Doc's Talk: Christian Community-You have been targeted

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Christian Community-You have been targeted

GS Don Morris, Ph.D.

A well organized and significantly funded disinformation and intentional misrepresentation campaign has identified the American and Canadian Christian communities for intrusion. The campaign is in full swing now and will be amped up during the coming months and years. The message is quite simple: delegitimize Israel by means of revisionist history, lies and out right fabrication of facts. The purpose is to continue the isolation of Israel among the international community. The end game is the elimination of Israel.
As a resident of Israel and pro-Israel supporter I am no longer willing to sugar coat the events and circumstances that have become the Arab-Israeli narrative. I choose to write and speak to you as adults. My intention is to alert you to the truth and I have faith in you to determine for yourselves the requisite actions in which you will engage. Unlike our enemies I will not misrepresent the facts nor share revisionist history talking points for purposes of indoctrination.

Let us begin by acknowledging our shared values: Judeo-Christian beliefs and actions. Peoples in Israel and America created two nations grounded in these values. Legal systems, social behavior practices and ethical practices have been fomented in these shared values. We are intrinsically linked yet have unique differences that enrich both our countries. These values have generated principles of behavior specific to each of our social-political standings in the world community of nations. Since 1948 we have established any number of personal, social, economic, research, educational and military relationships that serve our populations and in turn have produced programs, products, medicines and technology that serve to improve the quality of life for all human beings-including our shared enemies.

I wish human behavior was not comprised of the ugly sides of being human and wishing is for wells. The stark and adult reality is that groups of people want to do harm to other groups and will use any means to do so. It is true that groups will stop at nothing to impose their will upon others. They will lie, infiltrate, confuse, threaten, indoctrinate, coerce, and use the values the West holds as their guiding principles against you and I. Yes, they believe any means justifies their ends.

Strategies and commensurate tactics have been developed to foster and promote such behavior for the purpose of supplanting their values with those we cherish so dearly. There are many ways to take down a nation and if you lack the power of force than the use of stealth infiltration and strategies that are “humanistic” by way of camouflage are employed.

Christian Communities you have been targeted and our common enemy will use your own value system against you in order to denigrate your faithful and long term support for your value partner in life-Israel. The tactics are well known, we have shared them with you and our common enemy is counting on two things in order for their message to be heard. First, they believe you are ignorant of the truth and second they understand how your belief system is built upon Judeo-Christian values and use your kind and caring concerns for humanity against you. Both of these beliefs are despicable. To be target for such abuse and yes it is information abuse when you are lied to on a daily basis.

I shall present only two of hundreds of examples demonstrating how you are being taking advantage of in this war of concepts. Organizers of dis-information are literally streaming into churches across North America. One of their primary messages is how Israel is an apartheid state and is really anti-Christian.

Bethleham, birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth, in 1947 had a Christian population that comprised 75% of its citizens. Today, that population has declined to 20-22% of the population. The city is in walking distance of Jerusalem, about 3-4 USA miles away. Jordan illegally annexed the city in late 1948 and was under its control until 1967. In 1995 Bethleham has been governed by the Palestinian National Authority. Their narrative that “explains” the dramatic decrease in Christian population is emigration of Christians and birth rate advantage to the ruling Islamic populace. This sounds “innocent” does it not? Conveniently our enemy has lied to you about the nature of the Christian emigration. Facts: Christians have been “driven out” by way of force, injury, assault, coercion, and blatant mismanagement. Do you remember how Islamists nearly destroyed the Church of the Nativity a few years ago? Do you know how many Christians have been assaulted and raped in the last 15 years by our enemy? I challenge you to learn the truth. Now, who is practicing apartheid?

Coptic Christians in Egypt have been under assault for many, many years in Egypt. Around 95% of Egyptian Christians belong to the Coptic Church of Alexandria and the Christian population comprises between 10-15% of Egypt’s total population. Yes there are other denominations of Christians also in Egypt. Yet they are constantly under attack. Just last month a news reported the following:

“Egyptian Muslims regularly attack the minority Coptic Christians. The government does nothing to protect its Christians.
“There were bodies on the street,” said Sherif Ibrahim to a New York Times reporter. “Hands, legs, stomachs. Girls, women, and men.”
That was the scene outside the Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt, as the New Year’s Mass ended on January 1, 2011. Twenty-one Christian Copts were killed by a suicide bomber--and at least 96 were wounded.”
Go to: http://www.suite101.com/content/muslim-persecution-of-copts-resembles-ethnic-cleansing-a331586

This is not a report on the declining Coptic population nor is it meant to report all of the data. Begin your own investigation-it is all there thanks to the internet.

I use these two situations to suggest to you that you are being mislead in lectures and presentations in your Churches. Our enemy expects you to be ignorant of the facts and then uses your deep sense of compassion to suggest that it is the Israelis who are the dastardly evil ones and they make the quantum leap to lie how the Arab tribes in Judea and Samaria are treated so poorly by the “occupiers’; oh, yes this is yet another intentional misrepresentation of fact.

With carefully scripted lectures, “word-smithed” interviews and carefully staged photos and videos you are presented with a view of events, situations and circumstances that do not even pass the rigor of a good 6th grade science project in the states. They play on your passion and compassion and you have become a useful tool in their determination to eliminate Israel and much worse. Do not believe me, yet how can anyone forget the staged videos of “corpses” falling off a gurney only to rise from the dead and hop back on in order to suggest that death and destruction had been imposed upon them. Who can forget the videos of our enemies using Red Cross Ambulances to transport weapons, munitions and terrorists? Who does not remember the videos and the photos of “dead civilians” rising too early before the camera was turned off?

Now tell me, who is really trying to fool whom? They are coming soon to one of your churches-what will you do?

1 comment:

Chanah Shapira-Stillman said...: You raise a lot of key points. I would add that NGOs, particularly Christian Aid act as fronts for a number of Palestian groups. While researching attitudes of several churches in the UK I found that CofE, Church of Scotland, URC and the Methodists all followed the Christian Aid party line on the level of charity and active support. The most egregious group was the Methodists, who openly attack the Christian Zionist Movement, and adopt the Kairos Document which is rabidly anti-Israel. All these groups have some link to Sabeel, which basically runs the "Jesus was a Palestinian" line, and would like to see the Old Testament chucked off the shelf.

A good source of information is NGO Monitor.; 10:36 PM

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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