Check out this puzzling situation. The world becomes upset with people who deny the Holocaust. In some countries it's against the law to publicly express doubt that it happened. The condemnation of Hitler and his barbaric slaughter of six million Jews seems almost universal among western nations. However, there is a paradoxical situation that defies any explanation but one.
The Islamic world consistently has issued statements that Israel and the Jewish people must be wiped off the face of the Earth. However, I never hear any of the Western nations calling them out for their bellicose position. The tiny nation of Israel has faced overwhelming odds for survival since its founding in 1948. If you have studied the birth of that nation, you realize that the Arab nations had surrounded the fledging country waiting for the British to pull out. The Brits, on the other hand, had been quite meticulous in preventing the Jews from arming sufficiently to defend themselves against an opponent who vastly outnumbered them, had more firepower, and swore they would exterminate the Israelis. If this had been a football game, I'm sure Las Vegas would given the Jews a exorbitant point spread and still nobody would have bet on the Zionists. They didn't have a prayer. Or did they? And then in 1973, the Arab armies grouped again and made another attempt to stomp out the virus called the Jewish nation. This time the Israelis had modern firepower and routed the Arabs six days. How many wars were over in six days?
As a history major (and a lover of Fiddler on the Roof), I had always wondered why the world through the centuries has persecuted this seemingly insignificant group of people who don't appear to warrant such treatment. This small ethnic group has provided more scholars, artists, musicians, and etcetera per capita than any other by far. Shouldn't this success in the world have won them some respect? It seems the only thing it earned them besides hatred was jealousy. Before I ever read Exodus and subsequent books featuring the fight of the Israelis, I understood that the Jews were a people of destiny. Is it possible that the miraculous victory of the rag tag bunch of combatants over the organized armies of several Arab nations is proof that the Jews are God's chosen people? If that is true, most intellectuals would question where God was during the Holocaust. However, God had promised that he would restore His people to the Promised Land. He had not promised protection of the Jews from all persecution until then.
Now back to the present. Why are the civilized countries of the world not standing up to try to prevent a reoccurrence of the Holocaust or rather the finalization of it? A historical genocide is such a terrible thing that denying the reality of it is a crime, but a future genocide of even worse proportions is not enough of a horrible concept to cause any world leaders to jump on the bandwagon to protect the Jews. The future looks black for Israel and Jews in other nations as well as anti-Semitism is on the rise. The US and Britain have been faithful in the past to champion the rights of the Israelis to exist. Now that support is waning. Is there any way for one small country to continue to survive? Yes, there is one way. Only through God's supernatural hand of protection will the destruction of the Jews be avoided.
Let's put this into perspective. Imagine that a small Christian high school football team takes the field against an NFL team (you supply the team of your choice). No one in their right mind who had any knowledge of football would consider that the high school boys could even survive a game with the men of the NFL, much less win the game. Before the game the boys proclaim that God is on their side. If the kids actually won the game, who could doubt that fact? The only other logical explanation would be an allegation that the NFL team lost on purpose. That analogy is fairly close to the reality of the survival of Israel to this point. How can anyone doubt that God is with them and that the prophecies for the future are about to be fulfilled? Those who wish to deny the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (aka Israel) will do so no matter how much evidence is presented to them. God seems to have a flair for the dramatic. The ending of the story will be spectacular, even though we know the ending. Imagine the surprise of all those people who deny the HolyCause?
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Well said. Nice to read a pro Israel/Jewish article for a change. Take care.
two thumbs down in the objectivity/intellectual honesty department. carry on
100% - love the article and what it says... This world only see what it wants and likes to see, the rest of them, those who the world don't like can be exterminated for all they care.
They can all go to hell, Israel is here to stay, and will STAY, and anyone who don't like it - TOUGH, move to another planet.
Well said -- I will keep my eyes toward heaven. Come Lord Jesus Come!
Thank you Donald Parker for this wonderful article! Israel is almost always in a desperate situation with respect to her enemies which surround her and constantly plot to kill her. That simple prayer that is cited above the article, called "The Shema" (or "Shma"). Shema means "hear" of "listen." It's a powerful short prayer that Jews everywhere know. It was their main gift to the rest of the world ("the Lord is One" == Monotheism) -- i.e. there is but one G-d in this world.
But Israel needs all the support she can get from American Evangelicals. And I, as an American Jew, for one, am extremely appreciative of that support. It's truly miraculous! No other group in the world supports Israel as strongly as you do. And it's hard to believe that G-d doesn't smile at that and note its uniqueness.
In 1967 Israel beat her enemies in 6 days, and again in 1973 when sneak attacked she also prevailed. With your continued backing, she will survive until G-d ends this world.
Thank you aga
There are still 7 years left in Daniel's prophecy concerning Israel. This period is known as the Tribulation and the world stage is being set for this event. When the church age is completed, the rapture will take place and then all hell will break loose on the nations and Israel too. Christ will return and restore the kingdom to Israel.
``The Islamic world consistently has issued statements that Israel and the Jewish people must be wiped off the face of the Earth''
Ha ha ha. What a silly joke.....and yet another regurgitated Zionist lie.....
The Arab world, all 22 states have repeated expressed their willingness to accept Israel's existence in return for Israel respecting the basic human and national rights of the Palestinian people...something it has consistently refused to to. All in the backdrop of massive human rights abuses, war crimes and mass ethnic cleansing committed by Israel with the support of the US against millions of Palestinians who continue to live under subhuman conditions due to the US backed occupation.
Zionism has repeated shown its true colours as a racist, supremacist ideology, conveniently sugarcoated by the pro Israel lobby. I am unsure whether to condemn or sympathize with the Examiner for allowing itself to become a vehicle for the crude Victimology 101 of Israel's apologists.
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