[Quix]

EVEN NON JEWISH SECULARISTS

GET IT.

There’s Absolutely NO EXCUSE

for CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE FREEPERS

NOT getting it.

Thankfully, he’s wrong about Israel being destroyed.

GOD ALMIGHTY IS FAR FROM SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISES.

[Quix]

PLEASE
PRAY FOR ISRAEL
AND FOR THE USA
OVER THE NEXT 20 DAYS
ANY EXTRA YOU CAN MANAGE.
EVIDENTLY
BIBI NETANYAHU
WILL BE DECIDING
WITHIN 2 WEEKS
WHETHER OR NOT
TO ATTACK IRAN.
I don't see how he
can avoid doing it.
IF he does it,
It will set off WWIII
escalatingly afterwards.
BLESSED BE
THE NAME OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
GOD HAVE MERCY ON ALL
LOVE HIM.

[Sender]

I would agree with this author on almost every point except one; that if Israel does not have America's help, it will ultimately be destroyed.

Certainly the loss of America's help would bring untold troubles and aggression toward Israel. However, if one has faith and believes in the covenant with Israel, it is not America who will ultimately prevent the destruction of Israel. I would be more worried about the fate of America if she deserts Israel.

Forces are arrayed across the globe who want to invade and occupy Israel and the oil-rich states. They have tried several times, with Soviet backing, and yet failed. Each time, David slays Goliath. Is this due to divine intervention, American aid, inferior Arab forces or what? I tend to think it is due to the superior Israeli forces who are fighting for their very survival. They have no other option but to win every time.

If America deserts Israel and the big war comes, I believe there will be some form of divine intervention. Israel may be invaded and ravaged, but will not be destroyed. Something Big will happen. Faith is the evidence of things unseen.

[Tolik]

Cliff May reviews George Gilder's book "The Israel Test."

... Gilder is convinced that the forces targeting Israel and America also are "targeting capitalism and freedom everywhere." Capitalism, he says, requires freedom - for entrepreneurs, workers and consumers alike. All benefit, because, "under capitalism the achievements of one group provide markets and opportunities for others."

He goes on to make this unfashionable observation: Any democracy not resting on a solid capitalist foundation is doomed. "Without an expanding capitalist economy," he writes, "democracy becomes dominated by its zero-sum elements - by mobs and demagogues."

Over the centuries, such mobs and demagogues have, many times, turned against Jews. Today, Gilder adds, "they have turned against Israel." Sometimes, the root cause is simply greed and envy. But often it is the belief that "social justice" necessitates the dispossession of the "haves" and redistribution to the "have-nots" in the interest of "equality of outcome."

Over time, this can only lead to expanding poverty because it is based on a misunderstanding of what wealth is. Fundamentally, wealth inheres not in material resources but in "human minds and creations that thrive only in peace and freedom. In particular, the immiseration of the Middle East stems chiefly from the covetous and crippling idea among Arabs that Israel's wealth is not only the source of their humiliation but also the cause of their poverty."

Gilder has much more to say - more challenging arguments and perplexing questions than I can summarize in a brief column. But his underlying thesis is straightforward: The future of freedom, democracy, capitalism, America, the West and the tiny state of Israel are all tied together in a single knot. Israel is "not only a major source of Western technological supremacy and economic leadership - it is also the most vulnerable source of Western power and intelligence."

Israel is, Gilder contends, "not only the canary in the coal mine - it is also a crucial part of the mine." If Americans will not defend Israel, they will "prove unable to defend anything else. The Israel test is finally our own test of survival as a free nation."

Nailed It!
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[Outership]

“What’s Israel Got to Do With It?”

Everything.

Blessed be the Name and Word and Will of Yahweh.

[SunkenCiv]

George Gilder... latest book is titled "The Israel Test." Much of what he says is dramatically different from what just about anyone else is saying. In particular: "Either the world, principally the United States, supports Israel, or Israel, one way or another, will be destroyed. There are no other realistic choices. And if Israel is destroyed, capitalist Europe will likely die as well, and America, as the epitome of productive and creative capitalism spurred by Jews, will be in jeopardy." At this juncture, it is probably not just useful but necessary to note that George Gilder is not Jewish. In other words, the case he makes for Israel has no basis in religious or ethnic affiliation. At the same time, not being tethered to Israel or to Jews allows him to be blunt in a way few of Israel's Jewish defenders dare. For example, he says that people "who obsessively denounce Jews have a name; they are Nazis."

[SunkenCiv]

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The Israel Test by George Gilder Kindle edition

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[Just mythoughts]

Israel is, Gilder contends, "not only the canary in the coal mine - it is also a crucial part of the mine." If Americans will not defend Israel, they will "prove unable to defend anything else. The Israel test is finally our own test of survival as a free nation."

Given who Americans have elected to be their leaders I think there is more than one canary in the mine. At the rate this bunch of liberal communists are destroying US we are on the horizon of not even being able to defend ourselves let alone anyone else.

[Joya]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6822540.ece

[Joya]

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3772205,00.html

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