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The Shiite vs. Sunni conflict in the Middle East today has the potential to leave millions of Muslims dead in future conflicts. The Sunni Saudis fear they will be the second target after a nuclear Shiite Iran destroys Israel. Look at the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Leba- non, and Iraq, just to name a few. We can’t blame those on Israel and her Christian supporters. Remember, five Arab nations (Egypt,


Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq) attacked Israel the day after Israel became a state on May 14, 1948. They told the Arabs of Pal- estine to leave until they wiped out the Jews. Today, the Arabs of Palestine are liv- ing in refugee camps and being treated as second- and third-class citizens in most of these nations. Meanwhile, Israel faces a very serious threat from Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hez- bollah—and the United States and allies face similar threats in Afghanistan and Pakistan.


Church Actions in Opposition to Israel On October 23, 2010, the Vatican—in


the final statement from a two-week bish- ops’ synod—blamed Israel for the plight of Christians throughout the Middle East, and stated that Israel cannot use the bibli- cal concept of a Promised Land or a Cho- sen People to justify territorial claims or new “settlements” in Jerusalem. The World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, the Presby- terian Church


(USA), the Methodist


Church, the Lutheran Church (ELCA), the Anglican Church, and the United Church of Christ have publicly condemned Chris- tian Zionists through statements or resolu- tions. They have also called for the boycott of goods made in Judea and Samaria, and divestment in companies that provide equipment for Israel’s protection and eco- nomic viability as a productive democracy. The World Council of Churches in


New York City hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a dinner after his hate-filled speech about Israel at the United Nations in September 2008. And he continues to call for the destruction of Israel. That is where their focus needs to be rather than being the enablers and facilita- tors of a potential second Holocaust. Shouldn’t they be more concerned with and focused on what is happening


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with Christianity in Britain and through- out Europe? Specifically, Christianity is declining rapidly there, with less than 10 percent of the respective populations attending church.


Isn’t it also ironic that the lead voices against Christian Zionism are British— while church properties in the United Kingdom are being sold to Muslims for use as mosques?


Theodore Dalrymple of The American


Conservative wrote, “In Londonistan, the British journalist Melanie Phillips docu- ments not only the establishment and growth of Muslim extremist groups in London but the administrative incompe- tence and cultural weakness that permit- ted it to happen. Some pusillanimity that she records would be funny if it were not so deeply disturbing.”


There is also an anti-Semitic root. If


there weren’t, they would show greater concern and compassion for the dangers Israel faces. There is the threat of a second Holocaust with six million Jews living in Israel and in defined borders, facing an Iranian administration and other state sponsors of terror who are determined to destroy them. Additionally, Arafat was offered 95 percent of Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem at Camp David in July 2000, but he refused the deal because he also wanted sovereignty over the holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. His refusal led to the Palestinian intifada that he began in September 2000, with the subsequent loss of thousands of Palestinian lives and hun- dreds of Israelis by suicide bombings. This, in turn, led to horrible economic consequences for the Palestinians when their unemployment rate hit 50 percent. Arafat died with nothing to show for his failed peace efforts. His sad legacy was the loss of many Palestinian and Israeli lives and economic hardship for the Pales- tinians while he and his cronies stole mil- lions of dollars in aid intended for the Pal- estinian people.


Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Syrian President Hafez Assad almost all of the Golan Heights, but Assad wanted frontage on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee so he could fish there (which he was within 200 meters of receiv- ing). Instead, he died with nothing to show for his efforts.


Protestant and Catholic Leaders Condemn Christian Zionism:


• They say Christian supporters place an emphasis on apocalyptic events lead- ing to the end of history rather than living out Christ’s love and justice.


• They say Christian Zionists are more concerned with the Apocalypse than with the Jewish People.


• They say Christian Zionism is a cult. • The Christian supporters’ beliefs have been called heresy.


• They say Christian Zionism has enabled the unjust treatment of Pales- tinians by Israel.


Furthermore, they don’t speak against the injustice the “Arabs of Palestine” expe- rience in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and other Middle East countries. They believe in the absurdity that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is going to bring peace to the Middle East and the world. They are succumbing to the old Euro- pean Jewish blood-libel once again by blaming the Jews for the problems the Arabs are responsible for—while the Jews are being persecuted and killed just because they are Jews.


Their cut-and-paste theology is leav- ing them and their membership unpre- pared for the biblically significant times in which we are living. Moreover, their consternation needs to focus on those who support violence and terror, not on the victims. Rather than blasting and chastising a tiny little nation that wants to live in peace and security and that has been fighting for its survival from the day it became a nation, they should support it.


Regardless of the dislike for Christian supporters of Israel, these biblically significant events are happening:


• Israel is the center of world focus. • Jerusalem will continue to become a “burdensome stone.”


• The warring nations of Russia, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the former Soviet Union are taking their final-day positions.


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