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Outside the box
Mike FryerThere is so much written about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, specifically concerning the land, that there is little or no point in adding to it. Anyone with even a trace of understanding about what is happening in that part of the world would have to agree that if you have a terrorist organization operating inside your Nation which is actively killing your own people but who are using the people they govern as a tool to manipulate world powers to support them, has to be challenged. We all have to agree that after eight years of seeking peace with HAMAS and the Palestinian people Israel has been left with no other option than to enter the turf on which terror in that region is administered and destroy its perpetrators.
This is not only for the good of Israel but also the ordinary Palestinian Arabs. They were oppressed by their previous ruler Yasser Arafat who divested millions of dollars of aid money intended for the Palestinian people into his own bank accounts.They are now being oppressed by HAMAS, who in recent months have opposed aid and support given to the people living in Gaza via the border crossings from Israel. HAMAS now use their own woman and children as shields in a fight, not for land but for the destruction of every Jew living in Israel.
We are led to believe that HAMAS are fighting for a cause , for a right and for impoverished civilians. If we believe that then we ignore the evidence and facts that point to a strategy by International Terrorists to destroy the fabric of our society as we know it.
The rockets that are fired into Israeli communities are a sign to all of us who have eyes to see, that International terror is only currently focused on Israel BUT has within its own sights the support of governments and organizations that will ultimately cause the radicalizing of our society, not only against Israel and the Jews, but also against Christendom and the West.
In the past ten years I have seen Christendom being led by its nose towards a future in which it unwittingly aligns with International terror disguised as “charity for the Palestinian Arabs”. Christian organizations such as SABEEL and Christian Aid continue to plead the cause of the Palestinian people, wrongly pointing to Israel as the root cause . I have not seen either of these groups show any sign of support for such as the children of Sderot, 95% of whom are suffering Post Traumatic Stress and many of whom today have been forced out of their homes by HAMAS rockets. Churches such as Bloomsbury Baptist Church London and St James Piccadilly invite the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign a radical ant-Semitic group to sing anti-Israel songs to their congregations. These are congregants who are called by their original scriptures to bless Israel and not curse them. This is at a time when their Christian brothers and sisters in Bethlehem are being persecuted by the very people PSC are supporting. Christians today are being taught that Jesus was a Palestinian and many foolishly believe this to the benefit of terrorist propaganda.
Using so called respectable Christian organizations to voice the anti-Israel sentiment has probably been the most effective and direct way in which International Terror organizations have been able to legitimise a Palestinian people and a Palestinian state. This deception makes the strategy of the terror network the cleverest and without doubt the most effective ever.
Why can’t we step out of the box and see the dangerous intentions of what we are fed by these groups and of course the International media. There is a bigger picture than the one we are presented with.
One major fact is overlooked, and that is that there is a well prepared strategy by Fundamental Terror groups who are manipulating our own leaders in a way that causes them to retract from support of Israel which is a democratic nation in favor of keeping radical Islam from becoming an uncontrollable issue within our own society. It seems to our society to be more acceptable in the face of such radicalization to ignore attempts to burn down synagogues in London and the vicious attacks on Jewish communities than to challenge those who in recent days parade placards saying “Kill the Jews”. What we fail to note is that at some stage we will all have to face this dangerous phenomenon in the future unless we deal with it in its rawest form now in Israel.
The anti-Israel demonstrations in the UK are evidence of the truth of my argument. These well organised highly motivated and extremely media focused gatherings are not a knee jerk reaction to this current situation. They have been the blue prints of some Politicians and activists for years. When Ken Livingston embraced Dr. Yusaf Al-Qaradawi a few short years ago to the Mayoral Office of our Capitol City he was preparing us to accept anti-Semitic advocates into our Political arena. George Galloway and his Respect Party working with the Muslim Association of Britain and its related organizations have effectively been readied for Israel’s response to being attacked over many years. Their aim is to take a toll on British public opinion which has the effect of forcing our government to tread far too cautiously and making it difficult for our Politicians to give Israel the full support she needs at this hour.
The aims of Galloway, Livingstone and the MAB, whose executive includes Azzam Al-Tamimi, a Hebron-born academic who has called himself a “sympathiser and supporter” of HAMAS, are to gain both passive and active support to legitimise HAMAS and De-legitimise Israel by portraying her as an oppressive and aggressive state. The demonstrations have, been helped by such as Tony Benn and Annie Lennox, and have become afocusfor those who have a hatred towards Jews and Zionism and they have enabled the MAB, Respect and other related organizations as well as radical individuals to gain ground.
I think it has to be said that if you are involved in any Church, organisation or political alignment that supports or in any way endorses HAMAS and therefore International terror you are putting our Faith, our democracy and the future of our children in the UK at risk.
I ask that we all look outside of the box and see the trap that is set to destroy not only a legitimate land called Israel but a society in which democracy still exists. If you stand with Israel now you are standing for a safer future in Britain.
