Nadene Goldfoot
Though Obama gave the order to take down Osama bin Laden in May of this year, his jihadists' empire of Al Qaeda (The Base) still exists and threatens the world with the possibility of having atomic weapons. This is because it is a "global militant Sunni Islamist group" that he founded around August 1988 and late 1989 and is organized into a network of Muslims created into a multinational and stateless army. This radical movement calls for global Jihad, and bin Laden's death will not stop them, only possibly halt them for a short period. It is also known as "International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jews." So we really have not only Iran to worry about but this group as well.
Al Qaeda has attacked their targets in many countries. They were responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings, 9/11/01 on New York's Twin Towers, 2002 Bali bombings. We responded with the War on Terror started with Bush and continued with Obama. Our Secretery of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld had declared that 9/11 was an act of war. The USA has gone into Afghanistan to destroy their bases and overthrow the Taliban who had sheltered Osama bin Laden. Our secret service agencies have not found concrete evidence that bin Laden's al Qaeda was behind 9/11.
This 3rd world war is very different from wars I and II in being defined as world wars. Our enemy uses suicide attacks and coordinated bombings of different targets. Now members of Al Qaeda take a pledge of loyalty to their many leaders who have been trained in one of their camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq or Sudan.
Al Qaeda organizers plan for a complete cut from foreign influences in Muslim countries and wish to create a new Islamic caliphate. They believe that the Christian and Jews are conspiring to destroy Islam. To them, killing innocent civilians is religiously justified in jihad. They threaten that "Americans will never enjoy security until our people in Palestine enjoy it." The only reason they include Palestine in their threats is because they are Muslims and Palestinians act as a fly in the ointment in the minds of some people.
They also instigate sectarian violence among their own Muslims. They are at war with the non-Sunni branches of Islam and excommunicate this group of Muslims in what they call "takfir". Their leaders think of liberal Muslims, Shias, Sufis and other sects as heretics and so will attack their mosques and people. There has been the Yazidi comunity bombings, Sadr City bombings, Ashoura Massacre and 2007 Baghdad, Iraq bombings.
Al Qaeda started in 1979 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. By 1980 the Palestinian religious figure, Abdullah Azzam was one of the leaders, and they managed to get into 50 countries. In 1988 they had cells in 100 countries including the USA, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Albania and Uganda. They connect themselves to other terrorist organization. One way is to train with others, so they have done this with Hezbollah, and Iranian-Lebanese terrorist group mostly stationed in Lebanon.
A warning was found last month in bin Laden's compound when papers were leaked warning that they would set off a nuclear hellstorm if bin Laden were capured or killed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a senior al Qaeda leader, has said that they had an atomic bomb hidden in Europe that will be detonated if anything were to happen to bin Laden. They have also uncovered planned chemical and biological attacks planned for London. They found plans of having cyanide in air conditioning units planted in public offices in the USA. Let's hope this is all just baseless threats.
GOOD NEWS
Yemen has been taken over by al Qaeda's branch called Partisans of Sharia (Islamic Law). They seized Zinijibar, the capital of the Abyan Province in Yemen on May 29th. In doing so they displaced the population of the city. The Yemeni forces fought back finding themselves circled by these terrorists. The South Yemen tribes finally banded together and have retaken their Zinijibar.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zandari have close ties and met together to discuss their cooperation recently. Osama bin Laden was killed in his compound in Abbottabad which was up the street from the military base in Pakistan. Of course Zandari pleaded that he knew nothing about who was living there.
Khamenei told Zandari that the principal enemy of Pakistani people and the unity of the country is the West, headed by the USA. We finally suspendcd Pakistan's military assistance two months after Osama bin Laden's death which was one third of our 2.7 billion dollar defense package
Interestingly, the Bible Code, discovered by mathematician Dr. Eliahu Rips of Jerusalem, has demonstrated codes involving Obama, al Qaeda and possible atomic attacks. It must be remembered that this prophesy is one of many possible roads that can be taken. It did tell that Obama would become President and that he would be in danger of assassination. It even gave the location of where Bin Laden, Al Qaeda's headquarters and where their dangerous weapons might be found.
