY OFFICIALS
race..."
"What 'Israel' is trying to do...by way of its control over a number of
from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat Al
institutions in the US, such as the Congress and its allies...reveals the
Jadeedah, August 17, 1997.
nakedness of those people and their blind submission to world
Zionism...The peace equation was somewhat violated, since the
"While the Israeli government is speaking about the atrocities
Zionists were able to demonstrate their power in the US...that is the
committed against the Jews at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Dachau
power which was clearly revealed in the Zionist American Congress
concentration camps... it is directly involved these days in weaving
which led to the terrorizing of the American president and the
plots and causing two major catastrophes to their neighbors... Our
administration, through threats of sex and morals scandals which are
homeland was transformed into a big concentration camp..."
disseminated by the obedient media in the US..."
from a PA Information Ministry press release, April 22, 1997.
Brig. Gen. Khaled AlMusmar, Deputy Head of the PA's
Indoctrination Directorate, Falastin AlYaum, August 21, 1997.
Ironically, the view of Israel as Nazi and Fascist permeates
Palestinian News Papers, schools, Mosques, and even the walls
everywhere: ▲
"Jerusalemites and any other Muslim who is able to reach the gates of MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
the AlAqsa mosque for Friday prayers must report to the Israeli
police at the gates to hand in his ID to be checked and on many "Five Zionist Jews are running the policy of the United States in the
occasions is prevented from entry or even arrested. This of course Middle East: Madeleine Albright, William Cohen, Dennis Ross,
should remind the Europeans of Nazi occupation by Nazi soldiers Miller and Martin Indyk. It is not possible that the American nation,
surrounding churches and places of worship during the Second World which consists of 250 million people, can not find anyone other than
War. Israeli practices in many aspects are equal with, if not more five Zionist Jews to conduct the peace process with the Palestinians."
brutal than, those practiced by occupying Nazi soldiers dealing with
FrenchDutch citizens during the Second World War." PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Middein (Yediot Aharonot, April
13, 1997).
PA Information Ministry press release, December 10, 1997.
"Just as Hitler's Mein Kampf was a warning sign for his future
"...the Arab sees with his own eyes an Israeli occupation in Palestine, political path which brought disaster on Germany and the world, so
the Golan and Lebanon, which can not be compared to any Netanyahu's A Place Among the Nations explains all of the author's
occupation in this century except the Nazi occupation..." initiatives since he took power in Israel... The racist curses against the
enemy and the legendary praises of himself make a noticeable point
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of similarity between Hitler's and Netanyahu's books... Netanyahu fabrication. Some say that it does not matter what people believed, yet
tries to calm Jewish fears about the demographic superiority and the what we believed dictates our actions. Like I said, the state of the
natural Arab birth rates in Palestine... He does not refer to the means heart is what makes people, not facts, for not many are concerned
he will employ to achieve the goal of a reduction of the Arab birth about facts. (The Author).
rate... In this point we are reminded of Hitler's statements about the
sterilization of undesired segments of the population." Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Arafat's #2 man, and author of the
book "The Other Side" accused the Jews of having a secret
from an article by Nahid Munir AlRayyis, a member of the PA's Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement were less
Legislative Council (AlQuds, October 15, 1997). than one million Jews were killed: "the Zionist movement was a
partner in the slaughter of the Jews." (Jerusalem Post, Jan. 26, 1995) .
▲ In a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, United Nations
Ambassador of Israel Yehuda Lancry protested "an alarming
THE CIVIL AUTHORITY
campaign of antiIsrael and antiJewish incitement emanating from
the Arab world," "This campaign of propaganda knows no bounds
"This reminds me of Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) who
demonization of the Israeli enemy, the most abhorrent antiSemitism
said 'tell lies and lies, and in the end they will believe you.' The same
and the denial of the Holocaust have emerged in full force," Lancry
is true of the Jews. It is a disgrace that they are issuing an arrest
wrote. He also noted that the campaign of rhetoric against Israel has
warrant against me. Apparently they have learned Goebbels'
increased as efforts to promote negotiations are intensified.
methods."
General Kofi Annan told the American Jewish Committee in
PA Police Chief Ghazi Jabali, in reaction to the arrest warrant
December he supports permanent status privileges for Israel in the
issued against him by Israel for his involvement in terrorist attacks
UN. Annan acknowledged the misguided efforts to isolate Israel and
(Maariv, September 12, 1997).
the "regrettable impression of bias and onesidedness" at the UN.
Annan did note some progress as antiSemitism finally was listed as a
▲ form of racism by the General Assembly last year. However, he noted
the body again has just passed antiIsraeli resolutions that "might
THE HOLOCAUST DENIAL, A FABRICATION? prejudice the outcome of delicate [peace] negotiations.".
Short testimony: In the U.S, Holocaust deniers in the U.S such as Bradley Smith
"director" of the selfstyled "Committee for Open Debate on the
Our first black and white TV was purchased in the 70’s. Joyful of this Holocaust," (CODOH) describe as Holocaust "revisionism," has
day my father allowed us to watch until the channel completed it’s become one of the most important vehicles for contemporary anti
broadcast for the day. That week was a special week, Israel was Semitism.
showing footage on the holocaust for several days nonstop. We
watched many hours feasting on pop corn laughing and mocking. It is Bradley and others strategy is simple and familiar. They distort, even
said that "a picture is worth a thousand words" yet to us a whole fabricate, history and then broadcast their creations. They have
footage of millions of pictures were worth nothing. Even after learned from Hitler that "a lie is believed because of the insolent
watching the footage, we still denied the holocaust as a Jewish inflexibility with which it is propagated." Smith and his cohorts are
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engaged in what historian Deborah Lipstadt has termed an "assault on which 1 1/2 million children were killed by the Nazis. This number
truth and memory.". was not previously known... If this number was indeed correct, then
someone would certainly have remembered it... In my opinion, it is an
While Holocaust denial and most conspiracy theories are clear to investment, and as you know, when it comes to economics and
most Americans to be a historical lie and taken with a grain of salt by investments, the Jews have been very experienced ever since the days
many, in the Middle East, such false ideas are simply good Media and of the Merchant of Venice."
easily sold to the public as fact. What is thrown out to the dump in the
American West has always found a haven in the Middle East. from a cultural affairs program broadcast on the official PA
Newspapers, School curriculum, and even children school books are television station on August 25, 1997.
plagued with Holocaust denial and imbued with hate to the point that
any attempt to reeducation would be considered a Zionist conspiracy. "At the end of our period of imprisonment the time passed very
slowly. We felt as if we were being burned. Imagine...the Jews are
Here are but a few examples: saying: "The Nazis burned us in gas chambers." That is a false tale,
but at times I felt that we were those who were being burned up
"Since its establishment, the racist Zionist entity has been within the walls..."
implementing various forms of terrorism on a daily basis which are a
repetition of the Nazi terror... This also explains the cooperation Abir AlWahidi, female Fatah terrorist released in February 1997,
between the Jews and the Nazis during World War II, through which in an interview with the official PA television station, February 13,
were revealed the forged claims of the Zionists regarding alleged acts 1997.
of slaughter perpetrated against the Jews during the same period..."
from an article in the official PA newspaper AlHayat Al
▲
Jadeedah, September 3, 1997.
ARAFAT REVEALED
"Moderator: It is wellknown that every year the Jews exaggerate
Arafat and his cabinet who blames the Jews as thieves pockets 40% of
what the Nazis did to them. They claim there were 6 million killed,
all monies donated by American tax dollars and the united nations.
but precise scientific research demonstrates that there were no more
"Almost all of it is stolen or dribbled away. The Palestinian
than 400,000. Has the complex which the Jews have as a result of the
Authority's own auditors reported last year that nearly 40 percent of
Nazis' actions created within them psychological burdens which they
the annual budget $323 million was wasted, looted, or misused. In
are now releasing against the Palestinians?
President Arafat's regime, bribery is endemic, services are nil,
connections are everything, and might is the only right there is".
Palestinian author Hassan AlAgha: The truth is I do not think so.
(THE WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, December 2, 1998).
Psychological baggage after 40 or 50 years... I am skeptical... But I do
think that we are talking about an investment. They have profited
Indeed, the world has gone crazy, for Arafat to win a Noble Prize for
materially, spiritually, politically and economically from the talk
peace is amazing. Arafat was questioned:
about the Nazi killings. This investment is favorable to them and they
view it as a profitable activity so they inflate the number of victims all
Do you feel sometimes that you made a mistake in agreeing to Oslo?
the time. In another ten years, I do not know what number they will
reach, Last year, for the first time, a statistic appeared according to
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Arafat: No... no. Allah's messenger Mohammad accepted the al must return to where they came from, to their Diaspora.... Abu
Hudaibiya peace treaty and Salah aDin accepted the peace agreement Ammar [Yasser Arafat] visited us and spoke with us...Abu Ammar
with Richard the LionHearted." (Palestinian Authority Chairman also thinks as I do. In the long run he will get all of Palestine. He
Yasser Arafat in a newspaper interview.) will not give up on one inch of Palestinian land...I don't want to
continue living in Gaza or Jenin. My place is in Palestinian
What Yasser Arafat was referring to is the permission by Allah to Beersheba." Suleiman Adwan, a PLO policeman and member of
break treaties and agreements made with any enemy since the ten the "Al Quds" Brigade, which is stationed in Jenin (Davar Rishon, 20
year pact was broken by Muhammad within two years, when the November 1995, page 2) On the liberation of Palestine: "The struggle
Islamic forces, having strengthened during the ceasefire, conquered will continue until all of Palestine is liberated." (PLO Chairman
the Koreish. Salah aDin was a Muslim leader who, after a ceasefire, Yasser Arafat, Voice of Palestine, 11 November 1995)
declared a jihad against the Crusaders and captured Jerusalem. This is
the idea and the plan behind the peace accord with Israel the enemy of The chameleon can change colors, but never it's nature.
Allah.
On Changing the PLO Covenant, which calls for the total destruction
▲
of Israel: "We have no intention of changing or nullifying the
HIS CONTINUED TIES WITH TERRORISM
Covenant, rather, we will adhere to it until our last breath since it
embodies the essence of our demands." Tayseer Qaba, deputy
The new "mini Iraq" state headed by Arafat has world recognition
chairman of the PLO's Palestine National Council (ANahar, 19
including Israel's favorite ally; the United States. Yet nothing has
September 1995, page 16)
changed in Arafat's methods of terrorism. The only thing different is
that he can always point the finger at Hammas while he carries on his
"Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Palestine whether someone
campaign of peace. As PA's Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein sums
likes it or not, and whoever does not like it, let him drink from the sea
it best: "The PA and the [Hamas] opposition complement each
of Gaza." P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, in a speech given at a
other...We regard Hamas and Islamic Jihad as national elements...The
party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (Palestine Broadcasting
main enemy, now and forever, is Israel." (An Nahar, April 11, 1995;
Corporation, 6 August 1995)
Al Quds, April 14, 1995)
"The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative
Hammas terrorist group for example, enjoys more then the full
to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian
benefits in this new state. The families of terrorists killed in action in
people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that
bus bombing and other civilian target attacks are awarded free air
the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the
tickets, monthly allowance, and scholarships abroad. Additional to
mosques of Jerusalem." (Yasser Arafat, in a speech given on 6 August
these benefits, Hammas Receives funding from Palestinian
1995 at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter, Haaretz, 6
expatriates, Iran, and private benefactors in Saudi Arabia and other
September 1995; The Jerusalem Post, 7 September 1995).
moderate Arab states. Some fundraising and propaganda activity take
place in Western Europe and North America as well.
"Jenin is the first nail in Israel's coffin. We will agree to leave here
only the dead Jews who are buried here. Like all Palestinians, I am
The first lady, Suha Tukan Arafat's wife carries along the mission and
happy that Arafat is here today in a liberated Palestinian city. With the
support. Parties are thrown in honor of terrorists, speeches by Arafat
help of Allah, all the land of Palestine will be liberated. The Jews
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and the first lady, and even street names are given after the names of Arafat's "Foreign Minister," Farouk Kaddoumi, said: "Hamas is part
terrorists. of the national movement and it has its own style and approach to
action. It is resisting the Israeli enemy." (An Nahar, March 9, 1996)
Hammas, the terrorist group, born in 1987 in the Gaza Strip. By 1988
as a primary rival to the PLO Founded on Islamic nationalism, it took PA Cabinet Minister Hanan Ashrawi said: "It is not up to Israel to
advantage of the Intifada which gave it's birth. Their plan of action decide or define who is our enemy. Hammas is not the enemy, it is
was an immediate and unrelenting frontal assault against Israel. part of the political fabric." (Jerusalem Post, July 25, 1995)
Hammas has known ties to Iran and suspected ties to individuals in
the United States and Western Europe are at the very least Abbas Zakai of the Fatah Central Committee said: "[Hamas's attacks]
maintaining the groups financial existence. Hammas is one of the strengthen the Palestinian position...It would be dangerous to stop
leading terrorist organizations of its kind. these actions, because the accords will crumble if there is nothing to
make Israel go forward." (Al Hayat, April 17, 1995)
Depending on the outcome of peace process, if the PLO does not
deliver the land to the Palestinians, Hammas is the likely candidate to Asked by a reporter about Hammas, Arafat replied, "There is no
take over Palestinian leadership, it has an armed militant wing known confrontation with Hammas and the Palestinian Authority." (United
as Izudeen AlQassam which carries out numbers of large scale Press International, September 12, 1996)
suicide bombings against Israeli targets. Primary targets are unarmed
Jewish settlers. This makes them all the more appealing as they PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein said: "The PA and the
present the greatest opportunity for the infliction of casualties. [Hamas] opposition compliment each other...We regard Hammas and
Islamic Jihad as national elements...The main enemy, now and
Hamas' relationship to the PLO is complex and intertwined, prior to forever, is Israel." (An Nahar, April 11, 1995; Al Quds, April 14,
the intifada, a number of Hammas had joined the PLO; and many 1995)
current Islamists are former PLO nationalists.
PA Cabinet Minister Nabil Sha'ath said: "We have a brotherly
Arafat has refused to extradite Hammas killers to Israel, shut down relationship with Hamas." (Reuters, Oct. 28, 1994)
Hammas training camps, outlaw Hammas, or even publicly criticize
Hammas by name. Col. Jibril Rajoub, chief of the Palestinian Hisham AbdelRazzak, Fatah leader in Gaza, said: "The dialogue with
Authority's Preventive Security Service, said in a May 27, 1998 Hammas will not be broken off. Hammas is part of the Palestinian
interview with AlJazira television: "We view Hammas as part of the people." (United Press International, Oct. 28, 1994)
national and Islamic liberation movement Outside of the 3 percent [of
JudeaSamaria that is under complete PA control] they can do as they Arafat and his Aides Praise Hamas Terrorists:
wish. They can go to Jordan to carry out armed operations and they
can also carry out such operations from Syria. At the top of my list of "The Engineer", Yahya Ayyash who led the military wing of Hammas
priorities is the [Israeli] occupation and not Hammas. We are not and was well known for his proficiency as a "bomb maker", suspected
interested in arrests." of planning seven suicide bombings in Israel that killed as many as 70
people then killed January 5th, 1996 by improvised explosive device
Arafat said "Hammas, even its military wing, is a patriotic contained within his cellular telephone. Israeli security officials have
movement." (The Russian newspaper Novoya Vremy, May 25, 1997). neither confirmed nor denied their involvement in Ayyash's death.
After his death, Arafat praised him as a "martyr" (N.Y.Times, Jan.8,
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1996) and had his name given to a public square in Arafatcontrolled complete PA control] they can do as they wish. They can go to Jordan
Jericho (Peace Watch June 1996 Report, p.15) , and a street in Beit to carry out armed operations and they can also carry out such
Lahiya (Jerusalem Post, Dec. 17, 1996) operations from Syria. At the top of my list of priorities is the [Israeli]
occupation and not Hammas. We are not interested in arrests. ".
Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was called by Arafat as "my
brother Ahmed Yassin the warrior." (New York Times, July 2, 1994) . In a statement on June 2, 1998, the Israeli government said that these
Following his death of MuhiDeen AlShareef, another Hamas bomb latest developments prove that "The Palestinian Authority has failed
maker responsible for dozens of Israeli deaths, Yasser Arafat's wife, to wage a systematic campaign against terrorist groups. The terrorist
Suha, publicly praised him as "a Palestinian martyr." (Jewish infrastructure remains in place and the PA openly approves of
Telegraphic Agency, April 6, 1998). After the March 1997 suicide terrorist attacks against Israel as long as they do not implicate the
bombing of a Tel Aviv cafe (killing 3 Israeli women), the Palestinian Authority.
Legislative Council sent condolences to the family of the bomber
Moussa Ghneimat and praised him as a "holy martyr"(Ma'ariv, March Additional evidence of collaboration between the PA and Hamas:
28, 1997)
Arafat and Aides Praise Hamas
Arafat even went as far as hiring Imad Falouji, a Hamas activist from
Gaza, as a Minister Without Portfolio, and chose Talal Sidr, a Hamas Arafat said "Hamas, even its military wing, is a patriotic movement."
activist from Hebron, as Minister of Youth. (Jerusalem Post, January (The Russian newspaper Novoya Vremy, May 25, 1997).
.26, 1997).
Arafat publicly praised Yiyha Ayyash, the master Hamas bomb
Besides praises and street names, Hammas even enjoys exhibitions maker who killed at least 60 Israelis, as "a martyr." (Jerusalem Post,
glorifying terrorism and terrorists, at ANajah University, a report July 28, 1996)
praising the exhibition stated:
Arafat's "Foreign Minister," Farouk Kaddoumi, said: "Hamas is part
"The University's campus was turned into a Palestinian city during the of the national movement and it has its own style and approach to
Intifadadozens of veiledface individuals carrying [replica] action. It is resisting the Israeli enemy." (An Nahar, March 9, 1996)
submachine guns, five machine guns on the shoulders, swords and
other sharp objects which created the Intifada's unique culture...At the Arafat publicly praised Hamas bombmaker Yiyha Ayyash as "the
entrance to the "Martyrs' Exhibit," enormous pictures of holy martyrs struggler, the martyr."(New York Times, January 8, 1996)
who ascended to heaven were drawn...as well as a huge drawing of a
veiledface youth, carrying a stone in order to throw it at an PA Cabinet Minister Hanan Ashrawi said: "It is not up to Israel to
occupation patrol(Arafat's official newspaper, Al Hayat Al Jadidah, decide or define who is our enemy. Hamas is not the enemy, it is part
November 23, 1997) of the political fabric." (Jerusalem Post, July 25, 1995)
Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service, said in a May 27, Abbas Zakai of the Fatah Central Committee said: "[Hamas's attacks]
1998 interview with Al Jazira television: strengthen the Palestinian position...It would be dangerous to stop
these actions, because the accords will crumble if there is nothing to
"We view Hamas as part of the national and Islamic liberation make Israel go forward." (Al Hayat, April 17, 1995)
movement Outside of the 3 percent [of JudeaSamaria that is under
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Arafat and PA Collaborate with Hamas In November 1997, Arafat permitted the Hamas terrorist group to
stage a weeklong exhibition glorifying terrorism and terrorists, at A
Arafat publicly hugged and kissed Hamas leaders, Abd elRantisi and Najah University, in PAcontrolled Nablus. Arafat's official
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. newspaper, Al Hayat Al Jadidah, published a report praising the
exhibition in its edition of November 23, 1997:
Arafat has refused to extradite Hamas killers to Israel, shut down
Hamas training camps, outlaw Hamas, or even publicly criticize The University's campus was turned into a Palestinian city during the
Hamas by name. Intifadadozens of veiledface individuals carrying [replica]
submachine guns, five machine guns on the shoulders, swords and
Asked by a reporter about Hamas, Arafat replied, "There is no other sharp objects which created the Intifada's unique culture...At the
confrontation with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority." (United entrance to the "Martyrs' Exhibit," enormous pictures of holy martyrs
Press International, September 12, 1996) who ascended to heaven were drawn...as well as a huge drawing of a
veiledface youth, carrying a stone in order to throw it at an
PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein said: "The PA and the occupation patrol... Marking the opening of the "Struggle Week"
[Hamas] opposition complement each other...We regard Hamas and activities, veiledface youths blew up and burned an Israeli bus,
Islamic Jihad as national elements...The main enemy, now and symbolizing the suicide bombings carried out by Iz aDin alQassam's
forever, is Israel." (An Nahar, April 11, 1995; Al Quds, April 14, squads. In one corner, there was large tent called "The Shahid's Tent,"
1995) which presented the clothes of holy martyrs who were killed during
the Intifada... The body [effigy] of a man who was executed during
PA Cabinet Minister Nabil Sha'ath said: "We have a brotherly the Intifada for collaborating with the occupation was hanging on the
relationship with Hamas." (Reuters, Oct. 28, 1994) stem of a palm tree...
Hisham AbdelRizak, Fatah leader in Gaza, said: "The dialogue with Hizballah
Hamas will not be broken off. Hamas is part of the Palestinian
people." (United Press International, Oct. 28, 1994) Party of God, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine.
Arafat named a public square in Jericho after Hamas bombmaker Hizballah, or Party of God, is a Lebanese Shi'ite group created in
Yiyha Ayyash, and publicly praising Ayyash as "holy." 1983 funded by the Islamic government in Iran. Its goal is the creation
of an independent Islamic nation in Lebanon and the destruction of
Arafat praised Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as "my brother the State of Israel. It's activities have included mass demonstrations,
Ahmed Yassin the warrior." (New York Times, July 2, 1994) guerrilla attacks from camps in the Bekaa Valley and suicide car
bombings.
Arafat Names Hamas Official to His Cabinet
Their targets have included Israeli civilians and military personnel,
Arafat named Imad Falouji, a Hamas activist from Gaza, as a Minister some of it's operations were the infamous 1983 attack on the U.S.
Without Portfolio, and chose Talal Sidr, a Hamas activist from Marine barracks in Beirut. killing hundreds of Americans and
Hebron, as Minister of Youth. (Jerusalem Post, Jan.26, 1997) countless Katuysha rocket attacks on Jewish settlements. In March
1992, an immense car bomb destroyed the Israeli embassy in Buenos
Arafat Permits "Hamas Week" in PAControlled Nablus Aires, Argentina. An identical device exploded there on July 18
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outside a Jewish community center killing nearly 100 civilians, and transfered by international law to Israel
the bombing of a Panamanian commuter flight that crashed near
Colon on July 19. Hizballah remains one of the most significant 8.6% owned by Jews
terrorist organizations operating today.
3.3% owned by resident Arabs
▲ 16.5% owned by nonresident Arabs
DID THE JEW STEAL THE LAND?
When Jews started to buy Arab lands, Jews actually went out of their
way to avoid purchasing land in areas where Arabs might be
displaced. They sought land that was largely uncultivated, swampy,
cheap and, most important, without tenants.
Common Palestinian opinion:
In 1920, Labor Zionist leader David BenGurion expressed his concern
"The Jews entered Palestine forcefully and stole the land".
about the Arab fellahin, whom he viewed as "the most important asset
of the native population.".
Response: At first one must question:
Ben Gurion said "under no circumstances must we touch land
when? Did the Jews immigrate to Palestine carrying artillery or any
belonging to fellahs or worked by them." He advocated helping
weapons? Where were the Jews when they acquired weapons? What
liberate them from their oppressors. "Only if a fellah leaves his place
front did they enter from?
of settlement," Ben Gurion added, "should we offer to buy his land, at
an appropriate price."
▲
It was only after the Jews had bought all of this available land that
JEWISH LAND PURCHASES they began to purchase cultivated land. Many Arabs were willing to
sell because of the migration to coastal towns and because they
Despite the growth in their population, the Arabs continued to assert needed money to invest in the citrus industry.
they were being displaced. The truth is from the beginning of World
War I, part of Palestine's land was owned by absentee landlords who When John Hope Simpson arrived in Palestine in May 1930, he
lived in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut. About 80 percent of the observed: "They [Jews] paid high prices for the land, and in addition
Palestinian Arabs were debtridden peasants, seminomads and they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable
Bedouins. amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay." .
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Arabs. This left only about 600 landless Arabs, 100 of whom accepted $1,100 per acre in Palestine, mostly for arid or semiarid land; in the
the Government land offer. same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per
acre.".
