As the darkness is increasing, rapidly, and we are entering the last days, we are seeking peace with our fellow servants of Christ Jesus.  The world looks on with amusement as to quote Galatians 5:15, “ But if you bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another”.

The call for all of us to be at peace with each other is in obedience to the scriptures. 

Mark 9:50  “Salt is good, but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again?          Have salt in yourselves and be at PEACE with one another”.

Galatians 5:22  - 26 “ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, against such things there is no law.  Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with it’s passions and desires.  If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.  Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.

Hebrews 12:14 “ Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord”.

1 Thessalonians 5:13 b “ Live in peace with one another”.

There are many more scriptures which admonish us to be at peace with one another.  Perhaps the one prayer we need all to consider is this by Jesus.  John 17 : 20-23 , “ I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word: that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me, and the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they MAY BE ONE, JUST AS WE ARE ONE; I in them, and Thou in ME, that hey may be perfected in UNITY, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as Thou didst love Me.

It is the heartfelt desire of Moriel Ministries that we stop all the bickering and hostility amongst ourselves, and that we humble ourselves before the Lord, repent from this behaviour, and get on with the Lord’s work under His direction.  We are all servants of our Lord  and Saviour Jesus Christ.  “ Who are we to judge another man’s servant?  To put it another way, who are we to condemn another’s servant?

Given his own history of cyber warfare with Justin Peters, John Mac Arthur, JD Hall and many others, it is bewildering why he would attribute behavior to another that many others have openly ascribed to him. Indeed, his own propensity for conflict led Moriel from restricting Social Media postings by Joshua Chavez on Moriel platforms. It is public knowledge that Jacob Prasch came under unbelievably cruel attack on the internet for being supportive of Joshua Chavez in his marital dilemma, with Jacob even being accused of the felony as accessory to human trafficking by Joshua Chavez. Jacob Prasch willingly took the cyber bullets for Joshua Chavez out of personal loyalty because Joshua Chavez had so often been loyal to Jacob Prasch. This has left us confused, but we will respond to these 8 distortions and fabrications for the sake of the dozens of the recipients Joshua Chavez has sought to drag into this fiasco.

1. It is no secret that while opposing Jacob Prasch & Moriel since their promotion of David Nathan whom most deemed heretical, Studio Scotland, despite desperate pleading to cease, has continued to sell videos featuring Jacob Prasch while denouncing him.  No one wants any of this and it could all have ended if Stuart & Deborah Menelaws of Studio Scotland simply stopped selling them. We cannot see this grievance as obsessive. When Joshua Chavez provided Moriel with the identity of tbc. kawaii, a relentless harasser from the Asian gay fetishist 'Kawaii' (Cutie) movement, Moriel did not pursue exposure of this individuals hidden identity on Facebook as Joshua Chavez suggested, but only sent copies to anyone contacting us. One posted a redaction of it and contacted Moriel (their identity remains unknown to Jacob Prasch). Moriel only requested a disclaimer that Moriel does not hate homosexuals be added. This has proved wise as two weeks ago tbc.Kawaii posted an attack on Jacob Prasch as a 'homophobe' and labelling Moriel as a cult for being homophobic. Not until tbc.Kawaii began recent attacks on Jacob's wife & family did he even refer to tbc.Kawaii in the public domain.
2. At no time did Moriel post or commission any spoof web sites to be posted by anyone or against anyone.  We did not even know who was doing some of these things (Studio Scotland has other adversaries). While he did it in support of Jacob Prasch, it was in fact Joshua Chavez himself who posted photos of the Menlaws with 666 and wads of money. We did not object, but Joshua Chavez did it. By his own admission, Joshua Chavez misrepresented himself on the internet in his attacks as a woman named 'Lydia', to which his critics have taken repeated offence. Why Joshua Chavez accosts us for things we did not do, but himself admits he did is absurd.
3. Joshua Chavez comparing a certain Christian woman named Linda M., who is not a Moriel team member (but is known to us) to the demonized witch in Acts Chapter 16 is a serious insult to her and to her husband, and an outrage. She is not that or anything like it.
4. We have never seen anything in regard to Studio Scotland that can be called a death threat, and even if there had been, it was nothing to do with us. The police have never contacted us nor anyone we know about a crime that never even transpired.
5. When Jacob Prasch & Moriel reacted to David Nathan's teaching such as "God The Father is Not The Creator", and 'animal blood will atone for sin in the Millennium', David Nathan's supporters began to defend his heretical teaching on the basis of him being fully Jewish while Jacob Prasch is not. This led to an ugly tirade of accusations of Jacob having a forged Passport ID, false DNA reports, and falsified Israeli ID. His family was also harassed. The Moriel board instructed Jacob not to display any private documentation in the public domain. Joshua Chavez takes issue with Jacob describing his father's family of 'Jewish ancestry', while he as a half Mexican would not describe himself as being of Mexican descent. "Jewish' of course is both a religion and an ethnicity. Jacob's testimony has been published for years. While his wife and children are Israeli Jewish Christians, he is not. Apart from being sent with his siblings to a Jewish community centre Jacob has no cultural or religious Jewish background whatsoever. Jacob’s mother was Roman Catholic and forced him to attend Catholic school against his own wishes. The public data however through Ancestry.com and Jewish Buriels.org are already in the public domain. The accusation by Joshua Chavez' own enemy Chris Rosebrough is that although the family name was the common Jewish name 'Brasch' changed to 'Prasch', and that Jacob Prasch is not from the Prasch line of former Jewish line of the Brasch family.  The online Jewish burial records indicate otherwise (which is likely why the Jewish Agency gave Jacob a Jewish ID immigration certificate in Israel (of which a renewal was shown online). While most Jewish birth & death records were destroyed in the purge of German Jewish records by the Nazis, grave markers remained even in most desecrated Jewish cemeteries. Claims by Joshua Chavez that these burial records were provided by a lady named Ursula are mistaken, these records are available on the internet.
   
   JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry - Germany
   
   Ursula and Linda MacIntyre did however do Jewish research at  com into Jacob Prasch's family (documented Jews named: Wrecklin, Brasch, and Goldbeck),  but Jacob had almost no prior knowledge of them and requested they not be web posted. Jacob Prasch states: "I and my father were named for 'Jakob Prasch' who died 14 years before my father was born ". The name was Anglicized to James, but switched back to Jacob when I immigrated to Israel. This proved consistent with the public records available on ancestry.com
   
   David Nathan's wife and children are not Jewish (by rabbinic law). That does not however make his family either less Christian or less Jewish. Ethnicity does not determine whose doctrine was right and whose was wrong.
6. Jacob Prasch's personal business affairs are none of Joshua Chavez' business. Except that Moriel has benefited from the commercial licensing of domain names, Jacob's private business has nothing to do with Moriel. The insinuation however, that Jacob Prasch financed the private education his children with funds taken from Moriel is as ridiculous as it is defamatory. The audited accounts from those years at that time, 18 to 25 years ago, indicates that Moriel did not have that kind of money then; it often struggled to remain solvent in earlier years. We all know this.
7. Implied suggestions of financial impropriety by Moriel is baseless and sleazy gossip mongering. All of Moriel's accounts are audited and in complete compliance with American & British law. It was discovered in a posthumous audit that a now deceased Moriel administrator in Australia did engage in embezzlement several years ago. This has long since been corrected and it was the action of a single individual and nothing systematic within the ministry. Jacob Prasch donates all royalties for the sale of his books and recorded materials to the ministry.
   
   By law, all 'Specified Donations' (USA), and 'Designated Funds'(UK) must be paid to, or used exclusively for the purpose for which they were contributed. This includes mission funds (for India, Israel, Africa, Thailand, etc.,), and love offerings or honorariums to individuals (including Jacob Prasch). These normally must go through the books and bank accounts of the ministry. Re-donated income of any team members are their personal affair in terms of amounts. All revenue of book and media sales are used for the ministries work.
   
   When Joshua Chavez was a part time member of the Moriel Team as a videographer and in video production, he was paid $750 per month (he did a competent job). Joshua never objected to receiving payment for his work while at the same time saying Christian pastors and leaders should not be paid, which is not scriptural. His belief concerning paid pastors and leaders is based on a misinterpretation of 1 Corinthians 14 which he states there are no pastors or elders again which is not scriptural. 
   His other views that there are no sermons in scripture, only 'teaching', is also doctrinal error (dideskein is teaching, and homila is a sermon). 
8. The Castigation of the Moriel Board for not doing more to restrict Jacob Prasch and allow 'sin' begs two questions: What sin?  Joshua Chavez insinuates, but where is the sin he only conjectures which he expects to be accepted as fact.
   * Where is Joshua Chavez' board? Is there a Servus Cristi board?
   It is interesting that Joshua shares the fact that the Board did not like him but Jacob needed to negotiate for him. Why didn't we "like" him and why and how did Jacob negotiate for him? Well, simply, Joshua has bad doctrine on his videos, saying things like the Bible doesn't say there are sermons only teaching. Also, Joshua teaches there are no pastors and elders in the Bible these are just two examples. Well, David Lister approached him privately about his wrong doctrine and he would not correct it. Marco at a meeting with Joshua, David Lister, Jacob and Blair, there, Marco tried to explain his wrong doctrine even using the Greek. Joshua did not accept his correction. Then Scott Noble emailed Joshua and explained this wrong doctrine in a point by point studied email, well, Joshua gave a tepid response not really addressing his wrong doctrine nor did he correct it. This video The False Church System has caused division in Moriel Canada, divided churches there, and also hurt people in Marco's churches, who left, and even divided Scott Nobles father-in- law from the fold, who Scott labored for years and years to lead out of Buddhism. Hopefully you understand why we didn't like him. Blair reached out to Joshua in great kindness but his advice was rejected too. Hopefully our supporters will now understand why the Moriel Board didn't like Joshua.  So, while we didn't like Joshua for his bad doctrine Jacob would negotiate with his board that he feels Joshua is like a younger brother, or a friend in need of help (Galatians 6) and on that basis of that the board could let Jacob try and help Joshua but now Jacob knows Joshua will not accept correction of his doctrine. Jacob allowed personal loyalty to Joshua to bring him into repeated opposition to our board. This is an undeniable fact.
   
   As to the Servus Cristi Board, there is none. Joshua Chavez has not normally even had a church, and has been accountable to no one. Yet he sets himself up as a self- appointed investigative authority even making bogus assertions about other people's private business affairs that are none of his business, and a super critic of churches when he usually has none himself. His life and ministry are fundamentally out of God's order (Hebrews 10:25).
   
   Had he had a board and a church like those with whom he finds fault, he might not have dug himself into the public grave disqualifying himself from ministry that he finds himself in today. Joshua solemnly promised he would not marry the woman he did a few days after her arrival in the USA, but immediately broke his word with a vow (making her his wife in the Eyes of God) but that was it. After breaking his promise, it was then foolish of him to consummate the relationship without even being legally married to her. Claiming abuse, she left him. We do not wish to disclose the contents of the emails we have from her and other emails, because they are none of anyone's business and to do so would be pure vengeance against him.  However, by his wrong doctrine of the church (ecclesiology), his lack of accountability, and by breaking his word he has given his enemies the ammunition they needed. The claims of his wife and not being in control of his own family/ marriage mean he is not scripturally qualified for the ministry (1Timothy 3: 2-4), at least until he gets his marriage reconciled. The charges brought by his hurting wife and his enemies mean he does not have a good reputation with those outside of the church, but worse he has a broken marriage. God says that he has absolutely no right whatsoever to be in the ministry. In appreciation for the friendship Jacob Prasch had with Joshua Chavez, Jacob stood with him loyally, paying a public price for doing so and placing himself again in opposition to his own board. Jacob tried desperately to be an older brother to Joshua and tried to help him. Jacob has sadly failed. The Word of God says that Joshua Chavez cannot be in ministry.

Sincerely,

The Moriel Board

Some months ago, Moriel was compelled to discharge Amos Farrell from its team, and now for reasons unrelated to Moriel (or Jacob Prasch), RTN TV Scotland has been forced to do the same. In his anger at being dismissed, Amos Farrell has resorted to a video rampage alleging all manner of ridiculous, (and easily dis-proven) claims , that RTN is finished (actually RTN is doing rather well), and that Moriel is likewise (Moriel, by God's Grace is doing extremely well). We reject his diatribes as  non factual.

This kind of behavior and the casual foul language that accompanies it, should not be unacceptable to any Christ honouring Christian organization. We do not believe The Lord wants us associated with this kind of thing. 


REPLY TO UNILEVER'S BEN & JERRY RESPONSE TO OUR COMPLAINT

Your response is evasive of the actual issue in question, and Unilever knows it.

Archaeology does not lie - politicians and corporate bureaucrats do. An archaeologically verified indigenous people group cannot by definition be termed an"occupying" presence in their own native land in and to which, they are virtually aboriginal. Apaches cannot occupy Arizona, and Jews cannot therefore occupy East Jerusalem or the West Bank. The archaeology proves that they were there first.

As I said, my fridge will only have Haagen Daz. That is my response.
I hope that others will do the same. I personally believe that Israel should ban your product altogether, and that supporters of Israel everywhere should boycott it.

Sincerely,

JJ Prasch

Here are some proposed new flavors!

Exhibit A: Synonyms for fake

By Sarah H. Leslie

It was the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer who tipped us off about FAKE prophets over fifty years ago. He identified the rise of a FAKE science that would be enhanced by technology and spun by media. He warned that their FAKE facts could be deadly.

“But wait:
Can we really trust the government of a scientist merely because he wears a white coat?
Can we actually believe that such people will not manipulate just because they are scientists?”
~Dr. Francis Schaeffer[1]

“Modern Man the Manipulator”

FAKE science narratives are what Scripture calls “science falsely so-called” (1 Timothy 6:20). Many science myths have now become part and parcel of our modern society. Concurrently there is much scientific fact that is being squelched. Thus many believers are having difficulty sorting out TRUTH from ERROR. This “sorting out” process is known as DISCERNMENT.

The Original FAKE Science

Schaeffer classified the original fake science as evolution, i.e., Darwinism. Darwinism was really the first big experiment -- not a true science experiment, but rather a grandiose psycho-social-spiritual experiment in altering man’s perception of God’s true reality. As a result, much science has been flawed for the past several centuries. Darwinian science gave birth to faulty geology (pun intended) about earth’s true age, Noah’s actual flood and current (and end time) seismic events.[2] Evolutionary biology gave rise to tinkering with DNA.

He presciently warned about a day when the science establishment elites would be tempted to seize power:

A DEADLY Science Narrative

The first global science experiment to reduce the world’s population was abortion. The public was fed the LIE by the Establishment Media and certain segments of the medical scientific community that an unborn baby is merely a piece of tissue. Many believed this fake science narrative.

Personal Testimony: In 1984 I was a right to life leader. A brave young college student volunteered to take a specimen of my pregnant urine into the local Planned Parenthood clinic so she could investigate them. She wanted to know what options they would give her when the urine sample tested positive for pregnancy. She was given a photocopied line drawing of a uterus with squiggly lines depicting the contents. No baby, no embryo, only black and white lines. The abortion industry wasn’t going to tell her the truth about fetal development. They made more money by persuading her to undergo the surgical procedure.

A year later I organized a local television showing of Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s film The Silent Scream which filmed an actual abortion via ultrasound. Dr. Nathanson was an atheist at the time. He told us he had personally been responsible for over 72,000 abortions. This new technology persuaded him that the very babies he had once killed could be saved. He believed in the potential of man’s reason, and he decided to employ ultrasound technology to show the accurate fact that a baby was being dismembered by suction. Once enlightened by this incontrovertible evidence, Dr Nathanson assumed that rational scientists, medical personnel, politicians, the courts and the public would be appalled at the obvious destruction of human life and seek to save it.

Techno-Media & FAKE Science

He also pinpointed the lurking dangers of computer technology. He understood computers well enough to grasp the ultimate deadly ramifications if this technology would one day be wielded by a power elite:

the computer itself is dangerous. The computer has entered into a new age: It can watch you. The great eye can be upon you--recording every single thing you do from your birth to your death....(p. 98) [emphasis added]

Could Schaeffer have foreseen the advent of social media, in which corporate tech marketers would profit from collecting and selling intimate human psycho-social data for the purpose of altering mankind’s beliefs, values, ethics, morals, opinions and behaviors? Could he have predicted the rise of deepfakes, where truth is nearly impossible to distinguish from lie? 

A DEADLY Tunnel Vision

Schaeffer noted that under controlled regimes science is purposefully skewed and manipulated in order to reach conclusions that bolster its own power base. The science “manipulators” that Dr. Schaeffer warned in 1970 then were already abandoning the rational Scientific Method based on knowledge and reason. He stated his belief that “I am convinced that science, as we have known it with a commitment to objectivity, cannot continue now that this philosophy is gone.” (p. 91) 

Why did Schaeffer focus so much attention on the loss of scientific objectivity? Objective science has traditionally recognized and acknowledged that it is not the truth, but it seeks to establish facts. It will posit a thesis and then test that thesis with various hypotheses. If it changes its opinion it doesn’t lie. It simply acknowledges that more information has come in. Wherever freedom of inquiry flourishes rational science will continually re-examine, re-test and re-evaluate facts that come in that either support or challenge the thesis. 

Consider Exhibit D above, which depicts Tunnel Vision. If we look at this graph in terms of science, the middle darkest orange area would represent scientific fact. The near-, mid- and far-peripheral vision fields would be areas for further investigation, experimentation and analysis. As facts come in, the scientific fact in the middle would be enhanced with additional information, either pro or con, to bolster its case. A good scientist will often look far afield in order to locate additional data.

If scientific inquiry is stifled the peripheral research maybe not funded and scholarly papers might not be published. In a healthy free society, the scientist can seek to continue his line of inquiry, solicit additional funding, or pursue more research. In an open scholarly climate, the scientific and medical researchers will freely engage in peer review, analysis, discussion and debate. Further research and study will be pursued.

Exhibit E: Tunnel Vision

How does scientific Tunnel Vision affect the populace? Look at Exhibit E above. Consider what might happen to this person if the lighter green Central Field line of sight is all he sees? He is only cognizant of a limited field of facts. Quite literally if his Peripheral Vision is cut off he may injure himself. Obviously, this is dangerous. What would happen if the peripheral fields of scientific research were cut off from his view? What if the only line of knowledge was a narrow segment of limited facts? What could happen to the person if key peripheral facts were deleted? The science would be faulty. It would lack key data points. This, too, could be dangerous.

Now consider what might happen if the Central Field of focus is shifted up or down. What if the facts became skewed towards one Peripheral side or another? In this way people could be deceived. They may think that they are seeing a Central Field of facts, but what they are really seeing is Peripheral Vision, which is a distortion. So if the public only sees a skewed field of focus, they are not seeing true facts. They might be seeing fake science. They might even be fooled into thinking this fake field is the truth. 

And this is precisely what Schaeffer was warning about. He said that the time would come when this sort of manipulation would be done deliberately, and it could be life-threatening. He was suspicious that science “manipulators” could utilize both technology and media to control man’s line of vision. Facts could be distorted, deleted or denied. New pseudo-facts could replace them. So anything people assumed to be truth or fact, may not be. It might be faked to gird up an agenda.

Personal Testimony: I grew up in a home where my father yelled at the television every night. It was the height of the Vietnam War (the same era Schaeffer wrote his book, circa 1970). Dad didn’t believe what the newscasters were telling him. He realized he was being spoonfed certain stories with evocative visual images. He was no dummy. He was a WWII veteran and understood that the stories that came out of war were embellished to spin a narrative that suited the politicians. It was Dad who first told me about media-induced tunnel vision. He chose not to be manipulated. So he argued out loud with the news pundits every night. Many times in my life I have thanked God that He gave me a father who boldly asked questions and wasn’t gullible. Dad exercised discernment.

Evolutionary/Revolutionary Science

The fact is that postmodern science itself has become an evolving narrative. As such it is open to continual adjustments and alterations which are not necessarily grounded in fact nor solid research. This is intentionally a “paradigm shift.” It is the spiritualization of science. It is the politicization of science.

Beware of FAKE Prophets

The science “manipulators” that Dr Schaeffer predicted are now openly functioning as fake prophets promulgating fake facts. We have arrived at a new era in a planned attempt to technologically alter man.[5] A vast new array of enhanced tools for deception are arising rapidly. As we have pointed out from historical examples above, fake science can be deadly.[6]

We are witnessing the rise of the reign of fake prophets and they are not friendly, nor open-minded, nor do they tolerate biblical Truth. This calls for radical discernment on the part of Christians who follow Jesus Christ. Why? Because it appears that the next phase of Schaeffer’s predicted Establishment Elite’s marketing program intends to rely heavily upon psycho-spiritual manipulation. It will use rewards for compliance and rely upon penalties such as fear, pressure, coercion, threats and intimidation, and worse. 

Many years ago I helped people get out of cults and the occult whose minds had succumbed to brainwashing. It begins with isolation, fear, intimidation, multiple sensory deprivations and there is continual indoctrination. (Notice how similar this description is to the past year and a half of life on earth.) One of the telling features of a cult member is that they are forbidden to think outside the box. In other words, they have an induced Tunnel Vision that prohibits them from knowing anything outside of of the narrative. Hence their truncated view of reality is not only skewed, but their faith may be missing key Gospel truths.

This is why Scripture warns repeatedly to not be deceived, to be awake and alert, and to ask for wisdom (James 1:5). Many Christians do not rely upon God’s Spirit to give them wisdom about life choices and decision, but rather they rely on worldly media or entities in authority. But Jesus specifically warned:

“Beware of fake prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (Matthew 7:15)

Discern the FAKE

Here is a stern warning about gradualism. The entire fake science paradigm is built upon the slippery sands of evolutionary thinking. It is founded upon the false dialectics of Truth plus Error equals New Truth. Examine what you have been told is a scientific fact to see if it may have been deliberately manipulated. Has your field of vision been purposefully skewed? Have you made decisions or reached judgments based on truncated information? Has your line of vision to discern the truth/facts been sharply skewed? Have key facts been eviscerated? Are there vital data that have been deleted?

If we think that it is hard to discern the fake now, Jesus’s warning in Mark 13:22 is even more serious. He stated that fake prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders so potent, so believable, so counterfeit that if it were possible it could deceive even the elect. We now live in a time of incredible technological and scientific capabilities to create fakes. There is a vast potential for sophisticated deceptions. 

One thing is now certain. It is very difficult to ascertain accurate factual information. Another thing is now certain. The voices of those who are attempting to provide truthful information are being shuttered. A third thing is now certain. The kings of technology are operating as a global state overseeing all of the nations and peoples of the world, and they control the flow of information.

Finally, if you know the WORD of the GOSPEL of salvation in Jesus Christ is the TRUTH you must speak it out now while it is yet possible to do so: 

“in Whom also after that, ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise”
(Ephesians 1:13)

“Thus saith the LORD; STAND in the court of the LORD’S house, and SPEAK unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’S house, ALL THE WORDS that I command thee to SPEAK unto them; diminish not a word.”
(Jeremiah 26:2)

Endnotes:

9. Email from Leon Good, 7/16/21. 

Editor’s Note: Many of the topics on this blog since 2005 have had to do with methods of manipulation, fake science and false theology. We have warned mostly about the evangelical part of the church, which is now quite worldly, even apostate. Below are links to two series that may help you to discern the times: 

“For we cannot but SPEAK”:

Moriel.org, Moriel TV, BE ALERT, Moriel TV Facebook, and all printed and social media material of Moriel are exclusively published, web hosted, web served, and web posted in the USA only by Moriel USA (a US 5013 non profit organisation).

Moriel USA, most members of the Moriel team (including James Jacob Prasch), are American based and are legally domiciled in the USA (Coved has however stranded some missionaries and team members abroad).

Moriel Australia , UK, Canada , (and 8 other countries) are all legally and financially - totally separate from one another as independent legally incorporated or chartered entities, and none have any ownership, operating control. or responsibility for web posted or published material of the platforms which are incorporated in the USA. All are affiliated on the basis of common Christian doctrine and mission goals only. Mission projects are funded from multiple international branches,

All inquiries concerning Moriel TV and Moriel Social Media, as well as publications, are forwarded to the USA where they are established and legally located. The independent international Moriel agencies outside of The USA exercise no executive responsibility, and hold no liability, or propriety for these American platforms or their content. All content is the intellectual property of Moriel USA. Each country's Moriel organization is 100% legally and financially autonomous and self administrated. Moriel is a united theological voice only, but is not a legal, financial, or administrative monolith.

https://youtu.be/beK3o-G1zT0

Moriel TV is active in the area of discernment withstanding the popular apostasy in the contemporary church that The Word of God warns would precede the return of Jesus. We remain firmly aligned to the conviction that contemporary events in The Middle East , Europe, and in the church make the present time in history different from other eras when people thought it was the last days. We affirm the belief that Jesus is coming again and prophecy of His return is radically being fulfilled increasingly.

https://youtu.be/mvhZAnTkzkw

Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Bernard Randall, who is ordained in the Church of England and is a former chaplain of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is taking Trent College to court for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and unfair dismissal.

He commented on his case: "My story sends a message to other Christians that you are not free to talk about your faith. It seems it is no longer enough to just ‘tolerate’ LGBT ideology. You must accept it without question and no debate is allowed without serious consequences. Someone else will decide what is and what isn’t acceptable, and suddenly you can become an outcast, possibly for the rest of your life.

"I was 'too religious' for them in a Christian school. When I read that there had been a Prevent referral, it was just so mind-blowing, the fear. If the world is mad enough to say that a Church of England minister talking about the Church of England's beliefs is a violent extremist, then somebody else might be mad enough to act on it."

Authorities in the Islamic Republic attempted to burn the Israeli flag, as they usually do. But this time, karma got them and they ended up burning themselves.

Meanwhile unlike the regime, ordinary Iranians increasingly refuse to burn or walk on Israeli and American flags.

In fact, what Britain has now so remarkably achieved, and how it did so, provides an object lesson in strategy and diplomacy for every democratic nation, not least when it comes to dealing with the Middle East or threats from foreign aggressors.

Although the United Kingdom formally left the European Union on January 31 2020, it entered into a transition period of 11 months within which to negotiate its future relationship with the EU.

The Europeans were determined not to give Britain any advantage that might enable it to prosper far more than EU member states ruled by Brussels. Since Britain obviously wanted to gain precisely that advantage, a battle was inevitable.

But the EU made a fatal error. It failed to realise that Britain really meant what it said.

Eurocrats are locked into the progressive mindset that regards democratic national self-government as an impediment to trans-national utopia. So the EU negotiators never took seriously the passionate desire of the British people to become once again an independent self-governing nation, as expressed in their 2016 Brexit referendum vote, nor the pledge by their prime minister, Boris Johnson, to honour that vote.

Moreover, the Eurocrats shared the attitude displayed by many in Britain who voted to remain in the EU — that the UK was too weak and useless to go it alone in the world.

The European negotiators assumed that, regardless of Britain’s formal exit, it would still want to keep many of the advantages of EU membership and would therefore swallow the back-door control by Brussels that these would entail.

Accordingly, even when Britain’s former prime minister Theresa May was dumped from office last year after trying to foist upon her country departure terms that would have turned it into an EU “vassal” state, the EU assumed that her successor, Boris Johnson, would prove equally feeble and pliable.

