Dear Rand Paul Fans,
Thank you for pointing out that some Americans have no self-esteem. Their only sense of self-worth comes from hating someone else as much as they despise themselves. Segregation was enforced by people that television showed to be less-civilized than others. Television showed a sugar-coating of civilization that covered some really ugly behavior.
Segregationsts seem to be people who just cannot accept the American Creed that all are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Segregationists have never truly embraced the Declaration of Independence. Segregationists often wanted revenge for the humiliation that their ancestors endured in England and Europe, humiliations by the governments there that drove them, often voluntarily and often as a criminal sentence, away from their ancestral homes.
When you read Rand Paul’s transcript with Rachel Maddow as found at this website, listen for the pain that must lie in the Paul family history. This has to be the family memory that limits him to an eye-for-an-eye revenge. Instead of focusing that anger on the nation where the humiliation of European poor occurred, there seems to be displaced anger and gentrified abuse in the form of wanting segregation. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/rand_paul_telling_the_truth.html
If there is any weakness to the Golden Rule of loving one’s neighbor as much as one loves oneself, it is that we assume that people love themselves.
Someone really must not love themselves if they long for the days when poor whites could not vote because of poll taxes and literacy tests.
This is the bitter pill that has been sugar-coated by some in the Tea Party movement. As the make-up sweats off and rain washes away the bunting and the sugar swishes out of the tea cup, we are going to see more and more people who want to lead this country through fear and hatred.
The United States was founded on the concept of liberty and mutual respect.
We left a nation and a continent that ruled through fear and hatred.
Don’t bring that stuff to our shores. The United States of America has become a much better nation than that.
Don’t let the Tea Party’s sugary words leave rotten cavities in the United States’ Constitution.
*this post loosely draws upon Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma, the Declaration of Independence, the Law Code of Hammurabi, and the Book of Matthew in the Bible.
The Old City of Jerusalem must be given to the descendants of Abraham – the 2-3 billion people who follow the Abrahamic faith. It must be a World Heritage Site administered by the UN.
There is a Jewish existential crisis these days. There are Zionists who seek a homeland for Jews where they are safe from persecution. This is a noble cause.
There are Zionists who have twisted this cause to something that worships the evilness of Adolf Hitler. These Zionists want to practice apartheid and they build walls around Jews. These Zionists violate international law by stealing land from Palestine under the battle cry of Lebensraum or natural increase. These Zionists promote the killing of Jews by refusing to make peace and by looking for a fight with any of their neighboring nations. They prefer war to growing wealthy by trading and doing business with their neighbors.
These are the Zionists who have corrupted the teaching of Christian preachers, namely Rev. John Hagee who is taking his zionist christian message to England this month. Rev. Hagee preaches anti-Christ messages in his seminars. He promotes Armageddon in Israel. He teaches that it is ok to persecute Palestinian Christians in violation of New Testament and Old Testament teachings. Rev. Hagee, like Satan in the Garden of Eden, twists the words of the Bible to teach that it is ok to violate the social contract of the 10 Commandments.
In my more perfect America, we grant people the liberty to speak their minds. We need to hear the John Hagees of the world so that we can understand where they have gone wrong. We need to understand how people like him work against the concepts of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness which are founding principles of American government.
In the United States, many of us, Republican or Democrat or Other, want to be a model of respect for the world. We want to liberate people from the disrespectful tyranny of ignorance. We want to celebrate the diversity of cultures because our diversity makes us stronger.
Take this example from science. Tin is a metal. Copper is a metal. Combined they make an alloy that is stronger than the individual metals.
To that end, it is not a goal of many Americans to erase cultures. It is our goal to erase ignorance and the bad politics that result from ignorance.
This kind of ignorance plagues Jews, especially some members of the Knesset.
Some leaders of the Knesset are ignorant of the Hitler-madness that directs their political agendas. Lebensraum is a Hitler policy, nor matter how it is rephrased. Apartheid in Israel not only continues Hitler’s racism, it also violates the founding document of Israel’s claim to reoccupy part of the Middle East after a two thousand year absence from the land.