Like the South Yemeni tribes have shown, Al Qaeda can be beaten. We can't let our guard down even though Bin Laden is no more. This enemy continues to exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations/al-qaeda-k-al-qaida-al-qaida/p9126
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-06/world/bin.laden.qaeda.comment_1_site-intelligence-group-bin-laden-al-qaeda?_s=PM:WORLD
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/140067/20110502/osama-bin-laden-dead-will-al-qaeda-detonate-nuclear-bomb-now.htm
"Bible Code III Saving the World" by Michael Drosnin
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Anti-Semite Radio Star: Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, PhD
Nadene Goldfoot
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, is concerned about Catholic-Jewish relations. Father Rydzyk, a 66 year old priest since 1971 has been condemned by several Polish bishops for inciting anti-semitism on his radio station, Marya, founded and managed by Rydzyk for the past 20 years. He has also owned a newspaper and TV station as well. In 2007, the BBC said that he had described the President, Lech Kacynski, as under the influence of the Jews. This priest lived in Western Germany for 5 years before returning to Poland. He doesn't bother to spread the gospel though his PhD is in theology. He talks more about politics.
Rydzyk was invited to the European Parliament last week by Polish MEP's where he said that Poland has not been ruled by Poles since 1939. This was bringing out "Warsaw", again intimating that the country had been run by Jews. In fact, Warsaw was the scene where Nazis had rounded up Jews from all over and held them in Warsaw in inhuman conditions, where the Jews took a last stand and fought back before being slaughtered. In 1939, one-third of the city was Jewish. There were 393,950 Jews living in Warsaw and were forced into a small ghetto by 1940 when the Holocaust was in full swing.
Finally Jerzy Buzek, European Parliament President has condemned Rydzyk for harming Poland and has complained to the Holy See. In response, Rev. Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said that "Rydzyk speaks in his own name and his statement does not involve the Holy See." Pope Benedict XVI has reprimanded his anti-semitic broadcasts and by persisting is an embarrassment to the Holy Father.
Catholics and Jews in Poland and the rest of the world feel that both Rydzyk and his radio progrms should be excommunicated. My question is: If it has been going on for 20 years, why didn't any Pope stop him long ago? In 2007 he had the audacity to call the then president's wife, Maria Kaczyniska a witch and told her that she should euthanize herself. If that wasn't bad enough, he said that the president had cheated him. That such a man has a radio audience is indeed sad. Why is it that deranged men such as Hitler and this hate-filled priest have such followings? Anti-semitism has been a problem ever in the Catholic church since about 240 CE. Such people as this priest only act as fuel for the fire of anti-semitism.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=1sKWLbPJLnF&b=4441467&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Rydzyk
http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/timeline.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Warsaw.html
http://www.krakowpost.com/article/372 2007, no action taken
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, is concerned about Catholic-Jewish relations. Father Rydzyk, a 66 year old priest since 1971 has been condemned by several Polish bishops for inciting anti-semitism on his radio station, Marya, founded and managed by Rydzyk for the past 20 years. He has also owned a newspaper and TV station as well. In 2007, the BBC said that he had described the President, Lech Kacynski, as under the influence of the Jews. This priest lived in Western Germany for 5 years before returning to Poland. He doesn't bother to spread the gospel though his PhD is in theology. He talks more about politics.
Rydzyk was invited to the European Parliament last week by Polish MEP's where he said that Poland has not been ruled by Poles since 1939. This was bringing out "Warsaw", again intimating that the country had been run by Jews. In fact, Warsaw was the scene where Nazis had rounded up Jews from all over and held them in Warsaw in inhuman conditions, where the Jews took a last stand and fought back before being slaughtered. In 1939, one-third of the city was Jewish. There were 393,950 Jews living in Warsaw and were forced into a small ghetto by 1940 when the Holocaust was in full swing.
Finally Jerzy Buzek, European Parliament President has condemned Rydzyk for harming Poland and has complained to the Holy See. In response, Rev. Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said that "Rydzyk speaks in his own name and his statement does not involve the Holy See." Pope Benedict XVI has reprimanded his anti-semitic broadcasts and by persisting is an embarrassment to the Holy Father.