So when the British government maintained that sovereignty was its absolutely non-negotiable red line, the EU assumed that it was speaking with forked tongue. And when Johnson declared that he would opt for no deal at all rather than breach his sovereignty pledge, the EU didn’t believe him.

Confident that he was an opportunist anxious to avoid compounding the damage done by Brexit, it offered terms designed to play upon what it assumed was Britain’s main weakness. This was its supposed desperation to safeguard what the EU believed to be the UK’s most valuable assets—the City of London financial centre, the creative industries and the professions.

So to minimise disadvantage to these areas, the EU offered to keep them alone within the EU single market—and thus hook the UK under EU control in perpetuity.

Certain that Britain would want to protect these assets, the EU was therefore astounded when it turned the offer down.

With the clock ticking last week to the deadline, the astonishing truth suddenly dawned on the Eurocrats that Johnson actually meant what he said. As a result, they were staring down the barrel of no-deal.

Problematic as this would have been for Britain, it would have been far worse for the EU And so, at the last minute, a trade and co-operation agreement suddenly materialised.

True, it’s a flawed deal for Britain — not least because of areas like financial services that have now been left out of it altogether.

Other elements of the previously agreed UK withdrawal terms — in particular, a fudge over Northern Ireland which will follow certain EU single market rules — are very bad.

But the point is that these are now merely flawed treaties the UK can renegotiate, exit or supersede if it chooses.

For crucially, it has regained its sovereign power to make its own laws and policies, the essence of a democratic and free nation. That was the fundamental point behind the Brexit vote.

And the important lesson for other nations is that the British government pulled off this feat because its opponents didn’t believe it actually meant what it said — but it really did, and acted accordingly.

The assumption that the west believes in nothing strongly enough to fight for it has fuelled conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere. Around the world, aggressors gain the advantage because they know that western democracies that say they’ll bring them to heel don’t actually mean it.

From Iran to North Korea, from China to the Palestinians, rogue states, terrorist regimes and other aggressors have been able to continue their murderous, expansionist activities because they think that, however much the west may threaten them, it won’t follow through.

So the Palestinians never believed the west meant it when it told them they had to accept the right of Israel to exist. Why should they have believed this, when until 2016 at least the west never stopped excusing, funding and incentivising their aggression?

The one exception to this has been US President Donald Trump, who called the Palestinians’ manipulative bluff. Told by the rest of the west that moving the US embassy to Jerusalem would provoke the Arab world to violence, he ignored this and moved it anyway.

Not only was there no such uprising, but now the Palestinians have been marginalised by an Arab world that’s increasingly making its peace with Israel in a way that was previously unthinkable.

That’s largely due in turn to Trump taking the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions on the regime. He thus showed that, unlike former President Barack Obama or the British and the Europeans, when he said he intended to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons he really did mean it.

Now there are fears that President-elect Joe Biden may reactivate the Iran deal and start pumping money again into the regime’s nefarious activities; or he may once again incentivise the Palestinians’ agenda of destroying Israel; or he may allow China to walk all over him in its drive to dominate the west.

This is based on the fear that Biden may behave as the left always behave. They have no red lines of principle over stopping aggressors and protecting their victims. Instead, their doctrine of moral equivalence means that they make no such value judgments between aggressor and victim.

Their red line is instead merely to keep negotiations and peace processes going. The result is that they excuse and empower aggressors just to keep them from walking out of the talks.

So when they claim to be against tyranny, racism and oppression, the world’s tyrants, racists and oppressors know they don’t mean what they say.

Britain now faces more battles with the EU The free world faces more battles with Iran, China, Russia, Islamic jihadists and other lethal foes. The Jews face their interminable battle against those who wish to destroy them.

What the Brexit deal reminds us is that hypocrites are dismissed with contempt as paper tigers; and that for freedom, justice and democracy to win against aggression, injustice and tyranny, the leaders of the free world must not pay mere lip-service to defending the former but actually mean what they say.

To Whom It May Concern, Christian Greetings & Season's Blessings.

A Moriel volunteer who monitors the internet forwarded us a link to a ridiculous video entitled: 'Jacob the deceiver'. While we have had no correspondence from our subscribers regarding this new attempted maelstrom of defamatory and slanderous cyber harassment against Moriel & James Jacob Prasch, once again by Deborah Menelaws of 'Studio Scotland', we do wish to pre-empt any with a quick and to the point reaction. Admittedly, most people , like ourselves, are long tired of this cyber vendetta, and their GV 24/7 gets too few views to take very seriously. We therefore only respond to her latest baseless polemic "Jacob the deceiver", for the sake of any of our newer subscribers who per chance may see it, (although we have not heard from any), doing so with reluctance.

• Moriel only operates one website, and that is its own. No such person is known to us as 'Caio Michael' to whom Menelaws ascribes the following remarks: *Hell Deborah you fat smelly mutant tuna fish stinking aids ridden unwanted piece of garbage". We do not even appear to have such a person on our mail list. We cannot comment on his claim that Deborah Menelaws has aids; her personal health issues are none of our business. We simply object to her efforts to link us to a person who dislikes her whom we have never even heard of. Indeed, a range of people we know dislike her, but him we do not know. Menelaws appears to be claiming that this 'Caio Michael' has a counterfeit website of some description, posting bogus content for which she falsely blames Moriel. This is pure nonsense. We do not even know who he is. In the last few years a wide gamut of people (most, but not all of them, women) have contacted us denouncing Menelaws. We know pastors in Scotland, England, & Northern Ireland have banned her from their churches, calling her 'End Time Handmaiden' show (where Deborah Menelaws is a self appointed 'mother-hen') " Cultic" and built on mysticism and Gnostic perversions of scripture. Such pastors however may speak for themselves , and Caio Michael speaks for himself. We speak only for Moriel.
  
  
• Before James Jacob Prasch worked with Studio Scotland, he authored several books, and did conferences in the USA (sometimes with thousands attending) with major Christian figures such as Tim La Haye, David Hocking, Chuck Missler, Dave Hunt, and Chuck Smith. With no reference to Menelaws, he had what at the time was the most regularly viewed Christian TV program in Britain (and possibly Europe), before leaving due to his objection to money preachers. Hideous claims by Menelaws that the Menelaws 'made Jacob known' are demonstrably absurd. God made him known.
  
  
• Caspari, which has its own centre in Jerusalem, Israel is where Jacob Prasch commenced his formal theological education with Cambridge University (he had previously been to university, but not seminary or bible college - although he had earlier learned Greek & Latin in the USA, and already acquired Hebrew). The Cambridge University Diploma in Religious Studies (which Jacob did in Judaism) is the Cambridge University curriculum which issued the credential. The course material , exam grading etc. was all by Cambridge University professors & examiners in England. However, the advantage of studying on site in Israel instead of in England of course, were the Hebrew language and local proximity to relevant archaeological excavations , Judaica museums etc. Jacob did do a theological degree in England however at London Bible College (today called 'London School of Theology') , and then commenced post graduate studies for a M. Phil. Instead however, he enrolled in a doctoral program at Fuller Seminary electing to turn an M. Phil into doctorate. A very serious auto collision in 1996 however put an end to his efforts, (which he later saw as providential given the unfortunate direction Fuller gravitated towards theologically and spiritually).
  
  
• Without a doctorate, Jacob has defined himself as "academically trained, but not an academic - scholarly but not a scholar". While he has published academic journal papers, as an author , in terms of style, he follows A.W. Tozer, FB Meyer, Martyn Lloyd Jones, Chas. Spurgeron, Francis Shaffer etc. in recycling academic material for an ordinary Christian readership. As with these authors and others, Jacob avoids scholarly syntax, explains the meaning of technical jargon (which academic books do not do need to do), and instead of footnoting, uses parenthetical referencing, and instead of Hebrew & Greek script that the average Christian cannot read, he uses italicised transliteration. Most authors making scholarly material digestible to an ordinary Christian readership do this same thing in lieu of publishing in an academic format (which is theology written for other theologians, but not for 'feeding the sheep'). Classic examples are the Credal Apology by Oxford Don CS Lewis' 'Mere Christianity' , the 'Commentary on Matthew' by Wycliffe Hall Oxford Principal RT France, and Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum's epic 'Hebrew Christianity : Its History & Philosophy' . While CS Lewis & RT France (who was also one of Jacob's lecturers at London Bible College) were Oxford professors, neither published books for general readership in an academic format. In imitation of them, neither does James Jacob Prasch. To dismiss the validity of Jacob's books on the basis of not being academically formatted and footnoted, would automatically require that the doctrinal & prophecy books by figures such as David Pawson, Tony Pearce, Roger Oakland, and many , many others also be discredited on precisely the same exact basis.
  
  
• Authors, commentators, and editorialists have moreover always expressed similar opinions using similar phraseology and terminology. This is obvious. This however does not constitute plagiarism where there is a verbatim false attribution of authorship. While Jacob would refuse to sue on the basis of 1 Corinthians Chapter 6 prohibiting such civil litigation, the vicious charge by Menelaws' that Jacob is a 'plagiarist' is a badly manufactured libellous lie.
  
  
• Moriel never sought conflict with the Menelaws. We simply believe that Studio Scotland , legally registered as a commercial enterprise, is misrepresented as being a ministry, when it is in fact not Christian 'ministry', but is in the ' ministry business'. When secular actors were paid handsomely for working on films such as 'The Daniel Project' and 'Daniel Connection', while James Jacob Prasch and other Christians were told do it pro bono 'For The Lord' and 'For The Gospel' , only for the rights to such films to then be sold to the Hollywood, and to Communist China (who persecute Christians and who want to prevent Christian films from being translated into Mandarin), is an unethical sham and a shame and a disgrace. We were told those films were for Christ, not for the fallen world. For Menelaws to continue to sell these videos featuring Jacob Prasch while publicly excoriating him moreover, seems like financially driven religious hypocrisy on steroids. This is the very kind of reason James Jacob Prasch refused any further filming by Menelaws, (just as he quit digital TV due to money preachers).
  
  
• The other motivating factor was Menelaws' attack on Moriel for our disassociation and refutation of David Nathan whom Menelaws promoted endlessly. Promotion of a supposedly saved Messianic Jew who teaches 'God The Father is Not the Creator', 'The Blood of animals, (not the Blood of Christ) will cleanse from sin in the Millennial Kingdom', 'the Gospel is Not eternal', and 'we can pray God's power into the cloth of a tie or jacket to knock people over for healing' is their business, not ours. But to attack us for opposing it is something different. David Nathan grew up Jewish, Jacob Prasch did not. Jacob Prasch's family is Jewish, David Nathan's family is not. So what? But ancestry became the basis of the attacks by supporters of David Nathan's heresy such as the Menelaws. Mr Nathan 'being more Jewish than Jacob Prasch' is not a defense of his heretical abberation theology. He is false teacher whom Menelaws promoted and defended for month after month, attacking Moriel for our stance opposing such apostate dogma that we were forced to renounce as he was a former team member.
  
  
• In pursuit of her vendetta, Menelaws has formed alliances with some very strange bed fellows. The video produced by 'Blood Bought Ministries in South Africa': "Is Chris Roebrough Fit to Be A Pastor' ? is available for free viewing on Moriel TV & RTN TV. We suggest any who are interested view it. Rosebrough dresses in clergy vestments and prays before a statue of an un-crucified Christ. He teaches forgiveness of sin comes from confessing one's sins to him, and that there is no antichrist, no 666, that the book of Revelation is only symbolic, and that both the Great Tribulation and the Millennial Reign of Christ have simultaneously existed since the First Century. The penchant Rosebrough and his producer (his son Joshua) have for fecal & four letter word vulgarity is disgusting. In the estimation of many Christians, Menelaws' mate Rosebrough seems to be crazy.
  
  
• Rosebrough claims to have a pie chart of Jacob Prasch's personal DNA, which would require a miracle (since he has no blood or saliva sample). Contrary to his claims, when he harassed Jacob's family, they told him nothing except to get lost. He correctly stated the original family name of James Jacob 'Prasch' was 'Brasch' and is a common Jewish name, but insisted that 'Prasch' were unrelated to the Jewish 'Brasch'. The Jewish burial certificates of 'Prasch' specifically stating the original name is 'Brasch' is on the Jewish burials website, and also copied in the article on the Moriel website "The Rant of The Desperate" (an actual James Jacob Prasch DNA report was offered to our supporters).
  
  
• Like Israel College of The Bible/ One for Israel, Jews for Jesus, and others - Jacob Prasch teaches that 'The Angel of The Lord' in the Hebrew scriptures, whom Kaballistic Judaism calls "Metatron" is a Christophany - an Old Testament manifestation of Jesus. This has been asserted in evangelizing Jews for over a century, first by Oxford lecturer in Hebrew Rabbi Tzvi Nassi (who became a saved believer in Jesus). Caballists variously also mystically identify "The Angel of The Lord" (or as they call Him 'Metatron') with Enoch, an Arch Angel, or the Messiah. Jacob Prasch explicitly warned on his video that Kaballah is occult; any elements of truth are combined with error. The only purpose of this teaching was Messianic Apologetics: to teach Christians how to evangelistically deal with rabbinic objections to The Trinity. The rabbinic mythologizing the scriptural 'Angel of the Lord' is false ; it is Jesus who is beyond, or at the centre of the throne ( a term appearing in the Book if Revelation). Watching our original video proves beyond question the dishonesty of Menelaws in misrepresenting our doctrinal position in the apologetic reference to Metatron, where Jacob repeatedly and specifically warns against the rabbinic mythology. Again, there is no euphemism for their plain calumny and bearing false witness.
  
  
• The other odd bed fellow whom Menelaws draws on in her attempts to paint Moriel as a cult, is the very controversial, and self admittedly non-Christian, 'Catalyst' organisation that has been involved in legal battles with the press. On its website, 'Catalyst' makes it clear that it holds 'NO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS" and will represent persons of ANY FAITH (Hindu, Moslem, Mormon etc.), and of any sexual orientation (homosexual, lesbian, trans-gender etc.). Why Menelaws would resort to a non Christian organisation like this in order to attack Moriel is a question for Menelaws. Catalyst, promoted by Menelaws, made three claims. The first is that Moriel was under investigation, when in fact Moriel has never been investigated in any jurisdiction. Secondly, that Moriel & Jacob Prasch reap high profits from the sale of recorded material. Everyone of course knows that , unlike Menelaws & Studio Scotland who sell recorded material as merchandise, all Moriel recorded material is publicly available on-line without charge for free downloading (we also allow multiple other channels to post our material free of charge). It is rather Menelaws who sell recorded material. Moriel believes: "freely you received, feely shall you give". Menelaws even sell recorded material of Jacob Prasch, calling him nefarious, yet openly making money from his name!
  
  
• The third claim is that Moriel is a cult. Moriel cannot be a cult because it simply has no members. Its team all attend other churches and affiliated churches are autonomous. Our statement of faith reflects 100% Conservative Evangelical orthodoxy.
  
  
• In the UK, Moriel is registered as a Charity. The audited accounts annually submitted to the Charities commission prove Jacob Prasch takes no UK salary and accepts no book royalties. In the USA, the charity laws are different than in the UK. There is no Charity Commission, but charitable organizations are non-profit corporations regulated by the IRS tax authorities like any other corporation. Under American law, book royalties are paid to the author, but can be donated back as a tax deduction. This however must be publicly declared, and it is (such can reach $150,000). In Britain there are 'restricted funds' (called 'designated funds' in the USA) . If a donation is received for India or Africa or a specific missionary, or team member (including Jacob Prasch), the money, by law, must go to where the donor requests. Team members can accept love gifts etc., but by the rules Moriel operates by, they may not solicit them. These distorted financial claims of profiteering by Menelaws are twisted. Moriel puts its audited accounts & financial records out for public viewing. Why won't Menelaws disclose for how much they sold the rights of "Christian" films for to Hollywood, Communist (Christian persecuting) China, and Satan's world?

* * * * * We regret having to reiterate this cumbersome folly again. Unfortunately, Menelaws is at it again. By God's grace, we have had just slightly over a 300% increase of subscribers in the last thirty or thirty one months, plus a volumetric rise in RTN, other channels, websites, & Facebook pages carrying Moriel material. Our subscribers, old & new, mostly just ignore Menelaws (as they should). Should any newer subscribers like a response to this nonsense from Moriel, they now have it. Moriel has but one website (though there are non English language Moriel websites in Japanese , Dutch, & Danish etc.). We conclusively and categorically assure everyone, that we have nothing to do with Caio Michael, and we don't know who he is. He certainly may speak for other people; but not for Moriel. Neither do any imagined death threats come from anyone connected to Moriel. Such assertions are nothing short of deranged. No christian ministry could ever engage in such things. Moriel is once more the target of sickeningly hostile, tragicomical fabrications from which The Lord Himself will defend us.

IN MEMORY OF BRAXTON CANER

'HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS JD HALL' !

BAPTIST TIMES IMPLICATED JD HALL IN SUICIDE OF 15 YEAR OLD BOY
JD HALL "repents" for interaction with suicidal teen

NEWSBOB ALLEN | AUGUST 11, 2014 BAPTIST TIMES

By Bob Allen

A Southern Baptist pastor, blogger and radio host accused of cyberbullying in the weeks since the death by suicide of a Texas teenager said in a lengthy confession read to his church on Sunday the controversy has left him “crushed” and “broken.”

Pastor J.D. Hall said many members of Fellowship Church of Sidney, Mont., might not even be aware that for three years he has been advocating reform in the Southern Baptist Convention through Pulpit and Pen, a blog and radio program that airs on Worldview Weekend founded by conservative Christian broadcaster Brannon Howse.

Among the issues Hall has addressed is Ergun Caner, president of Georgia Baptist Convention-affiliated Brewton-Parker College, who is accused of making up a testimony of being raised to become an Islamic terrorist before accepting Christ as a teenager. Hall has also taken on high-profile SBC leaders who defend Caner and failure in the Baptist media to report the story.

On July 2 Hall wondered on Twitter why Caner’s 15-year-old son, Braxton, was “posting make-out pics and profanity” on social media. Four weeks later, according to an online medical examiner’s report, Braxton Caner ended his own life in an upstairs bedroom of his home in Aledo, Texas, at 6:54 p.m. on July 29.

Hall initially defended the original post and a brief exchange of tweets with the teenager, saying it was relevant to the father’s ability to lead in his own home. Later Hall said he regretted pointing out the teen’s online behavior, calling it a distraction and admitting that he should have contacted Caner privately.

That didn’t stop several bloggers from piling on criticism, accusing Hall of “thuggery,” “cyber-stalking,” “harassing” and “bullying” the youth. Some suggested that criticism of his father by Hall and other bloggers may have indirectly or directly been a factor in Braxton’s suicide.

Hall told his congregation that he doesn’t believe his “four-comment and rather cordial exchange” had anything to do with Braxton’s death, but he confessed that he never should have interacted with the 15 year old youth “because my heart to him was not pastoral.”

“I am profoundly sorry that Braxton Caner ended his life,” Hall said. “Knowing now that this young man struggled with that level of despair, I am even more sorry that my interaction with this young 15 year old boy who then killed himself was adversarial rather than pastoral.”

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Jesus Said :

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the Sea".

We hope that you are a real good swimmer JD Hall

Seasons Greetings !

This time reminded me a lot of being a camp counselor at Wonderland Camp during college summer breaks. I learned a lot from our director, Mr.D, and his family, their dedication to the Lord to bring the gospel to these children. Those were pretty challenging times, too, working with "at risk" children from the inner-cities. By comparison, our children are pretty well-behaved (we didn't need to deal with any fights during the whole two weeks).

At our house we read through Exodus 1-20 in Thai, usually a chapter before meals, learning the differences between the Old and New Testaments and the amazing history of how God redeemed Israel, which foreshadowed what Jesus accomplished for us. And we watched Superbook episodes of the Bible, sang worship songs, and also took the boys running/walking for 5K at a stadium each morning, and played soccer most evenings. These Bible Camps have been a great time for the boys to grow in the Lord. If they stayed home during these breaks, most of them would be on their cell phones, wasting away their days, instead of getting some good spiritual input from the Bible. It was a busy time for us, but really a blessed and fun time for them and us as well. Here are two pictures—one of the first week, and the second of our Saturday group.

Women's Prison This month for the Christian group I began teaching from the book of Acts. In looking at chapters 1 and 2, among other things, I talked about the meaning of baptism, that we are not born-again via baptism, but that it's a symbol of what already took place in the heart of the person who puts their faith in Jesus when they repented of their sins, died to their old life, and received new life by the power of the Holy Spirit. Then after a person is born again, they want to show outwardly via baptism, what already took place inwardly by the Holy Spirit. 

Jallay and I also had a good time teaching the recently arrived prisoners. A couple of them who were there last month also, gave good testimonies, showing that they are growing in the Lord, and maybe even have become born-again, having come from a Christian background, but not strong in faith or understanding the gospel. But, their testimonies showed real steps in the right direction.



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AMF Church Plant We continue to see steady attendance at the Burmese church. There are two unbelievers who are a brother and sister from Myanmar who continue to attend. And, this month one of the mother's our Saturday children came to church for the first time. She said she would like to come again. In December we're planning an outreach with dinner and small gifts, for more of the parents of the children and others to share the true meaning of Christmas.

Outreach to the Long Necked Ba-Dong Each Friday, Jallay and family continue to visit a group of folks from the Ba-Dong tribe in Myanmar. Some of the older women among them, still wear rings around their neck to make their necks longer (and more attractive apparently). Back in July a friend of ours donated some money for food and asked me where there are people in need (as a result of the covid economic downfall). This group was working with elephants and showing the traditional ways of life of the long-neck people, for tourists, but with the decrease of tourists their livelihood was suffering. We went there to hand out groceries and shared the gospel. Some of them are from a Catholic background and others from a Buddhist background.

Jallay has continued going there, teaching them in Burmese and Thai the true meaning of the gospel. None of them has come to church yet, but there's a core group of seven people and some weeks more who come to study the Bible each Friday. Please pray for them truly to be born-again. Here are some pictures—two from July and two other more recent ones.

Peace in Christ,

Scott, Khae, Micahberekiah, and Isaiah. 



The gist of one type of Baptist Hitlerism ran something like, “Well he don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t chew, and don’t run with them that do.” Baptists and many others lauded Hitler’s evocation of a desperately needed new esprit de corps in Germany post-Versailles, improvements in transportation, and his kindness to his beloved German Shepherd Blondi, whom he had raised from a pup. It’s easy today to stand incredulous and appalled at the colossal collective blind spots that accommodated so much support for Hitler for so long from so many. But it was harder to see the truth about his horrible rise to power then, and many Baptists weighed Hitler in the scales of moral rectitude and weighed in with their support.

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The Satanic Temple admitted proudly Wednesday that, in their belief system, killing an unborn baby in an abortion is a religious ritual similar to communion or baptism for Christians.

'The last enemy to be destroyed is Death'

Praise God that Jesus died our death to give us His Life Eternal.

Praise God that He has abolished death; that is 'katargeo'' : (Rendered “Death Inoperative”) due to the certain Hope of The Resurrection.

Praise God that Steve is with Jesus and no longer suffers from pneumonia, Coved 19, diabetes, or cancer and wouldn't want to come back even if God allowed him to.

'TO LIVE IS CHRIST, TO DIE IS GAIN'!

Praise God that Steve will be back better than new for 1,000 Years to an earth better than this fallen one and that we will be with him as Jesus reigns.

Praise God that in this age of reprobation and apostasy and the coming antichrist Steve has been blessed with going home early.

Indeed we can and should thankfully praise God for all of these things.

Though this painful separation is but temporary, my soul grieves for Steve's beloved Supriya and precious little daughter Malia.

The Word of God tells us that 'The Lord is near to those who mourn'. Psalm 34:18 & Matthew 5:4

The God of all comfort will see them through this awful bereavement and secure their future
until they and we are with our friend and brother Steve again.

James Jacob Prasch
(Moriel)

In Jesus,

J. Jacob Prasch
(Moriel Ministries)

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Two Narratives, which one is true?

https://youtu.be/eAHhYeH8SfY

Copyright Violation is wrong. Filing complaints for legitimate violations is both ethical and appropriate. Lying however is not. To misrepresent a "FAIR USE' citation of a clip as a Copyright Violation is both dishonest and despotic. To further claim that a video not even showing clips of the complainant (Amir Tsarfati) is a 'Copyright Violation', in order to suppress open, fair, and reasonable doctrinal disagreement or theological discussion - is nothing short of lying. Amir Tsarfati's dishonest actions are shameful and unbecoming of someone claiming to be a saved believer in Yeshua. How can an Israeli professing to be a follower of his Messiah go to the secular world and make false accusations against fellow believers like this? This is done only to silence criticism of his teaching, which many believers who support Israel, including a number of Jewish believers, hold to be doctrinal errors. When the world behaves like this, that is the world. When believers behave like this, it is a disgrace to the Name and cause of Yeshua, bringing reproach upon His Gospel.

We ourselves normally agree with Amir Tsarfati's political commentaries. His "teaching," however, is in the view of many believers a mixture of truth and error warranting honest, scripturally based discussion. Amir Tsarfati is indeed a tour guide and an officer in the military reserves, and is in a position to produce such political and strategic commentaries as a believer. He does not however pastor a congregation in Israel, he is not a Messianic theologian, nor speak for the Messianic leadership in Israel. Amir Tsarfati's ministry is primarily to the church in the diaspora. We publicly call upon Amir Tsarfati to repent and apologize to Dean Gibson and Sonia Azam.

The specific teaching of Amir Tsarfati challenged, concerned his false Christology that Yeshua is the Archangel Michael. When first accosted, he reacted by citing a Jehovah's Witness cult false teaching, then Amir Tsarfati angrily blamed others as if he were a victim of something other than his own erroneous dogma. Now Amir files copyright violation claims where no violations exist. Regarding his second bogus copyright strike against the converted Moslem sister Sonia Azam, some of us even agree with Amir Tsarfati's position on a Jewish antichrist. This however does not constitute a right to dishonestly sequester, by such utterly disingenuous means, material that reviews and dialogues about his proposition. The habitual belligerence exhibited by Amir Tsarfati in response to those in honest disagreement with him has now been replaced by a policy of demonstrable dishonesty.

This video was produced by Alan Kurschner and Chris White. https://7pretribproblems.com/
*DISCLAIMER : MORIEL TV stands in complete doctrinal agreement and theological harmony with the excellent contents of this video production with regards to the Pre Tribulational Rapture position
which we deem to be unscriptural and fundamentally incompatible with the unignorable factors highlighted in this video, as well as certain other further exegetical and historical considerations supporting the same conclusions.

While the doctrinal positions of those within MORIEL TV are absolutely congruous with the producers and contributors of this video regarding the Pre Tribulational rapture view which we in common with the producers & contributors hold to be erroneous, there may be other areas outside of the scope of this video where we may either agree or disagree or partially agree. The academically well-presented and scholarly argumentation set out in this superb production, precisely parallels and echoes our own assertions with respect to this increasingly vital subject irrespective of any extraneous matters not specifically addressed in this video.

We Thank The Lord Jesus , the Producers, and the Contributors for this important and valuable resource, and we encourage its circulation and dissemination within The Body of Christ globally.

