The Religious Left Targets Israel

FrontPage Magazine ^ | Mark D. Tooley

[Michael van der Galien]

Seemingly not content with its already extensive anti-Israel activism, the Swiss-based World Council of Churches, comprised of over 300 denominations, is highlighting a new anti-Israel initiative.

The WCC’s blandly but revealingly named “Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum” (PIEF) has been around a few years but has just unveiled its own website and newsletter, presumably in a new wave of protest against “The Occupation.”

According to PIEF’s new website, it plans to “catalyze and coordinate new and existing church advocacy for peace, aimed at ending the illegal occupation in accordance with UN resolutions, and demonstrate its commitment to inter-religious action for peace and justice that serves all the peoples of the region.” Translation: the WCC wants to fine tune its Religious Left alliances for undermining Israel’s legitimacy by faulting Israel exclusively for Palestinian suffering.

Tragically, the Religious Left’s ostensible concern for Palestinians is similar to much of the Arab world’s supposed concern. For both, the Palestinians are mostly useful props for assailing Israel. A more sincere and thoughtful empathy for Palestinians might them urge to follow the example of Israel’s founders 60 years ago: take the deal available and strive to create a productive nation.

Ironically, the Religious Left’s contrived solidarity with Palestinians, like the international secular Left’s, will only help fuel unrealizable Palestinian hopes for demographically, if not militarily, deconstructing a Jewish Israel. The ultimate beneficiaries of these anti-Israel campaigns are Hamas-style militants, who prefer unending conflict with Israel, and the West, to any decent settlement for Palestinians.

[a fool in paradise]

According to PIEF’s new website, it plans to “catalyze and coordinate new and existing church advocacy for peace, aimed at ending the illegal occupation in accordance with UN resolutions, and demonstrate its commitment to inter-religious action for peace and justice that serves all the peoples of the region.”

Does the WCC have a similar program pushing for religious tolerance in Saudi Arabia where a theocratic state requires the supression of all faiths other than Islam?

[Blue Highway]

Odd title for this article. Religious and left do not go together.

[iowamark]

It is long past time for Christians and Jews to push back against the pagan WCC.

Unfortunately, the WCC membership includes most of the non-Catholic Christian churches. Other non-WCC include Southern Baptists, LCMS.

[Joe Boucher]

That was my reaction too.

Nice Guitar.

[Blue Highway]

Thanks. I forgot I had that Ibanez guitar pictured in my profile.

[Salem]

The WCC is a far-Left, Post-modernist cesspool of ideas reflective of the same moral and spiritual rot that precluded the Holocaust in Europe. It is again, not surprising, the culture it generates targets the Jews. Frank Pastore articulates another angle in the alliance of the religious left and the "Emergent" church in undermining our fight against radical, expansionist Islam in this article:

Why Al Qaeda Supports the Emergent Church
http://townhall.com/columnists/FrankPastore/2007/07/22/why_al_qaeda_supports_the_emergent_church?page=full&comments=true

It's all the same thing, and rightly condemned.

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"The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets...."—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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" ... It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world."—FReeper Retief
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."—FReeper sgtbono2002
"Then let's wait and see what the Arabs do after they take Gaza. There's nothing like Arab reality to break up a Jewish fantasy."—FReeper Noachian
A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"—Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."

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There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. (Joshua 21:45)
Letter To The President In Support Of Israel ~
'Final Solution,' Phase 2 ~
Warnings ~
The Nature Of Bruce ~

The Joshua Fund
The Jerusalem Connection
Christians United For Israel
Christian Friends of Israel
Jerusalem Watchman

"The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets...."—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Holocaust Chronicle ~
" ... It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world."—FReeper Retief
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."—FReeper sgtbono2002
"Then let's wait and see what the Arabs do after they take Gaza. There's nothing like Arab reality to break up a Jewish fantasy."—FReeper Noachian
A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"—Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."