Posted on 09/12/2014 10:16:02 PM PDT by chessplayer
Aggressively supporting Israel is a political winner for conservatives. But when it comes at the expense of persecuted Christians who fear for their lives...
Since the second half of the 20th century, some of my fellow Christians have been the most persecuted religious group in the world. They still are. You probably are surprised to hear this. That's because most of these persecuted Christians don't live in the West. They are, as the awful phrase has it, too foreign for the right and too Christian for the left.
In recent weeks and months, however, the West has heard about the plight of at least one set of these persecuted Christians: those in the Middle East. These communities, many of which date back to the very beginning of Christianity, are now facing outright extinction. And it's happening at the hands of ISIS, the West's Public Enemy No. 1.
A summit was held this week in Washington, D.C., in support of Middle East Christians, and Cruz was supposed to be a keynote speaker. However, right in the second paragraph of his speech, he began exalting Israel. After a while, the assembly started to boo and heckle him. Cruz said, "If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you," and left the podium.
Keep in mind that many Christians in the Middle East are ethnic Arabs who live under Israel's occupation of the West Bank, and therefore have negative feelings about Israel. Of course, there are also many Middle East Christians who are supporters of Israel (indeed, there are even Arab Christians who serve, with distinction, in the Israeli Defense Forces).
As the excellent coverage, transcript, and recording provided by The American Conservative's Jonathan Coppage shows, the audience in Washington applauded Cruz's first lines of support for Israel and the Jews. The crowd turned against him ONLY WHEN IT BECAME CLEAR that he was launching into a rah-rah pro-Israel stump speech that had NOTHING to do with what they were doing there.
Cruz tarred and attacked one of the most powerless and beleaguered minorities in the world, solely for personal political gain. He was strong against the weak.
In the end, what was most striking about Cruz's tirade was the last phrase: "If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you." Cruz was literally standing in a room with his fellow Christians. In the Bible, the idea of the fellowship of Christian believers is a very important one, and to break fellowship is to put oneself outside the community. What Cruz was saying was that agreeing to his views on Israel was more important as a badge of fellowship than believing in Jesus Christ.
That’s stupid man, operatives don’t hangout for 15 Freakin years. Can you have a logical disagreement?
That’s all you got? Weakest argument ever!
Many there were likely not Christians at all, he still missed the opportunity to speak to those who are.
It’s amazing.....I’ve heard everything from he was rude to now he was labeling them anti Semite when their history labels them anti Semite. I will admit that sometimes the truth is shocking....but the truth is what it is...rude is in the eye of the beholder. It also doesn’t seem to matter that the people that invited him certainly knew his position and lectured the agitators(the true rude ones)after he left!!
Logical conclusion!!
Wrong...he was denied the opportunity to speak!!!
Logic has left the building my friend. When that refugee camp opens up then you guys can feel free to tell everyone facing extermination who their friends are, till then maybe it’s best to stop postering and try helping.
We’re spinning our wheels here... concern trolls gonna troll concernedly...
Here’s another perspective of what occurred at the event and the identity of the organizers and some attendees.
I wish we had more leaders who would walk into a mosque and expose the same savages.
You’re gonna hate this:
Israel will fight IS, if group reaches Jordan, Israeli official says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3203589/posts
I just received information that ISIS has beheaded the British Journalist and possibly set fire to an oil refinery!!!!! I can’t confirm it but all indications are it is true!!!
You have won me over with your logic. These Christians need to DIE. You and ISIS have shown me the light.
You are not the arbiter of who is or is not a true Christian, is your neck on the blade?
Since if they threaten Israel then it’s a whole new ball game? Why would that be a shock?
Just go back to your vampire books.
Again, another stunning rebuttal. Facts flow from you.
More sarcasm but you aren’t that far off....if these so called Christians favor the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel ..I say F”em kill’em before they get around to “The Great Satan” ....that would be us!!!
It’s a shame. I agree with you, but I don’t think that is the case. But hey, who cares right? As long as our best hope for President didn’t state a falsehood, let them DIE! You should go watch some of their women being beheaded. You can feel secure in you infallibility.
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