THE GOD OF ISRAEL, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN TODAYS WORLD
by Alon Ronk

INTRODUCTION

By way of introduction I freely admit that as I write this article it is difficult for me not to be impassioned about it. I care very much about what is happening in Israel. But what I set forth is not just emotional opinions, but Biblical and historical information. For those of you who see the way the world villifies Israel at every oppurtunity I wish to give you some foundational information upon which you can base your world view concerning Israel. Also I hope to convince those who are otherwise minded that supporting and loving Israel is the Biblical and right thing to do. The World Wide Web is a good place to get the word out. I would hope that you would forward this site to your friends and encourage them to do the same.

I do not advocate hatred of Arabs. All men were created in the image of the Creator. God has given life to all men. But the force that drives the enemies of Israel is evil; sinister. They are also the enemies of God. Nevertheless, God has not forgotten Zion. Psalm 121:4," Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." God also knows those who love Zion. We are commanded by Scripture to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel. Psalm 122, "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good."

The House of the LORD was the Temple that once stood and will stand again on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This Temple was the place where God Himself appeared to His people Israel. It would have been there to this day had it not been destroyed by the Romans. Israel would have continued to exist where it was before for thousands of years had the Romans not driven the Jewish people from their homes, their heritage, and their land.

No matter how hard the heathen try they will never succeed in destroying Israel. But the lines are drawn and people and nations are taking sides. Psalm 125 says, "They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel. "

"Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness." - Zechariah 8:1-8.

CHAPTER 1 CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ISRAEL

In the fifth century B.C; the Jews of Persia (modern day Iran) were in great danger from a man named Haman. Haman, second in rank only to King Xerxes, had plotted to kill all the Jews in the kingdom. The plot failed and Haman was ultimately hanged. It is still remembered by the Jews through the feast of Purim, or Lots.

The Jewish people had faced terrible persecutions by great nations before. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome among them. But perhaps nothing could prepare them for what was to transpire in Nazi Germany.

There was nothing to fear from the Jewish people. They were not engaged in terrorism, criminal rackets, treason, or any other such thing. They also were not a liability to the State. In fact, just the opposite was true. These men and women were successful, hard working, and productive. They had greatly contributed to the good of the Nation both to its economy and people. They were involved in trade and commerce, industry and manual trades. They were doctors, lawyers, judges, actors, musicians, teachers, and university professors. They were patriotic, and many were war veterans with a deep love of their country, Germany. Their roots were deep in this Land.

Their religion did not threaten nor adversely effect the German way of life nor the State sponsored Roman Catholic Church. The religious pretty much stayed to themselves not interested in proselytizing converts. In fact, most of them were probably not religious Jews. Judaism is not just a religion but an ethnicity as well. It can be one or the other or it can be both. But it can never be neither.

Nevertheless, when the National-Socialists came to power they marked the Jews as enemies of the State and ultimately for annihilation in the Final Solution. It seems these veterans of thousands of years of suffering, did not realize the severity of the approaching storm clouds of genocide such as the world has never seen before. Their leaders had been telling them at first to hang tight, ride it out, things will probably get bad but then it will get better. Little did they know.

There were some who sounded the alarm. There were also those who would later repent that they did not. There were also those who had managed to flee. But many more it would be who would perish in the flames.

During the conquest of Europe by Nazi Germany, Hitler turned his attention to the country of Czechoslovakia. The following is an account of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia made possible by Nazi Germany's masterful use of propoganda on the world stage regarding the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia. The article was written by former Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu and can be found on Koinonea House's web page, to which there is a link on this web site.

Their Strategic Barrier

Czechoslovakia was strategically placed in the heart of Europe, and its conquest was central to Hitler's plans for overrunning Europe. Though small, Czechoslovakia could field over 800,000 men (one of the strongest armies in Europe), and it had a highly efficient arms industry.

To complicate matters from Hitler's point of view, it possessed a formidable physical barrier to his designs in the shape of the Sudeten mountains, which bordered Germany and guarded the access to the Czech heartland and the capital city of Prague only miles away.

A system of fortifications and fortresses had been built in the mountains over many years, making passage by force a very costly proposition, perhaps even impossible. We now know from the Nuremberg trials and other sources that Hitler's generals were utterly opposed to an assault on the Czech fortifications.

Worse from Hitler's point of view, the Western powers had promised at Versailles to guarantee the Czech border against any aggressive attack. France, which in 1938 could field one hundred divisions (an army 50% larger than Germany's), had agreed in writing to come to the Czech's defense, and Britain and Russia were committed to joining in if France did so.

Propaganda vs. Reality

Since an outright military victory seemed impossible, Hitler embarked on an unprecedented campaign to politically force the Czechs to give up the land, and with it any hope of being able to defend their capital or their country. The inhabitants of the Sudetenland, Hitler said, were predominantly German, and these three million Sudeten Germans deserved-what else?-the right of self-determination and a destiny separate from the other seven million inhabitants of Czechoslovakia; this despite the fact that the country was a democracy and that the Sudeten Germans enjoyed economic prosperity and full civil rights.

To buttress his claim, Hitler organized and funded the creation of a new Sudeten political leadership that would do his bidding, which was, in the words of Sudeten leader Konrad Henlein, to "demand so much that we can never be satisfied." 2

William Shirer, who was a reporter in Europe at the time, succinctly summarized it: Thus the plight of the German minority in Czechoslovakia was merely a pretext ... for cooking up a stew in a land he coveted, undermining it, confusing and misleading its friends and concealing his real purpose ... to destroy the Czechoslovak state and grab its territories .... The leaders of France and Great Britain did not grasp this. All through the spring and summer, indeed almost to the end, Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier apparently sincerely believed, along with most of the rest of the world, that all Hitler wanted was justice for his kinsfolk in Czechoslovakia. 3

In addition, Hitler backed the establishment of a Sudeten liberation movement called the Sudeten Free Corps, and he instigated a series of well-planned and violent uprisings that the Czechs were compelled to quell by force. 4

Hitler's propaganda chief, Goebbels, orchestrated a fearful propaganda campaign of fabricated "Czech terror" and oppression of the Sudeten Germans.

The Czech refusal to allow the Sudeten territories to return to their "rightful" German owners, Hitler prattled, was proof that the Czechs were the intransigent obstacle to peace. For what choice would Germany have but to come to the assistance of its oppressed brethren living under intolerable Czech occupation?

Moreover, the Germans reversed causality, claiming that the Czechs were trying to precipitate a European crisis in order to prevent the breakup of their state, that the choice between war and peace in Europe was in Czech hands, and even that "this petty segment of Europe is harassing the human race." 5

But there was a simple way to simultaneously avoid war and achieve justice, Hitler said. The Western powers-meaning Britain and France-could force the Czechs to do what was necessary for the sake of peace: Czechoslovakia had to relinquish the "occupied territories."

The Fickle West

And it worked. With astonishing speed, the governments and opinion-makers of the West adopted Hitler's point of view. Throughout 1937 and 1938, mounting pressure was exerted on Czechoslovakia by the leading Western powers "to go to the utmost limit" to meet Sudeten demands. 6 Czech leader Edvard Benes was reviled as intransigent.

The Western press published articles lamenting Czech shortsightedness and its total disregard for the cause of peace in Europe, as well as the injustice of not allowing the Sudetenland to be "returned" to Germany (despite the fact that it had never been part of Germany). The British envoy who was dispatched to investigate the situation even went so far as to demand that Czechoslovakia "so remodel her foreign relations as to give assurances to her neighbors that she will in no circumstances attack them or enter into any aggressive action against them." 7

Land for Peace

On September 18, 1938, under the gun of Hitler's September 28 deadline, a meeting was held between the British Cabinet and the French prime minister and foreign minister, in which it was determined that democratic Czechoslovakia must accede to Hitler's demands.

Despite the fact that the West had promised in writing at Versailles to go to war to defend Czecho-slovakia's borders, it agreed that the Czechs must give up the Sudetenland for "the maintenance of peace and the safety of Czechoslovakia's vital interests."

In return, the Czechs would receive from Britain and France "an international guarantee of the new boundaries... against unprovoked aggression." 8

If the Czechs did not accept the plan and thereby save the peace of Europe, they were informed by the leaders of the free world, they would be left to fight Hitler alone. In Neville Chamberlain's immortal words: "It is up to the Czechs now." 9

But in fact it was not even left to the Czechs. Chamberlain realized that if the Czechs were to fight, France and Britain might be forced to fight too. As the Czechs and Germans mobilized, Chamberlain became increasingly hysterical about averting war by buying off Hitler with the Czech defensive wall. He shuttled repeatedly to Germany to try to arrange the payoff. Finally, minutes before his September 28 deadline, Hitler "agreed" to Chamberlain's proposal for an international peace conference to bring peace to Central Europe.