In April 1936, a new outbreak of Arab attacks on Jews was instigated
by a Syrian guerrilla named Fawzi alQawukji, the commander of the By 1947, Jewish holdings in Palestine amounted to about 463,000
Arab Liberation Army. By November, when the British finally sent a acres. Approximately 45,000 of these acres were acquired from the
new commission headed by Lord Peel to investigate, 89 Jews had Mandatory Government; 30,000 were bought from various churches
been killed and more than 300 wounded. and 387,500 were purchased from Arabs. Analyses of land purchases
from 1880 to 1948 show that 73 percent of Jewish plots were
The Peel Commission's report found that Arab complaints about purchased from large landowners, not poor fellahin. Those who sold
Jewish land acquisition were baseless. It pointed out that "much of the land included the mayors of Gaza, Jerusalem and Jaffa.
land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and
uncultivated when it was purchased....there was at the time of the As'ad elShuqeiri, a Muslim religious scholar and father of PLO
earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the chairman Ahmed Shuqeiri, took Jewish money for his land. Even
resources or training needed to develop the land.". King Abdullah leased land to the Jews. In fact, many leaders of the
Arab nationalist movement, including members of the Muslim
Moreover, the Commission found the shortage was "due less to the Supreme Council, sold land to Jews. The weekly Fasl alMaqal,
amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab owned by ArabIsraeli parliament deputy Azmi Beshara and based in
population." The report concluded that the presence of Jews in the predominantly Arab city of Nazareth in north Israel, ran a list of
Palestine, along with the work of the British Administration, had 54 leading Palestinians who sold land to Jews from 19181945.
resulted in higher wages, an improved standard of living and ample
employment opportunities. The paper reported Thursday that Palestinian nationalist leaders,
In his memoirs, Transjordan's King Abdullah wrote: Including the grandfather of the PLO's current top official in
Jerusalem, sold land to Jews in the years before Israel's founding.
"It is made quite clear to all, both by the map drawn up by the
Simpson Commission and by another compiled by the Peel The paper ran a story titled "Our Fathers On The Take," takes the
Commission, that the Arabs are as prodigal in selling their land as issue back to the era of the British mandate before Israel's founding in
they are in useless wailing and weeping (author's emphasis).". 1948, when the Zionist movement was seeking land in Palestine to
create a Jewish state.
Even at the height of the Arab revolt in 1938, the British High
Commissioner to Palestine believed the Arab landowners were The paper reports that some of those highest up in the Palestinian
complaining about sales to Jews to drive up prices for lands they
wished to sell. Many Arab landowners had been so terrorized by Arab nationalist movement which opposed the Jewish state were at the
rebels they decided to leave Palestine and sell their property to the same
Jews.
time selling land to the Jewish Agency, the body spearheading the
The Jews were paying exorbitant prices to wealthy landowners for Zionist drive. The weekly's editorinchief, Awad Abdel Fatah reports
small tracts of arid land. "In 1944, Jews paid between $1,000 and that the names came from an official document dating back to the
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British mandate in Palestine, which the paper received from official The Jews before the wars were already living as peasants, bought
sources in Jordan. He said, "We published only a partial list from the lands, cultivated them after years of neglect. The Jews restored the
document, showing the role of the Palestinian leadership in the flow land and made it what it is today having an economy ten times the
of lands to the Jewish Agency before the disaster of 1948," he said. size of that of Egypt, Jordan and Syria combined, while the Arabs
have been plotting wars against her since the 1920s and instead of
The names are embarrassing to the PA as one is a relative of Yasir wiping out every Jew in the area resulted in the displacement of
almost 1/2 the Palestinians in 1948.
Arafat and he is one of the most prominent names on the list. His
name is Mohammed Taher alHusseni, father of alHajj Amin al The Arab opposition to an Israeli state began after the Balfour
Husseni, the mufti of Jerusalem and supreme head of the Palestinian Declaration 1917, which supported the idea of a Jewish national
nationalist movement. Another was Kazem alHusseni, grandfather on homeland. In the 1920s there were antiZionist riots in Palestine, then
the mother's side of Faisal Husseni, the top PLO official in Jerusalem. governed by the UK under a League of Nations mandate.
Kazem sold lands in Jerusalem, where he was mayor from 19181920.
The list includes five other members of the Husseni family, one of the In 1936 an Arab revolt led to a British royal commission that
most prominent clans in pre1948 Palestine and today. recommended partition approved by the United Nations in 1947, but
rejected by the Arabs.
Other members of leading Palestinian families also showed up on the
When it became clear that the British intended to leave by May 15,
list, as did members of the High Arab Committee, the High Islamic leaders of the Yishuv decided to implement that part of the partition
Council and the Arab Executive Committee, the main bodies which plan calling for establishment of a Jewish state.
led the nascent Palestinian nationalist movement against Zionism.
Mussa alAlami, who headed the Palestinian delegation to the London In Tel Aviv on May 14 the Provisional State Council, formerly the
Conference of 1939 convened to discuss the future of mandate National Council, "representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the
Palestine, sold 90 hectares (222 acres) to Jews in Bisan, now the north World Zionist Movement, proclaimed the establishment of the Jewish
Israeli city of Beit Shean, according to the list. State in Palestine, to be called Medinat Israel (the State of Israel) ...
Ragheb alNashashibi, mayor of Jerusalem from 19201934 and head On May 15 the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq
of the National Defense Party, sold over 120 hectares (296 acres) of joined Palestinian and other Arab guerrillas who had been fighting
land in Jaffa, outside Tel Aviv. Nashashibi also sold land in east Jewish forces since November 1947.
Jerusalem upon which Hebrew University was later built.
The civil war now became an international conflict, the first Arab
Yaakub alGhussein, who headed the Arab Fund created to gather Israeli War, called the war of independence by Israel. The Arabs
money to support the Palestinian cause, sold land to Jews in Jaffa and failed to prevent establishment of a Jewish state, and the war ended
what is now the Gaza Strip for 4,000 Palestinian pounds, equivalent to with four UNarranged armistice agreements between Israel and
British pound sterling at that era. And the other elite Muslim and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The frontiers defined in the
Christian families of Palestine, including the Abdel Hadi, Bseiso, and armistice agreements remained until they were altered by Israel's
Fahum clans, were represented on the list. conquests during the SixDay War in 1967.
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The wars that were intended to annihilate the Jews ended up in Israel's Khaled al`Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and
victory. For Arabs to bring up atrocities, murders, incidents of 1949, wrote in his memoirs (published in Beirut, 1973), that among
violence by the Israelis as a result of trying to annihilate her can be the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948 was "the call by the Arab
expected, especially when 5 wars was waged on Israel, and hundreds Governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave
of terror attacks intended to destroy every Jew in Israel. Wars for the bordering Arab countries, after having sown terror among
throughout history has always had repercussions and Arabs are not them...Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees
immune from the bad taste of their own medicine. to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them
to leave...We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees,
Mr. Assad Syria's dictator vowed at the start of the 1967 war: "Our by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their
forces are now entirely ready... to initiate the act of liberation itself homes, their work and business..." (Part 1, pp. 386387).
and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland... The time
has come to enter into a battle of annihilation." President Nasser of Harry C. Stebbens, who was in an official position in the British
Egypt declared, "Our basic goal is the destruction of Israel". Mandatory Government in Palestine in 194748, wrote in the London
(Laqueur, op. cit., pp. 175185). Evening Standard (Friday, 10 January, 1969):
Such statements has no effect on changing the hearts of the Arab and "Long before the end of the British mandate, between January and
Muslim masses who know that Muhammad Islam's prophet April, 48, practically all my Arab Palestinian staff of some 200 men
annihilated the Jews from Saudi Arabia, and the unsophisticated and women and all of the 1800 labor force had left Haifa in spite of
Westerners mind and heart has been seduced to believe a lie, that the every possible effort to assure them of their safety if they stayed.
Arabs and Muslims worldwide have a great desire for peace, the They all left for one or more of the following reasons:
"final solution" evil saga will continue as planed by Satan. Westerners
forget who supported Hitler in World War II, the Soviet Union during "1. The Arab terrorism engendered by the November, 1947, U.N.
the Cold War and Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War, instead they rally partition resolution frightened them to death of their imaginative souls
behind Arafat who still refuses to change the PLO Charter calling for and they feared Jewish retaliation.
the destruction of Israel.
"2. Propagandists promised a blood bath as soon as the mandate
▲ ended in
which the street of all the cities would run with blood.
WHO TRULY SCATTERED THE PALESTINIANS
"3. The promised invasion by the foreign Arab armies (which started
Abu Mazen wrote in an article entitled "Madha `Alamna waMadha
on May 14, 1948, with the Arab Legion massacre of some 200 Jewish
Yajib An Na`mal" [What We Have Learned and What We Should
settlers at Kfar Etzion) was preceded by extensive broadcasts from
Do], published in "Falastin ethThawra" [Revolutionary Palestine],
Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Beirut to the effect that any Arabs
the official journal of the PLO, Beirut, March 1976, "The Arab armies
who stayed would be hanged as collaborators with the Jews.
entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny
but instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to
It is true that the massacre of Deir Yassin (always quoted by the
leave their homeland...The Arab States succeeded in scattering the
Arabs) caused some of the refugees. But the massacre of Kfar Etzion,
Palestinian people."
the massacre of the hospital convoy which killed 48 Jewish doctors
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and nurses, the continued shelling and blasting of Jewish settlement Arab population and their transfer to neighboring Arab countries be
for more than 20 years, has not caused one single Israeli to move facilitated...The military and civil authorities and the Jewish
away. They sit tight and if necessary in their shelters while across the representatives expressed their profound regret. The mayor of Haifa
river, where the shooting comes from, the towns and villages are (Mr. Shabtai Levi) adjourned the meeting with a passionate appeal to
deserted, last year's crops still rot on the trees and the refugees move the Arab population to reconsider its decision..."
still further away from any trouble.
Jamal Husseini, in charge of the Palestine Higher Committee, told the
Security Council on 23 April 1948, "we have never concealed the fact "The first group of our fifth columnists consists of those who abandon
that we began the fighting." their houses and business and go to live elsewhere... At the first sign
of trouble they take to their heels to escape sharing the burden of
On 6 September 1949, the Beirut Telegraph carried an interview with struggle." (Editorial, Ash Sha'ab, January 30 1948 (Haifa))
Mr. Emile Ghoury, Secretary of the Palestine Higher Committee, in
which he said: "The fact that there are these refugees is the direct "The Arab streets are curiously deserted and, evidently following the
consequence of the act of the Arab States in opposing partition and poor example of the more moneyed class there has been an exodus
the Jewish State." from Jerusalem too, though not to the same extent as in Jaffa and
Haifa." (London Times, May 5 1948).
The Jordan daily Falastin wrote on 19 February 1949: "The Arab
States which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes "The refugees were confident that their absence would not last long,
temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had
have failed to keep their promises to help these refugees." promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the "Zionist gangs"
very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long
As late as 12 October 1963, the Cairo daily Akhbar elYom, recalled:
"15 May 1948 arrived...on that very day the Mufti of Jerusalem exile." (Msgnr. George Hakim (Greek Catholic bishop), as quoted in
appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Sada al Janub, August 16 1948 (Beirut)).
Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead..."
"Of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa not more than
A British police report to Jerusalem Headquarters on 26 April 1948 5,000 or 6,000 remained. Various factors influenced their decision to
attested: seek safety in flight. There is but little doubt that the most potent of
the factors were the announcements made over the air by the Higher
"Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit... It was clearly intimated
population to that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish
protection would be regarded as renegades." (The Economist, October
stay and carry on with their normal lives..." 2 1948 (London))
In Haifa, on 27 April 1948, the Arab National Committee refused to All the above were written while the exodus of refugeestobe was
sign a truce, reporting in a memorandum to the Arab League still
Governments: "when the delegation entered the conference room it
proudly refused to sign the truce and asked that the evacuation of the taking place. Let us now turn to statements made after the fact:
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"The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes "I do not want to impugn anybody but only to help the refugees. The
temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the
armies." (Editorial, Falastin, February 19, 1949 (Amman)). action of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State.
The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must
"It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged share in the solution of the problem." (Emil Ghoury (Secretary of the
the refugees' flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem." Arab Higher Committee), as quoted in the Daily Telegraph,
(Broadcast by the Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station on April 3 September 6 1948 (Beirut))
1949 (Cyprus))
"The Secretary General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured
"The Arab exodus, initially at least, was encouraged by many Arab the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv
leaders, such as Haj Amin el Husseni, the exiled proNazi Mufti of would be as simple as a military promenade... He pointed out that
Jerusalem, and by the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine. They they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions the Jews
viewed the first wave of Arab setbacks as merely transitory. Let the had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty,
Palestine Arabs flee into neighboring countries. It would serve to for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the
arouse the other Arab peoples to greater effort, and when the Arab Mediterranean... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine
invasion struck, the Palestinians could return to their homes and be to leave their land, homes, and property and to stay temporarily in
compensated with the property of Jews driven into the sea." (Kenneth neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies
Bilby (an American journalist, covering the area before and mow them down." (Habib Issa, in the daily USpublished Lebanese
newspaper Al Hoda, June 8 1951 (New York))
during the war), in his book 'New Star in the Near East', pp. 3031
"The Arab governments told us: get out so that we can get in. So we
(New York 1950)) got out, but they did not get in." (a refugee, from the Jordanian
daily newspaper Ad Difaa, September 6 1954)
"We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place
the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives and ▲
children to safe areas until the fighting has died down." (Iraqi Prime
Minister Nuri Said, as quoted by Nimr el Hawari (the former
JEWISH TERRORISM?
Commander of the Palestine Arab Youth Organization) in his book
'Sir Am Nakbah' ("The Secret Behind the Disaster"), 1952 (Nazareth))
Common Palestinian opinion:
"This wholesale exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs,
"The Jews conducted massacres of Qana, Sabra, and Shatella and
encouraged by the boasting of an unrealistic Arab press and the
other."
irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be
only a matter of some weeks before the Jews were defeated by the
armies of the Arab States and the Palestinian Arabs enabled to re ▲
enter and retake possession of their country." (Edward Atiyah
(Secretary of the Arab League Office in London), as quoted in 'The BLAMED NO MATTER WHAT
Arabs', p. 183 (London 1955)
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Israel, the very nation mentioned more then any in the Bible, the very What Israel in reality did wrong was to put Arafat back in rule, but no
people that are the heart and means to carry the message and the matter what Israel is blamed for Arafat's doings.
Messiah, must be eliminated, destroyed, and replaced. Godly verses
must be found to justify such "noble goals", and Israel must be If a flowchart of abuses were to be drawn, the arrows will always be
exposed for every deed they do in order to justify the means. For that, pointing to Israel regardless if it was the Palestinian Authority that
we must put on trial the Jews whenever their is a death, a war, or even does it. The Sabra and Shatella Massacre in Lebanon was also blamed
a housing project like Har Homa near Jerusalem. If they kill, we must on Israel even thought it was carried out by the Lebanese and blamed
ignore the motive, and only see the killing, if one of them in anger on the Jew. You would rarely read condemnation for Arabs killing
goes on a shooting rampage, we must accuse the whole nation, if they Arabs, even though Arabs killed hundreds of thousands of Arabs.
get fed up with terrorism and close the roads, we will accuse them of
imprisoning the masses, and if they occupy their attackers, they are In summary of all the years of research, life, and experience I had on
accused of tyranny, dictatorship, and given that status of an evil Israel being on both sides antiIsrael then proIsrael, people and
occupier. No matter what they do, they will be labeled only on their governments, to them no matter what Israel does, good or bad, Israel
actions, but never the actions of their accusers. simply must be accused, found guilty, then replaced. To millions,
Israel is a cancer, city rats, with one solution left. Through the ages
Then there is another view, a view that Israel in order to be accepted many "final" solutions were made, yet the Jew and even Israel as a
needs to be sinless, and almost every Jew needs to be the pure country, still survives against all odds. Yet the factories for final
Messiah, with no blemish. Their government must be perfect, we solutions still draw their plans as they did in the past.
must not find a single flaw with every Jewish citezen a perfect
example, they must never have an extremist group, they must never In September 1999, an Israeli court convicted Uri Amit of belonging
have any sick mad man with a happy trigger. to and supporting a terrorist organization. The ruling declared that the
Noar Meir youth group, named after Kach founder Meir Kahane, is
From the few groups in Israel we find an angry Rabbi Yaacov Perrin affiliated in fact and not just in name with the Kach organization.
who says: "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail" (NY Specifically, Uri Amit was found to have distributed fliers that lauded
Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6).", and when such people say such the murder of Arabs and praised the assassination of Prime Minister
things we find every antiIsrael website post it. Yitzhak Rabin. Another flyer urged people to contribute to the
"Baruch Goldstein Fund" to honor the settler who massacred 29
Even Human Rights Watch groups join the masses of acusers, in one Muslim worshipers in Hebron in 1994. According to Judge Hanoch
report they conclude: "the government of Israel shares blame for the Feder, "It appears that what characterizes Kahane Chai and Noar Meir
state of human rights in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. Israel's still is violence as an ideology, at times as a religious commandment.".
considerable control over the lives of Palestinians in these areas
entails significant obligations that Israel has failed to fulfill ... Since In July 1999, three Israeli soldiers were expelled from the Israeli army
August, the Palestinian Authority has arrested hundreds of members for affiliating or sympathizing with the Kach and Kahane Chai
of the political opposition with little semblance of due process: arrest organizations.
warrants are the exception rather than the rule, and suspects have been
held without charge for several days or longer without being brought The Institute points out that these groups were feared to be plotting
before a judge." (Human Rights Watch, New York, February 12, the assassination of highlevel Israeli politicians in the summer of
1995). 1998 following the murder of Jewish settlers in Hebron.
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Ami Ayalon, head of Israel's General Security Service, indicated his The question should be, why Hizbullah and the rest of the Arab
concern by dissuading politicians from participating in public events terrorest bases in Lebanon throughout their history, have intentionally
given reports that radical elements may have tried to kill key figures based there camps in the middle of civilian populations? The we hear
in order to stop the peace process. Based on certain data collected by the outcry by the masses sceaming massacars?
Israel's security services, a meeting convened by thenPrime Minister
Netanyahu on August 28, 1998 determined that special precautions Similar incidents as Qana happened during the Gulf War, yet the
were needed to preempt assassination attempts on the Prime Minister, wolrd blamed Saddam Hussein not America for the outcome.
President Ezer Weizman, and thenDefense Minister Yitzhak
Mordechai, among others. Whatever happened to all the Ketusha rockets that landed on targets
like Keriat Shmona during many inceidents killing much more
On October 24, 1993, Kach and Kahane Chai set off two small bombs civilians then Qana? These targets were hit in the intention of killing
near the French embassy in Tel Aviv, saying the attack was carried civilians in order to terorrize the Jewish population. While the
out to protest PLO leader Yasir Arafat's visit to France and perpetrators admit their intention to kill civillians and none of these
agreements he signed there. rockets were intended to hit Israeli armed facilities.
Certain Jewish terrorest attacks like Yehida , the Khisas, Qazaza, and Why would the Arab masses keep refugee camps while Israelis
few others, are a spec when compared with hundreds of terrorest always house there immigrants?
attacks by Arabs against Israelis including several wars of intended
annihilation. No one argues that a Jewish terrorest killed 60 in Why is the AlIbrahimi Mosque Massacre by some Jewish maniac
Hebron's Abrahamic Mosque, Arabs need to keep in mind that this blamed on every Jew in Israel? Why must a whole nation take the
criminal act was condemned by Israelis and by the Israeli blame of a single mad man? Especially when similar incidents carried
Government as well. One cannot blame a nation for a few outraged out by Arabs receive praises by the Arab masses? Arafat even names
individuals who carry out acts of violence against Palestinians. The a street after a muderer, and every terorrest who killed Israelis and
World has yet to hear the Arab nations condemn the terror carried on Americans are free on Palestinian streets.
on the Jews from time immomorial by Muslim Arabs throughout the
centuries. Would someone blame all Americans if some nutt case open
automatic fire on a McDonalds? This always happens in almost every
Yet the bad treatment of Christians and Jews by muslims is country.
suppressed in today's modern history and media as well. A book
called "The Fall of Christianity" by Bat Peor showes hundreds of Where are all the erected websites that speak about the Hebron
detailed well researched pages on the persecution done by Islam Massacre of Jews? Yet one push of the button on a Yahoo search on
throughout history is an eye opener. To call the accidental death toll the Hebron Massacre of Jews by the Arabs and you get hundreds of
during Israeli bombings on Lebanon as "massacars", a term generally issues on the Hebron Massacres of Palestinians on the Ibrahimi
given to the rounding up of civilians and shooting them Mosque. Why? And that massacre was not conducted by one nutt
indiscriminately. No one can deny that 70 people died in Qana as case, but by the Arab masses of Hebron, attacking, looting, raping,
Israel admitted that it was a mistake while trying to bomb terrorist and indiscriminate killing of every Jew in Hebron. Once the table is
areas, and while hundreds of websites condemning the incident, there turned around, the image is quite different.
are hardly any that talks of the hundreds of terrorist attacks that could
really use the classification of "massacre".
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Sabra and Shatila, is another massacre blamed on the Jews while little While the numbers decline, Beir Zeit, a Palestinian University who
is said about the Lebaneese Kataeb and Ahrar who carried it out. The interviewed every Arab survivor admitted that the number was 110.
massacre was a result of the Civil War in Lebanon between The story has been exaggerated and conflicting testimonies cloud the
Lebaneese and Palestinians where Lebaneese militia rounded up whole story, but the best study on this issue is "The history of the
Palestinian refugees and indiscrimenatley killed them. Since the Jews 1948 war" by Professor Uri Milstein, one of Israel's most
did not come to the rescue of these Palestinians, the Jew must take the distinguished military historians, it's meticulous, very detailed and
blame. accurate.
The AlAqsa Mosque incident was another tragedy started by Arab Also, in 1952 a hearing was conducted in Israel which Israeli judges
rioters throwing heaps of stones down on the Jewish worshipers on heard eyewitness testimony from participants in the events at Deir
the Wailing Wall, the result was the death of about 20 Palestinians as Yassin and issued a ruling that has important implications for
the Israeli Police opened fire on the rioters. understanding what happened in that battle. The question that should
be asked is, how often did the Arabs ever issue any ruling, any court,
These tregedies have always been a result of hate and war. any hearing for any of the countless massacars of Jews in any Arab
country?
▲ Long before Dayr Yassin, Arab and Jewish armies were already
battling. An "Arab Liberation Army," sponsored by the Arab League
DAYR YASEEN – A HISTORY OF A LIE
and manned by volunteers from various Arab countries has always
attacked civilian Jewish communities in Palestine prior to 1948. My
Common Palestinian's opinion:
own father has witnessed Arab villagers along with Arab soldiers raid
Jewish Communities. Even the religious leader Haj AlAmeen El
"Israel killed 250 people at Dayr Yassin in cold blood of
Husseni who collaborated with Hitler and had SS trained graduates to
them 25 pregnant women were bayoneted in the abdomen while still fight against these Jewish communities, some of which were found
alive and 52 children were maimed under the eyes of their own
among the corpse of dead Palestinian fighters at Dayr Yasin with SS
mothers, and they were slain and their heads cut off." identifications.
A Palestinian activist opinion:
The facts are, every Arab village in Israel participated in attacking
Jewish settlements in order to destroy the Jews. The Arab attackers
"254 Arabs died at Deir Yassin." (Daniel McGowan of Hobart and faced consequences of there actions, raids on civilians and wars will
William Smith Colleges, NY) always have repercussions.
"an estimated 100250 Arab villagers were slaughtered." (Daniel Deir Yassin was a heavilyarmed nest of terrorists who in 19471948
McGowan, Press release, March 22, 1998). had been attacking nearby Jewish neighborhoods and traffic on the
JerusalemTel Aviv highway.
"over 100 Palestinian men, women and children were killed." (Daniel
McGowan, Press release, March 25, 1998). Mordechai Ra'anan, leader of the Jewish soldiers who fought in Deir
Yassin invented the number '254' as a deliberate exaggeration in order
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to undermine the morale of the Arab forces and no body count was "We must make the most of this." So we wrote a press release stating
conducted to tally the dead. that at Deir Yassin children were murdered, pregnant women were
raped. All sorts of atrocities.'"