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Moriel TV is active in the area of discernment withstanding the popular apostasy in the contemporary church that The Word of God warns would precede the return of Jesus. We remain firmly aligned to the conviction that contemporary events in The Middle East , Europe, and in the church make the present time in history different from other eras when people thought it was the last days. We affirm the belief that Jesus is coming again and prophecy of His return is radically being fulfilled increasingly.

If you have any questions, please let us know.
Every blessing to you

It is a must watch. Great exposition of the book or Romans.

Please share this with your Spanish speaking family and friends.

Much needed reminder of the grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

More teachings to come, stay tuned!

Follow Sergio Mariani on his own channel where you will find worship music, teachings and well done series on "Know your enemy" in Spanish.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sergiomarianimusic/featured

This has become evident with a recent repackaged trend called Complementarianism, promoted by Dana Crosby. dana has produced teaching, that attempts to show that headship has been deliberately mistaught to suppress women and keep them away from the pulpit. Jacob examines this, and calls it what it is, a lie.

https://rtntv.org

Most of Social Media has gravitated in the direction of mainstream media, censoring anything they ideologically do not like. In an effort to control public thought and circumvent the American First Amendment, stifle free speech etc. , Social Media is increasingly biased and devoid of integrity. This has certainly become true in the political sphere with pro left wing ideology governing allowed content , but on issues concerning Pro-Life activism, Disagreement with homosexuality & lesbianism, fair criticism of Islam etc., Christian interests are progressively being stifled with anti-Christian censorship.

What is more troubling is that propagators and promoters of heretical doctrine and apostasy have in cases we are aware of, lied and fabricated charges with mediums such as YouTube to silence more scripturally based voices of opposition to their demonic doctrines and practices. Even where 'fair use' citations of videos have been made, the capacity of players in the apostate church to lie, falsely claiming copyright violations etc., has been unbelievable.

The rapid pace of change since the coved 19 outbreak from China and its impact on the church and its challenge to the Freedom of Christians has been an avalanche as has been increasing anti-Semitism and Jew hatred. There has been politically motivated censorship of Israel, while Iran is allowed to demand Israel's violent destruction on Social Media. Conservative voices are unjustly being branded and banned as racists, while truly bigoted voices on the radical left are allowed to sing their venom like a chorus intoxicated canaries.

Ultimately however, prolife, pro-Israel, and pro heterosexual marriage voices among Christians are being equated to political hate speech.

Just as independent media has been the only viable alternative to mainstream media, independent Social Media platforms with their own servers and apps are the only alternative to the direction most of mainstream Social Media has veered, and this certainly includes YouTube & Twitter.

To proclaim the authentic message of Jesus and His Return as is taught in God's Word, saved Christians can no longer rely on secular social media respecting First Amendment r5ights, or Freedom of Speech. Freedom of Religion itself is already under attack.

We must have an alternative outlet while there is still time remaining.

We are not wanting to sound alarmist, but we must be realistic.

This is why we have RTN TV & Radio. Please join us. Please subscribe. Please get the App. Visit us on RTNTV.org .

By God's grace we promise to deliver to you Christ centred and Scripturally based ministry. We need your participation, but we covet your prayers.

Sincerely in the love and service of Christ,

JJ Prasch & Moriel Ministries

Jacob Prasch deals with the current events in the Middle East. This time he deals with the Turkish threat and how it relates to Bible Prophecy and the return of Jesus.

Coming soon: What does "If I be Lifted up" mean? Jacob Prasch will discuss the meaning of this wonderful teaching from our Lord. Find out when Moriel releases their newest video.

Moriel however, is focused on doctrine. We have long warned of the heretical content of TBN, even prior to the homosexuality & financial scandals being reported repeatedly on the front page of the LA Times. The TBN  money preaching was injurious to the testimony of the Body of Christ.

We also opposed the dangerously false teaching of Hillsong even prior to the highly publicized sexual & financial scandals. The 'serve the Roman Catholic church' hyper ecumenical policies of Darlene Zscech with the pedophile protecting Pope John Paul II, were highly troubling to us. So too were were the blasphemous 'Naked Cowboy' and 'Jesus in Drag as the Statue of Liberty'' fiasco by Hillsong in New York exposed by the secular media.

The Royal Commission investigation in Australia declared Brian Houston culpable of protecting his homosexual pedophile father Frank in a series of moral fiascos that rocked Hillsong on top of the NY media mess of Hillsong's Carl Lenz degradation of Christ.

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Tim Wirth's Website No Goofey Zone has Mr. Wirth declaring his tenure playing with Hillsong and with Darleen Zcech to be a "BLESSING", and boasting of his work with TBN.

This kind of repertoire & CV is to Moriel a shame and a disgrace and not something to count as a 'Blessing'. TBN is nothing to boast of. This manner of self promotion by Mr. Tim Wirth further confirms the impetus for Moriel getting rid of him.

Many Christians think that Hillsong above all is an enterprise that is about money (as was revealed in an Australia TV news documentary). Many also found the unceasing emphasis on money by TBN was much the same thing.

Among many of us who know him ands who have dealt with him, Tim Wirth is a less successful version of the same thing.

Doctrine and ethics had little place in Hillsong or TBN. Lo and behold - Tim Wirth.

The covid virus that has been Communist China's gift to the world has been corrupted into a political issue and not primarily a scientific & medical one. 

Data on the efficaciousness of existing quinine based medication, the media suppression of contrary medical and scientific opinion by eminent professionals, the manipulation of statistics neglecting to relate increased diagnosed cases to increased testing, and the ignoring of decreased infection rates in places such as Sweden where no lockdown was ever enforced or implemented, are just a few of the causes for popular confusion.

Accusations that the political left is deliberately misusing the pandemic to depress the American economy in league with refusal to stop urban rioting in cities and states with left-leaning governments as an electoral strategy to turn voters against Donald Trump is another aspect being highlighted by some voices. So areaccusations that globalists are exploiting the pandemic to engineer political, economic, and social crises internationally in order to oppose populism.

All of these views indeed may have merit as secular issues. Our concern however are the issues concerning the body of Christ. Is john MacArthur and others like himScripturally correct in their position? 

For the record, a Moriel affiliated church in California has adopted a modified position akin to that of 'grace to you' and masters seminary although they are practicing social distancing, face masks etc. But why?

It is no secret that Moriel & Jacob Prasch are at theological odds with John MacArthur in several basic areas of dogma & praxis.

Eschatologically we deem John MacArthur's teaching that there will be those following the rapture who accept the mark of the beast yet who will be saved and go to heaven to be both false and dangerous and in diametric contradiction to Revelation chapters 14, 16, & 20.

Pneumatologically despite our own hard core opposition to hyper charismatic & ultra-Pentecostal extremism (Neo-Montanism) with its mysticism, emotionally governed pseudo spirituality, and hermeneutical Gnosticism seen in the New Apostolic Reformation, Word Faith money preaching, and counterfeit revivals (Toronto, Lakeland, Hillsong, Pensacola etc), we co-equally abhor the Cessationism of John MacArthur on the opposite pole of the spectrum. Suppressing the Holy Spirit and mutilating the texts of 1 Corinthians to make it say that which it exegetically does not. Both extremes are deception and lunacy.

Philosophically despite the common ground we share with John MacArthur on the fundamental essence gospel and our similar caveats contra-ecumenical seduction,we find the reformed proposition that a god of love intentionally created certain people to be eternally tortured in hell to be aCalvinistic repackaging of the 'inja allah' teaching of Islam & the Koran, combined with Calvin’s 16th century humanism. Jesus taught us that 'hell is a place created for Satan & his demons', and Jesus died and arose so that no one would ever need to go there, though an omniscient God know the future. We do not subscribe to the patristic theology of Augustine whose Platonism was seminal in the development of Roman Catholicism, despite his maintaining certain true things as well as the introduction of error alien to the New Testament and the apostolic church.

Soteriologically we hold that John MacArthur is confused in his understanding of the blood of Christ and ignorant in his convolution of the death of Christ and his blood.

Ecclesiologically the text of 1 Corinthians Chapter 5 warns us that in certain circumstances there can even be a 'guilt by association’, but always by cooperation. John MacArthur'sheinous partnering with a nefarious figure like Tim Keller and a neo-gnostic like John Piper who leads the 'lectio divina' visualization ritual with mystical Gnostics such as Beth Moore and Francis Chan, is nothing short of pathetic. To align with those who what you profess and know to be serious error is nothing short of hypocritical. When ministry becomes built on theocratic politics instead of on doctrinal theology, ugly fruit can be the only result. We have tragically witnessed Mr. MacArthur's deputy, Phil Johnson in bed with Chris Rosbrough & son, famous for their supposedly satirical use of excrement vulgarity and on-line four letter swear word profanity represented as being somehow 'Christian'. Rosbrough rejects any belief in a mark of the beast or a literal antichrist and teaches that the millennial reign of Christ with Satan being bound commenced with the ascension of Christ. Rosbrough propounds sacramental regeneration and proclaims that forgiveness of sin comes from confessing one's sin to him to receive absolution. Being in league with such a deceiver is indefensible, but that is what Phil Johnson of master's seminary does. Mr. Johnson lends credence to Doreen Virtue who claims to have had a 3D apparition of Christ, depicted by an artist in accordance with her description, who had no stigmata and (thus) was never crucified for our sin, yet had a protruding Roman Catholic-style sacred heart emanating from his chest. She has just this week published her fourth book on this claimed apparition despite claims that she has renounced it a few months earlier. Yet it is Doreen Virtue whom Phil Johnson enlisted on a video to defend john MacArthur's erroneous teaching concerning Mark of the Beast.

For the aforementioned reasons, Moriel & Jacob Prasch cannot recognize john MacArthur as a solid, Holy Spirit illuminated expounder of God's Word, though our own convictions are so often in harmony with so much of what Mr. MacArthur and his colleagues otherwise write and declare from the pulpit. We therefore do not address the current Covid-19 issue in any sense as his devotees.

In California, and elsewhere, leftist gangs can congregate for premeditated civil unrest, the demolition of public monuments, and the violent dissemination of hate speech, often against Christians.Christians however, cannot assemble for prayer, fellowship, and worship. The abortion mills are open for non-therapeutic termination of pregnancy; killing babies as a form of birth control.

Cannabis clinics are also open in California for the procurement of marijuana. Churches however, must be closed.

God may indeed be allowing this as a judgment on apostate churches such as Rick Warren's Saddleback and Bill Johnson's Bethel in Redding. However, Christ-centered and scripturally-based houses of worship are also off limits by the decree of a left wing governor known for his anti-conservative Christian political biases.

Unfortunately, we are unable for the reasons listed above to applaud or salute John MacArthur's actions and his stance as we would have preferred to do. We do however, on the basis of Acts chapter 4, affirm his policy as scriptural. While we are prevented by his bad theology from standing in solidarity with him, in this case we do stand in solidarity with his actions.

It is moreover disturbing to us that so many of his traditional supporters are dividing from him, not over the kinds of doctrinal issues we mention, but because of his reaction to this unjust interference in the affairs of the church by an ungodly politician in Sacramento. In this at least, john MacArthur has our prayers and empathy (for what little they may be worth to him).

Finally, we are forced to regard any citation of the criminal charges brought against his son for alleged financial impropriety in his secular business to be a low blow. Whether these allegations are to any degree a politically motivated misuse of the judicial process by anti-evangelical secularists of the kind California is renowned for, we do not know. We do of course thank God for the

Constitutional principle of 'innocent until & unless proven guilty' enshrined in American law (which is also under assault in California by radical feminist advocates of corpus juris). Be these things as they may, they ought not be a factor in the present equation.

Proverbs 11:1 commands that we are not to have unequal weights & measures. If we stand in critical opposition to John MacArthur when we believe him to be wrong, Christian honor demands that we stand in support of his position when we believe that he is right. 

James Jacob Prasch

This week, it was disclosed to the international news media what becomes of 'Christian ' films in Communist China. This policy is not new, but the law on the books is.

Moriel terminated its relationship with Studio Scotland & GV 24/7 due to both doctrinal and ethical concerns some time ago. Their efforts to re-launch GV 24/7 have floundered as the stats indicate that practically no one watches it; viewership is chronically low. The mysticism charged conspiracy theory charade of the women's ministry' saw pastors informing us that Deborah Menelaws is 'lunatic fringe' and will never be permitted back to their churches. The big decline however is in their film and video production and the shameful scandal surrounding their premier film 'The Daniel Project' (and the rather low-grade flop with acting, supposedly based on it, 'The Daniel Connection').

The Menelaws produced the Daniel Project around the narration of myself in dialogue with a major secular voice artist who was paid secular professional rates (footage of myself was also included in the idiotic Daniel Connection after I refused to 'act' in it). I agreed to be paid nothing as did the Christian extras etc. on the Daniel Connection because we were told that 'it was for evangelism and we were 'doing it for The Lord'. The film was then sold to Hollywood (California Pictures/ Paramount), and The Daniel Connection was sold to Communist Chinese interests, assuring it would not be translated into Mandarin to evangelize Chinese people, even while China was stepping up its cruel persecution of believers. This is Deborah Menelaws.

I did this as an evangelistic endeavor, not a commercial one. I did it Jesus and for the lost, not to sell it to Hollywood or Communist Chinese. I am still waiting for my money which I want donated to a charity helping persecuted Christians. Our lawyers and the BBC confirmed that someone need not be a member of an actors union to be paid for a role in a film, and contributors are regularly paid for documentaries. I want to give my pay to the persecuted Christians in China whom Menelaws betrayed for money, selling the film ostensibly produced to evangelise.

The Communist Chinese Party & government (which control regulates all sectors – social & commercial), maintains strict policies against any Christian films that can be used to spread the Gospel:

please view: https://fxn.ws/308cUT6

But the Menelaws just did not care. Ministry is only a business, and Business is Business. As long as it sells, you can pay top, expensive secular Hollywood talent, such as Caroline Goodall handsomely, but use, exploit, and bamboozle good and well-intentioned saved Christians into working in it without any pay at all by telling them they are doing it for The Lord and for the

Gospel of Jesus. Then it is sold it to a cruel, demonized, Christian persecuting regime in Communist China, assuring the film will never be used to spread the Gospel of Jesus. This the Menelaws did.

Unlike legitimate ministries which are registered and incorporated as Christian Charities, the Menelaws' Studio Scotland is registered as 'for profit' commercial enterprise they portray to people as being a ministry. Several people were shocked to discover the truth and have described them to us as religious frauds pretending to be a ministry.

The Daniel Project is their Premier production, which ironically, and in an act of Divine retribution, features me and promotes our ministry at the same time they are endlessly attacking myself & Moriel. I must laugh.

No other Christian film they have produced has achieved the merit and notoriety of The Daniel Project, and no other film they produce ever shall. God has removed His Hand from them and as a supposedly 'Christian' venture Studio Scotland and its ancillaries have declined as has GV 24/7. All they can do is wallow in the mire of their decline and moan & rant with malice, resenting others for their reaping of what they themselves have sowed. What the Chinese paid them is by scriptural definition ‘filthy lucre’ good for nothing other than buying a potter’s field.

After webcasting the videos of the David Nathan heresy promoted by Menelaws & GV 24/7, and producing copies of the sales certificates of films to the world that Christians worked for free on believing it was for the Gospel, Moriel was showered with letters and emails thanking us for showing them the truth about Menelaws and their shameless escapades. Now, they no longer watch GV 24/7. Indeed, hardly anyone does. That ship is sunk and won't be salvaged. God will not be mocked. He won't allow it.

They seem to have abandoned their server & platform due to diminished viewership and only post on Youtube with a very low amount of interest.

After posting a heavily edited video from Bill Randles' church misrepresenting what transpired with David Nathan, even Mr. Bill Randles was publicly compelled to acknowledge that Menelaws lied intending to deceive the Body of Christ.

William Randles Yet you call him out, accusing him of being self-seeking. Facebook is not the only front this battle is being waged on. We are sincere when we say that David Nathan’s doctrines are a problem, just as I have been sincere when I called Jacob on his language. What you seem to want is to call me out and shame me for not being as adamant as you think I ought to be about Jacob. There are other issues as well, for example, the Menelaws are using an excerpted video (from our church) which can be construed as having Jacob agree with David Nathan’s teaching on the Millenial sacrifice. Nothing could be further from the truth, but they continue to run it anyway(last time I checked). This is a mess brother indeed, but don’t exacerbate it by wildly implicating people who either have no real connection to it, or like me, who are and have been trying to deal with the problem, and don’t deserve to be treated a though they haven’t. I thought you already said you wanted to “Move On”?

In reaction to our response, Menelaws reacted by cyber vendetta with a non-Christian organization called 'Catalyst' known for controversy in the UK. This organization states on its website that it has

‘no religious beliefs of any kind’ and represents people of any faith (Moslem, Mormon, Hindu) and of ‘any sexual orientation’ (homosexual, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans-sexual). Having no scriptural basis for their defense of the heresies of David Nathan etc., they went to the world just as they sold the Christan films to the world. Because David Nathan is fully Jewish, though his family is not (I am the opposite; I am not but my family are), his orthodox Judaism was why he taught on one video that he, and not non-Jews could not understand his heretical denials of fundamental Judeo-Christian truths. This fueled a stupid campaign attacking my own genealogy as not being sufficiently Jewish, (or Jewish at all), as a standard to establish David Nathan's theological credibility over mine by David Nathan's heretical followers.

It was asserted that I & Moriel were 'under investigation' when in fact we have never been investigated by any juridical body or agency in any jurisdiction. It was asserted that we are a cult that abuses its members, when in fact we have never had any members. It was also alleged that I reaped large financial earnings from the sale of recorded material, when in fact all of our material had long been available on-line for free download.

When these ridiculous efforts (which our lawyer, a well known Christian Rights Crusader, himself a believing Jew, made fun of) were shown as disingenuous and contrived, Menelaws maliciously fabricated other concocted strategies they invented.

The first was false allegations of financial impropriety. Our audited accounts in both the UK & USA are in complete accord with the laws & regulations of both countries as in other countries. The UK records filed annually with the UK Charities Commission indicate that I receive no salary, solicit no personal support, nor accept any book sales royalties. Thus they resorted to distorting publicly available financial reports in the USA where the tax laws and charity regulations differ from Britain.

In the American system, the legal & financial manner in which book royalties are not accepted is to accept the royalties and return them to the incorporated charity as a tax deduction, where the author becomes a donor. Book sales are a fiscal mainstay of Moriel. The royalties must be paid, reported in the audited annual financial report, and declared on my income taxes as a deduction. Also, the designated fund's regulations apply. If a donor sends a gift designated for a specific country, mission project, missionary, evangelist, or otherwise, by US law it must go to where designated and this must be shown in the audited accounts for the IRS. I am not allowed by the policies of Moriel to solicit personal gifts or honourariums, but as long as reported and declared, I can accept them.

What Menelaws did was to only report the income ($147,000) without reference to royalties being redonated as a tax deduction under US law and duly reported. This caliber of slander and defamation has become Menelaw's hallmarks.

Lest our right-hand knows what the left-hand does, I can give no figures. For the record, however, David Lister & myself are two of Moriel's largest supporters, and the ministry gets 60% of earnings from my secular intellectual property business. Some of these assets are South African domain names, but were acquired - not registered, and are not even held in South Africa itself, nor is their sale being negotiated with South Africa. This does not meet the legal definition or criteria for further false allegations of a form of extortion known as 'cybersquatting'. It is a lie.

Following their David Nathan fiasco, the Menelaws and a few accomplices supportive of David Nathan, then attacked my genealogy. My testimony has been in the public domain for decades. Ancestorily, my family name was Brasch altered to Prasch (as the burial records show, and as Rosebrough & Menelaws themselves affirmed), and were buried in Jewish cemeteries with burial certificates in both names - Brasch & Prasch. The altered name means ‘Pharisee’ but is not original.

I have copied dozens of people the original 'Prasch' Jewish burial documents.

Today, apart from Orthodox Jews, many Jews are buried with non-Jewish spouses in Christian or secular cemeteries (In Forest Lawn, George Burns is buried in the same crypt as Walt Disney and New York Mayor Ed Koch is buried in Trinity churchyard, etc.). In pre holocaust Europe however, this was not the case.

The original Family name moreover is Jewish, not German as claimed by Meelaws etc. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Moritz Brasch (1843–1895), Polish-German Jewish philosopher

Charles Orwell Brasch (1909–1973), New Zealand Jewish poet, literary editor, arts patron Arno Brasch (1910–1963), German Jewish physician; (de)

Rudolph Brasch (1912–2004), German-Australian rabbi, author

Thomas Brasch (1945–2001), German Jewish writer, dramatist, editor, lyricist Walter M. Brasch (1945–2017), an American Jewish journalist

Claims by Menelaws/ Bethel echoing claims by Chris Roseborough and supporters of David Nathan to have received genealogical data from my family are a lie. He contacted two of them and both thought he was someone crazy and told him to cease contacting them. Additionally, apart from cemetery records (the Nazis only desecrated, vandalized and defaced Jewish graves with swastikas), in the 'Juden Spulen', all German Jewish birth, death, and marriage records were incinerated by Hitler to purge any record of German Jewry. Rosebrough & Co. (Menelaws, Rogers, etc.) could not possibly have pieced together an accurate genealogy without such essential documentation.

In his fabricated DNA chart, Rosebrough redefined Nationality as Ethnicity to mislead. The inaccurate genealogies I have seen have do not contain relatives familiar to me but do have ones I never even heard of. Every member of the Moriel team now has the burial record from Jewish cemeteries verifying Prasch/ Brasch is buried as Jews. It is Jewish burial records and DNA that are used by the Jewish Agency and Diasporic Institute (Beit Ha'Tfutsot) to determine Jewish heritage and ancestry where there are no civil birth, death, and marriage certificates or synagogue records.

Unfortunately, we cannot post much of this data on-line as Rosebrough has lied about other documents we have posted and harassed my family (including non-believers). However, any Moriel supporter already on our mail list who wishes to physically see certified documentation can be allowed to do so by prior arrangement. I also agreed not only to bring my documents to debate, but even go directly to the Jewish Agency with Rosebrough, but Rosebrough declined to debate the issues that he initially raised concerning John Mac Arthur's teaching on the 'mark of the beast', and Roseborough's endorsement of Doreen Virtue following his initial denunciation of her as a “polished scam” on the video of her sold by Sid Roth.

Some graves have 'Prasch', others 'Brasch', but others have both - substantiating it is the same family. My ancestors lived in Hamburg, Bad Orb, Dresden, and Leipzig. Most however emigrated (and assimilated) to the USA & UK. As with all German Jewry, certain burial records and grave locations survive. The other data being burned when synagogues were demolished. Some of these

interment records are available on-line on Jewish burial sites .

It is also scientifically impossible to construct a DNA chart without a blood or saliva sample. The ridiculous forgery that Rosebrough concocted is ludicrous. My actual DNA report indicates that I do not have even 1% German DNA. (My maternal DNA however is mainly Irish/ Celtic).

I attended the Jewish community with my siblings in my youth, and although I was in the Jewish community - I was never at all brought up in the Jewish faith (despite circumcision in infancy). Based on ancestry, however, the Israeli Jewish Agency issued me an immigration certificate (called: t'udah oleh) specifically stating my ethnic identity as 'Jewish' after I marrying and returning to Israel from abroad. While this is a legal document for various civil purposes, I am not recognized as Jewish by the rabbinic authorities for any religious purposes.

In the coalition government of Israel, the Ministry of Interior controlling, not immigration, but Citizenship & National ID cards is in the hands of the Religious Political Parties. Unlike my Teudat Oleh, it does not state I am Jewish on my National ID card (Teudat Zeut) because I could not have been eligible under the 'Law of Return' to immigrate to Israel unless I converted to rabbinic Judaism (due to none of my Grandparents being practicing Jews by Religion despite any ancestry). There are literally tens of thousands of immigrants (or more) from the former USSR, the USA & Falasha community from Ethiopia with this same status in modern Israel. It is quite common. Contrary to what has been falsely reported in a lie, my wife & I did not even legally marry in Israel; the rabbinic authorities create too many bureaucratic & legal problems for believers.

I was named after a relative named 'Jacob'. In the USA this was Anglicized to 'James'. When I immigrated to Israel, James & Jacob are in Hebrew the same name translated 'Yakov' (thus I have both names "James Jacob" on my Passport & Driving License). This is all legally documented on all of my ID, bank accounts, etc. This is

also the usual common practice in Israel in assigning Hebrew names to new immigrants. My legal name is, therefore 'James Jacob'.

My wife is the 100% Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors and our children were born in Galilee. Our son served in a combat brigade in the IDF as a Jewish soldier, before being transferred as a lawyer to the legal corps. My family is Hebrew speaking Israeli Jewish believers in Jesus. My family is gravely offended that

Rosebrough depicted me in a video clip as Adolph Hitler, as most of my wife's family were murdered at the behest of Hitler.

Being a cult, abject claims of financial impropriety and even disputed genealogy all became desperate rants of the declining. Now, there has been yet one more rant of hideous desperation. It is not insignificant that several Lutherans, by his admission, have called Rosebrough a cult leader.

A final attempted hit job by Bill Randles, adopted by Chris Roseborough, and imitated by Menelaws is the distortion of our evangelistic teaching on the Metatron, where I warn repeatedly about the occult nature of Caballa (mystical Judaism). The Cabalistic perverts what the scriptures teach concerning both The Messiah and 'The Angel of The Lord'. Cabalistic corruptions do not invalidate the concept of The Messiah or what scripture states about The Messiah, nor do such rabbinic perversions invalidate what the Word of God states regarding 'The Angel of The Lord' whom rabbinic Judaism calls the 'Metatron' but whom Christians hold to be a Christophany.

Bill Randles is not a man of formal seminary education (not that this troubles me), and he does not know what he is talking about. Menelaws, as is evidenced by their promotion of David Nathan's heresies, of course, knows even less. Rosebrough of course is formally educated in theology but is either in this case also ignorant, or deliberately disingenuous.

The Christian teaching on the Metatron has been used to refute One-ness Sabellianism (Trinity Denial) and to evangelize Orthodox Jews sine 1863 when Oxford University Hebrew lecturer Rabbi Tzvi Nassi became a believer in Jesus and authored his book on the Judaic basis for the

Divine Tri-unity. Most Jewish Mission organizations train their evangelists in messianic apologetics that includes evangelistic reference to The Metatron. Instead of defending myself, I will draw the reader's attention to the basic evangelistic instruction of 'Jews For Jesus' on the Metatron, and

a video clip with citations from the pertinent curriculum of the Israel College of The Bible and its evangelistic arm – One For Israel.

https://youtu.be/lqepaDSgUA8 The Metatron – One For Israel

https://jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/issues-v18-n02/kabbalahs-best-kept-secret/

As anyone can see for themselves, the ranting of those who have gone into error doctrinally, and lost their integrity (although we are very sadly forced to question if Menelaws or Rosebrough ever

had any to begin with), is like the abject howling of a terminally wounded beast. They are drowning in their sea of decline and are too arrogant and deluded by religious pride to yell for help, so they just yell.

