Recently, a taped conversation was released that took place in 1973 between then president Richard M. Nixon and Evangelist Billy Graham. It is now in the public domain and frankly, I don’t think that its tone is very favorable to the Jewish people. Some have called it blatant anti-Semitism while some have said that it had to be put back in context.
Trader Joe’s Is No Traitor Joe’s!
Recently, we have seen the boycotting of Israeli products by a Pro-Palestinian group in France as reported in my blog. The latest attempt was made on June 20 here in the USA by a group just formed known as “Don’t Buy Into Apartheid” who officially declared Saturday June 20th “World Refugee Day”.
Specifically, the organization is instructing participants to hand out leaflets at Trader Joe’s stores, describing the Israeli products sold at the supermarket, asking cashiers to stop carrying Israeli products, pulling Israeli products from shelves, and damaging Israeli products.
In Europe, Extreme Right Joins Liberal Left to Squeeze Israel!
Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( 215 BC-164 BC) ruled the Seleucid empire (modern day Syria) from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. Part of his reign was spent trying to conquer Egypt and the Ptolemies. As both countries fought for control and power, the Jewish people geographically found themselves caught in the middle and became an unwilling buffer zone. Frustrated by the lack of progress in his campaign after the Ptolemies, Antiochus went after the Jewish people, that led to the historic Maccabean revolt and survival of the Jewish people.
Today, the Jewish people are once again caught in the middle, but this time socio-politicaly and not geographically.
There is a current global tendency for BOTH the extreme right and the liberal left to go after Israel and the Jewish people. The extreme right neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups had dwindled to an almost irrelevant number in the last couple of decades, Even though they had continued to distribute their vitriolic speech, they were no longer a real threat to my people.
That trend is changing quickly, especially in Europe. In early June in Hungary, an article was published
“Given our current situation, anti-Semitism is not just our right, but it is the duty of every Hungarian homeland lover, and we must prepare for armed battle against the Jews.” (Read the article)
This quote appeared in a newsletter published by an organization calling itself “The trade union of Hungarian police officers prepared for action”.
So it appears that the push continues against Israel and the Jewish people. Antisemitism knows no political boundaries when it comes to its common enemy: Israel!
How long before we witness modern day Pogroms in Europe?
Yeshua (Jesus) has promised us that He will return to establish His Messianic Kingdom on earth. But the Prince of Peace came first to die for all of us (Isaiah 52:13-53:12) so that He could establish peace in the heart of men FIRST, and then come back to bring Peace on earth. Only HE can bring real peace, in our hearts, in the middle east and in the whole world!
Shalom b’Yeshua!
From the “Pale of Settlement” to the “Pale of Destruction”
The Pale of Settlement was the name of the geographical area withinImperial Russia, within which permanent residence of Jewish people was allowed, and beyond which Jewish residence was generally prohibited. It was about 1,ooo,ooo square miles. The word pale comes from the Latin word palus, meaning stake, from which we got “palissade” and “boundary”, thus the concept of a defined and enclosed geographical area.
NOTHING ELSE BUT A VERY LARGE GHETTO!
The Russian Pale of Settlement existed from 1791 until 1917. Within its borders were a miryad of shtetls (small villages), think “Fiddler on the Roof” environment!
This was where most of the governement sponsored riots or “Pogroms” against Jewish people took place (my great-grandmother escaped one to come to France).
Today, while many are trying to deconstruct the undeniable events of the Holocaust, by rewriting history and/or simply denying it, others are doing research that not only militates against such a position but also uncovers more horror.
An interesting article in the Washington Post yesterday (June 4, 2009) revealed the results of a decade long study by Holocaust Museum scholars.
The Pale of Settlement might have historically come to an end in 1917, but to my people, the reality was very different as the writer of the article stated :
“…what we are seeing in this project is that all of Europe was a camp.”
The Pale of Settlement simply became the Pale of Destruction as it appears that much of Europe was much more aware of much more implicated (20,000 camps) in the day-to-day affairs of the Nazi “Death Machine”.
As horrific as this might be for mankind to discover, this will also help us to re-validate and remember the “Catastrophe”
NEVER AGAIN!!!
Jihad in America???
“ You have heard that it was said, ‘ YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR,
and hate your enemy.’ “But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you
in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. “For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax-gatherers do the same? “And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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