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How is the support of Israel and the Jews "idolatrous"? Have you read the Old Testament?

Yes, indeed. Both in particularly being chosen, blessed as well as judged as being beloved for the father's sake, and with God punishing the instruments of His chastisements. And yet God still has plans for Israel after the flesh:

"I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." (Romans 11:25-27)

Thus I ask again, How is the support of Israel and the Jews "idolatrous"? In the context which this refers to, do you deny the right of the state of Israel to exist or do you support the Hamasitical quests to eliminate it? Simply choice.

While you may think OCT. 7 was an inside job, I know of no actual antisemitic post you made.

But do you believe and look forward to the collective conversion of (what is left) of the Jews?

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. (Romans 11:25-27)

Yes, because we’ve focused too much on OTHER NATIONS! If we spent a fraction on our border defense as we have outside our lands, we would be doing much better than we are. I posit that our role over the many decades of being the world’s policeman has bankrupted us. We are now Rome, stretched thin, out of coin, and the barbarians are inside the gate.

While supporting the likes of Hamas is absurd, and much spending is wrong, yet isolationism is actually irrational in the modern world. If not for the US being the world’s policeman then the Soviets would have taken over much of the world, as China would today.

Who do you think protects trade routes? Yet being dependent on China and plus welfare spending is a problem, but when you forsake God. Christ and the Bible then votes for anti-Christian and unwise candidates reflect that.

Christianity is about faith in Christ, not idolatrous worship of either Israel or Jews.

Supporting Israel, against the devil who seeks to destroy this people and nation due to this overall lost people yet being "beloved for the father's sake" who will one day turn to the Lord Messiah, is not idolatry.

ISRAEL: CHOSEN OR FORGOTTEN?

Such needs to be include the average age of the pop. and density. Loneliness factor.

Meanwhile,

https://sprc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Slide4.png

One-way ticket.

It makes people of “actual or perceived shared Jewish ancestry or Jewish ethnic characteristics” a protected class.

Thanks for the source. A rarity in a FR post.

A BILL
To provide for the consideration of a definition of antisemitism set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws concerning education programs or activities, and for other purposes....

SEC. 2. Sense of Congress.

Yes, despite being Chromium-based it is better than Chrome and Edge. Thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3930575/posts

I use two stand-alone installs of it. Along with many portable Firefox.

There is also this good (so far) Firefox (Gecko) derivative.

Floorp Browser: Is It The Most Advanced Cross-Platform Firefox Derivative? Let's take a look at another interesting Firefox fork, Floorp.

See my posts in all

It’s a mozilla fork. I used to use it a few years back. It’s okay. May choke on some more modern websites.

No, it is Chromium-based.

[Article] What do they mean when they talk about the economy?..The truth is, few could point to the exact economic problems they wanted to see resolved,

Well, there is:

Nov 3, 2023 — From its low in early April 2020 to its peak in May 2021, the price per 1,000 board feet of lumber increased almost 530 percent, - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1239633/daily-lumber-price-usa/

Last year, U.S. consumers saw the largest annual increase in food prices since the 1980s. - https://www.gao.gov/blog/sticker-shock-grocery-store-inflation-wasnt-only-reason-food-prices-increased

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food prices rose by 25 percent from 2019 to 2023. - https://www.wpr.org/news/why-experts-say-inflation-is-relatively-low-but-voters-feel-differently

U.S. inflation rate for 2022 was 8.00%, a 3.3% increase from 2021. U.S. inflation rate for 2021 was 4.70%, a 3.46% increase from 2020. U.S. inflation rate for 2020 was 1.23%, a 0.58% decline from 2019. U.S. inflation rate for 2019 was 1.81%, a 0.63% decline from 2018. - https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/inflation-rate-cpi

More: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/10/20/here-is-how-much-more-everything-costs-since-the-pandemic-began/

Iran (#123) is close to Israel (#127) in abortion rate. And stats from the latter are surely more reliable than the former.

