Post by Paddy by Grace on Sept 8, 2008 1:12:20 GMT -7
www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5589
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict continues to be played out on the world
>stage of politics in a theater of highly charged emotions influencing
>public opinion. In the latest act the world has suddenly realized that
>western civilization is now fighting the same murders and suicide bombers
>that Israel has been fighting during this 60 year drama. Names like Hamas,
>Islamic Jihad, Huzballah, Islamic Brotherhood, once only associated with
>the Arab/Israeli conflict, are now identified by intelligence services
>worldwide as terrorist organizations operating in the West. Their goal is
>to destroy our world in an Islamic Jihad, forcing those who survive to be
>Dhimmi- subjugated and despised ones.
>
>Previously the world was oblivious to terrorism and terror tactics authored
>and perfected by the late Palestinian mass murderer Yasser Arafat and his
>Fatah militias bent on killing Jews and driving them into the sea. Jewish
>blood was "cheap" in the eyes of the world. Western countries didn't
>reprimand Palestinian perpetrators as Jewish blood flowed on the streets of
>Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Afula, and other Israeli towns. It wasn't until 9/11
>that the world was stunned and shaken to its core, at the depth of hatred
>harbored in the hearts of Muslim Arab extremists.
>
>Today religious and civic organizations are rising up united to condemn and
>work against terrorist organizations killing innocent civilians and
>justifying suicide bombing under any name. Sadly there are organizations
>who have lost their conscious, their judgment between good and evil, and
>chose to work, support and even defend these forces of evil and intolerance
>allying themselves with killers. One group is the Presbyterian Church USA,
>or PCUSA.
>
>In the last few years the PCUSA leadership befriended Husballah, one of the
>world's most lethal terrorist organizations solely responsible for killing
>Americans in Beirut in 1983 when a truck bomb blew up the Marine barracks
>killing over 241 soldiers and civilians. This was the greatest slaughter of
>Americans prior to Al-Qaeda demolishing the World Trade Center September
>11, 2001. Husballah's weekly chants, prayers and speeches of "Death to
>America, Death to America", are broadcast 24/7 from Lebanon and the world
>through their satellite TV station, Al-Manar.
>
>By considering divestment, the PCUSA has also become the defender and
>champion of Palestinian suicide bombers headed by the terror group Hamas an
>affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Authorities estimate Hamas has sleeper
>terrorist cells in over 40 states in America plotting to commit terrorist
>attacks on Americans. The Hamas charter declares that the Rotary Clubs,
>Masons, Lions Clubs, and B'nai B'rith are "destructive espionage
>organizations that are spread around the world in order to destroy
>societies and carry out Zionist interests." I wonder how many members of
>PCUSA active in these organizations know what their church is supporting?
>Has the PCUSA leadership lost their collective conscious and sense of right
>versus wrong?
>
>The leadership's excuse for supporting these terrorist organizations and
>calling on divesting from companies doing business with Israel is the
>security barrier that Israel built to protect its citizens from repeated
>barbarous attacks. These barbarians penetrate Israel without conscious nor
>humanity in order to maim and kill random Israelis. Since its creation, the
>security barrier has prevented thousands of attacks saving untold innocent
>civilians. Penalizing Israel for protecting the lives of its men, women and
>children is like penalizing a woman who has been raped repeatedly along
>with her children for putting up a security system in her home to stop the
>rapists. The PCUSA is acting as if the rights of criminals committing these
>suicidal acts override the rights of the innocents to protect themselves.
>
>While the PCUSA accuses Israel's occupation for the plight of the
>Palestinians, the sad reality is that Palestinians are suffering because of
>their corrupt leadership. Since 1993 and the signing of the Oslo accord,
>billions of dollars have pored into the Palestinian authority to help them
>build infrastructure, improve the economy, build schools etc. The money
>went to line the pockets of their corrupt leaders while the Palestinians
>were living like rats. For years they have been left in squalor to be the
>ugly poster child of "Israeli aggression." All that the world sees is poor
>people bemoaning their wretched lives. They don't see that the
>Palestinian's plight has been brought on by its' all consuming hatred
>driven by Islamic radicalism, racism, bigotry, and intolerance to see the
>Jews destroyed.
>
>The PCUSA's support for intolerant victimizers who prey on the suffering
>they cause their own people make them accomplices to this evil. The victims
>of this tragedy are all victims of Islamic Jihad. "Allahu Akbar" or Allah
>is the greatest, is the war cry that advances the black flag of Islam when
>every Kassam or Katyusha rocket is fired from Gaza at innocent Israelis in
>their own country. It is the cry of glee bellowed every time a rocket
>propelled grenade is fired or explosive belt of a suicide bomber is
>triggered killing innocent Jews. There is no glee or satisfaction in the
>hearts of Jews in the killing of Palestinians. There is only a
>determination to protect their own citizens, Christian, Jewish and Muslim
>from the intent of 300 million Arabs whose Imams decree that the Koran
>compels them to kill Jews. Is that what the PCUSA leadership supports? I
>doubt whether many local pastors and lay members believe that. PCUSA
>members should stand for coexistence in peace not a coexistence of hate and
>aggression towards Israel whose Jewish religion was the wellspring from
>which Christianty sprang.
