christianity and the state of israel
the british role and the ethnic cleansing global war machine
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Revelation 3:9
I want to preface this post by saying that because I question the official narrative about what’s currently happening between Israel and Gaza (Hamas) does not mean I endorse one side over the other. However, I will say that I don’t think the Palestinian people of Gaza should be paying for the sins of Hamas.
Here’s how an Israeli general and a former Israeli religious affairs official describe Hamas.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)
“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.
Recently the Biden administration released 6 billion dollars to Iran, which is sure to be used by them to support Hamas and Hezbullah. Just who is enabling this war and why are they doing so?
onward
For those who believe the official narrative about Israel put forth by mainstream politicians and media in the US, this report may seem like it favors the Palestinians. Anyone thinking so would be wrong. I’m merely reciting history and pointing out how globalism works. Is it morally outrageous that Hamas launched rockets onto Israeli towns and killed innocent people? Of course. But it’s equally morally outrageous that Israel has now dropped more bombs on tiny Gaza over the previous week than the US dropped in a year on the entire country of Afghanistan. As of the last time I checked, women and children made up a large percentage of the nearly twice as many people killed in Gaza as in Israel.
The reality is as it always has been - the history we are being told regarding the Palestine/Israel relationship was written by the winner… Israel. When we look deeper we find that history is not so accurate.
christians
I’ve never been so pleased with my fellow Christians as I have over the past three years as many of them stood up to the globalist onslaught of covidcon. Sadly, that pleasant buzz began to wane when many Christians endorsed US involvement in the Russia/Ukraine war. That happy buzz is about to evaporate entirely because so many Christians are now endorsing the all-out destruction of Gaza - even though all of those pogroms are run by the same satanic, predatory globalists who rammed 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis down our throats.
Unlike many Christians who came to be so as adults, I was immersed in Christianity from conception. My parents and grandparents (Dads side, who lived next door), were members of a Bible thumping, hell-fire and brimstone preaching, born again believing, Baptist church. That church was a member of the very conservative General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC). Because part of the doctrine of that centralized entity was that the state of Israel should be protected at any cost, much of what I heard from behind the pulpit growing up in that church was that, because the state of Israel was made up of Gods chosen people, it was sacrosanct. I’ve always had trouble trying to square the idea that God loves everyone equally with the idea that Jews were somehow more special than everyone else, especially Palestinians. How did that idea come about?
Although I don’t remember learning much about the teachings of Jesus during my time in Bible college, I do remember being aware that I was being programmed with the doctrine of this particular sect of Baptists and that part of that programming had to do with the sanctity of the state of Israel.
The more liberal Southern Baptist Convention is the largest centralized organization of Protestants in North America. (Yes, I have a lot of trouble with these centralized communist-style Christian organizations and their dogmatic dictates from above. Early Christians would consider them blasphemous.) SBC’s official position on the state of Israel is similar to the GARBC. Here is the opening statement from a recent press release by SBC regarding the current situation.
“In the wake of the evil and indefensible atrocities now committed against the people of Israel by Hamas, we, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the violence against the vulnerable, fully support Israel’s right and duty to defend itself against further attack, and urgently call all Christians to pray for the salvation and peace of the people of Israel and Palestine.”
The SBC fails to acknowledge that the Bible says Jews are not to form a state. The SBC fails acknowledge that Gaza is an occupied state. The SBC fails to acknowledge that as recently as 100 years ago Jews were a tiny minority in Palestine (more on all of that coming up).
The statement goes on to say this.
“Since the inception of the modern state of Israel in 1948, Israel has faced numerous attacks, incursions, and violations of its national sovereignty. The Jewish people have long endured genocidal attempts to eradicate them and to destroy the Jewish state. These antisemitic, deadly ideologies and terrorist actions must be opposed.”
I find this paragraph troubling. It begins by talking about “the modern state of Israel”, then quickly conflates that with a “long” attempt to eradicate the Jewish people and “the Jewish state”. I was born about five years after the state of Israel was formed and all I’ve seen over that time is a continual expansion of Israel and a corresponding loss of land that belonged to the Palestinians. I’m not sure what historic genocidal attempts “to destroy the Jewish state” this document is referring to.
In a typical twisting of scripture to justify the evil of death and destruction that comes with war, the document goes on the cite Romans 13 (no specific verses).
“In keeping with Christian Just War tradition, we also affirm the legitimacy of Israel’s right to respond against those who have initiated these attacks as Romans 13 grants governments the power to bear the sword against those who commit such evil acts against innocent life.”