At Munich, Britain and France pleaded with Hitler for 11 hours to "compromise" and take the Sudetenland peacefully. In the end Hitler agreed. Having grasped the fact that his supposed democratic allies had allowed themselves to become tools in Hitler's hand, Prime Minister Benes announced Czecho-slovakia's capitulation to the demands of the totalitarians. "We have been basely betrayed," he said. 10

The Western leaders returned in triumph to London and Paris. In government, in parliament, and in the press, Chamberlain and Daladier were praised, cheered, and thanked for having traded land for peace. "My friends," said Chamberlain, "I believe it is peace in our time."

For when they shall say, 'Peace and safety'; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Phase Two

On September 30, the Czech army began its withdrawal from the Sudetenland-from the strategic passes, the mountain fortresses, and the major industrial facilities that would have been the backbone of Czechoslovakia's effort to defend itself. But this was only Phase One of Hitler's plan.

The German annexation of the Sudeten-land was followed by a renewed list of demands on the Czechs. The Nazis continued to invent incidents of violence and oppression against the ethnic German minority in what was left of the Czech state.

Less than six months later, on March 15, 1939, the Nazi war machine rolled through the rest of Czechoslovakia. Shorn of their defenses in the Sudeten mountains, the Czechs were now powerless to resist. Phase Two had been implemented.

The Western powers again did nothing. Once more, all their assurance proved worthless.

Grave and Present Danger

Unfortunately, the parallels to today's effort to gouge Judea and Samaria out of Israel are all too easy to see. Like Czechoslovakia, Israel is a small democracy with a powerful army much aided by defensive terrain. Like the Sudeten district, the West Bank is mountainous territory, a formidable military barrier that guards the slender and densely populated Israeli shoreline and Israel's capital city. Like the Germans, the Arabs 11 understand that as long as Israel controls these mountains, it will not be overrun. They understand too that a military campaign to seize these mountains is at present unthinkable, and that Israel's removal from them can be achieved only by the application of irresistible political pressure by the West on Israel to withdraw. The Arab regimes have therefore embarked on a campaign to persuade the West that the Arab inhabitants of these mountains (like the Sudeten Germans, comprising roughly a third of the total population) are a separate people that deserves the right of self- determination-and that unless such self-determination is granted, the Arab states will have no choice but to resort to war to secure it.

As in the case of Czechoslovakia, Israel's insistence on not parting with territories strategically vital for its defenses is presented as the obstacle to peace.

Echoing Munich, the Arabs repeatedly advocate "active" American (and European) involvement, in the hope that an American Chamberlain can be found to force "the intransigent party" to capitulate where it is otherwise unwilling to compromise its own security.

That the Arabs have borrowed directly from the Nazis in this, as in so many of their other devices against Israel, is not surprising. What is surprising, or at least disappointing, is the speed and readiness with which this transparent ruse has been received, digested, and internalized by the elite of the Western world. Not a day passes without some somber editorial or political comment from august quarters in America or Europe asking Israel to voluntarily accept the same decree that Czechoslovakia was asked to accept.

In 1938, the London Times, the leading newspaper of the world at the time, published a celebrated editorial that summed it all up:

It might be worthwhile for the Czechoslovak government to consider whether they should exclude altogether ... making Czechoslovakia a more homogenous state by the secession of that fringe of populations who are contiguous to the nation with which they are united by race .... The advantages to Czechoslovakia of becoming a homogenous state might conceivably outweigh the obvious disadvantages of losing the Sudeten German district. 12

The foregoing comments by the present Prime Minister of Israel were excerpted from his book published in 1993. It is astonishing how the Western press has swallowed the PLO line that they are "the oppressed people struggling to be free," that Israel is the aggressor, that forcing Israel to withdraw from its strategic defenses will bring peace, and that the survivors of the Holocaust are now the "bad guys." Amazing.

Yet this is consistent with Biblical prophecy. Jerusalem is prophesied to be "a cup of trembling" to all nations round about ... all that burden themselves with it will be torn to pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." 13

The Wehrmacht marched into Czechoslovakia on the 15th of March, 1939. The West did not intervene, and today we see this same strategy being employed in Israel. The Palestinians claim Israel must withdraw from the "Occupied territories" which never did belong to the Palestinians. In Israel today it is the PLO who are the squatters. In addition to this they are terrorists, indiscriminately killing anybody anywhere. They are the occupiers of what is collectively called Yesha. You may be more familiar with the term, West Bank, or Gaza Strip however. There has never been a Palestinian government, country, capital, or language anywhere in the world let alone in Israel. NEVER! West Bank and Gaza have never been independent sovreign countries: EVER. The media uses these terms as an anti-semitic slant on their biased reporting. An Arutz 7 report titled, Bigger and Bigger Lies, by Emanuel A. Winston 23 December 2002 points out, " The first Big Lie is that the mix of Arab immigrants who adopted the name of Palestine and called themselves Palestinians are now, or ever were, a people of any recorded history. Nowhere, even in the Koran, is there any reference to such a body of people. No ruins, no folk tales, no recorded history, no stories of ancient battles - nothing - absolutely nothing." The country of palestine is a myth much like the land of Oz.

CHAPTER 2 ISRAEL: AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE?

Israel is always branded as the obstacle to peace. Is Israel the obstacle to peace? After Israel was threatened by the Arabs in June of 1967, and by the way, all of Israel's wars were started by the muslims, Israel responded and in only 6 days not only defeated the Arab armies but also captured more territory than they had before. As a side note, the PLO or Palestine Liberation Organization was formed in 1965 to "liberate" Palestine from Israel. But the territory that the PLO claimed it was seeking to liberate in 1965 when it was founded was under Egyptian and Jordanian control not Israeli.

After the war, Arabs convened a summit in Khartoum, Sudan from 29 August to 1 September, 1967 in which they formulated what is often called, "the three no's" which are also cited as being,"the main principles by which the Arab States abide". Their resolution reads as follows:

The conference has affirmed the unity of Arab ranks, the unity of joint action and the need for coordination and for the elimination of all differences. The Kings, Presidents and representatives of the other Arab Heads of State at the conference have affirmed their countries' stand by and implementation of the Arab Solidarity Charter which was signed at the third Arab summit conference in Casablanca.

The conference has agreed on the need to consolidate all efforts to eliminate the effects of the aggression on the basis that the occupied lands are Arab lands and that the burden of regaining these lands falls on all the Arab States.

The Arab Heads of State have agreed to unite their political efforts at the international and diplomatic level to eliminate the effects of the aggression and to ensure the withdrawal of the aggressive Israeli forces from the Arab lands which have been occupied since the aggression of June 5. This will be done within the framework of the main principles by which the Arab States abide, namely, no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it, and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their own country.

The conference of Arab Ministers of Finance, Economy and Oil recommended that suspension of oil pumping be used as a weapon in the battle. However, after thoroughly studying the matter, the summit conference has come to the conclusion that the oil pumping can itself be used as a positive weapon, since oil is an Arab resource which can be used to strengthen the economy of the Arab States directly affected by the aggression, so that these States will be able to stand firm in the battle. The conference has, therefore, decided to resume the pumping of oil, since oil is a positive Arab resource that can be used in the service of Arab goals. It can contribute to the efforts to enable those Arab States which were exposed to the aggression and thereby lost economic resources to stand firm and eliminate the effects of the aggression. The oil-producing States have, in fact, participated in the efforts to enable the States affected by the aggression to stand firm in the face of any economic pressure.

The participants in the conference have approved the plan proposed by Kuwait to set up an Arab Economic and Social Development Fund on the basis of the recommendation of the Baghdad conference of Arab Ministers of Finance, Economy and Oil.

The participants have agreed on the need to adopt the necessary measures to strengthen military preparation to face all eventualities.

The conference has decided to expedite the elimination of foreign bases in the Arab States.

So you can plainly see who the real intransigent obstacles to peace are and it is not Israel. The United Nations mentality seems to be, if we get rid of Israel there will be no more problems in the Middle East: Israel is expendable. Israel is the obstacle to peace. Back in December of 2001, Daniel Bernard, French Ambassador to Britain pretty muched summed up what world governments and news organizations think.

The following excerpt is from the Jerusalem Post dated Thursday, December 20, 2001. "The diplomatic career of French Ambassador to Britain Daniel Bernard was said to be in jeopardy yesterday, after he was quoted as having referred to Israel as "that shitty little country" which threatens world peace. The undiplomatic remarks were made at a private gathering at the London home of Lord Black of Crossharbour, chairman of The Jerusalem Post's parent company Hollinger Inc. They were referred to - anonymously - in a column published in the Daily Telegraph on Monday by Black's wife, Barbara Amiel. In her column, which laments that anti-Semitism has become a respectable sentiment at London dinner tables, Amiel noted the ambassador of a major European Union country "politely told a gathering at my home that the current troubles in the world were all because of 'that shitty little country Israel.' "Why," she quoted him as saying, "should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?" .