Catholics and Jews in Poland and the rest of the world feel that both Rydzyk and his radio progrms should be excommunicated. My question is: If it has been going on for 20 years, why didn't any Pope stop him long ago? In 2007 he had the audacity to call the then president's wife, Maria Kaczyniska a witch and told her that she should euthanize herself. If that wasn't bad enough, he said that the president had cheated him. That such a man has a radio audience is indeed sad. Why is it that deranged men such as Hitler and this hate-filled priest have such followings? Anti-semitism has been a problem ever in the Catholic church since about 240 CE. Such people as this priest only act as fuel for the fire of anti-semitism.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=1sKWLbPJLnF&b=4441467&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Rydzyk
http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/timeline.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Warsaw.html
http://www.krakowpost.com/article/372 2007, no action taken
The Palestinian Attempt in Autumn to Gain State Status
Nadene Goldfoot
The Arabs living in Gaza and Judea/Samaria and east Jerusalem have been told that the U.S.A. will veto their attempt to gain a Palestinian state status in the UN. They are unwilling to come to a peace agreement with Israel. One of their hang-ups is not being willing to accept Israel as a Jewish state even though there are many Muslim countries and states.
Their plan is that President Mahmoud Abbas will try to get their state of Palestine in Judea/Samaria, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem by going to the UN Security Council. These are territories that Israel won in the war of 1967 when all the surrounding states attacked Israel when the minute state won despite their immense attack in six days. Israel has completely withdrawn from Gaza with the results that the Hamas terrorists have taken over the land and have turned it into a staging ground to attack Israel. In making this peaceful act to help in bringing about a peace, Israel has only been hurt as a result. Since 2008 Abbas has not come to any settlement with Israel and there has only been attacks from Gaza.
The USA will veto their attempt, and they then plan to gain recognition through the General Assembly who most likely will support their effort, but this is really meaningless without approval in the Security Council, commented John Bolton, past U.N. envoy for the Bush administration.
In the meantime, increased shelling from the Arabs in Gaza has been hitting southern Israel in another round of violence. This causes Israel to retaliate and hit their smuggling tunnels and Hamas centers while at the same time Jerusalem had about a thousand marchers of mixed Arabs and Israelis for peace going through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to voice support of recognition of a Palestinian state. Their activism, called the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement, is doing nothing to cause Hamas terrorists to consider such an idea as being peaceful. The Hamas goal is to wipe out Israel completely, and evidently is now also Fatah's goal being they have joined up with Hamas. Something for these marching peace activists to think about is that right now the two groups in this neighborhood are peacefully cohabitating, but what would it be like if this neighborhood were under the auspices of Hamas/Fatah as a Palestine? Are they thinking that life would remain the same? Have they forgotten that the notion of a Palestine means that the state would be devoid of all Jews? They would not be allowed to remain as their idea of a Palestine is to house only Muslims.
Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-official-derides-palestinian-un-effort-080037i846.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ from arutz sheva
The Arabs living in Gaza and Judea/Samaria and east Jerusalem have been told that the U.S.A. will veto their attempt to gain a Palestinian state status in the UN. They are unwilling to come to a peace agreement with Israel. One of their hang-ups is not being willing to accept Israel as a Jewish state even though there are many Muslim countries and states.
Their plan is that President Mahmoud Abbas will try to get their state of Palestine in Judea/Samaria, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem by going to the UN Security Council. These are territories that Israel won in the war of 1967 when all the surrounding states attacked Israel when the minute state won despite their immense attack in six days. Israel has completely withdrawn from Gaza with the results that the Hamas terrorists have taken over the land and have turned it into a staging ground to attack Israel. In making this peaceful act to help in bringing about a peace, Israel has only been hurt as a result. Since 2008 Abbas has not come to any settlement with Israel and there has only been attacks from Gaza.
The USA will veto their attempt, and they then plan to gain recognition through the General Assembly who most likely will support their effort, but this is really meaningless without approval in the Security Council, commented John Bolton, past U.N. envoy for the Bush administration.
In the meantime, increased shelling from the Arabs in Gaza has been hitting southern Israel in another round of violence. This causes Israel to retaliate and hit their smuggling tunnels and Hamas centers while at the same time Jerusalem had about a thousand marchers of mixed Arabs and Israelis for peace going through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to voice support of recognition of a Palestinian state. Their activism, called the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement, is doing nothing to cause Hamas terrorists to consider such an idea as being peaceful. The Hamas goal is to wipe out Israel completely, and evidently is now also Fatah's goal being they have joined up with Hamas. Something for these marching peace activists to think about is that right now the two groups in this neighborhood are peacefully cohabitating, but what would it be like if this neighborhood were under the auspices of Hamas/Fatah as a Palestine? Are they thinking that life would remain the same? Have they forgotten that the notion of a Palestine means that the state would be devoid of all Jews? They would not be allowed to remain as their idea of a Palestine is to house only Muslims.
Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-official-derides-palestinian-un-effort-080037i846.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ from arutz sheva
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Hannah Rosenthal: Spokeswoman for Education on Anti-Semitism
Nadene Goldfoot
Hannah Rosenthal is going for the jugular and really getting with the program through the USA State Dept. to try to stop anti-semitism in the world. She is now realizing what many of us have known for a long time; the Middle East is resisting this effort. In fact they have been promoting it. One of their sources they use has been "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
I was amazed to see that this Jewish lady was allowed to enter Saudi Arabia and speak to their Education and Culture representatives since Jews aren't allowed into this country, but being she is a part of our government, got in. I wonder if they were shocked that she was there.
She found out that Holocaust studies do not exist in Jordan, but they had some excuses as to why not. The whole article must be read about her experience as found with the JTA address below. I'm so glad that she is getting into the Middle East and finding out what Israel has been bucking.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/07/11/3088501/in-arab-swing-rosenthal-encounters-resistance-to-tolerance-teaching
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2011/04/fighter-of-anti-semitism-for-america.html April, 2011
Hannah Rosenthal is going for the jugular and really getting with the program through the USA State Dept. to try to stop anti-semitism in the world. She is now realizing what many of us have known for a long time; the Middle East is resisting this effort. In fact they have been promoting it. One of their sources they use has been "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
I was amazed to see that this Jewish lady was allowed to enter Saudi Arabia and speak to their Education and Culture representatives since Jews aren't allowed into this country, but being she is a part of our government, got in. I wonder if they were shocked that she was there.
She found out that Holocaust studies do not exist in Jordan, but they had some excuses as to why not. The whole article must be read about her experience as found with the JTA address below. I'm so glad that she is getting into the Middle East and finding out what Israel has been bucking.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/07/11/3088501/in-arab-swing-rosenthal-encounters-resistance-to-tolerance-teaching
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2011/04/fighter-of-anti-semitism-for-america.html April, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Dr. Eliahu Rips and His Bible Code
Nadene Goldfoot
I think it was the night before that I was watching History International on TV and they did a program on the Bible Code, a code discovered basically by an orthodox Jewish mathematician in Israel by the name of Dr. Eliyahu Rips and written about by investigative reporter Michael Drosnin in two books that I have; The Bible Code and Bible Code II-the countdown, published in 1997 and then in 2002. What Rips did was take the Tanach (Old Testament) and put it in the computer in Hebrew in the form of a grid and he discovered and keeps on discovering codes. It's like taking every 50th letter and seeing what words are written. It's turned out to be quite shocking and amazing. There are messages telling all sorts of things. Rips hasn't been the first to look for a code in the Bible. Others such as Newton have tried and have found a little, but not like what has been found with the advent of the computer. Newton had stated that not only the Bible but the entire universe is a cryptogram set by the Almighty. He believed that the universe was a puzzle G-d had made that we were meant to solve. Dr. Rips believes this and that the code itself states it is "in our hands to solve." This was an update to the books and was most interesting. There are a lot of people who say, "oh, such a silly thing", and they have done something similar with the book, Moby Dick, but they haven't found the codes and then see what it pertains to in the material that had been written as has been done in the Tanach. Real-unreal? But it sure is mighty interesting. I can't help but think of Einstein's theory of time and that present, past and future are all rolled up into one. I just can't explain or understand that theory at all, but it seems to have a connection to this Bible code in my mind, and that Ha Shem, know all, planner of everything, knew what he was doing and planned for this to happen when he dictated the Torah to Moses. The gist of what I read as I remember was that our actions can affect the way the world goes, and barely mentioned in the program, which might have been taped in 2002, was that Jerusalem would be divided again. It hasn't happened! Somehow, actions have affected that from happening, thank goodness. This code usually cannot be used to look into the future, only past occurrences. It is mindblowing to see words come up vertically and horizontally as well a diagonally that pertain to one event or person.
The Torah was written over 3,000 years ago and here it was coming up with events like "foreseeing both Kennedy assassinations, the Oklahoma city bombing, the election of Bill Clinton, everything from WWII to Watergate, from the Holocaust and Hitler to Hiroshima, and from the Moon landing to the collision of a comet with Jupiter." Such things as finding Yitzhak Rabin's full name encoded in the Bible with the words "assassin that will assassinate" cross his name is truly eerie. He was indeed assassinated on November 4, 1995. He had been warned by Drosnin who flew to Israel and met with a close friend of Rabin's, but at the time probably neither one took the warning and the newly found code seriously.
