6 Nov 2023

Wolves as Sheep

I’ve never seen so many enemies come out of the woodwork in opposition to Israel.

Some of them you can’t see.

In the 17 years I’ve been writing this column, I try to bring you information you won’t find anywhere else. This week’s column is another example of that. I want to talk not so much about Israel’s prosecution of the war against Hamas, but about some of the reasons they have so many enemies.

First, the answer to why Israel has so many enemies is theological. Only theological. We’ve discussed in the past that this began at the beginning, Genesis 3. For it was there that God set enmity between the Jewish people and the serpent. Enmity means perpetual war. The serpent would oppose mightily the woman that would deliver the Child, the coming Redeemer. He was born into a Jewish family in is ancestral land. The enmity is ancient.

It’s the enemies we can’t see that are perhaps the most dangerous.

One such example—incredibly—comes from the heart of evangelicalism. A decade ago, a relatively unknown Southern Baptist seminary professor, Russell Moore, took over as president of the denomination’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The ERLC has been the “public policy arm” of the SBC for quite some time. As if an ostensibly Gospel-oriented group needs a policy arm to mimic the world. Millions of dollars go into the ERLC budget each year.

Moore would prove to be (in my estimation) a subversive, a plant that would take the SBC in a left-wing direction. Further, his views of Israel show him to be a Replacement Theology guy, although like most that adhere to that heresy, he claims he is not.

A couple years ago, Moore left the SBC and got a bigger platform: editor of the left-wing magazine, Christianity Today. On the very day of the satanic Hamas attacks on Israel, October 7, Moore penned what appears to be a pro-Israel op-ed for CT. He said some of the right things, but then in the second paragraph, he said this:

“Some might assume that evangelical Protestants automatically support Israel based on eschatological views that cast the modern state of Israel in some role in biblical prophecy. For some, this is indeed the case. Many of us, though, don’t share those beliefs. We believe the promises of God are fulfilled in Christ, not in the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence. Many of us are quite willing to call out Israel when we believe it is acting wrongly. We don’t believe the Israeli Knesset is somehow inerrant or infallible.”

Do you see what he did? He gutted Israel’s historical claim to the Land. It’s why I don’t believe him. He is disingenuous. He wants to make what appears to be a pro-Israel statement, in order to placate the more-conservative wing of the Church. But he believes none of the genuinely pro-Israel text of the Bible. He wants to—needs to—let you know that he isn’t willing to “cast the modern state of Israel in some role in biblical prophecy.” He’s too intellectual for that.

Moore also on his personal website penned an article about one of his heroes, John Stott. Stott, a British priest in the Anglican Church, was also not “an Israel guy.”

One article provides a look inside this theologian’s view of Israel:

“In February 1987, I had an opportunity to meet Dr. Stott and asked ‘What is your perspective now on Zionism and Christian Zionism in particular?’ He paused, then answered: ‘After considerable study, I have concluded that Zionism and especially Christian Zionism are biblically untenable.’”

Moore has been greatly influenced by such “thinkers.” Men that have followed in the footsteps of untold scholars and clergy of the last century that infected our seminaries with “anti-Zionist” (read, anti-Semitic) thinking.

When Moore left for a plusher perch, his hand-picked successor was Brent Leatherwood. I knew exactly what his policy views would be. They would be identical to his mentor.

Sure enough, continuing with what I consider to be clever propaganda in the war against the Jews and Israel, Leatherwood after the October 7 attacks produced a podcast with ERLC staffer Lindsay Nicolet and their guest, Paul Miller. The latter, a professor at Georgetown University, a senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council, and a member of the U.S. Army, also served as a CIA analyst. Question: why are Southern Baptist leaders platforming a person with such credentials? What are the odds he will be genuinely pro-Israel?

Not good.

(By the way, the Scrowcroft Center is named for General Brent Scowcroft, a leading advisor for President George H.W. Bush, a member of the same team that pressured Israel into the disastrous Oslo Accords in 1991. Those evil men were of the same ilk as the Arabist State Department, Deep Staters that were definitely no friends of Israel.)

In fact, right on cue, the podcast conversation revealed three people that 1. Support a Palestinian state 2. Really don’t know much (Israel’s independence was in 1947? Some analyst. 3. Followed the Washington Regime’s talking points about the need for Israel to show restrain so as to minimize civilian casualties.

Not once did they describe the real scope of the Hamas attacks. This is classic Washington/Media speak. Talk about “war breaking out,” etc., and people have no real idea what happened, or why. In this particular situation, the listening audience doesn’t know much (and Leatherwood pointed out that rank-and-file don’t know much at all about this jihad against Jews), and so no one told them that Hamas demons murdered children in front of their parents, cut off women’s breasts, gouged-out husband’s eyes, raped females of all ages, burned people alive, etc.

At one point, Miller let us know he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Also, incredibly and perhaps most disturbingly, he claimed that Hamas and the “Palestinian Authority”/PLO are two completely separate entities and while the PA isn’t always right, they are still nowhere near what Hamas is.

That is a lie. Believe me, a CIA analyst knows this. He, like Leatherwood and Moore, is a propagandist for the Left.

