The Hope: Birth of Israel

[AbbaLove]

The Hope: Theodor Herzl
During his lifetime, Theodor Herzl was called everything from a hero, to a dreamer, to a heretic. But his influence on the Jewish people is undeniable. Known as the father of modern Zionism, Herzl spent his life trying to find a way to end ... (Monday ~ July 20th)
http://www.cbn.com/tv/4363272376001 ... or ... http://www.cbn.com/tv/4363182290001
(there may or may not be a short promo advertisement preceding the documentary)

The Hope: Buying The Holy Land
CBN's new 5-part documentary on the 50 years that preceded the founding of the modern state of Israel (Tuesday ~ July 21st)

The Hope: Chaim Weizmann
A chemist by trade, Chaim Weizmann eventually became Israeli's first international diplomat and Israel's first President in 1948 (Wednesday ~ July 22nd)

The Hope: David Ben-Gurion
Israel's founder and first Prime Minister. He learned the stories of the Bible as a child at his grandfather's knee (Thursday ~ July 23rd)

The Hope: Golda Meir
Golda Meir went from being a schoolteacher in Wisconsin to the first female Prime Minister of Israel (Friday ~ July 24th)

Apologize for typo error in Thread Title ... should be: The Hope: Rebirth Of Israel

 

[AbbaLove]

• Day 2: Buying the Holy Land
  In the mid-nineteenth century, Palestine was marked by disease, poverty and despair. But that all changed when Jewish pioneers legally purchased, settled and developed the land of Israel. Spearheading the effort were the KKL-JNF (Jewish National Fund) and wealthy Jewish philanthropists from Europe, Sir Moses Montefiore and Baron Edmond De Rothschild.

http://www.cbn.com/tv/4365470840001​

 

[AbbaLove]

The HOPE: The Rebirth Of Israel

http://www.cbn.com/special/thehope/index.aspx?intcmp=A_FUND:ROS:LB:HOPE002​

 

[AbbaLove]

The Hope: Chaim Weizmann
A chemist by trade, Chaim Weizmann eventually became Israel's first international diplomat and Israel’s first President in 1948. He met with U.S. President Harry Truman to help secure American support for the new State of Israel.​

http://www.cbn.com/tv/4367161510001​

 

[visionary]

We are coming to the 50th anniversary since taking Jerusalem here in 2017. That was a huge step covered in miracles.

 

[AbbaLove]

We are coming to the 50th anniversary since taking Jerusalem here in 2017. That was a huge step covered in miracles.

IN ISRAEL, IN ORDER TO BE A REALIST YOU MUST BELIEVE IN MIRACLES (David Ben-Gurion)

The Hope: David Ben-Gurion
Israel's founder and first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, learned the stories of the Bible as a child at his grandfather's knee; this love for the Bible would shape Ben-Gurion's views throughout his life.

http://www.cbn.com/tv/4369851464001 ... or ... http://www.cbn.com/tv/4370011066001​

 

[AbbaLove]

Golda Meir: The Iron Lady of Israel

Born Golda Mabovitz in Kiev, present-day Ukraine. Meir wrote in her autobiography that her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumours of an imminent pogrom.

In the days leading up to Israel's independence, Jewish leader David Ben-Gurion faced opposition on all sides. The Americans refused to support a Jewish state. The Arabs threatened war. And Ben-Gurion's own cabinet was divided. Israel's only chance for peace with the Arabs now rested on a former schoolteacher from Wisconsin -- a woman Ben-Gurion would later call "the best man in his cabinet".

http://700clubinteractive.cbn.com/golda-meir-iron-lady-israel​

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. (Golda Meir)

 

[AbbaLove]

The HOPE: Rebirth Of Israel
Part 6 ~ Independence Day 1948: A Day of Celebration... and War
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http://700clubinteractive.cbn.com/independence-day-1948-day-celebration-and-war
or
http://www.cbn.com/tv/4377436810001

 

[Dialogist]

I wonder how much of this propaganda was funded by AIPAC.