Drosnin was in New York City on the morning of September 11th and saw from his roof the attack on the World Trade Center. He then went to his computer and brought up the program of the Bible code and found the terrible event predicted . According to the code, this was the beginning, not the end of the danger we face. He has traveled around the world talking to the White House and to Jersualem as well as having met and talked with Arafat, now deceased. It's not hard for any of us to see the horrors we face with Iran holding the possibility of creating atomic weaponry and the whole Middle East in upheaval. We can only hope and pray for the best of results in that perhaps the Middle East will join Israel in having a democratic country with good intentions of living peacefully, and that Iran will join the upheaval and have a new democratic peaceful leadership and not wish to blow everyone to bits. We've seen their people suffer and a beautiful Iranian woman killed on TV. May the computer age continue giving their important computers involved with creating atomic warfare viruses. Until the computer age came along, none of this could have been accomplished and the codes would have remained hidden.
I for one have been awed by the fact that even such a novel as Moby Dick could hold any kind of semblance of codes. It makes me wonder as I write anything now just where these words do come from, for sometimes I myself am surprised by what I write and the words I dig up out of this 76 year old brain. Though Moby Dick proves this can happen, it hasn't come up with any stupendous earth shaking results that I have heard about like the Tanach has revealed. No book has been published yet with the shocking Moby Dick code results.
I have thought that the Torah (Five Books of Moses) have been most awesome and relevent to today, and this just makes me be even more in awe of our Torah. As one said in Hamlet, "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of in your philosophy," the Bible Code Rips has given to us just may be one of them. Does this code prove that there is a G-d? Eli Rips believes it does. He believed in G-d before he discovered this Bible code but believes it is a firm scientific proof of his existence. Drosnin, a secular Jew, believes that no human could have encoded the Bible in this way.
References: Bible Code and Bible Code II by Michael Ddrosnin
History International TV program on Bible Codes
I think it was the night before that I was watching History International on TV and they did a program on the Bible Code, a code discovered basically by an orthodox Jewish mathematician in Israel by the name of Dr. Eliyahu Rips and written about by investigative reporter Michael Drosnin in two books that I have; The Bible Code and Bible Code II-the countdown, published in 1997 and then in 2002. What Rips did was take the Tanach (Old Testament) and put it in the computer in Hebrew in the form of a grid and he discovered and keeps on discovering codes. It's like taking every 50th letter and seeing what words are written. It's turned out to be quite shocking and amazing. There are messages telling all sorts of things. Rips hasn't been the first to look for a code in the Bible. Others such as Newton have tried and have found a little, but not like what has been found with the advent of the computer. Newton had stated that not only the Bible but the entire universe is a cryptogram set by the Almighty. He believed that the universe was a puzzle G-d had made that we were meant to solve. Dr. Rips believes this and that the code itself states it is "in our hands to solve." This was an update to the books and was most interesting. There are a lot of people who say, "oh, such a silly thing", and they have done something similar with the book, Moby Dick, but they haven't found the codes and then see what it pertains to in the material that had been written as has been done in the Tanach. Real-unreal? But it sure is mighty interesting. I can't help but think of Einstein's theory of time and that present, past and future are all rolled up into one. I just can't explain or understand that theory at all, but it seems to have a connection to this Bible code in my mind, and that Ha Shem, know all, planner of everything, knew what he was doing and planned for this to happen when he dictated the Torah to Moses. The gist of what I read as I remember was that our actions can affect the way the world goes, and barely mentioned in the program, which might have been taped in 2002, was that Jerusalem would be divided again. It hasn't happened! Somehow, actions have affected that from happening, thank goodness. This code usually cannot be used to look into the future, only past occurrences. It is mindblowing to see words come up vertically and horizontally as well a diagonally that pertain to one event or person.
The Torah was written over 3,000 years ago and here it was coming up with events like "foreseeing both Kennedy assassinations, the Oklahoma city bombing, the election of Bill Clinton, everything from WWII to Watergate, from the Holocaust and Hitler to Hiroshima, and from the Moon landing to the collision of a comet with Jupiter." Such things as finding Yitzhak Rabin's full name encoded in the Bible with the words "assassin that will assassinate" cross his name is truly eerie. He was indeed assassinated on November 4, 1995. He had been warned by Drosnin who flew to Israel and met with a close friend of Rabin's, but at the time probably neither one took the warning and the newly found code seriously.
