There will be no peace until we replace “Christian” Zionism with Jesus’ love-centered teachings (it’s not about religion) and Jews get back to the God of Leviticus
War and genocide in the Middle East are fueled by a government supported by an Evangelical church that has replaced Jesus with Israel. We can restore peace and stability by reversing this process.
We are seeing war and genocide in the Middle East, fueled by a government supported by an Evangelical church that has replaced Jesus with Israel and by a synagogue that has dismissed the Levitican commandment of love. We can restore peace and stability simply by reversing that process and refocusing on love. It’s common sense.
Chuck Baldwin’s very important article explains how “Christian” Zionism is erasing Christianity
I recommend reading Chuck Baldwin’s very important article linked above to understand the extreme danger that “Christian” Zionism represents both for the future of America and the world and for Christian culture – which we can say, at least in the simplest secular terms (putting aside for now, the dogmatic, legalistic and ritualistic aspect), separates us from the barbarians with no respect for life (which I believe is the selling point of Christian culture from a secular standpoint).
You don’t have to be a Bible scholar or even a believer to understand what is happening to our entire Christian culture in America.
With all due respect for the author, let me try to explain this in different, less religious language than Chuck Baldwin’s. I grew up in the Bible Belt where my own family (my father was a preacher) and the surrounding Evangelical community taught essentially “Christian” Zionism that sought to place the pseudo-state of “Israel” at the center of our religious life – where it was actually quite out of place – though it was not just the Zionism that contaminated Jesus’ message. There was also an unwholesome pseudo-patriotism admixed in our religion, such that it was never clear which was paramount – God or patriotism. We spoke of God and country but no one could quite explain which was which, God vs country. To some, the will of Washington was identical to the will of God. Yet it became clear to me later in life that the will of warmongering Washington was closer to the will of Satan than anything else! The vast majority of my friends and family seemed to think Washington expressed the will of God, and here is the point of contention between me and them.
Chuck speaks of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, and what this boils down to is that the Old Testament teaches law, while the New Testament teaches grace through Jesus.
And while this is a religious concept, the net result of the Zionist teaching for America is that, from a practical-secular standpoint in today’s world, the Old Covenant permits genocide and the New Covenant does not. Because as Netanyahu explained, Zionism as it has developed in the crucible of the ultraright (fascist) Likud Party in recent years, now believes – without any justification in the scriptures – that humanity is now thrown back to its primitive roots where a whole ethnicity is being exterminated by the Jews because they believe the Arab ethnicity is so constituted genetically as to irrationally hate the Jews. BTW, “Christian” Zionist propaganda has been at work for a very long time. I was told by a Sunday school teacher that the Arabs and Jews would always be at war with each other because they were just naturally enemies, like cats and dogs. I had no idea at the time that this was a politically motivated lie, although I was disturbed that no further explanation was given as to the origin of this enmity.
Of course, this is demonstrably not so because, as I learned later, before the first Zionists arrived on the scene in Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th century, Jews, Christians and Muslims lived together in relative peace and none had the upper hand socially and politically. Nor was there a general anti-Jewish sentiment among Muslims that could have led to war.
It was not until the first European Jewish terrorists (the Irgun, the Lehi and the Haganah) arrived in Palestine and began their systematic ethnic cleansing pogroms that war broke out between the Palestinians – falsely identified by the Zionists as Muslim (though in fact, they were a mixture of Muslims, Christians and Jews, ie, the peaceful indigenous Jews whose ancestors had lived there for centuries) – and the warmongering Zionist Jews from Europe. The recent history that led up to the disruption of Palestinian society in the early and middle 20th Century is thoroughly and accurately chronicled in a book by Ilan Pappé, the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which is reduced to a concise video presentation available here.
The entire Western populace is shielded from these important facts in our media and education system because Zionism is a virulent manipulative geopolitical phenomenon that has seized control of the spiritual and intellectual culture of both Jews and Christians.
The bottom line is that if you aspire to imitate Jesus, as you ought to if you want to be a Christian, then you need to love the Muslims as you love yourself. Likewise for the Jews and their Judaism, which was once focused on love.
The God of Abram, whom the Jews and their Christian brothers claim to worship, taught them:
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34
But today’s Christians and Jews both have discarded the key teachings of their religion that could have led to a harmonious and peaceful co-existence.
It still can if we open up our hearts and minds. But to achieve that, Evangelicals must replace our toxic “Christian” Zionism with the authentic love-centered teachings of Jesus, and Jews must get back to the God of Leviticus.