Despite Ra'anan's admission, the figure 254 was circulated by
Palestinian Arab leader Hussein Khalidi which was the basis for a Abu Mahmud a survivor declared: "'We said, "There was no rape."
widely reprinted article in the New York Times which was refered to [Khalidi] said, "We have to say this, so the Arab armies will come to
in the past generations. liberate Palestine from the Jews.'"
Tally of Jewish losses revealed 42 Israeli wounded and 6 dead out of The PBS narrator then says: "Arab radio stations passed on the false
an attacking force of 132 soldiers. One of the commanders of the reports, ignoring the protests of the witnesses."
Jewish force, Ben Zion Cohen, describes "[The Arabs were] shooting
from every house". Lately, a prominent syndicated columnist from New York called the
"massacre" claims as "one of the great hoaxes of the 20th century."
While the Jewish attackers with loud speakers warned in advance to
'Lay down your arms! Run for your lives" the Arabs fired at the Syndicated columnist famous reporter Sid Zion, whose column
vehicle and the battle erupted. originates in the New York Daily News wrote on March 23, 1998:
Also, claims of rape and other atrocities were fabricated to incite Arab "Deir Yassin has ever since been the rallying call for the Arabs and
violence against Israel. Arab eyewitnesses interviewed in a PBS the enemies of Israel and of the Jewish people. Arafat compares it to
documentary reveal that they were told by Dr. Hussein Khalidi, a Auschwitz. It is one of the great hoaxes of the 20th century,
prominent Palestinian Arab leader, to fabricate claims of atrocities at comparable to the libel that Jews drank Christian blood...The fight for
Deir Yassin in order to encourage Arab regimes to invade the Jewish Deir Yassin was part of the war and a necessary battle for Jewish
statetobe. survival. The Irgun, under Menachem Begin, warned the Arabs and
asked them to evacuate their women and children. Hundreds left, but
Deir Yassin resident Abu Mahmoud recalls: "We gathered in hundreds stayed. A pitched battle ensued, and when the smoke
Jerusalem at the Hebron Gate. We checked who was missing, and cleared, 120 Arabs were killed, 40 Jews were seriously injured and
who had survived. Then the Pal leaders arrived, including Dr. four Jews were dead...[The 'massacre' claim] has long since been
Khalidi." discredited by the Israeli government and every other historical study.
But like all libels, it stands off truth and proof."
Hazem Nusseibeh, an editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service's
Arabic news in 1948 and a member of one of Jerusalem's most In conclusions the Palestinian Arabs left voluntarily, overreacting to
prominent Arab families admited that he was told by Hussein Khalidi their own leaders' fabricated atrocity reports. They were not expelled,
the originator of the massacre story to fabricate claims of atrocities in as Arab propagandists claim.
order to encourage Arab regimes to invade the Jewish statetobe.
There is always abuses and losses when there is a war, but as far as
According to a Jerusalem Report, Nusseibeh "describes an encounter what I witnessed in the 6 days war and afterwards, the Jews did no
at the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem's Old City with Deir Yassin survivors harm to us. The Jews did no massacres on the West Bank and in
and Palestinian leaders, including Hussein Khalidi... 'I asked Dr. general behaved righteously, I know what I have seen. It is our hate to
Khalidi how we should cover the story,' recalled Nusseibeh. 'He said, the Jewish presence that fueled wars and attacks.
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▲ "And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke" to be judgment day were all havoc breaks
loose. How is Israel there at that time way in the future? There must
DIVIDING ISRAEL THEOLOGICAL OR POLITICAL
be a regathering and a division of land prior to judgment day, is there
ISSUE?
any other interpretation?
A common Palestinian theological argument:
▲
"Palestine is for the Arabs, Jesus was Palestinian, so Palestine belongs
to us". DIVIDING ISRAEL WHAT THE 'NATIONS' ARE DOING
"The Bible does not mention an exclusive Jewish state". The division is taking place, all the world are in support of the
division and all United Nations are standing against Israel pressuring
Let's look at the issue in reverse perspective, for the End Times Clear her to give up Judea. Joel's declaration of judgment to the nations is
verses of scripture state: on it's way. The Bible suggests strongly that we don't be found guilty
of hating Israel or Jews, or contributing to the division of Israel. To
"For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the simply interpret this verse without prejudice is: to hate Jews is to hate
captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and God, and to stand against Israel is to be on the side of AntiChrist.
bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into Anyone who would question Joel's prophecy must answer to the
judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage amazing accuracy of the portions that were fulfilled, and in light of
Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also countless other verses by other prophets.
divided up My land.". (Joel 3)
Despite all the warnings, the nations (United Nations) are carrying out
The end of Israel's mock trials are presented in these clear predictions. the evil plan as predicted.
God the just and great judge does not heed to the majority, but comes
to save a very small minority. The focus on a piece of land a fraction Morris B. Abram, Chairman of the United Nations Watch writes:
of a percent of all lands in this glob, and the strangest part is that it
speaks of God coming to judge the world over this small people, and "Emergency Special Sessions of the United Nations General
over this tiny piece of real estate. Strange indeed, to the point that we Assembly are rare. No such session has ever been convened with
dismiss them and reinterpret them. How is it that when this judgment respect to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Indonesian occupation
is made, Israel will be in her land? Why is it that much material is of East Timor, the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, the slaughters in
written dismissing Bible Prophecy of Israel as being fulfilled already Rwanda, the disappearances in Zaire or the horrors of Bosnia. In fact,
way in the past before Jesus came? Could it be that this the only way during the last 15 years they have been called only to condemn
to cover these prophecies by shuffling the timeline of these events? Israel.".
Also in Joel 3, the "In those days" obviously refers to the verses In April 1997's "emergency special session" of the United Nations
before it in chapter 2:30 of Joel: General Assembly, which condemned Israel's construction of a new
Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, has raised a number of questions
about the world body's function and bias.
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The session was called under the "Uniting for peace" resolution All this despite the fact that Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority has
adopted by the General Assembly in 1950, a formula enabling financed the illegal construction of thousands of Arab homes in the
members "to act in a case where there appears to be a threat to the Old City section of Jerusalem and that "Faisal Husseni, Arafat's
peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression". The formula has only cabinet ministers, announced that Saudi Arabia has donated $19
been used 10 times since 1950 where 93 member states felt that million "to build 600 Arab homes in Jerusalem and strengthen their
building apartments in Jerusalem could be seen as a breech of the hold over parts of the city." (Jerusalem Post, June 24, 1997).
Peace Accord.
Last year, Aharon Domb, the Secretary General of the Council of
While Israel's construction of homes in Jerusalem is not a violation of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, released
the Oslo Accords since no changing in status of territory has been photographs, video surveillance, and maps showing during June
broken. In light of this, it needs to be noted that Palestinian Authority December 1996, Palestinian Arabs had built more than 1,000 illegal
receives monetary support from Israel. The question should be as to buildings in "Area C," which is the area that is under Israeli control in
why the United Nations is so alarmed over a housing unit project the administered territories. (Ha'aretz, Jan. 7, 1997)
when tens of thousands of refugees in central Africa faced death by
starvation or disease as civil war raged in Zaire, hundreds of The Bible is very clear on this issue, "I am about to make Jerusalem a
Algerians, including women and children, were being butchered by cup of reeling to all the peoples round about; it will be against Judah,
Islamists, enslavement of Christians in the Sudan continued, a also in the siege against Jerusalem." (Zechariah 12:2).
German court implicated the Iranian regime in sponsoring terrorism
abroad, new reports emerged of chemical weapons manufacture by Jerusalem is the only city in the world that could cause an uproar over
several Mideast states, the Irish Republican Army stepped up its a housing project, yet as the Bible predicted today it is indeed a
bombthreat campaign, Albanian anarchy persisted, the civil war and burdensome stone to the world.
accompanying refugee crisis reached new proportions in Afghanistan,
and the separatist struggle in China's Xinjiang province became ever "On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the
more violent? midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall
devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about, while
THE General Assembly resolution demanded the "immediate and full Jerusalem shall still be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem."
cessation" of construction at Har Homa, Jerusalem and urged all (Zechariah 12:6).
states to stop "all forms of assistance and support for illegal Israeli
activities", notably in building settlements in disputed areas. It Yet Jerusalem shall remain inhabited !
requested UN secretarygeneral Kofi Annan to report back within two
months on whether Israel has stopped the work in Jerusalem.
▲
One hundred and thirtyfour nations supported the resolution, three
opposed it Israel, the US, and the tiny Pacific island federation of MARTIN LUTHER, THE X CATHOLIC MONK
Micronesia while 11 abstained Germany, Australia, Canada, Latvia,
Liberia, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Norway, Romania, Rwanda and The dilemma that the reformation only began after Martin Luther
Uruguay. gives a tainted picture that all the time before him, Christendom
which was all Catholic has always persecuting the Jews.
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While this false assumption is wrong, even Luther himself admitted Many also blame AntiSemitism on Martin Luther's writing against
that he was not the first who tried to reform the Church: "We are not the Jews. While it is true that Martin Luther at the last few years of
the first to declare the papacy to be the kingdom of Antichrist, since his life changed his position on the Jews and wrote evil essays
for many years before us so many and so great men...have undertaken regarding the Jews. At the beginning of his career, Luther was
to express the same thing so clearly....". apparently sympathetic to Jewish resistance to the Catholic Church:
Martin Luther who unfortunately inherited many false Replacement "The Jews are bloodrelations of our Lord; if it were proper to boast
Theology ideas taught by the Catholic Church was not the first of flesh and blood, the Jews belong more to Christ than we. I beg,
Christian who tried to reform Catholicism. Many centuries before therefore, my dear Papist, if you become tired of abusing me as a
Luther a movement among priests and monks calling for a return to heretic, that you begin to revile me as a Jew."
the entire Bible(both Jewish Old Testament and Jewish New
Testament) began many centuries before Luther. In reality the first In 1523 A.D Martin Luther wrote "Jesus Christ was born a Jew" he
reformer was the Priscillian Bishop of Avila who was falsely accused makes reference to the origins of Christianity, later the aging reformer
of witchcraft by a Synod in Bordeaux, France in A.D. 384. The false did not see this 'return to the right path' during the following years, he
charges can easily be refuted by seven of his recently discovered then turned bitter. Strong polemic works emerged at this point, like
writings in the University of Germany’s Wurzburg library. The Jews and their Lies.
Priscillian and six others were beheaded at Trier in 385 and many A further reason for Luther's antiSemitic position, other than his
martyrdoms followed. These persecutions went all the way to the late disappointment with the Jews for not accepting his "true belief", could
1300s when John Wycliff who was given the title "morning star of the be that in many respects his education was still based on the
Reformation," championed the authority of the Scriptures, translated Replacement Theology which was prevalent in the Catholic Church
and published them in English and preached and wrote against the taught by Augustine. Luther who was an Augustinian wrote many
evils of the popes and transubstantiation. Influenced by Wycliff was antiSemitic statements which were often used to accuse nonCatholic
Jan Hus, a fervent Catholic priest and rector of Prague University. He Christians of persecuting the Jews.
was later excommunicated in 1410, and burned at the stake as a
"heretic" in 1415. On his infamous writing "On the Jews and their Lies" of 1543, among
Luther's vile rantings against Jews were texts like the following
Despite Luther’s writings, it is not fair to blame all the excerpts:
divisions of Christendom of persecuting the Jews. Many throughout
the centuries who fought the evils of the Catholic Church tried to stop "Their breath stinks for the gold and silver of the heathen; since no
the killings and denounce the Catholic Church. During the tenth people under the sun always have been, still are, and always will
century, a council at Rheims by the Bishop of Orleans called the Pope remain more avaricious than they, as can be noticed in their cursed
"The Antichrist". In the eleventh century Rome was denounced as usury. Therefore know, my dear Christians, that next to the Devil, you
"the See of Satan" by Berenger of Tours. The Waldensians identified have no more bitter, more poisonous, more vehement and enemy than
the Pope as Antichrist in an 1100 treatise titled "The Noble Lesson." a real Jew who earnestly desires to be a Jew...Do not their Talmud
In 1206 an Albigensian conference indicted the Vatican as the woman and rabbis write that it is no sin to kill if a Jew kills a heathen, but it is
"drunk with the blood of the martyrs". a sin if he kills a brother in Israel? It is no sin if he does not keep his
oath to a heathen. Therefore, to steal and rob as they do with their
moneylending from a heathen,
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is a divine service...Now what are we going to do with these rejected, Jews. Once the code was enforced, Jews in the Empire could not build
condemned Jewish people?...(Luther, On the Jews and their Lies, synagogues, read the Bible in Hebrew, gather in public places,
1543). celebrate Passover before Easter, or give evidence in a judicial case in
which a Christian was a party.
"set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt
whatever will not burn... I advise that their houses be razed and 533541 A.D, Councils of Orleans prohibited marriages between
destroyed... I advise that all their prayer books... in which such Christians and Jews, forbade the conversion to Judaism by Christians,
idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, be taken from and banned contact with Jews the forbidding of the reading of the
them... that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of Torah exclusively in Hebrew. (see Parkes, 251ff, 392).
loss of life and limb... that safeconduct on the highways be abolished 553 – 545 A.D. Confiscation of Jewish property and the prohibition of
completely for the Jews... that all their treasure of silver and gold be the sale of
taken from them... But if the authorities are reluctant to use force and
restrain the Jews' devilish wantonness, the latter should, as we said, be Christian property to Jews.
expelled from their country and be told to return to ... Jerusalem
where they may lie, curse, blaspheme, defame, murder, steal, rob, 692 A.D. Trulanic Syno prohibited Christians from being treated by
practice usury, mock, and indulge in all those infamous abominations Jewish doctors.
which they practice among us, and leave ... our Lord the Messiah, our
faith, and our church undefiled and uncontaminated with their 694 A.D. Council of Toledo, Jews were enslaved, their property
devilish tyranny and malice." (Luther, On the Jews and their Lies, confiscated, and their children forcibly baptized.
1543).
1010 A.D The Bishop of Limoges (France) had signs in the cities'
▲ Jews, who would not convert to Christianity, must be expelled or
killed.
THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS BY "CHRISTENDOM"
1050 A.D Synod of Narbonne prohibited Christians from living in
306 AD. Decrees by the early Catholic Church (partial list) Synod of
Jewish homes.
Elvira prohibited intermarriage and sexual intercourse between
Christians and Jews, and prohibited them from eating together.
During the 4th and 5th centuries synagogues were burned by 1078 A.D Synod of Gerona required Jews to pay taxes to support the
Church.
Catholics and the first synagogue was destroyed as ordered by
Catholic bishop Innocentius of Dertona in Northern Italy.
1096 A.D. First Crusade were 12,000 Jews slaughtered in Mainz,
388 A.D. The first synagogue known to have been burned down was Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers,
Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and others (All
near the river Euphrat, on command of the bishop of Kallinikon.
locations Germany except Metz/France, Prag/Czech.
527564 A.D, the Justinian Code was an edict of the Byzantine
Emperor Justinian). A section of the code negated civil rights for
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1147 A.D. Second Crusade were hundreds of Jews were slain in Ham, religious and governing privileges, the curtailment of Rabbinical
Sully, Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France). jurisdiction, Prohibition of missionary work, Jews were no longer
allowed to hold high office, and have military careers (e.g. legislation
1179 A.D. Third Lateran Council prohibited certain medical care to in 537 A.D. which prohibited local Jewish people from serving on
be provided by Christians to Jews. municipal bodies).
1189 A.D. Third Crusade: English Jewish communities sacked in 1492 A.D. In the year Columbus set sail to conquer a New World,
Fulda/Germany. more than 150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, many died on
their way.
1215 A.D. Fourth Lateran Council required Jews to wear special
clothing to distinguish them from Christians. ▲
1235 A.D. 34 Jewish men and women slain.
ZIONISTS – CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
1267 A.D. Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, Northampton,
Israel is and always has been one of the most controversial words
Lincoln, Cambridge, and others exterminated.
which many Christians prefer to avoid, ignoring the fact that Jesus as
well, is the most controversial issue of the human history the cross
1290 A.D. in Bohemian (Poland) 10,000 Jews were killed.
is controversy, the blood is controversy and the Bible as a whole is
controversy. So must the Church drop them and water down
1337 A.D. Starting in Deggendorf Germany a Jewkilling frenzy
everything God intended for His glory?
reaches 51 towns in Bavaria, Austria, and Poland.
God even calls Himself "The God of Israel". He is not limited to
1348 A.D. All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and Strasbourg/France (two
certain names or missions of salvation only, or He is the one who sets
thousand) burned.
the law, but He is also in control of human history. This "human
destiny" is the theme of the Jewish Scriptures and is all intertwined
1349 A.D. In more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, with the people and the Nation of Israel.
mostly burned alive (in this one year more Jews were killed than
Christians in 200 years of ancient Roman persecution of Christians.
Israel after the Diaspora and the destruction of the Jewish Temple in
70 A.D. started the first Zionist movement which is simply defined as
1389 A.D In Prag 3,000 Jews were slaughtered. the longing and striving to restore the Jewish people back to Israel.
This "longing" which was based on the Bible and exercised by the
1391 A.D Seville's Jews killed led by Archbishop Martinez, 4,000 Jewish people for two millennia. This longing finally was given life
were slain, 25,000 sold as slaves. Their identification was made easy after the establishment of The Zionist Organization in 1897, the year
by the brightly colored "badges of shame" that all jews above the age of the first Zionist Congress.
of ten had been forced to wear.
Before the Zionist Congress took root, there was always a vast
14311443 A.D. Council of Basel forbade Jews to attend universities, minority of Christians who supported the view of a Jewish return, but
acting as agents in the conclusion of contracts between Christians, and after the Jews were expelled from the Promised Land under Hadrian
required that they attend church sermon, the removal of former
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in 135 A.D. they began focusing on the quick return of Jesus and laid from the lands of their dispersion, Eyre quoted at length from the
the Jewish issue to rest. Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, in the Hebrew Scriptures, chapters 36
and 37. Here is pictured a major prophecy that the "whole House of
Many Christian writers throughout history supported the Israel" would experience a resurrection from the `graves'.
Zionist idea. The historian, Frederick M. Schweitzer, in his work
entitled, A History of the Jews Since the First Century A.D. wrote: Holger Paulli (16441714), a Danist pietist, believed wholeheartedly
"Scots are very proud that unlike `the kingdom to the south' their in the Jewish Return to the "Promised Land" as a condition for the
homeland has never been desecrated by antiSemitism, expulsions, second coming of Christ. He would have been motivated by Jesus'
confiscations, or illfeeling of any kind toward Jews . . ." (page 295). own promise to return (John 14:13), and by the promise of angelic
This happy condition is due to their Calvinist heritage. messengers who, at Jesus' ascension, declared this same Jesus which
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you
John Calvin (15091564) was one of the foremost leaders in the have seen Him go into heaven (Acts 1:911). The Apostle Paul also
Protestant Reformation in Europe. John Knox (15151572) wrote that the Deliverer, meaning the Messiah, would come to Zion,
perpetuated Calvin's teaching in Scotland. Hence, Calvin's principles and all Israel would be saved (Romans 11:26). Paulli published books
of his theology are embodied in the creeds and practice of the and memoranda which he dispatched to the kings of France and
Presbyterian Church of Scotland. "To follow Calvin meant to live a England calling on them to help the Jews in their desire to return and
high degree of holiness, seeking to know and follow the will of God." regain their statehood.
(Elgin S. Moyer. The Wycliffe Biographical Dictionary of the
Church, p. 73). John Toland (16701722) from Ireland was an active participant in the
theological and political debates of contemporary England. During
As early as 1650 A.D. hundreds of books were written regarding the 1700 A.D from Ireland, he was an active participant in the theological
Jewish return to the land in light of Bible Prophecy. Peter Jurieu, the and political debates in contemporary England. In 1714 he published
"Goliath of the French Protestants" wrote in 1687 regarding the his Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland on
fulfillments of Bible prophecies for the Jewish return: the Same Footing with All Other Nations. He was a forerunner of the
modern human rights movement. He spoke against the backdrop of
"To the Nation of the Jews... I desire of that people, that they would Jewish ghettos in Europe. Jews having no official status in England
please to read this book attentively, and without prejudice... I confess until 1866 when the House of Commons admitted Lionel de
the hopes they conceive of a Kingdom of the Messiah ...is built upon Rothchild, the first Jewish Member of Parliament.
express and unquestionable prophecies; that even their Jerusalem
should be rebuilt, and that they should be again gathered together in The most famous English Jew of the 19th century was, of course,
their own land." (Approaching Deliverance of the Church, 1687 Benjamin Disraeli, whom Queen Victoria nobled as Lord
A.D.). Beaconsfield, who twice became the Prime Minister of England, first
in 1868.
Joseph Eyre in 1771 published a scholarly essay entitled
"Observations upon Prophecies Relating to the Restoration of the In 1714 he published his Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great
Jews." He drew public attention to the ancient biblical promises from Britain and Ireland on the Same Footing with all Other Nations. This
the Creator to Abraham, concerning the geographical area which the champion of human rights spoke against the background of Jewish
descendants of Abraham would occupy known as the "Promised "ghettos" in Europe, and Jews had no official status in England until
Land" (Genesis 15:1821; 17:78). Concerning the return of the Jews
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1866 when the House of Commons admitted Lionel de Rothschild, Sultan would be a check upon any future evil designs of Egypt or its
first Jewish Member of Parliament. neighbours. I wish to instruct your Excellency strongly to recommend
to the Turkish government to hold out every just encouragement to
The most famous English Jew of the 19th century was Benjamin the Jews of Europe to return to Palestine."
Disraeli (18041881) whom Queen Victoria ennobled as Lord
Beaconsfield, who became the Prime Minister in 1868. Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 18011885) was a man of
unshakeable faith who based his life on literal acceptance of the
Joseph Heir in 1771 published a scholarly essay entitled Observations Bible. His guiding principle in life was the old JudeoChristian Bible
Upon Prophecies Relating to the Restoration of the Jews. decree: "Love thy neighbor as thyself". The Jews he always called
"God's ancient people", and he accepted them in the same way that he
Danish priest, Holeger Paulli (16441714) believed wholeheartedly in accepted the Bible," wrote Dr. Pragai. It was the era when Christians
the Jewish return to the Promised Land as a condition for the Second of the Western culture were taking an interest in biblical lands.
Coming of Christ. Paulli published books and memoranda which he
dispatched to the kings of France and England calling upon them to Jews all over Europe were expressing their hope of return to their
help the Jews in their desire to return and regain their statehood. homeland. Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Secretary, wrote in 1840
to the British Ambassador in Constantinople (modern Istanbul in NW
The first world leader of great reputation to acknowledge the Jewish Turkey), the Sultan's seat. He expressed the British policy to keep the
claim to the Promised Land Napoleon in 1799 made a statement: Ottoman regime in power as long as possible. He made a
recommendation to his Empire's benefit involving the Jewish people
"Jews! Unique nation of the world! For thousands of years the with reference to Palestine:
tyranny of the world has succeeded in depriving you of your ancestral
lands but it has not eradicated your name, nor your national "There exists at the present time among the Jews dispersed over
existence... Legitimate heirs of the Land of Israel!... Hurry! The Europe, a strong notion that the time is approaching when their nation
moment has arrived to claim the return of your rights among the is to return to Palestine. . . . It would be of manifest importance to the
nations of the world. You must claim for yourselves a national Sultan to encourage the Jews to return and settle in Palestine because
existence as states among states, and your unencroachable right to the wealth which they would bring with them would increase the
bow down before God according to your faith, publicly and forever." resources of the Sultan's dominions; and the Jewish people, if
Napoleon Bonaparte's "Appeal to the Jews," encamped at Mount returning under the sanction and protection, and at the invitation of
Tabor before his defeat at Acre, 1798. the Sultan, would be a check upon any future evil designs of Mehemet
Ali (of Egypt) or his successor. . . . I have to instruct Your Excellency
Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Secretary, wrote in 1840 A.D: strongly to recommend (to the Turkish Government) to hold out
every just encouragement to the Jews of Europe to return to
"There exists at the present time among the Jews dispersed over Palestine.".
