Barack Obama’s anti-Semitism test [Joel 3]

Is US President Barack Hussein Obama an anti-Semite? This question has lingered in the air since his first presidential bid in 2008. It first arose due to the anti-Semitic sermons that Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for more than 20 years, made as Obama and his family sat in the pews.

Throughout the six-and-a-half years of his presidency, Obama has laughed off the concerns. But he has not dispelled them. And this failure has hurt him. So last week, Obama went to significant lengths to answer the question about his feelings toward Israel and the Jewish people once and for all.

The timing of his charm offensive wasn’t coincidental. Obama clearly believes he has to dispel doubts about his intentions toward Jews and Israel in order to implement the central policy of his second term in office. That policy of course is his nuclear deal with Iran. Obama’s agreement with the mullahs is supposed to be concluded by the end of next month.

Obama argues that his deal will prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. But as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained in his address before the joint houses of Congress in March, from what has already been revealed about the nuclear deal Obama seeks to conclude, far from preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear arms, the deal will provide several pathways for Iran to at a minimum become a threshold nuclear state, capable of developing nuclear weapons at the drop of a hat. If Iran cheats on the deal, it can develop nuclear weapons while the agreement is still in force. If it abides by the agreement, it can develop nuclear weapons as soon as the agreement expires...

Barack Hussein Obama says he loves Jews yet supports the very treaties that resolutions that could bring about the end of the Jewish State. Caroline Glick insightfully shows Obama claims to be concerned for the children of Palestine and their opportunities yet is not willing to acknowledge the fact that the Palestinians are not primarily interested in a State, rather the destruction of the Jewish state!

Since 1937, the Palestinians have had an innumerable number of opportunities to create a State, if they were only willing to work with Israel. But they are not. Obama's insistence on blaming Israel for the Palestinians’ misery reveal everything about his intention toward the Jewish state. The United States, once a stalwart in support of the Jewish State, has now become one of its greatest adversaries. What other enemy of Israel has the influence that the United States does?

The Prophet Joel wrote about the rebirth of Israel and how the entire world would one day be united against them. Joel states that the nations of the world would send forces, taking the side of the Palestinians, to redraw the border lines of the fledgling nation and part the land that God has promised them. It is for this reason that God's judgment comes on the world. It is in this Judgment that the Jewish people recognize their Messiah, the one who was pierced for their sins and the whole world's (Zechariah 12, Isaiah 53). It is when they call that He answers them (Zechariah 14, Isaiah 63)...

Joel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot , and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink . 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians *, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near ; let them come up : 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say , I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come , all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down , O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened , and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe : come , get you down ; for the press is full , the fats overflow ; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened , and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake : but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

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