When I took almost fatally ill in 2015 I knew it was God's purpose to address things in my life & ministry. Moriel went from being mainly itinerate to becoming mainly on-line. Now with Coved 19 Cannabis clinics and abortion mills are open but churches are by law closed. Leftists can congregate to riot and tear down statues, but Christians can not congregate to worship. We knew The Lord allowed my illness to reorganize our ministry to prepare for the future. Without a doubt, this accounts for the growth & blessings we have experienced since my illness. Now with RTN TV, new branches in Holland and India, and an expansion in missions the growth has gained momentum. Satan of course attacks, but by God's Grace the growth only continues. God tried to get my attention but it frankly took a health crisis and a partial disability to get me to do what God knew I & Moriel should be doing.

When Deborah Menelaws nearly died in a medical emergency recently, having had that experience myself, I prayed that The Lord would show her mercy and spare her life. God did, but she has had her last warning.

Bal is the Hebrew term for 'husband' and YHWH was to be Israel's 'Bal'. But a false Bal who had the same name mimicked the true Bal. Queen Jezabel was a wicked woman whose husband did not stop her from promoting a false Bal. She died with only her hands and skull in a puddle of blood lapped up by dogs under God's judgment. She misled people into false belief and hated and rampaged against Obadiah, the Sons of The Prophets, and Elijah who opposed her demonic agenda. Promoting the false God the Father of David Nathan who, according to him, is not the creator is no different. Scorn driven rage against those who opposed this lie is the precise character of what Jezabel did as is a husband who facilitates it. The death of Jezabel is what awaits those who imitate Jezabel. When she could not get Naboth's Vineyard she began her rant.

When The Lord removes His Hand from something, it will always self destruct. In the decline, those responsible for the decline will blame everyone other than themselves. When the decline becomes undeniable and they can no longer lie to themselves because reality trumps delusion, they become frantic. Then - all they can do is rant, and rant she shall.

ROSBROUGH & SON

Another ranter with a ministry in visible decline in decline is the Pirate Radio & Fighting 4 Faith the hyper Lutheran figure Chris Rosebrough , and his son & producer Joshua.

Rosbrough teaches that Forgiveness for sin comes from confessing the sins to him Roman Catholic style, to receive 'absolution' from him. He is ecumenically conference partnered with the Roman Catholic activist Matthew Walsh and Rosebrough worships before statues and graven images. He denies a literal antichrist or actual 'mark of the beast' or 3-1/2 years etc. and rejects any prophetic meaning to the Book of Revelation. He also teaches that Satan has been bound and the 1.000-year reign of Christ began 2,000 yea§rs ago at the Ascension of Jesus. He likewise believes in an odd combination of post and premillennialism where the 7 vials of wrath in the Book of Revelation have

always been being poured out. He is a firm believer in communion bread & wine being the 'true Body & Blood' of Christ, and in infant baptism for salvation.

Rosebrough has been collecting slanderous and defamatory material from Menelaws and Bill Randles. He opposes us due to our objections to the false christ never crucified of Doreen Virtue.

In the public domain, are claims by Joshua Rosebrough's first wife of homosexuality that led to the destruction of their marriage (having male to male sex while on a submarine while in the navy, having homosexually contracted STDs and in his own statement in response to his firmer wife & her family, he conspicuously does not deny being a homosexual. There are similar claims of his homosexuality by other Lutheran Refugees from Rosebrough's church. We have no interest in family disputes and we neither affirm or deny the allegations of his very Christian first wife.

The videos of Chris Rosebrough’s outrageous behaviour towards the family of his daughter’s first husband (available on ‘The Devil’s Triangle’ on RTN TV.org) reveal a very troubling calibre of individual that does not befit a Christian, much less a pastor.

The most conspicuous attribute of his activities however is nothing short of shocking. Both father & son are known for their filthy language and vulgarity and posting profanity on the internet, especially the son., but also the father. We apologize in advance for his disgusting content, which is somehow imagined to be 'Christian'.

Their internet material displays what the Rosebroughs in reality are:

BILL RANDLES

The saga of my former friend & colleague Bill Randles is a tragic one. To have his church with all but one of his elders depart quickly on hostile terms, along with his secretary of 25 years. To have seen very nearly all of the young people who grew up in his church from the time they were babies walk out the door in disgust to another church whose pastor Bill Randles denounced as a “psychopath” was ugly. To deliberately drive off church members and long-standing colleagues like myself who had loyally been with him for decades resembled a death wish for his church & ministry. Most of his church left rather suddenly, but the reasons had built up for some time. When the wall is hit, it is hit suddenly and quickly. Angered by the fact that Moriel can no longer organize his itineraries, advertise or promote his meetings, or market his books, he just squawks at us and others from the sidelines for his self inflicted fate.

To remain visible with a low web presence and shrunken profile, Bill Randles has resorted to grasping at straws to attack me to recoup some degree of attention. This is sadly pathetic to watch, so we generally just ignore it. His recent ignorant rants about our evangelistic teaching on The Metatron are instantly discredited by the material posted by Jews For Jesus, One For Israel & Israel College of The Bible, and the book by Rabbi Tzvi Nassi who became a believer.

Bill Randles has no platform in his own country the USA, and now has only a mere vestIge of a church left. He instead ventures further afield as an author to places like Australia where he is represented by a patripassionist/ pneumapassionist heretic who teaches that the 2 witnesses of Revelation Chapter 12 are 'God the Father & The Holy Spirit' who must come in human form as Christ did to Jerusalem to be crucified'. In New Zealand, he is represented by a devotee of Robert Breaker who teaches the Zodiac gospel that the prophecy of Revelation 12 was fulfilled 23rd September 2017 because 'the Moon was in Virgo'. This is what Bill Randles has been reduced to. Interest in his ministry in these other countries has likewise declined conspicuously and there is very little interest in his books. The Lord has removed His Hand from Bill Randles' ministry leaving him a failed pastor and failed author.

Once more, all the desperate can do anymore is rant. Praise The Lord for earplugs.

He establishes what scripture says regards these events, the reality of the situation compared to modern teaching and acceptance. This is a very important teaching, that is not just timely and relevant, it confirms we are not yet in the tribulation but shows God's grace with the warnings we have seen so far, declaring things will only get worse. with short spells of relative normality. Just as you would expect with a mother on labor pains".

As his videos document, Mr. Roseborough's defense of John Mac Arthur's 'Mark of The Beast' teaching, and his support 
of the 'ministry' of Doreen Virtue with the apparition of her "3 D Jesus with the radiating 'sacred heart' but no nail marks", 
was and remains the basis of conflicting opinion as was voiced and video documented by Mr. Roseborough himself.

Once his 'John Mac Arthur Derangement Syndrome' & 'Doreen Virtue' polemics as first raised by Mr. Roseborough are publicly 
debated in front of a live stream camera, we will be utterly delighted to debate the 'Metatron' in Jerusalem. As the headquarters of
'Ha Sochnut' (The Jewish Agency) which determined that Jacob Prasch is of Jewish descent and awarded him an
immigration certificate on that basis, is also located in Jerusalem, it would be an ideal location. The bogus amateur 
Wikipedia Genealogist antics, and fraudulently concocted DNA pie chart (that is not even Jacob's actual personal sample DNA) 
fabricated by Mr. Roseborough can be permanently debunked with a simple visit with two independent witnesses (and if security 
allows - a video recording) to The Jewish Agency. We would look forward to debating the Metatron in this second debate, once the 
original matter publicly presented on Youtube by Mr. Roseborough as the grounds for his contention has been debated first.

Any efforts to circumvent or circumlocute the core issue however by means of changing the narrative, moving the goal post, 
or diverting to another issue in order to avoid the real one as first laid out By Mr., Roseborough, can only be viewed as a 
cowardly sham. We therefore accept the second debate challenge in Jerusalem on The Metatron, after the first debate on 
the very core issues Mr. Roseborough himself first confronted us with in the public arena. We now look forward to not one debate, 
but two. We respectfully propose that the first debate be held in the USA as it would give the most streamed live time accessibility 
to the most viewers.


Moriel/ JJP

Mr. Roseborough embarked on a frantic tirade, first insisting people ignore my opposition to his promotion of Doreen Virtue and her bogus Christophany and his defense of the Mac Arthur 666 teaching which I regard as false. They source of these cult allegations was an agency professing to have no Christian beliefs and representing homosexuals, lesbians, Moslems, Mormons etc. The evidence we provided undermined his claims and he suddenly dropped yelling ‘cult’ and shifted to attacking the evangelistic teaching ‘Metatron’. His attacks are likewise demonstrably devoid of foundation. Next he attacked my ancestry with a lunatic video mixing baseless rubbish with elements of truth. All of this to divert from debating.

The % pie chart he designed is NOT my DNA and I have no ancestors I ever heard of with names such as ‘Gray’ . What I do know is that my own DNA confirms that I am not even 1% German (although I had ancestors who lived in Germany, they were not ethnic German; he seems to try to mislead people by using civil national identity as if it were ethnic). He engages in Wikipedia Genealogy just as he does Wikipedia theology. He admits my original family name is Brasch and that it is Jewish, and that I had a forefather named Jacob (anglicized to James upon immigration to USA, reverting to Jacob or Yakov when I immigrated to Israel as I documented). Somehow he tries to determine that because my ancestors arrived in the USA from one place and not Leipzig where there were a number of Jews named Brasch, that the name does not apply to me. This is of course ridiculous. Since he likes Wikipedia all he needs to do is Google “Brasch’ on Wikipedia to find prominent Jews of that name in Britain, Germany & The USA. He also makes a big deal of burials. In fact NY Mayor Ed Koch (the most famous Jewish politician in American history) is buried in Trinity Church, and many intermarried & assimilated people want burial with their spouses (this is very common and means nothing). I grew up in the Jewish community but never in Judaism (I was Roman Catholic). But after the ‘cult’ claims & Metatron he needs another straw to divert away from the debate. He bickers on line, but no debate.

The absurd and obvious lie of Mr Roseborough however is that a legal Israeli government document I presented on video to show I have 3 names was a form to report & replace my misplaced Israeli ID (I stated on the video that the form was not the certificate). If someone reports a lost license or passport it automatically proves there is an original one. This is common sense. Mr. Roseborough idiotically states that it is an ‘application’ for an Israel immigration certificate. The application process for immigration called aliyah takes about 2 months and requires vetting etc. The ‘sochnut’ (Jewish Agency) which legally determines Jewish identity for civil (non-religious) purposes, issued me an immigration certificate stating Jewish identity ( I was legally declared Jewish because I did not discuss my faith). He said it was like him “applying for a pilot’s license and stating he can fly”. This is lunacy. A legal ID form to report a lost immigration certificate requesting it be replaced is not an application to obtain one. As usual, he is irrational, dishonest, and only trying to avoid debate on the actual issues he is running from. If he wants to examine my ID and DNA report etc., as I offered, all he needs to do is to show up to debate. His genealogy diversion, his Metatron diversion, and his cult leader diversion all prove that he is afraid to debate.

JJ Prasch / Moriel

https://youtu.be/ZfAtmm8aFJ4

Thank you so much!

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I did like David Pawson personally, I usually agreed with him doctrinally, but to me he was more than that. He was truly the last of a dynasty of great British expository preachers dating back through Campbell Morgan, Dr. Martin Lloyds Jones, and all the way back to the era of Charles Spurgeon & JC Ryle.

His teaching ministry was a surviving vestige of an age gone by when Britain was still a Christian Country with an Evangelical heritage that evolved under God's Hand from the Great Revivals of John & Charles Wesley and George Whitfield with hymn composers like Issac Watts and Augustus Toplady and heroic missionaries such as Hudson Taylor and William Carey.

The last British born figure in scriptural exposition of that calibre of gifting has gone to be with The Lord. David was gracious and less confrontational concerning things he knew to be wrong than I would have been. Yet he would speak out when he saw a need to. In this he reminded me of my friend Chuck Smith who is now also awaiting us in Glory with Jesus.

David lived in the emotional pain of having been bereft off his dear daughter and in the closing years of his temporal life was greatly restricted in his mobility. When I last spoke with him by telephone he was bed bound due to his infirmity and advanced age.

Now however, David is living his eternal life with and in the Jesus whom he loved and served, and is now very happily reunited with his beloved daughter and no longer bound by anything.  Despite my sense of loss, In these things I of course rejoice. Miss him we shall, in a separation however that will only be temporary.

From John Bunyan and William Gurnall to CS Lewis, British Christianity produced its authors.
From Richard Baxter to John Newton Britain has produced its pastors. From Stephen Gardner to Clifford Hill Britain has had its voices of warning that some have described as prophetic. From Wycliffe to Tyndale to Coverdale it has produced its textual translators, and it has produced more martyrs than we can readily count. I do not think I am being unduly flattering in
lauding the legacy of David Pawson among the category of the greats whom The Lord raised up in Britain in times past. My only uncertainty is if or not God will send Britain such figures again.

To me, David Pawson will always be fondly remembered as 'The Last of The Mohicans'.

In Jesus,

J. Jacob Prasch
(Moriel Ministries)

Lately, we had assisted and help one of our Kitchen Workers on her ill child. The Doctor's prescription is to undergo EEG Lab. test . Attach is the EEG result. Since ( corona virus ) Covid-19 attack the Philippines, it was last week, the President announced a Community Quarantine for the National Capital Region. after a week there's another announcement that on March 17 the entire Luzon (Olongapo is part of it ) was in state of calamity-Enhance Community Quarantine or lock down until April 13,2020.

• Folks are advised to stay at home
• Observe to do everywhere a meter self distancing.
• Curfew Hour from 8p.m. to 5a.m.
• Prohibited big mass gathering.(we plan not to attend the coming Christian Summer Camp).

etc.

Cleansing and disinfecting the feeding area is one of our routine practice. As our prayers for the safety and good health of the children they must always wash their hands and we spray alcohol. We need to obey the National and City ordinance, the announcement regarding Covid-19. We need to change the procedure of feeding the children, it is just a temporary. We pack the meal then give it to those who come and to those who stay at home we deliver the food. After the lock down period we hope everything will back to normal. We're always praying for your good health together with all Moriel families. May God might always taking care each and every one of us on His loving arms. Thank you so much for all your prayers for us.

Sincerely,

in Christ
Ptr. Paul

These are inescapable issues Moriel and certain others have attempted to address for years.

What is the way forward? How did Jesus tell us to carry out the Great Commission in the Last Days of False Teachers and Deception that He warned would come paving the way for the Anti-Christ and False Prophet prior to His Return?

The unambiguous answer is found in Christ's predictive instruction in The Olivet Discourse, to preach “The Gospel of The Kingdom”, that is to use End Time Prophecy of His Return and the events preceding it as an evangelistic platform to engage the unsaved who turn to demonic nonsense such as horoscopes, clairvoyance, and the occult to know the future when the true knowledge of the future is found in The Word of God. Even non-believers often know something is happening that is historically unique in the way the world is evolving and the pace at which it is happening. It is true believers in Jesus who understand.

Several years ago, I narrated a film project that attempted to achieve these goals. The content, much of it filmed in Israel, was effective. The film served its purpose and it achieved, in a limited way, what I wanted to communicate at the time. However, we are now closer to the Lord's return, as such, we are seeing more and more prophesy coming to pass. We are excited to see how Jesus is fulfilling His word.

For this reason, we have since undertaken a new evangelistic project of our own under the direction of a gifted Christian film maker. The propriety of this will remain in the hands of The Body of Christ, and will not be sold to Hollywood or to Christian persecuting Communist China. We plan, Lord willing to make it available cheaply on DVD, thumb drives, MP4 electronic download and ultimately for free on-line video as well as, God willing, translated into various languages such as Spanish, Mandarin, and others.  We promise The Lord and we promise our prayer partners that this film will be a ministry of, by, and for Jesus. 

The film asks and answers the question: 'Why is the present time in history with its constellation of events different from the other times in Christian history when believers from the Thessalonians to the 19^th Century Millerites and others thought the return of Christ to be impending'?

Our first and biggest request for this project is prayer for The Lord's guidance, and secondly for His provision. Moriel indeed needs and welcomes the contributions of those brethren led by The Lord to help finance this costly project. If you are so led to support this work, you will find a new Donation fund on the Moriel Webstore called “Digital Evangelism Films Fund” But we absolutely covet your prayers. 

You may support this work here

After much searching we've finally found a good place to rent for the Burmese/Shan church.  Jallay has named it Asian Mission Fellowship (AMF).  There were a few other good places to rent, but they were noisy from the road noise.  After the 3rd or 4th day of looking for a place, and after praying, we finally found one that's quiet-- a good distance from the road, but still in a good location.  And, it also has an outdoor area for children to play.

Along the main road there are at least 20 factories with many Burmese and Shan workers.  The first service is scheduled for February 2nd.  Jallay's asked me to give the opening message.  Myanmar has more Christians than Thailand, but it's still a small percentage, and mostly among the hill tribes, not the ethnically Burmese people.

The first contact that Jallay made was with a group of about 50 ethnically Burmese Buddhists.  The focus of this church is mostly evangelistic, but we welcome Christians, too of course.

Please pray for an awakening among the Burmese and Shan workers to come out of pagan darkness and to look to Jesus to be saved.

Thankful for Jesus' triumph over sin and death, Scott.

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This was to be a temporary provision. In compliance with New Zealand law however, Moriel NZ did at this time register with the NZ IRD (tax authority) who backdated our tax obligations to the time of Nigel's departure, and Moriel reported any NZ income to the NZ IND instead of to the Charity Commission.

As a matter of Christian ethics, Moriel offered a return of all donations to our NZ supporters as we were, for legal purposes, technically not operating as a tax deductible charity during the interim period. Generously and graciously however, our NZ Prayer partners understood the transitory circumstances and no one sought any return of contributions to the ministry. Although operated by "remote control" from the Australia branch, Moriel's NZ activities continued temporarily as a satellite of Australia. During this time of course, book sale and other income was for accounting & auditing purposes, (as is legally required,) reported in Australia where Moriel also has a legally registered status.

A new administration is now in place in New Zealand and the New Zealand branch of Moriel is in the process of being fully reactivated and re-registered transiting back to a charity and is no longer a satellite of Moriel Australia, (just as Moriel Canada branch is now independent and no longer a satellite of Moriel USA branch, or as Moriel Ireland branch is now independent and no longer a satellite of the Moriel UK branch).

I posted this on IFB facebook page yesterday, in response to Dave Borlase and his false and slanderous statement regarding Jacob Prasch. He has taken it down straight away, and removed his personal page and restricted the IFB page so I cannot reply. I am therefore posting this wherever I can so that people can see how despicable Dave Borlase is. "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile" Psalm 34:13

His allegations are nothing more than gossip fuelled by an inability to refute the heretical teaching of David Nathan and put the word of GOD first. This alone disbars him from the office of Pastor. Anyone never mind a Christian leader who resorts to malicious gossip in an effort to attack someone else is beyond contempt. The fact it comes from a pastor and a ministry leader should sound the alarm bells far and wide. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" Ephesians 4:29

Dave has been totally dishonest and fickle throughout, simply to try and claim some limelight for himself and big up his ego.

Dave, what a coward you have proven to be. You issue unsubstantiated allegations and sit quietly for your moment for the spotlight to shine on you. "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." Mark 7:20-23

Dave, you have become a gossip, and hide behind the statement "we have decided" when the reality it is Dave who wants revenge. I will never forget the underhand and deceitful way you published the original comments then, removed and denied what you had done.

You asked me to remove my rebuttal of your actions and lies from Facebook during the David Nathan sage, as you were concerned the harm it would do you and IFB.

In the spirit brotherly love, I did so hoping you would reconsider and use what common sense and decency you had. I removed the comments and thought nothing more of it.

Arrangements were made for meeting for reconciliation. You had called for this on several occasions, but each time arrangements were being made, you made demands. You wanted to be in charge. This bounced back and forward, with CMFI trying to oil the process and assist where they could. You just cancelled for reasons only known to you.

Even when offered by Jacob to meet with you personally and buy you lunch you still found a way to avoid the meetings you demanded.

Let the Muslim Council of Britain first condemn the actions of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem's role in the holocaust before jumping onto a popular bandwagon at this point, because the Labour Party has been hijacked by Islamists and it is the reason for Jeremy Corbyn counting on the Muslim's voting block to ignore blatant Muslim hijacking of the Labour Party to impose a culture of antisemitism, hatred of Jews, anti-Israel and anti-Zionism in the Labour Party.

The root of antisemitism in the Labour Party comes from this Muslim hijacking of Labour. It must not be swept under the carpet, as the role played by the Grand Muffti of Jerusalem during the holocaust, which has remained ignored that the Muslims were as guilty as Adolph Hitler. They should not just pretend and blame it on Jeremy Corbyn. Although Jeremy Corbyn is antisemite, and Muslims have exploited it for their benefits when they hijacked the Labour Party. Both are not different from the other, as Hajimi Al-Alhusseini was the tail, and Adolph Hitler was the head of a penny coin.

These two are not better than the other. Birds of the same feathers flocks together. No whitewash of their culpability should be ignored. They drove Jews out of the Labour Party. The slogan was Jews and Bible-Christians out of the Labour Party… Muslims take over. Therefore, any vote for the Labour Party, is a vote for ISLAM, sharia, and Islamisation of Great Britain. That is the agenda of MCB. They should not pretend, they hound with the DEVIL in the wee hours of the night, and come out publicly to weep with the bereaved, they murdered in the secret.

Fred was one of the most generous, self giving, and radically evangelistic brothers in Christ we have ever been blessed in knowing. For those who didn't know him, Fred was often described as a 'Saved Version of Fred Flintstone'. That was an apt description of his temperament, personality, and humour. Fred was a hard-working businessman in sports facility construction, a leader of a house fellowship, and a loyal friend & brother who loved The Lord and His Word and  carried a zeal to proclaim the gospel of salvation to Jews, tribal Africans, Muslims, or to anyone. While we of course celebrate Fred's home-coming to be with The Lord until we meet him again with Christ,  for we who remain , it will not be easy to get use to Fred being away until the Millennial Reign off Christ. It is for the time being a sad event as well as a joyous one. Fred was saved out of horse race gambling and devoted the rest of his life to serving Jesus and preaching the gospel. His kindness to the Ebyown HIV orphans will be particularly remembered as well as his staunch opposition to false doctrine and scripturally improper practices within the church. The Body of Christ in South Africa has lost a faithful voice and we have , how be it temporarily, lost a comrade in Christ and a true friend.

We particularly pray for Fred's English wife of many years Wendy and their children and grandchildren, especially Fred's son Lee to whom leadership of the Home Fellowship will fall.

We loved Fred and shall miss him dearly - but because of Jesus, not permanently.

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1. The whole speculation by Peter Danzey that it is “probable” that the two witnesses of Rev 11 are the Father and the Holy Spirit (I don’t know of anyone else who has suggested this interpretation) is founded on multiple unproven assumptions and biblically inconsistent interpretations.
   
   
2. “Out of themselves” in Zech 4:12 cannot be proven from the Hebrew. When the various versions of the Bible are not in agreement on how to translate this phrase, it is better left alone, rather than basing an entire dogmatic doctrine on a “maybe/unlikely” rendering of the Hebrew.  That is a bad foundation to begin with.  The ESV for example, omits this phrase…
   KJV: Zec 4:12  And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? 
   ESV: Zec 4:12  And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out?” 
   
   If I pour oil out of myself, it still does not mean that I am the ultimate source of that oil (what do I have that I did not receive--- I Cor 4:7).  But, there are still many versions that don’t have that “out of themselves” rendering.  The Luther Bible doesn’t, and the Schlachter version of the German, also doesn’t.  To make a dogmatic stand on a controversial, and improbable rendering is not a good foundation for a doctrine.  Brenton’s English Septuagint doesn’t have it-- modern versions like the ESV and CEV, and even the NKJV don’t have it.
   
   The two words in question are in the Strong’s numbers H4480 and  H5921; both of which are vague and multi-meaning words.  We could not dogmatically take these as saying that the source is out of themselves.
   
   
3. Why would two divine theophanies need to be given anything or empowered? When comparing Zech 4 with Rev 11:3, instead of having the source of oil “out of themselves,” in Rev 11:3, the two witnesses are empowered/granted authority by the Lord.  This would be totally unnecessary if they were self-sufficient beings having the oil flowing “out of themselves.”  Rev 11:3 thus renders the “out of themselves”/divine witnesses viewpoint invalid.  
   
   
4. It assigns an insulting name to the Father and the Holy Spirit: To call the Father and the Holy Spirit “sons of oil” (The literal Hebrew rendering from Zechariah 4:14) doesn’t seem very honorific.  Here instead of being the source of the oil, they are in a subservient role to the oil, being “sons”—which is also another point against “out of themselves.”
   
   Zec 4:14  Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones [sons of oil] who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.” 
   
   Keil and Delitzsch write, “…the two sons of oil, that is to say, the representatives of the kingdom and priesthood, the divinely appointed organs through which the Spirit of God was communicated to the covenant nation.”
   
   
5. The verse people love to quote in this chapter is, “…Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.” In the divine witnesses interpretation of the Father and Holy Spirit providing oil, this should be “but by my spirit and by the Father.” In that interpretation the suppliers of the oil are the Father and the Spirit.  So, why is only the Spirit mentioned here, as the supplier in Zech 4:6?
   
   
6. Peter Danzey thinks that the Menorah in Zech 4 represents the Word of God, and that the olive branches supplying it are thus divine. Most Christian commentators would see the Menorah as Israel, and the two olive branches as two anointed representatives of Israel in leadership roles.  We see clearly in the book of Revelation that the candlesticks are the seven churches.  The same Greek word that is used in Rev 1, is the same Greek word that is used in Rev 11 of the two witnesses.  Regardless of the numbers—whether 7 or 2, etc. we see that they are members of the Church.  This shines light on the Zech 4 passage as well.  If the candlesticks are the Church in the NT, then the logical counterpart to this in the OT is Israel, not the Word of God as some commentators assert.  Thus Israel was being supplied by the two “sons of oil” or anointed ones—the representatives of God who were anointed, namely the king and the priest, who in turn were empowered by the Holy Spirit.  Please see Appendix A for commentators who see the Candlestick/ Menorah as Israel.
   
   
7. In the book of Zech we had ONE candlestick and TWO olive trees. But now in Rev we have TWO of each.  The TWO olive trees are a constant factor, which I believe to be “the representatives of the kingdom and priesthood [e.g. Zerubbabel and Joshua; Moses and Aaron; etc.]” in the words of the German commentators (and also in most Christian commentaries—not that commentaries are without fault, but let everything be confirmed by two or three witnesses—and all the more so if they are believers in the Messiah).  Why only one candlestick in Zech 4 if it represents God’s Word, but then two candlesticks in Rev 11—does it then represent the two testaments of the Word of God?  But, this is not consistent with what the book of Revelation itself says the candlesticks represent (Revelation 1:20).  If the Father and the Holy Spirit are both taking on the name “the Word of God” in Rev 11 (which is the name used by Jesus, so that is unwarranted), why were there not two candlesticks in Zech 4 (another inconsistency in this speculation built on many assumptions).  
   
