This May 5 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, as designated by the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 60/7 (Link). Which is ironic, because the UN now actively supports countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates - that proclaim their intention to annihilate the nation of Israel; which is also a legal entity ratified by UN votes.
Israel is under attack every day by knife-wielding Palestinian men and women, weaponized automobiles, and bus bombers, but these attacks are rarely reported (Link). Hamas and Hezbollah jihadists are planning another war on Israel (like the one in 2014) and could start firing their massive stocks of missiles at any time (Link).
Why Israel? Because it's the only true democracy in the Middle East, and an American outpost, militarily and culturally. We people of faith are welcome there anytime, which was not the case before the Six-Day War in 1967. Israel honors the same rules of law that we in the West honor, derived from belief in individual human rights and the intrinsic value of individuals; regardless of wealth, class, race, or gender.
(In fact, the Temple of Solomon was erected by Kings David and Solomon to honor human dignity under God, and to cement the Covenant given us by God to all humanity. All our laws are rooted in the Covenant and the Temple, which was an inspiration to the ancient Greeks and Romans).
Again, why Israel? Because these values and laws are exactly the opposite of Muslim theocracies, where Sharia Law-based religion is inseparable from government (Link). Israel is rich, militarily strong, and productive beyond all measure - compared to its enemies. Whoever conquers Israel will gain high technology, nuclear weapons, and enormous wealth they otherwise will never have. These nations have promised to annihilate all Israelis as well, over eight-million of them. Success always breeds envy and jealousy (Link). Also, Yahweh, the God of Israel and all true Christians, consecrated only only two nations in all history to be His: Israel and the United States of America. Everyone who hates Israel also hates the U.S., and for the same reasons; phony as they are. The shame and guilt other nations feel about themselves are projected onto the Lord's covenant properties.
Antisemitic countries have always paid a heavy price for their ill treatment of Jews. Spain, in its Golden Age, initiated the Inquisition and began driving Jews from their territories in 1492. Their decline began immediately, as banking and management expertise went away with the Jews. Nazi Germany expelled or murdered their best and brightest scientists, bankers, artists, doctors, and teachers. America received these refugees and profited hugely.
Our development of nuclear energy depended upon many Jewish scientists: Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Niels Bohr among them. Jewish comedy has been an extraordinary gift to America and the world: Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Danny Kaye, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Alan King, Jerry Lewis, and Jerry Seinfeld are just a few of these Jewish greats.
Iran has been a basket case since the Shah fell in Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 takeover. Sharia Law, the harshest Muslim relic of the Dark Ages, replaced the more humane Persian legal traditions. All dissenters from Sharia have fled, been killed or imprisoned; especially Jews.
The Arab world persecutes its women, female children, those who aren't of Arab descent, and "apostates"; that is, anyone who won't become Muslim and embrace Sharia. The Arab world will never escape its backwardness and poverty until - and unless - it changes its mind about women, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, scientific thought, the rights of all people, civil law, and separation of church and state.
We Americans will suffer the same fatal decay if we don't make a stand to defend Israel, as we've promised to do since the United Nations ratified that nation in 1948. If we won't help Israel to defend itself - which it wants to do - we won't defend ourselves either. Once dominoes begin to topple they can't be stopped.
We are in a holy war now, and not by choice. September 11, 2001 was the formal beginning, when New York City, the Mecca of western culture, was attacked by jihadists. Why? Two reasons: we support Israel, and we also have been so successful that we make our enemies feel naked, jealous, and poor. Osama bin Laden was always very clear about his motives, and he published them. Al Qaeda and ISIS share the same goals.
ISIS is a direct creation of Saudi oil money. Since 1973, they've spent billions funding madrassas; schools that teach only Koran memorization, Sharia, and hatred of the West. All the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
Today. people barely remember or discuss the importance of 9/11. Globalization is erasing our identities and our civilizations. The suicidal destruction of Venezuela caused by its own citizens embracing Castro-style communism isn't even discussed. This once-rich and productive nation is on its knees, with barely a pulse. The same goes for Greece and Argentina. The world seems not to notice. But radical Islam notices.
