by Stan Gudmundson
In 1948, when Israel was established in a barren and desolate Palestine, today about the size of New Jersey, there were roughly 700,000 inhabitants. About six million Jews and two million Arabs now live there. The Jewish people who emigrated to Israel, came from widely diverse cultures and societies. Somehow, they have created a modern and prosperous democracy.
Despite its make-up of virtually incompatible immigrants, Israel has become a world-leader in technology with GDP growth that has been the highest in the world. There are more Israeli companies on the NASDAQ than all of Europe combined. They made the desert bloom. Its residents, both Arab and Jew, now have a modern standard of living.
Despite their diaspora, the Jews are the only population on earth who have somehow existed as a unified people for more than 3,000 years in spite of the terrible things they have endured. Nazi death camps eliminated one-third of the world’s Jewish population. There were also pogroms in many countries where Jewish people were persecuted and killed.
Since its founding, Israel has been, and still is, repeatedly attacked by its neighbors and terrorists. Shamefully, the United Nations has been and is a locus of anti-Semitism. It first began with “discrimination of Israel.” That was “followed by its demonization” which evolved into the “deification” of Israel’s enemies. Next there was the “denial” of Israel being a victim. Later, there began, and continues to be, a “denunciation” of Israel’s right to fight back that often includes even a “refusal to identify” Israel’s assailants.
Today they face hostile neighbors that includes Iran which seems to believe, if one goes by what the ayatollahs say, that Allah plans a final reckoning with Israel. Since it’s supposedly Allah’s will, a potential death toll in millions would therefore just be according to plan. What’s unnerving is that Iran’s religious leaders appear to be looking forward to this final conflagration. If Iran develops nuclear weapons, what then, does that imply?
On the north, Israel faces Hezbollah, proxies of Iran, dedicated to Israel’s destruction. On the southeast are Palestinians led by Hamas who have the same goal. Last October, Hamas launched another horrendous attack on Israel.
Israel responded but, once again, there are those who blamed the Israelis and condemned that response. One of the huge differences between Muslim forces and those of Israel however, is that the Palestinians locate much of their military infrastructure in or near highly populated areas to include hospitals. Consequently, any Israeli response will include civilian casualties whose numbers are most often greatly exaggerated by Israel’s enemies. What is remarkable is that Israel’s military, more than any other military in the world, takes the greatest care to minimize civilian casualties.
Repeatedly, Israel has sought peace. They’ve given up much even including territory but after doing so, the situation always devolved into worse terrorism and aggression. Every proposal to solve the Palestinian “problem” has been rejected.
Israel faces enemies who won’t be satisfied until it is gone and virtually every Jew on earth is dead. I don’t want to minimize the plight of Palestinian refugees, but they are being used as pawns in this vicious struggle.
But, there are possible solutions. The rest of the much larger Arab world could easily absorb the comparatively small number of Palestinians who share the same religion, speak the same language, and have a similar culture. Palestinians could also do what others, including Israel, have done. Like Hong Kong before the communists took over, and Singapore they could create a prosperous state based on building a robust economy and a peaceful society. Israel’s enemies however, are consumed by a hate far more important to them than anything else. They won’t let go of it.
Meanwhile, Israel’s critics abound. Some write daft editorials about the cruelty of Israel’s response to aggression. Okay, why don’t the smarter-than-thous, instead of criticism, provide solutions so Israel can live in peace. That haven’t already been tried or proposed.
As they are viciously attacked again and again, what are Israelis supposed to do? Where else are they go?
One could conclude that Jews really are God’s chosen people and Satanic forces are doing everything in their power to eliminate them.
Note: The words in quotes in the 4th paragraph can be found on page 397 of a book titled “Israel – A Concise History of a Nation Reborn” by Daniel Gordis.
Anonymous says
Ever since I can remember Netenauheu has been a busy little bee using the USA to back him up and pay for his bullying of other countries around him. We need to stop backing him up and pay for his wars. We are in effect backing the aggressor and causing all the destruction.
Star Ostgard says
Protesting genocide is not anti-Semitism. And one reason Israel has done so well is because of US taxpayers handing over $$$$ over decades. So nice that Israelis have universal health care and many other benefits that our own citizens don’t have – thanks to the money the US government keeps sending them. And every penny of tax dollars we send over there for “non-military use” means the Zionist government can spend more of their own funds on bombing schools, hospitals, and homes. And the idea that Israel has “sought peace” is ludicrous. Anyone who thinks the Israeli government’s response to the Hamas attack is justified probably has no problem with the way our own country dealt with Native Americans (and I don’t see anyone handing over the deeds to their property to the tribes).
We scream about Russia invading Ukraine, but when it comes to Israel trying to eradicate the Palestinians – crickets.
Knut Hamsun says
Well, Stan, pretty much agree with you on most of this. As far as Israel giving back any land, hadn’t heard that one. The settlements and perpetual land grabbing have been particularly infuriating to the Palestinians, which I understood to be one of the major underlying causes of the whole disastrous situation… but thankfully we don’t live there and it’s not a mess we bear much responsibility for creating this time.