Europe a strong notion that the time is approaching when their nation
is to return to Palestine. It would be of manifest importance to the William H. Hechler (18451931), a British clergyman, met Dr. Herzl
Sultan (Turkey) to encourage the Jews to return and settle in Palestine in 1896, and became a sympathizer and close friend. Hechler said:
because the wealth that they would bring with them would increase
the resources of the Sultan's dominions, and the Jewish people if "All that this remarkable movement now requires is the public
returning under the sanction and protection at the invitation of the recognition and protection of the Sovereigns of Europe . . . the Jewish
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State is successful, which it must be according to the Bible, for the process of the joining of the tribes of Israel bone to bone and flesh to
Jews are then to be a blessing to the nations." 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
Hechler personally wrote to the German Emperor. Towards the end of may be saved and Israel dwell securely."
1898, the Kaiser, Wilhelm II, wrote in reply:
The one recent historical event that has forced many theologians, to
"I have been able to notice that the emigration to the land of Palestine reexamine their suppositions concerning the Jews is the physical
of those Jews who are ready for it, is being prepared extremely well rebirth of unexpected nation of Israel in 1948. Yet before that many
and it is even financially sound in every respect. . . . I am convinced others have already forseen this as they studied and trusted the Bible:
that the settlement of the Holy Land . . . will soon bring blessing to
the land.". "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set His hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of His people.. .and He
That same year the Kaiser made a formal visit to Jerusalem and met shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts
Dr. Herzl and members of the Zionist organization just outside the of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
Jaffa Gate. "It amounted to a clear act of recognition of the Zionist corners of the earth." (Isaiah 11:11)
Movement by the Sovereign of a crucially important Protestant
European power," Pragai noted in his book. "And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel, and they
shall build the waste cities and inhabit them...and I will plant them
When Mehemet Ali of Egypt threatened the Sultan in 1838, upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land
Palmerston and Ashley influenced the Turkish Government to permit which I have given them, sayeth the Lord thy God." (Amos 9:14,15).
the establishment of a British Consulate in Jerusalem. Ashley's delight
over the achievement is reflected in his diary: "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the lord; AND
ALL THE NATIONS SHALL BE GATHERED UNTO IT, to the
"The ancient city of the people of God is about to resume a place name of the Lord, to Jerusalem; neither shall they walk anymore after
among the nations, and England is the first of Gentile kingdoms that the stubbornness of their evil heart." (Jeremiah 3:17)
ceases "to tread her down."
"Yet will I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion" (Psalm 2:6)
Nathan Burnbaum in 1890 supported the veiw of the return of the
Jewish people to Israel. From 1896 the term "Zionism" referred to the "Hear the Word of the LORD, O ye nations. Declare it and say, He
political movement founded by Theodore Hertzel who's goal was to that scattered Israel will gather him, therefore, they shall come and
establish a Jewish State in Israel.". sing again in the heights of Zion." Jeremiah 31:1012.
In Britain as a result of the King James Version wide circulation and "and the Kings to the brightness of thy rising. The wealth of the
in the reign of King James I, Henry Finch (about 1560 A.D.), a Gentiles shall come to thee Israel. Thou shalt suck the milk of the
member of British Parliament, encouraged Jews to study the Old Gentiles and thou shalt know that I am the LORD, thy Saviour, thy
Testament and assert their claim to the Promised Land. Redeemer, the Might One of Jacob. They (the Gentiles) shall call thee
(Israel) the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel."
Yitzchak BenZvi, who became the second President of the State of (Isaiah 60).
Israel, commented as follows: "We are witnessing today the wondrous
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The Apostle Paul also wrote that the Deliverer (meaning the Messiah) However, a Jewish journalist from Vienna named Theodore Herzl
would come to Zion; and all Israel would then be saved (Romans was assigned to cover that trial. What it did was not only to change
11:26). the life of Theodore Herzl, but put the modern Zionist movement on
the fast track. Following observing the trial and seeing the mobs
At the end we will reconnect with the Jewish heritage of our Christian screaming for "Death to the Jews!" in the streets of Paris, he
faith and understand that true Christians are in reality "Spiritual conceived a program for a national and territorial solution and
Jews". published it under the title The Jewish State in 1896. A year later, in
1897, the first Zionist Congress met in Basil, Switzerland. Herzl's
Before Herzl's vision, some Rabbis had the same goals such as Rabbis vision for a homeland for the Jewish people was in Palestine.
Mohilever and Kalisher and the Netziv. The Chafetz Chaim, in a letter
to his son in 1850, wrote that "God was remembering ... His people ; To accomplish this he needed the sympathy of the Turkish Sultan, for
and it was possible the beginning of the ingathering of the exiles ... if Palestine was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and he needed
it were within our means it would be fitting for us to buy some land the support of the Kaiser of Germany. Actually, Herzl had a Christian
and go on aliya." Zionist advisor by the name of William Hechler, a British clergyman
,who met Herzl in 1896 and became a sympathizer and close friend.
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher wrote in 1862 that salvation, according to
the prophets, must be achieved in a natural way, by selfhelp, and not Hechler said this: "All that this remarkable movement now requires is
by awaiting the Messiah, and he urged that colonization of Palestine the public recognition and protection of the sovereigns of Europe.
be undertaken immediately. (Drishat Zion).
If the Jewish State is successful, which it must be according to the
Bible, the Jews are then to be a blessing to the nations." Hechler,
having connections with the British Government, personally wrote to
What sparked Herzl's vision for a National Homeland was a scandal the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and he answered in reply: "I
known as the Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery have been able to notice that the immigration to the land of Palestine
officer and someone on the staff was passing military information to of those Jews who are ready for it is being prepared extremely well,
Germany. Captain Drayfus was the only Jew on the staff and his and it is even financed soundly in every respect. I am convinced that
loyalty was suspect. He was accused, tried, convicted and court the settlement of the Holy Land will soon bring blessing to the Land."
martialled and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.. But
famous writers like Emile Zola took up the battle to prove his The very same year the Kaiser made a formal visit to Jerusalem, met
innocence. The ugliest and most frightening aspect of the Dreyfus Dr. Herzl and members of the Zionist organization just outside the
Affair was the antiSemitism it brought to the surface throughout the Jaffa Gate of the old city of Jerusalem. Pragai in his book wrote: "It
general public of France. amounted to a clear act of recognition of the Zionist Movement by the
sovereign of a crucially important Protestant European power,
The battle for Dreyfus' innocence continued until the President of Germany." So the trickle has become a stream and is moving towards
France granted a pardon and he was released. With a new government being a river which cannot be stopped.
in power, Dreyfus was reinstated in the army, promoted to the rank of
Major and awarded the order of the Legion of Honour. After ten years Part Seven: "Providence"
of prison in chains, solitude, privation and tropical fever Drayfus was
a figure of a broken man.
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It has well been said that God fulfills His ways mainly by what we David Lloyd George the Prime Minister of England, and Jan Smuts,
call "the Providence of God". Like the Children of Israel, we don't see the Defense Minister of South Africa, serving in the British War
the details; we see the results. At the beginning of World War I, Cabinet, also were ardent Christian Zionist. General Smuts, a
Britain found herself dangerously short of acetone, a chemical Welshman, who studied the Old Testament sympathised with the
substance needed for producing the cordite explosive in artillery Jewish people as did the the Dutch people in general who respected
shells. Winston Churchill had succeeded Arthur Balfour as First Lord the Jews.
of the Admiralty. Dr. Cheim Weizmann, a Russian born Jew, was the
teacher of chemistry at Manchester University. Churchill asked In 1920, Jewish Sir Herbert Samuel was invited by Prime Minister
Weizmann if he could make 30,000 tons of acetone synthetically, and Lloyd George to become the first Governor of the Holy Land since
Dr. Wiseman undertook the difficult task. Pompei the Roman General captured the temple in 63 B.C.
At this point in W.W. I, the Allies were losing the war, and yet a year The U.S and it's predsidents with their herritage in the Bible, stood by
later Germany had been defeated. As Minister of Munitions, David Israel during her birth pangs. The Puritans also who came to America
Lloyd George, who later was to become Prime Minister, offered patterned their religious and secular life after the Old Testament. The
Weizmann a suitable honour in appreciation of his work. Weizmann Hebrew language was in fact taught at Harvard University from 1635
replied that he wanted nothing for himself, only British support for on. President Lincoln who revoked General Grant's order in 1862 that
the Jewish aspirations in Palestine. As it happened, by the Providence all Jews be expelled from the territories under his authority. President
of God, at that time the British War Cabinet was made up of a number Woodwork Wilson, a Presbeterian was in favour of Zionism during
of Christian Zionists. Lord Arthur James Balfour himself, British World War and gave encouragement to the Balfour Declaration.
Statesmen, on November 2, 1917, wrote a letter to the then most
important Jew in England, Lord Rothschild, a Jewish scientist and in Jeremiah 32:37,38,41 declared: "Behold, I will gather them out of the
fact a member of the House of Lords. That letter in the name of the countries where I have driven them in My anger. I will bring them
British Foreign Office became the famous Balfour Declaration which back to this place and I will cause them to dwell safely. Yes, I will
in part read: "His Majesty's Government views with favour the rejoice over them to do them good and I will assuredly plant them in
establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." this land with all My heart and with all My soul."
Balfour himself was a dedicated Christian Zionist, who belonged to
the Restoration Movement. Leviticus 26:23 promised: "I will scatter you among the nations and
draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities
The people who belonged to this movement were dedicated waste." Zechariah 7:14, "But I scattered them with a whirlwind
evangelical Christians who labored hard to help establish the state of among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land they
Israel. left became desolate so that no one passed through or returned."
Abba Eban in his work of history entitled "My People" remarked:
"Without Balfour's help there would have been no Declaration."
Today, over one years after that return began in the late 1800's, the
General Allenby, who captured Jerusalem from the Turks December Jews continue to pour into the Promised Land. Since December 1989,
9, 1917, was a dedicated Christian Zionist who many Christians in eight short years, onethird of all the former Soviet Union Jews,
believed that he with Chaim Weisman were used by God to do the job nearly 700,000 people, have made the return. "Alyiah" the Hebrew
of establishing Israel. name for the return. Which means around 12 per cent of Israel's
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population today has arrived in the last seven years. In fact, nearly Isaiah 11:11,12 also predicted it. "It shall come to pass in that day that
100,000 more are expected in the year 1997. Year after year for the LORD shall set His hand again the second time (the first, was the
hundreds and thousands of years the Jews have faithfully obeyed return from Babylon) to recover the remnant of His people who are
God's command to remember the Passover; thankful of the time when left. He will set up a banner announcing to the nations, and will
God delivered them from Egyptian bondage, and He smote the first assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of
born of Egypt including Pharaoh's own son. Judah from the four corners of the earth."
Today some Christian organizations like the International Christian God told Joshua that He had brought them out of Egypt to bring them
Embassy in Jerusalem. helps Jews to go home to Israel. To date they into the Promised Land, and today it is certain that God has brought
have brought some 26,000 Jewish people out of Eastern European hot them back to bless them in the land and to more than increase their
spots including Georgia and very inhospitable places to Jewish physical inheritance, but to bring them back to Himself. The great
people. Other organizations are bringing them out in large boats out purpose is yet largely unfulfilled: the rebirth of the Jewish people
of the Black Sea area to Haifa. spiritually in the land.
A cataclysmic event, the ingathering of the Jews has shaken the dust
of centuries of blindness from Christian eyes, awakening them to the
No matter where they have been inside their Promised Land or in fact that the nation of Israel still occupies its original, extraordinary,
exile from it, and no matter under what conditions they have lived, in special place in God's purposes for mankind. None the less, ingrained
the brief interludes of peace and prosperity, or suffering the antiSemitism continues to color the lenses through which many
persecutions, Crusades, pogroms, expulsions, Inquisition, and Christians are observing this incredible physical return.
Holocaust, the Jews have given thanks to the God who delivered them
from Egypt and brought them to their Promised Land. And yet the For even as they recognize that the Jews have been hounded and
Bible says that this second and final ingathering of the Jews that we afflicted in every land in which they have sought refuge down the
are witnessing today will overshadow that great Passover event. years, millions of these Christians still believe that the Jews are being
Jeremiah 16:1415 stated: returned to their ancient homeland only to face more of God's anger
and judgment to be driven to their knees. However, the Bible doesn't
"Therefore, behold the days are coming," says the LORD, "that it say so. The Bible is quite clear on this matter. The dispersion from the
shall no more be said, 'The LORD lives who brought us up from the land was a curse. The restoration to the land is a blessing first,
land of Egypt, but the LORD lives who brought up the children of physically and then spiritually.
Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands where He had
driven them. For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to Psalm 80, the Shepherd of Israel is beseeched to cause His face to
their fathers." shine on the scattered people of Israel; not to pour out His anger upon
them, and finishes "we shall be saved." Psalm 102:13, in the context
Yes, in bringing physical Israel back home, God has been raising up of the regathering of the prophet writes, "You will arise and have
an announcement, a banner to the nations one they are unable to mercy on Zion for the time to favor her, yes, the set time has come."
ignore no matter how unpopular it is confronting the world with the Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Micah, Zephaniah and almost every Jewish
reality of God's eternal existence; His undiminished sovereignty; and prophet promise that the Jews shall return and dwell safely and none
His unlimited might and power. shall make them afraid. Jeremiah 31:10 promises to regather Israel
and keep him as a shepherd does his flock. In Isaiah 41:816, God
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tells regathered Israel, "Fear not and be not dismayed " ; He will say, "There is there God!" "The nations shall know that I am the
promised that His righteous right hand (not their own self LORD, says the LORD God when I am hallowed in you before their
righteousness), will uphold Israel; and that those who strive and war eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all
with Israel shall perish and become nothing. the countries, and bring you into your own land, and I will sprinkle
clean water on you, and you shall be clean."
In Zephaniah 3:15 He promises that He will take away Israel's
judgments and cast out her enemies and that she shall see disaster no ▲
more. And in Deuteronomy 30:9, Jeremiah 32:41, Isaiah 62:5, and
Zephaniah 3:17, God promises that as He returns Israel and plants her
GENTILE CHRISTIANS – SHOULD THEY BE ZIONISTS?
in the land, He will rejoice over her with gladness and singing.
The Word of God makes it clear not only that He who scattered Israel
Ezekiel 36:2426, "I will take you from among the nations, gather you
will gather them (Jeremiah 31:10), but that God will use Gentiles to
out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will
help carry them home:
sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you
from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Then I will give you a
"But the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose
new heart and put a new spirit within you; then I will take the heart of
Israel, and will set them in their own land; and aliens will join them
stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."
and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2 And the nations will
take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will
possess the nations as male and female slaves in the LORD's land;
they will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over
As we read in 2 Samuel 7
those who oppressed them. (Isaiah 14:1,2)
"Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
"Thus says the Lord God: I will soon lift up my hand to the
them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more;
nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your
neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as
sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their
beforetime, And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over
shoulders. Kings shall be your foster fathers,
my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies.
and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground
Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house … He
they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you
shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his
will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put
kingdom for ever… And thine house and thy kingdom shall be
to shame. Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a
established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for
tyrant e be rescued? But thus says the LORD:
ever…"
Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the
tyrant be rescued; for I will contend with those who contend with
This is a restoration that only Israel as a nation is destined for. While
you, and I will save your children. I will make your oppressors eat
the Gentiles are descending into chaos, Israel is rising and destined
their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with
for great things. Imagine, if the physical restoration of the Jews has
wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and
caused such a mighty stirring among the peoples of the world, what
your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob." (Isaiah 49:2226).
will their salvation and spiritual restoration do? Then the nations will
truly no longer say, "Where is their God?" Looking upon Israel they
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In addition to being biblical, Israel is now a nation. The Jews in the Also: "my opinion is the opinion of most Arab Christians most of
Diaspora, the dispersion, have always been in danger and Satan still them are Orthodox or Catholic, and you know what the Orthodox and
seeks to destroy them. Many holocausts have taken place and most Catholic teach regarding Israel and the Jews they teach what you
people hope that history will not be repeated. However, Jews outside call 'replacement theology'".
Israel are still in danger of assimilation, antiSemitism and even
annihilation. The difference between past generations and now is that Response: While this common opinion only gets to show support to
the Jews have a home to go to. Since 1948, Israel is a fact. In addition one of the most evil ideas that was promoted throughout the centuries,
to being biblical and having a nation, chaos looms in the future. yet I doubt that many Christians even realizes how evil it is. However,
we do need to hold responsible the silence of many who witness and
The breakup of the former Soviet Union with the resulting economic ignore this issue.
and political instability. The Ukraine has the highest density of Jewish
people in the former Soviet Union as well as the most tragic history of Indeed many Catholic teachings confuse between what the disciples
antiSemitism. Centuries ago God said through the prophet Zechariah, and the first believers have always taught, and what many church
"Come, come, flee from the land of the north.". Not only from Russia fathers in the Catholic Church wanted to promote, some misguided
(The Land of the North) but out of more than a hundred different church fathers dropped what the Apostles Peter, Paul, Timothy, and
nations. John taught to follow Saint Augestine and his errors. It was Augustine
around A.D. 400 who ultimately articulated the idea, principally in his
Romans 15: 27 "You Gentiles Owe it to the Jews to help them in wellknown work, The City of God.
Earthly matters". This command and the increasing opportunities to
reach out to the Jewish people and speak a prophetic word concerning Augustine admitted that at one time he had espoused the prominent
God's desire for them. The Scripture is clear in many passages like doctrine of "Chiliasm" the sound biblical truth that was taught by the
Ezekiel Chapter 37 that God's program is physical restoration of apostles, the belief in a future millennium, in which the Church and
Israel, followed by spiritual to a worldwide revival.(Romans redeemed Israel will be blessed by the personal return and reign of
11:15,26) It is God's primary intention to bless the Jews in the land Christ on the earth. However, he had since come to what he calls
and from that land to make Jews a blessing to the whole world " to all "more satisfactory" view that the Church has replaced Israel forever.
the families of the earth" to bring glory to His holy Name. (Genesis Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed in fulfillment of prophecy,
12:3) and the Jews were dispersed throughout the Roman Empire. The
question would be which of Augustine views is more sound the
▲ previous views he espoused? Or his newer one? In other words, which
doctrine is more sound, the original one, or the one that has been used
longer? One would think that the original supersedes, it is closer to
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY HISTORY
what the apostles taught and to what their master Jesus Christ taught
as well.
Opinions: "The viewpoint which is held by the vast majority of
Christians today and which was the only viewpoint until the 19th
The other question would be on what basis did Augustine abandon the
century has no historical basis, while your view point which is barely
earlier apostolic views? These questions are difficult to answer by
two centuries old is valid historically speaking...... I'm confused!".
Replacement Theology supporters. In fact they would support other
views held by certain cults like Islam rather then cling to what the
Apostles taught, since Islam and Arab Christians would agree on their
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position towards Israel. One thing is clear, it is not a conviction that This, has been proven throughout history, but the only way Arab
depends on research and study of scripture, but a state of heart Christians can see it, is to study hundreds of historical events from
plagued with centuries of dependence on tradition that is clouded with time immemorial showing the atrocities committed by Muslims
halftruths, taught from father to son, in the pulpits, and even in toward the Christian, they overlook the 1.5 million Armenian
school classrooms. This twisted history and media rhetoric put thick Christians slaughtered, the Sudan Muslims killing and destroying one
scales in Middle Eastern eyes, a corrupt history that can be matched million Christians and annihilating almost all Nubian Christians, and
with Nazi Germany, and ironically speaks to Israel, as they are the the forced conversions of almost every Christian nation on the East.
Nazis themselves. Arab students are never taught Jewish history, they
really hardly ever look at scripture for themselves, programmed by During the last seven years alone in the country of Sudan. The
repetition of old propaganda and repeated lies to the point that they Muslim terror has become fiercest since the coming power of dictator
end up believing that they have divine truth. General Haasan ElBashi. The Muslims attacked Christian villages.
The young between the ages of 13 and 20 were shot without
One would think that the Palestinians who live in the midst of the judgment. UN reports say that others were burned alive in their huts.
conflict would be the experts on the situation, but in reality the Many churches were closed or destroyed. Sudan is forcibly Islamized.
opposite is true; their schools are infested with one sided half truths, Males get circumcised. Leaders of animist tribes were invited by the
their mosques preach hatred from the pulpit, and their priests call out authorities to a "conference," and then they were shot. Crucifixion and
for the destruction of Israel, Christian and Muslim alike in Israel are stoning of Christians and torture with redhot iron bars is a horrifying
all part of this brain wash. They have listened for so long to repeated reality, that accompanied with mass expultions and starvation with a
propaganda lies, that these lies were recorded by repetetion into their silent world who have not shed a tear or raised a voice. The Muslim
minds as truth. oil to the West has become more valuable then Christian blood far
away in Africa.
They have chose to live in isolation from the Jew, the Jew on the
other hand is so afraid of the Arab that he too is isolated. You have Only future can show that history usually repeats itself that Islam was
barbwired Jewish settlements on the hilltops, and Arab villages in the able to conquer, not Jewish communities only, but entire Christian
valleys, and no one intermingles with no one. nations as well. Little is remembered by Christian Arabs that Egypt,
Syria, Turkey, and even many parts of Saudi Arabia, was Christian.
The Arab Christians on the other hand are unaware of their blinded The Jews eventually were destroyed or exiled, and the Christians put
stand against the Jew, they stand with Muslims on the same path of to the Islamic sharp sword, given the choices of Shahadatan or death.
struggle, they are unaware, or maybe look the other way at much of The East was lost to Islam, due to their weakness and alternative
the evidence of repeated history, that Islam hold an "extreme" beliefs by saints, substituting apostolic teachings to a world full of
position and a different form of Replacement Theology than their icons, lukewarm faith, and lack of adherence to scripture, and
"Christian" brothers, this 'Replacement' does not only exclude Israel unfortunately, even my plea would be viewed as a divisive betrayal
from the land, but the Christians as well, as Islam has no problem scheme based on the old principle of "divide and conquer". The
using anyone to oppose an arch enemy until they reach to power, then Middle East is plagued with supposed conspiracy theories that
any other theology that could challenge theirs, must be eliminated as everything evil must have been generated by Zionist ideas, the same
well including the ones who supported them all along. Just like the errors promoted in Communist and Nazi systems, is sadly being
beast mentioned in Revelations uses the whore, then turns on her to promoted in the East as well.
destroy her.
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Regardless that in 4,000 years of history, the Jews have not occupied Movement that is of recent origin and the one behind the vale of Satan
anybody else's land nor enslaved or "ethnically cleansed" any nation riding all the way to Mystery Babylon on a back of the demonic beast
on earth, yet they are the most despised people ever. Where are the of world alliance.
Arab and Muslim outcry for mass murder of Muslim Curds in Iraq,
the occupation of Lebanon by Syria, the destruction of Sudan's Unfortunately, Satan is always at work as The Lord told us, to deceive
Christians, or the 1.5 million Armenians butchered by Muslim even "The very elect", and "
Turkey? Do we hear a peep? No wonder Jesus said of Israel: "Ye
shall be hated of all nations,". This "Nation" could only mean Israel. Christendom" canonized Augustine's evil ideas by establishing him as
Jesus sadly told his Jewish disciples in Israel, and so it has come an official saint, and theologians throughout the Roman Empire
about (Matt. 24:9). accepted his false doctrine.
