ISRAEL: WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW
By Harmony Grant
22 Oct 07
What is it they say about too little, too late? Some public figures
are beginning to figure out Zionism -- others muddle on in darkness.
Tony Blair, the boyish blue-eyed ex-PM of Britain , was surely Bush's
strongest ally in the Iraq war. He recently toured the West Bank
to see the fruits of the Jewish state he has spilt British blood
to protect. The
Independent reports his shock. Witnesses say "he was genuinely
taken aback by his trip to the West Bank sector of the Jordan Valley – where
Palestinians are allowed to dig wells only a third as deep as Israelis-
[as a result of] the exploitation of resources by the rich Jewish
agricultural settlements at the expense of closed in Palestinian
farmers."
Although a world leader, Blair apparently didn't realize the conditions
of life for Palestinians under Israel 's thumb. So how could we expect
more from average citizens, living in a society of controlled information?
Another elite who is thinking for himself is leading UK evolutionary
biologist Richard Dawkins. Yet he faces the charge of "classic
anti-Semitism" for stating the documented fact that the American
Jewish lobby is "monopolizing
American foreign policy."
But other powerful national leaders seem impervious to the evidence
piling up against Israel 's image as a free, friendly ally. Sam Brownback
of Kansas recently supported
a right-wing Israeli proposal to defeat the two-state peace process.
Rabbi Elon, chairman of the right-wing National Union Party in Israel
, came up with the plan, which denies a Palestinian state. Brownback
called it "a movement forward." Indeed it is--a jack-booted,
bully's step toward even greater darkness. Elon's spokesman said
bluntly, "This is the completion of the transfer of [the Palestinian]
population that began in 1948." Yes, indeed, let's complete
that bloody, violent expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians, merchants,
farmers and tradespeople, exiled into virtual concentration camps
in Gaza , Lebanon and the West Bank .
If Mr. Brownback visited the real Israel --not the one of evangelicals'
tours--would he repent? Like Mr. Blair, wouldn't he be "taken
aback" and in "shock?" Imagine if these men spoke
to Abdullah, who had to identify the lower half of his son's body
in a morgue refrigerator--his son who was one of the 92
Palestinian children killed in this past year of the Jewish calendar.
Haaretz 's Gideon Levy reports that in the same year, "Not
a single Israeli child was killed by a Palestinian." But one-fifth
of killed Palestinians were teenaged or younger. Levy recounts the
murder of 15-year-old Ahmed Asasa, shot in the neck by a sniper while
running in terror from Jewish soldiers invading the boy's village.
Levy tells of a teenage girl shot by a sniper while studying for
school tests in her home in a Jenin refugee camp. "Her bloodstained
notebooks bore witness to her final moments."
Levy remarked to a French reporter that the sight made him ashamed
to be an Israeli. French TV censored his comment, for fear of its
Jewish viewers. His eyewitness account and his simple statement of
truth would be even more quickly sliced out in the USA , the one
nation virtually as responsible as Israel for these children's blood.
The more important a truth might be, the more carefully we should
investigate any evidence for it. Evangelicals like Sam Brownback
are passionately committed to the welfare and good reputation of
Israel . But if there is even a chance that God is angry, that this
nation is not the innocent embattled ally she pretends, we should
carefully seek out the truth.
This is not an easy thing to do, even though the evidence abounds.
We live in a society of carefully filtered information. Those who
stray from the mainstream of acceptable opinion enter emotionally
charged territory. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has
been most persuasive at blackening certain fact-based opinions because
of the supposed motivations or emotions behind them. (If it's "anti-Semitic," it
doesn't matter if it's true!)
Consider that conservative pundit Ann Coulter is facing flack for
a simple statement about Christians' desire for Jews to be "perfected" through
faith in Christ. The National Jewish Democratic Council told Republican
presidential candidates that they should publicly rebuke her remark.
For what!? Coulter said no more than any third-grade textbook on
world religions. Christians believe Jews must convert and put their
faith in their true Messiah.
Jewish activists' intolerance of this simple truth about religious
belief speaks volumes. Evangelicals should be slow to ally themselves
with those who want to silence the most basic facts of our faith!
And we should be a lot more persistent in seeking truth outside the
mainstream. If Christians' desire for Jews' salvation is "anti-Semitism" and
should be censored, what other facts are being kept in the dark?
Harmony
Grant writes and edits for the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watch dog organization.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they
have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
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