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June 26, 2009
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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  Where the Christian Left is wrong
by Elwood Mcquaid
An interesting contest seems to be heating up as the world paves a road to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The American religious Left has felt compelled to issue a series of documents slanted toward the Arab and Palestinian points of view, urging the powers that be to muscle Israel to accede to demands that will place Israelis in a virtually untenable position regarding their future security.
Signatories to these documents propose that they speak for the majority of evangelical Christians and, therefore, are in a position to pontificate on the direction the United States and other Western powers should take in (1) determining the future shape of the new Middle East and (2) correcting what they claim are the egregious malefactions of the Israeli government and its friends in the Zionist evangelical camp.
Their criticisms are based on the concept that Israel's day is over, both biblically and historically. Consequently, Israelis have no more right to the land than their Muslim/Arab antagonists. Theologically, this position is popularly known as Replacement Theology, which claims that God's promises to the heirs of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were conditional and therefore abrogated by Israel's disobedience. So the church stepped in as the true "Israel of God" and possesses the spiritualized, redefined covenants of promise.
From this lofty, self-ascribed position, modern Israel is seen as a squatter on property it seized from militarily inferior Palestinians who should receive it back, so much so that Israel has been called an apartheid state equal to South Africa, which practiced legal racial segregation and suppressed human rights from 1948 to 1994. 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. | |  Elliot Abrams Said: “Hillary is wrong about the settlements. For reasons that remain unclear, the Obama administration has decided to abandon the understandings about settlements reached by the previous administration with the Israeli government. We may be abandoning the deal now, but we cannot rewrite history and make believe it did not exist.”
God Says: “Arrogant lips are unsuited to a fool how much worse lying lips to a ruler.” … “A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit. Though his speech is charming, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.” (Proverbs 17:7; 26:24-26).
The Jerusalem Connection Says: The Obama administration will rue the day it obsessively pressed for a two-state solution, a divided Jerusalem and the stoppage of all “natural growth” in the settlements. God will see to it! Meanwhile, Jews and Christians need to wake up to the fact that there is no political-diplomatic-military solution to the forces we face. God is the only answer. The prophet Amos’s admonition will become increasingly applicable as the days darken. “SEEK THE LORD AND LIVE; or He will sweep though the house of Joseph like a fire.” (vs. 5:6).
| |  Khamenei's Representative in Syria, Mojtaba Al-Hosseini: "The West Is Behind Demonstrations in Iran"
Following is a video excerpt from an interview with Sayyid Mojtaba Al-Hosseini, Khamenei's representative in Syria, which aired on Al-Dunya TV on June 20, 2009. He says "When we listen to what is going on outside Iran, we realize that those who have opposed the Islamic Republic for a long time are the ones who are inciting others, and they are the ones who are running these things. The countries that have opposed Iran, whether openly or not, like the Western countries, led by the U.S., are the ones who are now inciting and talking about the Iranian elections. They are exaggerating what is going on beyond its real scope."
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