Even the ones who are not traditionalist Christians who are eager for The Chiliasts were branded as holding "aberrant and heretical views",
some enlightenment, approach scripture, and instead of accepting its and Augustinian Replacement Theology with other false theologies
simple truths that were written to peasants and shepherds, they instead became the "cornerstone" of the Roman Catholic concepts. In the later
totally trust the supposed "enlightened ones", in order to escape the developments in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the European
clear and simple statements presented in scripture concerning all these Reformation and the Anglican split, Replacement Theology continued
obvious verses that God in simple language supports a Jewish return, essentially untouched. It was an important part of the standard
they would solicit the aid of these "enlightened ones" who would Christian view of Israel, the world, and prophecy. This view which
force certain interpretations by excluding verses without looking at "evolved" had no basis in what the Apostles taught, on the contrary,
the whole context of scripture, and as we should see, the context of a instead of being Biblical became antiBiblical as cursing Israel in
certain passage is ignored by this school of thought and not reality is cursing God's chosen people since Roman persecution, the
encouraged to see even the whole context of the main theme of Holocaust, and the Russian Pogroms and the inquisitions used this
scripture. type of theology in order to destroy the Jew. How can anyone claim
Biblical Christianity and support this view and not seeing the
The end results of these interpretations are a perfect harmony with dangers?
whatever tickles the ears of Yasser Arafat, Hanan Ashrawi, George
Habbash, and the rest of the corrupt political spectrum of the Worse then this, the effect of all of this on Christian attitudes about
Palestinian Authorities. Israel was devastating. In actuality, Replacement Theology
disenfranchised Israel from having a continuing covenant relationship
The whole theme of Scripture is the story of the fallen man, who is in with God. Instead of looking at Jerusalem as the "City of the Great
need of redemption with a loving creator that sends His son through a King," in which Christ will reign for a thousand years upon His
chosen nation "Israel" whom He had promised with an everlasting return, they saw Jerusalem's perpetual desolation as much as a
covenant, that by them a redeemer would come, for some of them confirmation of Christianity as the destruction of Pharaoh's army in
who would betray Him, yet in the end He will come back to them, as the Red Sea was a confirmation of Moses.
He remembers His "eternal" covenant, and rescues them in Jerusalem
from the Gentile world that attacks His beloved chosen people from The Marcion heresy expressed the extreme form of this view.
every nation and from every side. Instead, it becomes an Ecumenical Marcion proposed that the Old Testament be abandoned, a thing that
movement uniting the good, bad, and the ugly to look at only "Christ" many Arab Christians stand for, but that was unacceptable to the
and ignore almost everything else. In reality, it is the Ecumenical Church and a better way to deJudaise the Hebrew Scriptures was to
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Christianize the Hebrew Scriptures so as to spiritualize the text and ▲
read New Testament concepts into the text. That view is still
prevalent today.
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY THE OPINION OF THE
MASSES
The Bible, however, is consistent, and the great truths of Scripture are
consistent throughout Scripture. This one reference does not give us
Opinion: "What I believe in is what all Christians believed in until the
license to use this title for the Church, nor to see the Jewish People as
19th century and what the majority of Christians believe in today!
abandoned by God.
This form of opinion rooted in blindness more than facts is glad to
To argue that we should follow what certain "Church Fathers" teach
pick up any heresies, errors, clutter, evil, or false doctrine that crept
would be in contradiction to what Replacement Theology advocates
up throughout the centuries. It forgets that reformation was necessary
teach themselves, since the promoters of this view would insist to tell
to keep Christians on track and to protect the believers of many false
a Jews to ignore many errors of there fathers the Rabbis and seek the
teachings promoted by these "Church Fathers". In this common
Word of God the original Hebrew Prophets.
opinion even Martin Luther would be wrong since he went against
what Church Fathers promoted in the Roman Catholic Church.
Replacement Theology's misguided approach to the Bible not only led
millions of Christians astray over the years but it has, in addition,
Replacement Theology is still the majority view among professing
birthed evil of the most horrific proportions. Replacement Theology
Christian theologians, but Premillennialism is by and large considered
played a role in the persecution of Jews by the church through the
a legitimate and vocal minority, at least in Evangelical Protestant
centuries, including the Holocaust." (quote by Malcolm Hedding),
circles.
since all the promises and blessings and Israel's entire inheritance,
now belongs to the Church while
Such organizations as the Roman Catholic Church and the World
Council of Churches which include both Protestant and Catholic
Israel gets to keep the curses.
elements have, for the last halfcentury, taken positions favoring the
Arab and Moslem enemies of Israel. It is with considerable reluctance
This false interpretation instituted originally by Rome, was a great
that the Vatican has recognized Israel, and the Church's primary
stumbling block to the Jews as it prevents them from recognizing their
interest is in asserting its influence in maintaining its Holy Places in
own Messiah,.
Jerusalem. Similarly, the World Council of Churches has consistently
pled the cause of Palestinians against the claims of Israel.
"Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people. " Isaiah 57:14b.
Thus, Christianity has, because of its differing theological views
God has in no way either rejected or replaced Israel and the Jewish
about the future of Israel, had a divided attitude about Zionism and
people. His covenant with them is unconditional and non
the revived State of Israel.
transferable. God's covenants and promises were never based on
Israel's good behavior, but were based on God's faithfulness toward
Already in Numbers, chap. 14, the option of replacement theology is
His people. Although the Jewish people have suffered the
presented and flatly rejected.
consequences of breaking God's Laws, just as all do, they have not
been replaced or rejected. The scriptures make that quite clear:
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The option was that God would kill all the Israelites because of their God has one and only one faith He has called us for. That is of being
sinfulness, and He would start all over again from the beginning. He Spiritual Jews or Jews at "heart" AND "spirit" as the Bible puts it in
would not reject the IDEA of a chosen people, but He would destroy this verse.
the people descended from Abraham and start a new people from
Moses. This new start with one individual is rejected. God listened to It is quite clear from this verse that Paul was telling Christ's followers
Moses prayer for His sinful people. God the Father has surely listened who were Jews, that what mattered to God is not being circumcised in
also to the prayer of Jesus. the flesh, but seeking the heart and the spirit of God, to know the
heart of God and follow His ways in obedience to His Word, To love
▲ the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your might, this is
the first commandment.
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY WHO IS A JEW?
From the Bible, it is clear what title God wants us to be labeled as, it
is crystal clear that "spiritual" Jew is what God is after "But he is a
The very verse that AntiZionists and Replacement Theology
Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in
advocates use and love to quote to prove their point that God had no
the spirit.".
more plans for the Jew, that God replaced them by others, this very
verse in reality backfires:
To many, that sounds like a detested title, but to God, He chose the
title of "Jew" for Christ, the apostles, the prophets before them, and
"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
His followers as well. Today's title as Christians is no where to be
circumcision,
found in scripture, and I agree that we are to follow Christ, yet the
Bible states that we are to be followers of the Messiah who came for
which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly;
the Jew first, then to the Gentile. I am by no means forcing that we
and
cannot use "Christians" as title, but argue the point that the "Church"
has not replaced the Jew.
circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter;
For how long will we deny God His ways?
whose praise is not of men, but of God." Romans 2:28,29.
Replacement Theology advocates will try to persuade people that now
While this verse never stated that God is done with the Jew or
they are God's chosen, since they are the ones after God's heart, not
replaced them, yet I wonder why can't Replacement Theology
these abandoned divorced Jews in the flesh. Instead of loving these
advocates change their title from being called Christians to Spiritual
Jews by heart and spirit until death, witnessing to them by God's truth,
Jews? At lease that is exactly what this verse that they advocate calls
and setting the perfect example to them to find their Messiah, instead
for? Especially when it is a New Testament verse intended for Christ's
of all that we are called to think that God is done with them, and a
followers?
new era of the faith have begun; a Christian era with Marys, icons,
and Crystal Cathedrals. There is no need for God to fulfill His plans
If this verse meant that we are a new breed of faith, the question
for Jerusalem, or establish David's seat on Zion. These verses too will
would be is how could a one God dictate more then one faith? be ignored, and hardly ever read. For how long?
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What happened to the God who said: "I bring back the captives of scripture). In fact their were many wars between the two with millions
Judah and Jerusalem"? of casualties on the "Spiritual" Christians.
It is clear then that Israel will be first in unbelief and in her land when Christians who claim to be Christians and hate Jews at the same time,
Gentile rule is finished as the following verse shows: are in contradiction of their faith, Nazis, KKK, Replacement
Theology advocates, AntiZionests and whatever faith that is anti Jew
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, in reality are not following the perscription set by God.
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And In fact antiIsrael advocates will not be able to even enjoy heaven
so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of which it's tweleve gates have the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
(Rom 11:2526) How will we ever get healed?
Isn't this the will of God who clearly dictated: How is it that we are so blind?
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Where are the verses that say "we the Spiritual Jew have replaced
LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and God's plan for the circumsized Jew?"
shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And
many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the Doesn't God have plans for them?
mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion Doesn't God have hundreds of verses describing their plan to become
shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. Spiritual Jews as well?
(Isaiah 2:23).
Hasn't God supplied us with ample amount of scripture to show that
Can we make Zion and Jerusalem replaced by the Vatican, and the He still loves the Jew and has a plan for them?
seat of Christ now is in Rome lead by His Vicar, the Pontifus
Maximus? How could we then be so bent on isolating the vast amount of
scripture by taking one verse or
Where are all the verses about Rome?
two, twist them to something else, and shed this sinister interpretation
This is what we are lead to believe, but does it square with the as a light on all scripture?
scripture?
Why would God choose the word JEW if God all of the sudden
In reality nothing changed in the Christian world from the Jewish era, abandoned and divorced them forever?
the same verse Replacement Theology advocates use regarding the
"fleshly circumsized" Jew and the "Spiritual Jew" fits on them, as By studying scripture and awareness of the cults, one could see that
from time immomorial we have had "fleshly Christians" (Christians the most dangerous method that "desguized believers" use by
by tradition) and "Spiritual Christians" (Christians who follow isolating few verses and derive mountains of new invented theology.
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Today we have The Faith Theology, Jehovas Witnesses, Mormons, In light of many interpretations to do away with Israel, Replacement
Modern Day Prophets Movement, The Mother Mary cult, The Theology advocates prefer to interpret the prophecies of Israel's return
Goddess Cult, David Koresh, The Hour of Power, and many many were fulfilled already after the Jews came from the Babylonian
others. They are springing up every day fulfilling what the Bible captivity. Studying Joel chapter 3, facts are that:
predicted that in the later times, many false prophets will arise and
decieve many. The same tactics used by such cults are being used by The Jews were never disbursed throughout every nation until the
Replacement Theology advocates. Diaspora.
From Mat 8, one can see that Christ will rule the earth Currently and since the early twentieth century they have been
were all believers Jew and Gentile will be with him while the rest of brought back to Israel from every corner of the glob, and almost half
the unbelieving world will be cast out. The believers will rule the of the world's Jews are in Israel.
world and Christ will have His seat. The Subjects of the kingdom are
by no means the Jews of Israel, but all the unbelievers in the world as Jerusalem today is Israel's capital " I bring back the captives of
described in Matt 13:38: "The field is the world; the good seed are the Judah and Jerusalem", what is left of this strange godly declaration is
children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked that on Christ's second coming, there will be a judgment of the
one". nations for disbursing the Jews and for DIVIDING Israel with her
enemies.
The good seed are the "Children of The Kingdom" from the "field"
which is "the world". On page 124 of "Whose Promised Land", by Colin Chapman the
author emphasise on the title "The Meek...will inherit the Earth", the
While the Kingdom of Heaven has nothing to do with regathering the author forces a retranslation to one of the meanings for the greek
children of Jacob(Israel) yet they attempt to match them since both word (ge'en) to "land". Even if this is accepted it still not specific of
gatherings are from the east and the west. Israel, and while it is obvious that this retranslation is intended to
make the Bible fit the Replacement Theology doctrine, however, this
This kingdom will come as Zecharia predicted in his vision of the is invalid in light of the rest of scripture which clearly make Israel a
messianic era, foretold that in the end of days, nonGentile rule of the land , especially when there will be a rule of
the whole world from Israel at the time of Messiah's rule. Other
"It shall come to pass that every one that is left of all nations that attempts are made by the author to discredit the "Israel" rule
came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles." ▲
(Zechariah 14:1621)
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY WHO IS "ISRAEL OF GOD"?
They are getting ready several thousand Christians go up annually to
Jerusalem to worship the King, in 1996, during the Jewish Succot
The Replacement Theology opinion expressed in Maseehi's website
more than 5000 such pilgrims participated, from more than 100
as well as AlBushra and AlSabeel often refers to the term "Israel of
gentile nations.
God" which is only found in Galatians 6:16, where Paul writes:
"Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule even to the Israel of
God". From this verse, it is argued that Paul, writing to the churches
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in Galatia, was saying that the Church could now take upon itself a Christians being persuaded by the Judaising party (2:12) that they
title that had solely belonged to the Jewish people which is contrary to should be circumcised. In order to be righteous(6:1213).
what Paul was saying, when clearly Paul wrote in the previous verse
Why then expose their folly, and then confuse the whole situation by
"Neither circumcision, nor uncircumcision means anything, what calling the Gentile dominated church in Galatia "the Israel of God"?
counts is a new creation".
He was condemning Israel as being "in slavery with her children".
As to which group this might apply, there are possibly five candidates Why confuse the church that he labored so hard for (4:11), by trading
mentioned by Paul in this letter: one clear collective noun "Israel", that of a distinctive ethnic group of
people, for the Christian Church, which is distinctly not the nation of
Gentile Christians tempted to desert to a different gospel(l:6ff) Israel?
the Church of God (1:13)
the Gentiles to whom Paul was called to preach (2:7) There is one other problem in transferring Israel's title upon the
Church from this passage and it is the word "even". "...even to the
the Jewish circumcision believers(2:1113), and Israel of God." (6:16)
"Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule...(eg, all you Gentiles
By process of elimination, the "Israel of God" cannot refer to the who resist the pressure to be circumcised to obtain righteous) and to
Gentile believers, tempted by the circumcision party, because it is to the Israel of God", a different group top those targeted by the
them that Paul is warning about being pressured to be circumcised, circumcision party. This is how the AV, RV, Douay, NEB, and
the "you" in (6:11,12,13). NASB translate "kai".
So Paul is not calling them the "Israel of God" as they must be a We have seen that Paul addresses Gentiles in this passage as "you".
different group to these "foolish Galatians". Nor is he referring to the We dismiss the title in question as referring to "the Church" for the
circumcision party themselves. He has already addressed them as above reasons. Believing Jews needed to hear this rule also since they
"those who want to make a good impression" (6:12). We can rule out had already been circumcised and might also be tempted to see that it
the Gentiles to whom Paul goes with the Gospel. Circumcision is of provided for them a righteousness based on the Jewish law. It makes
no relevance to them. Does, therefore, "even the "Israel of God" mean much more sense, therefore, to see that Paul refers to them in 6:16 as
"the Church of God", the title that Paul employed in 1:13? "the Israel of God" who are the believing remnant of Israel, to which
Peter and Barnabas belonged (1:1113) and who themselves had been
Remember that the letter is written "to the churches in Galatia", made led astray (2:1113). They were "of Israel" and also "of God".
up of Jewish and Gentile believers. But the whole thrust of the letter
is to expose the folly within the Church. (3:1) of the Galatian
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This is the only reference to this title, and a basic rule of sound who have continued in the faith of their forefather Abraham and for
exegesis is that doctrine is developed, not from a single text (as this this reason have acknowledged Jesus as their messiah (see Romans
is) but from the broad teaching of Scripture. 9:68), but never once in the New testament is Israel used as a
synonym for the Church as a whole. In Romans 11:2526 Paul sums
If we were to try replacing the term "Israel" anywhere else in the New up his analysis of the relationship between Israel and the Gentiles in
Testament by the term "Church", the context would make no sense. one comprehensive statement: "Hardening in part has happened to
Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all
The Amplified Bible cross references this verse with Psalm 125:5, Israel will be saved."
"Peace be upon Israel". Again, to replace the term "Israel" in the
Hebrew Scriptures (sometimes known as the Old Testament) with ▲
"The Church "makes nonsense in almost every context.
WHO WANTED TO KILL WHO?
Thus by calling the Church the "Israel of God", we might infer that
God is now working only with the Church and that we can replace
Palestinian opinion:
Israel and say that all the promises that relate to Israel now belong to
the Church. How can we understand Ezekiel 36:812 where we read:
"I agree that Christ was a Jew, so was his Mother, so were the
Apostles, the Prophets and a lot of many good people. But does that
"But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
give them the right to take our land, kill our people and treat us like
and yield your fruit to my people of Israel....Yea, I will cause men to
trash?".
walk upon you, even my people, Israel" (vv. 8, 12).
While it was Islam and the Arabs from history past until now have
Is this not clearly a prophecy on Israel? Wasn't Israel's land
been showing great amount of aggression towards the Jews. Israel's
replenished? Aren't the Jews walking on her and enjoying one of the
response to Islamic and Arab aggression and the results of Israel
best cultivated lands in the Middle East? What Church mountains will
defending itself is also condemned by pointing to the aftermaths of
shoot forth branches and have men walk upon her including the
every encounter were the Arabs turned out to be the loosing party.
church?
The Bible in Psalm 83 predicted just that, it specified the very people
Part of Christianity has expressed delight with the modern Israel,
who will come as a confederacy against Israel, and it specified the
while part has been very negative toward Israel's very existence.
outcome of the battles as well. The Bible again and again proves to be
so accurate, yet even Christian Arabs still are in denial mode as to
The word "Israel" or "Israelites" occurs about 75 times in the New
credit the victory to God being on Israel's side. The Arabs have a
Testament. In at least 70 of these occurrences the name Israel is used
saying "The looser always has an excuse", so they will rant and
in precisely the same way as it was in the Old Testament. This
complain and make up all kind of excuses for there downfall.
includes nine distinct quotations of Old Testament Scriptures. In
every one of these New Testament quotations, the meaning of the
In Psalm 83 verse 16 18 God said: "Fill their faces with dishonor,
name Israel is exactly the same as it was in the Old Testament.
that they may seek Thy name O Lord, Let them be dismayed forever;
And let them be ashamed and dismayed forever; And let them
In perhaps four instances in the New Testament, the apostle Paul uses
"Israel" in a special, restricted sense to denote only those Israelites
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humiliated and perish, That they may know that Thou alone, whose full Israeli citizens while the Arab refugees remained "refugees"
name is the Lord, Art the Most High over all the earth". according to the wishes of the Arab leaders.
Instead of witnessing to the loosing Arabs as to why they lost people The Arabs not only rejected partition, but attacked Israel from all
continue the hate and AntiIsrael propaganda. God promised Israel a sides. On the day that Israel declared its independence, the Arab
final regathering in which He declared "and they shall not be pulled League Secretary, General Azzam Pasha declared "Jihad", a holy war.
up" (Jer 24:6). We must never witness and water down God's Word to He said, "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous
please others. Serious error does not produce sound doctrine. massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and
the Crusades".( Howard M Sachar, A History of Israel New York:
During both wars, 1948, and the Six Days War, the Arab leaders Knopf, 1979, p. 333. 1).
promised the Palestinians that they would soon be able to return
following Israel's destruction. In some cases the Jews, including ▲
Israel's first Prime Minister, David BenGurion, urged the Arabs to
remain, promising that they would not be harmed, (Irving Howe and
BIBLE PROPHECY WHO SHOULD INTERPRET IT
Carl Gershman, Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East (New York:
Bantam, 1972, p. 168).
Maseehi argues: "As for the prophecies in the Bible, again, according
to whose interpretation? Your private interpretation, remember that
Those who remained became full and equal citizens of Israel, while
"no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation [2 Peter
those who chose to leave went to neighboring Arab states. Instead of
1:20]".
welcoming their Arab brothers, and integrating them into the
mainstream of their societies, the Arab states kept them in squali
The statement is in contradiction in itself. If an interpretation of the
refugee camps and used these Palestinians refugees as political pawns
verse is given by Maseehi that this verse means that regular folk must
in their fight against Israel, (See, for instance, The Economist, Oct. 2,
not interpret scripture, that it is not of anyone's "private
1948, for a description of Jewish efforts in Haifa to persuade the
interpretation", yet he himself interprets this verse his own way to
Arabs to stay. ).
mean that we must not interpret them privately.
Israel is also blamed for creating the Refugee problem which was
created by the Arabs who insisted on keeping the camps in Jordan,
Syria, and Lebanon, using the Palestinians for political exploitation.
I wish that Maseehi continued so we can see the context of this verse:
In 1982: 65,425 Palestinian refugees put in camps in Syria, 123,442 in
"For no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men
Lebanon, 192,392 in Jordan, this was reported by UNRWA, while the
moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God" (2 Pet 1:21).
Arabic propaganda lied and inflated the number to 4,000,000, and
ALL who fled on their own will and without any force.
Since I disagree with Maseehi's statement, I am free to refer to
Matthew Henry's "The gospel also are foretold by the prophets and
The Jews on the other hand were forced to leave, arrived destitute, but
penmen of the Old Testament, who spake and wrote under influence,
they were absorbed into the society and became an integral part of the
and according to the direction of the Spirit of God.". This is simply
state. In effect, then, a veritable exchange of populations took place
saying that scripture was not made by man but from God.
between Arab and Jewish refugees. Thus the Jewish refugees became
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Instead of Maseehi responding to verses showing Israel's rights to the If anyone refers to the chapter will find that the verse is speaking of
land, he tried to find a way by taking a verse out of context in order to the Temple mount in Jerusalem, so an exact location can be verified.
refute all the clear prophecies in scripture. Quick fixes to his lack of
knowledge of scripture. If Maseehi really believes his absurd The sealed Eastern Golden Gate can also be found on Jerusalems Al
interpretation then what interpretation does he or should he follow? Aqsa mosque compound on the eastern side of it, it is sealed and the
The verse does not say to follow the 'majority' interpretation, yet the Muslims could never reopen it.
Bible was written to be understood by everyone who reads it in plain
form. ▲
▲ BIBLE PROPHECY ISRAEL BY DIVINE RIGHT
BIBLE PROPHECY IF ONLY THE WORLD CAN SEE Biblically understood Zionism is simply the return, or the various
returns, of the Jewish people to Zion, to the land of Israel; to the land
The Bible, God's message to the World. It speaks of man's origin and promised by God to Abraham and his descendants forever. These
man's destiny, yet only a few ever head to it and listen to the voice of promises are sprinkled throughout the whole of Scripture, but we find
God. Prophecy in general is ignored, especially since it speaks of the the first one in Genesis 12:13; enlarged by Genesis 15:7: "God said
most hated people on Earth, the Jews. The Bible even predicted that unto Abraham, I am the LORD who brought you out of the land of Ur
the Jews will be the most hated people on Earth. No wonder why of the Chaldees to give this land to you to inherit it. And Abraham
many ignore biblical prophecy. said, Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?
▲ Then God makes a covenant with Abraham through the sacrificial
system, and in verse 13 He said to Abraham, "Know of a surety that
thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs (that is Egypt)
BIBLE PROPHECY – THE GOLDEN GATE – IS IT JUST A
and shall serve them and they shall afflict you there four hundred. But
GATE?
in the fourth generation you shall come out for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet full." The Amorites being the then residents of the
The Eastern Gate sealed predicted by Ezekiel
land that was to become the Promised Land. Genesis 15:1821, "In
the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham saying unto
Ezekiel 44:13; "Then He brought me back to the outer gate which
thy seed have I given this land from the River of Egypt unto the great
faces toward
river, the River Euphrates." And then He indicates who is going to be
moving out: the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites,
the east, but it was shut. And the Lord said to me, This gate shall be
the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the
shut;
Girgashites, and the Jebusites. And that last one is of particular
interest, because the Jebusites occupied the city of Jebus which later
it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord
became Jerusalem itself. Now that, of course, is not the only scripture,
God of but that is the one we will use now. So Zionism is the working out in
flesh and blood right here on planet Earth of God's promise to
Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. ".
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Abraham. The promise depending more on the faithfulness of God Even Jerusalem will become the central city for Israel
than on the faithfulness of Abraham and his descendants.
"I will bring them back, and they shall dwell in the midst of
Because of that covenant that God made with Abraham, the Jews Jerusalem. They
came out of Egypt four hundred years later as promised by God. They
went down into Egypt as seventy people. They came out, according to shall be My people and I will be their God, in truth and
the Bible, six hundred thousand men plus women plus children; that righteousness.".
was called the Exodus.
(Zechariah 8:8) the "BIRTH of ISRAEL" in your Bible.Thus says the
After the first Jewish captivity in Babylon about 600 B.C. the Persian Lord: "Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which
leader Cyrus allowed the Jewish people to return to rebuild Jerusalem I have caused My people to inherit behold, I will pluck them out of
and reestablish their religion. So that would be the first application of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. "Then
Zionism. The first return of the Jewish people to the Promised Land it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will have compassion
some 530 years before the time of Christ. Then, of course, we had on them and bring them back everyone to his heritage and everyone to
World War I and World War II and that terrible thing called the his land." (Jeremiah 12:1415).