From my perspective, what comes to mind is the old saying that with friends like this, who needs enemies? Is SBC dangerous to Christians like me? Will they seek to silence me?
This document naively assumes that all governments are legitimate and that those governments have the right to determine what is evil and who is or is not committing said evil. Why this is an important consideration will soon become apparent.
Historically, the SBC was not always on board with the concept of a Jewish state. Prior to the 1949 UN declaration signed by the countries that agreed to the formation of the state of Israel, the SBC was in disagreement about the formation of this state. But something changed after the UN agreement, SBC flipped and endorsed Zionism. It’s been fully on board ever since. What happened? Who got to the SBC?
Folks what we are seeing here is part of a very destructive official narrative that began with the founding of the state of Israel. Even Wikipedia conflates the idea of a historic Jewish homeland with statehood. Not true! There was never a Jewish state prior to 1948. Prior to 1948 Muslims, Christians and Jews peacefully lived side by side in a land that, although it has been conquered by numerous usurpers, has for thousands of years been… Palestine.
Would those Christians who favor Israels position in this current war accept the idea that all the exiled people from around the world that have come to the US over the past 100 years should be able to usurp part or all of the US to form their own state? I think I’m safe in saying that if those recent immigrants tried to do here what the Jewish people who immigrated to Palestine over that past 100 years are now doing to Palestine, there would be hell to pay. I’m confident many Christians now calling for the destruction of Gaza would be outraged if recent Latino immigrants began a war to form a new state within the US.
The false history of God giving Jewish people a “state” originates in the book of Exodus where we are told Moses leads his people out of Egypt to the promised land, “…unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites (Exodus 3:8)”. Clearly God is saying that the promised land is already occupied with other folks and that the Jews will have to live among them. In other words, this “promised land” or a homeland (used elsewhere) and a state are two very different things. Statehood is a construct of mans hubris, implying that people consent to being governed by a tiny group of interlopers who gain that status by hook or by crook. On the other hand, a homeland is where folks live, regardless of how they feel about statehood or all the other ethnicity they live among.
Ezekial 38:8 pertains to this topic as well.
“After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.”
Again, no mention of a state. “All of them dwelling safely” doesn’t sound like a commandment to usurp the country of Palestine and destroy the Palestinians and all other non-Jewish folks living there.
Instead, what the modern “state of Israel” has done since 1948 is to corral the Palestinians into ever smaller kill boxes like Gaza, which enables them to do what they are currently doing… bomb them into oblivion. Will Southern Lebanon and the West Bank be next?
Contrary to popular belief, all of this - the destruction of Palestine and its people, the existence of Zion, or the existence of the state of Israel - is antithetical to the Bible. According to religious Jews (verses the numerous non-religious Jews who run the government and the war machine of Israel), it goes against the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible). More on that shortly.
The idea of Zion (an Israeli state) became popular thanks to a 1896 book written by Theodor Herzi, an Austro/Hungarian fellow who claimed Jewish decent from a family that had been living in that region for many generations. Herzi was from a family of Neolog Jews who came into being in Hungary during and after the fall of the empire of Khazar. There are some historians that claim some of those Khazarians converted to Judaism out of convenience (today known by many as Khazarian Jews). This topic was discussed in some detail here by the Hungarain Rabbi-scholar Samuel Kohn, a contemporary of Herzi. Whether Kohn was trying influence history or whether he was on-point remains debatable.
Being a Jew can mean one is of Jewish descent, or it can mean one practices the Jewish religion. Or both. Then there is the matter of matrilineal descent - historically Jews have traced their heritage matrilineally.
None of the founders mentioned in this post of the state of Israel were religious Jews. We’re not even sure if they ethnic Jews.
In fact, many, if not most of the Jews who have migrated to the newly founded state of Israel were not practicing religious Jews, nor were they ethnic Jews. They were converted Jews, many of whom migrated from the former Khazarian empire.
Then there are all the questions about how the state of Israel came into being. I’ll have much more to say about that shortly.
All of this brings us to the big question - is Israel a legitimate state? In this interview conducted by a Muslim woman, let’s listen to what Rabbi Yisroel David Weiss has to say about Zion and the State of Israel.
I know there are some readers who are hard of hearing so here is a shorter version with subtitles.
https://twitter.com/Sa91af/status/1712232249599332418
british duplicity
But if we are to truly understand the current conflict between Arabs and Jews we must first understand how the British, in their dogged pursuit of Arab oil after WWI, made promises to both the Arabs and Jews that, in the end, set these two groups at each others throats.