Israel’s sole claim to the land is the Original Covenant between God and Abraham as found in Genesis 15-17 of the Bible. In that document, the land is to be shared by all of Abraham’s eight sons. Some Zionists pervert this by claiming the land belonged only to Sarah’s son Isaac. By making this perversion, these Zionists are invalidating the founding document to take land in the West Bank and to create apartheid in Gaza and to create an environment that promotes war and the sacrifice of Jews and others to Adolf Hitler who seems to have taken on godlike status in their minds. By taking land in the West Bank, these Zionists are ignorant of the fact that they invalidate Israel’s only claim to the land.
What does “Never Forget” mean? Does it mean that behaving like Hitler is wrong? Does it mean that the nations of the world rescued Jews and stopped Hitler?
“Never Forget” means that promoting racial purity is impossible. Hitler’s grandmother was Jewish. He was not a pure Aryan. Being a biological descendant of Abraham means that all 8 of Abraham’s sons are the biological source of DNA for a claim to Israel. This includes people from all over the world by now. A racially pure Israel is an impossibility unless one accepts that the defining race is the human race. ”Never Forget” means that we are all one human family.
Members of the Knesset, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Tzipi Livni and Daniel Ayalon, must stop looking at a world through the darkened mirror of the Holocaust. They must see the world with the light that the Holocaust shed for the world.
Apartheid is wrong. Lebensraum is wrong. Refusing to honor the Original Covenant between God and Abraham is wrong.
Combined, these wrongs create a political alloy that is strong enough to destroy Jewish claims to be in Israel as a nation.
Gaza and Operation Cast-Lead are enough of a regional destabilizing force to activate the Geneva Convention that calls for UN military intervention in Israel as much as the UN has intervened in Sudan or in any other nation of the world.
Lebensraem and Gaza and the barriers and checkpoints and the starvations that lead to tunnels being built to bring food into Gaza are a humanitarian crisis.
If the Knesset cannot stop itself from behaving like Hitler, then the United States and the UN are obliged to end the ignorance of Israel’s leadership, especially when that leadership ignores the will of the majority of Israelis who want a Two State Solution.
The Balfour Declaration is no longer enough to protect Israeli leaders who violate the Founding Original Covenant of the Jewish people.
Knesset leaders must decide what their cultural identity truly is. Are they children of Hitler? Are they children of Abraham?
If they choose Lebensraum in East Jerusalem, they ignore the Bible document that says all of Abraham’s children are entitled to share greater Jerusalem. By choosing Lebensraum, they choose to stop being Jews. They choose to be zionist Nazis. According to Jeremiah 31 and Jeremiah 35, those who choose Lebensraum are following a different god and are to be evicted from the land.
If Knesset leaders want to remain in the Holy Land, land set aside for the worship of the God of Abraham by all of biological and spiritual descendants, they must immediately declare and recognized the Nation of Palestine.
To be Jewish, Netanyahu, Lieberman, Ayalon and Livni must give the Old City of Jerusalem to all of Abraham’s descendants as a UN mandated World Heritage Site. They must accept West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. They must accept East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
Is Netanyahu a Jew? He will tell us all this when he signs the document that recognizes a viable Nation of Palestine and a non-Hitler Nation of Israel.
On that day, we will know if Netanyahu is a Jew.
There are a few Mad Hatters running around these days. Thanks to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, these folks have the right to speak the ideas that spin underneath their hats. The results are quite marvelous and illogical unless one has worn one of their Mad Hats too long.
I’d like for you to consider five cases:
Example #1. Yesterday, Sarah Palin – a voice of the Tea Party movement – proclaimed her preference that the US remain a dominant military superpower. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5guZZTwSW93FMmLEsFeBHJDLZoGtQD9F583601
Being a superpower costs money and requires massive federal spending, something Tea Partiers do not want to finance. Military dominance isn’t on sale and there are no double-coupon days for missiles, jets, or aircraft carriers. No free-month’s rent on military bases. Not even the uniforms go on sale.
Example #2. Yesterday, Nazi white supremacists, who boast of Aryan ancestry meaning that their forebearers were immigrants, protested against immigration. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100418/ap_on_re_us/us_white_supremacists_los_angeles. If they are so anti-immigration, then they can set a good example and go back to Europe. How can they tell people whose ancestors walked here more than 5000 years ago that European-descended people are not immigrans? Who is native? Who is an immigrant? This line of thinking matches Hitler’s hatred of Jews, which includes himself because of his grandmother.
