'An Evil
Thought' - Jack Kinsella -
www.omegaletter.com
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's designate opened this year's General Assembly
by mentioning the genocide in the Sudan only peripherally in his speech, before
going on to name only one nation -- among all the nations of the earth -- saying
that nation was guilty of violating international law through the "excessive use
of force."
But it wasn't the Sudan, where as many as a million black African Sudanese from
the mostly-Christian south were slaughtered by militias backed by the Islamic
Republic of Sudan. It wasn't Vietnam, where Christians are forced to renounce
their faith in Jesus on pain of imprisonment or death.
It wasn't China, where Christianity is strictly controlled by the state and
attending a private Bible study can result in decades of imprisonment at hard
labor making shirts for WalMart and shoes for Nike.
It wasn't Saudi Arabia, where conversion to Christianity is a crime punishable
by death and wearing Christian symbols can bring long prison sentences, or where
being a Jew is impossible and unthinkable.
The single nation most guilty of violating international laws concerning the
'excessive use of force', said the General Secretary of the United Nations
during the opening session of the UN General Assembly -- said body representing
the assembled nations of the Planet Earth -- is Israel.
Then the delgates broke up into their various UN 'worshops' to begin discussing
the greatest crises facing Planet Earth today. One, entitled the 'South Africa
Experience' studied ways to emulate the way in which the assembled nations of
the world organized a boycott of South Africa until it ended its policy of
apatheid.
The workshop was aimed at organizing a similar 'cultural, sporting and economic
boycott' against Israel, which was discussed and itemized during what was billed
as the 'general public information phase'.
At the 'International Protection Workshop' the delegates debated, during a
section entitled, 'Pressure on Israel' ways to organize a world-wide 'boycott of
Israeli goods' to protest Israel's self defense activities.
During this workshop, ostensibly organized to protect children, there was no
discussion of the use of children as weapons of war by the Palestinians. No
mention of suicide bombers -- some as young as 13 -- being recruited in
violation of dozens of UN directives aimed at keeping children from being used
as combatants.
The hypocrisy was staggering.
This week, Palestinian Observer Farouk Kaddoumi addressed the United Nations.
Since there is no such country as 'Palestine' the UN hasn't been able to find a
way to admit the terrorist Palestinian Authority into the UN as a full member
--yet.
But Kaddoumi's 'Observer Status' includes the right to address the UN as if the
Palestinian Authority were actually a country. He launched a blistering tirade
against the United States and Israel for conducting anti-terrorist operations
against members of the PA and Hamas.
UN delegates politely applauded as Kaddoumi thundered that Israel's claim that
it is acting in self-defense is a deception designed to cover up Israeli
genocide against the Palestinian people.
On the other hand, Palestinian terror attacks, he asserted to polite applause,
was the Palestinian Authority's only weapon of self-defense against the
aforementioned Israeli efforts to wipe them out.
Starting and the end and reading backwards, that makes sense. But if the
Palestinians would stop their 'self-defensive' terror attacks against Israel,
the Israeli retaliatory strikes would end the 'genocide' and the war would be
over.
Regardless, Kaddoumi, who represents a terrorist organization masquerading as a
landless state, was able to characterize the only functioning democracy in the
entire Middle East as a 'rogue state' for responding militarily to an unending
series of terrorist attacks, without arousing a single guffaw from the assembled
audience.
The GA sat quietly while Kaddoumi accused Israel of obstructing a peace
settlement between them. Completely rewriting contemporary history, he told the
GA;
"The Palestinian people and leadership have demonstrated good will and accepted
in good faith the provisions of the roadmap and other proposals that lead to the
termination of Israeli occupation of our Palestinian territory," he said. "What
is needed is the other party, Israel, to commit itself in word and in action to
respond."
What was ignored by all is the fact that as soon as Israel prepared to pull out
of Gaza, the Palestinians started lobbing Kassam rockets into Israel in order to
force them to stay.
The Palestinian Authority cannot afford to let Israel leave Gaza. If the
Palestinians don't have an 'occupation' to fight against, then they'd have
nothing to distract them from the misery and poverty being inflicted on them by
their leaders.
