 April 9, 2010 | | One of the Best
Each Friday we provide you with one of the week's most thought-provoking articles. | |  Terms of Endearment
by Elliot Adams, The Weekly Standard “Obama to Impose Terms on Israel” is the headline you didn’t read on David Ignatius’s column in the Washington Post today. The story ran under the title “Obama’s Mideast Plan,” which Ignatius describes as “proposing an American peace plan to resolve the Palestinian conflict.” But the substance is clear: It is a threat against Israel by the Obama administration and particularly by National Security Advisor James Jones. (The give-away is this line: “The fact that Obama is weighing the peace plan marks his growing confidence in Jones.” Now who do you think was Ignatius’s source for that gem?) Apparently Obama and his team are frustrated by their inability to get Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate a deal, and have therefore decided we’ll just impose one. Read on... | | One that calls for a Response
Each Friday we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, said if Israel tried to attack Iranian nuclear sites, the U.S. should shoot down the Israeli planes rather than allow them to fly over U.S. airspace in Iraq. "We are not exactly impotent little babies," Brzezinski said. "They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? ... We have to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren’t just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not.”
God says: “Have you not noticed that these people are saying, ‘Yahweh has rejected the two kingdoms he chose’? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.” … “But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares Yahweh, because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares. … So you will be my people and I will be your God. See, the storm of Yahweh will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The fierce anger of Yahweh will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purpose of his heart. In days to come you will understand this.” (Jeremiah 33:24; 30:17, 22-24.)
The Jerusalem Connection says: Zbigniew Brzezinski is the poster boy for acceptable,  politically correct anti-Semitism. Whether “anti-Israel” or “anti-Zionist” it means the same thing, we’re against the Jews. The scandalous dimension of this effort is that Christians, like the World Council of Churches and Churches for Middle East Peace and sadly even some leftist evangelicals, have bought into this “kinder and gentler” anti-Semitism. So, we can expect to see Christians who support Israel increasingly in the crosshairs of those who politically and theologically oppose Israel. An example of this is the new anti-Israel so-called “evangelical” film that targets Pro-Israel Christians. Check it out on our blog. For every Zbigniew Brzezinski God will raise up an Oscar Schindler and a Corrie Ten Boom to stand in the gap. Will you be among them? | |  Christian Zionism defined by Jim Hutchens
This is the first excerpt of a January interview with James Hutchens, the head of the JerUSAlem Connection International. In the first of three parts, Dr. Hutchens discusses Christian Zionism, its set of beliefs, and its support by the Israeli government.
Watch Video | |  In September-October 2006 we published a Special Edition on The Sephardic Jews. As many of you know, The Sephardic Jews magazine focused on Hispanics who very likely have a Jewish background dating back to 1492 – to the Spanish Inquisition in Spain and Portugal. The magazine contains all things Sephardim.
Since this special issue on Sephardic Jews first came out, we have been inundated with requests to publish this issue in Spanish. The interest and enthusiasm is amazing. We believe now is the time to issue a Spanish edition of The Sephardic Jews – but we cannot do it without your help! A pastor of a Sephardic congregation in Arizona has graciously volunteered his time to complete all of the translation work and a group based in Mexico called Comfort Israel has rallied around him to help with any proofing. Their volunteer efforts alone have saved thousands of dollars. I have gotten an estimate of $25,000 for the total cost of a Spanish language issue. This would include shipping and mailing costs.
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Rev. James M. Hutchens, Ph.D.
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