   
8. Jesus' incarnation was prophesied hundreds of times in the Old Testament. If the Father and Holy Ghost are to be incarnated as the two witnesses, why are there no prophecies of this?  "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets."  (Amos 3:7)
   
   
9. When was the Father ever sent in the Bible? In Revelation 11:10 the two witnesses are also called the two prophets.  True prophets are always sent by God.  In the Bible we have verses about Jesus being sent (Luke 4:18), and the Holy Ghost being sent for believers (John 15:26), but we do not see the Father ever being sent.  Also, although Jesus was called a prophet (Matthew 13:57; 14:5; 21:11; 21:46; Luke 7:16; 13:33; 24:19; John 4:19; 6:14; 7:40; 9:17), we do not see the Holy Ghost or the Father being called a prophet.  In Deuteronomy 18:18, we are to expect only one prophet who is "like unto Moses," which is Jesus, not three prophets like unto Moses.        
   
   
10. Rev 11 should be compared with Zech 2-4, not just 4 (no chapter breaks in the original texts). Taking the two olive trees and the two candlesticks to be two human representatives of the Church and Israel, just as Joshua and Zerubbabel were in the context of Zech chapters 2-4, considering that Zech 2 starts with "measuring" and Zech 4 ends with the two olive trees/branches, just as Rev 11:1 starts with "measuring" and continues with talking about the two olive trees. So, taking chapters 2-4 as one "unit" would include both Joshua and Zerubbabel in the topic at hand.  Why eliminate or ignore Joshua and Zerubbabel’s role in the context of Zech 2-4, since the majority of Christian commentators point to them as fulfilling the meaning of the olive trees?
    
    
11. Also, in the Bible God is not the Olive Tree, which the End Times Double Theophany view implies, but Israel is (Rom 11). There are no verses in the Bible comparing God to an olive tree, but there are verses comparing Israel or members of Israel to an olive tree.
    
    David compares himself to an olive tree:  Psa_52:8  But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
    
    Jacob under judgment was like the shaking of an olive tree:  Isa 17:6  Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. 
    
    The people of Judah and Jerusalem were called an olive tree:  Jer 11:16  The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. 
    
    Israel’s beauty shall be as the olive tree:  Hos 14:5-6  I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.  His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 
    
    In Romans 11 Israel is the olive tree into which believers in the Messiah are grafted in.
    
    
12. If the End Times Double Theophany doctrine about Rev 11 is correct, which I don’t think it is, then why not just teach it openly, putting the sermon online? With any other biblical doctrine, preachers teach it openly. The fact that this has been kept somewhat secret, for five years or however long this has been believed, should say something (red flag).  It is a strange doctrine, and would rightly get a lot of naysayers from among biblically minded Christians if it were put on YouTube.  But, I’m actually glad a sermon of Rev 11 hasn’t been put online, because it would just cause confusion, instead of building people up with sound doctrine.
    
    
13. An End Times Double Theophany COULD NOT EVEN be considered a “type” of the Genesis 18-19 Abraham visitation (which in itself has not been proven to be a visitation by the trinity—most Christian scholars see this as Jesus appearing with two angels). In Rev 11 we don’t see three visitors--- which would be required to call this following a previous “type,” but rather only two visitors. So, Gen 18-19 is in a totally different category than Rev 11.
14. Also, in the incarnation of Jesus, the entire trinity was already involved—The Holy Spirit was present with Jesus, empowering Him for ministry, and Jesus listened to the Father’s voice, acting in accordance to His will. Why is there any need for the Father and Holy Spirit to come again separately in the role of prophets who are slain? This is not prophesied, nor is it foreshadowed in typology, nor is it in keeping with the consistently biblical roles within the trinity.
    
15. When does God the Father ever appear in a theophany in the Bible? We don’t see this. “Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father” (John 6:46).  Exodus 23:20 has been suggested by Peter Danzey, but this is an assumption without warrant.  Taking the entire context of that verse, beginning with Exodus chapter 19, we see that the Lord did come down (Jesus), but that the law was spoken “from heaven” (Exodus 20:22).  Whenever in the Bible we see the Lord speaking from heaven, it is usually the Father.  Even if he was speaking with Moses on the mountain, it does not mean that he was physically present.  God the Father is omnipresent, but His “base of operations” so to speak, is in heaven (“Our Father which are in heaven” --Matthew 6:9).
    
    In modern terms I could say that I hear someone’s voice from America, even though I live in Thailand.  Someone from America could call me on the phone, and though they are not physically present with me, I can hear their voice.  God’s “technology” is far beyond that, and He can speak “from heaven” even if He is not theophonically present.  Please see Appendix B.
16. In Rev 11:8, the KJV says “our Lord,” but many modern versions say “their Lord.” This is a debatable point based on which Greek texts are used, but if the modern texts are correct then it would be strange for “their Lord” to be in reference to the Father and Holy Spirit, meaning that Jesus would be the Lord of the Father and Holy Spirit. The final verse of Zech 4 in both Hebrew and in the LXX indicates that the Two are distinct from The Lord and not The Lord (lending credence to the translation of Rev 11:3 'their Lord'). However, Peter Danzey (although not KJV-only) believes that the Textus Receptus is more accurate, and doesn’t claim that the two witnesses called Jesus “their Lord.” 
17. The commentators Meyer and Bengel think that the two witnesses of Rev 11 will be crucified (please see Appendix C). This is definitely a possibility, but all of the other commentaries I checked do not mention this, and of note, none of the English translations say that the witnesses will be crucified. So, it is a possibility, but not an irrefutable point, seeing the way Greek scholars have omitted this in translating it into English.  Also, Peter Danzey’s particular view says the witnesses will be slain, but not crucified.  He thinks they will be slain, but that this is in no way related to the atonement.  He believes Jesus fully accomplished the atonement already. 
    
    
18. Why do the two witnesses in Rev 11:7 need to be killed by the beast? When Jesus became a man his death had a redemptive purpose. What is the purpose of the beast getting victory over the Father and the Holy Ghost?  Is it to fill up the people’s sins so that the full wrath of God can be poured out?  I don't see that as a satisfactory answer, because people already have plenty of sins and blasphemies without this one.  When some of Jesus’ disciples were crucified they proved their faithfulness and also confirmed the witness they gave about Jesus’ life.  But, what possible purpose could there be in the death of the Father and the Holy Spirit?  This is a strange doctrine that would give the enemies of the Jesus much fodder for accusation (Muslims already stumble at hearing that Jesus died on the cross, but that one is very much explainable).
    
    
19. Why would the Father and HS come in the character of Moses and Elijah? Moses said God would raise up a prophet like unto me (not three prophets like unto me).
20. Producing uncertainty in the Word of God: In the message, “Angels On Earth” by Peter Danzey (May 5^th, 2019), (Peter Danzey thinks Genesis 18 and 19 are related to the Rev 11 “probable” theophanies) at the 1:02 min. mark said, “Now, there is no doubt that there are some oddities if they are created angels, right? There are oddities, but if they are all Yahweh, there’s not one oddity.”
    
    If someone does not agree with the assumptions made in the previous message, it could leave them wondering if there are oddities in the Word of God.  Please see Appendix D for just a few of the assumptions made in that message. 

Appendix A

What Does the Menorah Represent?

1. In Rev 11:3-4 each of the two witnesses represents both an olive tree and a candlestick.
2. Rev 1:20 clearly states what category the candlestick belongs to—the Church. In that sense the two witnesses are members of Jesus’ Church having this characteristic as part of being a candlestick symbolically.
3. The witnesses are also represented by an olive tree, which in Scripture is overwhelmingly Israel or a member of Israel.
4. The two witnesses are thus members of both the Church and Israel—in other words they are Jewish Christians.
5. In the book of Revelation, the candlestick (Menorah) is in the category of the Church. The counterpart to this in the OT is Israel.  In Zech 4, there is only ONE candlestick (Israel), whereas in the NT, there are TWO, representing both Israel and the Church.
   
   

Why quote from Jewish commentators who think otherwise, when many of the Jews did not even recognize their own Messiah?  Commentators who have accepted their Messiah whether Jewish or Gentile, and who have the full light of the NT to understand the OT have greater authority here.  Christian commentators who say the Menorah is Israel… 

John Gill says, “This candlestick was set in the holy place, on the south side of it, opposite the shewbread table, Exo_26:35 and was typical of the church of God; so the candlesticks John had a vision of signify seven churches, Rev_1:13, the general use of which is, to hold forth light put into it, for it has none of itself, but what is put there by Christ…”

Keil and Delitzsch say, “As the Israelites were to prepare spiritual food in the shew-bread in the presence of Jehovah…. so also were they to present themselves continually to Jehovah in the burning lamps, as the vehicles and media of light, as a nation letting its light shine in the darkness of this world…. By the power of this Spirit, Israel, in covenant with the Lord, was to let its light shine, the light of its knowledge of God and spiritual illumination, before all the nations of the earth. In its seven arms the stamp of the covenant relationship was impressed upon the candlestick…. the olive-trees [of Zech 4] are the two sons of oil, that is to say, the representatives of the kingdom and priesthood, the divinely appointed organs through which the Spirit of God was communicated to the covenant nation [Israel, the Menorah].”

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says, “In Zechariah's vision of the golden candlestick (Zec_4:2), the seven lamps are fed by two olive trees which are interpreted to be “the two anointed ones,” Zerubbabel and Joshua - the civil and spiritual representatives of theocracy. The candlestick here, like the seven candlesticks in Rev_1:20, 21, symbolizes the church of God, then in its Old Testament form, the idea conveyed being that God's church is set to be a lightgiver in the world.”

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown in their comment on Zech 4:2, say, “candlestick — symbolizing the Jewish theocracy; and ultimately, the Church of which the Jewish portion is to be the head: the light-bearer…”

The Cambridge Bible commentary says, “…the work in which he [Zerubbabel] was engaged, of restoring the material Temple and setting the golden candlestick in its place again, and so preparing the way, first for the Jewish Church, and then for the Christian Church, which that candlestick symbolised(Rev_1:20), to shine in the world, should be accomplished, not by human resources, but by the Spirit of God…”

Joseph Benson says, “And I said, Behold a candlestick of gold — This represented the church of God, Jewish and Christian, set up for the enlightening of this dark world, by diffusing the light of divine truth.”

The Sermon Bible says, “By the candelabrum was symbolised the Israelitish community, the nation of the old covenant, the people of theocracy. But Israel was itself a symbol and type; it was the visible manifestation of that invisible spiritual community, the Church of the living God, which embraces the faithful of all ages and places. It is represented as made of the most precious of metals, pure gold, to indicate the worth and excellence of that which God hath chosen for Himself as His special treasure; and it is represented as having seven lamps, to indicate that the Church is a luminous body, having light in itself, and appearing as the luminary from which proceeds light to the world.”

Nelson’s Complete Book of Bible Maps and Charts equates the lampstand of Zech 4 to Israel.

Bill Randles in the book “God Remembers:  The Visions and Words of the Prophet Zechariah,” says, “The candlestick is the symbol of the role of Israel as the witness to the Gentiles, and to the glory of the only true God.  Israel was the original ‘city of a hill’ referred to in the Sermon on the Mount.  Isaiah and Micah both feature visions of the nations streaming to Zion to come into the light of God’s salvation.”

Appendix B

Our Father Which Art in Heaven

In the book of Matthew especially there is an emphasis on God the Father being in heaven.  This is stated fifteen times in the book of Matthew!  We are supposed to direct our prayers to our Father in heaven (Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2).  In both the OT and the NT we see that God spoke from heaven and heard prayers from heaven.  Four times it’s stated by Solomon that heaven is God’s dwelling place from which God would hear prayer—this is recorded twice so that it’s actually stated eight times in the Bible (I Kings 8 and 2 Chronicles 6).

Using the same two Hebrew words as in Solomon’s prayer (“shamayim” and “yashab”), God the Father is said to be sitting in the heavens and then setting His king (Jesus) on Zion (Psalm 2:4-6).  Twenty times in Scripture, God is called “the God of heaven.”

God sent rain from heaven, sometimes stopped the rain from heaven, looked down from heaven, sent bread from heaven, etc.

Voice From Heaven

God spoke to the children of Israel from heaven.  Moses was not excluded from this conversation in Exodus 20:22.  We consistently see especially in the NT, God the Father speaking from heaven.  God told Moses in Exodus 19:11 to get the people ready, because the Lord would be coming down (Just as in the NT Jesus is the One who declares and shows the ways of the Father, so in the OT, Jesus also did—John 1:18). 

In the book of John, it is said eight times that Jesus “came down/cometh down” from heaven.  We see various other times that Jesus “went down” in the OT, such as to the tower of Babel (Gen 11:5), to Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 18:21, which he did do before sending judgement in Gen 19:24).  And, it makes sense that in Exodus 3:8; 19:11; 19:18; 19:20 and 34:5, it is also Jesus, the Lord, who came down, not the Father.  The Father’s voice was heard from heaven, which is clearly stated in Ex 20:22, just as in modern times a person may call a friend half way around the world, and that friend can hear their voice, even if they are not physically present. 

We see consistently in Scripture that Jesus is the One who comes down in physical form and declares the ways of the Father, both in the OT and the NT, and that the Father operates from heaven, though He is omnipresent, just as Jesus and the Holy Spirit are also.

The Father Speaking From Heaven

---Exo 20:22  And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 

---Neh 9:13  Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 

---2Sa 22:14  The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. 

---Mat 3:17  And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 

---Mar 1:11  And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 

---Luk 3:22  And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. 

---Joh 12:28  Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 

---2Pe 1:17  For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 

2Pe 1:18  And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. 

---Rev 10:4  And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. 

---Rev 11:12  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 

---Rev 14:2  And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 

---Rev 14:13  And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. 

---Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Fire From Heaven

Seeing that consistency in Scripture, it also makes sense that it was Jesus who visited Abraham on earth, and who was overseeing the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah on earth, while God the Father was in heaven:

--- Gen 19:24  Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 

---2Ki 1:10;12;14…Fire fell twice, consuming those coming to get Elijah

---1Ch 21:26…on an altar David built to show him favor 

---2Ch 7:1…on the sacrifices made by Solomon, showing him favor

---Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 

Appendix C

Commentators Who Think The Two Witnesses Will Be Crucified

Meyer wrote, “Again, the text itself shows this, partly by the καὶ before ὁ κύρ. αὐτ., partly by the expression ὁ κύρ. αὐτων. Both belong inwardly together; as the two witnesses, so also their Lord was there slain, crucified; the servants have suffered the same thing as their[2879] Lord.[2880] This is accordingly made prominent, because from this it becomes clear that the antichristian enmity of the great city remains always the same; with the same hatred as that wherewith they formerly once brought the Lord there to the cross, they now slay the two witnesses just because they are his witnesses.”

Bengel wrote, “In the text they are not said to lie. What, if you should suppose that they will be suspended, as their Lord also was suspended from the cross?.... Whether the city has the place of the cross within the walls at the present day, or has not (for travellers are at variance with one another, and those who deny it, do so with far greater appearance of truth), at the time of the witnesses, at least, it will undoubtedly have the place of the cross in the street, either within the walls or without”

Appendix D

The message, “Angels On Earth” (May 5^th, 2019) by Peter Danzey contains numerous assumptions.  The following is not a comprehensive list, just a few randomly chosen:

---“Malak” almost certainly means a divine being?

In Gen 19:1 two angels went down to Sodom (Malak- messenger/angel can be the angel of the Lord—Jesus.  But often times Malak is used in the OT not referring to a divine being at all—almost half of the times the KJV translates Malak it is messenger[s], ten times it’s used of angels plural and about five times of ambassadors—we cannot assume the use of Malak to mean a divine person).  Even if we limit the search to only the Pentateuch, which is an unreasonable limitation when we’re looking for the possible meanings of the word—the Pentateuch uses this word 39 times, 9 of which do not mean a divine being, and 4 of which are debatable (in the message only 3 uses of “Malak” are mentioned which are “ambiguous”).  To look only at the cases where “Malak” is a Christophany, and ignore literally over a hundred uses of “Malak” biases the hearers unreasonably. 

---The Hebrew word “shachah” (H7812) can only mean worship?

When Lot bowed to the ground before the two angels in Gen 19:1, it doesn't necessarily mean worship, as it could be a cultural practice of just honor, submission, and respect.  Using the same Hebrew word as in Gen 19:1, Jacob bowed to the ground before Esau in Gen 33:3, Ruth bowed to the ground before Boaz in Ruth 2:10, and the same is true of David before Jonathan, Abigail before David, and others.

---Only God can close the door?

We have angels opening doors in the NT.  Why can they not close a door if God commands them to this task?

---Angels cannot eat with people?

What verse prohibits this?

---God does not consult with people/angels (Gen 18:17-19)?

Jesus consulted with His disciples before feeding the masses miraculously.  Did He need to?  No, He didn’t.  He also asked other people questions of which He already knew the answer.  So, it’s not out of character in Gen 18 if these are angels Jesus is talking to.

---Angels cannot deviate from previous instructions (Gen 19:2-3; 17-22).

This assumes we know what the instructions were, which we don’t.  If a man sells some land, and goes through an agent, leaving the agent in charge and telling him you can lower the cost by xxxxx dollars if need be, the agent is still faithful if he sells the land on behalf of the man, lowering the cost to within what he specified.  Likewise God could have given instructions with caveats, knowing what Lot would ask for.  If the two “angels” are God, the following verse does not sound very sovereignly authoritative:  Gen 19:22  “Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.”

This message is a stepping stone to the Rev 11 double theophanies proposed by Peter Danzey, but a case that is based on unproven assumptions is not very convincing.  I didn’t take a lot of time to look into every point, but just the fact that there are the above unproven assumptions shows that it’s not a slam dunk case, especially when most Christian commentators would see Gen 18-19 as a theophany of Jesus appearing with two angels. 

The continued support and promotion by Bill Randles of various false teachers of serious false doctrines that Moriel finds heretical are of great concern to the Moriel board.

How prophetic these words have become. The Jewish community in Britain is alarmed by the increasing anti-Semitism in the Anglican Church, much of it based on ignorance. For instance, many people outside the Jewish community really believe that Israel, a country the size of Wales, is, as Dr Sacks said, "responsible for the evils of the world", while Jewish people know only too well that, as 0.5 per cent of the population, "they are so powerless that they can be attacked with impunity".

To many British Jews, segments of the media, including the BBC, The Guardian and The Independent, constantly misrepresent Israel. These misrepresentations then affect other organisations.

First, there was the Association of University Teachers (AUT), which called for a boycott of two Israeli universities. Now the Anglican Consultative Council, in what the journalist Melanie Phillips has called "the Church’s AUT moment", said that it "welcomes" the Anglican Peace and Justice Network’s statement on Israel (News, 1 July; 5 August).

Jewish institutions and individuals have been discussing how they are affected by media reporting. Last week, the Community Security Trust, which advises and represents the Jewish community on security and anti-Semitism, asked me to tell the Church Times that:

"It frequently appears that there are no limits to the hatred and bias that can be expressed against Israel or Zionism. Anti-Semites take comfort from this hatred, and regard it as a cue to attack Jews at random here in Britain. Anti-Semitic incidents’ levels since the year 2000 have been the worst recorded in decades. The rise in incidents is appalling. This would have been unthinkable just a few years ago."

The Board of Deputies described its concern at the fact that "In 2004, there were 532 anti-Semitic incidents in the UK, which was a 42 per cent increase on the figures for 2003, which was a substantial increase on the figures for 2002."

THE BBC apologised when the Scottish hymn-writer, the Revd Dr John Bell of the Iona Community, "made two factual mistakes" about the Israeli army on the Radio 4’s Thought for the Day in February.

This was a wake-up call for the Jewish community, even though Christian aid agencies and "peace groups" have for a long time appeared to us to be attacking Israel, and ignoring attempts to hear other points of view. Individual Jews have reported experiencing violent verbal attacks during public pro-Palestinian meetings held in church buildings.

Joanne Green, a Jewish journalist, said: "Despite the BBC charter, I can’t think of any programmes that are critical of the Palestinians, despite their kangaroo courts, public hangings, threats to journalists, incitement to racial and religious hatred, corruption, and threats to destroy Israel.

"Also, as an active member of the Council of Christians and Jews, I feel betrayed by the Anglican Church. All those receptions at St James’s Palace and earnest tributes from church leaders regretting their millennia-long persecution of the Jews don’t mean anything any more. When Jews need real recognition of the danger they are in, where is the Church? Aligning themselves with those who want to wipe Israel from the face of the earth, after it was they who were responsible for the Holocaust. Forgive them, Lord, for they probably do know exactly what they do. How dare the Church lecture Jews on morality."

Many people mention the Church’s apparent silence in the face of the growing attacks on the British Jewish community. For one seasoned American journalist and Episcopalian cleric: "In Britain, there is a degree of open anti-Semitism that would be unthinkable in the USA. The C of E has been complicit in this, both by keeping silent, and by not cracking down on its members who cross the line in their advocacy of the Palestinian cause, and fall into Jew-baiting."

Canon Andrew White, CEO of the Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East, agrees. "Is there a new anti-Semitism?" he asks. "For Jews, disinvestment [in Israel] is not just anti-Zionism, but anti-Semitism. Christians defend their position by saying they are against Israel, not the Jews. Yet there is no call by the Christians to disinvest from countries where Christians are persecuted, or banned. Israel is viewed as the evil nation, that evil democratic nation " ” that just happens to be the only homeland for the Jewish people in the world.

"Now that there is an acute awareness of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism, the Christian world needs to wake up to the fact that more Jews have been killed by Christians than by Muslims. It is no longer sufficient for the Church to blame Israel for its own anti-Semitism. The replacement theology that laid the ground for nearly two millennia of anti-Judaic polemic is on its way back. This time, it is dressed up as concern for the Palestinians."

Benjamin, a 32-year-old Jew, who stayed at my house last Shabbat, en route to an International Council of Christians and Jews convention, said: "Christians are encouraged to love their enemies. We are no longer the enemy, just irrelevant; no longer the enemy, just the object of hate and vilification."

For, as the Holocaust author Raoul Hillberg has said: "There is a straight line from " ˜You have no right to live among us as Jews’ to " ˜You have no right to live among us’ to " ˜You have no right to live.’"

Dr Irene Lancaster is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester, the author of works on Jewish history and the Bible, and an Orthodox Jew engaged in interfaith work with the Anglican Church and others.

Otte dismissed statements by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that Israel will retain large blocs of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria in any permanent arrangement with the Palestinian Authority. Such commitments, the European Union envoy asserted, are nothing more than "spin" intended for internal Israeli consumption.

The EU also does not take seriously Israel's demand that the PA fulfill its commitments to disarm Arab terrorist groups. According to the Al-Quds interview, Mr. Otte said the EU does not demand that the PA confront terrorist groups militarily, or that the PA initiate a civil war in order to carry out its obligations.

In June, Mr. Otte defended European Union contacts with Hamas representatives, despite the organization being listed as a terrorist organization in EU countries, by saying that "if they are duly elected in free and fair elections under international supervision, you have to know what to do with elected representatives."

"I think he'll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In a way he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice," Hier told The Associated Press.

A survivor of five Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal changed his life's mission after the war, dedicating himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the 6 million Jews who died during the onslaught. He himself lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust.

Wiesenthal spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and remembering the Jewish experience as a lesson for humanity. Through his work, he said, some 1,100 Nazi war criminals were brought to justice.

"When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it," he once said.

Calls of condolences poured into Wiesenthal's office in Vienna, where one of his longtime assistants, Trudi Mergili, struggled to deal with her grief.

"It was expected," she said. "But it is still so hard."

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Wiesenthal "brought justice to those who had escaped justice."

"He acted on behalf of 6 million people who could no longer defend themselves," ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Tuesday. "The state of Israel, the Jewish people and all those who oppose racism recognized Simon Wiesenthal's unique contribution to making our planet a better place."

Austria's parliament speaker said "an important voice for remembrance and humanity has been silenced."

Wiesenthal was first sent to a concentration camp in 1941, outside Lviv, Ukraine. In October 1943, he escaped from the Ostbahn camp just before the Germans began killing all the inmates. He was recaptured in June 1944 and sent back to Janwska, but escaped death as his SS guards retreated with their prisoners from the Soviet Red Army.

Wiesenthal's quest began after the Americans liberated the Mauthausen death camp in Austria where Wiesenthal was a prisoner in May 1945. It was his fifth death camp among the dozen Nazi camps in which he was imprisoned, and he weighed just 99 pounds when he was freed. He said he quickly realized "there is no freedom without justice," and decided to dedicate "a few years" to that mission.

"It became decades," he added.

Even after turning 90, Wiesenthal continued to remind and to warn. While appalled at atrocities committed by Serbs against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in the 1990s, he said no one should confuse the tragedy there with the Holocaust.

"We are living in a time of the trivialization of the word 'Holocaust,'" he told AP in 1999. "What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date."

Wiesenthal's life spanned a violent century.

He was born on Dec. 31, 1908, to Jewish merchants at Buczacs, a small town near the present-day Ukrainian city of Lviv in what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire. He studied in Prague and Warsaw and in 1932 received a degree in civil engineering.

He apprenticed as a building engineer in Russia before returning to Lviv to open an architectural office. Then the Russians and the Germans occupied Lviv and the terror began.

After the war, working first with the Americans and later from a cramped Vienna apartment packed with documents, Wiesenthal tirelessly pursued fugitive war criminals.

He was perhaps best known for his role in tracking down Eichmann, who organized the extermination of the Jews. Eichmann was found in Argentina, abducted by Israeli agents in 1960, tried and hanged for crimes committed against the Jews.

Wiesenthal often was accused of exaggerating his role in Eichmann's capture. He did not claim sole responsibility, but said he knew by 1954 where Eichmann was.

Eichmann's capture "was a teamwork of many who did not know each other," Wiesenthal told the AP in 1972. "I do not know if and to what extent reports I sent to Israel were used."

Among others Wiesenthal tracked down was Austrian policeman Karl Silberbauer, who he believed arrested the Dutch teenager Anne Frank and sent her to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she died.

Wiesenthal decided to pursue Silberbauer in 1958 after a youth told him he did not believe in Frank's existence and murder, but would if Wiesenthal could find the man who arrested her. His five-year search resulted in Silberbauer's 1963 capture.

Wiesenthal did not bring to justice one prime target " ” Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous "Angel of Death" of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele died in South America after eluding capture for decades.

Wiesenthal's long quest for justice also stirred controversy.

In Austria, which took decades to acknowledge its own role in Nazi crimes, Wiesenthal was ignored and often insulted before being honored for his work when he was in his 80s.

In 1975, then-Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, himself a Jew, suggested Wiesenthal was part of a "certain mafia" seeking to besmirch Austria. Kreisky even claimed Wiesenthal collaborated with Nazis to survive.

Ironically, it was the furor over Kurt Waldheim, who became president in 1986 despite lying about his past as an officer in Hitler's army, that gave Wiesenthal stature in Austria.

Wiesenthal's failure to condemn Waldheim as a war criminal drew international ire and conflict with American Jewish groups. But it made Austrians realize that the Nazi hunter did not condemn everybody who took part in the Nazi war effort.

Wiesenthal did repeatedly demand Waldheim's resignation, seeing him as a symbol of those who suppressed Austria's role as part of Hitler's German war and death machine. But he turned up no proof of widespread allegations that Waldheim was an accessory to war crimes.

