This was originally posted on my other blog.
From the dust jacket of the book “From Time Immemorial” by Joan Peters. “Joan Peters strikes a heavy blow against the broad consensus about ‘the Palestinians’ and the assumption that Palestinian rights are at the heart of the Arab Israeli conflict . . . From Time Immemorial supplies abundant justification for reversing the moral and legal presumptions that have cast Israel in the role of defendant before the court of world opinion.” And from the Washington Post, “A remarkable document in itself. . . . The refugees are not the problem but the excuse.”
Starting out to write a book supporting the Palestinian cause, her exhaustive research caused her to turn 180 degrees. What Peters uncovered was that the Palestinian problem, blamed by so many on Israel, turned out to have resulted from a monstrous historical hoax. Piecing together documents tucked away in old Ottoman and British records, dating from the beginning of the Israelis return to their homeland, like an expert detective, Peters uncovered the crime against the Jews.
The real history of this middle east conflict goes like this. The League of Nations granted the Jews their homeland which was to include both the East and the West side of the Jordan. Like many people, I had thought the land was teaming with people know as the Palestinians. Quite the contrary.
As the Jews began to resettle the Holy Land at the turn of this century, there were approximately 55,000 Muslims and 60,000 Jews living in the area. At the time, many of the Muslims were even wandering nomads.
The International community, under the League of Nations, assigned Britain to oversee the return of the Jews to their home land with Britain pledging under the Mandate that the land would be “closely settled by Jews.”
The Jews and British began creating an infrastructure in this once barren land. Attracted by the Jews success, just like today with our success, illegal immigrants began to sneak into the areas granted to the Jews both on the East and the West side of the Jordan. The British, motivated by the need to form military alliances with Arab countries at a time Europe was in turmoil, fraudulently reported to the League of Nations that the tens of thousands of explosive Arab growth was resulting from high birthrates of indigenous people.
By the time, the Jews needed to flee persecution in Europe, the British conspired with Arab nations to perpetuate the hoax that the Jewish homeland was overpopulated and that Arabs were being displaced. To add to the travesty the British made secret alliances with Arab nations. Then when the illegals began to become unhappy in Israel and tried to return to their countries of origin, they found themselves prevented by the leaders of the nations from which they had migrated. These countries had rid themselves of unskilled people, and even more insidiously, the Arab leaders realized that by pushing the people into the face of Israel, they could establish claim to the land for Islam. Much like walking the plank, the illegals faced Israel in front with guns, Arab countries at their rear with guns.
Finally, when the Jews faced the Holocaust and were fleeing Europe, the deceitful British claimed there were now too many people in what was finally being called Palestine. Many Jews lost their lives because of that British treachery.
As I watch the present crisis unfold, I am looking through the lens of this wonderfully documented book.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Arab Israeli Conflict
Christianity Light vs The Real Thing
Recently, I posted the following:Mushy Christianity
Then, in the comment section the liberals piled on me. One implied I was arrogant and another, that I was unlearned. One (RV) suggested: “Blogger, read again the story about the loaves and the fishes. Matthew 14: 13-21.”
To which I replied to them: “In picking the feeding of the multitude, you could not have picked a better Scripture to disprove your point and support mine.”
Later RV came back with “I have read the story again. I am not sure what you are referring to unless it is the miraculous nature of taking five loaves and two fishes and feeding all the people. But in order for this miracle to take place, Jesus had to want to feed them (because he loved them).
Meanwhile a reader who had been tuning in on the running debate in the comment sections of many of my posts, weighed in with “Blogger is simply stating the fact - Jesus did far more than give money to the poor and treat people kindly.(A point, I, Blogger, had been trying to make for months.) He also cast out demons,healed the sick through supernatural power, cleansed lepers, and raised the dead. The overwhelming weight of New Testament passages and church history support Blogger's claims - believe it, or not “
As Blogger, I then breathed a sigh of relief and am now writing to RV. “RV Thanks for working at this. You are finally hearing me.
You probably know your recent church history and are aware of the Social Gospel. Social Gospel. Many today believe that the Social Gospel by taking over the main line churches and distancing people from the supernatural, was the cause of the decline of influence of Christianity in the world, especially in the Western World.
However arising almost concurrently with the Social Gospel and beginning with a revival in California and one in Wales, the supernatural reappeared and those who are seeing these miracles today are becoming the fastest growing segment of Christianity. Rise of Pentecostal/Charismatic Apart from growth in Islam (chiefly through high birth rates), the supernatural element of Christianity is outstripping all other forms of spirituality in the world.
This post was originally posted on my other blog.
Jesus’ disciples, through the work of the Holy Spirit, were able to duplicate the healing and the deliverance miracles of Jesus then and now. However, the manifestation of food by extra ordinary acts seems to have eluded them. Scripture says that Jesus leaped for joy when the disciples demonstrated His healing and deliverance miracles. On the other hand, as you read, He seems to have been disappointed that they did not get the feeding miracle.
My concern is that those who want to emphasize only the love part which you noted, but are not working on learning to reproduce the manifestation miracles (or other miracles for that matter), suck all the oxygen out of the room. The miracle of the fishes and the loaves have appeared from time to time in church history and are now being reported more often as people return to trying to learn to do what Jesus told them He would help them do.