Posted on 10/12/2023 9:17:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of my dearest friends was born in a kibbutz two miles from Gaza. His village was able to evacuate when Hamas launched its murderous assault last Saturday. However, a neighboring kibbutz called Kfar Aza was targeted by the terrorists.
Yesterday, my friend forwarded to me a survivor’s description of what happened:
A thriving community of one thousand people, men and women, was brutally crushed within forty-eight hours. Whole families, parents, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers were murdered in cold blood. Their houses were turned into piles of earth and ashes, and their lives as they knew them—destroyed. They lost their homes, their livelihoods, and all their property. They lost neighbors, both relatives and beloved friends, in one of the greatest terrorist attacks in history. Those saved from the slaughter were trapped for two days under fire until they were rescued with only the clothes on their backs.
An Associated Press reporter quotes an Israeli army general who stood amid the wreckage of the village: “You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in their bedrooms and how the terrorists killed. It’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre.”
The Israeli death toll has passed 1,100 at this writing. President Biden confirmed yesterday in his address to the nation that fourteen US citizens were killed in the conflict and that Americans are known to be among the hostages held by Hamas.
And yet . . .
From Egypt’s genocide in the time of Moses to the devastation by ancient Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, to Hitler’s “Final Solution” and its slaughter of six million Jews, the scourge of antisemitism has persisted for millennia.
Why do so many people hate the Jews today?
With regard to Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel, three explanations are relevant.
First, as I explained in my book, Radical Islam: What You Need to Know and in my latest website paper, Hamas and their fellow jihadists would answer by claiming that the State of Israel stole its land from the rightful Palestinian owners and that its citizens are complicit in this “theft” by participating in their democracy. They believe they are required by the Qur’an (2:190, 192) to defend Islam by attacking Israelis and destroying Israel. Many have become convinced that Jews are in fact hostis humani generis, the enemies of mankind itself.
Second, those influenced by Critical Theory (which includes the Harvard and Columbia students and many of the West’s intellectual, academic, and cultural elites) would answer that Israel is a majority oppressor of the Palestinian persecuted minority. They claim that the only answer is for the oppressed to reverse the equation by oppressing their oppressor.
Third, many of Iran’s leaders believe the existence of Israel constitutes the “greatest barrier” to the reappearance of the Mahdi (a messiah-like figure). They therefore seek the eradication of the Jewish nation to hasten his arrival.
These are three tragic examples of a statement by my friend John Stonestreet that I quote often: “Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims.” In this case, the victim is Israel.
In this battle for the future of Israel, we are called by Scripture to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6) and to “seek [her] good” (v. 9).
This means that we repudiate the sin of antisemitism, a plague that is rising in the US and Europe today. It means that we pray for Israel’s leaders and people to be safe from their enemies and resolute in defending their country. It means that we seek practical ways to support those in Israel and around the world devastated by these atrocities, knowing that our God “comforts the downcast” (2 Corinthians 7:6) and calls us to do the same (2 Corinthians 1:3–4).
God’s Word was brought to the world by Jews.
Not sure, but hate while a normal emotion can lead to the destruction of a soul.
Never let hate be the driver of your human and material existence, you’ll regret it in your afterlife.
That’s right.
Antisemitism is obviously satanic in nature and origin.
Listen, O brood of Jewish agitators.
Whereare those who went to Pilate? Let the soldiers who were guarding speak out.
Where are theseals of the sepulcher?
Where was the buried corpse moved?
Where was the unsellable sold?
How was the treasure stolen?
Why do you discredit the resurrection of Him who was crucified, O lawless Jewish men?
He rose, for He was free among the dead,
and He grants to the world the great mercy.
The pastor of my church said that anti-Semiticism is demonic. I agree with him.
The seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are hated by those who hate God.
For example, the Synagogue of Satan, as told in Revelation 3:9.
The Jews are regular people. God harshly dealt with them many many times, and many did not survive the punishment. They were the chosen, but they also are just normal regular flawed human beings as well. And most did not even recognize the Messiah when He first came.