Wiesenthal's work exposed him to danger.

His house and office have been guarded by an armed police officer since June 1982, when a bomb exploded at his front door, causing severe damage but resulting in no injuries, according to the Wiesenthal Center Web site. One German and several Austrian neo-Nazis were arrested.

He pursued his crusade of remembrance into old age with the vigor of youth, with patience and determination. But as he entered his 90s, he worried that his mission would die with him.

"I think in a way the world owes him and his memory a tremendous amount of gratitude," Hier said.

Wiesenthal earned many awards, including Austria's Golden Decoration of Merit, which was presented by President Heinz Fischer at Wiesenthal's home in June. He also wrote several books, including his memoirs, "The Murderers Among Us," in 1967, and worked regularly at the small downtown office of his Jewish Documentation Center even after turning 90.

"The most important thing I have done is to fight against forgetting and to keep remembrance alive," he said in the 1999 interview with the AP. "It is very important to let people know that our enemies are not forgotten."

Wiesenthal's wife, Cyla, whom he married in 1936, died in November 2003.

A memorial service was to be held in Vienna's central cemetery on Wednesday. Funeral services will be in Israel, Mergili said.

Associated Press reporter Ian Gregor contributed to this report from Los Angeles.

The reason for the assault? A Muslim woman from Dair Jarir, Hiyam Ajaj, 23, fell in love with her Christian boss, Mehdi Khouriyye, owner of a tailor shop in Taybeh. The couple maintained a clandestine two-year affair and she became pregnant in about March 2005. When her family learned of her condition, it murdered her. That was on about Sep. 1; unsatisfied even with this "honor killing" " ” for Islamic law strictly forbids non-Muslim males to have sexual relations with Muslim females " ” the Ajaj men sought vengeance against Khouriyye and his family.

They took it two days later in an assault on Taybeh. The Ajajs and their friends broke into houses and stole furniture, jewelry, and electrical appliances. They threw Molotov cocktails at some buildings and poured kerosene on others, then torched them. The damage included at least 16 houses, some stores, a farm, and a gas station. The assailants vandalized cars, looted extensively, and destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary.

"It was like a war," one Taybeh resident told The Jerusalem Post. Hours passed before the Palestinian Authority security and fire services arrived. The fifteen assailants spent only a few hours in police detention, then were released. As for Khouriyye, the Palestinian police arrested him, kept him jail, and (his family says) have repeatedly beat him.

As the news service Adnkronos International notes, for Palestinian Christians "the fact that the Muslim aggressors have been released while the Christian tailor-shop owner is still being held, at best symbolizes the PA's indifference to the plight of Palestinian Christians, at worst shows it is taking sides against them."

A cousin, Suleiman Khouriyye, pointed to his burned house. "They did this because we're Christians. They did this because we are the weaker ones." The Khouriyyes and others recall the assailants shouting Allahu Akbar and anti-Christian slogans: "Burn the infidels, burn the Crusaders." To which, an unrepentant cousin of Hiyam Ajaj replied, "We burned their houses because they dishonored our family, not because they are Christians."

This assault fits a larger pattern. According to the Catholic Custodian of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Christians in the Bethlehem region alone have suffered 93 cases of injustice in 2000-04. In the worst of these, in 2002, Muslims murdered the two Amre sisters, 17 and 19 years old, whom they called prostitutes. A post-mortem, however, showed the teenagers to have been virgins " ” and to have been tortured on their genitals.

"Almost every day " ” I repeat, almost every day " ” our communities are harassed by the Islamic extremists in these regions," Pizzaballa says. "And if it's not the members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, there are clashes with " ¦ the Palestinian Authority." In addition to the Islamists, a "Muslim land mafia" is said to operate. With PA complicity. it threatens Christian land and house owners, often succeeding to compel them to abandon their properties.

The campaign of persecution has succeeded. Even as the Christian population of Israel grows, that of the Palestinian Authority shrinks precipitously. Bethlehem and Nazareth, historic Christian towns for nearly two millennia, are now primarily Muslim. In 1922, Christians outnumbered Muslims in Jerusalem; today, Christians amount to a mere 2 percent of that city's population.

"Is Christian life liable to be reduced to empty church buildings and a congregation-less hierarchy with no flock in the birthplace of Christianity?" So asks Daphne Tsimhoni in the Middle East Quarterly. It is hard to see what will prevent that ghost-like future from coming into existence.

One factor that could help prevent this dismal outcome would be for mainline Protestant churches to speak out against Palestinian Muslims for tormenting and expelling Palestinian Christians. To date, unfortunately, the Episcopalian, Evangelical Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, as well as the United Church of Christ, have ignored the problem.

Instead, they pursue the self-indulgent path of venting moral outrage against the Israeli bystander and even withdrawing their investment funds from it. As they obsess with Israel but stay silent about Christianity dying in its birthplace one wonders what it will take to awaken them.

Iran

When the President of Iran speaks at a conference called "The World without Zionism"  and in his speech he says "Israel must be wiped off the map"  we have a big problem. ‚   Then when you consider that Iran in most likelihood has the nuclear bomb and the delivery system to send it to Tel-Aviv the problem gets even larger. ‚   Can you amagine the worlds reaction if Sharon said that about Iran? ‚   With the help of Russia, North Korea, China and Pakistan Iranians are most likely ready to attack Israel at any given moment and we know it, as does the rest of the world. ‚   With oil prices at the highest in history they certainly have the money to buy whatever they want in the way of weapons, and you can be sure that the above mentioned countries will sell them anything they want for a price.

The world has also witnessed the parades in Iran where they have shown off their new missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons to Israel or even Europe for that matter but written on the sides of the missiles are slogans that say "for the destruction of Israel" . ‚   I don’t think you have to be a master Politician to see we are in trouble here in Israel.

Since Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon the Iranian backed Hizbullah has been building up missiles bases and now have a reported 13,000 missiles ready to be fired at Israel whenever Iran decides it’s time, many with chemical warheads. ‚   All this of course has been designed to come together at the precise time to destroy Israel. ‚   Iran and Syria have agreed that if either is attacked by the US or Israel the other would come to their rescue.

Syria

To add insult to injury Syria has just purchased the Iskander SS-26 missiles from Russia with a 400 km range, putting two thirds of Israel in range, these missiles are capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and are very accurate. ‚   For the past couple years Syria who has no real love for the "Palestinians"  has been training thousands of them out of the Lebanon refugee camps too fight Israel. ‚   It has been reported that they have recently moved a very large number of them to their southern borders making even the Lebanon army nervous.

Bashar Assad (President of Syria) and Mahmoud Abbas (President of a place that doesn’t even exist on any map) both are in serious trouble with their own people. ‚   And when these Arab leaders find themselves in trouble they always react by starting a war, it is a mentality flaw but one that seems to keep them in power. ‚   As usual the Saudis are paying the bill for any Arab terrorist group who will wage war with Israel. ‚   Abbas has brought truck loads of highly sophisticated weapons into Gaza through the open border with Egypt in preparations for the big war with Israel, thanks to Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush and their Disengagement.

In the mean time Egypt is making unprecedented gestures of peace and good relations with Israel, and if you know as we do what their State controlled newspapers say every day you know something is terribly wrong with this picture. ‚   Mubarak (Egyptian President) has a very long memory and wants revenge for the 1967 and the 1973 wars, on my last trip to Cairo you could see the destroyed Egyptian tanks in the desert from the 67 6-day war, they leave them there as a reminder.

The Palestinians have re-armed thanks to Bush and Sharon Disengagement from Gaza and with the help of the Egyptians. ‚   It is also known that thousands of al-Qaida fighters have inter into Gaza through the open borders with Egypt. ‚   Now Sharon has allow the Egyptian navy, supplied by the USA to come all the way up to the border at Askelon putting Te-Aviv within range of their missiles and guns. ‚   Now that Egypt has access into Gaza and Sharon has allowed them to increase their military presence in the Sinai right up to the Israeli border, again thanks to the pressure from George W. Bush, Egypt is very dangerously close to us with more military power then they have ever had before thanks again to George W. Bush.

Now The Good News

These Islamic devils can’t win, not even with the help of Russia, North Korea, China and George W. Bush, how do I know, I read the Book, the one God inspired called the Holy Bible. ‚   As for Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and Egypt, Israel will turn them into a glass factory. ‚   Israel will be here when it is all over for I know where Yeshua will plant His Feet, and it will not be in a land controlled by Islamic devils, but by Jews the same Jews God chose to be here for end time purposes. ‚   You see we have God’s Word on that and God cannot lie. ‚  And after Russia finally gives up supplying these Islamic devils with weapons to destroy Israel with and decides to do it themselves, then we will see the hand of God like no man has ever seen it before, for He will destroy the enemies of His Holy City Jerusalem in the mountains of the north. ‚   How do I know that because God said so and He cannot lie.

God is in control not man

If we allow our attention to be distracted by carnal or temporal fears we will miss the calling of God in our lives. ‚   We must know that to live with fear is to deny God’s love, and to refuse to allow Him to be God in our lives is too give the evil one victory, we simply must overcome and in the days ahead that will only be possible with the presence of the Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) in our lives.

The only safe place on earth for a Jew in the coming days will be Israel, and those who have reason after reason not to make Aliyah will pay a terrible price, God is calling all Jews to come home, now.

God has called this Ministry and others to prepare for the soon coming mass Aliyah of Jews from Europe and elsewhere. ‚   He has touched His people around the world to support ministries that will bless the Apple of His eye, and those who hear His call will be blessed beyond description. ‚   Gen. 12:3.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. ‚   Pray for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemy. ‚   Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.

In other words, Ahmadinejad's call for the destruction of Israel was nothing new but conforms to a well-established pattern of regime rhetoric and ambition. "Death to Israel!" has been a rallying cry for the past quarter-century. Mr. Ahmadinejad quoted Ayatollah Khomeini, its founder, in his call on October 26 for genocidal war against Jews: "The regime occupying Jerusalem must be eliminated from the pages of history," Khomeini said decades ago. Mr. Ahmadinejad lauded this hideous goal as "very wise."

In December 2001, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and still powerful political figure, laid the groundwork for an exchange of nuclear weapons with Israel: "If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the same thing would just produce minor damages in the Muslim world."

In like spirit, a Shahab-3 ballistic missile (capable of reaching Israel) paraded in Tehran last month bore the slogan "Israel Should Be Wiped Off the Map."

The threats by Messrs. Khamenei and Rafsanjani prompted yawns but Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement roused an uproar.

The U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, expressed "dismay," the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned it, and the European Union condemned it "in the strongest terms." Prime Minister Martin of Candida deemed it "beyond the pale," Prime Minister Blair of Britain expressed "revulsion," and the French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, announced that "for France, the right for Israel to exist should not be contested." Le Monde called the speech a "cause for serious alarm," Die Welt dubbed it "verbal terrorism," and a London Sun headline proclaimed Ahmadinejad the "most evil man in the world."

The governments of Turkey, Russia, and China, among others, expressly condemned the statement. Maryam Rajavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a leading opposition group, demanded that the European Union rid the region of the "hydra of terrorism and fundamentalism" in Tehran. Even the Palestinian Authority's Saeb Erekat spoke against Mr. Ahmadinejad: "Palestinians recognize the right of the state of Israel to exist, and I reject his comments." The Cairene daily Al-Ahram dismissed his statement as "fanatical" and spelling disaster for Arabs.

Iranians were surprised and suspicious. Why, some asked, did the mere reiteration of long-standing policy prompt an avalanche of outraged foreign reactions?

In a constructive spirit, I offer them four reasons. First, Mr. Ahmadinejad's virulent character gives the threats against Israel added credibility. Second, he in subsequent days defiantly repeated and elaborated on his threats. Third, he added an aggressive coda to the usual formulation, warning Muslims who recognize Israel that they "will burn in the fire of the Islamic umma [nation]."

This directly targets the Palestinians and several Arab states, but especially neighboring Pakistan. Just a month before Mr. Ahmadinejad spoke, the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, stated that "Israel rightly desires security." He envisioned the opening of embassies in Israel by Muslim countries like Pakistan as a "signal for peace." Mr. Ahmadinejad perhaps indicated an intent to confront Pakistan over relations with Israel.

Finally, Israelis estimate that the Iranians could, within six months, have the means to build an atomic bomb. Mr. Ahmadinejad implicitly confirmed this rapid timetable when he warned that after just "a short period " ¦ the process of the elimination of the Zionist regime will be smooth and simple." The imminence of a nuclear-armed Iran transforms "Death to Israel" from an empty slogan into the potential premise for a nuclear assault on the Jewish state, perhaps relying on Mr. Rafsanjani's genocidal thinking.

Ironically, Mr. Ahmadinejad's candor has had positive effects, reminding the world of his regime's unremitting bellicosity, its rank anti-Semitism, and its dangerous arsenal. As Tony Blair noted, Mr. Ahmadinejad's threats raise the question, "When are you going to do something about this?" And Mr. Blair later warned Tehran with some menace against its becoming a "threat to our world security." His alarm needs to translate into action, and urgently so.

We are on notice. Will we act in time?

The February 6 divestment vote, which was backed by current Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, was "a most regrettable and one-sided statement," Lord Carey said, and one that "ignores the trauma of ordinary Jewish people" in Israel subjected to terrorist attacks.

Lord Carey joined Jewish leaders protesting the vote by the General Synod, the church's legislature, to adopt a "morally responsible investment in the Palestinian occupied territories and, in particular, to disinvest from companies profiting from the illegal occupation, such as Caterpillar Inc., until they change their policies."

The church's call to pressure Caterpillar and other multi-nationals to withdraw from the territories was a "one-eyed" response that "only rebukes one side," Lord Carey said, and displayed the church's "propensity to reduce complex issues to black and white."

Jon Benjamin, the chief executive officer of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, branded the synod vote "simplistic" and "unbalanced."

"What it shows is that the thinking of people who support these resolutions is not very sophisticated," he said. There were sound reasons why the Israeli government had adopted its security policies, but these were never "aired or discussed" by the synod, Benjamin said.

During the one-hour debate that preceded the vote, a letter from the Anglican bishop in Jerusalem, the Rt. Rev. Riah Abu al-Assal, condemning the Israeli government's use of Caterpillar tractors to demolish Palestinian homes was read to the synod.

The bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt. Rev. John Gladwin, said he held Israel responsible for the worsening plight of Palestinian Christians, telling the synod, "Caterpillar may be a company being used for dreadful purposes across the world, but the problem is not Caterpillar. The problem is the situation in the Middle East and the government of Israel."

The chairman of the Council of Christians and Jews, the Rt. Rev. Christopher Herbert, bishop of St. Albans, disagreed and objected to the disinvestment call, telling the synod it was "unbalanced" and failed to reflect the complexity of the situation. A counter motion offered by the pro-Israel pressure group "Anglicans for Israel" was not presented to the synod, as time was called on the debate after one hour.

The synod adopted the motion by a show of hands, with Archbishop Williams voting in favor, and the archbishop of York, John Sentamu, abstaining.

Dr. Irene Lancaster, of the Center for Jewish Studies at Manchester University, said the vote marked "a very black day for Anglican-Jewish relations."

"The Jewish community will have to reconsider their attitude to interfaith work with the Anglican community," she said, adding, "The writing is on the wall for the Jews of Great Britain, 350 years after they settled here."

The symbolism of this vote was that "Israel will be criticized regardless of what happens," Benjamin said. In the mind of the Church of England, "nothing Israel ever will do will be right, while nothing the Palestinians will do will ever be wrong," he charged.

In 1979 Lebanese terrorist Samir Quntar murdered Danny Haran and his four-year-old daughter, Einat. Danny's daughter Yael, aged two, suffocated while hiding in a crawl space with her mother Quntar is serving multiple life sentences totaling 542 years in prison.

Smadar Haran, wife and mother of the murder victims, described the murder in the Washington Post in 2003:

"It was a murder of unimaginable cruelty. It had been a peaceful Sabbath day. My husband, Danny, and I had picnicked with our little girls, Einat, 4, and Yael, 2, on the beach. Around midnight . the terrorists burst into our building. Danny helped our neighbor climb into a crawl space above our bedroom; I went in behind her with Yael in my arms. Danny grabbed Einat and was dashing out the front door when the terrorists came crashing into our flat. They held Danny and Einat . I will never forget the joy and the hatred in the terrorists voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades. .

As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. "This is just like what happened to my mother," I thought. .. The terrorists took Danny and Einat down to the beach. There, according to eyewitnesses, one of them shot Danny in front of Einat so that his death would be the last sight she would ever see. Then he smashed my little girl's skull in against a rock with his rifle butt. That terrorist was Samir Quntar."
[*Smadar Haran Kaiser, Washington Post, May 18, 2003*]

This is the Samir Quntar who last week was granted honorary Palestinian citizenship. Palestinian organizations responded with applause to this announcement:

Here's the Palestinian comment:

"The "friends of the prisoners" organization sees the decision, of the present [Fatah led] government, to award Palestinian citizenship to two ‚  Arab prisoners - Samir Quntar from Lebanon and Sultan Al-Ajaluni from Jordan - an act of Palestinian national obligation and in dedication to this honoredhistory, that the Arab prisoners have provided to the Palestinian issue."
[*Al-Quds, Mar. 7, 2006*]

"The Palestinian Liberation Front, through general secretariat member, Dr. Wasil Abu Yusuf, praised the government's decision. to award the imprisoned fighters, Sarmir Quntar and Sultan Al-Ajaluni , honorary citizenship and Palestinian citizenship as an act of dedication to their struggle and their heroic suffering in the occupation's prisons.
[*Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 8, 2006*]

"The Palestinian Popular Committees expressed their appreciation for the government's decision to award the two imprisoned fighters, Sarmir Quntar and Sultan Al-Ajaluni, honorary citizenship and Palestinian citizenship as an act of dedication to their struggle and their heroic sufferings in the occupation's prisons.
[*Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 9, 2006*]

From PMW archives: Sarmir Quntar - for years a Palestinian hero*

PATV and PA leaders have long seen Quntar as a hero. His picture is repeatedly shown on TV and he was proclaimed the "model warrior," "brave," and a "leader" and "head" of the prisoners.

PA Minister of Prisoners, Hisham Abdul Razeq, defined Quntar as the leader of the prisoners:

The torch of freedom [that] was lifted by our heroic prisoners and headed by the great warrior Samir Quntar...and our thanks to you.
[*PATV, Aug. 15, 2004*]

Prominent PA TV broadcaster Muhammad Albaz:

"Here before us is the picture of the great Lebanese Palestinian warrior Samir Quntar. A thousand blessings to the warrior Samir Quntar [the audience claps] and to his family in Lebanon and to this hero who was sentenced to 576 year [in prison] and this is the evil and this is Israeli democracy.
[*PATV, Aug. 25, 2004*]

PA TV extolled him:

"Quntar is a model of a brilliant warrior - who believes in his goals, knows his way, and perseveres in achieving those goals...."
[*PATV, Aug. 18, 2004*]

Another TV broadcaster referred to him as a leader:

"The leader Samir Quntar, our wish for him is that he will soon be released."
[*PATV, Aug. 18, 2004*]

A broadcast describing Quntar's life defines his murder as "brave:

"He was sentenced to 542 years in prison for committing the brave Nahariya action in Palestine (note-Israel city of Nahariya is defined as ' Palestine.')
[*PATV, Aug. 18, 2004*]

Palestinian demonstrators supporting a prisoner hunger strike singled out Quntar as a model to be followed:

"We bless the family members of Samir Quntar, we are with you. He is your son but he is also our son, the son of Palestine. We ask of Allah, that there will be 100 more Samir Quntars, 1,000 more Samir Quntars, 1,000,000 more Samir Quntars, that do and act for the Palestinian issue.
[*PATV, Aug. 18, 2004*]

Finally it should be noted that this act of granting honorary Palestinian citizenship to Quntar was done by the present Fatah headed government. The Hamas led government has not yet been appointed.

Naturally- no BBC comment!

Disturbingly, the military's organizational behavior since the withdrawal from Gaza, as manifested in operations on the ground and in statements by senior commanders, indicates that the withdrawal of IDF forces from Gaza has harmed the IDF's self-assessment and its understanding of its mission.

This troubling situation is most clearly evident in Southern Command. That command devoted itself last year almost entirely to the non-military task of preparing and carrying out the uprooting of the Jewish communities from Gaza. Now it is contending with the new threats that have emerged along Israel's long border with Egypt and in the Gaza Strip since it completed that mission.

As the daily Kassam rocket and mortar strikes on Ashkelon, Sderot and the rest of the Israeli communities bordering Gaza have shown, since the withdrawal, Southern Command has failed in its mission to provide security to southern Israel.

Last Thursday afternoon, OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant briefed military reporters in Tel Aviv. The day before the briefing, Ashkelon's industrial area - home to some of Israel's most vital national infrastructures - was struck by Kassam rockets. That attack on the industrial area was launched from Gaza right after the IDF declared the successful conclusion of "Operation Lightning Strike." That operation was supposed to prevent the shooting of Kassam rockets on southern Israel.

As well, last Thursday morning, soldiers from the Givati Brigade killed two terrorists who attacked them with rifle fire from the Erez crossing where Gazan workers enter Israel.

Addressing reporters, Galant declared that on the one hand, "Israeli bloodshed will not be met with silence." On the other hand, he said, "I can't say that we have a perfect response for the Kassam rockets, but our operations are effective. The Palestinians think twice before they shoot."

Galant brushed off the fact that the Palestinians are lobbing rockets and mortars at Israel on a daily basis in spite of the IDF's "effective" responses, by saying: "You have to look at the glass as half full. It could be better, it could be worse."

Finally, one week after the Palestinians voted Hamas into office, the commander who holds direct responsibility for the security of southern Israel said: "With our departure from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians were given the chance to choose a new path. Instead of fighting, I hope that they will choose the path of hope and of fighting terror."

What Galant's statements make clear is that in its post-withdrawal operations against Palestinian attacks, the IDF is simply ignoring its duty to secure the country. Galant's basic message last Thursday was that rather than do its job or admit that in the absence of ground forces in Gaza it cannot do its job, the IDF excuses its failure to protect the country with hollow and pathetic political slogans. Most depressingly, the IDF does this with the full expectation that the Israeli public will not notice the fact that our army is unable or unwilling to uphold its basic obligation to the nation.

In an interview Wednesday with the Ynet Web site, a high-ranking officer in Central Command said that over the past year the IDF had prevented 10 Palestinian shooting attacks on Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood. He also revealed that Palestinians in the Bethlehem district possess mortars.

The officer seemed to be using his interview as a way to beg the government and his commanders not to take away his forces' freedom of activity in the Bethlehem district. In his words, "There is a threat of gunfire attacks on Gilo, but we have an effective answer to that threat as long as we retain the freedom to act and collect intelligence in Bethlehem. Today we have freedom of action in the city, but there are mortars moving around in Bethlehem. There are attempts to transfer know-how, attempts to transfer missiles. We also see attempts to connect the area to northern Samaria and Gaza, and by that I mean in terms of weaponry, know-how and personnel."

Yet, in seeming disregard to this rising terror threat, the officer said the IDF's major activities in 2006 in the Bethlehem-Gush Etzion area would center around two issues: the construction of the security fence against the backdrop of both Arab and Jewish opposition to the project; and contending with the Hamas takeover of the Palestinian Authority.

It was difficult not to despair after reading that officer's interview. There are mortars at the gates of Jerusalem and the IDF has made guarding a fence its first priority for 2006. It seemed apparent from his remarks that this commander himself is aware of the absurdity of the IDF's operational priorities.

It is not the army's job to guard fences. The army's duty is to secure the state and its citizens. Against the emerging mortar and rocket threat to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from Hamas-ruled Judea and Samaria - a threat that this officer claims finds its origins in the territories the IDF vacated last summer - what this officer most fears is that he will be ordered to retreat.

The officer's conflation of Israeli and Palestinian opponents of the security fence around Gush Etzion echoes the statements made by OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh after the violent clashes between police and civilians at Amona two weeks ago. There Naveh drew parallels between the Jewish protesters and Palestinian terrorists who fight IDF forces in Palestinian cities. Both officers' statements expose a deep confusion about the role of the IDF.

Last week, a US Army commander, who observed the events in Amona from afar, shared with me his deep concern for the future of the IDF. In his words, "The Israeli army will not be able to survive as an effective fighting force if it continues to place itself in the middle of the mainstream political debate in Israel. It cannot survive if it allows itself to confuse the Israeli public with Israel's enemies."

At the same time as they confuse the government's political opposition with Israel's enemies, IDF commanders also actively deny the threat Israel's enemies constitute for the country. On Tuesday, in his first appearance before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, incoming OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said Hamas was now trying to decide whether it would form a moderate or radical government. He added that the key question was whether Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas would restrain Hamas by forming a dictatorial government, or whether he would attempt to reach agreements with Hamas as had been his wont until now.

In so relating to the Hamas takeover of the PA, Yadlin echoed statements by other IDF commanders and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz regarding the possibility of separating the Hamas government from Palestinian society. By framing Israel's strategic predicament in this fashion, IDF commanders are making it all but impossible for the public to recognize the fact that it is not just terrorist organizations that are waging this war against the country. Palestinian society as a whole is warring against Israel. That was the message of the Palestinian elections, which brought Hamas to power. And so the question of what sort of government Hamas will form and what Abbas's relationship to that government will be is strategically irrelevant.

Perhaps the most remarkable recent example of the confusion that has plagued the IDF since the withdrawal from Gaza was the joint press conference Mofaz held with IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz on Monday. The two heads of Israel's defense establishment announced that they were cutting the length of compulsory military service for male IDF conscripts from 36 months to 28-32 months.

It should be recalled that in August 2000, as IDF chief of General Staff, Mofaz gave the same announcement at a press conference with then prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak. The next month the Palestinians launched their terror war. Given the precedent, the beginning of the next big round of the Palestinian terror war may be set to begin next month.

The fact that the Palestinian war is a societal war that threatens the existence of Israel was given disturbing _expression on Wednesday when the heads of the Israeli Arab political parties announced in a press conference that that they were unifying their Knesset lists in an alliance against the "Zionist political parties."

Ibrahim Sarsour, the head of the Islamic Movement's southern branch, who now heads the unified list, declared unabashedly that the Israeli Arab public supports the Palestinian and global jihad forces working to destroy Israel and take over the Western world. In his words: "The entire Arab public, but especially the Muslim public, is in the crosshairs. It is the target of a global attack. As the Islamic Movement, we wish to see the establishment of the Islamic caliphate without borders, and this is what scares the West."

Sarsour applauded the Palestinians for electing Hamas, saying: "The Palestinian people did not choose the Hamas movement in order to add another tragedy to the tragedies it has already undergone, but in order to reap achievements."

The threats Israel faces, as a frontline state in the global jihad are exacerbated with every retreat and statement of defeatism by Israeli political leaders and military commanders. To surmount these threats, Israel needs an army that is capable of contending with the reality of war that characterizes our times.

Over the past year and a half, the government has forced the IDF to occupy itself with missions that are unrelated or counterproductive to its core duty of defending the country and its citizens. The removal of its forces from Gaza last summer has made the IDF's duty to secure southern Israel impossible to fulfill. But rather than admit that the limitations the government has placed on its operations have made it impossible for the military to defend the country, IDF commanders take sides in political disputes and make excuses for their failures.