From the onset of the first World War, the British, the French and the Russians had secret plans to carve up the Ottoman Empire - which included Palestine - and disperse the spoils among themselves to balance their imperialist ambitions.
To control the all important trade route through the Suez canal and to gain control of the oil along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and to get that oil through the Suez canal into the Mediterranean, not mention to get help to defeat the Ottomons, the British promised a kingdom to any Arab leader who helped. Of course they didn’t disclose their true intentions to either the Arabs or the Jews.
At this same time many Arabs were growing weary of Ottoman rule and nationalism was gaining interest among the tribal Arabs of the Middle East. Sharif Hussein stepped forward and offered his services to the British. Hussein came from the family of Hashemites, the bene Hashim, or the sons of the prophet of Muhammed, who had long been responsible for the holy places of Islam, including Mecca and Medina. Hussein wanted to be King of the Arabs.
Meanwhile, back in London in 1916, Sir Mark Sykes of the British Foreign office and the Frenchman Francois Georges Picot were drawing up official plans on how to carve up the Middle East after the war. The French were to get what we know today as Syria and Lebanon and the British were to get the larger area that now includes Iraq where there was known to be a lot of oil. Palestine, minus Haifa, was envisioned as an international zone. Haifa is in the northern part of what is now Israel and was to go to the British as a shipping port for oil coming out of Southern Iraq by way of the Suez canal.
In June of 1916 Hussein and his son Faisel declared independence and went to war against the Ottoman Empire. Britain’s General Edmund Allenby crossed the Suez Canal and by the spring of 1917 his army was approaching the southern region of Palestine.
British Prime Minister Lloyd George wanted to suck the Americans into the war and to do so he enlisted the help of internationally wealthy Jews, many of whom were German with close connections to the Kaiser’s office.
Among many German Jews, Herzi’s Zionist idea had taken hold in Berlin. The movement was also growing in Austria, Poland and Russia where anti-semitism had made life difficult for many Jews in the years leading up to WWI. This gave rise - especially in Russia - to a number of societies that were collectively known as the Lovers of Zion. These societies began to finance the colonization of Palestine with Jews, mostly from Russia at that time. Even with this influx of Jews, the number of Jews in Palestine in 1914 was only 8% of the population. Muslims were the vast majority, Christians (thanks to the Crusades) were second, Jews third.
Lloyd George decided to take advantage of the Jewish Nationalist (Zionist) movement. Chaim Weismann was a Zionist promoter in Britain and had been lobbying the British to support Jewish settlement in Palestine. Mark Sykes was ordered to begin negotiating with Weismann.
Thanks to the Bolshevik revolution, the Russian army was falling apart. After suffering from German submarine attacks, Britain and France knew they could not win the war alone and Woodrow Wilson had yet to commit American troops.
Lloyd Georg instructed his foreign secretary Arthur Balfour to issue a pledge to capture the hearts and minds of the Jewish people. On November 2, 1917 Lord Balfour wrote a letter to Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (of Tring), a leader of the Anglo-Jewish community outlining how the British would establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. On that day British forces were occupying Palestine.
British and Jewish representatives were allowed input into this document, but no Palestinians were allowed to provide input. In other words the people who were about to lose their land had no say whatsoever regarding their fate. Although it wasn’t an official treaty, the letter nevertheless became officially recognized as the Balfour Declaration.
It was duplicitous subterfuge.
This was the first time any European country had promoted the idea of making Palestine into a Jewish homeland. This was also British Imperialism hard at work.
To begin to cement the idea of this being Israel, the indigenous people of Palestine began to officially be referred to as non-Jewish people, as if they had no heritage, identity or homeland.
Needless to say, Sharif Hussein was incensed with all of it, especially the fact that he had been made to understand that Muslim Palestine was to fall to him.
The communist Bolsheviks succeeded in taking power in Russia. Many of the top Bolsheviks were Jews; Leon Trotsky began as chairmen of the Petrograd Soviet and was later appointed by Lennon as the peoples commissar for foreign affairs, Grigori Zenoviav was head of communist international, Yakov Sverdlov was executive secretary, Karl Radok was press commissar and Maxim Litinov was foreign affairs commissar.
It’s clear that these people were not looking to establish a Jewish state in Russia. They had no interest in small, local communities. No, these people were internationalists. If they were alive today we would call them globalists. In fact, their communist legacy melded with centralized, top-down corporatism and expanded into the globalism that’s currently taking over control of the world today. In many ways, this is what the war between Israel and Palestine is about - the ethnic cleansing, globalist war machine verses traditional people and homelands.