For thirty-seven years Iran's leaders, beginning with Ayatollah Khomeini, have dubbed America and Israel "The Great and the Little Satan" (Link) . It's almost funny, the paranoia of radical Islamists and their leaders. When the Shah of Iran - a longtime American ally - was overthrown by the students and followers of Khomeini in 1979, the new government invaded the American Embassy in Tehran, and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. This was an act of war according to international law, and President Jimmy Carter could have declared war on Iran with complete justification. America's armed forces could have destroyed massive amounts of property in that country from the air, without losses, until the hostages were turned over alive and healthy.
But Carter didn't do that. He bowed and apologized, pleaded and bargained with the Iranian authorities, who extracted every bit of advantage they could from America's humiliation. Until President Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. Fearing Reagan's new policies - justifiably - the Iranians panicked and sent them home. Since then, Iran has fomented terrorism, death, and destruction throughout the world. They probably assassinated an Argentine prosecutor, in 2015, who was helping the families of people killed by Iranian terror bombings.
Fact is, the nation of Iran as it exists today has been allowed to exist and has prospered because of the pathetic weakness and fecklessness of all the western powers. Today they have a nuclear bomb factory, and are constructing intercontinental ballistic missiles that will be able to reach any country in the world in 25 minutes.
All of the countries in the European Union, too, are seen by radical Islamists as tools of America and Israel. This is why the Brussels Airport was bombed this year, and why Paris has suffered two mass-murder bloodbaths in January and November of 2015.
Consider joining this organization: Christians United for Israel and look at this.
Israel is under attack every day by knife-wielding Palestinian men and women, weaponized automobiles, and bus bombers, but these attacks are rarely reported (Link). Hamas and Hezbollah jihadists are planning another war on Israel (like the one in 2014) and could start firing their massive stocks of missiles at any time (Link).
Why Israel? Because it's the only true democracy in the Middle East, and an American outpost, militarily and culturally. We people of faith are welcome there anytime, which was not the case before the Six-Day War in 1967. Israel honors the same rules of law that we in the West honor, derived from belief in individual human rights and the intrinsic value of individuals; regardless of wealth, class, race, or gender.
(In fact, the Temple of Solomon was erected by Kings David and Solomon to honor human dignity under God, and to cement the Covenant given us by God to all humanity. All our laws are rooted in the Covenant and the Temple, which was an inspiration to the ancient Greeks and Romans).
Again, why Israel? Because these values and laws are exactly the opposite of Muslim theocracies, where Sharia Law-based religion is inseparable from government (Link). Israel is rich, militarily strong, and productive beyond all measure - compared to its enemies. Whoever conquers Israel will gain high technology, nuclear weapons, and enormous wealth they otherwise will never have. These nations have promised to annihilate all Israelis as well, over eight-million of them. Success always breeds envy and jealousy (Link). Also, Yahweh, the God of Israel and all true Christians, consecrated only only two nations in all history to be His: Israel and the United States of America. Everyone who hates Israel also hates the U.S., and for the same reasons; phony as they are. The shame and guilt other nations feel about themselves are projected onto the Lord's covenant properties.
Antisemitic countries have always paid a heavy price for their ill treatment of Jews. Spain, in its Golden Age, initiated the Inquisition and began driving Jews from their territories in 1492. Their decline began immediately, as banking and management expertise went away with the Jews. Nazi Germany expelled or murdered their best and brightest scientists, bankers, artists, doctors, and teachers. America received these refugees and profited hugely.
Our development of nuclear energy depended upon many Jewish scientists: Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Niels Bohr among them. Jewish comedy has been an extraordinary gift to America and the world: Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Danny Kaye, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Alan King, Jerry Lewis, and Jerry Seinfeld are just a few of these Jewish greats.
