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Bearing False Witness

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Exodus 20:16)

There are two definitions of words that you should commit to memory.

Misinformation is the spreading of untruths, unintentionally. Disinformation is the spread of untruths, intentionally. In other words, the latter is misinformation, Soviet-style. The practice of spreading lies about an individual or an entity with the intent to cause harm is a scourge in our world today. Israel gets a disproportionate amount.

One often hears about “the occupation.” This refers to that territory the world calls the West Bank. Bible-believers and other Zionists call it Judea and Samaria.

The region is the heartland of Israel, and is loaded with historical meaning. Kings have fought there, and most of the great biblical figures lived there at one time or another. For centuries, it was largely uninhabited, although both Arabs and Jews have lived there since time immemorial, as they say.

Until 1917, it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Then, the British took control before knocking the dust off their sandals 30 years later and leaving it to Jews and Arabs to fight it out. After Israel’s War of Independence, which ended in 1949, Jordan controlled what King Hussein would come to call the West Bank.

In the 1967 Six Day War—which Israel-haters call a land grab, and Israel supporters remember as both a fight for survival and a miracle—the vaunted IDF gained a wide swath of territory, including the biblical heartland. Ever since, the international community has scorned Israel for holding the territory. But Ariel Sharon once told me that the nation can’t be conquered if the IDF controls the ground.

It is a very telling viewpoint and in fact, the wily old general was right. The mountainous terrain—the hills that dot the landscape, at sharp angles—is relatively easy to defend. It is almost impossible to take.

When the Israel-haters on the battlefield, the Arabs, realized military action was a non-starter, they turned their attention to “diplomacy” and propaganda. That is where we are today. They also utilize the Israel-hating bent found in many Westerners, including of course those in the American Evangelical Church.

I want to point out two errors that these self-described evangelicals make in this propaganda war. Some know they are lying; others simply spread misinformation.

The first involves the security fence or, as the Israel-haters call it, “the Wall.” Many are now taking their cues from the Sunday school teacher, Jimmy Carter, and call it an “apartheid wall.” They are bearing false witness against the Jewish state and will one day answer the Almighty for their lies.

The fence was put up in the wake of the homicide bombings that have claimed so many Jewish lives. Let’s be clear: many Israel-haters consider Jews to be scum, so they don’t truly bemoan the deaths of innocents, if they are Israelis. They talk about a commitment to Israel’s security, but that’s a lie.

Now, there are many sincere Christians (dupes) who are being used by the PLO/PA to undermine and attempt to destroy Israel. These people feel they are human rights activists.

But they are being misled on a colossal scale.

More than 90 percent of the security fence is barbed wire. Only a small percentage around certain Arab and Israeli towns is a concrete barrier.

Few people know that.

The vast majority of Americans will never visit Israel, so they rely on someone else to tell them what’s up. The “apartheid wall” (so-named to link Israel to the South African regime that oppressed blacks) in fact only encircles Arab dwellings here and there.

A supremely interesting plot point here is the fact that the Christian Palestinianists in America who are being schooled by folks like Sami Awad will tell you that Bethlehem has become a “prison” because the fence has completely encircled it.

That is false.

The security fence does not go all the way around the town (a thoroughly Jewish area, especially from biblical times, but in the 90s control was given to the PLO). I asked that question on the Facebook page for “Little Town of Bethlehem,” the anti-Israel propaganda film produced by evangelical businessman Mart Green’s EGM Films.

The person who maintains the site answered (in reference to my question: “Does the security fence completely encircle Bethlehem?” that he/she didn’t know.

I no longer see my comment on that FB page; I’m sure it’s been taken down because it doesn’t fit the Palestinian narrative.

What if your life story was largely based on lies? What if the so-called Palestinian narrative is disinformation?

A second interesting question is the settlement of Judea and Samaria by Jews. One can fairly hear critics hiss when they say, “sssettlements,” and this of course is a linchpin in the narrative about the “occupation.”

Yet consider these facts:

Most of it is uninhabited. Only 10 percent has been settled (and that includes Arab towns like Ramallah and Nablus). Ninety percent is empty!

Further, only three percent of the built-up sections is Jewish!

You don’t hear that on the news, do you? You especially don’t hear it from the American Christian Palestinianists, who—I can tell you from personal experience—“turtle-up” when asked direct questions that don’t fit the Palestinian narrative.

One of the problems with embracing the Palestinian narrative, which is really, largely Soviet propaganda going way back, is that it causes people to make wrong choices.

The American Christian Palestinianists like to say that Christian Zionists affect America foreign policy, due to our Israel advocacy.

How absurd.

Is that why the official American foreign policy affirms the creation of a new Arab terror state (Palestine) alongside Israel? Is that why American presidents sit on their hands while PA leaders deny Jewish history in the Holy Land? Is that why political leaders in Washington maintain intense pressure on Israel to not only cede half of Jerusalem, but refuse to place an embassy there? Prediction: if the day comes when we see a state of Palestine come into existence, American diplomats will trip over themselves to cut the ribbon at their embassy in east Jerusalem.

Let me explain to you how American foreign policy is affected by Christian and Jewish Zionists.

In 2011, the Global Counterterrorism Forum was formed under the leadership of the United States, to “provide a unique platform for senior [counterterrorism] policymakers and experts from key partners in different regions to share key insights and best practices.”



That’s okay, I guess. Here’s what’s not okay. The countries making up this elite “counterterrorism” forum include:



Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.

What? Seriously? Is this a joke? Are we on Candid Camera?

Russia, and Arab states are members of this forum? Have we gone mad?

Yes, we have. The world is insane. Oh, and the country missing from this panel of elites?

Israel.

The whole sad affair surrounding the embrace of the Palestinian narrative/disinformation affects not only foreign policy, but has hijacked the Church.

Recently, at York, England, the Church of England voted “overwhelmingly” to strengthen ties with something called the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel[*].

*Nice they included the country that actually exists in that region.

The EAPPI is into the whole “BDS” movement: boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. Notice this from the EAPPI website:

“We have a deep concern for the safety and dignity for all those we work with, and provide protective presence wherever possible. However, the protection we provide is by presence alone and as such is limited – we recognise that we cannot protect civilians from suicide bombings, rockets or military operations because of the nature of such acts.”

Some of the “sending organizations” working with EAPPI include:

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church USA, United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Maryknoll Missioners, Episcopal Church, Church World Service, The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.


So, a key lie in the disinformation campaign aimed at bringing-down Israel is that Christian and Jewish Zionists control American foreign policy.

I wish we did.

Some of the Christian Palestinianists in America are sincere humanitarians who feel their work advances peace. I’m sorry for them, but at least they come at it from a pure heart.

Others, though, know exactly what they’re doing. They don’t like to answer uncomfortable questions, and they don’t like supporters of Israel at all.

The whole thing is diabolical, and is very much about bearing false witness.

The world embraces lies about Israel. Misinformation and disinformation. Deceiving and being deceived.

God help them.

jim@prophecymatters.com


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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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