This is a good indication that Western Governments are willing to sacrifice Israel because some of them just plain hate Israel and also they are afraid of the Muslim governments. There are large and growing Islamic communities in their countries. In Belgium, for example, there are only around 40,000 Jews while muslims number around 600,000. Terrorism pays against the spineless West. The EU especially has been intimidated by the murdering rogues and are afraid to confront them. Terrorism has already won in Europe. America alone seems to have the courage to do what must be done and take the bull by the horns. Perhaps Europe is envious at the might and courage of the American government and therefore responds to it with resentment. Belgium, France, and Germany have already lost the war against Iraq. At least France and Germany's foreign policy seems to already be held hostage by the fear of terrorists.

A Yahoo news article titled, Powell Urges U.N. to Stand Up to Saddam dated Mon Jan 20, 6:24 PM ET, By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer, reported, " Germany's foreign minister took a strong stand against military action, saying it might have "negative repercussions" for the international fight against terrorism... Other Europeans said they had yet to be convinced war would not make things worse. "We have no illusions about the brutal nature of Saddam Hussein's regime," German Foreign Minister Joschka Fisher said during a daylong Security Council meeting on counterterrorism. But, he said: "We are greatly concerned that a military strike against the regime in Baghdad would involve considerable and unpredictable risks for the global fight on terrorism."

French President Jacques Chirac has also publicly shown his fear of Islamic terrorism. In an article written by GINA HOLLAND for the Associated Press dated 2-17-03 and published on the Yahoo News site, we read, " French President Jacques Chirac outlined his opposition in an interview with Time magazine. He said that "a war of this kind cannot help but give a big lift to terrorism. It would create a large number of little bin Ladens" - a reference to Osama bin Laden"

Terrorism has grown to the point it is today, not because of war, but because of politicians who stick their heads in the sand and hope the problem will go away. It did not. It is the worse it has ever been because of a fear and refusal to confront it head on. You can not reason with terrorists. Their blind insanity and hatred can only be met with superior force.

Clearly, they are worried about what the terrorists will do in response to a war with Iraq. Iraq has even threatened as much. From Israel Wire News dated Jan-30-03 Arutz Sheva reports, "Iraq Threatens Global Islamic Attacks Against US Targets (IsraelNN.com) Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations announced that if the United States attacks Baghdad, Islamists around the world would strike out against American targets." This, in my opinion, is one major reason why Germany took sides against the USA in its war with Iraq. That France would side against the United States is not at all surprising. In an article titled, French Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism by Irwin N. Graulich dated 28 January 2003, Arutz Sheva reported, " Sometimes humor can teach us an important lesson. "Q: Why are there large trees along the Champs Elysees [in France]? A: So the Nazis could march in the shade!"

Today, in the very same location on that wide avenue, we find anti-Israeli and anti-American demonstrations. Once again, France is giving the world trouble. It seems to always begin with small, innocuous, anti-Semitic incidents throughout a country. In this case, a synagogue is torched because of "The Occupation." Jews with skullcaps are harassed in the streets because of West Bank "Settlements." A Jewish soccer team is attacked by a gang of hooded youths because of "The IDF." Jewish day schools are firebombed because Israel responds to "terrorism."

If the French are truly protesting Israel´s actions, important questions must be asked. Why are innocent French Jewish citizens being targeted?...

Unfortunately, France has learned virtually nothing from WWII. That famous French arrogance, usually experienced in fine French restaurants, has prevented this ungrateful nation from showing their appreciation for US soldiers dying to rescue them from The Third Reich. Ever since Napoleon, France has thought of itself as an important world player, when in truth, they have become irrelevant. Opposing Israel, and now the United States, merely gives the French a feeling of newfound importance and power.

The world should learn from its ugly past. The important lesson of what Hitler attempted, and what was continued with Nasser, Saddam, Khaddafi and much of the Arab/Muslim world today, is that those who begin with attacking Jews and Israel, will eventually move on to more significant targets, namely decent democracies...

France´s policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian issue is evidence of a lack of moral clarity. The fact that French churches are empty while their sex clubs are filled to capacity, is further proof of a moral decline...

The French Intifada against the Jews and Israel includes: a gunman firing on a Kosher butcher shop in southern France; the University of Paris stopping collaboration with Israeli universities and academics, while suggesting that the European Union do the same; Rabbi Gabriel Farhi stabbed in Paris preparing for the Sabbath and his automobile set on fire; the major French encyclopedia questioning the large number of Jews murdered during The Holocaust; eight people in France arrested for their participation in bombing a Tunisian synagogue; a bomb diffused at the entrance of a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg; "Dreaming of Palestine," a book by a teenager glorifying suicide bombings in Israel, becomes a French bestseller; French lawyer, Gisele Halimi defending Marwan Barghouti, the man personally responsible for most recent suicide bombings in Israel; and the list goes on.

The French Intifada against America has only just begun: France was the greatest obstacle during the Security Council resolution to disarm Iraq; Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber" was allowed through French airport security, despite missing pages from his passport due to trips to Afghanistan; information about Zacharrias Moussai, a French citizen and so-called "20th hijacker," is not being released to authorities because American law includes the possibility of capital punishment; France was the most outspoken country against George Bush´s decision to boycott Yasser Arafat as the Palestinian leader...

President Jaques Chirac has criticized "(America´s) attempt to legitimize the use of unilateral and pre-emptive force," as if morality is accomplished through a majority worldwide vote. There was no UN vote for American entry into WWII, saving France and the world. Yet, Chirac continues his diatribes with the idea that "weapons inspectors need more time." Using that same logic, perhaps America should have given Hitler more time."

But now that the Iraq war is basically over, American inrelligence has uncovered some evidence of other reason why France and Germany were so opposed to the war. World Net Daily published the following report on Sunday, April 20, 2003:

German spies aided Saddam?

Documents seized in Baghdad point to ties with Iraq's intelligence service © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

"Documents recovered from the bombed Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad reveal Germany's intelligence services attempted to build closer ties to Saddam's secret service during the build-up to war last year, according to a report in the London Telegraph. The documents point to a meeting on January 29, 2002 between an agent named as Johannes William Hoffner and Lt. Gen. Taher Jalil Haboosh, the director of Iraq's intelligence service. Haboosh indicates the Iraqis are anxious to cultivate a relationship with Germany's intelligence agency ''under diplomatic cover," and offers to give lucrative contracts to German companies if Berlin helps prevent an American invasion of Iraq. He also urges Hoffner to lobby the German government to raise its diplomatic mission in Baghdad to full ambassadorial level, according to the Telegraph. ''When the American conspiracy is finished, we will make a calculation for each state that helps Iraq in its crisis,'' Haboosh says. He indicates he hoped to forge the relationship through Hoffner, who replies: ''My organization wants to develop its relationship with your organization.'' Haboosh also tells the German agent Iraq has ''big problems'' with Britain and the United States. ''We have problems with Britain because it occupied Iraq for 60 years and with America because of its aggression for 11 years,'' he says. The meeting between the Iraqi and German agents took place some six months before Chancellor Schroeder's government began its policy of direct opposition to the idea of a U.S.-led war against Iraq. Schroeder was re-elected last September, largely because of the popularity of his government's outspoken opposition to the war. The revelations about Iraq's ties to German intelligence come a week after The Telegraph reported Russia had spied for the Iraqis, passing them intelligence about a meeting between Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister. Both the British and Italian governments have launched investigations."

The report was also published by the Jerusalem Post.

As for France, Washington Targets Chirac and ElBaradai

>From DEBKA-Net-Weekly May 2 Updated by DEBKAfile May 7, 2003, 1:08 AM (GMT+02:00)

"The Americans are sitting tight on the extremely valuable Iraqi intelligence archives discovered at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad and at sub-departments of Saddam's clandestine machine never before known to exist. The only data released are a few leaks to the British media calculated to help prime minister Tony Blair stand up to anti-war campaigners at home and around Europe.

>From this treasure trove, America has distributed to its war allies some materials relevant to their national security. But no decision has been taken as to the disposition of documents attesting to the clandestine ties of collaboration maintained with the Saddam regime by a whole range of foreign government and public office-holders, academics, media figures, financiers and industrialists the world over, many deeply involved in sanctions-busting. By and large, Washington is not inclined to bare these secrets or make use of them at the moment, except in some notable cases. One is French president Jacques Chirac; another is the head of the International Atomic Energy Commission in Vienna, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradai, who led the nuclear weapons inspection in Iraq before the war. In addition, the administration has secretly handed over to various Middle East and Persian Gulf governments the names of ministers and public figures who were handsomely rewarded by Saddam Hussein for supporting his case in deliberations at the United Nations, other international bodies and inter-Arab forums. Washington was given to understand that these public officials would be held to account by their governments. This process has started quietly in Qatar and Jordan, where our intelligence sources expect overnight resignations of senior cabinet members.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly has been reliably informed that the nature of the relationships the French president and members of his family wove with Saddam Hussein and members of his regime is due to be revealed quite soon, drawing on the materials in the secret Iraqi files. Some sources say that the ties linking the two families were deep and ramified. Their exposure is likely to raise a storm."