Example #3: Rev. John Hagee leads a group called Christians United for Israel. This group of Christians supports Zionist policies that lead to the persecution of Palestinian Christians. www.cufi.org. Even when PM Netanyahu endorses the Two-State Solution, which is consistent with Genesis 15-17, and Genesis 25 about Machpelah where Ishmael and Isaac together buried Abraham, and Jeremiah 31 where God took the lease on the Old City of Jerusalem back from the Jews, Rev. Hagee prefers to rush us all to Armageddon before he dies so that he won’t miss the show. Why not watch the show from Heaven on God’s schedule? Why does a Christian minister advocate policies that persecute Christians?
Example #4: Zionists’ claims to Palestinian territory. There are some Zionists who want to ignore the book of Genesis and the original covenant with Abraham that the land belongs to his 8 (eight) sons, not just Sarah’s son. (Genesis 15-17) The trouble with this position is that if one ignores the story of Abraham, then one denies the existence of Jews. If one chooses DNA evidence of who is biologically related to Abraham, then a lot of Nile Valley Africans and sub-Saharan Africans may have stronger claims to Jerusalem than some European Jews. So, what is the basis of claiming land vacated 2000 years ago? No Genesis – No Jews. This is a Jewish existential crisis that is only resolved by ending Israeli apartheid in Gaza and declaring the State of Palestine
Example #5 Tea Party Tax Day II in Boston and Washington, DC. The Tea Party Patriots claim that are a tax-exempt organization against fiscal irresponsibility by the government. http://www.teapartypatriots.org/SignIn.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fMembers%2fNewGroup.aspx
If Tea Party members are taxed enough already, then they are advocating a position of fiscal irresponsibility.
If Tea Party members are taxed enough already, then where is the logic of cuddling with the fiscally irresponsible political party that cut taxes while taking on the Iraq war?
Tea Party members perhaps are only interested in ripples in their personal tea cups and are dangerously ignorant of the storm around them. They do not deserve to be associated with the original Tea Party legacy.
The original Tea Party was correct in telling Britain to pay for its global war with France using funds in its own coffers. The Seven Year’s War was one front in Britain global competition with France and other European nations.
This time, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are OUR wars. It is our responsibility to pay for the war and take care of veterans and their families.
This Tea Party is being un-American by begrudging the tax burden that each of us owe to our noble neighbors who volunteer to protect us from terrorism. The Preamble of the Constitution requires that those of us who wish to be called United States citizens agree to pay our share of the cost of defending our liberty and to pay our share of providing the basic infrastructure needed to promote our economy.
Tea Party members who begrudge this are not behaving as rational American citizens. Rather, they behave as a mob of two year olds complaining about cleaning up after playtime.
The Bush administration, with the support of the Republican Party, made a mess of the economy on their watch. The Democrats are taking steps to clean up the mess made by a Republican Party who kept voters focused on their tea cups rather than the Preamble.
Tea Party members who support out-of-work Republican politicians, governors and all, with speaking fees are co-dependent enablers of Mad Hatters.
In my more perfect America, we are a nation bound by a social contract of mutual and self respect.
In all the noise of the health care debate, one chord unites all sides: people complain of being disrespected.
In all the noise of the Middle East crisis, one chord unites all sides: people complain of being disrepected.
In all the smoke and noise of Afghanistan, of Africa, of Latin America, of the world, one chord unites all sides: people complain of being disrespected.
In all of the regions where rebelling soldiers need to be reabsorbed into society, one chord unites all sides: people complain of being disrespected.
Respect includes admiration. There is something to admire in all humans. Sometimes, humans are so scarred by experience that the scar tissue hides admirable qualities in us. Scar tissue marks injury and hurt. One response to being hurt is to threaten hurt to others to avoid being hurt again by others. This is fear. Fear is not respect.
Fear and tears are symptoms of disrespect and a failure of social contracts. This includes national social contracts and even the most basic social contracts of family life.
