Christians outside the Dispensationalist echo chamber of the [u]nited States tend to view the nation-state of Israel and her wars in a different light than those here in the States.
In England, Father Andrew Phillips writes, ‘As for Israel, it is bankrupt, its economy is in tatters and hundreds of thousands of Israelis are fleeing, especially to Cyprus, Greece and the USA. Who wants to live in Israel now?’
The synod of bishops of the Albanian Orthodox Church recently issued a terse statement condemning the war in Gaza:
The atrocities in Gaza, with tens of thousands of victims, mostly innocent civilians, children, the elderly, the sick, are causing deep suffering. There is a need to achieve an immediate ceasefire. The parties involved must show prudence and reasoning, prioritizing the value of each human being and peaceful coexistence over continued violence with incalculable consequences. Repeated retaliation does not solve the problem. All major powers must contribute to the way out of this catastrophic human and ecological tragedy.
And the Patriarchate of Antioch, practically in the backyard of Israel, also minces no words in its opposition to Israeli brutality:
At the invitation of Patriarch JOHN X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and in the presence of the Antiochian Metropolitans of the Archdioceses in Lebanon, a meeting of the Orthodox Ministers and Members of Parliament was held to discuss the dire circumstances that Lebanon and the Middle East are going through.
The participants condemned the war waged by Israelagainst Lebanon and its citizens, accompanied byassassinations, killing of innocent citizens, destruction, forced migration, and displacement. They called on decision-makers in the world to work for stopping theon-going killing that has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent civilians.
… The participants called for an immediate ceasefire, and to work for a just peace, respect the sovereignty and unity of the Lebanese territories, observe and implement the international resolutions by all parties.
The participants appealed to the international community to hasten and stop the massacre of the Lebanese people and to extend a helping hand to the Lebanese government in order to promote stability in the country and provide relief to the afflicted people at the beginning of winter.
… The participants launched an appeal to the world to stop fueling the criminality that affects the Lebanese people by drying up the flow of weapons that kill Lebanese citizens. The participants reiterated their commitment to work towards establishing peace in Lebanon and providing all the requirements for a decent life for its people, who deserve a secure and prosperous life.
False teachings in the uS, Israel, and other Western countries cause spiritual blindness, discernment is lost, and wrongdoers are lionized as heroes as a result. Dr Michael Hoffman explains a bit:
The conflation of Zionism with Judaism is the real act of intimidation. Atrocities perpetrated against Palestinians and Lebanese are being committed in the name of “the Jewish state of Israel,” a phrase that is a disingenuous linguistic trap.
The Zionist entity in the Middle East violates Talmudic injunctions by its very existence; it is not theologically Judaic from the point of the view of Judaism’s holiest text, the Talmud Bavli. In Ketubot 111a one encounters the “Three Oaths” taken when the Jews went into exile after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D.
They are: “One, that Israel not ascend the wall; another, that the Holy One adjured Israel not to rebel against the nations of the world; and another, that the Holy One adjured the gentiles not to oppress Israel too much.”
These Talmudic halachos forbade Jews from engaging in collective political organizing and the use of military force. For 1300 years an overwhelming majority of all rabbinic authorities upheld these prohibitions. It was only when the Zionist ideology came to the fore in the early 20th century that they were abandoned, or subjected to a reinterpretation that nullified them.
Moreover, as authentic followers of Jesus know, Christians are the true Israel, the genuine descendants of Abraham, and the inheritors of the Bible’s covenant promises (1 Peter 2:9, Gal. 6:16, Romans 9:6) to be a blessing unto humanity (Gal. 3:8).
A little reading through Church history would help Christians understand that the Jewish people ain’t their best buds in the Middle East. Some examples from the Lives of the Saints:
–Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord
When the Savior began to proclaim the Kingdom of God, Saint James believed in Christ and became His Apostle. Later, he was chosen as the first Bishop of Jerusalem.