Michael Fryer
Director
Christians for Zion
13th January 09
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Reader Comments (2)
A chance encounter with this website, and the first post I see is crude Zionist propaganda. Read John Pilger about Palestine, how the Palestinians are the victims, not the aggressors, about their oppression at the hands of the Zionists, of the constant humiliations, violence, and racism which they endure from their occupiers, who are in breach of UN resolutions, and who willfully ignore them with the support of America, and the tacit agreement of the UK. Read about the war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, and how, when the Palestinians retaliate in desperation against the crimes of their occupiers, which they are allowed to do under international law, they are the ones branded the terrorists, rather than an Israel which is armed to the teeth by America in its pursuit of the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and the West Bank. Read about the illegal blockade of Gaza where sick children are left to die rather than be allowed out of the Gaza ghetto to get proper medical treatment. If any other nation was guilty of such crimes against humanity and of perpetuating such a violent illegal occupation it would have invited the pious fury of America and the west, and possible invasion. But this is Israel, which can disenfranchise and maltreat another people with impunity.
Fortunately, there are many brave Israelis outside the Zionist fold who are ashamed of their country's actions, and who campaign for the rights of Palestinians. Hopefully, even though America and Europe close their eyes and ears to what is really happening in Palestine, good will eventually triumph, and this displaced and subjugated people will eventually be able to live in peace and dignity in a part of what used to be their own sovereign nation
Dear Stewart,
Your comment is flawed in the basic premise that John Pilger and the UN are completely non-bias. John Pilger has made his personal bias well known, as has the New Statesman for whom he writes. It has also long been accepted by all rational thinking people that UN are foundationally opposed to the state of Israel. There conferences, which often call for sanctions against Israel, without there being any real evidence for doing so and their open door to Iran’s president a holocaust denier are clear messages of their position. Therefore once an argument against Israel is based on UN resolutions and John Pilgers reports it must be regarded as futile.
You mention Gaza, have you forgotten that the Palestinian Authority promised peace if the 8,000 Jewish residents of Gush Katif Gaza were evicted from their homes in 2005 which is what happened. Immediately after the eviction the ground on which they once farmed became a firing range for terrorists shooting over six thousand rockets at Sderot and the surrounding areas discriminately killing and maiming innocent civilians. What sort of
promise was that? Do you really think that if Israel gave away more land HAMAS would make peace?
Are you aware that between 1967 and 2000 whilst under the Israeli government the standard of living in Gaza was higher for the ordinary Palestinian people than at any other time? This is simply explained by the fact that Arafat died the sixth richest man in the world having divested huge amounts of aid money away from his own people in order to use them as a tool to attack and abuse Israel. It is widely accepted by most reasonable onlookers that HAMAS continue to do the same thing today.
You mention ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem and the West bank. I have just returned from those very places and have witnessed an increase in the Palestinian Arab population in both areas. Arab taxi drivers, market holders and hoteliers prosper there and are happy to run their businesses along side Jews, so were is the ethnic cleansing you speak about, there is no evidence either on the ground or politically of such a cleansing and therefore it is Palestinian Arab propaganda that has been the
downfall of your comment rather than its thrust. Your argument also undervalues the areas in the world who are experiencing real ethnic cleansing such as Darfur. You must have realised that no matter what Israel does Palestinian Arab terrorists try to convince the world that it is bad.
This form of Palestinian Arab terrorist propaganda is nothing new. The grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1930’ and 40’s was Arafat’s uncle who was a collaborator and friend of Hitler who wrote this in his book Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X.
“…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation ….would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
The Arab terrorist propaganda machine follows this same principle of lying hoping something will stick and many in their ignorance soak up the lies so please don’t continue to fall into this trap as many Europeans did during the second world war.
You talk about children suffering on the crossings.That is simply not true; Israel has set up medical centres on the border and regular transport to hospitals in Tel Aviv for the sick. Who is actually fighting for the rights of ordinary Palestinian Arabs? is it HAMAS? No it has been proved that HAMAS have converted ambulances given by aid agencies into mobile rocket launchers. HAMAS used hospitals as their headquarters in January. Israel however is fighting the causes of many Palestinians by supplying fuel and aid through the crossings, campaigning against executions for Palestinians who sell land to Jews, calling for Human rights groups to campaign to stop the teaching of hate to children in the Palestinian schools. Israel supplies electricity and water to Gaza whilst HAMAS cut of electricity supplies in Sderot with their rockets.
If IDF stood down today and used the soldiers to sell flowers on the streets of Jerusalem Palestinian Arab terrorists would kill every Jew in Israel and then turn their guns and bombs towards Jews in every nation in the world. This is not just about land Stewart it is about that ancient unfounded hatred towards Jews no matter where they are or what they do.
I have just been on the Gaza border and can tell you that there are now Palestinian Arab families who have left Gaza and are in hiding from HAMAS in Israel. They are to frightened to go back and are now being cared for by Israeli’s. They tell stories of executions in Gaza City of anyone who speaks out against HAMAS. They relate their experiences of being made to be human shields and there homes, hospitals and schools being used as terrorists camps. Who is oppressing whom?
Stewart, I sincerely ask that you please examine the facts on the ground because I know all to well that many ordinary Palestinian Arabs living in GAZA simply want peace but are prevented from reaching that goal by their own terrorist leaders who have nothing in their sights other than the annihilation of the only Jewish state in the world.
Mike