For example, in the fight about abortion law, much energy goes into making opponents fear the outcomes of either side’s agenda. I do not hear either side talk about teaching men to stop hurting women, especially to stop domestic violence in the home, including incest. If you take time to listen to some women who choose to abort or give their children to other families, you will hear too often stories of women who engaged in unprotected sex to find comfort and escape from an environment of being disrespected.
If you listen to the most zealous zionists, you will hear stories of being disrespected on account of heritage. These zionists hurt others in the form of supporting Israeli apartheid to create fear as a protection from disrespect. The apartheid, though, breeds the very disrespect the zionists want to avoid. Such zionists are cultivating the germ of disrespect that is so fatal to Jews.
Even the Tea Party faction in the US operates out of the pain of being disrespected.
Compassion can cure a lot of the hurt of disrespect. As of this writing, I do not know of any other cure.
Israelis and Jews might take a lesson from Native Americans.
In the United States, some Native American nations run casinos. They share the profits with all of the members of the nation. They are also very careful about defining membership in the nation. To apply for membership, one must prove one’s biological right by being 1/16 or 1/32 Native American. The number varies. However, it is enough to eliminate many people who suddenly want to be eligible for the profits but have not shared the struggle of being Native American and living on the reservations.
What would happen if Jews had to prove that they are directly descended from the residents of Jerusalem at the time of the expulsion some 2000 years ago? What if having DNA of North African Berbers or Teutonic peoples was a disqualifier? This test could be performed on the X-chromosome, I believe, for biological membership relies on one’s mother’s status.
If DNA was the definition of being Jewish, then perhaps one could do an analysis of Sarah’s remains. That might not work, though, for Sarah was likely Persian or Aryan, as was Abraham. By that definition, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad might be more Jewish than Avigdor Lieberman or Tzipi Livni or Benjamin Netanyahu.
Testing for the mother’s lineage contradicts the Genesis 15-17 definition of Abraham’s descendants. One has to be descended from Abraham to be entitled to the land. That would include his children by African and Aryan mothers. I’m not sure if those who are descended from converts would qualify. Then Israel would belong to the Ethiopian Jews, not the Russian or German ones.
Would DNA solve the Jewish existential crisis? It might solve the question of racism by some European Jews against people of color, for most of Abraham’s children had African mothers. Which wives were European?
Yes, there is a Jewish existential crisis that can descend into madness quickly if the original covenant ceases to be the document that justifies the Balfour Declaration.
Who wants to honor the Bible now?
United States’ foreign policy toward Israel is strangely impacted by American evangelicals. Some of these evangelicals are strangely impacted by Zionists. The result is the manipulation of some evangelical pulpits, a source of knowledge for many Americans, into bully-pulpits that teach against God.
Christians United for Israel is a case in point. (www.cufi.org)
This association of evangelicals is headed by Rev. John Hagee of Cornerstone Church, Austin, Texas. Rev. Hagee is a famouse televangelist. When I watch his sermons, I see a man who faces his own mortality,, who faces the mortality of his daughters who have battled cancer. I see a man in need of grief counseling. I see a man who displaces his grief onto his congregation and watchers by preaching the terror of Armageddon as if he can rush God’s timetable.
When I see this very human Rev. John Hagee, I see a man whose grief has been so manipulated that he teaches his followers to take a political position against Palestinians and a position that puts American soldiers at risk according to Gen. Petraeus. This position may be bordering on anti-Americanism. Well, to be honest, when I have watched his sermons on television, I heard him portray the US as weak and doomed. This is certainly anti-Americanism for we are strong enough to pursue two wars and to deliver humanitarian relief around the world.
I write this because I hope that you and the people you know will help Rev. Hagee separate his personal grief from the gospel of Jesus and from God.
Right now, Rev. Hagee’s position against the Palestinian state is a violation of God’s original promise to Abraham, too. Take a look at the list of teachings by Rev. Hagee on the CUFI website. You will find many scripture references except one – the original covenant found in Genesis 15-17. In those scriptures, God promised Abraham’s land to all 8 of his sons, not just the son by Sarah.
Whenever Rev. Hagee teaches that Israel should take land from Abraham’s other descendants, Rev. Hagee teaches against God.