In reality the Jews are a microcosm for all humankind. They were first called to the banquet but killed the servants and owners son, the invitations then went out to the entire world and salvation was received by many.
Why do so many people hate the Jews? I think this is part of the answer: Many people need a dog to kick. It makes them feel better.
Some wise person (I forget who) once said that if the Jews did not exist, they would have to be invented.
Like Dave Chapelle said, when it’s a group of blacks, it’s a gang. When it’s a group of Italians, it’s a mob. But when it’s Jews, it’s a coincidence and you shouldn’t ask about it.
American Jews push a lot of the woke crap you see; Drag Queen Story hour, the feminization of Hollywood, trans ideology. A lot of it.
But don’t ask questions.
You ask why people hate the Jews. There are lots of reasons. Different reasons for different people going back 2000 years and more. But I would say there are three reasons that people site when they say they hate Jews.
One old reason is that they lived within Christian countries but lived by their own rules, ethics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country’s traditions. That goes back thousands of years and its why Jews generally lived in ghettos. The word ghetto is not meant to be a poor neighborhood. Its a neighborhood with a certain type of people. In Italy, it was an area where Jewish people lived in some of the original “no-go zones”. The ghetto lived by Jewish law not Italian law. And many Christians ran a foul of this.
Later there became the business prowess. Especially when it came to banking and loaning money. Shakespeare writes about this in “The Merchant of Venice”. Loan Sharking was often illegal. But it was done in Jewish ghettos. Christians would borrow money and not be able to pay the interest. They would get mad and blame the Jews who loaned money. This later resulted in the rise of the Rothschilds in Germany, France Itally and London. The Rothschilds banking empire became richer than any other family. And controlled many countries throughout the years. They leveraged this financing in many businesses such as the film industry where it takes a lot of upfront capital to produce a film before any revenue might show up. Some say that Jewish actors get jobs just because they are Jewish. There are a lot of Jewish actors. Far more than the 2% population that Jews have in America.
The last thing has mostly to do with Israel. And you have to take Israel the same as Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Libya. All these countries that border the south and western land around the Mediterranean Sea. These countries are run with a strong minority government that keeps control by force. In Israel there is a democracy of sorts. But many Palestinians under Israeli law can’t vote. The Egyptian Army controls Egypt outside of the government. Bashar al-Assad of Syria is not Muslim. He is a Alawite. He controls Syria with an iron fist. All these countries including Israel have many religious groups, not just Muslims, Christians and Jews. And these religious groups have sects that war within them. Lebanon which had been controlled by Christians had a milder government which lost control and had a period of chaos before a Syrian and Iranian backed government took control with Hezbollah. It is true that Israel has a strong security backed government. But no country in the region has been able to survive any other way. So Palestinians aren’t asking for fairness. They are demanding that they have the power.
Jews are hated generally for one of these three reasons going back decades or centuries. Sometimes the haters have a point. But normally the Jews don’t do anything that other groups don’t do. They are often more successful at it. So envy has a role to play in this hatred. Jews as a whole often have a higher IQ. Not every Jew is smart. But Einstein was a Jew, as was Oppenheimer. And this might account for their success. And with success comes envy. And with envy comes hatred.
A real puzzler are the 2 or 3 people I’ve run into over the years who virulently hated Jews but didn’t know any.
Now, I’ve known a couple of Jews who were real axxholes, but it wasn’t because they were Jewish. They were just axxholes. Proportionally I’ve known a lot more Italians who fit that description. Nobody hates on Italians.
Because they hate God and are satanically driven.
Every tyrannical revolution needs a perpetual enemy on which to blame all the ills and can never be destroyed requiring the same tyrants. Especially a revolution against God.
Let’s ask the ADL.
Thank you, I’ve never had it laid out for me.
Agree. People seek a rational answer, when the real inswer is supernatural. We were just comparing in this morning’s bible study in Judges, the warring going on at that time with the Caananites. Israel’s core problem has always been obedience; failing to drive out the occupiers of the promised land, and drifting into idol worship as a result of those they allowed to stay.
As a gentile, I thank God for their failure, which resulted in Him offering grace to the non-jew.
Thank you, I learned a lot from your post.
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