DEBKAfile - We start where the media stop

Washington Targets Chirac and ElBaradai

From DEBKA-Net-Weekly May 2 Updated by DEBKAfile May 7, 2003, 1:08 AM (GMT+02:00)

"The Americans are sitting tight on the extremely valuable Iraqi intelligence archives discovered at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad and at sub-departments of Saddam's clandestine machine never before known to exist. The only data released are a few leaks to the British media calculated to help prime minister Tony Blair stand up to anti-war campaigners at home and around Europe.

From this treasure trove, America has distributed to its war allies some materials relevant to their national security. But no decision has been taken as to the disposition of documents attesting to the clandestine ties of collaboration maintained with the Saddam regime by a whole range of foreign government and public office-holders, academics, media figures, financiers and industrialists the world over, many deeply involved in sanctions-busting. By and large, Washington is not inclined to bare these secrets or make use of them at the moment, except in some notable cases. One is French president Jacques Chirac; another is the head of the International Atomic Energy Commission in Vienna, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradai, who led the nuclear weapons inspection in Iraq before the war. In addition, the administration has secretly handed over to various Middle East and Persian Gulf governments the names of ministers and public figures who were handsomely rewarded by Saddam Hussein for supporting his case in deliberations at the United Nations, other international bodies and inter-Arab forums...

DEBKA-Net-Weekly! has been reliably informed that the nature of the relationships the French president and members of his family wove with Saddam Hussein and members of his regime is due to be revealed quite soon, drawing on the materials in the secret Iraqi files. Some sources say that the ties linking the two families were deep and ramified. Their exposure is likely to raise a storm."

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The Russians not only also spied for Iraq but were also interested in protecting their oil contracts with Bagdad. There's your German, French, Russian alliance. This would probably not have surfaced had the military not been able to raid the Iraqis secret intelligence archives. Who knows what else this trio is up to.

The West is also willing to sell Israel out for oil. There is no moral high ground in this stupid logic. The West maintains the double standard of preaching democracy while sleeping in bed with democracy's enemies. In December, 2002, Tony Blair, Prime Minister of England, rolled out the red carpet for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Never mind that Syria is on the U.S. list of terrorist supporting countries. Never mind that Syria is still occupying Lebanon. Of course, the British are still occupying Northern Ireland too. Never mind that Syria supports Hizballah terrorists who daily fire on Northern Israel from Southern Lebanon. Never mind that Syria is a totalitarian dictatorship etc. But when the foreign minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu visited England, Tony Blair would not meet with him. Of course Mr. Blair came up with some lame excuse in order to justify himself. But that just shows that Mr. Blair believed he needed an excuse thus inadvertantly admitting that he was wrong: as a Jerusalem Post report by Douglas Davis, dated Jan. 19, 2003 points out. "British Conservative leader blasts PA parley as 'pointless'- "Opposition Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith has criticized the British government for "fiddling with pointless conferences while suicide bombers are malignantly burning their way through Israel."

Addressing a Jewish audience at a breakfast meeting on Friday, he said last Tuesday's conference on Palestinian reform in London, which was initiated by Prime Minister Tony Blair, "offers little hope." "The British government has demonstrated once again that it does not understand the balance that is needed for peace to develop between Israel and the Palestinians," said Smith. Labor ministers must realize, he said, that "cosmetic grandstanding solutions and ill-thought-out conferences do more harm than good to a process which requires, above all, even-handedness. "And that applies also to the prime minister's approach to meeting Israeli ministers," he said, an apparent reference to Blair's refusal to meet with Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu last month but his decision to host Labor Party leader Amram Mitzna in London this month.

Duncan Smith attacked Blair for "giving support" to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat through a Palestinian conference, "while refusing to see the Israeli foreign minister."

"This does not seem very balanced," he said. "It will not advance the prospect of peace. But it is also very disturbing to contemplate the possibility that our taxpayers' money could be financing the bombs and explosives used to attack Israeli civilians." He noted that Conservative European parliamentarian Charles Tannock is fighting to secure the support of 157 fellow legislators, the number required to establish a European parliamentary committee of inquiry, to investigate whether European Union aid to the Palestinian Authority is being diverted to fund terrorist attacks.

Tannock, he said, had told him, "We are not even sure who is actually monitoring the 10 million euros given every month given to the Palestinian Authority. The European Commission keeps stating that the International Monetary Fund 'provides a monitoring role,' but the director of external relations at the IMF said, 'The IMF does not monitor foreign assistance to the PA.' "

"There is also disturbing speculation," said Duncan Smith, "that the PA hides funds by exaggerating the number of employees they pay, by manipulating currency exchange rates, by forcefully deducting salaries for 'Fatah membership fees.' This must be investigated and it is the British Conservatives that are leading the fight to set up a committee to answer these questions."

He said it was "very disappointing" that not one Labor legislator in the European parliament had agreed to add his name to the list seeking an investigation into "the possible funding of terrorism against Israel... It is time for a reality check. You cannot appease terror." Israel, he said, stands "in the front line [of] the war on terror [and] is a lighthouse of democratic values in a troubled region." He was troubled that it is "lambasted time and time again by those on the one hand who wish to appease terrorists, suicide bombers, and their ilk and, on the other, who use attacks on Israel to hide behind a veil of thinly disguised anti-Semitism."

While he was not uncritical of Israel, he added: "My party understands the difference between democracy and dictatorship. Israel's fight against terror deserves support."

I made bold the certain sentences for emphasis. It remains to be seen if the EU is really interested in finding out where the money is going. My sense is the EU will not follow through, or make a show of it at best.

Israel is neither interested in proselytizing Judaism nor invading territory outside Israel. Deuteronomy 2:4,5,9 says for example, "And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." Israel and Israel alone was given to the Jews by God. They have no interest in conquest. Their interest is security, not expansion.

Islam, on the other hand, wants to forcefully convert non muslims to Islam or kill them as well as enslave the nations of the world to Islam. Islam's goal IS expansion; by force if necessary. And the Western Media, the Julias Streichers and Joseph Goebbels of CNN, the BBC (which some in Israel are nicknaming, Der Stuermer) et al; are helping to propogate the evil of anti-semitism through their subjective slant on the news and making Israel out to be the aggressor. They are trying, sucessfully, to indoctrinate people with their new brand of anti-semitism equating Zionism with Racism. If Zionism is racist, is not the aspirations of the Palestinians more so? Their strategy is to commit genocide against the Jewish State to expand their own lebensraum, a term used by Hitler in his sweep across Europe to create more living space for germans in countries that did not rightfully belong to the germans. It is also no secret that the muslims want to make Israel "Juden Rein", that is, free of all Jews. It seems to me that those who go around killing people only because they are Jews (or Americans), are the racists. Do you really think that the ones in control of the media are unbiased, honest, and objective people? Sometimes I wonder if their subjectivity is ignorant or deliberately evil. My guess is, deliberately evil, because they have an agenda against Israel. They are part of an international conspiracy against the Jewish State. It is not that this information is not available to them. They just choose to ignore and suppress it.

It is unfortunate to see history repeat itself. Especially Nazi history. The situation in Israel today is much like it was during Hitler's reign. The Palestinians have borrowed heavily from Hitler and with great success on the world political stage. The truth is, there is no Palestinian homeland in Israel. The Jews were driven out of their homeland by the Romans who also coined the term "Palestine" for Israel's past enemies the Phillistines. The Phillistines, by the way were non arab, non muslim people who inhabited the costal plain along the Mediterranean Sea while the Jews inhabited the areas in the eastern, mountainous parts of Israel. You may recall that the Syrians declared in 1 Kings 20:23, " And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their [Israel's] gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." The renaming of Israel to Palestine took place at least 500 years before the birth of Islam. By the way, you must keep in mind the fact that Islam is a religion and NOT an ethnicity. It is not so much Arabs, per se, who are the most interested in Israel, it is the muslims. The war against the West and Israel is an Islamic crusade. It is a vicious religious conquest. It began with a campaign of genocide by Muhammad and his followers against the Jews and Christians even stating that it was Allah that delivered them and their property into the hands of Muhammad and his followers.

Iran is an enemy to Israel but it is not an Arab country. The hypocrisy coming from Iran is their claim to support the Palestinians living in Israel, and Islam's claim to Jerusalem as being the second holiest site in their religion. But inspite of that, they threaten to use nuclear weapons against Israel. Iraq also, has threatened the use of unconventional weapons against Israel. Never mind the countless number of Arabs this would injure or kill. So much for the holiness of Jerusalem and the plight of the Palestinians. But then again, truth is not important to them. It sounds like the Palestinians have more to fear from Iran and Iraq than Israel.