Drosnin was in New York City on the morning of September 11th and saw from his roof the attack on the World Trade Center. He then went to his computer and brought up the program of the Bible code and found the terrible event predicted . According to the code, this was the beginning, not the end of the danger we face. He has traveled around the world talking to the White House and to Jersualem as well as having met and talked with Arafat, now deceased. It's not hard for any of us to see the horrors we face with Iran holding the possibility of creating atomic weaponry and the whole Middle East in upheaval. We can only hope and pray for the best of results in that perhaps the Middle East will join Israel in having a democratic country with good intentions of living peacefully, and that Iran will join the upheaval and have a new democratic peaceful leadership and not wish to blow everyone to bits. We've seen their people suffer and a beautiful Iranian woman killed on TV. May the computer age continue giving their important computers involved with creating atomic warfare viruses. Until the computer age came along, none of this could have been accomplished and the codes would have remained hidden.
I for one have been awed by the fact that even such a novel as Moby Dick could hold any kind of semblance of codes. It makes me wonder as I write anything now just where these words do come from, for sometimes I myself am surprised by what I write and the words I dig up out of this 76 year old brain. Though Moby Dick proves this can happen, it hasn't come up with any stupendous earth shaking results that I have heard about like the Tanach has revealed. No book has been published yet with the shocking Moby Dick code results.
I have thought that the Torah (Five Books of Moses) have been most awesome and relevent to today, and this just makes me be even more in awe of our Torah. As one said in Hamlet, "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of in your philosophy," the Bible Code Rips has given to us just may be one of them. Does this code prove that there is a G-d? Eli Rips believes it does. He believed in G-d before he discovered this Bible code but believes it is a firm scientific proof of his existence. Drosnin, a secular Jew, believes that no human could have encoded the Bible in this way.
References: Bible Code and Bible Code II by Michael Ddrosnin
History International TV program on Bible Codes
Christians and Jews Working Together : The Teacher and the Preacher in Portland
Nadene Goldfoot
Have Christians and Jews ever partnered together feeling they share many values in common? The answer is Yes, and they are demonstrating it right now in Portland, Oregon. Dave McGarrah and Charlie Schiffman have created a radio program called "The Teacher and the Preacher" which can be heard on Sunday evenings at 6:30 pm on KPDQ 93.9 FM.
Last night the Multnomah Art Center in Multnomah Village was the scene of many people watching their show and taking part in the discussion. The two gentlemen, Dave being the Christian minister and Charlie being an orthodox Jew concluded that the world is increasingly secular, crude, and anti-religious. They have joined forces where they can and feel that concerned Jews and Christians working together can push back against this rising tide and help restore sanity and faith.
Their show is demonstrating that people from the two major Western religions can support each other in this world-wide struggle without compromising their own core beliefs. They are an excellent example for others in their show of respect and understanding. They teach and preach and give their audience not only education but inspiration as well, allowing listeners to see new vistas that they may not have thought about before.
Their show has been well received and certainly was last night. The audience was packed by like thinkers. This was their 2nd meeting, the first being last month in Salem with about 125 enthusiastic fans of the show. The radio show is supported by Master Minded Ministries, but they could stand our support as well to keep this going. I was most pleased to see that there were several rabbis in the audience as well as other Jews and Christian friends I knew attending. Both Charlie and Dave are leaders in their own communities so by joining together in admiration as well as this needful project make us all feel that something extraordinary is happening in our city.
Last night the two dialogued about the current events regarding Israel and the U.S. relations. I've been wondering when other people might open their eyes to see the unjust situation that Israel finds itself in having to fight for their right of recognition and justify their existence after having been created by the U.N. in 1948. It is such a powerful and wonderful feeling to see that there are Christians in full support of this tiny fledgling country along with myself. The first time I saw this union of Christians helping Jews was several years ago in the group, CUFI, Christians United for Israel, which is organized by John Hagee, minister, who has outlined his thoughts in his book, In Defense of Israel, which explains why Christians should support Israel. John Hagee has just joined Glenn Beck in Jerusalem in their quest to support Israel as well. Glenn is a Mormon and Hagee is an Evangelical so even this is a magnificant union in working together.