 

[AbbaLove]

The Hope: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
A young Jewish man has a vision that led to a life-long obsession to revive Hebrew as a spoken language.

 

[Dialogist]

The Hope: Rebirth Of Israel

One of the more perplexing trends among groups who call themselves "Christians" in America is the emergence of "Christian Zionism", whose proponents, through AIPAC and the U.S. government, continue to fund Israeli oppression of Palestinians, including Palestinian Christians.

This article, which appeared in the Jerusalem Post (ironically along side an ad for the propaganda series you are promoting), debunks the myth that Israel is the protector of Christians in the Holy Land:

Based on our years as parish priests in Palestine, we were appalled by the false allegations regarding Palestinian Christians made in recent weeks by Israeli spokespeople, such as Ambassador Michael Oren.

We were perplexed not because of their position, which has been part of the official Israeli narrative for many years, but by how openly they have distorted facts and misconstrued the plight of Palestinian Christians pursuing justice and peace.

These spokespeople have wrongly propagated a cynical discourse misleadingly touting “Christian persecution by Muslims.” Every Friday, we celebrate the holy mass attended by hundreds of Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jerusalem in the Cremisan Area of Beit Jala. The holy service, celebrated among ancient olive trees, was not a prayer to end a “Muslim-led persecution” but to prevent Israel from confiscating this area of land that belongs to 58 Palestinian Christian families – Israel’s latest attempt to consolidate its ring of settlements that aim to sever Bethlehem from Jerusalem. This is one last attempt to prevent a land confiscation that would have catastrophic consequences for the local Christian population.

Since the Israeli occupation began in 1967, Israel has confiscated thousands of acres belonging to Palestinian Christians and Muslims. In the Jerusalem and Bethlehem areas, Christians have been severely affected by Israel’s colonization policies. As an example, approximately 5,436 acres of land from northern Bethlehem were unilaterally annexed by Israel to create the illegal settlements of Gilo and Har Homa – which Israel now cynically calls new Jerusalem “neighborhoods.”

These “neighborhoods,” aim to physically separate Jerusalem from Bethlehem and, for the first time in history, prohibit Palestinian Christians from worshipping in the holy city of Jerusalem.

It is also completely disingenuous for Israeli spokespeople to argue that the population of Christians in Israel has “tripled since 1948.” In fact, figures show that the percentage of Christians in the area began to decrease in 1948, when Israel was created.

Much of the so-called “growth” in Israel is due to the immigration of foreigners and while it is true that in numbers Christians have grown in both Israel and Palestine due to natural increase, the percentage would be much higher in absence of the ongoing Israeli displacement policies against the indigenous Palestinian population.

In fact, Israeli spokespeople “forget” to mention that in 1948, 75 percent of the Palestinian Arab population, including Christians, of what is now the State of Israel became refugees. Entire Christian villages were destroyed by Israel; and tens of thousands of Christians were expelled. Some areas of today’s west Jerusalem, such as Talbiya and Katamon, were home to thousands of Palestinian Christians whose homes were looted and private property confiscated.

Since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israel has implemented a policy of taking as much as land as possible and as few as Palestinians as possible. Palestinian Christians, particularly in Jerusalem, have suffered the consequences of this policy.

Considering the hundreds of cases put forth by Palestinian Christians living in occupied east Jerusalem, if Israel continues its policies of residency revocations and home demolitions, within a few years the Christian community in Jerusalem will not count more than 6,000 faithful.

Next week, thousands of Palestinian Christians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank will once again be denied their right to worship in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter celebrations.

And, if they are lucky enough obtain a permit from the Israeli military to enter Jerusalem, they will have to cross through humiliating security checks to cross from one part of their occupied homeland to another.

We still have to live with the irony that Christians tourists from all over the world will freely access the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, located just a few kilometers away from our homes, while we cannot enjoy the same right. As Easter brings its message of resurrection, we will be praying for the resurrection of justice for everyone on this land.

During our years of priesthood, we have paid visits to many Palestinian Christian political prisoners jailed in Israeli prisons, participated in funerals of Christians who have lost their lives in this bloody conflict, assisted families divided by the Israeli policy of stripping Palestinian residency rights, and lobbied on behalf of our parishioners whose property was confiscated by Israel.

