At least not when it comes to demonizing Israel.
I know I should not be surprised, but sometimes the audacity of the UN still causes me to lose some coffee through my nose.
This is just totally unbelievable.
There are mosques, churches and New Age centers scattered throughout this country, not to mention the central shrine of the Bahai faith in Haifa. And those are just the modern places of worship.
What does the UN think all those millions of Christian pilgrims do when they come here every year? They visit Christian holy sites that are not only protected for that purpose, but are usually fixed up real pretty by the Israelis for their non-Jewish guests.
The hypocrisy of the UN simply knows no bounds.
Where was this stupid panel when the Muslims were destroying centuries worth of Jewish religious artifacts underneath the Temple Mount a few years ago?
Where was this panel when Palestinian Arab mobs were destroying an ancient synagogue in Jericho or the burial site of one of Israel’s most revered patriarchs in Shechem? Where were they when tens of synagogues were burned to the ground in Gaza in the summer of 2005?
And where are these UN hypocrites every time Saudi Arabia forbids a Christian from carrying a Bible into the country, or tortures its own people for becoming believers in Jesus?
The examples could go on and on, but I think we all get the point.
More outrage over this issue from Atlas Shrugs: UN Pimps for Islamazis in Attack on Jerusalem
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11 comments so far ↓
1 Max // Feb 21, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Really great written. Sad but true.
2 Marcel // Feb 21, 2007 at 5:31 pm
There is a reason why top Israeli leadership is so incompetent to fight these onslaughts from the U.N,E.U.,U.S.
Read what a small time Jewish journalist uncovered in Israel in the 50’s because this same tragic history is once again repeating itself before our eyes right now.
I’m sure you realize the great help the U.N gets from the leaders of Israel .
A loyal and strong Jewsih leadership would have put an end to this insanity long ago.
They enable the destroyers of Israel as they have in the past.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders4.htm
The world is now in its early 1950s; Greenwald, in his early seventies. No matter: there is injustice in Israel so Greenwald, in the twilight of his life, becomes a journalist
Careful. Moses, too, had a speech impediment.
Greenwald publishes many issues. Nothing happens. One day he accuses that Rudolf Kastner — once the head of the Jewish Agency’s Hungarian Rescue Committee (created, ostensibly, to rescue Jews from the Holocaust), and now a high official in the Israeli government — helped Adolf Eichmann to exterminate eight hundred thousand Hungarian Jews. What? Outrageous nonsense, no doubt. Does anybody notice? And why should anybody care? This is old Malchiel Greenwald. He has holes in his shoes. He hands out free copies of his blurry, three-page stencil in cafés.
The Israeli government notices. The Israeli government cares. The Israeli government — not Rudolf Kastner, mind you, but the Israeli government — sues Malchiel Greenwald for slander.
There is also an affidavit by Walter H. Rapp, lieutenant colonel of the American army, legal officer of the US State Department, and head of the Evidence Counsel of the War Crimes Council in Nuremberg. His affidavit states that only because of the extraordinary intervention of Dr. Rudolf Kastner, only because of his “pleadings and endeavors on behalf of Becher,” as Rapp put it, and only because Kastner said that “Becher was instrumental in saving the lives of tens of thousands of Jews…at great personal risk to himself with self-sacrificing, if not heroic, acts,” was Kurt Becher released. No other SS officer in custody at Nuremberg has been treated this way, adds Rapp.
Now the Israeli press, so confident at first that Kastner had been vindicated, points out the obvious: it seems that Kastner is a Nazi collaborator. And it asks the uncomfortable question: Why is the Israeli government of David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett, and the recently departed Chaim Weizmann spending a fortune to defend Kastner?
For all the ridiculous Nazi propaganda against the Jews, it must be said that the chief exterminators understand certain things about their quarry. They understand that the Jews love peace. And they understand that the Jews love life and believe in hope. And that mostly, and fiercely, they hope. “People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as to life itself,” writes Ben Hecht. Or more eagerly, perhaps, in the case of the Jews. So Krumey and Wisliczeny, two chief exterminators, meet with the leaders of Hungarian Jewry and explain that severe restrictions will be imposed on the Jews, but the “bad things” (exterminations) will not take place if the Jews cooperate with their own humiliation. “I want the rabbis to reassure the members of their congregations,” Krumey explains. (The deportation and extermination of the Hungarian Jews is but two months away.) A few hundred Jews do not believe this story and they kill themselves. A few others begin to have suspicions, and some even meet in secret to discuss armed resistance, or flight. The Nazis are worried. Someone important, someone the Jews will trust, is badly needed to assuage their fears.