Saint James presided over the Council of Jerusalem and his word was decisive (Acts 15). In his thirty years as bishop, Saint James converted many Jews to Christianity. Angered by this, the Pharisees and the Scribes plotted together to kill the holy bishop. They led him up on the pinnacle of the Jerusalem Temple and asked him what he thought of Jesus. The holy Apostle bore witness that Christ is the Messiah, which was not the response the Pharisees were expecting. Enraged, the Jewish leaders threw him off the roof. He did not die at once, but gathering his final strength, he prayed to the Lord for his enemies while they were stoning him. Saint James’ martyrdom occurred about 63 A.D.
–Hieromartyr Judas, another Bishop of Jerusalem:
THE APOSTLE St. James and his brother St. Simeon were the two first bishops of Jerusalem; thirteen bishops who succeeded them were of the Jewish nation; the last, called Judas, seems to have been crowned with martyrdom among the Christians whom Barchokebas massacred in 134.
–Martyrs of Negran in Arabia:
Arethas was prefect of the Christian city of Negran in Arabia. The Arabian (or Omirite) king, Dunaan, who was Jewish, decided to eliminate Christianity from the land. He issued an edict that all followers of Christ were to be put to death.
Because the inhabitants of Negran remained faithful to the Lord, Dunaan came with a large army to destroy the city. At the city walls of Negran the king’s heralds announced that Dunaan would only spare those who renounced Christ and referred to His Cross as a “sign of malediction.”
Not daring to assault the Christian city by force, Dunaan resorted to a ruse. Dunaan swore an oath that he would not force the Christians into Judaism, but would merely collect a tribute from Negran. The inhabitants of the city would not heed the advice of Saint Arethas, and putting their trust in Dunaan, they opened the city gates.
The very next day Dunaan gave orders to light an immense fire and throw all the clergy of the city into it in order to frighten the rest of the Christians. 427 men were burned. He also threw the prefect Arethas and the other chief men into prison. Then the oppressor sent his messengers through the city to convert the Christians to Judaism. Dunaan himself conversed with those inhabitants brought from the prisons, saying, “I do not demand that you should renounce the God of heaven and earth, nor do I want you to worship idols, I want merely that you do not believe in Jesus Christ, since the Crucified One was a man, and not God.”
The holy martyrs replied that Jesus is God the Word, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, Who for the salvation of mankind was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. Those suffering said, “We shall not abjure Christ, since He is Life for us. To die for Him is to find Life.”
More than four thousand Christians, men, women, both the aged and children, from the city of Negran and surrounding villages suffered martyrdom for Christ.
The demons are exceptionally shrewd. They know, after thousands of years of observing and interacting with humans, how to bring physical and spiritual destruction upon us with ease if we let our guard down even briefly. Our sins have allowed them to run rampant in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, initiating and sustaining wars that ought not to be happening.
Only repentance will save us from an ever-widening vortex of devastation, repentance for abandoning the Truth, repentance of our rebellion against the All-Holy Trinity, whether we be Dixian, Yankee, European, Jewish, etc. May the latter follow the excellent example of earlier generations of Jews – the Holy Apostles, the early bishops of Jerusalem, and many other converts to Christianity. And may Westerners also return to the path of their holy and honorable Christian forebears.
Geopolitics will present a much different visage if we are able with God’s help to take even some small steps in that direction.
-By Walt Garlington
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
There is always a Knife.
Look ye not to the knife, but to the Hand that wields it.
I posit that the Palestinians are mere cannon fodder. Expendible detritus from the Crusades: Circassians, gypsies, POWs, migrant farm indentures.
The goal is to clear the land Old Testament style, of course. As in the OT, the colonists moved in and pretended peace until the time came to take it all.
But the true goal is to erase the Stain of the Heretic forever from those lands. The First Christians of Palestine, the Lebanese Marionite Catholics, the Syrian Orthodox- these are the true enemy to be wiped clean.
There are plenty of Muslims left to replace the Palestinians.
If I may, there is another thing:
Arabs did not create Islam.
Islam is the Judaic Reformation.