In the West Bank Israel does not differentiate between Palestinian Christians and Muslims in its policies. Several studies have shown that the Israeli occupation and settlement activities are the main reason for Christian emigration.

These claims are not Palestinian “propaganda” but have been largely researched by the US government, the European Union and the United Nations. In fact, all the recent International Religious Freedom Reports published by the US Department of State highlight this issue.

To conclude, Palestinian Christians are not persecuted by Palestinian Muslims. The end of the Israeli occupation would allow all our people, Christians and Muslims, to develop all our potential living side by side.

 

[AbbaLove]

This article, which appeared in the Jerusalem Post (ironically along side an ad for the propaganda series you are promoting), debunks the myth that Israel is the protector of Christians in the Holy Land:
"Based on our years as parish priests in Palestine, we were appalled by the false allegations regarding Palestinian Christians made in recent weeks by Israeli spokespeople, such as Ambassador Michael Oren.
"To conclude, Palestinian Christians are not persecuted by Palestinian Muslims. The end of the Israeli occupation would allow all our people, Christians and Muslims, to develop all our potential living side by side."

“I don’t believe that the Jewish State and modern Zionism would have been possible without Christian Zionism. I think that the many Christian supporters of the rebirth of the Jewish State and the ingathering of the Jewish people in the 19th Century made possible the rise of Jewish Zionism.” (Benjamin Netanyahu, 2012) …
http://www.fozmuseum.com/ … 1:10-1:30

Interview with Greek Orthodox Priest Father Gabriel Nadaf, founder of the Christian Israeli Forum and Shadi Khaloul, chairman of the Aramaic Christian Society in Israel are other Christian perspectives ...
http://www.cbn.com/tv/4377436810001 … 20:50 - 26:45

 

[Dialogist]

Absolutely correct - the Zionist state in Israel would not exist if it were not for so-called "Christian Zionists" who in their twisted interpretation of Scripture somehow think that resurrecting the Jewish state will hasten the 2nd coming of the Lord.

The video conveniently leaves out how early Zionists obtained land in Palestine by bribing corrupt Ottoman officials to fabricate and sell fake land deeds, paying them with money donated largely by American Jews donating through their synagogues, and then finally prying the land away from the British through terrorism.

As for Father Gabriel in your video, he was allied with the former Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Irenaios Skopelitis, who was dismissed by the Holy Synod of Jerusalem in 2005 for selling off Christian properties in the Old City of Jerusalem to Israeli developers.

He has allied himself with an Israeli government initiative to integrate Arab Christians into the IDF in order to sow discord between Christians and Muslims. It has failed. Only 100 have signed up. Watch this video - maybe you'll understand why: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.621698

As for how welcoming the Israeli state is to diversity, I offer the following excerpt from the charter of Narareth-Ilit, a sister city that borders Nazareth that was developed in order to begin an ethnic cleansing of the region. The then director of IDF Planning Development, Yuval Ne'eman, stated that the town would "safeguard the Jewish character of the Galilee as a whole, and... demonstrate state sovereignty to the Arab population more than any other settlement operation." According to The Journal of Israeli History, Upper Nazareth was meant to "overpower Nazareth numerically, economically, and politically."

Please wake up.

 

[AbbaLove]

Absolutely correct - the Zionist state in Israel would not exist if it were not for so-called "Christian Zionists" who in their twisted interpretation of Scripture somehow think that resurrecting the Jewish state will hasten the 2nd coming of the Lord.

There are more Christians in America sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians than to Christian and Israeli Zionism.

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There may even be American and Israeli Jews that love Israel, but do not consider themselves Israeli Zionists. However, it is evident from this documentary that without Christian Zionists and Israeli Zionists it's questionable if the State of Israel as a soveriegn nation would exist today with its present status in its ancient homeland. Prime Minister, Benamin Netanyahu is not opposed to a two state solution IF his Arab neighbors will solemly agree to recognize Israel's right to exist as a sovereign nation in Israel's ancient homeland.