Holocaust, and then in 1948 A.D. we had the beginning of the return
of the Jews out of all the nations of the earth to the modern State of "Therefore behold, the days are coming says the Lord, that it shall no
Israel. So Zionism is the return of the Jewish people to the land more be said, The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel
promised to the patriarchs according to Scripture. That is Zionism from the land of Egypt, but The Lord lives who brought up the
properly understood. children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands
where He had driven them. For I will bring them back into their land
Israel's rebirth Jer 29:14, Jer 12:1415 Jer 16:1415 Jer 31:8, Ezekiel which I gave to their fathers." (Jeremiah 16:1415).
11:17
The great exodus from Egypt in the time of Moses is small compared
Zec 8:8 Isaiah 27:6 Joel 3:12 and many man more to the regathering of the Jewish people from all over the world. The
mighty God of Israel is still bringing them from all the lands and from
Look how clear is the prophecy: the land of the north(former Soviet Union). This reference of the land
of the north is also refered to by the prophet Jeremiah; "Behold, I will
"Therefore say, "Thus says the Lord God: "I will gather you from the bring them from the north country, and gather
peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.". (Ezekiel 11:17). It is a mockery to God when man by his foolish pride dictate how
God His maker should operate the world, and how to write His Bible,
Fulfillment: Proof is not even neccesary it is He who chooses the way He wants to be honored through. The
following prophecies are so simple to understand, that they needed no
Chances: 1 in millions interpretation for anyone who whitnesses the recent historical events
on Israel
Why: Never a nation in history was disbursed cast througout the
entire golb and regathered. HERE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE:
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" I will bring them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the In Acts 10 we read of the acceptance of nonJews into the family of
blind and the lame, the woman with child together: a great company believers. The very first nonJew was a particularly hard case to
shall return thither." (Jeremiah 31:8). swallow, an officer of the pagan Roman occupation army, Cornelius,
and his family. Yet, after intense discussion among the all Jewish
Mr. Yoel: WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN IN THE PAST...HA ? (Walid followers of Jesus, this expansion was accepted graciously and with a
arguing loudley) spirit of amazement at God's generosity.
The ship loads from the seas coming to Israel, from ALL CORNERS In the Hebrew Bible there are stories of conquered enemies being
OF THE WORLD as the Bible says. killed and stories of conquered enemies being fed and freed. Israelis
have almost without exception followed the second alternative.
The great outpouring of Jews from Russia(far north of Israel) to the
promised land is one of the most exciting events God made for His In the Synoptic Gospels the chief use of the word Jews is in reference
people. Russia has persecuted the Jews since the time of the Czars to Jesus as "King of the Jews" with only three exceptions.
until the recent breakup of the Soviet Empire.
"Fear not, O Jacob My servant, says the Lord, for I am with you. I
Is. 35:10 "And the redeemed of the LORD shall RETURN and come will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but
with singing unto ZION and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure, yet I
they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee will not leave you wholly unpunished" (Jer. 46:28).
away." Until now this has not been fulfilled because the joy of
returning has never lasted. The people have been driven out. ▲
Jer. 16:14 "Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it
THE COMING ISLAMIC INVASION (EZEKIEL 38)
shall no more be said, "the LORD liveth, that brought up the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt'; but, 'the LORD liveth that brought
The SchaffHerzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, citing
up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the
ancient Assyrian writings, places the location of Magog in the land
lands whither He had driven them', and I will bring them again into
mass between ancient Armenia and Mediain short, the Republics
their land that I have to their fathers." Surely this word did already
south of Russia and north of Israel, comprised of Azerbaijan,
apply to the return from Babylon as originally intended, but the
Afghanistan, Turkestan, Chechnya, Turkey, Iran and Tajikstan.
phrase "from all the lands" and the present dramatic return from the
Significantly all of them Moslem nations.
north fit even more precisely.
Other nations mentioned in this prophecy include:
Amos 9:1415 "'And I will RETURN My people Israel out of
captivity, and they will rebuild the waste cities and inhabit them, and I
will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked CUSH Which are today Sudan.
up out of their land which I have given them' says the LORD your PUT or PHUT Which are today North Africa (Lybia, Morocco,
GOD." This prophecy has never yet been fulfilled because until now Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania)
the people have always been driven out. CUSH Sudan
TOGARMAH The Turkic Tribes and Central Asia (Turkey,
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Kazakhstan, Turkmenstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Obviously the leopard is the Grecian empire(Daniel 7:6) and exactly
Tadjikistan) as Gabriel interpreted it in Daniel 8 where the vision of the ram and
goat is given as foretelling the struggle between MediaPersia and
So the enemies of God and Israel mentioned in Ezekiel 38 covers Alexander’s Greece. The Lion is Babylon, and the Bear is Medo
Persia, Sudan(Cush), Northern Africa(Phut, Lybia, Morroco, Tunisia, Persia which already was part of the Leopard (Greece).
Algeria) which will soon be allies with the C.I.S. (Commonwealth of
Independent States or Southern Russia). After the death of Alexander the Great in the night of 10/11 June 323
BCE, his empire was divided by his generals. One of the successors
These today are the main part of the Ottoman Muslim Empire and was his friend Seleucus, who became king of the eastern provinces
covers the ancient Grecian Empire as well. The Ottoman Empire was more or less modern Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon,
a beast that replaced the Roman Empire after defeating the Eastern together with parts of Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Roman Empire. The Ottoman Empire is probably the wounded beast and Tajikstan His kingdom had two capitals, which he founded c.300:
which the world will marvel since the wound was "healed". Antioch in Syria and Seleucia in Iraq. Babylon was a third important
city. The empire was, like the empire of Alexander, actually the
The land mass of the Grecian Empire is also supported in Scripture: continuation of the empires before: Persia, Babylonia and Assyria."
"When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and In fact, Daniel 11:520 is a broad sketch of postGrecian Empire
raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee history [Daniel 11:24] which leads right up to the time of the
as the sword of a mighty man. 14 AND the LORD shall be seen over Antichrist ("Little Horn") in Daniel 11:21. And since He is going
them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD south(Daniel 8:9), he must be coming from the north parts, exactly as
shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. specified in Ezekiel 38.
15The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and
subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as Antiochus in Daniel 8 is the forerunner of the final Antichrist linking
through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of him to the Seleucid Grecian Empire(which Antiochos Epiphines was
the altar. 16And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as a type) rather then the "Prince to come" in Daniel 9:26. We MUST
the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, then conclude that since "The prince who is to come" in Daniel 11
lifted up as an ensign upon his land. [Zech 9:1316] was NEVER referred to by any other prophecy, so it must be crucial
to accept that Antichrist must come from the Grecian dominion as
This passage is also regarding Messiah’s second coming to rescue predicted by Christ Himself. Daniel's 69 weeks is completely fulfilled
Israel from the peoples who come from the land mass of the Grecian with no connection in the passage or chapter to this "prince to come"
Empire as supported in Revelation: to the final remanding week since it was preserved by Christ for the
little horn referred to in Daniel 8 and 11.
Revelation 13:2 seems to narrow the scope to a Grecian Empire which
already encompassed the Babylonian and MedoPersian empires: Also, in Daniel 11 and Matthew 24 the Temple is desecrated not
destroyed, yet the Daniel 9 it’s completely destroyed as predicted by
"And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's, Christ in Matthew 24. So the "prince" of Daniel 9, is NOT the same
and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his as the "little horn" of Daniel 8 and 11.
power and his throne and great authority."
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Then we have John’s confirmation in Revelation 17 that indeed the The second empire to control the Middle East was the Assyrian
seventh kingdom which will ultimately be also an eighth which will Empire.
come at the end: The third empire to control the Middle East was the New Babylonian
Empire.
"Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven The fourth empire to control the Middle East was the Persian Empire.
mountains on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings". The fifth empire to control the area of the Middle East was the
Grecian Empire.
Now, with a little inductive research on the meaning of "mountain" These five empires are the "five (that) have fallen" at the time of John.
we can find that it is another way of looking at an empire as described
in Jeremiah 51:25 predicting the Babylonian Empire’s destruction: The sixth empire to control the area of the Middle East was the
"Behold, I am against you, O destroying MOUNTAIN" and Daniels Roman Empire(as clearly identified by the angel in Revelation),
depiction of Messiah’s kingdom or Empire in Daniel 2:35 "stone that which during John’s time (approximately 100 AD) was at the height
smote the image became a great mountain". of it’s power. The seventh empire to control the area of the Middle
East was the Muslim Ottoman Empire which ended the Roman after it
With this in mind, let us take a close look at what John is actually moved eastwards to rule from Constantinople after it’s western part
saying: ended in Rome. In fact Turkey is the heart of the land of Magog
spoken by Ezekiel in chapter 38.
"So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a
woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of Ezekiel 38 could very well include Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Sudan,
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. Here is the mind which Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Chechnya, Azerbijan, Girgistan,
has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains[empires] on which Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Bosnia, and Psalm 83 which is a
the woman sits. (Revelation 17: 3, 9). continuation of the Arab Israeli wars could include Egypt, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates,
The seven Mountains here ties with the 10 kings. So the angel is Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Iraq. Psalm 83 started in the ArabIsraeli wars
clearly referring to 7 kingdoms that occur over a span of time: past, and is not completed, since verse 18 "Let them know that you, whose
present and future. At the time the angel was speaking this to John, he name is the LORD that you alone are the Most High over all the
says that 5 of the kingdoms had "fallen". These are kingdoms that had earth" has not been fulfilled.
arisen and fallen before John’s time. The angel says that one is. In
other words, the sixth kingdom the angel is referring to is in power in Some say that this beast is Satan who will be shot and revived, so he
John’s time, even as the angel is saying this to John. Then the angel is not at the time when John was writing, and we ask: was Satan
says "the other has not yet come", telling John that the 7th kingdom is ruling before and stopped at the time of John, and later he will take
a future kingdom. control again? It will not fit in this context at all. This indeed sounds
absurd, Scripture states of the beast that "The BEAST which was and
Finally, the angel directly addresses the identity and kingdom is not" in verse 11 which describes the Grecian parts which will
ancestry of the lastdays Beast power. The angel says that the seventh revive at the time of the seventh and eighth kingdoms.
"is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven". What does this mean?
Others also identify the EU(European Union) as the end times revival.
The first empire to control the Middle East was the Old Babylonian This could not be true since today we have 15 nations with none
Empire. coming from the eastern Roman Empire. For the EU to fit this puzzle
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it is mandatory by the very scholars who propagate this theory that All minor prophets speak on none else then the Islamic world. Yet,
five nations from the east and five from the west. While all the 15 EU many went on with trying to make Scripture fit by focusing all the
nations today are all in the west and many of which were not even energy to interpret the nations from the allegoric verses without
part of any empire in the past. This indeed is a major obstacle to this heading to the specific names and all the details of names and nations
thread of interpretation. In fact, many who claim authority in mentioned by name.
interpreting endtimes like Hal Lindsey, Grand Jeffry, Jack Van Impe,
Chuck Smith, and Par Robertson were proven wrong with many of In summary, Scripture clearly mentions that this endtimes entity will
these assumptions. These men even went as far as setting dates basing be both a religious and political governmental system combined.
"the fig tree" being Israel and "generation" being 40 years to set false Indeed Islam today fits this description. In fact the Bible dedicates a
dates which came to pass. city where this system comes from. This city(Mystery Babylon) as
described in Revelation 17:
Then we have other scholars who insist that usage of "the whole
earth" or "every nation" in the Bible when speaking on endtimes "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
pertains literally to the entire glob. If one searches all Scripture for fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
past empires that ruled, one would find the same usage, yet none ruled with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
literally the whole earth, every nation, or was used to encompass the abundance of her delicacies".
glob – Genesis 41:57, 1 Kings 10:24, Daniel 8:5, 21, 22, Daniel 2:32
34,37,38,39, Daniel 2:3944, Daniel 7:3,2327,1114, Jeremiah 27:7, It is obvious that the word "fornication" has always been used to
Romans 1:8, Colossians 1:5,6, Acts 19:27, Acts 24:5, Luke 2:1, John equate anyone following a false religion which brings nothing but
12:19) everlasting wrath. Today all leaders of the glob dare say anything
against Islam since "the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through
In fact, every verse in Scripture(Old and New Testaments) where the abundance of her delicacies". No one can argue that oil
nations or peoples are mentioned and curses occur within endtimes, (delicacies) have literally been a key factor in most of the political
they are all Islamic nations today. This is a major issue no serious games. This city also lives in Luxury:
scholar can refute:
"How much she hath glorified herself, and lived in luxury".
Ezek. 35:3,S; 10,12; 36: 2,3,5 (Revelation 18:7)
Ezek 38
Psalm 83 The Royalty of Saudi Arabia are well known for their luxury.
Amos 1:12, Jer 49:13 Isaiah 63
Jer. 5O:46, 11,1819; Isa 13:114:2 Then comes the breaking verse:
Obad. 1:20; Zech. 10:10; 11:1
Isaiah 11:14 "And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no
Isaiah 31 one buys their merchandise anymore(Revelation 18:11)
Isaiah 34
Micah 5 (see verse 5) If Rome was destroyed, Istanbul, New York or any other city, it
Obad. 1:19 would not affect as much as Saudi Arabia since Middle East oil plays
the major card in world trade for this verse literally says that no one
will buy the merchant’s merchandise anymore. How else could
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anyone transport it without oil. The question becomes – what city or The Mahdi of Islam has the same descriptions as the AntiChrist for
country, if destroyed will stop shipping? Jews and Christians. They are perfectly set up to the world’s greatest
deceiver – Gog.
This city also persecutes the faithful (Rev 17:6) and today there is no
place on earth that persecutes Christians like Saudi Arabia. Not one For a detailed discussion of this issue, see my article Islam and the
church or congregation is allowed to gather in worship. The strictest Final Beast.
rule of the Sharia Law is imposed. Conversion to Christianity invoked
beheading, exactly as described in the Scripture: "and [I saw] the ▲
souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus(Revelation
20:4). While beheading was not how Protestants died at the hands of
BIBLE PROPHECY AN AMAZING PROPHECY – TYRE
Catholics in Rome, yet Islamic Sharia law demands it. In fact, the
AntiChrist in the Bible is described as one who changes times and
"For thus says Yahweh God: "Behold, I will bring against Tyre from
laws, exactly what Islamic legislation demands when anyone is
the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with
conquered or converted. The AD system is abolished to the "Hijerah"
horses, with chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with many
and laws are changed to "Sharia Islamic law".
people. He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the
fields; he will heap a siege mound against you, build a wall against
Finally the Hebrew prophet Yochannan(John) ends the argument
you, and raise a defense against you. He will direct his battering rams
regarding the spirit of AntiChrist:
against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you;
"Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is
your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and
antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son." (I John 4:3).
the chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter a city that has
been breached. With the hooves of his horses he will trample all your
No one fits this more then Muslims. Catholics do not deny Father or
streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and your strong pillars
Son, majority of Jews today deny that Jesus is the Messiah but not
will fall to the ground. They will plunder your riches and pillage your
God being a Father. Yet every Muslim on the face of the glob seems
merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your
to deny the most that God is a Father or that He had a Son.
pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil
in the midst of the water. I will put an end to the sound of your songs,
Muslims are awaiting such person who brings peace. Ibn Khaldun's
and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more. I will make you
alMaqqadima stated:
like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, you
shall never be rebuilt, for I Yahweh have spoken" (Ezek 26:314).
"...There will come forth a man from my nation who will talk
according to my Sunnah. God will send upon him rain from heaven,
and the earth will sprout forth for him its blessing. The earth will be
filled through him with equity and justice, as it his been filled with
The facts:
injustice and crime. He will direct the affairs of this nation for seven
years, and he will settle in Jerusalem."
Nebuchadnezzar took the mainland city and passed by the island city
as he laid the mainland city waste three years after the prophecy.
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica: "After 13 year siege(585
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573 B.C) Nebuchadnezzar II, Tyre made terms and aknowledged valour and their industry, everything was condemned to perish with
Babylonian suzerainty. them by the sword or by fire.".
When he broke the gates down, he found the city almost empty. The LeStrange quotes Abu'lfiela (1321 A.D): "The city was reqonquered
majority of the people have moved by ship to an island about 1/2 a by the Moslems in 690 (1291), ...and then was laid in ruins, as it
mile off the coasts and fortified a city there. The mainland city was remains down to the present day".
destroyed in 573, but the city of Tyre remained a powerfull city for
several hundred years. Today Tyre is a place of fishi and the laying of fish nets.
Alexander later also attacked Tyre and possesing no fleat, he Nina Jidejian writes: "The Sidonian port of Tyre is still in use today.
demolished old Tyre, on the mainland, and with the debris built a Small fishing vessels lay at anchor there. An examination of the
mole 200 feet across the straits seperating the old and new towns, foundations reveals granite columns of the Roman period which were
erecting towers and war engines at the further end. incorporated as binders in the walls bythe Crusaders. The port has
become a haven today for fishing boats and a place for spreading
The old city of Tyre did supply stones and dirt to build the nets."
causeway(Loeb Classical Library:Quintius Curtius IV, 2. 1819).
The existance of a small fishing village Tyre, the mistress of the seas,
Tyre was one city devided between the mainland from the Alcatraz the trade and commercial center of the world for centuries, past away
like Island fortress and the causeway which still remains as Philip NEVER to rise(rebuild) again. The fishermen drying thier nets upon
Myers who was a secular historian and not a theologian stated: the rocks that once formed the foundation of that ancient metropolis
"uniting the rock with the mainland.". are the last link in the chain of prophecy that Ezekiel gave over 25
hundred years ago."
When the city at last was taken after a 7 month siege 8000 of the
inhabitants were slained and 30,000 sold into slavery. She concludes: "Tyres stones may be found as far away as Acre and
Beirut. Yet evidences of a great past are abundant and recent
Mr. Myers also wrote: "Allexander the great reduced the city to excavations have revealed successive levels of this proud Pheonician
ruins(332 B.C). She recovered in a measure from this blow but never seaport...The great ancient city of Tyre lay burried under accumilated
regained the place she had previously held in the world. The larger debris. The ruins of an aqueduct and a few scattered columns and the
part of the site of the once great city is now bare as a top of a rock, a ruins of a christian basilica were the only remains found above
place where the fisherman that still frequent the spot spread there nets ground....looking down into the water one can see a mass of granite
to dry.". columns and stone blocks strewn over the sea bottom. Until recently
the ruins of Tyre above water were few."
John C. Beck also wrote: "The history of Tyre does not stop after the
conquest of Alexader. Men continue to rebuild her and armies Old Tyre today stands as it has for twenty five centuries, a bare rock,
continue to besiege her walls untill finally, after 1600 years, she falls uninhabited by man. Although it is still an excellent site for a city and
NEVER to be rebuilt again.". would have free water enough for a large modern city, yet it has never
been rebuilt even though it has fresh springs producing 10 million
Joseph Michaud writes concerning The Muslims destroying Tyre: gallons of fresh water daily.
"There houses, their temples, the monuments of there piety, their
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The city was never rebuilt again. which was healthy in order to rescue people from bondage. Was
Martin Luther wrong? In Maseehi's way of analysis yes.
Tyre was destroyed in 1291 and then it died forever and never was
rebuilt. The earliest views on Israel is clear, Paul, Peter, and all the apostles
clearly wrote and spoke that God is on the side of Israel. If one man
HansWolf Rackl, in Archeology underwater notes: "Today hardly a "Martin Luther" who fought the many and was right, thus one cannot
single stone of the old Tyre is intact.". say that views of majority is correct. The facts are that the originators
of Replacement Theology agree with Christian Zionists that the New
It could be argued that there is a city of Tyre today, yet this city is not Testament apostles believed in a future for Israel and the literal
the original city of Tyre, but it is built down the coast from the Second Coming of Christ but they say the apostles were just
original site of Tyre. The fact that there is a small fishermen village mistaken! It took time for the Church to "mature" to the knowledge
nearby only confirms that there is a need of someone to fish and dry that Israel was to be replaced by the Church. Anyone with the right
their nets. mind reading scripture would see how absurd Replacement Theology
is, regardless to how many follow it. God throughout the ages has
Also is argued that the prophecy was written after the events occured used a few to fulfill His plans. He used Daniel, Moses, Ester, a
when Alexander destroyed the city, yet this argument is invalid since handful of 12 Apostles, and 12 tribes of Israel to show His will.
the Muslims completed the prophecy and literaly destroyed Whether we like it or not, God uses the minority.
everything to the point it became a bare rock and never was rebuilt
after that.
▲ Instead of accusing me of causing division Maseehi needs to study the
ones who caused division and still do who were the persecutors of the
Church, Rome who infiltrated the church and currently riding a beast
WHO CAUSES DIVISION? with other cults all the way to damnation.
Argument:
"Christian supporters of Israel advocate division."
Maseehi concludes his argument: "As for Arabs who hold the points
of view like yours, they have history and the majority of Christians
For example, Maseehi advocates unity over division when God (especially Arab ones) against them.".
clearly desires division between wheat and tares, he states: "Usually
the person who causes division is the person who comes at a later date
Response: Amen, a healthy division from your promotions of evil is
with a new opinion which the majority never held to. With all due good for me. Maseehi refuses to question George Habbash's
respect, your views are the new later views thus you cannot say that
Christianity, he calls him and others " freedom fighters" knowing that
the earlier views which most Christians adhere too are the views George Habbash a murderer of Jewish children who leads The
causing division.".
Popular Front To Liberate Palestine(PLFP) guided by Marxism
Leninism, together with other leftwing Palestinian organizations
Response: Martin Luther in the Reformation when he advocated for struggling to build a workingclass party in Palestine. I see no
Salvation by Faith and not by works has caused division. A division difference in goals between Maseehi, a member of Hammas or the
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PLO. Maseehi without hesitation declares: "As for you doubting the 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
Christianity of people (like George Habash or Hanaan Ashrawi), I my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
wouldn't do that if I were you. Only God knows what every person
believes in his heart. You call them terrorists, I call some of them 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and
freedom fighters.". ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
"And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye
"I have loved you with an everlasting love..." Jeremiah 31:3. shall be my people, and I will be your God." (Ezek 36:28).
"O descendants of Israel his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen Not only Israel will return to God, but the Gentiles will recognize
ones. He is the LORD our Gd; his judgments are in all the earth. He Israel:
remembers his covenant for a thousand generations, the covenant he
made with Abraham; the oath he swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to "Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, the
Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant..." 1Chronicles Lord, build the ruined places, and plant that which was desolate. I, the
16:1317. Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it."
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▲ I didn't mention Monotheism in the Devil!. view: "Thus saith the
Lord, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the
moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divideth the sea when
TEARS FOR PEACE, NOT LAND FOR PEACE
its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name: If those ordinances
depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also
Maseehi: "For God's sake! Tears are coming to my eyes just
shall cease from being a nation before Me forever. Thus saith the
remembering all these massacres[of the Arabs]. God have mercy on
Lord, If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the
the souls of those martyrs).".
earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for
all that they have done, saith the Lord".
Response: Tears should be shed for the Jews as well. It is surprizing
that one would only cry if he is victimized, yet not do the same when
That is how important Israel is. Any questions?
he victimizes others. Only when evil is done to us we cry, but not
when we do evil unto others, worse then that, to deny evil alltogether.
You're giving me a new interpretation of what the Lord thus saith
which is barely two centuries old. Israel is important, Christ was a
It gets to prove my point I made at the beginning of my research, that
Jew. But now, what is Israel. I will give you what the Bible says using
is, we will only look at the action, but never the motive.
the interpretation which all Christians have unanimously agreed upon
until the 19th century and which the majority of Christians today still
agree on.
The Bible sees no difference in the Islamic worship of God than even
"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
the ancient Babylonians, they too believed in one God, they tried to
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is
reach to that God by there own works (building a tower), God hated
one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and
that and punished them swiftly. It is not the belief in one God that
not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." [Romans
brings people to God, even the devil believes in one God. You use the
2:28,29]
word Monotheistic as a reason for God to have patience, well not so
with the Babylonians. Also, the God of the Muslims is not the God of
Thus, the Jews after Christ are Jews only if they are Jews inwardly.