Lloyd George had deluded himself into believing that the Bolshevik Jews would want Palestine and that the Bolsheviks would continue to help the British. He was so very wrong. In fact, soon after the Bolsheviks had established themselves, they put forth a document saying that Zionism was a capitalist ploy. To pour salt into that British wound, the Bolsheviks released the earlier secret agreements between France, Britain and the Czarist Russia that detailed how the Middle East was to be carved up.
Oops.
Understandably, the Arabs were outraged.
In December of 1917 the British gained control of Jerusalem. In April of 1918 Chaim Weismann led the International Zionist Commission to Jerusalem to lay the foundation for a Hebrew University that was to become the intellectual hub of Zionism. The macinery to pump out official propaganda was being installed.
I find it interesting that it was in 1910 that the Rockefeller’s funded the Flexner Report, which put into motion the pharmaceutical medical model - what we now know as Rockefeller medicine. By the time Weismann was founding his university in Jerusalem the Rockefeller’s had already begun to subvert the predominant naturopathic medical model in university systems around the US with its petrochemical based pharmaceutical propaganda of snake oil cures (Granddaddy Rockefeller’s original business). Did Weismann get instructions from the Rockefeller’s on how to subvert prevailing views?
In October of 1918 Sahrif’s son Faisel entered Muslim Damascus expecting to be granted the promised Arab kingdom. Instead, he was told by British General Allenby that Syria was going to the French. He then proceeded to march to Iraq where he soon got himself elected as king and became a thorn in the side of the British.
At the end of the year the war is won. The allies, the British, French, Italians and the US gather at Versailles to decide how to partition the spoils of war. The imperialist Western European victors have their predetermined plans but Wilson, who was not cut from the same mold, intervenes by injecting the American idea of self determination. As it pertained to the Middle East, Wilson lost.
At Versailles the Balfour Declaration was incorporated into the British mandate. Britain took Jordan, Palestine and the greatly coveted Iraqi oil and France took Syria and Lebanon. The lines are similar to the Sykes/Piko lines drawn up four years earlier. As mentioned, the Iraqis reject the Brits and elect Faisel as their leader. But that doesn’t last long.
Herzi and his allies begin to buy up land in Palestine and build settlements for the influx of European Jews that had begun to arrive in earnest after the war. Needless to say, the 700,000 Palestinians who had been living there for countless generations were not pleased to see thousands of Europeans coming to take over their land.
For those Palestinians it must have been like what we are now experiencing here in the US with the current influx of millions of people coming from all over the world to illegally come into the US across the Mexican border. What Britain was to the Palestinians, Biden is to the people of the US. British protection of Jewish immigrants in those early years was critical to the survival of the birth of the Jewish state and the destruction of Palestine. Will Biden’s protection of questionable migrants lead to the destruction of the US?
In 1925 Balfour made a historic visit to Haifa and was welcomed as a hero by the new Jewish immigrants.
During Hitlers persecution of Jews during the 1930’s and ’40’s, immigration of European Jews to Palestine increased by leaps and bounds. Soon the tensions between the native Arabs and the newly arrived European Jews boiled over. Terrorist acts on both sides ensued. Britain decided to give up its mandate, but its job was done. Israel could now stand on its own. On May 14, 1948 Israel declares its independence and the state of Israel comes into being. On May 11, 1949 it was admitted to the UN as a full member state.
Immigration exploded.
In short, the encouragement of both Arab Nationalism and Jewish Nationalism by Britain during WWI, combined with its duplicitous greed for control of land and resources lie at the root of the conflict we now see happening between Jews and Palestinians.
footnote
The historical information presented here was drawn from a number of sources. The primary source was this documentary. If you wany to know more about this history, I reccomend watching it.
While doing research for this post I came across an interview with Efrat Fengison on youtube, an Israeli living in Israel. She served in the intelligence forces and was stationed at the border with Gaza for part of her service. In other words, she is very familiar with the situation. She provided some of the insight I presented in the post above. She now works as a reporter. I looked into her and found she's been writing on Substack for about a year.
Shortly after posting the above I got this post from her. Its an interview with Bret Weinstein, who apparently saw the same interview and asked to interview her.
https://efrat.substack.com/p/war-in-israel-beyond-the-obvious
I identify as a duck, greasy enough for no religion to ever stick to me. Just knowing trees and plants as food and medicine, that is my religion. As for all the recent events, seems worldwide genocide is the only clear goal I can discern. All so obvious now.