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Jul 9, 2012

When Non-Violence Becomes Violent

This week, the UN—that pacifist bridge club on the Hudson—co-sponsored an international anti-drug conference in Tehran (of all places). Predictably, the Iranians used it for another opportunity to blame Israel for drug trafficking.

The Bible calls this “bearing false witness.”

Reuters reported that 10 Western diplomats sat and listened to Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi blame the Jewish state for the global drug trade. Rahimi made the following points, alleged by his superiors:

•The Talmud teaches Jews how to destroy non-Jews

•As “proof,” of the Zionist drug plot, no “Zionist” was addicted to drugs, according to Rahimi. Anywhere. He offered to pay if anyone could find even a single Jewish drug addict anywhere in the world.

•Doctors sometimes kill black babies, on the order of the Zionists.

This madness is difficult to deal with, to say the least. With all the legitimate problems in the world, the Iranians focus on a psychopathic cocktail of anti-semitism in order to blame Jews for every ill in the world.

Added to this mixture is news this week that Yasser Arafat might have been poisoned—by the Jews, of course—and his body might be exhumed. Proponents of this view conveniently forget that Israel could have killed the terrorist a dozen times over in the years before Oslo, but didn’t.

Arafat, vaguely resembling a shaven Dopey when he emerged in France for medical treatment near the end of his life, cultivated his cherubic, Seven Dwarfs persona for the West, at the same time he plotted to murder Jews around the world. Yet Israel is blamed.

(A couple books come to mind that shed light on the diabolical attempts to libel and slander the Jews: License to Murder—The Enduring Threat of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Nations United—How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West. I urge you to read these books in order to understand the roots of Jew-hatred.)

An interesting backdrop for this Blame Israel First mentality is playing-out this week at the national assembly for the Presbyterian Church (USA), where, by a narrow 333-331 margin, “divestment” was voted down. This initiative calls for entities to pull investments from companies that do business with Israel. In this case, Caterpiller, HP, and Motorola.

This slim margin of victory is to be celebrated (I have several mainline friends who have done exhaustive work to combat divestment; they are to be commended). There are further battles to fight, including motions to condemn the “settlements,” and to boycott goods from the territories.

This vote comes on the heels of a somewhat surprising decision at the May gathering of the United Methodist Church, as reported in the Jerusalem Post:

“The general conference of the United Methodist Church voted not to divest from three companies that trade with Israel.

“Two-thirds of the approximately 1,000 delegates to the conference voted Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., against a motion to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard.

“The conference passed motions opposing Jewish settlements in the West Bank, recommending the boycott of products manufactured in settlements, and investment in the Palestinian economy.”

Although there are several reasons for these slight wins, I believe they also arise from pragmatism and practicality. Proponents of divestment, leftists of various stripes, recognize that the extreme leftist mentality eventually wears thin with the wider audience, so new strategies must be developed. This is not so different from the shift in Arab strategies after the shattering defeats at the hands of the IDF: Arafat was schooled by his Marxist handlers to become a “revolutionary” fighting for statehood for a disenfranchised people, rather than an upfront terrorist. He could dispatch his killers, but would shrink from overt attacks himself.

Arafat even ingratiated himself with certain mainline church officials as far back as the 90’s.

An interesting study was done by the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which found that between 2000 and 2003, 37 percent of the statements made by mainline officials concerning human rights abuses focused on Israel! Notice this key phrase:

“No other country came in for such frequent criticism, though the US was a close second at 32%. China, North Korea and Saudi Arabia were not critiqued at all.”

These people are turning truth on its head.

Yet they are taking a play from the PLO playbook, insofar as they are refining their attacks on Israel. I see Western leftists shifting their confrontational strategies to more subtle attempts to weaken Israel. They are now preaching a concept called “non-violence,” which aims to achieve Palestinian goals via “non-violent” methods.