Israel, The God of Israel is a Trinity, has a Son, and is a Father, far
You see, after the New Covenant, the membership to Israel was open
from Islam's God who is in fact The God of this World The Devil.
to the Gentiles. In other words, the true Israel are the Christians. This
Are you saying that Monotheism in "The Devil" pleases God? I hope
is not "Replacement Theology", it is fulfillment. The Jews were not
not.
removed, but membership was extended to the Gentiles as well.
Huh? You have made several mistakes here. First of all, where does
Your comparison is a bit off, the Jews were persecuted for 2000
the Bible say that the people who built the tower of Babel were
years, and almost completely annihilated, 6,000,000 at one deal the
monotheistic? Second, where does it say that God hated that? Third,
Holocaust alone. It is also significant because this extermination
where does it say that God punished them?
never worked and the devil never succeeded. The Jews also were
brought back by God to their land, and were revived as a nation.
I know that the God of Israel is the Trinity, but the Jews don't know
These examples you are giving do not have this important
that! The God of the Jews is closer to the God of the Muslims than the
significance that God promised and made clear in the Bible. It also
God of the Christians is.
does not relate to our subject. Apparently you chose to pick and
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choose from my book without examining the biblical facts. Do not Jewishness. This is what Christians believed till the 19th century and
forget, it was not only Europe who persecuted the Jews, but our own what the majority still believes today, please keep that in mind. Your
people (mine as well) in every Arabic and Islamic country, would you interpretation is a new one and represents only a minority of
like the facts for that? I can give you volumes on this subject. Christians.
The persecution of the Jews is irrelevant. Some people can see And then you go on and say:
persecution as a sign of being accursed by God, and others as a sign
of being persecuted for their faith in God. In other words, the Jews are "From a Jewish perspective, the Modern State of Israel is definitely
either very faithful or very wrong. Meaning, persecution of the Jews NOT a biblical one."
by people other than Arabs (since we are discussing Arabs now)
proves nothing. By the way, do you know that among the peoples the What do you mean by "Jewish prespective"? Are you following a
Jews lived with the Arab Muslims gave them the best treatment? certain Jewish thought and slapping it as evidence that they are
correct and The Bible is not? I hope I misunderstood. Israel in The
You say that: "I myself do not believe in any replacements", yet you Bible is first brought back in unbelief, and then their redemption
are unintentionally. Yes you do believe in replacement theology, and comes. We both agree that Israel does not follow the Messiah, I have
it is exactly what you said, let me quote you: already written in my book. In Ezekiel 39:2324 the God of the Bible
sums up the story of Israel: "The Gentiles shall know that the house of
"If you want to take it from a Christian perspective, only the Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were
Messianic Jews could be classified as Jews according to the above unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into
verse because only the Messianic Jews believe that Jesus is the the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. According to
Messiah." their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt
with them, and hidden My face from them."
That is exactly one of the definitions of replacement theology, to say
that a Jew is only Christians. The verses that you quote pretain to By "from a Jewish perspective", I mean that many Rabbis believe that
"Spiritual Jews", yet you confused the issues of God's promisses to the Jews should not return to Palestine until the Messiah comes, and
Jews (Physical Israel, Abrahamic Covenant), with spiritual Jews that the current State of Israel has no Biblical basis. Some of these
(believers in Messiah). Please make a point of this as you study Rabbis have said:
scripture and find out God's promisses to the Jews in the Abrahamic
Covenant. "...if we place all the immodesty and promiscuity of the generation
and the many sins of the world on one side of the scale, and the
I'm confusing nothing. What I'm saying is what historical Christianity Zionist state on the other side of the scale by itself, it would outweigh
says. I believe in what the Catholic Church teaches regarding this them all. Zionism is the greatest form of spiritual impurity in the
issue. You see, the Catholic Church does not teach "Replacement entire world. They are polluting the entire world. They have polluted
Theology". Replacement Theology is the theology which teaches that the Jewish people with their heresy, Heaven help us. It is no surprise
the New Covenant replaced the Old one. The Church teaches that the why Gd's anger comes down from heaven. It is necessary to repent
membership to Israel has been opened to Gentiles; the Jews who and escape from them more than from a lion who is chasing a person
believe in Christ are Israel, the Gentiles who believe in Christ are to kill him." Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
Israel. The Jews who do not believe in Christ are not, and the Jews
have no advantage whatsoever over the Gentiles because of their
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"Everything our blessed rabbis cried out about earlier in the century ▲
about the dangers of Zionism has almost been forgotten! Even my
own writings go ignored. Therefore, should the truth and foundations
BIBLE PROPHECY IGNORANCE THE DANGER
of our religion be forgotten?" Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
Argument: "I'm afraid that you're focusing too much on Bible
"We consider ourselves no longer a nation, but a religious
prophecy. I totally believe that the Bible has lots of Prophecies in it,
community, and therefore expect neither a return to Palestine, nor a
but we should not focus on them, we should focus on God.".
sacrificial worship under the sons of Aaron, nor the restoration of any
of the laws concerning the Jewish state." The Pittsburgh Platform (A
Response: This statement is a contradiction in itself, it claims that we
declaration made by Reform Rabbis)
should "focus on God" while we promote ignorance by saying that we
should not focus on Prophecy which comprises 1/3 of scripture. How
Now it is an incontestable fact that no Orthodox Jew believes the
can one focus on God without reading His Word which was written in
present State of Israel has come into being in a process which fulfills
Prophecy?
the injunctions of the Old Testament. Rabbi Elmer Berger
How could one accuse Jesus of "too much prophecy" as He told the
Now, can it be more clear? There need to be little or no interpretation
Rabbis of the prophecies written of Him in The Old Testament?
for these verses, they speak for themselves. Israel was unfaithful to
God, for that they have been paying for 2000 years, they got what
While every Christian telling of the Gospel relies on Messianic
they deserved. Israel was their land which God made a covenant with,
Prophecies can hardly agree with this. It is a satanic goal to call for
and a deal is a deal, especially with God. It does not get annulled no
Christians to ignore Bible Prophecy.
matter how long ago it was made. They came back, and God is going
to redeem and clean their hearts.
God claims that the ability to predict and fulfill prophecy is a unique
attribute of His nature, as he said: "For I am God, and there is no
Again, which interpretation? The one which all Christians believed
other; I am God and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the
till the 19th century or your barely two century old one?
beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying,
My council shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." (Isaiah 46:9
Also keep in mind that there is not a single reference in The Bible that
10).
addresses Israel as Palestine. Palestine does not exsist in The Bible.
God wants the name He chose, and that He will do and did, despite
In this passage, the prophet Isaiah declares that only God foreknew
the effort of making a State of Palestine. In fact God knows that we
future events, He also declares them and then brings them to pass.
will try to divide Israel into two separate states. He even addresses the
God also said: "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass
issue: "I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the
away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is
valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there
fulfilled" (Matthew 5:18).
on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land."
(Joel 3:12). God will cause a final world war just for that reason. Yet
you hear so little about these verses I mentioned in my book, and I
wonder why we have ignored God's words which were written from
time immomorial and I ask: For how long?
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The idea of Bible Prophecy is that God have drawn out his plan prior Fulfillment read Matthew 2:1.
to itªs execution, as to prove when they happen, that God is in control,
and thatªs real evidence. His betrayal for 30 pieces of silver read Zechariah 11:12
In another verse God says: "Present your case, says the Lord. Bring Fulfillment read Matthew 26:15.
forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob. Let them bring
forth and show us what will happen; Let them show us the former On him preceded by a messenger read Isaiah 40:3
things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the
latter end of them; Fulfillment read Matthew 3:12
And he continues in chapter 42 verse 9: "Behold, the former things Fulfillment read Matthew 26:4750
have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth
I tell you of them". On his hands and feet pierced read Psalms 22:16
God sees all of history; past present and future. He does not guess Fulfillment read Luke 23:33
what the future holds, he knows !
On him wounded and whipped by his enemies read Isaiah 53:5
You see God said that the only way to know his true message is
predictive prophecy, tThis irrefutable verification is reserved to only Fulfillment read Matthew 27:26.
the JudeoChristian Scriptures alone. No honest person can remain an
unbeliever after even a brief study of prophecy, and prophecy is the On him sold for 30 pieces of silver read Zechariah 11:12
missing element in ALL other sacred scriptures of the worldªs
religions. By contrast, prophecy comprises about 25% of the Bible, Fulfillment read Matthew 26:15.
and 8,352 (Eight thousand three hundred and fifty two) verses.
Prophecy: On him being spat on and beaten read Isaiah 50:6
For examples on the coming and death of Christ:
Fulfillment read Matthew 26:67.
The tribe he will come from, Genisis 49:10
Now the tough questions would be, if the Old Testament was not
Fulfillment: Luke 3:2324. important, how do we confirm the validity of Christ's Messiahship?
Also, if we take it that we need Prophecy in the Old Testament, by
On His birth in Bethlehem read Micah 5:2 what right do we eliminate them when they prophecy of Israel's
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recreation, regathering, redemption, and the establishment of Christ's The world has always tried, even King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Throne in Jerusalem? who became idolized in history by equipping Columbus for his
journey, they also made 500,000 Jews homeless. The Soviet Union let
For many who are anti Old Testament, and antiProphecy advocates, several progroms of torment and humilliation to the Jews. The
they have no basis or foundation to stand on, their arguments are but challenge is to find a single nation or people in history that has
sinking sand. suffered a fraction of what the Jews went through. The ironic thing is
that all was done in the name of God and justice. No where in the
What rights do these books, publications, and websites that teach Bible this hate to the Jew was justified. Yet from the small remnants
Christians in America to abandon their interpretation of Bible put forth as the result of all the attempts to exterminate the Jews, the
Prophecy concerning the Jews, since supporting Israel is offensive to Jewish population today grew to several millions, fulfilling God¦s
the original church the "2% ArabChristians" in Palestine? promise in the Bible; _Hath God cast away His people? God forbid.
God hath not cast away His people whom He foreknew÷. (Romans
11:12). And this should settle the question forever. To ensure this
God declared in the Bible; _Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun
Islam teaches a form of replacement theology unlike the West has for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for
ever known that Israel needs to be annihilated. a light by night, who divideth the sea when its waves roar; The Lord
of hosts is His name: If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith
the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
▲ before Me forever. Thus saith the Lord, If heaven above can be
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I
IS GOD THROUGH WITH THE JEW will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith
the Lord÷.
The Jew in the Bible is indestructible. This unassimilated people have
gone through long, intense and awful suffering. The Egyptians tried to Many civilizations throughout history rose, prospered and died.
finish them by enslaving them and forcing them to kill their children, Babyoln, Greece, Rome and others. However, the nation of Israel
then the Assyrians, then by Nebuchadnezzar in 588 B.C. In 170 B.C persisted to live against all odds. While the Arabic nations occupy
Antiochus Epiphanes sought their destruction and also failed. Titus land five hundred times larger than Israel, they persisted on
destroyed the Temple in 70 A.D and killed over one million Jew and destroying her. Yet the tiny Jewish nation survived against all odds,
carried 97,000 into captivity to Rome. Christ made the startling why? Men throughout the ages, have critisized the Bible with it¦s
prophecy; _Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one multiple prophecies about the restoration of Israel, how could the poor
stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Matthew 24:2. Jew make a state and be regathered? Yet man can finally conclude
which to the amazement of His followers was literally fulfilled. The that the Bible can be proven beyond any shadow of a doubt to be true
Jewish blood flowed down the temple steps like water. Thousands Gold, not only by hundreds of ancient prophecies that came to pass,
upon thousands of Jews perished and the studded crosses on the but by one ancient word created by God from the time of Jacob until
mountains of Jerusalem were as far as the eye can see. our generation, for all who doubt, and that word was and still is
'Israel'. Israel's existence today, and the regathering of the Jews from
For several centuries they were labeled as Christ killers, burned on the all parts of the world, is an irrefutable proof, that the holy Bible is the
stake and enslaved by the order of dictators and tyrants. No one can true word of God, as God scattered them throughout the whole world,
honestly deny the frightening holocaust that took place under Hitler.
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and regathered them again from ALL nations back to their original "Therefore behold, the days are coming says the Lord, that it shall no
land in fulfillment of his promises in the far past, until our present. more be said, The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel
from the land of Egypt, but The Lord lives who brought up the
Israel is the only nation in the world which ceased to exist and children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands
returned to play such an important roll in world history. No one in the where He had driven them. For I will bring them back into their land
world today can ignore the importance of Israel in the world today, which I gave to their fathers" (Jeremiah 16:1415).
although many promisses were made in the Old Testament to Israel
and her restorations for God said; Prophecy is intentionally ignored by promoters of Replacement
Theology in order to justify their claim, and even many Christians
_I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I who witness to Muslims rather ignore the direction given by God to
have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from use Prophecy in order not to offend Muslims since Israel is an
which I cause you to be carried away captive÷. Jer 29:14 offense, yet they would not hesitate to use Bible Prophecy to prove
Jesus being The Messiah. A contradiction of goals and a twisting of
If one is asked a Christian in 1943, how could these prophecies be the Word of God must never be excused. If Israel is an offense to
true when the Jews were dying by the masses in the concentration cults, so is Christ crucified and His Lordship as well. Must we not
camps of Ashwitz and Treblinca? would only have to wait a few more speak of Christ? Must we not trust God that "All Scripture is given by
years to be stunned by God¦s shocking surprise when he made good God ...good for teaching..".
His promisses.
While God even affirmed in the next verses of Jeremiah:
No serious person should question God¦s eternal and unchangable
Bible, the very living and speaking God who never ceased to talk to "Thus saith the Lord, If heaven above can be measured, and
the whole world. He is the same God who parted the Red sea, foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all
destroyed the walls of Jericho, and gathered his scattered Jews from the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord". Jeremiah
all over the Glob. It is a mockery to God when man by his foolish 31:36.
pride dictate how God His maker should operate the world, in whom
He chooses and in whom He wants to be honored through. "How can I give you up Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel?
For I am God and not man." Hosea 11:8,9.
The following prophecies are so simple to understand, that they
needed no interpretation for anyone who whitnesses the recent And to put to rest any other people chosen to reveal God's truth:
historical events on Israel;
"He has revealed his word to Jacob, his laws and decrees to Israel. He
"Thus says the Lord: _Against all My evil neighbors who touch the has done this for no other nation." Psalm 147:19,20.
inheritance which I have caused My people to inherit behold, I will
pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from "The LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his
among them. _Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I inheritance." Psalm 94:14
will have compassion on them and bring them back everyone to his
heritage and everyone to his land.÷ (Jeremiah 12:1415). "I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means!" Romans 11:1
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"Remember that at one time you were separated from Messiah, "Hear the Word of the LORD, O ye nations. Declare it and say, He
excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of that scattered Israel will gather him, therefore, they shall come and
the promise... Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, sing again in the heights of Zion." That is Jeremiah 31:1012
but fellowcitizens with God's people and members of God's
household..." Ephesians 2:12 &19 When was the Church was ever scattered?
And finally, these promoters will always claim that we need to view This verse is paraphrased. Again in Isaiah 60, "The Gentiles shall
the New Testament on this issue, that we have followed the Old come to thy light," declared the prophet Isaiah. "and the Kings to the
Testament teachings, yet we can see clearly that the New Testament brightness of thy rising. The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to thee
as well as the Old are solid and in perfect harmony. In fact God makes Israel. Thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles and thou shalt know
a confirmation: that I am the LORD, thy Saviour, thy Redeemer, the Might One of
Jacob. They (the Gentiles) shall call thee (Israel) the City of the
"The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel."
previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.
For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends Ezek 36:2428, sums up the story of Israel's return and redemption:
on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a "For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all
promise." Galatians 3:17,18. countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from
all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set His hand heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I
again the second time to recover the remnant of His people.. .and He will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an
shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts heart of flesh.
of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth." (Isaiah 11:11) And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall
"And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel, and they dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my
shall build the waste cities and inhabit them...and I will plant them people, and I will be your God.
upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land
which I have given them, sayeth the Lord thy God." (Amos 9:14,15) The great exodus from Egypt in the time of Moses is small compared
to the regathering of the Jewish people from all over the world. The
This prophecy is one of the recent historical event that has forced the mighty God of Israel is still bringing them from all the lands and from
world, and theologians, to reexamine their suppositions concerning the land of the north. This reference of the land of the north is also
the Jews is the physical rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948. It refered to by the prophet Jeremiah;
looked like an unexpected and unpredictable event. In fact it was a
prophetic fulfillment. "Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them
from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the
woman with child together: a great company shall return thither"
(Jeremiah 31:8).
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The great outpouring of Jews from Russia(far north of Israel) to the This is a litteral coming of the Lord(God in the flesh) to dwell in
promised land is one of the most exciting events God made for His Jerusalem. This was prophecied by the prophet Zechariah long before
people. Russia has persecuted the Jews since the time of the Czars Christ came. How could the Jews who today do not believe in Christ
until the recent breakup of the Soviet Empire. Against all odds the be accused of corrupting His word, yet they kept these verses despite
miracles fulfilled by God to restore their identity, language, and land their rejection of Christianity.
is still part of what is about to come.
Even the name of the city He promised to give them was He named;
Russia's 40% Muslim population which belongs to the Turkish
Mongol tribes, who are seeking greater atonomy still are appointed "I will bring them back, and they shall dwell in the midst of
for their destiny for destruction with other Islamic nations as Jerusalem. They shall be My people and I will be their God, in truth
perscribed in Ezekiel 38. The accuracy of Bible prophecy is a warning and righteousness."(Zechariah 8:8).
to the Muslim nations that God will fulfill the rest of His promisses to
the enemies of Israel. It is not a joking matter when The Awesome And just like many of Christ "two fold" prophecies like Micah 5:2,
God speaks, but a message to be delivered for man to heed. here also it is a two fold prophecy, first a return in unbelief, then
Messiah's second coming, then belief.
Not only God was specific about the regathering but He named the
very name the land shall be called, as it was called Palestine for over a Even the language Israel spoke thousands of years ago is today the
thousand years He declared; "Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: main language of Israel after it has been dead all these years. No other
I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries nation in history lost it¦s language then later restored it except the
where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel." nation of Israel. The prophet Zephania prophecied of this; "For then
(Ezekiel 11:17). will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon
the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent" (Zephaniah
It must be known that God declared the name for that land, anyone 3:9).
who changes this name or harms His people will end up paying a
heavy price for He said speaking of Israel; They eventually will call on God when Christ comes the second time.
Even the abundance of fruits today in Israel which allowed her to
"For thus says the Lord of hosts: _He sent Me after glory, to the export to Europe 90% of Europe¦s citrus fruit. God said through Isaiah
nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple the prophet; "He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root:
of His eye." (Zechariah 2:8). Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit"
(Isaiah 27:6).
It is indeed a warning to anyone who harms the Jews. Notice how
even the Lord(God) speaks to God as He says; "He sent Me", how Even the desert in Israel is blossoming due to the increasing rain in
could God send God unless God The Father sends God The Son? the last days, a 10% increase in rain fall is measured every decade,
millions of trees were planted, and God transformed the whole
As He continues in verse 10; "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! environment of the land which God through Isaiah prophecied:
For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst, says the
Lord". (Zechariah 2:10). "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God:
for He hath given you the former rain moderatley, and He will cause
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to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in "The people of Israel realize perfectly well that they have no temples
the first month÷ (Joel 2:23)." or ruins near Al Aqsa Mosque. According to the Koran, the people of
Israel lived somewhere to the west of Bethlehem...they were living in
To study the Law of probability of these and many other prophecies Bethlehem and not in Jerusalem." (Sheikh Ismail Jamal, the PLO's
would again prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that God exists and Director of the Islamic Wakf in Jericho, quoted in the Chicago Jewish
His name is Jehovah the redeemer of Israel as He declared. Sentinel, May 18, 1995)
On the destruction of the city of Tyre read Ezekiel 26. ▲
On the destruction and rebuilding of the city of Amman Jordan read
THE EASTERN GATE
Jeremiah 49:36.
In the book of Ezekiel 44:13; _Then He brought me back to the outer
On the desolation of Petra: Jeremiah 49. (Fulfilled)
gate which faces toward the east, but it was shut. And the Lord said to
me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall
On Babylon read Jeremiah 50. (Fulfilled)
enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered by it; therefore
it shall be shut. ÷. Now see Ezekile 43:1 _Afterward he brought me to
▲ the gate, the gate that faces toward the east. And behold, the glory of
the God of Israel came from the way of the east÷. And in chapter 43:
WHO’S TEMPLE MOUNT? verse 4; _And the glory of the Lord came into the temple by the way
of the gate which faces toward the east.÷ This is referring to the
PA's opinion: beautiful Eastern or Golden Gate, located 1,035 feet north of the
Southeast corner of AlHarm or Temple Mount area. Which Muslim
"Jerusalem is not a Jewish city, despite the biblical myth implanted in Khaleefeh AbdelMalek binMarwanl build the Dome of the rock in
some minds...There is no tangible evidence of Jewish existence from A.D. 691, the gate had already been sealed. It has been sealed almost
the socalled 'Temple Mount Era'...The location of the Temple Mount a thousand years ago. According to these verses this gate is reserved
is in question...it might be in Jericho or somewhere else." (Walid M. for the coming Messiah. Many attempts have been made to open it. In
Awad, Director of Foreign Publications for the PLO's Palestine 1917 Muslim leaders in control of Jerusalem tried and failed to break
Ministry of Information, interviewed by the IMRA news agency, the prophecy and open the gate. Each time, on the exact day the
Dec.25, 1996.) workmen were preparing to demolish the ancient stone, the hand of
God intervened and the city of Jerusalem passed out of Muslim
Arafat's opinion: control into the hands of the British. In 1967 the same story all over
again. Israel took over Jerusalem on the same day. More important,
"Allow me to remind you here of what the Israeli government is intent these verses are referring to The Lord God of Israel who entered by
upon doingand that is digging a tunnel under the western wall of Al the Eastern Gate. And again he will enter by it a second time. This
Aqsa mosque." (Yasir Arafat, speech to the Organization of the prophecy cannot be speaking about no other but The Messiah(Al
Islamic Conference, in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 23, 1997) Maseeh). It plainly calls Him the God of Israel. He is declared as
_The God÷. The Bible declares that He is God in the Flesh. Who
the Islamic authorities opinion: came to the Temple, left and will come back again. The Gate he
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entered by, shall be reserved for him just before the second coming. Mount of Olives, cross the Kidron Valley, enter the Eastern Gate, and
Muslims doubt the Bible by accusing the Jews or the Pharisees of go into the Temple.
corrupting the Old Testament. That would be impossible since the
Jews like the Muslims, do not believe God came or will come in the Gog & Magog (The Judgment of the coming Russian Islamic invasion
flesh. The Jews would love to erase anything that speaks of Jesus or on Israel)
God being in the flesh, since this is the Christian claim. The Jews
always regarded their sacred texts of the Bible to be Holy. They never ▲
changed it, and the existence of these verses just adds to the evidence.
This ties to the Book of Zecharia chapter 14 verses 3 to 4; _Then the
Lord will go forth And fight against those, nations, As He fights in the EMEU, ALSABEEL, ALBUSHRA, ABUNA CHACOUR
day of battle. And on that day His feet will stand on the Mount of
Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives WHAT ARE THEIR ECUMENICAL GOALS
shall split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half
of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the AntiIsrael Christians and most Muslims in Palestine point out the
south.÷ Now, when did _The Lord÷ God have feet? The Mount of political agenda of Christian Zionists. While Christian Zionists
Olives which faces directly the Eastern Gate, which will be opened by support Israel and the Jewish right to live in Israel, Christian
his coming. These prophecies are remarkable and astonishing. How organizations like EMEU, ALSABEEL, ALBUSHRA and others in
did these prophets predict all of this to match with a _sealed Eastern Palestine and abroad have little difference in goals with Islamic
Gate÷? fundamentalist groups in their representation of hardline political
movement against Israel.
