CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS: HOLDING THE KILLERS' CLOAKS
By Harmony Grant
20 Jun 07
Prominent Israeli lawyer Ram Caspi recently
called for mass killing
of innocent Gazan civilians who already endure a circle of Dante’s
inferno, inching through daily miseries toward a hopeless future.
Caspi said the moment another rocket is fired at Israel, the Jewish
state should cut off Gaza’s million and a half inhabitants
from life—from “the essential infrastructure systems
of fuel, water, electricity and telephones, and...prevent others
from providing these utilities to Gaza.”
Need I comment on the barbarism of punishing innocents this way?
International
law—let alone basic morality and the law of God!—forbids
inhumane treatment of noncombatants. Yet Gideon Levy observes in
Haaretz, “Caspi is a successful attorney, who comes and goes
in the tabernacles of justice and rule, a man who moves about in
the highest reaches of Israeli society. Not a hair on his head has
been mussed as a result of his satanic proposal.”
Levy mournfully cites quote after quote from Israeli racists calling
for the slaughter of Palestinian Arabs. Caspi breathes this hatred
among Israeli elite, while advising them on the law. Israel’s
religious shepherds also preach such bloodlust. Former Sephardi chief
rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu recently wrote Ehud Olmert to counsel that
all Gazan civilians—men, women, newborn babies—are collectively
guilty for rocket attacks on Israel. He said the Jewish state is
morally entitled to kill them all.
Eliyahu’s son, also a rabbi, spoke
to press about his father’s
views. "If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill
a thousand," he said. "And if they do not stop after 1,000
then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000,
even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith smears Christians
as “anti-Semites” if we believe or say Jewish leaders
were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ 2,000 years ago—a
fact of history. ADL works aggressively to keep anti-Semitism defined
as the gravest social sin. In much of the western world, ADL has
also made it a "hate" crime. Truthful examination of Jews,
Judaism, or Israel is a ruinous, career-destroying path for any public
figure. If you question the 6 million figure of the Jewish Holocaust,
you can spend the next half decade behind bars. But actually call
for a Palestinian holocaust—for the murder of living people—and
you can climb the ranks of Jewish high society. ADL and so-called “progressive” Jewish
advocacy groups are largely silent about the bloodthirsty racist
words of evil men like Caspi and Eliyahu.
Christian Judeo-Amour
Christians seek to obey Jesus, the “Prince of Peace” who
only blessed the merciful. How can that mean supporting a Jewish
state where such statements are spoken by mainstream religious and
litigious leaders?
Well-meaning evangelicals by the millions genuinely think it’s
their Christian duty to “bless God’s chosen people” by
refraining from criticism and offering virtually unlimited military,
monetary, and moral support.
Such Christians consume an abundant diet of Christian Zionism,
glorification of Judaism and villainization of Islamic militants.
They have no room left for the possibility that Israel provoked Arab
aggression by reducing millions to daily misery and political helplessness.
They largely fail to wonder if Christ really smiles on the Chosen
People as they continue to reject Him, describing Him with profanity
and refusing to allow Christian evangelism. Among mainstream American
Christians, there is virtually no meaningful dissent about Israel.
Instead of truth, pro-Jewish zealotry flows like wine. Richard
Bartholomew, a blogger for Salon, recently reviewed “the latest
crop of apocalyptical Christian Zionist and anti-Islamic titles from
Christian publishers” advertised in Christian
Retailing magazine.
The magazine reports having already pre-sold lots of copies of Mike
Evans’ The Final Move Beyond Iraq. Evans paints Iran’s
Ahmadinejad as “a radical zealot bent on the destruction of
the West and installation of a world Islamic system.”
More new releases include Culture Clash: Islam’s War
on America and In Defense
of Israel, by John Hagee. Major Christian publishers
like Tyndale and Harvest House have made a fortune from Mideast titles
that are staunchly pro-Zionist. Tim LaHaye, of Left
Behind fame,
has a new book set for release in September, Global
Warning: Are We on the Brink of World War III? Bartholomew notes wryly that Tyndale
is set to release a third edition of Armageddon,
Oil and Terror: What the Bible Says About the Future of America,
the Middle East, and the End of Western Civilization. Its supposedly solid predictions
have already needed to be revised twice, but Tyndale has still sold
more than 2 million copies.
Such books are attractive to many with their simplistic celebration
of the US and shallow reading of Scripture. They pretend to explain
complicated and frightening geopolitical reality with easy-to-follow
plans: support Israel, support the war on terror, Muslims are evil,
Jews and Christians are good.
This intellectual junk food fills tables across America because real truth
about Israel and Judaic supremacism is forbidden in public. Many patriotic
Christians will consider 2008 presidential candidates in light of the Islamophobia
and devotion to the Jewish state they learn from FOX News and the pulpit. The
same as Jews, they will ask: Who supports Israel and Bush’s war? Who
is willing to use nukes on Iran?
Doubtful Brethren
The increasing Judaization of the evangelical church is also reflected
in the growth of Messianic Judaism. Messianic Jews believe in Christ
but also assert a Jewish identity. The Jewish Forward reports, “According
to several movement leaders and scholars of religion, messianic Judaism
is expanding rapidly in communities across the American South, a
growing region of the country that is attracting new Jewish residents
more generally.”
Forward quotes Derek Leman, who leads a Messianic synagogue in
Atlanta: “In the Bible belt, you have many Christians who love
Israel, so we attract more gentiles [to our services], plus there
are a lot more intermarried couples down here than there would be
in the Northeast.”
“It is a trend alarming to Jewish communal leaders,” says
Forward. As more and more Gentile Christians become infatuated with
Israel and the idea of Judaism, this cross-pollenization should worry
more than Jewish leaders! The New Testament teaches that in Christ, “There
is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you
are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:28) The growing popularity
of a Christian/Jewish identity and Zionism should deeply concern
any Christian pastor or layman with a working knowledge of the New
Testament's warnings against Judaizers in the early church--"Christian
Jews" who wanted to bring the church back into bondage to Old
Testament and rabbinic observances and traditions.
One Good Man?
Speaking the whole truth about Jewish political power and activism
today is personally costly—to reputation, relationships, and
certainly to career. A person would have to be motivated either by
great hate or by great love. It was great love that compelled St.
Paul to rebuke the rabbinic leaders of his time and also Judaizers
in the church who exalted manmade religion over redemption through
Christ. Paul said love for Jews filled him with “sorrow and
unceasing anguish” as he longed for his brothers to know the
truth and submit to God.
The greatest compassion is God's intervention in our lives, revealing
our depravity and offering escape. Humans can share God’s compassion
by speaking the whole truth about evil acts, ideas, systems and even
individuals.
Calling evil by its name is an act of love—especially when
it carries personal cost. The person who will not speak truth about
evil pays no social price. He also has no love. And he becomes complicit
with that evil. Only truth offers hope of change, of repentance and
salvation.
Christian leaders fear the whole truth about the Judaic agenda
and believe their reputations and ministries will be destroyed if
they speak this truth. They also believe Jews can’t bear the
whole truth about the elite minority of evil leaders directing their
Tribe. But the wisest, kindest Being who ever walked the earth—the
Son of God—told us that when we know the truth, it will set
us free. It is high time America’s Christian leaders acted
as if they believed Him.
Harmony
Grant writes and edits for the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watch dog organization.
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