Not all Christians have come to this conclusion because of part of their belief in a Replacement Theology, which has replaced Israel and Jews with Christians. As we can see, the friends of Israel have not bought into this section of the Christian religion, and see the need to be on the side of Israel and Jews. Not only do they see the need as part of their beliefs, but because of this their reasoning is not clouded by a caustic attitude towards Israel and they can be rational in their conclusions about Israel.
Dave and Charlie are showing the world that a committed Christian and a committed Jew can agree that their theological differences are not getting in the way of joining forces to promote values they both hold in common. Coming together at a time of great danger to Israel and to our traditional American values, they both feel they must join forces if Israel and the USA are to succeed. The message is slowly spreading and they are doing their part to speed it up. Their past programs are on CD's and can be purchased, including "Differing Views of the Messiah," "Why Support Israel" and others. Jews and Christians must not fear working together. We have arrived at a new paradigm of mutual respect and common concerns.
Have Christians and Jews ever partnered together feeling they share many values in common? The answer is Yes, and they are demonstrating it right now in Portland, Oregon. Dave McGarrah and Charlie Schiffman have created a radio program called "The Teacher and the Preacher" which can be heard on Sunday evenings at 6:30 pm on KPDQ 93.9 FM.
Last night the Multnomah Art Center in Multnomah Village was the scene of many people watching their show and taking part in the discussion. The two gentlemen, Dave being the Christian minister and Charlie being an orthodox Jew concluded that the world is increasingly secular, crude, and anti-religious. They have joined forces where they can and feel that concerned Jews and Christians working together can push back against this rising tide and help restore sanity and faith.
Their show is demonstrating that people from the two major Western religions can support each other in this world-wide struggle without compromising their own core beliefs. They are an excellent example for others in their show of respect and understanding. They teach and preach and give their audience not only education but inspiration as well, allowing listeners to see new vistas that they may not have thought about before.
Their show has been well received and certainly was last night. The audience was packed by like thinkers. This was their 2nd meeting, the first being last month in Salem with about 125 enthusiastic fans of the show. The radio show is supported by Master Minded Ministries, but they could stand our support as well to keep this going. I was most pleased to see that there were several rabbis in the audience as well as other Jews and Christian friends I knew attending. Both Charlie and Dave are leaders in their own communities so by joining together in admiration as well as this needful project make us all feel that something extraordinary is happening in our city.
Last night the two dialogued about the current events regarding Israel and the U.S. relations. I've been wondering when other people might open their eyes to see the unjust situation that Israel finds itself in having to fight for their right of recognition and justify their existence after having been created by the U.N. in 1948. It is such a powerful and wonderful feeling to see that there are Christians in full support of this tiny fledgling country along with myself. The first time I saw this union of Christians helping Jews was several years ago in the group, CUFI, Christians United for Israel, which is organized by John Hagee, minister, who has outlined his thoughts in his book, In Defense of Israel, which explains why Christians should support Israel. John Hagee has just joined Glenn Beck in Jerusalem in their quest to support Israel as well. Glenn is a Mormon and Hagee is an Evangelical so even this is a magnificant union in working together.
Not all Christians have come to this conclusion because of part of their belief in a Replacement Theology, which has replaced Israel and Jews with Christians. As we can see, the friends of Israel have not bought into this section of the Christian religion, and see the need to be on the side of Israel and Jews. Not only do they see the need as part of their beliefs, but because of this their reasoning is not clouded by a caustic attitude towards Israel and they can be rational in their conclusions about Israel.
Dave and Charlie are showing the world that a committed Christian and a committed Jew can agree that their theological differences are not getting in the way of joining forces to promote values they both hold in common. Coming together at a time of great danger to Israel and to our traditional American values, they both feel they must join forces if Israel and the USA are to succeed. The message is slowly spreading and they are doing their part to speed it up. Their past programs are on CD's and can be purchased, including "Differing Views of the Messiah," "Why Support Israel" and others. Jews and Christians must not fear working together. We have arrived at a new paradigm of mutual respect and common concerns.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
History of Our Cousins, the Arabs and of Palestine
Nadene Goldfoot
Once there was the kingdom of Judah and the larger kingdom of Israel, both Jewish states. Israel was in the north and Judah was in the south.