On the rebuilding of the Third Temple in Jerusalem (Future), read
Amos 9:11, Revelation 11:12. Since Christ will enter in the Eastern Christian Zionists substantiate their claims by the close adherance to
Gate to go into the temple The Bible clearly promises that Israel will Bible Prophecy. Volumes written in scripture to grant it the right to be
build the Third Temple. Yet the Muslim Dome of the Rock is on the a theological issue for every Bible believer. While proIsrael
Temple Mount(AlHaram AlShareef). Despite all the problems that Christians are accused having to defend their claims, it is fare to point
are going on in the area concerning the holy sites. a Jewish Temple out who these accusers are, and what convictions and motives they
will be built according to God¦s promise. Many question the have.
possibility of the Jewish Temple being rebuilt sidebyside with the
Muslim Dome of the Rock, since The Tomb of Abraham Take an example the works of Labib Qubti and the volumes of
(Machphella) in Hebron includes worship sites for both Muslims and articles written at his website called "AlBushra(The Good News),
Jews. The prophet John(Yahya) was given a vision of the rebuilt Their main web site statement of faith: "AlBushra stands proTruth,
Temple during the Tribulation; _Rise and measure the temple of God, proJustice and proPeace & prays God, Allah, HaShem,Adonai,the
the altar, and those who worship there. But leave out the court which Most Holy for Mankind. AlBushra, is asking you to pray for Peace
is outside the temple, and don not measure it, for it has been given to and Justice in the World. Its purpose is not a political purpose but a
the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city under foot for fortytwo prayerful purpose. So please go to your church, synagogue, mosque or
months÷ Revelation 11:12. Since the Dome of the Rock was built in temple and say a private prayer on behalf of Peace and Justice. As we
the area called _The Court of the Gentiles÷, it is possible that the believe in ONE GOD, that GOD, ALLAH, ADONAI, HaShem, the
Temple will be side by side with a wall separating the two. When the Most Holy is One for all of us." (Labib Qubti, AlBushra).
Messiah will come, (And He will come). He will descend on the
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While they claim this goal of "prayer" a glance at the pages of their The facts are that Christians of the Holy Land are being persecuted by
material proves that the opposite is true, they call everyone to: Moslems, and not by Jews. The Jews of Israel have never persecuted
"Please, stand with the Right of the Palestinians to have their own Arab Christians for their faith, though it has served Palestinian
independent Country Palestine and their Capital EastJerusalem.". propaganda purposes to pretend that it has happened. What Arab
(AlBushra, what is the truth). Christians call persecutions are simply the outcome of Israelis border
closuers resulting from Palestinian terrorism. These closuers which
In cooperation with the Palestinian Authority lead by Yasser Arafat affected everyone in the Palestinian territories Christian and Muslim
they are engaged on what they call 'The Phased Plan', which calls alike. This security measure should not be confused with a specific
Palestinians to accept any peace proposal in order to gain as much targeting of Christians for oppression.
land as possible. In one statement they cry out to Yasser Arafat
saying: "WE CALL UPON ARAB GOVERNMENTS AND THE Labib Qubti, Emil Salayta, Elias Chakour and other members who get
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY to unify their positions concerning their support from the Catholic and Greek Orthothox churches, who
Jerusalem, a historical trust for the Arabs and all people of faith follow the commands of the Pope favoring Arafat over Jewish
throughout the world, and to intensify their defense of the Arab administrators of Israel.
character of Jerusalem and its religious pluralism raising it to the
stature befitting this blessed city" (AlBushra, 7th issue, Aug 1996), The Vatican ignores Moslem persecution of Arab Christians in Israel
and "Please, stand with the Right of the Palestinians to have their own and elsewhere, and instead kowtows to an Islamic terrorist. Biblically
independent Country Palestine and their Capital EastJerusalem.". the Jews are described as Jesus Christ's own family. The Moslems
(AlBushra, an Arab Christian website, what is the truth). who support these groups have no relationship with Him whatever.
These key people have been used simply as a tool in the hands of
If this is not a political agenda what is it then? A poltical agenda that Arafat and the Vatican.
accuses a poltical agenda of political agenda.
The goal of the Arab and Muslim masses towards Israel is obvious, a
In summary, the costs of this political agenda which needs the support political agenda for "the weak" until he becomes strong enough to
of the masses in any faith to the point that even the calling of unity take on his enemy. Allah of Islam whom many professing Christians
with nonChristians becomes permisable for the cause of justice, that are uniting with is so different from the God of the Bible. Allah's
even "prayers" are answered without the need of Jesus Christ. messenger stated that "The Last Hour would not come till the
Muslims fight against the Jews, and the Muslims will kill them until
Similar goals are found written in the Palestinian Charter and spoken the Jews hide themselves behind the stones and trees, and the stones
by all Palestinian government officials who also call for the division and trees would speak up saying: "O Muslim! O slave of Allah! There
of Israel first then it's destruction. is a Jew hiding behind me; come and kill him." The _Ghardaq_ tree
would speak, for it is the tree of the Jews." (Muhammad the prophet
So much for peace, justice, love, and harmony. of Islam, narrated by Abu Hurraira).
Instead of pointing the persecutions of Jews in Christian history, and Must we as Christians unite with Islam against the Jews?
the persecution of Muslims of Christians and Jews, these "Christians"
claim that it is "Israel" that persecutes "Christians" to the point that
they are moving in droves. They simply want to champion behind
Yasser Arafat and the PA Authority .
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One glance at there material will soon uncover there relgion, Christian Arabs, Daud Kuttab a prominant Palestinian journalist
convictions, and goals , "Eastern Churches were the first to discover writes:
the love of Mary. Eastern Marian theology leads us to discover the
real face of Mary". (John Samaha, AlBushra), "For Christians she is "Unlike what its name implies, the International Christian Embassy
the allholy Theotokos,the mother of God". (Cardinal William Keeler, doesn't represent the world's Christians, it doesn't even represent
AlBushra), and as far as God's calling to evangelize muslims, all you Protestant or Evangelical Christians which comprise the majority of
see in there writtings are things like: "They [the Muslims]adore one the people that attend its annual feast of the tabernacle festival. The
God, living and enduring, merciful and all powerful,maker of heaven U.S.based Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding which is
and earth and speaker to humankind.... They also honor Mary, his holding its annual conference next month in Chicago has distanced
virgin mother; at times they call on her too with devotion. What a itself from this embassy.... The local Arab Christian population both
propitious moment it is, therefore, that finds Christians and Muslims in Israel and Palestine have had nothing to do with this organization.
together on a major feast of the Virgin Mary to celebrate the mutual Local Christian leaders (both Arab and foreign) have not only
esteem for one another which befits men and women in the faith disagreed with their theology, but they have regularly denounced its
tradition of Abraham".(Cardinal William Keeler, AlBushra). In their onesided and biased political activities on behalf of rightwing
view, since Abraham is the father of all three religions then the main Israelis" (Daud Kuttab's Page, Spetember 30, 1999).
goal should be religious unity and not evangelism.
While the same argument can be used, the opposite of what Mr.
In a conference in 1999 for Peace and Middle Eat Understanding held Kuttab wrote is true for EMEU which is unknown in America and do
in Walnut Creek California Mr. Emil Salayta a speaker at EMEU, a not represent Evangelicals anywhere in the world, and in reality
Parish priest of BirZeit Palestrine, and the General Director of the EMEU are hardly evangelical in nature.
Latin Patriarchal Schools for all of Palestine he was recorded when he
was asked the question: "What do you think of Israel?" he responded Mr. Kuttab concludes his article: "What is worrisome, is that the
"It should be eliminated", and when he was asked: "By putting bombs International Christian Embassy is not really interested in converting
in Jewish buses and killing Jewish children, he responded: "By people to Christianity but rather in converting apolitical Christians
whatever means, they should be eliminated". like Maria to their brand of Christian Zionism.".
So much for peace. If one is to take EMEU and AlBushra which Mr. Kuttab promotes as
real representatives, one can change the words "Christian Embassy"
Claiming to carry out God's calling Mr. Salayta a speaker at EMEU with "EMEU", and "Christian Zionism" with "Palestinian Cause" and
was asked: "Do you evangelize the Moslems in your school?". He the results would be true: What is worrisome, is that EMEU is not
responded with: "No, because evangelizing would not be respecting really interested in converting people to Christianity but rather in
the convictions of others and creating a problem for the other side.". converting a political Christian to the Palestinian Cause.
The question Christians should ask, is that what Christ would say? If
his agenda is not to evangelize Muslims, then what is there religious Their view has little difference in goals with the Arab Muslim
goals and convictions? masses. Both Muslims and Christians alike in Palestine are called to
fight against the main enemy Israel. They are willing to set aside
On the other hand Christian Zionist establishments like the Christian there differences to achieve their main goals, and even hide historical
Embassy in Jerusalem does not have any support or sympathy by the facts of the decates of persecution by Islam towards Christians. Mr.
Emil Salayta, was asked: "Do you face persecution as a Christian here
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in a Moslem context?" Mr. Salayta responded: "I think what the West reading of history shows their claims is not well founded." (Labib
thinks is part of a Western propaganda against Islam. We've lived Qubti, AlBushra).
with Islam for centuries and centuries.". (Interview with Emil Salayta,
April 9, 1997). We ask, are these accusations and claims valid? Are the Palestinians
who they claim to be? Are they Canaanites, are they the original
Mr. Salayta avoids 'rocking the boat' of peace and is fully free to church? Is Israel the monster they try to draw? Are they truthful and
condemn Benjamin Netenyahu calling him a "liar" and accusing Israel we liars? Let us examine these issues in light of the Bible and History.
to suppress the freedom of speech. If Mr. Salayta expressed his
opinion in any Arab country the way he does in 'oppresive' Israel, he ▲
would possibly be condemned to death for calling any Arab leader a
"liar".
COLNCLUSION
Mr. Salayta does not share the true history of persecution committed
Along with what was foretold of the diaspora, persecution, and
by Islam, instead he lifts up Islam, and intentionally forgets that Islam
regathering of the Jews of Israel, history as well confirmed it. Should
declared the Jews as Dhimmi which put the Jew under the Omar
there be any question or doubt that the Bible always agrees with
Charter.
history?
This covenant was literally carried out by Islam against Jews and
THE EUROPEAN CONNECTION THE NEW
Christians from time immemorial, yet they deliberately ignore it and
ROMAN EMPIRE
claims that "centuries and centuries" Christians lived in peace and
harmony with Muslims. He ignores the million Armenians butchered
BADIL Resource Center
by Muslims in Fez Turkey with blood that flowed throughout the
streets, and instead of concentrating on the 1.5 million Sudanese
Christians who were annihilated in the past few years by Muslims, For immediate release, 12 April 1999
Bosnia, or the persecution of millions of Christians around the world,
AntIsrael Christians expect that we should drop everything and be in
an uproar when Jews build 6,500 houses in Jerusalem.
TOWARDS A EUROPEANPALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR
Besides the political outcry for an Arab nation to replace Israel these PALESTINIAN REFUGEE RIGHTS
groups go as far as changing history to support their claims. The
majority of Palestinians cling to the idea that their origins are from the CALL FOR BROAD INTERNATIONAL ENDORSEMENT OF
Canaanites and Jebusites. The Arab Christian view also interprets PETITION FOR THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT
God's promise to Abraham concerning the land of Israel as for all the
children of Abraham including the Arabs and that Israel was inhabited TO RESTITUTION
by Arabs for thousands of years before Israel's recent establishment.
To them any Christian who uses Bible Prophecy to support Israel are The European Campaign:
considered Christian Zionist liars, Labib Qubti writes: "the Christian
Zionists are not truthful about the Holy Land or Jerusalem. A simple A strategy workshop organized by Oxfam Solidarity/Belgium
between March 29 and 1
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April 1999 set the foundations for two PalestinianEuropean
Campaigns, a
THE LEAST TALKED ABOUT SUBJECT
campaign for Palestinian Economic Development, and a Campaign
for Palestinian ARABS KILLING ARABS
Refugee Rights. Participants were Palestinian and European NGOs Jordan in September 1970, for example, 2000 people were killed in
(BADIL Resource three weeks and the rebellion was finished.
Center, Forum of Palestinian NGOsLebanon, PARC, Belgo
Palestinian Association,
Flamish Palestine Committee, Oxfam Solidarity, UCL CERMAC,
a.o.), A RESPONSE BY A CHRISTIAN WHO SUPPORTS
ISRAEL
representatives of the ECCP, Belgian parliamentarians and trade
unionists, They usually emphasize what was done to Palestinians by Israel
during the intifada and never mention what Palestinians do to the
representatives of the European parliament and EU commissions, and Jewish people, or the numbers of Palestinians killed by Palestinians
PLO and Arab during the intifada which is more than all Palestinians killed during all
the PalestinianIsraeli conflicts.
League representatives. The Campaign for Palestinian Refugee Rights
will: Clinging to the PalestinianArab rights to the land and the disbursed
Palestinians, they deliberately ignore the antiSemitic history in all the
Empower Palestinian refugee initiatives and NGOs; Arab countries, and while they cry out for justice and law for
displaced Palestinians, they shed no tears for all the Jews who were
Advocate for the Palestinian right of return; butchered, abused, and extradited in masses out of all Arab land
forcing them to immigrate to Israel.
Lobby for increased government support for UNRWA.
The Palestinian Christian point of view, filled with fractions of truths
The campaign will be launched in Belgium to expand to other mixed with pure propaganda argues that Israel kicked out 4 million
European countries Palestinians, that Israel tortures Palestinians, and prohibits education.
Instead of the spec in Jewish eye, it is time to remove the scales from
in coordination with the ECCP (European Coordinating Committee their own eye when the fact is that Israel was created due to Arab
on Palestine) in Nazilike bursts of brutality, and mass extradition of the Jews from all
the Arab lands which forced the Jews to immigrate to Israel. The Nazi
the second half of 1999. Arab hate, the Russian Pogroms, along with the Holocaust was the
main cause for Israel to be created. In the Arab World, "Of more than
850,000 Jews in Arab lands fewer than 29,000 remained forced to
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leave to Israel" (American Jewish Yearbook, 1983, George Gruen, In Syria, The status of "Dhimmi" gave the Jew no rights at all, only
editor, New York). the right not to defend himself. During 1944 1945 intensified
persecution of the Jews took place forcing the Jews to flee to Israel.
It was pure hate fed through schools and Arab media that caused The same status was for the Jews in Lebanon and Lybia.
severe persecution in the Arab world, The prominent Egyptian Anis
Mansour who is well respected by the Palestinian Christians once Christians should wonder why these groups never mention any of the
wrote: "People all over the world come to realize that Hitler was right, atrocities in their supposed peace and reconciliation seminars? Where
since Jews are bloodsuckers" (Anis Mansour 1973). is the 'centuries and centuries' of peace Mr. Salayta is speaking of?
Could it be that they want you to listen to one side of the story. A
History records the manifestation of evil that took place all over the good judge must always hear the "other" party.
Arab world. In Yemen the Jew who lived there for thousands of years
fell under the previously mentioned 'Omar Charter' which called for The idea that the Jews forced the Palestinians out is from a well
the severe fanatical edicts of the most intolerant Islamic sects. In known lie and perversion of history past down by the Arabs who were
Adan the Arab riots and pogroms erupted in 1947 killing Jews, defeated in 1948 and 1967. It is called "The political influence of
ransacking houses, and robbed every single Jewish store, burning tradition", when all the people who fled away and ran across the
every Jewish synagogue and home in the country. The only Jews who Jordan river was out of fear imposed by the Arab Media themselves
were spared were at an area called "Steamer Point". They were all who told the Palestinians to leave because the Jew will slaughter
forced to leave in 1958. In Iraq, all the Jews were forced to leave them. It was pure Arab propaganda against Israel which made the
between 1948 and 1952 and to leave everything behind. Jews were Palestinians leave out of fear implanted by the Arab masses. One
publicly hanged in the center of Baghdad with enthusiastic mobs as should wonder why EMEU would never blame anything on the Arabs
audiences. In Egypt Jamal Abdunnaser stated: "Our sympathy was themselves?
with the Germans". During the 6 day war the Jews of Egypt were
rounded up and thrown into concentration camps. Egypt had no place
for Jews.
Unlike the call of Arab leaders to kill every Jew, in the 6 day war
In Morocco, nothing was worse than the slaughter of 120,000 Jews in there was no civilian Arab attacked by the Israelis, no stores robbed,
1146 in Fez. in 1948 mob violence and hostilities forced the Jews to no homes looted, and no women raped. The Israeli's announced to
leave to Israel. In Algeria, Jews were accused of sorcery, they were everyone to put a white flag on their gates and no one would be
slaughtered and plundered continually. The Algerians were inflamed harmed.
with Nazi influence, Jewish diplomats were kidnapped and killed. The
Jewish population in 1948 diminished in a few months, forced to As far as Israel extraditing some individuals to Jordan and Lebanon,
leave to Israel. In Tunisia, the Jews had the title as detested we must first need to study what these individuals did to the Jews in
"Dhimmi", having to pay heavy taxation, and forced to wear separate Israel, most of which were terrorists who committed crimes against
clothing different than the Moors, they had to wrap yellow banners Israel in the name of independence from Israel. In fact one of these
around their necks, and the women could never wear shoes, daring to terrorists the well known father Elarion Cappucci, a Catholic Arch
change these rules would result in public stoning. Forbidden to carry Bishop of Palestine who was caught smuggling hundreds of kilos of
arms, repair their synagogues, mass extortion, rape, mass murders and explossives aimed to kill Jews, a terrorist who was supported by all
extreme Arabization forced 50% of the Jews to flee to Israel. The Palestinian Christians and who holds the Arab Christian view on
other 50% left to France. Israel.
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in it as Thou promised." On every Yom Kippur and Passover, we
fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in Jerusalem.
A LETTER FROM JERUSALEM
Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you
BY ELIEZER BENISRAEL jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel
antiSemitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the Holocaust (and
The following "letter" by a Jew to the Gentile world first appeared as worse, your terrifying disinterest in it) all these have not broken us.
an editorial in the longdefunct "Jerusalem Times" in 1969. Twenty
seven years later, most the feelings and thoughts it conveys remain They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed,
uncannily appropriate. but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now,
after all that we have been through? Do you really believe that after
I AM a Jerusalemite like yourselves, a man of flesh and blood. I am Dachau and Auschwitz we are frightened by your threats of blockades
a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people. and sanctions? We have been to hell and back a hell of your making.
What more could you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare
I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a diplomat, I us?
do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you, or even
persuade you. I owe you nothing. You did not build this city; you did I have watched this city bombarded twice by nations that call
not live in it; you did not defend it when they came to destroy it. And themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I
we will be damned if we will let you take it away. saw woman and children blown to smithereens, after we agreed to
your request to internationalise the city.
There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York. When Berlin,
Moscow, London, and Paris were miasmal forest and swamp, there It was a deadly combination that did the job. British officers, Arab
was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world gunners, and Americanmade cannons. And then the savage sacking
which you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves of the Old City, the willful slaughter, the wanton destruction of every
a humane moral code. synagogue and religious school; the desecration of Jewish cemeteries,
the sale by a ghoulish government of tombstones for building
Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning. materials, for poultry runs, army camps even latrines.
Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, fought
oft waves heathen wouldbe conquerors, bled and died on the And you never said a word.
battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their burning
Temple rather than surrender, and when finally overwhelmed by sheer You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians shutoff
numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they forgot the holiest of our places, the Western Wall, in violation of the pledges
Jerusalem, they would see their tongues cleave to their palates, their they had made after the war a war they waged, incidentally, against
right arms wither. the decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from you whenever the
legionnaires in their spiked helmets casually opened fire upon our
For two painfilled millennia, while we were your unwelcome guests, citizens from behind the walls. Your hearts bled when Berlin came
we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we petitioned under siege. But you did not send one ounce of food when Jews
the Almighty: "Gather us from the four corners of the world, bring us starved in besieged Jerusalem....
upright to our land; return in mercy to Jerusalem, Thy city, and dwell
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The only time you came to life was when the city was at last reunited. He was there
Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of "justice" and the
need for the "Christian" quality of turning the other cheek. The truth in The Ark
is and you know it deep inside your gut you would prefer the city
be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews. No matter how Passover He's The Lamb
diplomatically you phrase it, the ageold prejudices seep out of every
word. and to Abram
If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots, perhaps you your great grandfather
had better reexamine your catechisms. After what we have been
through, we are not passively going to accommodate ourselves to the to save you gave The Ram
twisted idea that we are to suffer eternal homelessness until we accept
your saviour. for redemption
For the first time since the year 70 A.D. there is now complete of your sins
religious freedom for all in Jerusalem. For the first time since the
Romans put a torch to the Temple everyone has equal rights. (You your father had to kill
prefer to have some more equal than others.) We loathe the sword
but it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peacebut we are a lamb that's spotless
not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like. We are home.
It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed to wander over the a lamb that's sinless
face of the globe. We are not leaving. We are redeeming the pledge
made by our forefathers. Jerusalem is being rebuilt. "Next year" and it's blood he had to spill
the year after, and after, and after, until the end of time "in
Jerusalem". don't you wonder
son of Jacob
Poem: (Son of Jacob) why a lamb must die?
Through Isaiah why so much blood
Jeremiah must be sprinkled
the prophets have foretold from long ago don't you wonder why?
God was there Then to Moses
from days and times of old
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for your people who died on Calvary
He spoke on Mount Sainai The Lamb of God
Through a fire and your Messiah
thundered loudly the God who died for thee
you ever wonder why? He was silent like a lamb
Your God has spoken then brusied and whipped and slain
son of Jacob the Lord your God and your Messiah
not just yesterday has not been slain in Vain He was taken
look and wonder to the judges
what He's doing in silence led to death
today and everyday hung while naked
why one sin and forsaken
made by Moses bled, ran out of breath
The Rock he struck it twice while He died
Who was that rock they'd call Him looser
son of Jacob? they'd laugh and scorn and mock
that Rock was none but Christ remember always
so let me tell you after sorrow
son of Jacob prepare yourself for shock
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the skies would thunder Have you wondered
the earth was shaken who your God is?
the sun was turned to gloom or does he have a Son?
A shock to satan The Lord Messiah
the god of evil Elohim
his fate was surly doomed The Lord your God is one
the vail He tore down You will see that
then they entered one day my son
redemption has begun These words are not in vain
through Messiah He has come
God almighty and when you cry
the sacrifice is done one day He'll come again
(Psalm 22:16) (Zec 14:4)
From Him rushes Landing down the Mount of Olives
living waters to save you from defeat
the lamb you ate His meat please remember in your good book
The lamb was slaughtered The Lord lands on His feet
the blood was sprinkled for God was clothed
bruised His hands and feet in flesh like people
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ate and walked the street a sword was after you
(Zec 14:2, 12:10, 13:6) searched and plundered
He came for them raped and hungered
yet through the ages for simply being Jew
His plea they did refuse He then remembered
but when they call Him what He promised
they'll be butchered your father Abraham
for simply being Jews then He brought you
They weep and morn from the nations
and when they see Him to the promised land
they stare strait at His bruise (Joel 3:2, God hates dividing Israel into a Palestinian state and a
Jewish state)
Then they ask why
Then He judges
He was wounded
all the Gentiles
as the crying ends
that hated all the Jews
"These wounds I got in
for they parted Yesrael
the house of Jacob
who slaves you
my kindred and my friends"
will surely loose
You were scattered
You were made for
through the nations
God's own glory
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to show the world His will and took you by the hand
He's fulfilled it daily my son He will take you son of Jacob
just look at Yesrael into your own land
___________________________________ Through the fire
Joshua led them He has lifted
through the Jordan Shadrach and his men
to make a nation strong Daniel also trusted God
A nation was born lived the Lions Den Don't you see why
Now born again you were crying
as promised from so long hungry left to die
(Israel reborn) destitute and forsaken
He prepares thee don't you wonder why?
when you grow son
and take Yerushalayim The Lord your God Don't you wonder
kept His promiss how you die
He gave to Abraheim son of Abraham
He has gathered killed in masses
from the nations silent like a lamb
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Just like you The Author
o son of Jacob © 2000 by Walid.
silent like a lamb http://answeringislam.org/Walid/israel.htm
as for trespass
He was faultless
The God of 'The I AM'
Yahweh parted
mighty waters
when Moses trusted Him
foolish men who worshiped Pharaoh
there fate was sad and grim like these men o son of Jacob
one day you too will win
why you wonder?
why you worry?
for wolves have come and gone
your God will help thee
son of Jacob
your God has always won
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