There can be little doubt that the withdrawal from Gaza had a terrible impact on the IDF. It can only be hoped that the General Staff will pull itself together and face reality before the next round of war begins so that it can adequately prepare our soldiers and our society for the challenges that await us.

In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster. In a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the first reports that Arafat had died, "God bless his soul."

God bless his soul? What a grotesque idea! Bless the soul of the man who brought modern terrorism to the world? Who sent his agents to slaughter athletes at the Olympics, blow airliners out of the sky, bomb schools and pizzerias, machine-gun passengers in airline terminals? Who lied, cheated, and stole without compunction? Who inculcated the vilest culture of Jew-hatred since the Third Reich? Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil -- as indeed Arafat was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize -- but God, I am quite sure, will damn him for eternity.

Arafat always inspired flights of nonsense from Western journalists, and his last two weeks were no exception.

Derek Brown wrote in The Guardian that Arafat's "undisputed courage as a guerrilla leader" was exceeded only "by his extraordinary courage" as a peace negotiator. But it is an odd kind of courage that expresses itself in shooting unarmed victims -- or in signing peace accords and then flagrantly violating their terms.

Another commentator, columnist Gwynne Dyer, asked, "So what did Arafat do right?" The answer: He drew worldwide attention to the Palestinian cause, "for the most part by successful acts of terror." In other words, butchering innocent human beings was "right," since it served an ulterior political motive. No doubt that thought brings daily comfort to all those who were forced to bury a child, parent, or spouse because of Arafat's "successful" terrorism.

Some journalists couldn't wait for Arafat's actual death to begin weeping for him. Take the BBC's Barbara Plett, who burst into tears on the day he was airlifted out of the West Bank. "When the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound," Plett reported from Ramallah, "I started to cry." Normal people don't weep for brutal murderers, but Plett made it clear that her empathy for Arafat -- whom she praised as "a symbol of Palestinian unity, steadfastness, and resistance" -- was heartfelt:

"I remember well when the Israelis re-conquered the West Bank more than two years ago, how they drove their tanks and bulldozers into Mr. Arafat's headquarters, trapping him in a few rooms, and throwing a military curtain around Ramallah. I remember how Palestinians admired his refusal to flee under fire. They told me: `Our leader is sharing our pain, we are all under the same siege.' And so was I." Such is the state of journalism at the BBC, whose reporters do not seem to have any trouble reporting, dry-eyed, on the plight of Arafat's victims. (That is, when they mention them -- which Plett's teary bon voyage to Arafat did not.)

And what about those victims? Why were they scarcely remembered in this Arafat death watch?

How is it possible to reflect on Arafat's most enduring legacy -- the rise of modern terrorism -- without recalling the legions of men, women, and children whose lives he and his followers destroyed? If Osama bin Laden were on his deathbed, would we neglect to mention all those he murdered on 9/11?

It would take an encyclopedia to catalog all of the evil Arafat committed. But that is no excuse for not trying to recall at least some of it.

Perhaps his signal contribution to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.

Thirty years later, no one speaks of Ma'alot anymore. The dead children have been forgotten. Everyone knows Arafat's name, but who ever recalls the names of his victims?

So let us recall them: Ilana Turgeman. Rachel Aputa. Yocheved Mazoz. Sarah Ben-Shim'on. Yona Sabag. Yafa Cohen. Shoshana Cohen. Michal Sitrok. Malka Amrosy. Aviva Saada. Yocheved Diyi. Yaakov Levi. Yaakov Kabla. Rina Cohen. Ilana Ne'eman. Sarah Madar. Tamar Dahan. Sarah Soper. Lili Morad. David Madar. Yehudit Madar. The 21 dead children of Ma'alot -- 21 of the thousands of who died at Arafat's command.

JUST before he was given the boot by President Bush, Yasser Arafat made an extraordinary offer - extraordinary because it was not one of the specific demands Bush was about to make, extraordinary because Arafat acknowledged a hidden horror: the indoctrination of the delusional young people who carry out suicide bombings.

In a six-page private memorandum he sent to President Bush and Arab capitals outlining his 100-day plan for reform, Arafat said he would "renounce fanaticism in the educational curricula and spread the spirit of democracy and enlightenment and openness".

There is a lot under the stone Arafat has lifted. Fanaticism has been bred into the suicide murderers and millions of young people throughout the Arab nations with scant attention by media, governments, academia and churches in the civilised world.

The Palestinian schools, financed by Europe, are open sewers in terms of the hatred they see - hatred not just of Israel, but of all Jews and all their friends.

Dr Ahmad Abu Halabiya, former acting rector of the Islamic University in Gaza, speaks the message: "Wherever you are, kill the Jews, the Americans who are like them and those who stand by them."

Teaching hate: Arafat admits indoctrination

Arab leaders come to Washington and London and Geneva with formulas for peace, while at home they feed their populations with similar incitements.

It means that even if by some miracle there is agreement on the shape of a Palestinian state, there will be no peace in the Middle East for a generation.

The Israelis may forget or forgive the suicide assassins; the Palestinians may put behind them the humiliations of occupation.

But the political conflict over Palestine is only one aspect of the fanaticism that has been fomented.

It adds up to the dehumanisation of all Jews and it has been manufactured and propagated throughout the Middle East and South Asia on a scale and intensity that is utterly unprecedented.

Fanatics: Members of Hamas burn Star of David flag

This is something relatively new in the Islamic world. There was more tolerance for Jews in the Islamic empire than ever there
was in Christian Europe.

I was aware, as we all are, that the Palestinians hate the state of
Israel. What has surprised me is the virulence of this new anti-Semitism through all the Muslim countries.

It is frenzied, vociferous, paranoid, vicious and prolific, and is only incidentally connected to the Palestinian conflict.

Everyone talking about Palestine or terrorism is talking in a vacuum, for nothing can be understood without a proper appreciation of the way minds have been poisoned.

A single skinhead assault on a synagogue in Europe is news, but not the unremitting daily assault on Jews waged from Morocco to Cairo to Damascus, from Baghdad to Teheran, the Gaza Strip to Karachi.

What we are up against is best illustrated by what the Jews did to the World Trade Center.

Everyone in the Muslim world knows that September 11 was a Jewish plot to pave the way for a joint Israeli-US military operation against not just Osama bin Laden and the Taliban but also Islamic militants in Palestine.

On the day of the bombing, 4,000 Jews were absent from the World Trade Center; they had been tipped off.

I thought this canard had long ago vanished up its own orifice, but it was being retailed with all sincerity by a Pakistani taxi driver last week in New York.

Millions believe this rubbish, as a Gallup Poll has found after questioning people in nine predominantly Islamic countries - Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia - representing about half the world's Muslim population.

Some 67 per cent found the attacks morally unjustified, which is something - why not 100 per cent? But they were also asked if they believed reports that groups of Arabs carried out the bombings.

Only in West-aligned Turkey was the answer Yes, but it was close; 46 per cent to 43 per cent.

In all the other eight Islamic countries, the populations rejected the idea that Arabs or al-Qa'ida were responsible. Who could be naive/crazy/malign/misguided enough to disseminate such fabrications?

The effluent is from official sources, newspapers, and television in Arab states, from schools and government-funded mosques, from Arab columnists and editorial writers, cartoonists, clerics and intellectuals, from websites that trail into an infinity of iniquity.

CNN will film American bomb damage in Afghanistan; al-Jazeera and the Middle East stations would never dream of talking to the orphans and widows whose loved ones were blown apart by a suicide bomber.

How could people be so susceptible to misinformation? Well, conspiracy theories simplify a complex world. But there is another explanation for the potency of lies today. It is the aura of authenticity provided by technology, by the Internet.

A Pakistani editor explaining why he printed the 9/11 conspiracy lie said: "When you see something on a computer you tend to believe it is true."

The smear that defiles the Jews who died in the World Trade Center owes its original currency in September 2001 to a website called InformationTimes.com, an "independent news and information service" whose address was given as the Press Building in Washington.

I thought it worth asking the editor in chief, Syed Adeeb, for the evidence.

He told me his source was the TV station Al-Manar, in the Lebanon. When I asked if he had any qualms about relying on Al-Manar because it was a mouthpiece for the terrorist group Hezbollah, Adeeb's reply was: "Well it is a very popular station."

At the end of the line of incendiary headlines and careless propagation of e-mail there is Danny Pearl, tortured and butchered because he was a Jew and a reporter.

Unfortunately, reporting and comment in the West all too often, with the best of motives, ingenuously reinforce the anti-Semitic mindset.

Take the battle of Jenin. The presumption in the feeding frenzy in the best newspapers in Europe and in hours and hours of television was that the Palestinian stories of 3,000 killed and buried in secret mass graves must be true.

The Guardian was even moved to write the editorial opinion that Israel's attacks on Jenin were "every bit as repellent" as Osama bin Laden's attack on New York on September 11.

Every bit as repellent? Did we miss something? In fact, there was no massacre, no mass graves. Human Rights Watch has since put the death toll at 54.

To describe suicide bombers as "martyrs", as a recent British headline did, is to endorse a barbarity; it is a defamation of historic martyrs who gave their lives to save others, not to kill randomly for financial reward for their families.

The fanaticism Arafat offers to renounce - as a bargaining chip, not a moral principle - is the fanaticism stimulated by his Palestinian Authority which, among other enlightenments, makes educational films of little girls singing their dedication to martyrdom.

It is hard looking for sanity to put in the picture. I thought it might be found in the Department of Psychiatry at Ein Shams University in Cairo.

Well, here is Dr Adel Sadeq on suicide bombers: "As a professional psychiatrist, I say that the height of bliss comes with the end of the countdown: 'ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one'.

"When the martyr reaches 'one' and he explodes, he has a sense of himself flying, because he knows for certain that he is not dead. It is a transition to another, more beautiful world.

"None in the Western world sacrifices his life for his homeland. If his homeland is drowning, he is the first to jump ship. In our culture it is different - this is the only Arab weapon there is and anyone who says otherwise is a conspirator."

The Muslim world's relentless caricatures of the Jew are boringly on the same one note; Jews are always dirty, hook-nosed, money-grabbing, vindictive and scheming parasites.

They are barbarians who deliberately spread vice, drugs and prostitution and poison water.

Apart from the volume and intensity of the multi-media global campaign, there has been an ominous change in political direction.

Arab frustration with the recognition of the state of Israel after the Second World War has for decades been expressed as 'why should the Arabs have to compensate the Jews for the Holocaust that was perpetrated by the Europeans?'

Today the theme is that the Holocaust is a Zionist invention. It is expressed with a vehemence as astounding as the contempt for scholarship.

A typical columnist in Al-Akhbar, the Egyptian Government daily, on April 29: "The entire matter (the Holocaust), as many French and British scientists have proven, is nothing more than a huge Israeli plot aimed at extorting the German Government in particular and the European countries."

By comparison with the phantasmagoria, it seems a small matter that without exception Palestinian school textbooks supplied by the PA Authority, and funded by Europe, have no space in the maps for the sovereign state of Israel, no mention of its five million people, no recognition of the Jews' historic links to Jerusalem.

The Palestinian claim to statehood is unanswerable, and with wiser leadership it would have been flourishing for years. It is tragic that the cause is now being so ruthlessly exploited with Jew as a codeword for extremist incitement of hatred of America and the West.

This is jihad. It is aimed at us all, at Europeans who "look like" Americans because they believe in liberal democracy and are infected by American culture. But its first victims are the Palestinians and the frustrated masses of the Muslim world.

Their leaders have led them into ignominy in three wars. They have failed to reform their corrupt and incompetent societies.

Habits of mind tending to approve terror are becoming ingrained in the Muslim world, sanctioned by the lethargy and prejudice in Europe: Those Palestinians who danced for joy on September 11 were not al-Qa'ida, but their acceptance of terror as a substitute for politics does not augur well for the future of their country or the possibilities of peaceful political dialogue in any of the Arab states.

"There is no chance. Is there any chance for fire to co-exist with the water?" said Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of the group's founding members.

Yousef added: "It's not about Israel, it's not about Hamas: it's about both ideologies."

Yousef, son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the most influential leaders of the militant group, said the organization betrays the Palestinian cause and tortures its own members.

" ¢ Video: Click here for more on FOX News' special Escape from Hamas.

Hamas, formed in the late 1980's as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, is considered a terror organization by the U.S. government. Hamas seized power in the Gaza strip in 2007 in a violent coup against the more moderate Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas.

Yousef said he was indoctrinated at an early age to use violence to challenge Israeli control in the region. As a teenager he moved up within the organization and became the leader of the radical Islamic Youth Movement that fought Israeli tanks and troops in the streets, celebrated suicide bombings and recruited young men to the cause.

Yousef, 30, said he realized the true nature of Hamas and radical Islam during a stint in an Israeli prison. He renounced his Muslim faith, left his family behind in Ramallah and converted to Christianity.

"Islam is not the word of God," said Yousef. "If you want to be offended it's your problem. But you know something? Go study. Think for a second that I might be right. So wake up, look at your path, see where you're going. Are you really going to heaven with 72 virgins after you kill yourself and kill another 20 people?"

Yousef has sought asylum in the United States and now attends an evangelical Christian church in San Diego, Calif.

"The Hamas leadership, including my father, they're responsible; they're responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization. I know they describe it as reaction to Israeli aggression, but still, they are part of it and they had to make decisions in those operations against Israel (for) which there was the killing of many civilians."

Yousef talks more about his extraordinary story of faith, courage, violence and betrayal in a FOX News documentary, "Escape From Hamas," hosted by Bill Hemmer.

Three years ago the fanatical Islamic group Hamas took control over Gaza from the Palestinian Authority, has been backed by every radical Moslem regime in the world from Iran to Hezbollah and, since the Egyptians closed the border crossing from southern Gaza into Egypt, Hamas has dug a network of tunnels into Egypt and has been smuggling weapons, explosives and rockets into Gaza. Now that's another story altogether. Egypt is a sovereign nation, where in the world does Hamas get weapons from? The Egyptians are not selling them (or are they) Just where do they come from? Is there a "Guns R Us" in the Sinai?

Two weeks ago, the Israeli Government has been giving out numerous warnings not just to Hamas in Gaza but also to the European Community, the United States, and yes, the Arab world, that Israel was about to retaliate. Even a live interview was held by PM Olmert on an Arab network warning Hamas that there will be a lot of blood and destruction in Gaza if the rockets don't cease. Hamas basically said "Bring it on". So, that's what the Israelis did. I had a feeling something would happen soon when my daughter's leave was cut short by a phone call. She serves in the Air force as part of the ground crew for F16 fighter planes. What a job for a 19-year-old girl. The Israel Air Force went in swift and hard. With pinpoint accuracy, they hit many Hamas related targets trying to keep in mind and avoid civilian casualties. Unfortunately, Hamas knows that Israelis avoid civilian areas and intentionally place their weapons in densely populated areas or basements of schools, Mosques and even hospitals.

The air and ground attack is still going. Hundreds of armed Hamas terrorists have been killed and, at least 100 captured. Munitions storage areas have been destroyed, smuggling tunnels bombed but, of course, all the film footage coming out of Gaza is of woman and children casualties. The world is upside-down in demanding that Israel stop the "atrocities" and "genocide". They tend to forget that the purpose of Hamas rocket attacks into Israeli towns and cities is to intentionally kill as many innocent Jews as possible.

Bradley Burston, a writer for Haaretz newspaper in Israel has written an analogy, an analogy that's probably been going through many people's minds. This is basically, what he's written:

A fanatical religious party wins an election in a county of northern Mexico fights a civil war against the Federal government and takes control of the area.

They now demand the return of all occupied territory taken by the United States - California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Colorado.

They fire homemade rockets and more sophisticated rockets smuggled in from Iran and China into U.S. major cities of the southwest putting 1/7th of the population of the entire United States in danger. All schools are forced to shut down and when people hear "Code Red" on the radio and town loudspeakers they have 15 seconds to find shelter. This goes on several times a day shutting down businesses, ruining the economy and basically living in fear.

This has now become reality in southern Israel. Now you tell me...what nation would put up with this?

OH NO!! CODE RED! CODE RED! ‚   You now have 15 seconds to run for shelter!

Have a nice day,
Ronnie Cohen

Williamson is a Holocaust denier, and has repeatedly said that the gas chambers did not exist and that no more than 300,000 Jews were killed during World War II, mostly of starvation. In addition, Williamson has declared that the Jews are plotting to take over the world, and that the U.S. and Israel were behind 9/11.

In an interview with Swedish television conducted last November but broadcast last week, Williamson said that he believed that there were "no gas chambers."

"Between 200,000-300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber," he said, adding, "I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler."

Back to Middle Ages

Williamson has had a long history of Holocaust denial. In a 1989 sermon in Sherbrooke, Canada, Williamson said that "there was not one Jew killed in the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies. The Jews created the Holocaust so we would prostrate ourselves on our knees before them and approve of their new State of Israel... Jews made up the Holocaust, Protestants get their orders from the devil, and the Vatican has sold its soul to liberalism." In dozens of sermons and letters, Richardson reiterated the same theme, adding that Hitler "liberated" Germany from the Jews.

Richardson advocates a return to the Middle Ages, with the Inquisition the preferred model of the Catholic relationship to Jews. "As Catholic faith goes up, so Jewish power goes down, while as Catholic faith goes down, so Jewish power goes up. In the Catholic Middle Ages, the Jews were relatively impotent to harm Christendom. But as Catholics have grown over the centuries weaker and weaker in the faith, especially since Vatican II, so the Jews have come closer and closer to fulfilling their substitute-Messianic drive towards world dominion... When Spanish Catholics were truly Catholic, God granted them by 1492 to reconquer Spain from the Arabs, and then granted them to create a Catholic empire in the Americas."

Jewish community officials have expressed serious concerns over the Pope's move. Rabbi Shmuel Ricardo Di Segni, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, told reporters that the rehabilitation of Williamson opens "a deep wound" in Catholic-Jewish relations.

The Anti-Defamation League, an anti-Semitism watchdog group, said that the reinstatement "could become a source of great tension between Catholics and Jews." The umbrella group of Jewish communities in France called Williamson "a contemptible liar whose sole objective is to reawaken centuries-old hatred against the Jews."

In a report, Reuters quoted Mordechai Lewy, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican, as saying that Israel "has no intention of interfering in the internal workings of the Catholic Church. However, the eagerness to bring a Holocaust denier back into the Church will cast a shadow on relations between Jews and the Catholic Church."

A Vatican spokesman said that the lifting of the ban had nothing to do with Williamson's views. "It has nothing to do with the personal opinions of a person, which are open to criticism, but are not pertinent to this decree."

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According to the report, this will be the second time COSATU's affiliate, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU,) refuses to unload goods from or destined to "dictatorial and oppressive rogue states," which include Israel, Zimbabwe and Swaziland.

A statement issued by COSATU said "This follows the decision by COSATU to strengthen the campaign in South Africa for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against apartheid Israel."

A series of protests were also scheduled to take place in major South African cities starting Thursday, and several parliament members and senior union leaders are expected to attend.

The statement, issued by COSATU, the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Young Communist League recalled the successful boycotts imposed against South Africa during the apartheid era.

"We call on other workers and unions to follow suit and to do all that is necessary to ensure that they boycott all goods to and from Israel until Palestine is free.

"We also welcome statements by various South African Jews of conscience who have dissociated themselves from the genocide in Gaza," the statement said.

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies, however, told the Daily News it was more likely that COSATU was more concerned with upcoming national elections than the state of the Palestinian people.

"COSATU wants to show its muscle and the elections are getting closer, so it is easy to bash a foreign state," said board chairman Zev Krengel.

"It is a pity COSATU cannot show the same solidarity with its own brothers in the African continent. More than 3 000 people in Zimbabwe have died of cholera, yet we do not see any protest about that."

Krengel also said that a boycott would have little economic effect on Israel, and would prove to be unproductive.

"As South Africans, we have been a nation which talks and reconciles. This is not helping at all, and does not help the Palestinians," he said.

COSATU spokesman Patrick Craven rejected claims that the decision to boycott Israeli ships was influenced by elections, saying "The ultimate aim is to give the Palestinians independence and a sovereign state in which to live. This particular action goes beyond simple verbal denunciations."

The London-based Community Security Trust reported Friday that after Israel's counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, the incidence rose to more than six times the number of attacks that were carried out in the same period just a year earlier.

The organization, which tracks anti-Semitic incidents and tries to maintain security for the Jewish community in Britain, released the report in advance of an international conference focusing on how to deal with anti-Semitism, slated to be held Monday in London.

According to the report, in the four weeks following the start of the operation on December 27 there were 250 attacks, as opposed to 40 recorded for the same period in 2007-2008.

Among the incidents were physical assaults, verbal attacks, Jewish property damaged, threats, hate mail and anti-Semitic graffiti.

London police confirmed a rise in anti-Semitism, and said that in the period from December 27 to February 3, they recorded three times as many incidents as were reported a year earlier. Some of the increase, they said, came due to a change in record-keeping methods; however, they note that the data speaks for itself.

French Jews Afraid to Walk the Streets
Friday also marked the three-year anniversary since the murder of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi, a Parisian Jew who died in France after being kidnapped and brutally tortured by an anti-Semitic gang.

Since Halimi's death, things have only gotten worse, according to Serge Benhaim, president of a Jewish community in the French capital.

"Almost every day we witness severe racially motivated incidents, and tension has only intensified after the operation in Gaza," Benhaim told journalists. "We don't take the train after 7:00 p.m., we wear a skullcap only under a hat and our youths don't wander the streets late at night anymore," he added.

The suspects in Halimi's murder are expected to go on trial next month, and the Jewish community has already been warned to keep a low profile, according to Benhaim, who said Jews in Paris are "preparing for the worst. Unfortunately, Halimi's murder probably won't be the last," he said.

More than 100 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in France during the period between December 27, when Operation Cast Lead began, and the end of January 2009, according to the country's Representative Council of Jewish Institutions. That was compared to a total of 250 anti-Semitic incidents recorded during the entire 12-month period from January to December 2007.

Organization president Richard Prasquier told journalists last month that he and several other Jewish community leaders met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy to ask for his intervention. "He told us that he would do more to find a solution to this problem," Prasquier said.

Meanwhile, six weeks ago Michael Benhamou became the next victim of French anti-Semitic brutality when he was attacked by three "Arab-looking men" on the Parisian metro while on his way home. The attackers cursed him, threatened to kill him and then beat him up. Benhamou was hospitalized for four days with multiple facial fractures, including a broken nose.

His attackers disappeared, and no arrests have been made. "We can't count on the police," said the young victim. "Nothing has changed here since Ilan's murder. There is no place for Jews in France; we can't keep living here with these acts of barbarism. I already told my girlfriend that we are going to make aliyah. There's nothing left for us here; I want my child to be a sabra."

Durban I was a stage for anti-Semitism and vitriolic condemnation of Israel and Israel alone. No other country was chastised for acts of racism, not even Darfur, where the genocide continues. Israel was the only country which was ‚  criticized and the criticism included even its right to exist as a Jewish nation. ‚   Although the Durban Declaration makes no reference to the many countries which are now or are becoming Muslim, it calls a homeland for the Jewish people as "racist" by definition. Congress called the conference a forum for "attacking Israel, promoting anti-Semitism, and undermining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." (H.Res. 1361) The anti-Semitism was so flagrant that Colin Powell led a walk out and the U.S. has voted against all U.N. measures which contain elements of the Durban Declaration.

What will make Durban II any better? Nothing. The ‚  State Department ‚  equivocates ‚  that it will engage in the ‚  preparation stages of the conference and perhaps not the conference itself, yet all U.N. nations who attend the preparatory meetings have agreed to "reaffirm the Durban Declaration". U.S. participation cannot change the objective of Durban II, which is ‚  "to foster the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action." It is a done deal. ‚  When the European Union attempted to remove some incendiary paragraphs against Israel, Pakistan replied that those paragraphs were going to remain since they were part of the first Durban Declaration and Program of Action. "May I remind - we are not here to renegotiate the Durban Declaration and it is already there; we are at the Review Conference and we cannot renegotiate." ‚   Plans for Durbin II have been underway for several years, and a last minute proposal by the U.S. may, at best, remove one or two inflammatory passages but not the core purpose of the event: promoting anti-Semitism.

Durbin II is likely to be worse than Durbin I. Whereas the first conference developed into a orgy of hate speech, the next conference states on its official website that its mission is to "...accelerate progress towards the implementation of measures adopted in 2001." That is, Durban II is where words of hate towards Israel ‚  will be translated into actions. If there is any doubt about the motives of the conference, one needs to look at the preparatory committee, chaired by Libya and Iran, neither of which is likely to give up its goal of destroying the State of Israel.

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The convoy reached the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing on Sunday, but was delayed due to the Egyptian security forces' objection to the delivery of non-medical aid. The activists spent the night in El-Arish, where locals reportedly pelted them with stones and sprayed anti-Hamas graffiti on their cars.

Eventually, an agreement was made with Egypt, whereby some of the non-medial supplies - including electrical generators and the fire engine - were unloaded and were to be transferred via the Egyptian Red Cross through border crossings under Israel's control after being checked by the IDF.

A Hamas border official said about 50 British and Scottish volunteers and 100 vehicles carrying food, clothing and medicine had passed through the Rafah terminal. Galloway said 300 British citizens and 200 Libyans would be entering Gaza.

After entering the Strip, Galloway called the aid "a drop in the ocean," but said the trip was to send a message that "the lifeline from Britain to Gaza is in."

He vowed that more such aid convoys would follow and that Gazans should not feel they were alone.

"I have entered Palestine many times but the most emotional of these is after the 22-day genocidal aggression against the Palestinian people," he told reporters.

Receiving the activists, Ahmed Kurd, Hamas's minister of social affairs, thanked Galloway for the "noble goodwill gesture" and called the lawmaker a "hero."

Clinton, on her first visit to Israel since being appointed by President Barack Obama, spent the day holding talks with the country's outgoing and incoming leadership.

While her mission was diplomatically touted as a "familiarization tour" whose purpose was to introduce herself to regional leaders and listen to their ideas rather than bombard them with her own, the former first lady left no doubt that she has come here to get things going and expects Israel to tow the line.

"The road ahead, we acknowledge, is a difficult one, but there is no time to waste," she said.

"The United States will be vigorously engaged in the pursuit of a two-state solution every step of the way."

Twenty-four hours earlier, those United States - under its new administration with its "new" approach to Middle East peace making - had laid out 900 million dollars to get its program up and running.

Along with Arab and other world leaders, Clinton spent the day Monday at Sharm e-Sheikh pledging 5.5 billion financial aid to the Arabs who have dedicated their lives to establishing a state on Jewish lands at Israel's expense.

Addressing the news corps, Clinton said: "We are committed to a two-state solution. I feel passionate about this ... it's not just part of my portfolio."

"The assistance we are offering is integral to our broader goals of a comprehensive peace and a two state solution."

And again: "By providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza, we also aim to foster conditions in which a Palestinian state can be fully realised."

The left-wing Israeli daily Ha'aretz called Clinton's Tuesday afternoon meeting with Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu, the most important of her engagements with the Israeli side.