Contradicting God is a dangerous thing to do. It is dangerous for American soldiers. It is dangerous for Palestinian Christians and churches that have been destroyed by Israel. It puts Rev. Hagee in a position of being a Christian who encourages the oppression of other Christians.
That is, well, odd.
I encourage you to read Brog’s Blog, the blog of Hagee’s advisor, David Brog. Mr. Brog has much experience on Capital Hill. I am concerned that Mr. Brog may be exercising undue influence on Rev. Hagee, a man who grieves over the cancer battles of his own daughters.
Christians ought to follow the original covenant and encourage a division of Jerusalem that concurs with PM Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech in March 2010. Mr. Netanyahu reminded us of the 3000 year history of the city of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem that was the capital of the Hebrews before the exile is the Old City. It is possible for everyone to have a Jerusalem and for Jews to stop dying.
Every one can get a Jerusalem. Give the Old City to Abraham and let it be managed as a Holy City to all of the Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) by the UN as a mandate. Israel can keep West Jerusalem where the Knesset is located. Palestine keeps East Jerusalem which was captured in the 1960s and which the UN has ruled an illegal capture. (One of the precedents for that decision was written by US Presient Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his Four Freedoms speech.)
If everyone gets a Jerusalem in this fashion, then the Bible narrative that is the justification for a Jewish State in the Middle East is upheld.
Those who argue against the original covenant also erase the existence of Judaism at the same time. No original covenant – No land to Isaac’s children.
So, Rev. John Hagee’s CUFI not only encourages Christians to finance the oppression of Christians. Rev. Hagee’s CUFI teachings against the original covenant also threaten the existence of Judaism.
And for the Tea Party members, Rev. Hagee’s teachings cost the US $3billion a year in subsidies to Israel. Why can’t Israel do what other nations do? Take a collection from Jews in diaspora in the form of remittances. This should not be a line item on the US federal budget anymore.
Rev. Hagee’s CUFI teachings against the original covenant say so.
In a more perfect America, the Preamble requires that we secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. While Rev. Hagee has the right to teach whatever he wants, and while people are free to follow him in political actions that contradict God’s original covenant with all 8 of Abraham’s sons, it is highly questionable that support of Israel’s apartheid policies is constitutional.
If the majority of American Jews want Palestine to be declared a state, why are some American Christians against it?
This is a question one must ask Rev. John Hagee and Christians United for Israel, especially after a J-Street poll shows that the Two State Solution is not anti-Zionist. So, we are under no obligation to Rev. Hagee to deliver Armageddon before his personal End Time arrives.
J-Street, the AIPAC alternative , released a poll that shows that “by a 71-29 percent margin, American Jews support the United States “exerting pressure” on both the Israelis and the Arabs to make the necessary compromises to achieve peace. An earlier J Street poll last March found a similar level of support.”
As soon as the Two State Solution goes into effect, Israel will be wealthier by trading goods other than weapons. Israel can do business with more of the Arab world.
More than that, children in the region will no longer have to cry because of policies written by people suffering from Hitler trauma.
Children in the region will not have to live behind walls built by those who have twisted memores of life the day before Christalnacht in the walled ghettoes of Europe.
The apartheid walls provide familiar ghetto comfort to some Jews. They need to be cured by living in peace
If John Hagee and Christians United for Israel want to bring healing to Israel, they must stop repeating Sarah’s Genesis 15-17 mistake of torturing Ishmael against God’s will.
It seems that most American Jews agree with King Solomon that Israel is more prosperous by trading with neighbors, not by warring with them. That was King Solomon’s practice.
Is there a wise ruler in Israel today?
http://www.jstreet.org/blog/?p=937
The Health Care Reform votes had a patient – the Republican Party.
This week, the Republican Party degenerated to the level of two year old tantrums. This was very embarrassing to the United States as the former congressional majority, dressed in expensive suits, ranted like toddlers. When the leaders lose civility, some civilians lose self-control.
This was not the party of the Contract with America.
This is a party that is egging on a theocracy and a false Armageddon view. To me, this borders on blasphemy and treason.