All these campus protests seem bizarre. All the antisemitism and anti-antisemitism flaring up here seems somehow orchestrated, warped, and amplified as divisive instruments in our own political ecosystem. Why would Americans take sides for Palestine, or Russia for that matter?
Knut
Cecilia Lopez says
St. Peter, later to become the first bishop of Rome, the first pope, and a Jew by DNA, “filled with the Holy Spirit” (therefore God Himself speaking) said to the Jews:
“Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole.
This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.”
-Acts 4:10-12
The Church is the New Israel; Judaists (those who say they are Jews) reject their inheritance and therefore have no share in it.
DNA means nothing, hence Jesus to the Pharisees who prided themselves on their race:. “I tell you I can raise up sons of Abraham from these stones.” Just because an ethnostate calls itself Israel, doesn’t make them so. John chapter 8 is the point at where the word “Jew” now means one who identifies with the race of Abraham but who reject their Inheritance, Jesus Christ. He counters them, saying “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do as Abraham did” i.e., follow God’s will and accept Jesus as the Son of God and Messiah. Since the Jews reject Jesus, they reject their father Abraham as well, and show that “the devil is [their] father.” Jesus is the Fulfillment of the faith of Israel, and by rejecting Him, they are apostates from the religion and revelation given them.
Remember, Jesus’ audience were Jews when He said “Whoever acknowledges Me before men I will acknowledge before My Father Who is in Heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.” Unless they are baptized, profess Christ, they cannot be saved. He is their Salvation. God is not a rapist, He respects free will. If you live your life rejecting Him, He’s not going to force you to spend eternity with Him. If a Jew dies having rejected Him, then by his own free will he has chosen eternal separation from Him. Which is hell. Christians have to mangle the Word of God in order to be zionists. Paul warned the early Church often about the judaizers who sought to corrupt the faith which they have received. His warnings are just as pressing today as then.
The old promise was fulfilled, He is the Fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. Those Jews who accepted Jesus and His Promise were baptized and entered into their Inheritance. Those Jews who persist in defying God, rejecting their Inheritance do so to their peril into perdition. This is why the Temple and its priesthood and its sacrifice had to be destroyed. They were no longer efficacious. To seek to rebuild the Temple (which the Jews tried under Julian the Apostate) leads to bloodshed and death. Christ is the Temple, His Body the Church. To speak of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem is heresy, is Antichrist.
Their Inheritance was/is Jesus Christ, Logos (as John called him in Greek) the Word (Logos) Incarnate. Those who accepted their Inheritance were Baptized and became known as Christians. The Church, which is His Body, is the New Israel. Those Jews who rejected Logos, rejected their Inheritance, and instead chose Barabbas the Revolutionary. They wanted an earthly kingdom and were (and still are) jealous that God granted His Inheritance to whosoever should believe in His Son, not just Jews. If the world would be blessed by their conversion, doesn’t it stand that it remains cursed in some way through their rejection of their Inheritance? From the moment they chose the Revolutionary over Logos, the Jewish people have been plagued with a Revolutionary Spirit, and is the reason why so many revolutionary movements are either directly led and dominated or indirectly influenced by Jews. It’s theological, not racial.
I might add, Pilate knew they wanted to murder Jesus because of envy (Matthew 27:18). The people of Israel were Chosen to bring forth the Messiah. Mission Accomplished! They were also chosen to accept their Messiah, Who came to call them into His Church, preparing for a Heavenly Kingdom, not an earthly one. This infuriated them, they hated Rome, they wanted utopia here and now. And every utopian ideology leads to bloodshed, even Deicide. This utopian ideology has pervaded and entwined itself in the Jewish milieu for two thousand years and is called the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. When the Temple was destroyed, so was the priesthood and so was the sacrifice. Without these things the old “Judaism” ceased to exist. What replaced it was talmudic judaism which, though its roots go back to the Babylonian and Assyrian Captivities, is in its current form younger than Christianity and is defined by its rejection of Jesus Christ. Christians deny Jews the Gospel (and themselves become heretics) when they endorse zionist apostasy.
This issue is urgently salvation related for the Jews who have been told that they don’t have to convert.
And no, we are not talking about a displacement/replacement theology as some have come to call it, we are talking people who rejected their Inheritance.
What Zionist Evangelical Protestants are preaching is a theology that wasn’t held until the time of Oliver Cromwell. British Kabbalist elites like John Dee and nascent early Freemasons started preaching it when they imbibed it as promulgated by Jews (primarily led by the occult Kabbalist Jew, Manesseh ben Israel) who wanted back into England. They fell in love with the idea that was being preached, namely, that letting the Jews back into England would allow the British (according to this doctrine a lost tribe of Israel, Manesseh and Ephraim, B’rith ‘Ish, i.e., Man of the Covenant) to join forces with their Jewish (Judah) tribesmen, and be “Judah’s Sceptre & Joseph’s Birthright,” ….and thus was born the vision of the British (judeo-masonic) Empire.
No Christian believed the dual salvation bit until then. It’s a novelty. How many Jewish souls fall into perdition because of such heretical doctrine.