The Romans came up with the term, Palestina" as that originally denoted the land of the Philistines, used to describe their hinterland by the Greeks. Palestine was first used to denote Palestinian Syria. The Romans renamed Judah to Judea and then as Palestine to erase its association with Jews. Palestine had never been a country, just a name of a land that wasn't even occupied by the people who controlled it. It lay waste except for the occasional nomad with a camel who traveled across it to get to the other side. It became either swampland or a desert. Only a few Arabs managed to buy land from the Ottoman Empire and settle down. Jews never had left the land though they became fewer in number as so many had been carted off and sold into slavery or had been slaughtered. No one was interested in building up such tired and useless land.
Resource: A Young Person's History of Israel 2nd Edition by David Bamberger
The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze
The Arabs themselves trace their origins to Ishmael, who was Abraham's first son by his wife Sarah's Egyptian maid, Hagar. Later, Sarah bore Isaac who was the proginator of the Jewish people. Arabs are a Semitic people and would then be half-cousins of the Jews, inhabiting the Arabian peninsula and other nearby regions. When Islam was created by Mohammed they moved out of their homeland and conquered the greater part of the then civilized world including Palestine. Arabic is a cognate to Hebrew and is one of the branches of Semitic languages. A big split divided the two groups when the Jews would not convert to Islam but remained faithful to their own religion, Judaism. Most Arabs live in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Most Arabs are Muslims but there are also Arab Christians and Druses, who are an offshoot of Ismaelism which is a monotheistic Persian belief of the eternity of the soul and of reincarnation started in the 11th Century CE. .
Once there was the kingdom of Judah and the larger kingdom of Israel, both Jewish states. Israel was in the north and Judah was in the south.
The Jews had created Judah in the south with 20 kings reigning from Rehoboam in 933-917 BCE to Zedekiah in 597- 586 BCE with the city of Samaria as its capital in about 890 BCE , Samaria was in the center and Galilee was in the North. Under Kings David and Solomon, Israel was a very large territory including most of Syria and covered about 58,000 sq. m. It had had 19 kings from Jeroboam in 933-912 BCE to Hoshea in 730-72 BCE. It became known as Palestine after the Roman conquest in 70 CE. Israel ran from the Western Mediterranean Sea to the East with the Syrian Desert to the South with the Brook of Egypt as far as the Valley of Zoar south of the Dead Sea and in Transfordan from the river Arnon to Mt. Hermon and to the Valley of Iyon.
When Rome conquered, they named Judah "Judea" and it remained a vassal kingdom. It later became a province in what they called Palestine when they started ruling in 63 BCE. The Romans renamed it "Palaestina "(Prima and Secunda) in 135 CE. .The southern part of the country remained Judea to distinguish it from Samaria in the center and Galilee in the north.
The Romans came up with the term, Palestina" as that originally denoted the land of the Philistines, used to describe their hinterland by the Greeks. Palestine was first used to denote Palestinian Syria. The Romans renamed Judah to Judea and then as Palestine to erase its association with Jews. Palestine had never been a country, just a name of a land that wasn't even occupied by the people who controlled it. It lay waste except for the occasional nomad with a camel who traveled across it to get to the other side. It became either swampland or a desert. Only a few Arabs managed to buy land from the Ottoman Empire and settle down. Jews never had left the land though they became fewer in number as so many had been carted off and sold into slavery or had been slaughtered. No one was interested in building up such tired and useless land.
The Muslim Arabs were defeated in Palestine in 1250 CE by Muslims who were not Arabs but were Mamelukes. They in turn were defeated by other non-Arab Muslims, the Ottoman Turks, who held onto the ownership until they lost it in 1917 in the WWI as they were on the German side of the war. Arabs had controlled Palestine for about 700 years while other Muslims had held onto it as well.
The land was originally called Eretz Canaan (the land of Canaan) in Hebrew. Later by 1948 Jews were able to call their homeland Eretz Israel. It's only been in recent years that Arabs have identified themselves as "Palestinians." They had come into the land looking for work from neighboring countries in the 1800's to work for the Jews who were building there. Five different periods of times called Alliyot brought Jews from Europe into the land. Before 1948 all people living in "Palestine" were called Palestinians. The Jewish interest in Palestine lay in their history of having been led there by G-d. This wasteland had meaning to a people who had been bouncing around from country to country for over 2,000 years in search of someplace that would accept them for what they were. After almost becoming extinct in the slaughter of the Pogroms in Russia and in the Holocaust, they finally braved the elements and returned to their homeland.
Resource: A Young Person's History of Israel 2nd Edition by David Bamberger
The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze
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