Iran has been a basket case since the Shah fell in Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 takeover. Sharia Law, the harshest Muslim relic of the Dark Ages, replaced the more humane Persian legal traditions. All dissenters from Sharia have fled, been killed or imprisoned; especially Jews.
The Arab world persecutes its women, female children, those who aren't of Arab descent, and "apostates"; that is, anyone who won't become Muslim and embrace Sharia. The Arab world will never escape its backwardness and poverty until - and unless - it changes its mind about women, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, scientific thought, the rights of all people, civil law, and separation of church and state.
We Americans will suffer the same fatal decay if we don't make a stand to defend Israel, as we've promised to do since the United Nations ratified that nation in 1948. If we won't help Israel to defend itself - which it wants to do - we won't defend ourselves either. Once dominoes begin to topple they can't be stopped.
We are in a holy war now, and not by choice. September 11, 2001 was the formal beginning, when New York City, the Mecca of western culture, was attacked by jihadists. Why? Two reasons: we support Israel, and we also have been so successful that we make our enemies feel naked, jealous, and poor. Osama bin Laden was always very clear about his motives, and he published them. Al Qaeda and ISIS share the same goals.
ISIS is a direct creation of Saudi oil money. Since 1973, they've spent billions funding madrassas; schools that teach only Koran memorization, Sharia, and hatred of the West. All the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
Today. people barely remember or discuss the importance of 9/11. Globalization is erasing our identities and our civilizations. The suicidal destruction of Venezuela caused by its own citizens embracing Castro-style communism isn't even discussed. This once-rich and productive nation is on its knees, with barely a pulse. The same goes for Greece and Argentina. The world seems not to notice. But radical Islam notices.
Radical Islamists around the world - probably 20% of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims, or 300 million - are calling for the violent overthrow of every nation that doesn't follow Sharia Law. All throughout the Middle East and Indonesia, Muslim governments are teaching their children to hate and fear westerners and all other peoples (Russians and Chinese included) who don't agree with them completely, on every social and political issue.
We, as citizens of the non-Muslim world, regardless of our religion or lack thereof, are seen as blood enemies of radical Islam. Only our total submission to Islam, and our agreement to take up arms for their radical cause, can ameliorate our danger. We will have to kill Christians, Jews, and other "apostates" to prove our loyalty.
For thirty-seven years Iran's leaders, beginning with Ayatollah Khomeini, have dubbed America and Israel "The Great and the Little Satan" (Link) . It's almost funny, the paranoia of radical Islamists and their leaders. When the Shah of Iran - a longtime American ally - was overthrown by the students and followers of Khomeini in 1979, the new government invaded the American Embassy in Tehran, and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. This was an act of war according to international law, and President Jimmy Carter could have declared war on Iran with complete justification. America's armed forces could have destroyed massive amounts of property in that country from the air, without losses, until the hostages were turned over alive and healthy.
But Carter didn't do that. He bowed and apologized, pleaded and bargained with the Iranian authorities, who extracted every bit of advantage they could from America's humiliation. Until President Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. Fearing Reagan's new policies - justifiably - the Iranians panicked and sent them home. Since then, Iran has fomented terrorism, death, and destruction throughout the world. They probably assassinated an Argentine prosecutor, in 2015, who was helping the families of people killed by Iranian terror bombings.
Fact is, the nation of Iran as it exists today has been allowed to exist and has prospered because of the pathetic weakness and fecklessness of all the western powers. Today they have a nuclear bomb factory, and are constructing intercontinental ballistic missiles that will be able to reach any country in the world in 25 minutes.
All of the countries in the European Union, too, are seen by radical Islamists as tools of America and Israel. This is why the Brussels Airport was bombed this year, and why Paris has suffered two mass-murder bloodbaths in January and November of 2015.
Consider joining this organization: Christians United for Israel and look at this.