For reference:
https://donhank.substack.com/p/christian-zioinism
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Here’s your air strike update for July 11, 2024
translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://radiosputnik.ru/20240711/vzryvy-1959096230.html
11.07.2024
The media reported a series of explosions in the Kyiv region and western Ukraine
Ukrainian media: explosions occur near Kiev and Starokonstantinov
MOSCOW, July 11/ Radio Sputnik. Several explosions occurred on Thursday evening in the Kyiv and Khmelnitsky oblasts located in western Ukraine, local media reported.
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“There are reports of explosions in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky oblast,” says a publication posted on the Telegram channel of the online publication Strana.ua.
Some time later, journalists reported that repeated explosions were heard in the city.
[Starokonstantinov is home to a military airfield that is struck frequently by the Russian forces. Of all the targets of Russian missiles, it is the one that has appeared the most frequently by far in my daily updates. This is because it is believed to be the one most frequently used as a jump-off airfield for strikes against Russia and Russian-controlled regions. Russia also suspects that Kiev wants to use this airfield to house those F-16s soon to arrive in Ukraine]
MOSCOW, July 11/ Radio Sputnik. Several explosions occurred on Thursday evening in the Kyiv and Khmelnitsky oblasts located in western Ukraine, local media reported.
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“There are reports of explosions in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky oblast,” says a publication posted on the Telegram channel of the online publication Strana.ua.
Some time later, journalists reported that repeated explosions were heard in the city.
In turn, the Ukrainian publication “Zerkalo nadeli” disseminated information about explosions near Kiev, which were allegedly the result of the work of the Ukrainian air defense system.
According to the online map on the website of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, as of 20:54 Moscow time, the air raid siren sounds in Kyiv and 16 oblasts of the country.
On Thursday afternoon, Sputnik radio reported that an air raid warning had been announced for the second time in 24 hours throughout Ukraine.
In turn, the Ukrainian publication “Zerkalo nadeli” disseminated information about explosions near Kiev, which were allegedly the result of the work of the Ukrainian air defense system.
According to the online map on the website of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, as of 20:54 Moscow time, the air raid siren sounds in Kyiv and 16 regions of the country.
On Thursday afternoon, Sputnik radio reported that an air raid warning had been announced for the second time in 24 hours throughout Ukraine.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
A possible strike by Kinzhals on a bunker with Ukrainian Armed Forces generals was reported
"Tsargrad": The Russian Armed Forces hit a bunker with generals with Kinzhals on a tip from the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Vasily Koshkin
The Ukrainian military could have transmitted to the Russian troops the coordinates of a bunker with high-ranking officers located there, which was later hit by a missile strike. This was reported by the Tsargrad military correspondent Andrei Revnivtsev.
We are talking about a strike on the facilities of the Northern Mining and Processing Plant of the Metinvest group in Krivoy Rog [Dnepropetrovsk oblast], which took place on July 8. According to Tsargrad, there was an Ukrainian Armed Forces bunker located there, where Ukrainian generals could have been present at the time of the strike.
“It seems that the target was pointed out by “good people” - those who have scores to settle with their commanders. Or they simply suggested it for a fee,” says the Tsargrad article.
The information about the attack on the bunker was also confirmed by the channel’s unnamed sources.
However, there is no official confirmation of this data.
Earlier, the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, reported the attack on Metinvest facilities. According to him, the company produced metal mesh for infantry fighting vehicles and tanks.
At the same time, the underground worker did not talk about the possible presence of any secret bunkers on the territory of the facility, limiting himself to the information that before the attack, a group of military personnel, accompanied by civilians, arrived at the facility.
In turn, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in a report for July 8, reported a high-precision weapon attack on the site of a meeting of the command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Where exactly the meeting took place was not specified in the message.
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Here’s why Trump (Zion Don) is no good either. He promises his donors war and promises his voters peace. When asked about the Israel-Palestine question, his standard response is: “finish the job, Bibi”. Obviously, Donnie is piqued because there are still Palestinians in the region that have survived the bombings. He apparently agrees with the Israeli assessment of Palestinians as animals that must be exterminate.
https://orientalreview.su/2024/07/10/why-trump-too-is-totally-unacceptable-to-vote-for/
Re: Streets are strewn with bodies in Gaza City. MORAL America sends 500 lb bombs AFTER the massacre!
Our thanks to JS:
Thu 7/11/2024 4:11 PM
The only "red line" that Genocide Joe has ever really cared about is made up of the bloodied bodies of Palestinians killed by US bombs.
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US state department confirms it's bad to bomb hospitals when Russia does it
But it's fine when our friends do it many times over
JUL 11, 2024
Let me just add that NATO is also fully supporting the Israeli genocide.
According to him [Jens], NATO member countries need to rally their ranks to support Israel and avoid escalation in the Middle East. [supporting only one side will not bring peace and stability]
"There are players who would be extremely happy if the West, the United States and we began to divide our attention between what is happening in the East and in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine. This will not happen," said the Deputy Secretary General of NATO.
