Posted on 12/26/2013 11:35:36 AM PST by Ari Bussel
Christmas day is usually a pretty quiet affair for Jewish people. Most spend it as a day to relax and catch up, watch movies, go to friends, eat Chinese food, have family over or just simply listen to Christmas music and read the ads for the after-Christmas sales.
I seem to find myself in a rather introspective mood this Yuletide season. Perhaps it is age creeping upon me, but I question the most basic issues, actually non-issues, and I can’t find answers. Perhaps others can supply the information I seek.
First and foremost why is it that Christmas songs are still written in the same tenor and inspirational tone, but there hasn’t been a decent Christmas movie since The Christmas Story?
The airwaves seem to be filled with hacky movies with a Christmas tree and nod to Santa Claus. These movies are so formula and comical it makes one wonder if two-year olds are writing these offerings.
Let’s see; boy meets girl, girl meets Santa, Santa fixes up girl and boy and then boy loses girl but then Santa makes everything all better. Wait a minute wasn’t that actually Miracle on 34th Street?
Perhaps it’s just that the actors of today are not Natalie Wood, Maureen O’Hara or Jimmy Stewart! It just isn’t the same as hearing that tingle when Clarence got his wings or Tiny Tim says, “God bless us everyone.”
But aside from the hacky warmed-over Christmas fare one is subjected to this time of year, there is a serious question that should be addressed.
Why, with all the pictures of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem being shown on the news there is no mention of the fact that Bethlehem is now forbidden to Israelis?
That the churches in Muslim areas have been desecrated and destroyed, and that thousands of Christians are being murdered daily throughout the Middle East in an ethnic cleansing exercise by the radical Islamic world.
The PR machine of the radical Muslims apparently has once again managed to blind the world to the truth, cover their behavior with whipped cream and color it with a cherry on top.
I guess oil money can buy the best Madison Avenue has to offer and that grey flannel suit must be gold lined by now.
And the lies keep on a coming.
Israel, the only country in the Middle East where all are safe to exercise religious freedom, is being pressured by the United States to make concessions to those who call themselves “Palestinians” that would further ensure loss of religious freedoms.
How can you make a deal with a people who deny your right to exist? Shouldn’t that be the first requisite for peace talks?
So what is the point Norma, you ask? Just this.
Despite successful Palestinian narratives that rewrite the facts of history, the Jews and Christians for the first time are waking up to the fact they now have a common enemy. And oh also, Jesus was Jewish.
As in 600 AD there is a Christian and Muslim war heating up to epic proportions.
I am seeing for the first time in thousands of years, the words Judeo-Christian joined together as the key to dealing with horrific reality they are facing.
The Christian world – not the Catholic Church of course, but many –understands now the fact that as long as Israel is controlled by the Jewish people, Christianity is safe.
And the Jewish people also understand that in the Christian world they now finally have a powerful ally against the forces that seek to destroy them.
As the governments of the world, including the United States, ignore the fact that Christian children are being murdered daily in cold blood, the Judeo-Christian world must unite and stand up to the evil that is headed in their direction.
So, do the Jewish people have a relationship with Jesus and should it affect this new coalition?
Is Christmas just another great shopping opportunity? Or just perhaps it’s a family thing.
Kind of hard not to be a little proud of a family member that has done as well as Jesus.
Jewish families are nothing if not protective of family.
Perhaps it is time for the Jewish and Christian world to put aside their family squabbles and stand together against a common enemy poised upon their annihilation.
As in all families there will be arguments; who should pay, what should be done, whose responsibility is Uncle Albert? Yet, I am hopeful that one day, just as we will see a better crop of holiday movies, we will see the Judeo-Christian world unite to overcome the greatest enemy they have ever encountered.
Maybe this is the Christmas to do just that. If you don’t agree well then, Happy Shopping!
You mean a carpenter’s son, as the pharisees called him?
There is no evidence that he ever was a carpenter; he was following the course of study of a child priest.
So observing reality is “self righteous?”
Describe how.
Decent Christmas movies? Nothing quite says “Merry Christmas” than Santa Claus whippin’ some Martian butt.
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnEJrwYXXsI
I can answer the question of what is causing 99% of Israel’s problems in the world. Surprisingly, it isn’t the Muslims. They are just an effect of this cause. The cause itself is entirely Israeli and Jewish.
Israel is the king of the “wishy-washy”. The expression meaning: “Lacking in strength of character or purpose; ineffective; weak in willpower. Insipid.”