Sunday night, Republican after Republican, up to Boehner himself, confessed to eight years of neglecting the financial crises and bankruptcies faced by Republican voters over health care bills. These are the same people who oversaw the exporting of American jobs – the ones people had that let them buy health insurance in the first place at less than COBRA rates.
I do not know of a hospital that accepts prayer as a payment. That is all that this batch of leaders left for too many Americans.
This is not the party of George HW Bush.
The theocracy wing of the Republican party supports settlers in East Jerusalem, an Israeli lebensraum and apartheid policy. At AIPAC on Monday, PM Netanyahu asked to be treated with the same standard of democracy as other nations. Lebensraum and apartheid are wrong for other nations. Therefore, Netanyahu denounced his own policies.
The theocracy wing of the Republican party supports settlers in East Jerusalem, something that Gen. Petraeus has declared is a threat to American soldiers. This wing of the Republican party, disguised as Christians United for Israel, is now financially encouraging enemies of the US. Therefore, the theocracy wing is acting in ways unpatriotic.
The Republican Party and the Tea Partiers complain about big government. 1. We are a big country. 2. The Founding Fathers switched us from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution precisely because a strong federal government is needed to promote the US economy through infrastructure at home and through diplomacy abroad. 3. Very few rugged individualists in the US can live without some interaction with the federal government. Even those on frontiers are safe because of our military.
It is time for a Great Republican Reformation. The party must return to writing legislation, not inciting uninformed, soundbite tyranny and uncivilized behavior. The party must distance itself from theocrats within the US. The party must support the end of Israeli apartheid and the creation of the Palestinian State because Israel refuses to be a pluralist, democratic, constitutional society.
It is time for Republicans to go to Washington to legislate in the Constitutional manner, not to work on re-election.
Politicians who do a good job get re-elected based on merit. That is priceless.
Sometimes parents give a toy that all of the children must share. Sometimes the children fight and the parent has to take the toy away. The lesson: I, your parent, gave this gift to all of you because I love you and I want you to enjoy it in peace. You cannot do that today so I will take it away until you learn to share.
Abraham had no children the day that God took on a human form and shared dinner with Abraham. He had a gift to give to his children, the ones that God promised him. Abraham eventually had 8 sons. We don’t know how many daughters he had. Like toddlers in a wrestling ring, Ishmael and Isaac were goaded to fight. But when Abraham died, these two brothers together buried their father at Machpelah. They learned to share their grief. (Genesis 25)
I admire Benjamin Netanyahu. He has brought Zionists back to Machpelah to become Jews. Mechpelah is the place where Judaism began, he has said. Mechpelah is the place where Isaac shared with Ishmael.
I pray for Mr. Netanyahu because he put himself on a righteous path that is a spiritual rocky road for him. He lost his brother over the 1967 war. Last night at AIPAC, he told us about losing his friend Chaim in 1969 in battle. Family dinners are not as crowded as they should be for lack of his brother’s children. The ghosts of many unborn children haunt the Holy Land, children who were deprived of life because their parents were human sacrifices to . . . what?
God stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac.
God stopped Sarah –TWICE — from killing Abraham’s son Ishmael.
God does not like human sacrifice.
Can Netanyahu heal Israel from a culture of human sacrifice?
Yesterday, Netanyahu proclaimed. He proclaimed the right of Jewish people to defend themselves. He also demanded that Israel be judged on the same standard as other democracies. There is a contradiction.
Other democracies are not allowed to be apartheid states. Mr. Netanyahu did not deny this allegation against Israel in his 42 minute speech. Israel is an apartheid state because it holds Gaza and the West Bank hostage as a guarantee for Jerusalem, the 3000 year old capital of the Jewish people.
Here is Mr. Netanyahu’s mistake. Only the Old City of Jerusalem is the 3000 year old capital of the Abrahamic faith.
How do you tell a man that his brother died for a mistake?
Secretary Clinton was very clear that Israel is vulnerable from many nations now because of military technology. Israel develops some of that technology and Israel is a major exporter of weapons to the world.