>
>Where is their dignity, compassion or respect if they back that which is
>racist and bigoted towards the Jews of Israel? Israel is the only beacon of
>democracy in the Middle East. Israel is the country where all persecuted
>people in the Middle East, no matter what religion they are, know they can
>run to, to enjoy protection of their human rights and freedoms. Many Arab
>girls and women, who have been raped and threatened with death, can find a
>refuge in Israel. Christians, like me from Lebanon, ran to Israel for
>protection from our own Muslim Lebanese who wanted to kill us simply
>because we wanted peace with the Jews. Israel is the only refuge for the
>gay and lesbian Arabs. No matter what your religion, background or sexual
>orientation is, Israel is the only haven for persecuted people in the
>Middle East.
>
>Instead of persecuting freedom supporting Israel, the PCUSA needs to
>champion the Christian Palestinians being persecuted by their Palestinian
>Muslim neighbors. The PCUSA should understand the intentions of Muslim
>Imams and their millions of followers who sow hatred in their children's
>hearts and pray daily for the destruction of Christians as well as Jews.
>There is an Arabic saying I grew up with: "First the Saturday people and
>then the Sunday people." Click
>here<http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/> to view a video produced
>almost 20 years ago, showing Palestinian Muslims and their intolerance
>towards their Christians neighbors. You will be shocked by the prophetic
>nature of the Christian fears expressed then that have become a reality
>now. Today Palestinian territories have become an Islamic land governed by
>Muslim Sharia law under the Hamas government in which Christians are being
>treated like fourth class citizens and may be forced to pay the Jizya to
>simply remain alive.
>
>Be wary pastors and lay Presbyterians that you and the PCUSA may become the
>latest victims of Islamic Jihad's holy war of deception. Are you their new
>pawn in their racist determination to wipe out the Jewish people?
>
>Rise up and throw off the blinders. Let your conscious guide you in
>standing against the evil of divestment and its stand against freedom.
>Challenge your leadership to drop divestment and 'flee unrighteousness" and
>follow the values Christ taught when he said "Love your neighbor." Resolve
>in your conscience and acts of faith and good works to strive to protect
>the lives of Christians and Jews from Islamic Jihad wherever they may be.
>Stand up for a country who wishes nothing more than to live in peace with
>its Arab neighbors and be a voice against religious bigotry and tyranny.
>
>Reclaim your conscious and rescind this evil in your midst.
>
>Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict. She's the former
>news anchor of World News in the Middle East and the founder of
>AmericanCongressforTruth.com
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict continues to be played out on the world
>stage of politics in a theater of highly charged emotions influencing
>public opinion. In the latest act the world has suddenly realized that
>western civilization is now fighting the same murders and suicide bombers
>that Israel has been fighting during this 60 year drama. Names like Hamas,
>Islamic Jihad, Huzballah, Islamic Brotherhood, once only associated with
>the Arab/Israeli conflict, are now identified by intelligence services
>worldwide as terrorist organizations operating in the West. Their goal is
>to destroy our world in an Islamic Jihad, forcing those who survive to be
>Dhimmi- subjugated and despised ones.
>
>Previously the world was oblivious to terrorism and terror tactics authored
>and perfected by the late Palestinian mass murderer Yasser Arafat and his
>Fatah militias bent on killing Jews and driving them into the sea. Jewish
>blood was "cheap" in the eyes of the world. Western countries didn't
>reprimand Palestinian perpetrators as Jewish blood flowed on the streets of
>Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Afula, and other Israeli towns. It wasn't until 9/11
>that the world was stunned and shaken to its core, at the depth of hatred
>harbored in the hearts of Muslim Arab extremists.
>
>Today religious and civic organizations are rising up united to condemn and
>work against terrorist organizations killing innocent civilians and
>justifying suicide bombing under any name. Sadly there are organizations
>who have lost their conscious, their judgment between good and evil, and
>chose to work, support and even defend these forces of evil and intolerance
>allying themselves with killers. One group is the Presbyterian Church USA,
>or PCUSA.
>
>In the last few years the PCUSA leadership befriended Husballah, one of the
>world's most lethal terrorist organizations solely responsible for killing
>Americans in Beirut in 1983 when a truck bomb blew up the Marine barracks
>killing over 241 soldiers and civilians. This was the greatest slaughter of
>Americans prior to Al-Qaeda demolishing the World Trade Center September
>11, 2001. Husballah's weekly chants, prayers and speeches of "Death to
>America, Death to America", are broadcast 24/7 from Lebanon and the world
>through their satellite TV station, Al-Manar.
>
>By considering divestment, the PCUSA has also become the defender and
>champion of Palestinian suicide bombers headed by the terror group Hamas an
>affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Authorities estimate Hamas has sleeper
>terrorist cells in over 40 states in America plotting to commit terrorist
>attacks on Americans. The Hamas charter declares that the Rotary Clubs,
>Masons, Lions Clubs, and B'nai B'rith are "destructive espionage
>organizations that are spread around the world in order to destroy
>societies and carry out Zionist interests." I wonder how many members of
>PCUSA active in these organizations know what their church is supporting?
