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Israel threatens to shut down new TV channel for preaching 'gospel of Jesus'
Fox News ^ | 9th May 2019 | Caleb Parke

Posted on 05/10/2020 9:12:57 AM PDT by FewsOrange

Israel is reportedly threatening to remove GOD TV channel just one week after its launch, claiming it is proselytizing.

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GOD TV began airing the 24/7 Hebrew-language "Shelanu TV" channel last week on Israel's HOT cable network ...

“Today we made history! For the first time ever, a Messianic television channel is broadcasting the Gospel across Israel in the Hebrew language,” GOD-TV said in a statement April 29. “Shelanu translates to ‘Ours’ in Hebrew. We want every person in Israel to know, not a foreign Messiah, but a Jewish one! His name is Yeshua and He has not forgotten His people," it continued.

But on Tuesday, Israeli Communications Minister David Ansalem said in a statement he was not aware that a license was granted to GOD TV, adding he "will not allow any missionary channel to operate in Israel, at no time and under no circumstances.”

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"If indeed this channel does missionary work, it be removed immediately," the statement said.

Proselytizing to anyone under 18 years old without parental consent is against the law in Israel, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and the terms of the license issued to Shelanu, prohibit missionary programming. ...

Shelanu's station manager said it's "been a challenging process" and asked for financial support on GOD TV's website "to produce relevant and dynamic content that will grab the attention of the Israeli people and open their eyes to the truth of their Messiah, Yeshua."

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Michael Brown, a Messianic Jewish radio host, announced in a video on Tikkun International's website that the new channel will "preach the gospel of Jesus the Messiah in Hebrew on cable TV for the first time in history."

Israeli outlets report Christian channels Daystar and Middle East Television both broadcast on Israel's YES satellite TV and do not proselytize.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: calebparke; faux; fauxnews; godtv; gospel; israel
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To: vladimir998

Stealing the souls of their tragically-uneducated Jewish citizens. (No sarcasm)


21 posted on 05/10/2020 9:47:18 AM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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To: nwrep

I agree. I’m watching hixtory of The Spanish Inquisition right now. And what about Hitler? Today we are “modern”, but are we? Look at some of the governors,

At my age, I am still learning about how terrible people can be.


22 posted on 05/10/2020 9:47:29 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: PlateOfShrimp

I think it is also important to note that this is an Israeli matter, with both sides being Israeli citizens, being litigated under Israeli laws and (if it comes to that) in Israeli courts. Whatever my personal opinions, I recognize their sovereignty over their own land.


23 posted on 05/10/2020 9:48:12 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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To: rrrod

Israel is swamped with Christians who claim to be “Jews.” They go on and on offending others by saying the name of the Lord and talking about “Yeshuah.” Every sad SOB from Tennessee somehow finds their way to Israel and starts talking as if they are sabras. “We’re grafted in...” All silly inventions, and highly irritating.See Free Republic for more of this nonsense.


24 posted on 05/10/2020 9:48:58 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Kenny Bunk)
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To: nwrep

True.


25 posted on 05/10/2020 9:49:01 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Jim Noble

Please remember that 20% of Israelis are Arab / muslim Israelis. There are even Arab members of the knesset.


26 posted on 05/10/2020 9:50:07 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Kenny Bunk)
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To: FewsOrange

“Proselytizing to anyone under 18 years old without parental consent is against the law in Israel”

What about promoting homosexuality? Are networks which air Ellen Degenerate banned?


27 posted on 05/10/2020 9:50:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Phinneous

“Stealing the souls of their tragically-uneducated Jewish citizens. (No sarcasm)”

No one can “steal” the soul of a free person. And you’re saying Christianity has been successful because people are uneducated? You would have been better off claiming your comment was sarcasm.


28 posted on 05/10/2020 9:53:16 AM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Phinneous
Stealing the souls of their tragically-uneducated Jewish citizens. (No sarcasm)

If you really want to save your soul, Finny, why don't you go with the LATEST incarnation of the LORD and NEWER "new testament?" Sure, Jesus rose to Heaven, but Mohammed did, too, and HE took his frickin' HORSE! Hey, at least you'll be better off than those "tragically uneducated" Jews!
29 posted on 05/10/2020 9:57:14 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Kenny Bunk)
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To: vladimir998

Not really.


30 posted on 05/10/2020 9:58:35 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: ncpatriot

after you watch that- look up how some of the crusades went and protected the Jews and fought alongside them against Muslim aggression


31 posted on 05/10/2020 10:00:07 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: golux

I’m so sorry. I was insensitive. Instead of “tragically-uneducated” I meant as-of-yet-secular and wide-open to missionary tactics.


32 posted on 05/10/2020 10:04:58 AM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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To: nwrep
Jews mistrust Christians for good reasons, for those who follow history.

Amen to that. Christians used to carry out "pogroms" against Jews, murdering dozens, hundreds, at a time for nearly any perceived slight or provocation. There were thousands of Jews murdered during the Black Death, all because Jews in ghettos were blamed for it since they didn't die at the same high rate (it spread via swine that Jews do not eat, and Jews "social distanced" normally, for fear of violence).

33 posted on 05/10/2020 10:08:18 AM PDT by montag813
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To: golux

Ibtz


34 posted on 05/10/2020 10:09:57 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: rrrod
A prime example of Jews mistrust of some Christians.

Except, of course, Evangelical Christians --- upon whom Jews rely for near 100% political support for all things of and by the State of Israel.

35 posted on 05/10/2020 10:10:29 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: PlateOfShrimp

The San Remo Conference of 1920 that is the legal basis of ‘Palestine’ as a Jewish homeland recognized its Jewish nature the same way that conference recognized the the ethnic nature of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.

There was no imposition of a requirement that those nations be open to proselytization they saw as against their best interest.


36 posted on 05/10/2020 10:12:16 AM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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To: Phinneous
I think it is the biggest chutzpah imaginable to broadcast "Cast aside your Jewish religion and follow ours" in a Jewish country. There is a reason for the anti-proselytization law, and this is in clear violation of it. What if Hindus came to Israel and set up a radio station to broadcast "Your Jewish religion is deficient, you need to drop it and follow our religion"? There is no difference. Jews living in Israel have a right to live in their own JEWISH country and not hear withering remarks about the so-called "deficiencies" of their religion and how those might be "remedied" by injecting elements from another religion--elements which are 100% in opposition to the prayers Jews recite every single day.

People peacefully practicing their own religion, the religion of their fathers going back 5,000 years, do not need to be told that it lacks anything and that the remedy is to follow the dictates of ANOTHER religion. What nerve!

37 posted on 05/10/2020 10:14:21 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: montag813
Jews carried out pogroms against early Christians, too. Does the name “Saul” ring a bell to any of you bible thumpers?

It’s almost like both of your groups treated the other like crap at various points in history.

But hey, as long as all you clowns can agree that the third Abrahamic religion is beneath contempt.

38 posted on 05/10/2020 10:17:17 AM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: EinNYC

“A different opinion! I’m offended, make it go away!” Would have gotten your point across in a lot fewer words.


39 posted on 05/10/2020 10:18:19 AM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: Jim Noble

They don’t have to watch.


40 posted on 05/10/2020 10:20:06 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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