Israel’s has to stop breaking the commandment against coveting and stealing. Yes, Jews can wear uniforms of the Jewish nation, as phrased by Chaim’s mother per Netanyahu’s speach. Yes, Israel is strong enough to take land from other people. Raw strength pales, though, next to the strength of wisdom that is strong enough to cut through war-time propaganda.
Eventually, some children after they have bruised each other will give the gift back to their parent.
Give the Old City of Jerusalem back to Abraham and let the UN operate it as an international city until the 1948-1967 generation retires from politics and today’s children raised in peace can agree to share it at the tomb of that Hitler-scarred generation.
By giving the Old City to Abraham, it will be held in trust for Jews, for the Jews who became the first Christians, and for the Jews and Christians who became the first Muslims, all bound by Abraham and Ten Commandments. It is perhaps the only way to fulfill God’s original covenant of Genesis 15-17.
Maybe Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who has several children and knows a lot about teaching children to share, can help Mr. Netanyahu understand this.
There is more history about treating the Old City of Jerusalem as a separate unit from East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem. I have added links to maps (Jewish, Palestinian and Dutch for balance).
So far, Israel makes a loud case about Iran and others who want to get rid of Israel. I do not know why these states want to get rid of Israel. I know that I support Israel but Israel makes this difficult because I cannot support Israeli apartheid.
Israeli apartheid is wholly unholy and desecrates the Holy Land.
End the apartheid, Mr. Netanyahu, so that I can support fully support Israel.
http://www.passia.org/index.htm
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/jer/images2/maps/crusader-b.JPG
http://www.mideastweb.org/mjerusalem.htm
Once a year, some Christians who have profound faith and hope in the resurrection are encouraged to rush Armageddon by committing heresy.
Chrisians United for Israel (www.cufi.org) is an organization founded by Rev. John Hagee of Texas and this organization raises funds. Some of the funds support Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, settlements that violate the commandment against coveting, settlements that violate international law as declared by the Quartet in Moscow this week, settlements that violate the international law that established Israel during the League of Nations days with the Balfour Declaration.
Christians United for Israel supports settler activities that General Petraeus has said, in writing to the US Senate, are a security risk to US soldiers and the US.
Christians United for Israel subsidizes the Israeli government and the Israeli government uses its budget to bomb Christian churches in Gaza.
CUFI underwrites the persecution of Christians.
CUFI underwrites Israeli religious segregation and apartheid.
CUFI underwrites Jewish settler coveting of lands that simply ought to buy on the open market.
CUFI underwrites Jewish settler theft and supports violations of the commandment against stealing.
Worse, CUFI teaches that the land was only for Sarai’s son when Genesis 15-17 and Genesis 25 clearly show that God gave the land to all of Abraham’s descendants (his 8 sons). God emphasized this when God rescued Ishmael –TWICE — from Sarah’s plan to kill Ishmael and keep his inheritance for her son – the beginning of coveting.
Christians who follow CUFI must believe that God was temporarily insane when God made the original covenant. That is heresy and blasphemy!
So, when CUFI has its Night to Honor Israel they are in an annual ritual to affirm heresy.
Christians have an obligation to read the Bible for themselves so that they can spot heresies and correct those teachers in a loving manner.
I wonder how much influence CUFI has in the Texas State Board of Education’s decision to rewrite history, eliminate part of the First Amendment and impose a self-seeking definition of Christianity on the entire state of Texas.
This plan to fudge education in Texas textbooks will require ending Thanksgiving which celebrates the establishment of religious freedom in America when the Pilgrims arrived to escape persecution by other Christians in Europe.
Funny thing for Israel and AIPAC, if CUFI is successful, Judaism will be illegal because CUFI will ultimately have to teach that Jews are Christ killers again. So, if AIPAC accepts CUFI, AIPAC condones CUFI’s ultimate belief that Jews are inferior because they have not accepted Christ and that means more anti-Semitism.
AIPAC will have to accept the Machpelah solution of Genesis 25, the states for Ishmael and Isaac, the Biblical solution for peace in the Middle East. AIPAC needs religious tolerance for Jews around the world and Jews must practice religious tolerance by ending apartheid, a government policy of coveting and stealing based on race, in Israel through declaring the twin nations of Palestine and Israel, like Trinidad and Tobago. Mechpelah is the peace of Abraham