It just means you are Right on this position for society:

And the Fertility Rates by State largely correspond to the voting divide in the 2020 pres. election:

Fertility Rates by State:

Presidential Results

Israel is #127, though it should be as zero, and among all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_abortion_rate

https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/mapeuropeabrate.gif

From thread: U.S. Birth Rates Fall to All Time Low: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4234355/posts

And the Fertility Rates by State largely corresponds to the voting divide in the 2020 pres. election:

Fertility Rates by State:

Presidential Results

With customization enabled by tweaking software (see below) and regedits, Windows 11 is the best overall I have used (W/3.1. 9x, 7XP, 7, 8, 8,1. 10), but not the best in all ways. XP had the best color customization, while I think even 9x was the fastest in opening up a folder even from a HD. Thank God for them all.

Composite

And thank God for freeshare as LibreOffice, to be used for what is good in the sight of God (may it only be by me and all), like,

I am the type of person who wants compact yet expansive menus and quick access and having the ability to quickly customize certain aspects of the OS, from enabling quick access to programs and places and improve layout without needing to learn much coding (though I have edited the Windows registry a few times, and I have been the sole user), nor often run a terminal to accomplish such. herefore I like the the over 200 tweaks available in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 5 (quicker download here from Major Geeks) for Windows 11 from the Windows club (Windows 10 users should use Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.8).

Add to this Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus),

Also, there are the many Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker (but best to leave those dealing with color alone).

Plus Open Shell (click on Releases>Latest on middle right side) to replace the Windows 11 start menu (though in W/11 22H2 right clicking for properties in the start menu stopped working for me), and Explorer Patcher (look for Releases on the right here) that restores the Windows 11 taskbar to be exactly like Windows 10, and with it I use the Windows 7+ Taskbar Tweaker which provides more customization.

Resulting in these expansive quickly accessible layouts (composite image of desktop view in Windows 11: Start and Right-Click menus, default Device manager; task bar via Explorer Patcher.

To begin with, it’s worth noting that the Ukrainians are not using the latest and best model of the M1A1. Some of the features that make the tank more durable and hard hitting have been removed to avoid them falling into Russian hands. (More good reading at the link}

Apart from that article is lacking in details, aside from "modern western tanks like Abrams and Challenger 2 were conceived long before drones became a serious threat on the battlefield."

Online Harms Bill C-63 excerpts

Part 1:... These new offices are made up almost entirely of Cabinet appointees and are given powers to receive and investigate complaints concerning harmful content, collect data, and develop more regulations.... The commission may act with the power of the federal court and may authorize any person to investigate compliance and non-compliance.,,,The maximum penalty for a violation is not more than 8% of the gross global revenue of the person that is believed to have committed the violation or $25 million, whichever is greater.

Part 2: Bill C-63 creates a new hate crime offence that will make any offence under the Criminal Code, or any Act of Parliament, an indictable offence and punishable to life in prison if the offence was motivated by hatred. A definition of ‘hatred’ is introduced in s. 319(7), which is defined to mean ‘the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than disdain or dislike.’ s. 319 (8) includes the clarification that the communication of a statement does not incite or promote hatred, for the purposes of this section, solely because it discredits, humiliates, hurts or offends.....The bill also increases the punishments for offences in s. 319 (public incitement of hatred, wilful promotion of hatred, wilful promotion of antisemitism) from up to 2 years to not more than 5 years.

Alarmingly, a peace bond is created for ‘fear of hate propaganda offence or hate crime.’ This will allow a person to seek a court-ordered peace bond if they reasonably fear that someone will commit a hate propaganda offence or hate crime against them in the future. If you’ve watched the movie “Minority Report” you know how scary this is.

Part 3: The bill reinstates Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which empowers officials at the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to make subjective determinations as to what forms of expression constitute hate speech, and they may also decide on remedies including fines....with an accused facing fines of up to $50,000.

The legislation defines hate speech as content that is “likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of such a prohibited ground.” In other words, the content doesn’t necessarily have to directly express vilification; it only needs to be assessed as “likely to” vilify someone by a human rights tribunal. ...

Furthermore, its alarming that the bill enables individuals to anonymously file complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against those they deem to be posting hate speech. If found guilty, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal can impose fines of up to $70,000 and issue takedown orders for the content in question. Additionally, the tribunal is granted the authority to shield the identities of complainants and prohibit defendants from disclosing this information if uncovered.

- Rachael Thomas Member of Parliament for Lethbridge”

The writer failed to mention that on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”

I would say that yes, that indeed is a significant omission, though it means her own "border control" failed (easy mistake to make).

However, much of the Left has no real objection to a beast that attacks Israel and attacks Jews.