That might lead to real elections, a real leader, a real state and peace. All
these are anathema to terrorists.
The UN's delegates are not idiots. They KNOW who the terrorist side is in the
Israeli-Arab conflict. They are smart enough to figure out by themselves that if
the Palestinians stop attacking, Israel will stop defending. The war would end.
However, that would mean the survival of the Jewish State, which is, of course,
unacceptable to the majority of nations who make up the General Assembly.
Anti-Semitism has been elevated to that of an acceptable political worldview,
much as it had been during the 1920's and 1930's. That isn't to say that
anti-Semitism is resurging -- it never really waned -- it only went underground
for a time until global memories of the Holocaust faded.
Assessment:
Antisemitism is as old as the Bible. It could be argued that the first mention
of anti-Semitism in Scripture was made in reference to the Fall of Man, in which
God told the serpent the Seed of woman would crush his head. Jesus (a Jew) was
that Seed.
God promised that the nation of Israel would never cease to exist. (Jeremiah
31:35-36) God likened Israel's continued existence, down through the ages, to
the ordinances (laws) which govern the sunrise and sunset. Satan has been trying
to nullify that prophecy ever since.
The Jews are God's Chosen People, which makes some Christian denominations so
green with envy that they insist that, since the Cross, the Church is the Chosen
People and God has abandoned the Jews.
It is a good thing that is nonsense, given what the Jews were Chosen FOR. To
serve as God's Ensign to the heathen.
"And I will sanctify My great Name, which was profaned among the heathen, which
ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the
LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes."
(Ezekiel 36:23)
Broken down, Israel was chosen by God as the instrument through which He would
reveal Himself to the heathen nations. He gave them a choice. If Israel obeyed
His commandments and walked in His statutes, Israel would be blessed above
nations, so that all the nations of the world would witness that blessing and
"know I am the Lord."
Conversely, if they failed to obey, they would be cursed with a curse of such
obviously Divine Design, the heathen would witness that curse and "know I am the
Lord."
For multiplied centuries, the Jew was cursed in every land where he took up
residence. Every place he took up residence, he was eventually offered the
choice between conversion or expulsion or death. In some countries, merely being
a Jew was enough to warrant persecution.
In the eyes of the world, the LAST thing anybody in the right mind would want to
be was a Jew. Yet the Jewish race survived intact, a 'peculiar people' scattered
among the heathen.
The Jew was never fully a citizen of his country of birth -- German Jews were
Jews, not Germans. The same of Russian Jews, French Jews, Italian Jews, even
American Jews bear the appellation 'Jew' and not just American.
A Pentagon staffer was recently accused of passing secrets to Israel. The man
was an American. But he was also Jewish. Had he been Irish-Catholic, we'd have
never known his religion.
But being a Jew isn't a religion, it's a nationality. It has been a nationality
for more than two thousand years. Without nation, land or flag, scattered into
tiny pockets across the far flung globe, the Jew never abandoned his status as a
member of God's Chosen people.
When the State of Israel raised its flag, its citizens arrived with a common
language, common culture, common dietary laws and traditions and a common
religion. They arrived from every country on earth, but every single one of them
were Jews who had awaited that moment for two thousand plus years.
God promised that, in the last days, He would partially lift the curse, and
would restore them as a nation, 'but there was no breath in them'. (Ezekiel
37:8)
They have been restored nationally as part of an ongoing fulfillment to
eventually restore them to full reconciliation with God.
Having cursed, scattered, and then restored them, in full view of the heathen,
the heathen nations will be without excuse. THAT is what the Chosen People were
chosen For.
The Bible also says that, once Israel has been restored nationally,
anti-Semitism will again raise its ugly head, ("It shall also come to pass, that
at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought: [Ezekiel 38:10] ), which will provide the motive for one last invasion
effort aimed at the destruction of Israel, in which God hands Israel an
impossible victory:
"Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the
eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD." (Ezekiel 38:23)
The 'evil thought' that brings all this about is the current topic of discussion
at the United Nations General Assembly.
"And when these things BEGIN to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your
heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28)