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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  Barack Obama, Jewish-Americans and Israel
By David Bedein, The Philadelpia Bulletin
From a personal and professional perspective, this is the sixth American Presidential campaign that I have covered from Israel, concentrating on the "Israel aspect" of the story.
This time I not only have covered the campaign from Israel - This time, I was assigned by The [Philadelphia] Bulletin to fly over and cover the Obama campaign at the time of the Pennsylvania primary in April. My observation of the "Jewish American view of Sen. Obama" was that there was an atmosphere of unreality surrounding Jewish advocacy and Jewish opposition to Sen. Barack Obama. Both pro-Obama and anti- Obama forces in the Jewish world related to the senator with an attitude of superficiality, more attention paid to the company that he keeps than to the policies that he stands for. Yet here is the rub: None one has really heard where Sen. Obama stands on Middle East issues. When I interviewed three of Sen. Obama's staffers who specialize in Middle East issues, I presented them with 18 questions. Besides the issue of Palestinian incitement, which his staffers said that he abhors, they could not provide any answers whatsover to basic questions put forward by The Bulletin last April. 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. | |  The Rev. Jesse Jackson said: "Prepare for a new America. ... fundamental changes in US foreign policy. ... The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where decades of putting Israel's interests first would end. ... Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House. Obama is about change. And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place in it." ... "Bush was so afraid of a snafu and of upsetting Israel that he gave the whole thing a miss. ... Barack will change that, because, as long as the Palestinians haven't seen justice, the Middle East will remain a source of danger to us all." ... "Barack is determined to repair our relations with the world of Islam and Muslims." ... "Thanks to his background and ecumenical approach, he knows how Muslims feel ..."
God says: "I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you." ... "It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace." (Exodus 23:22; Hebrews 6:4-6).
The Jerusalem Connection says: Once again the latent anti-Semitism of Jesse Jackson emerges. While Jackson is "not a prophet nor the son of a prophet" what he said is probably prophetic. What rational person would doubt that in an Obama administration our support of Israel would diminish significantly. And with that diminishing support comes the curse of the God of Israel. (Genesis 12:3). The only hope for the United States and Israel in this season of spiritual down-spiraling, is for God to graciously intervene on behalf of those who know and love Him. O LORD, HAVE MERCY!
| |  Waving flags and decked out in a bright array of national costumes, over 7,000 Christian pilgrims from nearly 100 nations spilled out into the streets of Jerusalem on Wednesday to take part in the traditional march through the heart of the Israeli capital during Sukkot.
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