The Iranians are Persians not Arabs. In fact, the Egyptians are not even Arabs. If the Arabs trace their ancestry back to Ishmael, remember that Hagar was Ishmael's mother and she was Egyptian. The Pharaohs were certainly not Arabs let alone muslims. But Islam is an enemy and a threat to Israel, and every other country for that matter. Nevertheless, the spiritual dimensions of the Israeli conflict are so great, and the powers of darkness against her so evil, that as Zechariah wrote, all the nations of the world would line up against her. Zechariah 12:1-3 says, "The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it."

The prophet Joel also foretold this event. " For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. " - Joel 3:1-17.

There is an interesting observation about this verse of scripture. In verse 4, we find the words, "all the coasts of Palestine". This is a prophetic scripture discribing a future event. Today, those who live in "Palestine" are called "Palestinians". But compare that with verse 2, "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. " When I look at todays world you may excuse me if I see a conglomeration of nations (the UN) that parted ( Hebrew- partition, assign, distribute) "My" (God's) land and apportioned parts of it to the Palestinians. The Palestinians could quite well be the catalyst that brings about the war of Armageddon. For the war of Armageddon is to be fought in Israel by a multitude of nations in the valley of Megiddo. The armies fighting in the valley of Jehoshaphat may be part of, or a prelude to the war of Armageddon. The world may call the Holy Land, Palestine, but God calls it, "my heritage Israel". Don't forget that this passage in Joel is not historical but prophetic. God is speaking of a future time. Also bear in mind that the Palestinian problem is the first and foremost single issue that gets the nations involved in Israel's business. There is also a call for international peacekeepers to be sent to Israel. Israel would then become occupied by foreign armies.

In order for the nations of the world to come against Israel, there must be a coalition representing the nations of the world hostile to Israel which, up until the present, did not exist. The U.N. presently represents a coalition of the nations of the world, most of which are antagonistic to Israel and all with military capabilities.

Even China is interested in Israeli affairs. May. 26, 2003 China urges Israel-Palestinian negotiations soon By The Associated Press Beijing, published by the Jerusalem Post

"China on Monday welcomed Israel's decision to accept a US-backed "road map" for peace in the Middle East, and urged that it resume talks with the Palestinians as soon as possible...China, though a permanent member of the UN Security Council, has no direct stake in Middle East tensions. But it has growing economic and political ties there and is eager to promote an image as a major power with global influence." China expects Israel to negotiate with the PLO when they will not even do it with the internationally recognized nation of Taiwan.

The UN itself is anti-Israel. Arutz Sheva Israel News Dated Nov.13, 2002 reported that Koffi Annan said, " (IsraelNN.com) - Speaking before an audience at the University of Maryland, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that the United Nations would never allow Israel to be destroyed. "It was to prevent such things from happening that the United Nations was founded," he said." His guarantees are about as worthless as the guarantees made to Czechoslovakia before it was invaded by the Nazis. Kofi Annan later condemned Israel as reported by Arutz Sheva, "UN Chief Condems Israel (IsraelNN.com) UN Security Council chief, Kofi Anan, has condemned Israel for conquering "Palestinian territories", stating that Israel must relinquish all the territories it conquered in the 1967 war [Judea, Samaria, Gaza, the Golan, the Old City of Jerusalem, the Western Wall, the Temple Mount] for peace with the "Palestinians". Anan also said that Israel is blocking the peace process." But as we already saw, Israel is NOT the obstacle to peace. The obstacle to peace is the U.N.'s terrorist buddies. Israel is not blocking the peace process, it is, rather, an obstacle to the UN's political agenda but not peace.

Is the UN's political agenda anti-Jewish and anti-Israel? Decide for yourself. Arutz Sheva published an article titled, "Throwing Israel to the Dogs, written by Emanuel A. Winston, dated 9 Feb.2003, in which the UN's voting record displays blatant anti-Semitism without apology.

"...The United Nations, led now by Kofi Annan and driven by a large block of Arab nations, has voted against Israel 55,642 times and passed 429 resolutions against Israel. The Quartet are all members of the UN. So think of the UN, given its past record of extreme hostility to Israel and how it has artfully avoided passing resolutions against Arab states, like a savage pack of predatory dogs, proven, by their votes, to be "hunting" down the Jewish state. Israel, meanwhile, is the only nation permanently barred from UN Security Council membership..."

Also consider the remarks of Javier Solana as reported by the Jerusalem Post 27 June, 2003.

There is no anti-Semitism in Europe, Solana tells US congressmen

"At the sidelines of Wednesday's US-EU summit in Washington, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana met with the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, Reuters reports.

"When the issue of increased anti-Semitism was raised, he looked at us and said, 'There's no anti-Semitism. There's no wave of anti-Semitism in Europe,'" said Florida Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler, who has visited Israel and Syria recently.

"I was stunned to hear him say, more or less, that there has not been a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe," said Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a leader on the committee. "And so I said, 'Oh, it must be another Europe.' And other members couldn't believe it either."

The Simon Wiesenthal Center and other groups have noted a spike in anti-Semitic attacks in Europe since 2001, with 1,300 attacks in France alone, including the stabbing of a rabbi in Paris and the torching of a synagogue in Marseilles. Last week, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) held its first-ever conference on anti-Semitism in Vienna. At the conference the head of the US delegation, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, referred to anti-Semitism as "a burden that has held Europe back for two millennia.' Germany agreed to host a follow-up conference to be held next year in Berlin on anti-Semitism specifically.

Solana also told the Committee that despite American and Israeli objections European leaders intended to maintain ties to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Solana's argument was that meetings with Arafat were an opportunity to encourage him to support Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and the road map.

Members of the House International Relations Committee also pressed Solana to outlaw Hamas' political wing. "He really sidestepped that issue," Wexler said. France has insisted that Hamas remains a necessary player in the peace process." I think the statements and actions of the UN and EU speak for themselves.

CHAPTER 3 THE U.N.s ANTISEMITIC POLITICAL AGENDA

The U.N. has already passed more resolutions against Israel than any other nation on earth. Recently they passed six in one day. "

Fresh from a three-day debate criticizing Israeli policies in the Middle East, the United Nations General Assembly passed six resolutions that declare Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and the Golan Heights illegal, and urge the international community to renew peace efforts in the region.

The General Assembly's annual debate on Israel, which is expected to end this year with the adoption of 19 resolutions opposed only by Israel, the US, and a handful of Oceanic nations, was denounced by an Israeli source as a "yearly embarrassing ceremony." "Israel deeply appreciates the countries that do not vote in favor of these biased resolutions," said the source.

The resolutions, which are non-binding, each passed with more than 100 votes from 167 nations in attendance in the assembly hall on Tuesday. The most popular resolution, which called for the "peaceful settlement to the question of Palestine" and deemed as illegal Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, passed 160-4, with three abstentions. A resolution on the mandate of a UN committee called the Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat, which collects and disseminates information on the Palestinian cause and organizes an annual exhibit at UN headquarters on Palestinian rights, received the least backing, passing 108-4, with 56 abstentions.

Surprise opposition to the assembly's annual demand that Israeli repeal the Jerusalem Law, which annexed the eastern part of the city that Israel seized during the Six Day War, came from the US - which provided the "no" vote after years of abstaining. The Palestinians' representative, Nasser al-Kidwa, called the American opposition to the resolution "a slap in the face" to Muslims, Christians, and Arabs...

The resolution passed 154-5, with 6 abstentions.

The assembly debate opened last Friday, on the organization's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which marks the UN's partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state on November 29, 1947. At the time, all Arab member states rejected partition.

Fifty-five years later, some representatives expressed their continued opposition to partition, while at the same time calling for a peaceful solution to the conflict. In an opening address on Friday by Under-Secretary General Iqbal Riza, the UN's own representative, declared: "This day of solidarity is a day of mourning and grief." Voting on the 13 additional Israel-related resolutions is expected to continue into next week." - Melissa Radler Dec. 4 2002 Jerusalem Post Internet Edition.

And again, another article from the Jerusalem Post Internet Edition, by Melissa Radler dated 22 Dec. 2002. "Resolution Condemning Israel for UN Deaths Vetoed" - "The US vetoed a Syrian-sponsored resolution in the Security Council Friday evening that would have condemned the killing of three United Nations workers and the destruction of a food warehouse in Gaza.

Twelve council members, including Britain, supported the resolution's passage and two, Bulgaria and Cameroon, abstained. The US is one of five permanent members of the council with veto power.

A draft of the resolution condemned Israel for the killing of three UN employees, including British aid worker Iain Hook, who was killed November 22 in a firefight between soldiers and Palestinian gunmen, and the December 6 deaths of two Palestinian UNRWA employees in Gaza during an IDF search for terrorists...

Calling the resolution one-sided and unhelpful in fostering peace between Israelis and Palestinians, US Ambassador John Negroponte said he voted against the resolution because its backers "appear more intent on condemning Israeli occupation than on ensuring the safety of UN personnel...."