St. Paul, a Jew by DNA, warned all of humanity with these words:
“For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews,
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;
Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them unto the end.”
-1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
Cecelia Lopez says
St. Peter, later to become the first bishop of Rome, the first pope, and a Jew by DNA, “filled with the Holy Spirit” (therefore God Himself speaking) said to the Jews:
“Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole.
This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.”
-Acts 4:10-12
The Church is the New Israel; Judaists (those who say they are Jews) reject their inheritance and therefore have no share in it.
DNA means nothing, hence Jesus to the Pharisees who prided themselves on their race:. “I tell you I can raise up sons of Abraham from these stones.” Just because an ethnostate calls itself Israel, doesn’t make them so. John chapter 8 is the point at where the word “Jew” now means one who identifies with the race of Abraham but who reject their Inheritance, Jesus Christ. He counters them, saying “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do as Abraham did” i.e., follow God’s will and accept Jesus as the Son of God and Messiah. Since the Jews reject Jesus, they reject their father Abraham as well, and show that “the devil is [their] father.” Jesus is the Fulfillment of the faith of Israel, and by rejecting Him, they are apostates from the religion and revelation given them.
Remember, Jesus’ audience were Jews when He said “Whoever acknowledges Me before men I will acknowledge before My Father Who is in Heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.” Unless they are baptized, profess Christ, they cannot be saved. He is their Salvation. God is not a rapist, He respects free will. If you live your life rejecting Him, He’s not going to force you to spend eternity with Him. If a Jew dies having rejected Him, then by his own free will he has chosen eternal separation from Him. Which is hell. Christians have to mangle the Word of God in order to be zionists. Paul warned the early Church often about the judaizers who sought to corrupt the faith which they have received. His warnings are just as pressing today as then.
The old promise was fulfilled, He is the Fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. Those Jews who accepted Jesus and His Promise were baptized and entered into their Inheritance. Those Jews who persist in defying God, rejecting their Inheritance do so to their peril into perdition. This is why the Temple and its priesthood and its sacrifice had to be destroyed. They were no longer efficacious. To seek to rebuild the Temple (which the Jews tried under Julian the Apostate) leads to bloodshed and death. Christ is the Temple, His Body the Church. To speak of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem is heresy, is Antichrist.
Their Inheritance was/is Jesus Christ, Logos (as John called him in Greek) the Word (Logos) Incarnate. Those who accepted their Inheritance were Baptized and became known as Christians. The Church, which is His Body, is the New Israel. Those Jews who rejected Logos, rejected their Inheritance, and instead chose Barabbas the Revolutionary. They wanted an earthly kingdom and were (and still are) jealous that God granted His Inheritance to whosoever should believe in His Son, not just Jews. If the world would be blessed by their conversion, doesn’t it stand that it remains cursed in some way through their rejection of their Inheritance? From the moment they chose the Revolutionary over Logos, the Jewish people have been plagued with a Revolutionary Spirit, and is the reason why so many revolutionary movements are either directly led and dominated or indirectly influenced by Jews. It’s theological, not racial.
I might add, Pilate knew they wanted to murder Jesus because of envy (Matthew 27:18). The people of Israel were Chosen to bring forth the Messiah. Mission Accomplished! They were also chosen to accept their Messiah, Who came to call them into His Church, preparing for a Heavenly Kingdom, not an earthly one. This infuriated them, they hated Rome, they wanted utopia here and now. And every utopian ideology leads to bloodshed, even Deicide. This utopian ideology has pervaded and entwined itself in the Jewish milieu for two thousand years and is called the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. When the Temple was destroyed, so was the priesthood and so was the sacrifice. Without these things the old “Judaism” ceased to exist. What replaced it was talmudic judaism which, though its roots go back to the Babylonian and Assyrian Captivities, is in its current form younger than Christianity and is defined by its rejection of Jesus Christ. Christians deny Jews the Gospel (and themselves become heretics) when they endorse zionist apostasy.
This issue is urgently salvation related for the Jews who have been told that they don’t have to convert.
And no, we are not talking about a displacement/replacement theology as some have come to call it, we are talking people who rejected their Inheritance.
What Zionist Evangelical Protestants are preaching is a theology that wasn’t held until the time of Oliver Cromwell. British Kabbalist elites like John Dee and nascent early Freemasons started preaching it when they imbibed it as promulgated by Jews (primarily led by the occult Kabbalist Jew, Manesseh ben Israel) who wanted back into England. They fell in love with the idea that was being preached, namely, that letting the Jews back into England would allow the British (according to this doctrine a lost tribe of Israel, Manesseh and Ephraim, B’rith ‘Ish, i.e., Men on the Covenant) to join forces with their Jewish (Judah) tribesmen, and be “Judah’s Sceptre & Joseph’s Birthright,” ….and thus was born the vision of the British (judeo-masonic) Empire.
No Christian believed the dual salvation bit until then. It’s a novelty. How many Jewish souls fall into perdition because of such heretical doctrine.
St. Paul, a Jew by DNA, warned all of humanity to with these words:
“For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews,
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;
Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them unto the end.”
-1 Thessalonians 2:14-16