This means, at best, that they work for a so-called bi-national state, as opposed to either a Jewish state or a Palestinian Arab state. This stands in some contrast to the blatant former efforts by the PLO to liquidate Israel straight-up. The bi-national agenda is liquidation by other means.

“Non-violent” means.

Dexter van Zile, whom I believe to be the premier Christian researcher in this arena, has written a fascinating article on Sami Awad, the Bethlehem native who is currently networking heavily among American evangelicals:

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/117818/sec_id/117818

It’s quite a fascinating look at the agenda of the man who has become a friend of Lynne Hybels, Mart Green, and Gary Burge—each a highly influential networker within the American evangelical community. The Palestinians, you see, have used connections with their Christian Palestinianist friends to infiltrate the American Church.

Infiltrated.

It’s already happened.

The left of course has always loved totalitarian regimes (the Palestinian Authority/PLO is one), but until recently, this was the playground of scholars, theologians, the media, and political influencers. Only fairly recently has it spread into the bloodstream of the evangelical community.

Just after World War I, the ACLU was formed by the likes of Roger Baldwin, an atheist, with Harry F. Ward serving as the group’s first chairman. Ward was a Methodist minister who warmly supported Soviet Communism. In his book, Dupes, Paul Kengor says of Ward:

“Put simply, the Reverend Ward may well have been the single greatest sucker in the entire history of the American Religious Left.”

He had plenty of company, and I find it fascinating that the Palestinians are following the same model taught by the Soviets decades ago: infiltrate and destroy from within.

The Soviets used a variety of methods to accomplish their goal of bringing-down America, including newspapermen like Frank Marshall Davis, who wrote race-baiting stuff (and, to show his versatility, a porn novel) and gained support for the Communist Party USA from prominent left-wing American pastors, such as Walter Russell Bowie.

Interestingly, the race-baiting whipped up by the Soviets is quite similar to that being pushed today by the current American president and his friends, who specifically embrace Black Liberation Theology.

BLT is a concept by which other “oppressed groups” (hint: Palestinians) aim to throw off the shackles of their slave-masters (Israel) and step into the light of freedom. And what did the Civil Rights movement preach?

Non-violence.

When Arafat and his cronies realized that body parts shown on the evening news were bad for their image, they began to develop the concept of Palestinian non-violence. That is what is being preached in evangelical churches across America right now. The Palestinians are following the identical model of the Leninists a couple generations ago, and not only are they good at it, they are winning.

That’s right, I said, winning.

The situation is growing dire, I believe. A generation ago, these were things only discussed in seminaries, but now those seminarians have grown up and are in turn mentoring other seminarians.

(By the way, Rick Warren, no friend of Israel or her Christian Zionist friends, has a doctorate from the thoroughly liberal Fuller Theological Seminary. “Pastor Rick” is also mentor to untold numbers of young evangelical leaders, and he currently has 656, 851 followers on Twitter, most of whom eagerly re-tweet his messages—whether they be birthday greetings to aging rockstars, or suggestions to “unfollow” the “twits” who dare to criticize him. Pastor Rick’s Saddleback Church is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention.)

Just sayin’.

In his (in)famous 1993 book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark Noll (then professor at Wheaton, now at Notre Dame) barely concealed his contempt for Bible-believing Christians, many of whom support Israel. He used his own propaganda techniques to denigrate this community.

Citing Dwight Wilson’s 1977 book, Armageddon Now!, Noll wrote that Wilson had “expertly summarized a dismal tale,” in which the historian took to task Bible prophecy proponents who embrace “the supposed restoration of Israel.”

Supposed restoration!

My friends, when acclaimed historians deny history, you know the jig is up.

This type of revisionism is being used to great effect by Christian Palestinianists. It is another weapon in their non-violence arsenal, which grows more deadly by the day.

jim@prophecymatters.com






Recommended books:


License to Murder: The Enduring Threat of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion


Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West



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Zechariah 12:3,9:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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