Earlier Friday, at the council's year-end wrap-up session, Negroponte praised the council for adopting a March 12 resolution that, for the first time, "affirmed a vision of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side within secure and recognized borders," and warned it against returning "to the destructive practice of seeking to pass one-sided resolutions heaping criticism on one party, that is to say Israel."

In 2002, he said, "the council made several steps forward in acknowledging the obvious: that suicide bombings destroy prospects for peace as well as innocent lives. In 2003, I would ask the question, will the Council have the courage to take aim at those groups and their supporters that promote and perpetrate this violence and terror?"

The US last vetoed a Middle East resolution on December 14, 2001. That resolution, also voted upon on Shabbat, would have established a monitoring mechanism aimed at bringing in observers to the region to end the violence. In vetoing the resolution, Negroponte said he opposed the text because it made no mention of a recent spate of suicide bombings against Israelis or the terrorist organizations that carried them out.

In July, Negroponte told the Security Council the US would only consider Middle East resolutions that condemn Palestinian terrorism, specifically the terrorist groups Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Aksa Martyrs Brigades... (The Associated Press contributed to this report.) As is almost always the case, the US pointed out, these resolutions, the latest sponsored by the dicatorial, terrorist supporting country Syria, are all one sided and biased against Israel. The underlined parts of the article are my emphasis. The UN resolution also failed to explain why there was a gun fight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists shooting from a UN compound.

The new fourth reich, the EU, and their ally the UN, never miss an oppurtunity to criticize Israel. Europe is still infested with anti-Semitism, even in government. That, in spite of what Javier Solana says. They want to see Israel withdraw to militarily indefensible positions. In the Arutz 7 article, Palestinian Lies, Israeli Truths by Martin Sherman 30 December 2002, we see this pointed out. "The deadly threats that would confront Israel in the event of the establishment of a Palestinian state manifest themselves along every conceivable dimension: width, length, height and depth. Width - because Israel will be left with less than the minimum territorial depth required for the deployment of a modern military defense system to protect the coastal plain, in which 80 percent of the country´s population and 80% of its economic activity are located; length - because Israel will have to contend with the creation of a permanent border hundreds of kilometers long on the very approaches of the Dan region and adjacent to the nation´s major urban centers; height - because from the highlands of Judea and Samaria, the Palestinians will have total topographical control over all the infrastructure (civilian and military) in the low-lying coastal strip, including airfields, seaports and power plants; depth - because the Palestinians will have hydro-strategic control over crucial groundwater sources, creating a situation in which Israel´s water problem could be transformed from a grave but manageable crisis, to an insoluble catastrophe.

Detailed explication of these dangers goes beyond the above points. However, it was none other than Shimon Peres, who encapsulated their essence in the following apt, articulate and accurate warning (in his book, Tomorrow is Now): "If a Palestinian state is established, it will be armed to the teeth. Within it there will be bases of the most extreme terrorist forces, who will be equipped with anti-tank and anti-aircraft shoulder-launched rockets, which will endanger not only random passersby, but also every airplane and helicopter taking off in the skies of Israel and every vehicle traveling along the major traffic routes in the coastal plain." (my translation - M.S.) "

What they fail to realize is, not only are they making the world a more dangerous place by actively seeking to reward terrorists with lebensraum, (the PLO is not a national entity but a terrorist group), but also by forcing Israel to respond to attack with the nuclear option. Please take a moment to go to the Iris web site and look at the maps. There is a link to it on this site.

The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition published this article by Herb Keinon titled, " EU blasts settlements in harsh statement" dated Dec. 15, 2002. " The European Union blasted the settlements on Friday at the end of a summit on the Mideast in Copenhagen, issuing a sharply-worded statement saying the settlements "inflame" a volatile situation and indicate Israel's lack of commitment to ending the occupation. Five of the 22 sentences in the European Council statement on the Middle East were devoted to the settlements, while two addressed terrorism. The EU, according to the statement, "reiterates its strong and unequivocal condemnation of all acts of terrorism. Suicide attacks do irreparable damage to the Palestinian cause." While recognizing Israel's "legitimate security concerns," the statement called upon Israel to "stop excessive use of force and extra-judicial killings, which do not bring security to the Israeli population." On the settlements, the statement read: "The European Council is alarmed at the continuing illegal settlement activities, which threaten to render the two-state solution physically impossible to implement. (Note how the word 'solution' is used when refering to Jews. With the Nazis it was the 'final solution'. With the EU it's the 'two state solution'. The second state just being one more step in a long term plan to create another Jewish holocaust.)

"The expansion of settlements and related construction...violates international law, inflames an already volatile situation, and reinforces the fear of Palestinians that Israel is not genuinely committed to end the occupation. It is an obstacle to peace." (There they go again.)...

Victor Harel, the Foreign Ministry's deputy director-general who heads the Western Europe department, reacted to the statement by saying "once again the European Council, for the sake of 'balance,' is more alarmed by the settlements than by the real problem - Arab terrorism." ... - Janine Zacharia contributed to this report."

Recently, the head of the European Central bank and his wife both publically made anti-semitic remarks as the Jerusalem Post reported in an article written by Herb Keinon dated Jan. 13, 2003, "European Central Bank Chairman Wim Duisenberg should be fired because he supports his wife Gretta's anti-Israel positions and embrace of Yasser Arafat, a leading Dutch parliamentarian visiting Jerusalem said Sunday. Jim Jansen van Raaij, deputy chairman of the Dutch parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, said he wrote the Dutch finance minister Sunday demanding Duisenberg be replaced.

Van Raaij's call following Gretta Duisenberg's comments during a visit to Ramallah that Israel's occupation is "inhuman," and that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon provokes violence and "then he blames the Palestinian people."

On Friday, the Dutch paper Algemeen Dagblad quoted her as saying, "The Holocaust excepted, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is worse than the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands." Van Raaij, a ranking member of the LPF Party, said Duisenberg should be forced to resign because "instead of distancing himself from his wife's statements and anti-Jewish declarations, he has said he stands behind her 100 percent." "It is not acceptable that he should support terrorist attacks," Van Raaij said. "If he supports that, he should resign immediately."

Van Raaij also said it is unacceptable that Gretta Duisenberg be allowed to "abuse her diplomatic passport" to come here and make such pronouncements, when she is only in possession of this passport as a result of her husband's position. Officials at Yad Vashem have objected to Duisenberg's comparison between Israeli actions in the territories and Nazis actions during World War II. Yad Vashem's chief historian, Prof. Dan Michman, said that "any attempt to differentiate between the Holocaust and the Nazis is both artificial and absurd."

I might also add that Britain has been antagonistic to Israel and continues to be so today. In fact, ARUTZ SHEVA Internet News Nov. 13, 2002 reported,"(IsraelNN.com) - Certain European governments, most notably Spain, Belgium and Britain, are considering prosecution of Israeli soldiers, reservists and politicians for war crimes. Such a move would effectively bar Israelis from travelling to these countries.The war crimes under discussion are allegations of unlawful killings, torture and the use of Arabs as human shields in Jenin and Shechem during Operation Defensive Shield earlier this year. The IDF categorically denies the charges. Ra'anan Gissin, spokesman for the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, said, "they want to arrest Israelis who are enforcing the law while the real war criminals, like Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat, get away scot free." Note these countries' willingness to prosecute Jews based on unproven allegations. Sounds like plans for some kind of anti Jewish inquisition in the making. Belgium is entertaining this huge fantasy of trying the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon for war crimes.

Britain has a history of hostility toward the Jewish people and nation and can therefore not be fair in its dealings with Israel. After WWII, when the Jews were trying to return to their homeland the British actively opposed them. In his book, Who Owns The Land, by Stanley A. Ellis, on page 97, the author writes, ""Zionists sought to filter displaced persons through various ports in Europe. Some of these efforts were successful, but most were not. The British put a tight naval blockade along the coast of Palestine and sent 80,000 troops to patrol the country. Those who were caught were either sent back to Europe or put in barbed-wire internment camps on the island of Cyprus. Of the sixty-three refugee ships that started out, only five actually slipped through the blockade; some were even fired upon while landing. One Hagonah ship, the Exodus 1947, was rammed by the British, forcing forty-three hundred survivors of of Hitler's inferno to board other ships and return to France. They were finally sent back to Germany."

As bad as that is, it gets worse. Even during WWII the British kept the Jews from fleeing to Israel. Again, Stanley Ellis writes on page 71 and 72, ""If the European Jews ever needed a refuge, it was in the climactic year of 1939. When they needed it most, however, it was cut off. On May 17, 1939, the British government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain issued a paper that shook the halls of Zion. That paper, infamously known as the "MacDonald White Paper" (after Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary), cut the immigration of Jews to Palestine almost to nothing. It was a virtual surrender to the demands of Arab terrorists." Neville Chamberlain, by the way, was the same British Prime Minister who sold out Czechoslovakia to the Nazis.