Jens says nothing about Israel’s deliberate and proven attacks on Gazan hospitals but condemns Russians for the alleged Russian strike on a Kiev hospital:
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg condemned Russia's action, describing the strikes as "horrendous missile attacks against Ukrainian cities, killing innocent civilians including children."
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Israel orders complete evacuation of Gaza’s largest city; streets are strewn with bodies – Day 277
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG JULY 11, 2024 BULLDOZE CEMETERY, GAZA CITY EVACUATION, HUMANITARIAN AID, ICC ARREST WARRANT, ISRAELI SELF INVESTIGATION, MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL, WAR CRIMES, WHITEWASHING
Recently released Palestinian prisoners exchange horror stories of torture, starvation, and neglect. (screengrab)
ISRAELI ARMY BULLDOZES CEMETERY IN GAZA CITY
Exclusive video obtained by Al Jazeera shows bodies strewn around the streets in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, as fighting there continues.
Residents of the area, where Israeli forces have been conducting an intense ground operation for the last several days, reported that upon their return to their partially destroyed homes, they found graves exhumed and the cemetery completely bulldozed.
This is not the first time the Israeli army has been accused of desecrating graveyards. In January, video captured a destroyed cemetery in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, with the telltale marks of bulldozer treads in the dirt on top of what were previously graves.
NETANYAHU TO AVOID EUROPE ON WAY TO US IN FEAR OF ICC ARREST WARRANT
The Cradle reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will avoid stopping in Europe over fears about an impending arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his role in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, according to reports in Israeli media.
The premier’s office recently “reviewed” whether or not to stop in Europe when he heads to the US capital to deliver a speech before the US Congress on 24 July.
Israel’s Kan broadcaster revealed that, after considering several options, Netanyahu decided to take a direct flight to Washington.
Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, including the starvation of civilians as a weapon of war, willfully causing great suffering, willful killing, intentional attacks on a civilian population, and extermination, among other charges.
Many of Israel’s closest allies – including Germany – have confirmed they would enforce an ICC arrest warrant against the prime minister if he visits the country and the warrant is issued.
RECOMMENDED READING: Spying & threats: Israel spent 9 years trying to keep the ICC off the trail of Israel’s war crimes.
NOTE: Prior to the war, Gaza City was the most populous city in the State of Palestine, with 590,481 inhabitants in 2017.
THREE-MONTH-OLD GIRL SOLE SURVIVOR IN ISRAELI KILLING OF FAMILY IN WESTERN GAZA CITY
Al Jazeera reports: A three-month-old girl, Asmaa Ajour, lies in Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after Israeli forces killed all her immediate family members in Gaza City.
According to her grandmother, the family moved to the Sina’a neighborhood in western Gaza City, but the Israeli military operation expanded suddenly overnight and the area was attacked, and Asmaa’s parents, siblings, cousins, and uncles were all killed.
She added that Asmaa remained in her dead mother’s lap for 12 hours until her grandfather managed to save her as Israeli forces fired bullets for hours.
“I don’t know how this orphaned child will live at this age without a father and mother. I don’t know how her life will be. I don’t know how she will be alone in this world,” the grandmother said.
‘EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED’: ISRAELI SOLDIERS ATTACK PALESTINIANS INDISCRIMINATELY
Oren Ziv, a journalist at +972 Magazine, interviewed six Israeli soldiers who described being authorized to open fire on Palestinians indiscriminately.
Soldiers from six different units who were in Gaza at different times, said they executed Palestinians who strayed into “no-go zones”, and that there were “no limits” to what and whom they can shoot.
“What we learned is the open-fire regulation was not very strict, they didn’t even get proper orders from their commanders,” Ziv told Al Jazeera.
“They could fire almost at everything”, including schools, hospitals, as well as public institutions. Some required pre-approvals which were always granted, Ziv said.
Some testified they were shooting “out of being bored, or just for fun”, he said.
“The general feeling the soldier described is, that there was a big sense after the October 7 attack of revenge … they told us everything is permitted.”
HAMAS CALLS ON ICC TO INVESTIGATE ‘MONSTROUS BEHAVIOR’ OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS
Al Jazeera reports: Hamas has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “urgently investigate the monstrous behaviour” of Israeli soldiers that it says has been encouraged by Israeli army leaders.
It referred to “documented” images and videos that showcase Israeli soldiers committing the “most brutal crimes against Palestinians, including shooting civilians and burning down homes”.
Their actions, Hamas said, are carried out for their “own entertainment” and target women, children, and the elderly.
These actions are a “disgrace on the face of humanity and the international community”, and should be looked into by the ICC’s chief prosecutor, the group added.