After that meeting "Bibi," who believes the two-state-solution is no solution at all, but rather a threat to Israel, said diplomatically that he and Clinton had found "common ground"

But for Clinton there is no common ground, and no getting away from, the creation of Palestine in Samaria, Judea and Gaza.

"It is our assessment that eventually, the inevitability of working towards a two-state solution is inescapable," she said.

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During Israel's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, which lasted from 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009, anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli manifestations reached post-Second World War highs. One indicator of the growth in expressed hate is that during this period the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain increased eightfold to 220 compared to the same period a year earlier. ‚   :"(Community Security Trust, Antisemitic Incidents and Threats to British Jews Arising from the Gaza Crisis, ‚   Update 4, 21 January 2009)": ‚   Estimates of the Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism put the worldwide increase of anti-Semitic incidents at 300 percent. ‚   :"(Report: Expect Sharp Rise in Anti-Semitism, JTA, 25 January 2009.)": Hate emails to the umbrella body of the Jewish community in Germany were up 40 percent. They now stand at 200-300 per week. ‚   :"( Holocaust-Gedenken ohne Zentralrat der Juden, ‚   Die Welt, 27 January 2009. German)":

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Jones is quoted in the telegram as saying that the United States, European Union and moderate Arab states must redefine "˜a satisfactory endgame solution.’ The U.S. national security adviser did not mention Israel as party to these consultations.

Of course not. If you are going to throw a country under the bus, you don’t invite it to discuss the manner of its destruction with the assassins who are co-coordinating the crime. As I said here months ago, the appointment of Jones and the elevation of his post of National Security Adviser at the expense of the Secretary of State was all part of the strategy to centralize power in the hands of those who want to do Israel harm.

On Tuesday, Vice-President Joe Biden and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry turned the thumbscrews tighter, telling Israel to stop building more settlements, dismantle existing outposts and allow Palestinians freedom of movement.

This is all not only evil but exceptionally stupid. The idea that a Palestine state will help build a coalition against Iran is demonstrably absurd. The Arab states are beside themselves with anxiety about Iran. They want it to be attacked and its nuclear program stopped. They are desperately fearful that the Obama administration might have decided that it can live with a nuclear Iran.

The idea that if a Palestine state comes into being it will be easier to handle Iran is the opposite of the case: a Palestine state will be Iran, in the sense that it will be run by Hamas as a proxy for the Islamic Republic. The idea that a Palestine state will not compromise Israel’s security is ludicrous.

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In a ‚  video clip ‚  of a ‚  televised sermon ‚  broadcast on Al Aqsa (Hamas) TV on April 24, the unidentified cleric declared, "True foundation and education start in the mosques"¦ " ‚  A transcript of the sermon, in subtitles, ‚  was provided by the Washington-based media watchdog organization, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

The point made by the cleric underscores the importance of security measures carried out by Israel Police on Fridays at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, especially during periods of tension, prior to Israeli national and Jewish holidays, or immediately following terror attacks.

"Do you realize what the mosque is? It is a prime factory educating men to fear and please Allah; [it is] the prime factory for educating Jihad fighters," the cleric continued in the video clip.

"The mosque is the life of Muslims, and the symbol of their courage and honor," he said.

Even a Muslim Fetus is Committed to Jihad

During his sermon, the cleric also explained that even a Muslim fetus is not free of the obligation to make war.

"The Palestinian fetus in its mother’s womb, the Muslim fetus throughout the world in its mother’s womb, call [on Muslims] to unite through fear of Allah, through pleasing him, and through choosing Jihad and Resistance [terror]," he proclaimed.

Women ‚  almost never prevented from attending services at the Al Aqsa mosque ‚  in Jerusalem ‚  Temple Mount, regardless of the security restrictions set for Muslim men.

More ominously, Glick reports (likely from sources high up in the Israeli government) that the Obama administration has all but accepted as irreversible and unavoidable fact that Iran will soon develop nuclear weapons. She writes, ""¦we have learned that the [Obama] administration has made its peace with Iran’s nuclear aspirations. Senior administration officials acknowledge as much in off-record briefings. It is true, they say, that Iran may exploit its future talks with the US to run down the clock before they test a nuclear weapon. But, they add, if that happens, the US will simply have to live with a nuclear-armed mullocracy."

She goes on to write that the Obama administration is desperate to stop Israel from attacking Iran writing that "as far as the [Obama] administration is concerned, if Israel could just leave Iran’s nuclear installations alone, Iran would behave itself." She notes that American officials would regard any harm to American interests that flowed from an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities as Israel’s doing, not Iran’s.

In classic Stockholm Syndrome fashion, the Obama administration is empathizing more with the Iranian leaders who are holding Israel hostage than with the nation that may be wiped off the map if Iran acquires the bomb.

Obama’s end-of-the-year deadline for Iranian talks aimed at stopping its progress toward nuclear weapons is just window dressing without the threat of military action. As Metternich wrote "diplomacy without force is like music without instruments." By warning only of possible strengthening of economic sanctions if the talks do not progress, Obama is making an empty threat. The sanctions will likely have no effect because Russia and China will not let the United Nations act as it must if it is to deter Iranian nuclear weapons.

All this means is that Israel’s life is in danger. If Iran gets the bomb, it will use it to kill six million Jews. No threat of retaliation will make the slightest difference. One cannot deter a suicide bomber with the threat of death. Nor can one deter a theocracy bent on meriting admission to heaven and its virgins by one glorious act of violence. Iran would probably not launch the bomb itself, anyway, but would give it to its puppet terrorists to send to Israel so it could deny responsibility. Obama, bent on appeasement, would likely not retaliate with nuclear weapons. And Israel will be dead and gone.

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But the first obligation in the Road Map was laid upon the Palestinians -- to dismantle their infrastructure of terror. It was their failure to meet that first obligation, without which the rest of the Road Map could not be implemented, which led to its collapse as a strategy. Yet Obama appears to think that the only obligations which must be met are those which apply to Israel, with the Palestinians apparently getting a free pass.

This is of course all of a piece with his belief that Israel is the cause of the Middle East impasse which would be solved by the creation of a state of Palestine. The fact that even now Fatah states explicitly that it won’t accept the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, let alone Hamas repeatedly restating its intention to destroy Israel and kill every Jew, is not, in Obama’s mind, the real obstacle to a solution. Not only does Obama not see the creation of "˜Hamastan’ in the West Bank as an obstacle -- ‚  he sees instead the refusal to treat Hamas as part of the solution as an obstacle. Accordingly, he presents as the obstacle not the people continuing to wage war but the country that is the victim of that war "“ which he blames for not agreeing to destroy its own security.

The irrationality and injustice of this is manifest on every level. But what cannot be stressed enough is the way both Obama and the "˜progressive’ legions behind him have made as their rallying cry support for a proposed racist and religiously exclusionary state that denies civil rights for all. Those screaming "˜apartheid’ at Israel are demanding the establishment of a putative Palestine state which would allow no Jews to live there, let alone enjoy the equal civil and human rights afforded to Arab citizens of Israel. As the former CIA Director James Woolsey is reported to have observed earlier this month:

...the world has a tendency to "˜define deviancy down for non-Jews.’ As a result, governments around the world, including the Obama administration, never even mention the possibility that Jews should be able to enjoy the same rights and privileges in any future Palestinian polity that Israeli Arabs exercise today in the Jewish state.

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The Crusades

Belt’s efforts to whitewash the role Islamic conquest played in the decline of Christianity in the Middle East becomes obvious in the third paragraph of the article which states that "it was during the Crusades (1095-1291) that Arab Christians, slaughtered along with Muslims by the crusaders and caught in the cross fire between Islam and the Christian West, began a long, steady retreat into the minority."

In reality, Arab Christianity began its "long, steady retreat" into minority status hundreds of years before the European crusaders ever set foot in the Holy Land. As Bat Ye’or and other commentators have documented, the process of forced conversion and subjugation of Christians in the Middle East began soon after the death of Mohammed in 632. Ye’or writes that after unifying the Arabian Peninsula under Muslim rule, Abu Bakr, Mohammed’s successor, brought war to non-Muslims, including Christians, outside Arabia. In her book The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude (Farleigh Dickinson Press, 1996) Ye’or writes:

Arab idolaters had to choose between death or conversion; as for Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians, if they paid tribute and accepted the conditions of conquest, they could buy back their right to live, freedom of worship and security of property.

In 640 the second caliph, Umar Ibn al-Khattab, drove the Jewish and Christian tributaries out of Hijasz by invoking the dhimma (contract) of Khaybar: the land belonged to Allah and his Envoy and the contract could be broken at the discretion of the imam, the religious and political leader of the umma [Muslim religious community] and the interpreter of Allah’s will. Umar also invoked the desire expressed by the Prophet on his deathbed: "Two religions should not co-exist within the Arabian peninsula." (Page 39)

While Ye’or is careful to explain that the subjugation of peoples and faiths was part and parcel of life in the Middle East at the time and that offering conquered peoples a chance to convert to Islam "curbed the barbarity of war," she also makes clear that Christianity declined under Muslim conquest in the region conducted under the rubric of jihad, or holy war against non-Muslims.

Instead of acknowledging this history, Belt portrays early Muslim history as a time of tolerance, describing the Levant’s history of "coexistence between Muslims and people of other faiths, which dates from the earliest days of Islam. When the Muslim Caliph Omar conquered Syria from the Byzantine Empire around 636, he protected the Christians under his rule, allowing them to keep their churches and worship as they pleased."

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President Barack Hussein Obama has traveled to Cairo and other nations deliberately emphasizing his middle name, Hussein, in an effort to win Muslim support. What is ironic is that President Barack Hussein Obama did not allow the media to use his middle name, Hussein, during the elections and disavowed his Muslim roots. In America if someone used his middle name, Hussein, they were considered "out of bounds." But, in recent weeks he seemed to have re-discovered his Muslim roots and has transformed himself into a Muslim in order to win the favor of the Muslim world.

Obama is seeking a "new way forward" with the Muslim world. But, unfortunately that "new way forward" means turning his back on Israel. President Barack Obama is now bragging about his Muslim heritage. Yet, during the campaign his "handlers" accused anyone who talked about his Muslim roots as trying to scare people. During his speech at Cairo University, after quoting a verse from the Koran, Obama said he firmly believed the interests shared between Americans and Muslims are much stronger than those forces driving us apart. Part of that conviction, he said, is "rooted in my own experience." What experience is that? During the election he claimed to have prayed to Christ to forgive him for his sins.

Obama said, "I’m a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith. "¦ So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." Again, he never spoke like this during his campaign. As to his "work in the Chicago communities," he was a community organizer for openly atheistic and socialist groups who employed the radical socialist Saul Alinsky’s, outlined in his book Rules for Radicals who the atheistic radical dedicated to "Lucifer the first radical."

Obama speaking at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, was introduced by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama. But, he would not allow that name to be mentioned in the U.S. Obama said, "The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country"”I know, because I am one of them." But, at Rick Warren’s Church, Obama said he was a Christian and now he reverses himself and calls himself a Muslim. The entire Muslim world believes he is a Muslim and the Communist world believes he is a fellow "Comrade" in the world socialist revolution. This is why Hugo Chavez of Venezuela gave him a gift which was written by the Communist leader Lenin. Lenin was the Communist leader who was responsible for the death of around 100 million people.

While overseas, President Obama exaggerated this supposed Islamic enrichment of American civilization. "If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans," he said in an interview in the lead-up to his speech in Egypt, "we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Now that statement is absolutely ridiculous! According to statistics, the U.S. would rank somewhere between 34th and 48th on the list. The Muslim population in America is estimated to be somewhere between 1.8 and 6 million, which is much less than 1 percent of the total number of Muslims worldwide.

Obama addressed the "Islamic world" from Cairo. Obama’s appearance gave credibility to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and other terrorist groups. Among the guests Washington invited to Obama’s Cairo speech were members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). The Muslim Brotherhood is a reported by intelligence sources as a known terrorist group. President Obama said that Iran should have the right to develop nuclear power"”so long as it’s peaceful. How could that be peaceful if Iran has threatened over and over again to wipe Israel off of the face of the map. Iran holds conferences claiming the Holocaust never happened. The Iranian nuclear program is moving full speed ahead. Behind the scenes the Obama Administration is telling Netanyahu that Israel will have to accept a nuclear Iran.

Israel rightly perceives a nuclear Iran as an existential threat to its very existence. As such, Israel is going to be forced to fly over Iran and destroy their nuclear production plants. Israel has no other choice, it is either that or face extinction. There is a prophetic convergence of factors on the horizon. A perfect prophetic storm, if you will. First, of all the Taliban will probably take control of Pakistan giving al Qaeda 80-100 nukes. In addition, Pakistan is a far more powerful nation that Iran and 175 million people live there.

Behind the scenes the U.S. State Department is pressuring Israel to not only accept a two-state solution, but Obama and the EU want the Palestinians to control Jerusalem. This was the reason the Pope traveled to the City of David. The Vatican has an interest in controlling an "international Jerusalem" under the authority of the Palestinians. The Book of Daniel talks about a coming clash between the European "king of the north" and the Iran-led "king of the south" involving Jerusalem. President Obama has said America "does not accept the l continued Israeli settlements." I had a private meeting with the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, where he assured me Israel would not give away land for peace. Yet, Ehud Olmert, with U.S. pressure offered Mahmoud Abbas, a Palestinian State last year. But Abbas and the Islamic world believe that with the U.S. under Obama they can get a nuclear Iran, total control of Jerusalem and much more terroritory than was offered before!

Despite the fact that Obama visited some of the concentration camps of the Holocaust and rightly rebuked any nation that would choose to ignore the historical evidence of the Holocaust. The reality is that the foreign policy of the America, EU, Germany, Russia, China, Great Britain, France and other nations are setting the stage for a second Holocaust. Like Adolph Hitler, who very clearly outlined in advance what he planned to do in his book Mein Kampf, militant Islam, Iran, al Qaeda and the Palestinians have outlined very clearly in advance what they plan to do with Israel. Once the balance of power is changed through al Qaeda controlling nuclear weapons through Pakistan and Iran developing nuclear weapons, a Holocaust is in the making. These militant Islamic groups have said it over and over again what their precise intentions are and that is the total destruction of the nation of Israel.

Once the balance of power is changed, they will either fire nuclear missiles into Israeli cities like Tel Aviv or they will use terrorist surrogates to smuggle in some kind of suitcase nuke. The terrorists will no longer be outside of Israel. Once the two-state solution is implemented the Islamic terrorists will bring WMD’s into the very heart of Israel and like the suicide bombers they will detonate these nuclear weapons in act of worship to Allah.

Netanyahu will conduct a pre-emptive strike before this occurs. But, a flying over Iran and dropping bunker-busting bombs on Iranian nuclear production facilities is going to provoke a counter reaction. Despite the problems with George W. Bush, the militant Islamic world was kept in check by their fear that Bush was fully capable of pulling the nuclear trigger. This is why Dick Cheney rebuked Obama publicly over the Obama Administration’s denial that we are still in a war against terrorism. The new American strategy toward militant Islam being presented by President Obama simply reflects the deeply misguided perception by the Council on Foreign Relations, the EU, Soros, Rockefeller, Kissinger and other advocates of globalism. The CFR, the State Department and globalists falsely assume that because they are pragmatists and motivated by profit, that militant Islam is motivated by pragmatism and economics. To a certain degree that is true when you are talking about the more rational leaders of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. But, let us never forget that there are jihadists who are quite capable of sacrificing millions of their own citizens in a war against Israel and the United States. Like the Third Reich and Hitler, these people are not primarily motivated by economics and pragmatism. They truly believe that they are being guided by Allah to provoke Armageddon so that the 12th Imam or Islamic Messiah can return. Ahmadinejad, like Hitler before him, has told us exactly what he is going to do with nuclear weapons. He has said, he is going to "wipe" Israel "off the map" and to create a "world without America." In plain language that means extreme economic warfare, WMD’s or an Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapon.

"Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said, "Do you know why we wish for chaos at any price?" Hearing no responses, he said: "Because, after the chaos, we can see the greatness of Allah." Chaos is central to Ahmadinejad's religious beliefs. He believes, as many militant Shiites do, that the Twelfth Imam, or "Mahdi," a messianic figure from the ninth century, will soon reappear to signal the end of the modern world and the onset of Islamic justice over all the earth. Ahmadinejad believes he has been called to herald the Mahdi." Unless this is confronted by world leaders who see reality clearly, another Holocaust is on its way.

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Obama equated the Holocaust to Palestinian "dislocation." In his words: "The Jewish people were persecuted. "¦anti-Semitism "¦culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust"¦. Six million Jews were killed"¦. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people "” Muslims and Christians "” have suffered in pursuit of a homeland." This parallelism amounts to the fictitious Arab narrative that the deliberate mass murder of six million Jews for the crime of being Jewish is analogous to a Jewish-driven violation of Palestinian rights.

Speaking in an Arab country to Arabs and Muslims, Obama pointedly singled out European responsibility for the Holocaust "” "anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust." In other contexts, the European emphasis would be a curiosity. In Egypt, it was no accident. The Arab storyline has always been that Arabs have been forced to suffer the creation of Israel for a European crime.

In fact, Obama's Egyptian hosts would have been only too familiar with Arab anti-Semitism during World War II (and beyond). After all, Obama was speaking in the country that schooled and later welcomed back Grand Mufti Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini as a national hero. This was the man who spent the war years in Berlin as Hitler's guest facilitating the murder of Jews.

Obama thought he would prove his even-handedness towards Israel by boasting of Friday's trip to a concentration camp and rejecting Holocaust denial. In this context, however, the move of doing Jews these supposed favors appears to be cynical political opportunism, especially having just set the Holocaust side-by-side with the "suffering" and "pain" of Palestinians "for more than 60 years." After all, the president made no emotive references to the "intolerable" "suffering" of Israeli victims of Arab terror "for more than 60 years." The word "terrorism" never left his lips. Far from bolstering the fight against terror and the anti-Semitism driving it, such maneuvers embolden more hate and violence against Israelis.

Instead, Obama sought Arab and Muslim approbation by drawing a moral equivalence between those who have rejected Israel from the outset (and still seek its outright destruction or a "right of return" intended to terminate a Jewish majority) and the Jews who have kept them at bay since May 14, 1948. In his words: "There has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history"¦. It's easy to point fingers "” for Palestinians to point to the displacement brought about by Israel's founding, and for Israelis to point to the constant hostility and attacks." Calling the Israeli-Arab conflict a "stalemate" represents an abysmal failure to acknowledge historical reality. The modern state of Israel emerged after an internationally approved partition plan of November 1947 that would have created two states, one Jewish and one Arab; this plan was accepted by Jews and rejected by Arabs. One people has always been prepared to live in peace, and the other has chosen war in 1948 and 1956 and 1967 and 1973 and 1982, and renewed terrorism after its every loss.

Bereft of the most basic understanding of Judaism and Jewish history, Obama claimed that "the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied," for "around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries." A Jewish homeland in Israel is not rooted in tragedy or in centuries of persecution around the world. It is rooted in a wondrous, unbroken, and spiritual relationship to the land of Israel and to Jerusalem for thousands of years. Coupled with the president's stress on "European responsibility" for the Holocaust, his words reinforced the lethal belief that Israel is the creature of transplanted, alien Jews.

Obama's stunning offense to Israel and the Jewish people went farther. Israelis have come to occupy territory in response to Arab-initiated wars of intended annihilation, but Obama analogized Palestinian "daily humiliations "¦that come with occupation" to the "humiliation of segregation" of black slaves in America and the "moral authority" of "people from South Africa." His Arab audience understood that the president of the United States had just given a nod to the single most potent defamation of the Jewish state today "” the allegation that Israel is a racist, apartheid state.

After expressing his belief in a moral equivalence between the claims of Palestinians and the claims of the victims of slavery and apartheid, Obama juxtaposed his admission of Israel's "right to exist" with his assertion that "the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements." Every word of this speech was carefully weighed. It was therefore no mishap that for the first time a U.S. president has denied the legitimacy of Israeli settlements, period. Such an assertion abrogates every agreement between Arabs and Israelis, which have always left the ultimate determination of which settlements will stay or go to a bilateral peace process and final status negotiations. Even the Roadmap reads: "Phase III: Permanent Status Agreement and End of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict "¦a final, permanent status resolution "¦on borders, Jerusalem, refugees, settlements."

Furthermore, the idea that Jews are not permitted to live in any territory that might become part of a future Palestinian state means only one thing: apartheid Palestine. Twenty percent of Israel's population,1.5 million people, are Arab (with more democratic rights than in any Arab state). But the notion of any Jewish presence in Palestinian territory is allegedly an abomination. Why should a future transfer of governmental authority mean "no Jews allowed"?

But judging by Obama's speech, only one "dislocation" counts. After placing the Holocaust side-by-side with the Palestinian "pain of dislocation," he ignored the dislocation of 800,000 Jewish refugees from all over the Arab Middle East in response to the creation of Israel.

Jewish refugees from Arab intolerance were not the only human-rights casualties the president chose to dismiss. Three different times Obama defended the right of Muslim women to cover up their bodies. Never once did he mention the right of Muslim women to refuse to cover up their bodies "” a right denied on pain of arrest and death by many of the very communities he was addressing. In the name of "freedom of religion" he chose to "welcome efforts like Saudi Arabian King Abdullah's interfaith dialogue." The Saudi Arabian government criminalizes the public practice of any religion but Islam. This manufactured human-rights fantasy has done a tremendous disservice to the oppressed across the Arab and Muslim world.

President Obama's meticulously planned and executed Egyptian speech marks the lowest point in the U.S. presidency's understanding and appreciation of the Jewish state, its history, and its people's future. Added to his administration's evident infirmity on Iran, the speech of June 4, 2009, by the supposed leader of the free world will be remembered as a major decline in human history.

Jews have been physically attacked, schools targeted and cemeteries desecrated.

"I was in the synagogue a few months ago when one of the members came in visibly shaken: somebody had just shouted at him, "˜It’s a pity Hitler didn’t finish the job’," the Chief Rabbi said.

Although the new "mutation" was different from the anti-Semitism promoted by Hitler, it was dangerous because it was international, he said. "The internet means that we no longer have national cultures; we have global cultures and the new anti-Semitism is very much a phenomenon of the global culture."

Whereas in the past, hatred was focused against Judaism as a religion or Jews as a race, the focus this time was on Jews as a nation. The rise in the number of attacks in January took place at the same time as Israel’s assault on Hamas in Gaza.

"It begins as anti-Zionism "” but it is never merely anti-Zionism when it attacks synagogues or Jewish schools," Sir Jonathan said. "In the post-Holocaust world the single greatest source of authority is human rights "” therefore the new anti-Semitism is constructed in the language of human rights."

In a new book, Future Tense, he describes a "virulent new strain of anti-Semitism". A worrying alliance had developed between radical Islamists and anti-globalisation protesters, he said.

The UN had also fanned the flames. At the World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001, he said, "Israel was accused of the five cardinal sins against human rights "” racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. So the old myths are recycled they are alive and well but they are done in a new kind of vocabulary."

The media should also be more careful in coverage of the Middle East: "I do think too little of the history has been set out and people don’t really understand what’s at stake, so the Jewish community has felt quite vulnerable because of that."

Asked whether he thought the BBC had shown anti-Israeli bias, he replied: "No comment."

Sir Jonathan said that the mood had changed after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001. His daughter, who at the time was studying at the London School of Economics, "had gone to an anti-globalisation rally which quickly turned into a diatribe against Israel and Jews. She came home weeping and said, "˜Dad they hate us’. I never expected that to happen in the 21st century," he said.

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The call included a freeze of "natural growth" construction, with the quartet also urging the Israeli government to dismantle settlement outposts erected since March 2001.

The meetings took place in Italy, as foreign ministers of the Group of Eight countries met to discuss various issues - mainly recent events in Iran.

G8 nations also called on Israelis and Palestinians to renew direct negotiations over all disputed issues.

US Mideast envoy George Mitchell and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were among the participants at the Quartet meeting.

A range of Arab League nations will join a follow-on session Friday afternoon. Israel was not invited, but the Italian Foreign Ministry said that the decision was made by the Quartet, not Italy.

On Thursday, former deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams insisted that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was wrong in saying that the Bush administration's tacit agreements with Israel on construction in the settlements did not exist.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday squarely called for a complete halt to the construction during a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Paris. The prime minister reiterated that Israel would not build any new settlements or expropriate land to expand existing ones, but at the same time would allow for natural growth to let Jewish residents of the West Bank live normal lives.

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In either case, Carter is destined to continue his encouragement of the outlawed terrorist organization Hamas to pursue its murderous policies aimed primarily at civilians.

During his recent foray into Gaza "” where Carter publically called upon the United States to remove the Iranian backed, Muslim Brotherhood affiliated, Hamas from the list of known terrorist organizations "” he managed to be the only observer of Mideast politics to believe the absolutely phony and poorly staged "falling out" between Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and his Deputy Moussa Abu Marzook.

What Carter interpreted as a sign of Hamas' moderation was in fact a clumsy tactical move to make that organization appear moderate by spinning off its terrorist operational arm into a subsidiary organization so that when the next series of terror attacks occur they will have a degree of deniability for the actions they launch.

This is an old tactic taken directly from the terrorist playbook of the late Yassir Arafat during the course of his murderous existence.

It also comes at a time when multiple reports, and statements by his own advisers, have indicated that Obama intends to negotiate with Hamas. In fact, some reports say that Carter was delivering that message from Obama.

Then came the staged "roadside bomb" incident where Hamas announced it had discovered and neutralized a bomb along Carter's motorcade route. Of course he was deeply grateful for their vigilance, professionalism, and concern for his safety.

Again he stood alone in being so gullible as to defy belief among virtually all observers of his trip. Everyone else was convinced that Hamas planted the "bomb" themselves to then act as hero by finding it. Hamas literally saw Carter coming.

Let us not forget that Carter also urged Hamas to recognize the right of Israel to exist. Can we now get Carter to urge Obama to recognize Israel's right to exist? To his chagrin, Hamas categorically rejected Israel's right to exist when a senior Hamas official announced, "Recognizing Israel is completely unacceptable."

Undaunted by these obvious facts concerning the violent and implacable nature of his Hamas friends, Carter is still insisting that U.S. and U.N. sanctions against Hamas be lifted and they be rewarded for their vile rejectionist stance "” after all the people in Gaza who freely elected them are suffering under their policies.

Alas, it is such a pity that Carter's favorite terrorist organization has the bad taste to actually do what they say they believe in.

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So is the United States. Here and there a few dozens, here and there a few hundreds. Have they evaporated because it is Tehran and not here?

All the peace-loving and justice-loving Europeans, British professors in search of freedom and equality, the friends filling the newspapers, magazines and various academic journals with various demands for boycotting Israel, defaming Zionism and blaming us and it for all the ills and woes of the world-could it be that they have taken a long summer vacation? Now of all times, when the Basij hooligans have begun to slaughter innocent civilians in the city squares of Tehran? Aren't they connected to the Internet? Don't they have YouTube? Has a terrible virus struck down their computer? Have their justice glands been removed in a complicated surgical procedure (to be re-impl