If you took any other nation in the world, that had an enemy in its borders that aligned itself with a foreign enemy for the purpose of annihilating that nation and people, and it fought that foreign enemy off, what would it do with the domestic enemy that supported that foreign enemy?
Easy answer: it would either expel them or kill them. Because it would be insane to allow them to continue to live in their nation. They are traitors, a fifth column.
And mind you, this would only need to happen *once*, for *any* other nation in the world to expel or kill this enemy.
It has happened to Israel over and over again, and still Israel cannot bear the idea of expelling its murderous and vile enemies from its borders. Are they insane?
Only by dint of their being wishy-washy beyond any possible explanation have they allowed this situation to continue without end for more than half a century now.
And the part that is most aggravating for everyone else in the world who is sick to death of Israel’s inability to act to solve its own problem, is that acting would be so very easy to do.
Instead of being so wishy-washy, Israel should create a rule, that each and every time they are attacked by Muslims, the Palestinians would lose land. Why land? Because it is seemingly the only thing they care about.
And once lost, the Israelis must be firm that this land will never, ever again be owned by Muslims. It is forever forfeit. And if they attack Israel again, they will forever forfeit *more* land.
No matter what they promise or threaten, that land is gone to Muslims. Even if they get western nations to pressure Israel to return that land, because it is nothing, Israel must refuse to do so.
This would end the status quo. And Muslims would have only one choice: either attack and lose land, or peace.
Importantly, it has to be universal. Any Muslim attacks Israel, and the Paleos lose land. Doesn’t matter who, what faction they belong to, what nation they hail from.
If Israel did this ONE thing, then eventually this nonsense would end.
But Israel and Jews are too wishy-washy. And that is the path to destruction. It is their choice, but they have been wishy-washy for over half a century, so either they change, or they end by their own hand.
Are you Barack Obama?
OK, I gotta ask - How can Chinese food possibly be considered kosher? Anyone?
Not with all the Pork they use, and the shellfish too.
I know, right? Maybe I stay away from Famous Dave's for no good reason!
Outside the USA I think Israel is just about as unpopular with Christians as it is with everybody else.
Also, most of "the Christian world" is no such thing. It's post-Christian.
I was wondering the same thing.
There is a thick thread of sarcasm woven through the words you have written, but you have written the truth.
In the 1,500 or so years of islam's existence there has never been what passes for "peace" between islam and the rest of the world that wasn't preceded by a military clash that killed enough muslims to cause them to retreat. muslims must die for that to happen, not Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, pagans, nor even atheists.
The same clash is in our future.
What passes for muslim "holy writ" calls for the death of "others," if need be. For muslims the death of "others" is just business as usual.
Well the thousands in the Middle East that are being murdered are not hiding. No other Christian that I know is hiding either.
A lot of us Jews don’t keep kosher. The Chinese restaurant tradition comes from an assumption the Chinese are not Christian, perhaps Buddhist, and do not close for Christmas. My mother, my wife, and I went out for Chinese on Christmas eve.
When I was single, I went to a Jewish singles dance, either in Baltimore, or Washington. Christmas Eve rather sucks for a single Jew - nothing appealing on TV, and the weather can be awful.
I usually spend Christmas day visiting a shelter for homeless families and several other group homes operated by a local charity, on whose board I serve as a volunteer, thanking the staff for working on their holiday.
Then some quiet time at home with my wife, a book, and a pipe full of prime tobacco.
Jesus was not only a Jew, he was Israeli, and I expect future major general of the IDF.
I have proclaimed this truth on Free Republic for many years and that is a fact!
Ahh, there it is! Some of us Christians do - albeit differently, not relying upon the Rabbinic Traditions.
Christmas Eve rather sucks for a single Jew
Heh. I get that. Try being a Torah observant (trying anyway) Christian some time...
I usually spend Christmas day visiting a shelter for homeless families and several other group homes operated by a local charity, on whose board I serve as a volunteer, thanking the staff for working on their holiday. Then some quiet time at home with my wife, a book, and a pipe full of prime tobacco.
Excellent. Thank you for your reply.
What is your evidence for this? Jesus was not from a priestly family or even a Levite. He was of the royal house of the tribe of Judah.
When he sat down with the scribes and scholars for three days in the temple at the age of 12, he amazed them by his learning and deep knowledge of the Scriptures. I think they would have been more amazed by a carpenter's (builder's) son, with only the elementary teaching given him, than a prodigy halfway through a college course.
Those who do this are not kosher observant.
Christians and Jews, bothers and sisters, family.
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