ISRAELI RIGHTS GROUP HIGHLIGHTS ISRAEL’S INABILITY TO PROBE ALLEGED WAR CRIMES BY MILITARY
An investigation by Israeli human rights group Yesh Din has found that of 573 cases of alleged wrongdoing by the Israeli military in Gaza over the past decade, only one case led to a prosecution.
The rights group, which operates in the occupied West Bank, said it examined the results of Israeli military law enforcement related to three military operations in Gaza over the past 10 years. The lack of prosecutions points to a system of military law enforcement that is “evading properly investigating suspect war crimes”.
“Although Israel prides itself on its law enforcement system and presents it as functioning, there is considerable doubt whether the system has the ability or willingness to conduct thorough and effective investigations regarding serious suspicions of violations of the laws of war during the war in Gaza,” the group added.
(Read the full report here.)
WATCH: FREED FORMER PALESTINIAN BODYBUILDER ALLEGES ABUSE BY ISRAELI JAILERS
A former Palestinian bodybuilder who came out of an Israeli prison frail and in poor health after months without charge says he was tortured and abused and has compared Israeli prisons to the US’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison.
AID HAS NOT ENTERED GAZA FOR 65 DAYS: GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE
Al Jazeera reports: Preventing the entrance of humanitarian aid into the besieged coastal enclave is threatening the lives of thousands of civilians, including children and the sick, the office has said.
“Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aid and medical equipment are piling up on the other side of border crossings into Gaza – a crime of historic proportions that reflects the moral decadence of various countries supporting the Israeli onslaught,” it said in a statement.
The office condemned what it called an Israeli decision – backed by the US administration – to starve Palestinians in Gaza by stopping aid from entering the Strip. It also said it goes against international law and norms that forbid the use of “starvation policies” as a weapon of war.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 16, 2023. (photo)
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US TO RESUME SENDING 500 LB BOMBS TO ISRAEL WHILE WITHHOLDING 2,000 LB BOMBS, OFFICIAL SAYS
The Guardian reports: The Biden administration will resume shipping 500 lb bombs to Israel but will continue to hold back on supplying 2,000 lb bombs over concerns about their use in densely populated Gaza, according to a a US official.
The US in May paused a shipment of 2,000 lb and 500 lb bombs due to concern over the impact they could have in Gaza.
“We’ve been clear that our concern has been on the end-use of the 2,000 lb bombs, particularly for Israel’s Rafah campaign, which they have announced they are concluding,” a US official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
One 2,000 lb bomb can rip through thick concrete and metal, creating a wide blast radius.
The US official said the 500 lb bombs were put together in the same shipment with the larger ones that were paused and therefore got held up.
“Our main concern had been and remains the potential use of 2,000 lb bombs in Rafah and elsewhere in Gaza … Because our concern was not about the 500 lb bombs, those are moving forward as part of the usual process,” the official added.
The US has notified Israel that it is releasing the 500 lb bombs but keeping the hold on the larger ones, a person familiar with the matter said.
NOTE: Israel’s massive attack on a tent encampment in Rafah in late May incinerated 45 mostly women and children in a location Israel had deemed safe – using only 250-lb bombs.
On detonation, a 500-pound bomb can severely harm or kill everything or anyone within a 20-meter (65-foot) radius, according to the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA), which conducts defense policy research and analysis.
A 2,000-pound bomb has a destruction radius of 35 meters (115 feet).
Here is what a 500-lb bomb explosion looks like:
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – JULY 10:
Palestinian death toll from October 7 – July 10: at least 38,917* (38,345 in Gaza* – 11,445 women (30%), 15,747 children as of June 17. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.]
This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 572 in the West Bank (~137 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 45,223 Palestinian deaths.
Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.
Ralph Nader earlier estimated 200,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.
· At least 46 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 18 from West Bank).
· At least 40 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition**.
· About 1.7 million, or 75% of Gaza’s population are currently displaced.
· 2.15 million (out of total population of 2.3 million) are projected to face Crisis or worse levels of food insecurity.
Palestinian injuries from October 7 – July 10: at least 93,715 (including at least 88,295 in Gaza and 5,420 in the West Bank, including 830 children).
[It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.]
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7 – July 10: ~1,478 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 324 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 16 in the West Bank) and~8,730 injured.
Times of Israel reports: The IDF listed 41 soldiers killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents – nearly 16%.
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries in Israel on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
*Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so.**
Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals.
† For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics.
Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here.
Hover over each bar for exact numbers.
Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
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The truth presented in this post creates a very bleak picture for humanity. The collateral damage of the indiscriminate Israeli extermination campaign against Palestinians in particular and Muslims in general is to narcotize humanity to go along with genocide. The only hope can come from the Good Samaritans among us who will act against a sea of troubles.