The PLO is the PA. The PLO, since its founding in 1964, has been a murderous terrorist group dedicated to murdering Jews and eliminating the state of Israel. Like its Hamas cousins, the PLO charter to this day calls for the elimination of the state of Israel. The ERLC platformed on a podcast a propagandist that wants to delude the audience.

Evangelical leadership, a sizeable part of it, is anti-Israel. That’s just the way it is. Reformed theologians have burrowed-in in recent decades, and the constant efforts of the Palestinians to dupe Americans has paid dividends. The SBC, the Assemblies of God, and other non-denominational entities have moved away from Israel support. The smaller churches and many rank-and-file members (such as readers of this column) are pro-Israel and love the Jewish people.

But the loudest voices and the leadership are corrupt.

Learn to see the wolves.

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30 Oct 2023

Violent Men

By the time you read this, Israel might have started its anticipated ground operation in Gaza.

Since October 7, it has been a question of when, not if. Everyone knows Israel is in another existential war, one they have to win by obliterating Hamas. You can’t continue as a country unless you shatter the demons that inflicted such unspeakable horror on the populace. There is no other way.

The world has been on pins and needles, wondering what Israel has in store for Hamas. I believe the Israelis are so smart, they have “delayed” a full-scale war in order to let Hamas squirm.

Squirm they are. Like the Nazis, Hamas overreached—what an understatement! Bloodying Israel’s nose for years with the occasional rocket attack, or small-scale terror attack (with little accountability) gave Hamas the false sense of security that said, This is the time for a real attack.

It is the same mental delusion that the Arabs have had for 75 years. It’s the mental delusion that General Nasser had, Sadat, Assad, the mullahs.

They forget that Israel is undefeated.

Some little-known facts about this war:

  • To date, a whopping 102 Hamas terrorists have been eliminated in Judea-Samaria. Those operatives, from places like Nablus and Jenin, are the same devils as those in Gaza. IDF counter-terrorism units are operating everywhere. I was struck this week by a comment from an IDF commander: “There is no place safe in Israel now.” That’s quite an admission. All the more reason this must be a full-victory proposition; leave no one to negotiate a ceasefire with.
  • American troops are in Lebanon, operating against Iranian proxies like they haven’t since the early 80’s. As many as 2,000 Marines are expected in the area as soon as the USS Eisenhower arrives in the Gulf.
  • While many have fretted about Israel’s slowness to launch a ground war, people that understand combat say that Israel is being deliberate for many reasons, among them a tightening dread among Hamas. So far from being incapable or indecisive, Israel is preparing in the best ways possible.

 

Meanwhile, the delusional demons in Gaza—the ones that take on children and elderly women—have no idea the fury that will soon meet them from men born for war. Saleh al-‘Arouri, deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, has used the same language used by idiot Arab spokesmen for generations: “We will burn the Zionist enemy with fire,” etc., etc. He claimed that an addition to being prepared for the IDF, Hamas could also count on “fighters” in the West Bank.

Fat chance. As I mentioned, Israel has already eliminated a huge number of them.

And this has been reported in the last couple days:

“Beginning on the second day of the war, October 8, 2023, while fighting continued inside Israeli territory against the operatives, Hamas’ military-terrorist wing, senior figures in the Association of Religious Sages in Palestine issued a fatwa calling for the killing of all Israeli soldiers and civilians. The fatwa, issued in the name of the religious sages of the entire Muslim nation, stated that the religious sages made it unequivocally clear that every soldier and every ‘Zionist settler’ could be killed wherever they were in all the Muslim countries, inside ‘Palestine’ and outside of it.”

This represents an escalation of almost unprecedented levels. A fatwa of course is a religious edict in Islam that allows a “true believer” to murder. All the global sickos protesting Israel’s self-defense haven’t a clue that to allow the issuers of the fatwa to live is to concede civilization to barbarians. It is untenable. It doesn’t square with reality.

Notice the lunacy in the following statement, and then realize that the Bible says God is going to do the exact opposite to the enemies of the Jews:

“Dr. Saleh al-Raqab, senior figure in the Association and former minister of endowments in the Hamas government, published an article called ‘Oh, Jihad fighters in Palestine,’ which read, ‘Allah, grant victory to the Jihad fighters in Palestine, direct their blows and aim the fire of their guns at the necks of the Jews, steady the feet of the warriors and bring their stabbing blade into [the Jews’] hearts. Allah, put them in the hands of your soldiers and allow them to kill the Jewish army, destroy the Jewish weapons, capture Jewish soldiers and destroy the Jews. Allah, paralyze their limbs and freeze the blood in their veins, inflict a cruel defeat on them. Allah is the greatest and victory is for Islam. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.’ In order to carry out their barbaric massacre in Israeli territory, the operatives of Hamas’ military-terrorist wing apparently drew inspiration and legitimization from publications issued by sources of Hamas-affiliated religious authorities.”

Now contrast that with the truth:

“For thus says the Lord: Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the tyrant shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your sons. I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. And all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.” (Isaiah 49:25-26)

Jewish combat troops are about to enter Gaza. Their ancestors fought in Gaza.

In the past, present, and future, God fights for His People.

Hamas is violent, certainly.

But Violent Men are coming for them.

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