The British government has not changed since then either. In another article published by Arutz Sheva, The Hateful Legacy of the British Foreign Office written by Avi Davis and dated 12 January 2003, this fact is clearly seen. "Tony Blair´s and Jack Straw´s latest charm offensive in the Arab world has many observers perplexed. After-all, the unbecoming respect offered visiting despot Bashar al-Asad, the decision to host Palestinian negotiators in London, the cold shoulder given Israeli diplomats, and the refusal of Britain to export ejector seats for the Phantom jet, has unsurprisingly inspired conjecture that Britain is rapidly slipping into Europe´s anti-Semitic orbit.

Blair and most of his predecessors have had middling records when it comes to Israel and the world Jewish community. But the Foreign Office remains another matter altogether. Its hostility towards the Jewish State forms the very backbone of policy, and Jack Straw, who began promisingly, has slowly succumbed to its inevitable embrace.

The change began in September 2001 when Straw, visiting Iran, pointedly blamed Israel for the violence of the entire previous year. Ingratiating himself to his Iranian hosts, he commented that "the factors that help breed terrorism is the anger that many people in this region feel at events over the years in Palestine." The British Foreign Office stood by his remarks and affirmed that, while Straw believed that there was "never any excuse for terrorism," at the same time there was "an obvious need to understand the environment in which terrorism breeds." Such apologetics were painted at the time as a sop to the Arabs in preparation for the war against Afghanistan, but it far more accurately reflects a long standing attitude of the British Foreign Office - both of the career diplomats and the men who have served at its helm.

Take, for instance, George Nathaniel Curzon, Alfred Balfour´s successor and Foreign Secretary under David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1923. Serving in the most favorable British government to the Jewish people in history, Curzon was a bitter opponent of Zionism, rejecting the Balfour Declaration of two years earlier and advocating a go-slow approach on the realization of Britain´s commitments under that document.

Lord Halifax was Neville Chamberlains´ Foreign Secretary (1938-40) and has gone down in history as one of the architects of the Munich fiasco and the disastrous policy of appeasement that led to the Second World War. For Jews, he will remembered as the author of the 1939 White Paper, which restricted Jewish immigration to a trickle and doomed millions to death. An early admirer of Hitler and a Nazi sympathizer, he reportedly told the German leader: "War would undoubtedly serve the purpose of all Jews, Communists and doctrinaires in the world for whom Nazism is anathema."

The situation did not improve much under Anthony Eden. Three times British foreign secretary, he was widely known for his bias against Jews, and during the 1930s expressed precious little regret about Nazi persecutions. His World War II diaries are rife with anti-Semitic comments and a definite indifference to Jewish annihilation. He is reported, by one of his biographers, "as having been forced into a pact with the devil" for being required, during his prime-ministerial years, to cooperate with Israel against Egypt during the 1956 Suez Crisis.

Ernest Bevin, who succeeded Eden in 1945, made no secret of his anti-Semitism. His post-War decision to enforce the 1939 White Paper, while hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors languished in European DP camps, together with his publicly expressed belief that the refugees could be repatriated to Europe, earned the wrath of Jewish leaders. Various colleagues privately noted how often Bevin used pejoratives to describe Jews. His parliamentary Under Secretary, Christopher Mayhew, wrote in his diary (May ,1948) that "there is no doubt in my mind that Ernest detests Jews. He makes the odd wisecrack about the ´Chosen People´; declares the Old Testament the most immoral book ever written and says the Jews taught Hitler the technique of terror. ´What could you expect when people are brought up from the cradle on the Old Testament´ he said to me."

Other former secretaries, such as Lord Carrington (who referred to Menachem Begin as an "international outlaw"), David Owen and Robin Cook all displayed indifference to Israeli rights and contempt for the country´s security concerns. In 1998, when Israeli cabinet secretary Danny Naveh greeted Cook at Har Homa in Jerusalem with the words "welcome to the capital of Israel," he responded: "It´s not just the capital of Israel... it´s also the capital of Palestine." Cook refused a briefing on Har Homa from his Israeli escort, declaring "I don´t need your briefing, because I don´t recognize your right to be here." Har Homa is a site that has been regarded by all Israeli governments as within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem and rightfully claimed as sovereign Israeli territory. Both Prime Minister Netanyahu and opposition leader Ehud Barak cancelled meetings with Cook as a result of his comments.

While the present Foreign Secretary may not be an anti-Semite, it is undeniable that his ministry is staffed with men and women for whom Israel´s very legitimacy is in question. They follow a long line of Arabists for whom the Lawrence of Arabia vision of Middle East militarism (selfless guerilla bands struggling against the ignoble forces of imperialism) has become an idée fixee. Often forgotten is that Israel is a vital ally of Great Britain and that Britain´s present strategic interests in the Middle East hang, very much as they did in 1956, on cooperation with the Jewish state.

Sadly, even that may not be enough to dislodge almost a century of antipathy to both Israel and Jews in the British Foreign Office. All of which might provide convincing evidence that anti-Semitism has an after-life that no level of geopolitical reality will ever completely erode."

Arutz Sheva published an article, Britain, EU And Israel dated Thursday, 09 January 2003 which illustrates bias against the Jews. "The European Union has formally demanded that Israel allow a PLO delegation from attending a London conference dealing with political reforms in the Palestinian Authority and the diplomatic process. The Israeli government decided to ban the PA's participation in the conference in response to the double attack in Tel Aviv on Sunday that killed 22 people. The attack was perpetrated by terrorists of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, and the ban was meant to prevent his men "from organizing terrorist attacks one day and then parading around the world presenting themselves as peace-seekers," according to Finance Minister Silvan Shalom. The EU announcement of today condemns Israel's decision to ban the delegation, which it says will "perpetuate the hatred and extremism in the region."

England's Prime Minister Tony Blair, too, has sent an urgent message to Ariel Sharon, demanding that he rescind the decision. Sources in London say that Blair is angered at Sharon's decision, which appears likely to lead to the cancellation of the British-organized conference.

HaTzofeh angrily editorialized today, "Britain, which pursued boats carrying Holocaust survivors, has never changed its attitude towards the Jewish people and the State of Israel... The self-righteous British know that there is no value to a meeting with Palestinian figures and that these meetings only give legitimacy to continued terror... The British are interested in economic gains from the Arab countries, not truth and justice... Those who finance the martyrs and terror must rot in prison, and the British Foreign Minister must ask himself the questions that troubled Clinton: Why did Arafat reject the Israeli offer to return almost to the 1967 borders? The answer is known: The Palestinian leadership wants the destruction of Israel and not peace. Britain, if judged by her past and present behavior, is apparently interested in advancing those aims. The proof: Money from the EU, of which Britain is part, flows with an open hand to the extreme Israeli Left, which wants to return Israel to indefensible borders."

Jerusalem Post columnist Michael Freund, too, commented on the hypocrisy of Britain's stance and that of its Foreign Secretary Jack Straw:

"It was just over 15 months ago, in September 2001, that Straw [said on a visit to Iran], 'I understand that one of the factors which helps breed terrorism is the anger which many people in this region feel at events over the years in Palestine.' … Interestingly, when it comes to "the environment which breeds" the likes of Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin-Laden, the British Foreign Secretary sees no comparable need to understand the "anger" at work… "…The British government has shown itself to be increasingly hostile toward Israel of late. Last month, British Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to meet with Foreign Minister Netanyahu during the latter's visit to London, citing a "busy schedule", though he managed to find plenty of time to roll out the red carpet for Bashar al-Assad, the Dictator of Damascus… The British government won't sell Israel vital spare parts that are needed for its fleet of F-4 Phantoms, despite the looming war with Iraq… When it comes to Her Majesty's own "occupied territories", such as Northern Ireland, Straw is surprisingly silent about the need for "withdrawal" as a means of achieving a lasting peace. His government will gladly tell Israel to abandon the heart of its ancestral homeland, where the founding fathers of the Jewish people are buried, but would never countenance yielding the Falkland Islands, with its incomparable flocks of sheep, to Argentina."

It is so easy for the EU, UN, and other foreign politicians to hurl insults, lies, and accusations against Israel . After all, it is not Europeans being shot down and blown to pieces in the streets of Europe on a daily basis. There are no terrorists or enemy nations on their borders launching economy and life threating terrorist attacks on a daily basis. There are no neighborhoods being shelled and rocketed. It's so easy to sit in climate controlled offices from a safe distant place and criticize Israel. But once again, these people are involved in a plot to overthrow the Jewish State by providing Israel's enemies with Jewish land from which the terrorists and foreign armies can launch their attacks. The Jewish State is a burr under the saddle of the New World Order which seeks to obliterate all traces of the One True God from the realm of their power. The return of the Jews to Israel only demonstrates the truth of God's word and that He is very much alive. The response of the nations to Israel's rebirth betrays the fact that they have declared their independence from the Almighty and operate in open rebellion against Him.

They do this to their own peril for it is written, "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." - Psalm 9:17.