Rudolf Kastner is attractive to the Nazis. He is the representative in Hungary of the Jewish Agency of Palestine, and the de facto head of its Rescue Committee. He is a member of David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party, which controls the Jewish government in Palestine, with British blessing. The Jews of Hungary are isolated and without connections. But Kastner has connections. Lots. And the Nazis are very nice to Dr. Rudolf Kastner. So the Jewish leaders in Hungary defer to Kastner. Maybe he can do something, they think. The Nazis are thinking the same: Kastner can do something. But for them it means the opposite.
What is the most important lesson, here?
The most important lesson, here, is that the Israeli government that defended Rudolf Kastner to protect itself is the same Israeli government that is getting ready to cleanse all remaining Jews from the disputed territories, give these territories to the PLO/Hamas, hand the Golan to Syria, and sit tight while another anti-Jewish Holocaust develops.
The Israeli government is run by the same Labor Zionist tradition. The Irgunist/Revisionist/Herut — and later Likud — tradition pretty much died as a true continuation of the Jabotinsky movement with the passing of Menachem Begin. As discussed in Part 3 of this series, the recent Likudist leaders have actually been the strongest backers of the Oslo ‘peace’ process that David Ben-Gurion protégé Shimon Peres launched, and this Oslo process will soon complete the destruction of Israel.
This is the most important lesson: just as the Nazis needed Rudolf Kastner to distract and reassure the Hungarian Jews, so do the forces that would now destroy the Israeli Jews need Ehud Olmert or any of the main current pretenders to the Israeli prime ministership to distract and dupe the Israelis — and to repress any protest, too — while the next slaughter, due very soon, is being prepared.
This is a very difficult lesson for Jews to learn because they don’t know the above history, educated as they have been by the leaders of Labor Zionism, who to this day control most of the major Jewish organizations in the Diaspora, as well as the Israeli government, the Israeli education system, and the Israeli media. And it is difficult to learn because they would rather cling to their illusions than to their very lives. As George Santayana correctly said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The Jews are about to repeat their own tragic past.
Is this inevitable? Well no. But without a revolution, it is a certain outcome. If the Israeli Jews simply trust that their so-called leaders will defend them, or that their Diaspora brethren will come in a white horse to rescue them, their fate will be identical to that of the Hungarian Jews in WWII.
The Hungarian Jews trusted. And they died.
3 clive // Feb 21, 2007 at 6:17 pm
why does it surprise you? In this month of Adar we celebrate the failure of 2 people who would like to have removed us from existence, at times when we were more vulnerable . The first is as escaped slaves, and the second is as a captured beaten down trodden people in the land of the conqueror. Each time they failed because Hashem protected us, so too will they fail again and again. Their job is to remind us often that Mashiach is not here yet, and our job is to pray and wait for his arrival. At least that is what we are supposed to do. What is more frightening is how we as Jews do not support the miracle of Jewish Sovereignity in the jewish land. We Jews invite and create more trouble than any UN could.
4 Ryan // Feb 21, 2007 at 7:15 pm
clive: It doesn’t actually surprise me. Nonetheless, I am still sometimes taken aback by the level of hypocrisy the world will actually stoop to in order to demonize Israel.
It still catches me off guard now and again how depraved mankind can actually be.
But I do agree with you that no matter how bad it gets, the Almighty is not going to allow them to have their way with Israel.
I also fully agree with you that the Jews are far too often their own worst enemy.