>Has the PCUSA leadership lost their collective conscious and sense of right
>versus wrong?
>
>The leadership's excuse for supporting these terrorist organizations and
>calling on divesting from companies doing business with Israel is the
>security barrier that Israel built to protect its citizens from repeated
>barbarous attacks. These barbarians penetrate Israel without conscious nor
>humanity in order to maim and kill random Israelis. Since its creation, the
>security barrier has prevented thousands of attacks saving untold innocent
>civilians. Penalizing Israel for protecting the lives of its men, women and
>children is like penalizing a woman who has been raped repeatedly along
>with her children for putting up a security system in her home to stop the
>rapists. The PCUSA is acting as if the rights of criminals committing these
>suicidal acts override the rights of the innocents to protect themselves.
>
>While the PCUSA accuses Israel's occupation for the plight of the
>Palestinians, the sad reality is that Palestinians are suffering because of
>their corrupt leadership. Since 1993 and the signing of the Oslo accord,
>billions of dollars have pored into the Palestinian authority to help them
>build infrastructure, improve the economy, build schools etc. The money
>went to line the pockets of their corrupt leaders while the Palestinians
>were living like rats. For years they have been left in squalor to be the
>ugly poster child of "Israeli aggression." All that the world sees is poor
>people bemoaning their wretched lives. They don't see that the
>Palestinian's plight has been brought on by its' all consuming hatred
>driven by Islamic radicalism, racism, bigotry, and intolerance to see the
>Jews destroyed.
>
>The PCUSA's support for intolerant victimizers who prey on the suffering
>they cause their own people make them accomplices to this evil. The victims
>of this tragedy are all victims of Islamic Jihad. "Allahu Akbar" or Allah
>is the greatest, is the war cry that advances the black flag of Islam when
>every Kassam or Katyusha rocket is fired from Gaza at innocent Israelis in
>their own country. It is the cry of glee bellowed every time a rocket
>propelled grenade is fired or explosive belt of a suicide bomber is
>triggered killing innocent Jews. There is no glee or satisfaction in the
>hearts of Jews in the killing of Palestinians. There is only a
>determination to protect their own citizens, Christian, Jewish and Muslim
>from the intent of 300 million Arabs whose Imams decree that the Koran
>compels them to kill Jews. Is that what the PCUSA leadership supports? I
>doubt whether many local pastors and lay members believe that. PCUSA
>members should stand for coexistence in peace not a coexistence of hate and
>aggression towards Israel whose Jewish religion was the wellspring from
>which Christianty sprang.
>
>Where is their dignity, compassion or respect if they back that which is
>racist and bigoted towards the Jews of Israel? Israel is the only beacon of
>democracy in the Middle East. Israel is the country where all persecuted
>people in the Middle East, no matter what religion they are, know they can
>run to, to enjoy protection of their human rights and freedoms. Many Arab
>girls and women, who have been raped and threatened with death, can find a
>refuge in Israel. Christians, like me from Lebanon, ran to Israel for
>protection from our own Muslim Lebanese who wanted to kill us simply
>because we wanted peace with the Jews. Israel is the only refuge for the
>gay and lesbian Arabs. No matter what your religion, background or sexual
>orientation is, Israel is the only haven for persecuted people in the
>Middle East.
>
>Instead of persecuting freedom supporting Israel, the PCUSA needs to
>champion the Christian Palestinians being persecuted by their Palestinian
>Muslim neighbors. The PCUSA should understand the intentions of Muslim
>Imams and their millions of followers who sow hatred in their children's
>hearts and pray daily for the destruction of Christians as well as Jews.
>There is an Arabic saying I grew up with: "First the Saturday people and
>then the Sunday people." Click
>here<http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/> to view a video produced
>almost 20 years ago, showing Palestinian Muslims and their intolerance
>towards their Christians neighbors. You will be shocked by the prophetic
>nature of the Christian fears expressed then that have become a reality
>now. Today Palestinian territories have become an Islamic land governed by
>Muslim Sharia law under the Hamas government in which Christians are being
>treated like fourth class citizens and may be forced to pay the Jizya to
>simply remain alive.
>
>Be wary pastors and lay Presbyterians that you and the PCUSA may become the
>latest victims of Islamic Jihad's holy war of deception. Are you their new
>pawn in their racist determination to wipe out the Jewish people?
>
>Rise up and throw off the blinders. Let your conscious guide you in
>standing against the evil of divestment and its stand against freedom.
>Challenge your leadership to drop divestment and 'flee unrighteousness" and
>follow the values Christ taught when he said "Love your neighbor." Resolve
>in your conscience and acts of faith and good works to strive to protect
>the lives of Christians and Jews from Islamic Jihad wherever they may be.
>Stand up for a country who wishes nothing more than to live in peace with
>its Arab neighbors and be a voice against religious bigotry and tyranny.
>
>Reclaim your conscious and rescind this evil in your midst.
>
>Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict. She's the former
>news anchor of World News in the Middle East and the founder of
>AmericanCongressforTruth.com