The reason for posting this thread is because many American Christians need to wakeup to the reality that a two-state solution for peace is less than fragile when Israel's neighbors want to wipe the State of Israel off their Palestinian map. In other words Christian Zionism and Israeli Zionism (the Love Of Israel) is Biblical.

 

[AbbaLove]

The Hope: Winston Churchill & the Jews
Most people know Winston Churchill as the “British Bulldog,” the Prime Minister who led Great Britain to victory in World War II. But a lesser-known story is one of Churchill, the lifelong friend of the Jewish people and one of the key players in the creation of The State Of Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLQN_KQUHQ
(the not so nice treatment of Jews by Britain during WWII "A Nation Repents" 19:36-24:03)
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The Hope: Whose Land Is It?
A look at Palestinian claims to the West Bank and Jerusalem (7/30)
The Hope: Jewish Claims
A look at Jewish claims to the West Bank and Jerusalem (7/31)
"We promise that both of those will be eye-opening" ... Gordon Robertson​

 

[ContraMundum]

Absolutely correct - the Zionist state in Israel would not exist if it were not for so-called "Christian Zionists" who in their twisted interpretation of Scripture somehow think that resurrecting the Jewish state will hasten the 2nd coming of the Lord.

Israel exists- that's a fact and tough luck if you don't like it. Jewish life is alive and well once again in the the Land and there's nothing anyone can do about it. All the theological, political and denominational griping and moaning in the world isn't going to change it.

And guess what? If you believe in God's sovereignty, as you should, then all this has happened by His hand and according to His will and plan.

I feel deeply for those under the oppression of the Muslim dictatorships who sects like your church support without question- but they are sadly mistaken if they think the removal of Israel will solve their problems. God has already made it happen.

Please wake up.

Exactly what you should do. End the remnants of anti-semitism cloaked as "Orthodox Christian" theology in your own denomination. Look to your own house and its entrenched cursing of the Jewish people and call your own house to repentance and genuine Christian living. That doesn't mean embracing what you call Christian Zionism either- it means embracing the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. It doesn't mean become a Protestant or whatever- it means ending the errors of those whose hearts did not love their neighbour- however Orthodox in other matters- calling them "brutes" and enshrining curses on them in their liturgy.

 

[AbbaLove]

Exactly what you should do. End the remnants of anti-semitism cloaked as "Orthodox Christian" theology in your own denomination. Look to your own house and its entrenched cursing of the Jewish people and call your own house to repentance and genuine Christian living. That doesn't mean embracing what you call Christian Zionism either- it means embracing the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. It doesn't mean become a Protestant or whatever- it means ending the errors of those whose hearts did not love their neighbour- however Orthodox in other matters- calling them "brutes" and enshrining curses on them in their liturgy.

Negev4you.com and Negev4you.co.il

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[Righttruth]

The international terrorism further intensified with the landing of Jews in Palestine land.

 

[ContraMundum]

The international terrorism further intensified with the landing of Jews in Palestine land.

Did it, then? So now we blame the Jews for international terrorism, even though that is really the calling card of radical Islam? Are you insane? How about blaming us for global warming/climate change and bad reality tv shows while you're at it? Or how about Ebola? How about blaming us if your air conditioner breaks down?

So, you don't blame people actually committing the terrorist acts for terrorism, you blame the Jews who happen to live in or have returned to Israel- even though there have always been Jews in Israel.

 

[Righttruth]

Did it, then? So now we blame the Jews for international terrorism, even though that is really the calling card of radical Islam? Are you insane? How about blaming us for global warming/climate change and bad reality tv shows while you're at it? Or how about Ebola? How about blaming us if your air conditioner breaks down?

International terrorism exited even in Jesus' time with Zealots.

So, you don't blame people actually committing the terrorist acts for terrorism, you blame the Jews who happen to live in or have returned to Israel- even though there have always been Jews in Israel.

Zionists forced their way into Palestine state with international terrorism targeting British.

Yes, Jews were there who were poor and who could not run to green pastures! There was no international terrorism practiced by them.