The Ishmaelites are also Seeds of Abraham; the promise to multiply applies also to them, in their minds, another false promise proffered by their Hebraic recruiters.
The Arab pagans were Christianizing as fast as were the Roman pagans of empire Europe. The same Jewish suprmacists that Jesus fought sought revenge against Rome for sacking Jerusalem in 70 and 135 AD.
Islam, the Knife, was the Semitic army raised to first wipe out the Arab Christians, and then, the Roman Christians- and since Christianity was spreading through both the Eastern and Western Roman Empire, Islam went on to attack all infidels.
This was done during Judaism’s evangelistic phase, as attested to by the author’s passages re the city of Negran. (This was also the time of Khazaria’s formation. After 70 AD, they had to go somewhere, and many went to the Ukraine, to what would be called the Pale of Settlement under the Tsars.)
Much history ensues, from which I will defer. Islam is the Knife, but another Hand holds the knife, as we see in today’s Jewish-run Muslim Migration into Europe, and the Shabbos Goy armies into the Anglosphere.
They never learn the lesson of their Golems, nor need they. The Stain of the Heretic and of the People of the New Covenant must be erased, by any means necessary, that their Mosiach – not yours!! – will come back to the world and reward them with its rule.
(Here’s a hint: Jesus already argued with that one in the desert, when that one offered him all of this as a kingdom that one had laid claim to.)
Knights of the South, you were attacked first, before the assassination of Tsar Alexander and later, his son Nicolas. Russia is a holdfast, a bulwark to the east, but it is in you I see the hope of this continent, the greatest pan-European Tribe ever assembled.
All can see the true Hand of the Increate at work in our brothers and sisters from the Carolinas through Florida and beyond, and of the true Spirit of the Creator that moves them.
Lead us. Guide us. This is the Time that has come, you are ever our polestar, you who have already come through the Forge.
Forgive me once more, but as to October 7th and the war on Hamas:
Hamas was created by Israel as a community-oriented alternative to the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, which had grown corpulent and corrupt under the rule of that Egyptian sodomite, Yasir Arafat. The Authority was only interested in building mansions in Gaza, procuring West Bank boys for Arafat, and skimming off the UNRWA funds. (As well as paying for Suha’s jewelry in the French Riviera and Yasir’s Swiss bank account.)
Why, people have forgotten, why would the Israelis bring back Arafat and his Tunisian thugs after they had finally exiled him to Tunis? Yet, that is another thing they did.
This held things in place for a while, as settlement slowly ate up more land. But how to get the remainder off the land?
Ask yourself- what do Jews do best?
Radicalize. That is, radicalize other populations.
Blacks. Women. Homosexuals. College students. Democrats. Migrants. Dispensational evangelicals.
Christian charities (the boards of directors of those captured “Christian” migration charities are not…Christian, any more than the boards of the GOP and DNC, as the Parties are also corporations themselves, and just as captured.)
Well, how do you get the the Palestinians out and still maintain the moral high ground?
You radicalize them.
What does Hamas, Israel’s creation, teach?
We all know what it teaches in their schools, in the schoolbooks and tv shows. My goodness. Who writes such scripts, who publishes those schoolbooks. Who knows how to run a tv station or film studio?
The Pali’s are already a pretty excitable bunch, since many were Arab League soldiers told they couldn’t go home, or Arab migrant workers brought in as farm slaves on Ottoman estates (like Filipinos in Dubai are), or dissidents riled up to cause trouble in Hashemite or Arab League countries.
The Israelis have the same problem as would a bunch of Yiddish community organizers in Brooklyn who got stuck with taking in the BLM marchers they organized. Now those BLM types took over the black AME churches of their overseers, and are blocking the street.
You see, the so-called ‘smartest people in the world’ (another fraud they created in 1915), believing their own bullskype, never learn the lesson of the Golem they create.
So when we look at the false flag of October 7th and all the whizzing and moaning that ensued, understand: this is theatre, meant to get an emotional reaction from the audience.
Only this time, rather than justify their chutzpah, the smartest people might – might! – just have screwed the pooch.