5 Ziona // Feb 21, 2007 at 8:26 pm
What can we, pedestrian Israelis DO to rid us of the corrupt, incompetent “leaders” that the depraved Sharon had imposed (for what ends?) on our gullible herd? By the way, the late lamented Lily Sharon had recommended reading the Biblical Yotam parable, that has, alas, proved sadly true in more than one sense…
6 Christopher Hummel // Feb 21, 2007 at 9:13 pm
In the Days of Old, Almighty God showed that He is all-powerful and all-consuming. He also showed
His love and compassion to the Israelites when He (not reformed) transformed Moses into one of God’s greatest leaders to bring the Jewish People out of the land Egypt.
But because the Israelites chose to doubt and complain about everything, they lost their freedom and died before they were too enter into the Promised Land of Milk and Honey.
Joshua and Caleb saw through the eyes of faith what the Lord our God had promised. We too can chose to believe and receive as we follow the Lord. Or doubt and go without..defeated!
Sins nature is to sting with hate, anger, jealousy, bitterness and resentment. Eye for an ey# leaves
everyone blind.
And the Lord was grieved that He had made Saul king over Israel (1 Samuel 15:35). David found Saul in a deep sleep, but would not harm him (1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9,12-13, 22-23). The Lord is kind and merciful (Psalms 103).
(26:9) The strongest moral decisions are the ones we make before temptation strikes. David was determined to follow God and this carried over into his decision not to murder God’s anointed king, Saul, even when his men and the circumstances seemed to make it a feasible option. Who would you have been like in such a situation - David or David’s men? To be like David and follow God, we must realize that we can’t do wrong in order to execute justice. Even when our closest friends counsel us to do something that seems right, we must always put God’s commands first.
To obey is better than sacrifice (1 Sam 15:22b).
7 Anne Kraemer // Feb 22, 2007 at 6:24 am
Would anyone agree with me, that it’s not really the Jew’s that are their own worst enemies, we all are. I fully support their right to feel a great deal of inner termoil, and inner conflict, but lets face the truth.
Todays enemies of Jews and Israel are after them for much the same reason the world went after Yeshua.
And if you run those reasons by The L-rd G-d of Israel you’ll see that they are wicked.
While history says one thing, when Meshiach arrives, we’re all going to see and hear a different story. And then the face of Israel will shine and stand tall and I plan, by His great promises to be standing with them.
It is frightening to me that Islam wants to rid the world of Christians, America and Jews, Israel, but the closer threat is in Israel, where both reside.
The Lord is still in the business of chastisement of those He loves, but he is never again going to lay to His elect the burden of that History of Curses. Redemption has begun, restoration has begun, healing is found in love and I believe that has begun. Power and Majesty are His.’ Hallel YHWH.’ By the way, did you know that every creature born speaks the name of G-d in their first breath. A baby sucks the breath of life…
Yahhhhhh! And expels the sound whaaaaaa!! YHHHH-WHHHHH
YAHWEH. So in the G-d given Breath of life we give back our Praise and are His.
I wrote a little Hebrew melody, the words are:
The Holy name of God is my
First and My Last , I spoke His precious name when I came with Trumpet Blast.
The last thing I will say when I leave this earth in death. The Holy name of G-d is the rhema of my breath.
What Great Love - we cannot even begin to imagine.
8 Karin Kress // Feb 22, 2007 at 7:00 pm
What more can we expect from them? They are of the devil, the father of lies!!! There is no Truth in them. If only our government could get that through their heads!!
9 Marcel // Feb 22, 2007 at 11:18 pm
If only our government could get that through their heads!!
If the U.N. is of the devil,the father of lies
what does that make our government which created the U.N. ?
The U.S.. is its number one $ funder, and of course the U.N.is headquartered in the U.S.
10 Joyce // Feb 22, 2007 at 11:38 pm
It’s obvious where the UN sympathies lie. They have made that very clear with their anti-semitic views towards Israel. The US needs to take their membership out of that satan based organization, and kick them out of New York. But I doubt that will happen. And I don’t know, but that might make things even worse for Israel. But still, I’m very ashamed of our association with the UN, and I pray that something will be done about it, that will be in the best interest for the US and Israel.
11 Charles Wesley // Feb 25, 2007 at 6:11 am
Marcel,
The one thing that the Arabs have said that I am starting to think may have some merit to it ,is that the USA is the Great Satan . Here lately we seem to have demonstrated their claim to be correct . At least we are being moved in that direction by our Judicial branch .
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