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Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  Iran and the Problem of Evil
by Michael Ledeen, WSJ
Ever since World War II, we have been driven by a passionate desire to understand how mass genocide, terror states and global war came about and how we can prevent them in the future. Above all, we have sought answers to several basic questions: Why did the West fail to see the coming of the catastrophe? Why were there so few efforts to thwart the fascist tide, and why did virtually all Western leaders, and so many Western intellectuals, treat the fascists as if they were normal political leaders, instead of the virulent revolutionaries they really were? Why did the main designated victims the Jews similarly fail to recognize the magnitude of their impending doom? Why was resistance so rare? Most eventually accepted a twofold "explanation": the uniqueness of the evil, and the lack of historical precedent for it. Italy and Germany were two of the most civilized and cultured nations in the world. It was difficult to appreciate that a great evil had become paramount in the countries that had produced Kant, Beethoven, Dante and Rossini. How could Western leaders, let alone the victims, be blamed for failing to see something that was almost totally new systematic mass murder on a vast scale, and a threat to civilization itself? Never before had there been such an organized campaign to destroy an entire "race," and it was therefore almost impossible to see it coming, or even to recognize it as it got under way. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  President George W. Bush said: “The Jewish people have seen, over the years and over the centuries that hate prepares the way for violence. The refusal to expose and confront intolerance can lead to crimes beyond imagining. So we have a duty to expose and confront anti-Semitism, wherever it is found.” (May 18, 2004 Washington, D.C.)
God says: “I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save. I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.” (Isaiah 49:25-26). The Jerusalem Connection says: Christian Zionists have a special mandate and “duty to expose and confront anti-Semitism wherever it is found.” This is true of the overt anti-Semitism of evil Islamic Jihadists like Iran, who would “wipe Israel off the map,” or Palestinian Jihadists who refuse Israel’s right to exist. It is equally true of the veiled anti-Semitism that lurks in the bowels of Replacement Theology/Supercessionism among Christians. For Zion’s sake we must not keep silent. Will we not be among those God has commissioned when He says; "I have posted Watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves not rest, and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of all the earth?” The late Congressman Tom Lantos had it right when he said, “Christians are the antidote to anti-Semitism.”  The Jerusalem Connection, Intl. and partner churches are facilitating the "Resolution Regarding Israel" to Senator John McCain. If you haven't already, please add your signature. | | |  Israel’s Channel 1 news did a special report on Ami Ortiz, the 15 year old Israeli Messianic Jewish boy who was severely injured over two months ago in a Purim bomb attack. Although the Israeli police have plenty of evidence, no one has yet been arrested. The police twice tried to stop the Channel 1 report from airing but to no avail. This news report on Ami was the highest rated show on Israeli TV during the time it was aired. The report has been subtitled in English and you can see it (in two parts) on YouTube. Please keep this young man in your prayers.
* Watch Part I * Watch Part II
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