CHAPTER 4 NO EXCUSE FOR IGNORANCE

It's interesting that the Jews are the only people to be driven out of their land for almost two thousand years only to return to it once again and revive their national language which had also fallen into disuse except in synagogue services or prayers. The Jews are simply returning to where they were before: Israel. God has not forsaken His people. He still has great plans for them. In fact, the time will come when Israel will stretch from the river of Egypt all the way to the Euphrates river which runs through Iraq and Syria. " In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: " - Genesis 15:18. It's important to note that Israel has not yet possessed all this territory. How Israel will finally come into possession of this land is not fully known. But God still has it reserved for them. Should Israel militarily seize this territory? NO. God will give it to them when the time comes. Remember, David had been promised by God to be king over all Israel while Saul was still on the throne. On a couple of occasions David had the oppurtunity to kill Saul who had in fact been seeking to kill David. David's warriors had even interpreted these oppurtunities to kill Saul as God delivering the kingdom into David's hand. But David chose to wait on God and when the right time came God Himself fulfilled His promise to David as He will also fulfill His promise to Israel.

The disputed territories were in Bible times, as they still are, part of Israel proper. But in Bible times, there were no disputed territories. There was no West Bank. It was all Israel. David first began to reign as King of Israel in Hebron which in todays news is called the West Bank. The West Bank was called Judea and Samaria in Bible times. The Golan Heights belonged to the Israelite tribes of Dan, (when part of the tribe of Dan migrated north and captured Laish from the Phoenicians), and Manasseh. It was not Arabs who were driven out of the Golan. The area at the time of the conquest was called Bashan. Bashan had been inhabited by the Rephaim. In the Golan, Moses established a city of refuge there. The Arabs have no rightful claim to any of these areas to which Israel is simply RETURNING.

For Christians and even non-Christians who are familiar with Christmas songs, there is no excuse for for being against Israeli sovreignty in the disputed areas.

The New Testament says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. In Matthew 2:1-6 the Bible says, "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. "

Bethlehem belonged to Judea, not the West Bank. The palestinians claim Jesus was born in Palestine and was therefore a Palestinian. But the scriptures say that Yeshua was born in Bethlem, Judah. Judea belonged to Israel. Jerusalem was the Capital of Israel. It's all there. Consider some of the Christmas carols sung during the Christmas season:

This Star drew nigh to the North West; O'er Bethlehem it took it's rest. And there it did both stop and stay, Right over the place where Jesus lay. Noel, noel, noel, noel. Born is the King of Israel Or Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies, With the angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem. Hark! the Herald Angels sing, Glory to the new-born King

Or my favorite

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear. Refrain Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan's tyranny; From depths of hell Thy people save, And give them victory over the grave. Refrain O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here; And drive away the shades of night And pierce the clouds and bring us light! Refrain O come, Thou Key of David, come, And open wide our heavenly home; Make safe the way that leads on high, And close the path to misery. Refrain O come, O come, Thou Lord of might, Who to Thy tribes on Sinai's height In ancient times once gave the law [Torah ] In cloud, and majesty, and awe. Refrain

We could go on to talk about Easter and where the resurrection took place; Jerusalem Israel. Or about President George Bush participating in a Menorah lighting ceremony for Hanukkah. I suppose he understands that Hanukkah is about the Jews triumphing over their oppressors and rededicating the Temple which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Israel.

Even the name, Israel, shows that the Holy Land belongs to the Jewish people. The Jews trace their ancestry back to Abraham through Isaac. The muslim Arabs claim their ancestry back to Abraham through Ishmael. Yet Israel is not named for either Isaac or Ishmael. The name was given by God to Jacob, Isaac's son. In Genesis 32:24-30 we read, " And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." It was Jacob's (Israel's) 12 sons who became the twelve tribes of Israel. God had allotted a certain portion of the Holy Land to each of Jacob's sons except for the Levites. That Holy Land is the Land of Israel. And who or where were the palestinians when this was going on? Do the palestinians claim descent from the 12 sons of Jacob? Of course not. For you who say you believe the Judeo-Christian Bible, do you not know your Bible?

There is no excuse for blind ignorance or willful rejection. Everyone can plainly see it. But not everyone will receive it. There is a deep sinister evil at work turning hearts and minds away from, and against Israel and the Jewish people. If the Greek orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the Land of Israel side with the PLO and the Muslims over who owns the land, then they are ignorant of what the Bible teaches, or don't really care, and they are christian in name only. Have they forgotten the countless millions of murders perpetrated by the Roman Catholic church during the inquistion? Islam and the Roman Catholic church have that in common, their hands are dripping with the blood of innocent victims. Yet they have the audacity to claim that the Jews were "Christ Killers".

But Jesus said Himself, "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." - John 10:17-18. For the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches to be against the Jews and Israel, they must themselves betray the same Lord they say they serve. This is NOT Christian. In fact, some officials of the Greek orthodox church in Israel are openly against Israel while embracing the muslim killers with outstretched arms.

The Jerusalem Post published a report titled, " Greek Orthodox Church spokesman says suicide bombers are 'heroes'. The article, written by Khaled Abu Toameh, and dated Jan. 12, 2003, says, "Palestinian suicide bombers are heroes of the people, which is very proud of them, a prominent Greek Orthodox Church official is reported to have said at a closed-door meeting in Haifa. Archimandrite Atallah Hanna, an Israeli Arab serving as the official spokesman of the Greek Church in the Holy Land, was quoted by the Hamas Web site as making the remarks during a meeting in Haifa with "an official and popular delegation." According to the report, Hanna also called for the liberation of Palestine "from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river."

Praising suicide attacks against Israel, Hanna is quoted as saying: "These martyrdom freedom fighters are the heroes of the people and we are proud of them. We categorically reject suspicious attempts to cast suspicion on their deeds. They are not suicidal, as some are claiming. Nor are they terrorists, as others are claiming. They are resisting the occupation."

Hanna is also reported to have said, "We support the martyrdom [suicide] operations without any reservations, regardless of what skeptics and opponents of this form of resistance are saying." Hanna, according to the same report, also urged Palestinian and Arab Christians "to join the resistance against the Israeli occupation in all forms and methods. The Christians are part of the Palestinian people and this nation." He also called for joint Islamic-Christian action to thwart the planned war against Iraq. He said that, had it not been for Israeli travel restrictions imposed on him, he would have led a delegation of Christians to Baghdad to act as "human shields" in defense of Iraq when the war breaks out. Archimandrite Hanna is a controversial figure in the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. He has repeatedly embarrassed Church leaders by making statements in support of suicide bombings and by visiting Lebanon and Syria. Hanna, a resident of the Galilee, was dismissed from his job earlier this year by Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos 1 because of his anti-Israeli views... Hanna has also played a major role in organizing protests and demonstrations in eastern Jerusalem. His high-profile activities have angered not only his superiors at the Greek Orthodox Church but also Israeli officials, who accuse him of exploiting his religious status to incite against the state." These remarks from leaders of a major religion siding with genocide bombers betrays the fact that the god that they are serving might not be the one they profess to be serving. This brand of "cultural christianity" is not based on the Holy Bible. As the old saying goes, just because a mouse jumps into the cookie jar, that doesn't make him a cookie. Recently I heard another way of putting it, you can dress a monkey in a tuxedo but that still doesn't make it a gentleman. Even in the US anti-Semitism has gained a foothold in American colleges and universities. Speakers are invited to share their anti-Israel bias with students. Anti-Semitism is infecting the education of hundreds of thousands of students across America and Canada. The palestinian arabs of Israel are portrayed as victims of Israeli human rights abuses. But what does the PLO or any muslim nation know about human rights? Consider the following news article. From WSJ.com. Wall Street Journal.com Opinion Journal from the Editorial Page

Israel on Campus How did American colleges get so anti-Semitic? BY RUTH WISSE

Sunday, December 15, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--

The claim of universities to be fostering diversity and preventing discrimination against vulnerable minorities is oddly compromised by a surge of anti-Semitism. With the recent addition of Columbia and Yale, over 50 campuses are currently circulating faculty petitions to divest from Israel and from American firms selling arms to Israel. Faculty at Georgetown, Michigan and Harvard have gone out of their way to invite speakers best known for their defamation of Israel and the Jews.

To be sure, hundreds of university presidents have either spoken out publicly or signed a statement deploring the presence of anti-Semitism on campus. But none have tried to explain the phenomenon, much less undertaken to do anything about it. So questions abound. How does one know, for example, that the divestment petition is anti-Semitic? Why should Jews have become a target in a campus atmosphere of such advertised sensitivity? And what can universities do to remedy the situation without stifling healthy debate?

Like many such initiatives since the 1960s, the petition campaign against Israel is promoted by relatively small numbers of faculty with interlocking interests. Its driving force are Arabs, Arabists and their sympathizers, who help prosecute the war against Israel as a way of diverting attention away from Arab