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Is the IDF anti-Christian? Examining the evidence after the Lebanon statue incident
Christian Post ^ | 04/28/2026 | Mikale Olson

Posted on 04/28/2026 7:57:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/28/2026 7:57:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m pretty sure Mikale Olson would have problems finding Israel on the map.
For sure she has never met or talked with any members of IDF.


2 posted on 04/28/2026 8:04:30 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: SeekAndFind
I don't care if Israeli soldiers destroyed a graven image. I do care if they don't recognize the their Savior and Messiah, the precious Son of David!

1 John 2:22

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son

3 posted on 04/28/2026 8:04:52 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not this Pucker Saracen bullsh*t again. Don’t you ever get tired of the fairyland you live in.


4 posted on 04/28/2026 8:05:59 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: SeekAndFind

In other news:

US soldier charged for threatening to ‘kill every single Jew’ inside of a synagogue

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-894520

Nobody suggests the U.S. Army is anti-Jew as a result of a bad actor.


5 posted on 04/28/2026 8:09:22 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (RandFan: An Obvious Plant, though whether Leftist or Vegetal, I can’t be sure.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They haven’t been treating Christians villages in the West Bank very well. That’s for sure.


6 posted on 04/28/2026 8:12:33 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: SeekAndFind

Because 2 low-ranking soldiers speaks for the majority.


7 posted on 04/28/2026 8:45:26 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: SeekAndFind

The IDF is not perfect, no Army is but training in this unique Army is different than most Armed services.

Israel has something called “Purity of Arms” where morality, self-consciousness and Jewish values are integrated into the mindset training of each IDF soldier. It does not exist anywhere else.

The IDF historically has not been known for rape, looting, wonton destruction of property or killing without cause or justice. Compare this to what Arabs are known for.

The fact that Israel is under the scrutiny of an electron microscope from the world press means that every little incident gets reported. Israel is also judged unfairly in the world court no matter what she does.

The knocking down of a statute of Jesus was wrong and the ones responsible will be punished.

When was the last time there was a report about any other soldier in any other region of the world doing something amoral? In Kashmir, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Ukraine, and one thousand other flashpoints in the world are never reported because nobody really cares. Atrocities in Iran? Where is Greta Thunberg and her Lefty do-gooders in a flotilla to Iran. 35,000 innocent Iranians murdered by the regime there in just a few weeks??? Where is the outrage??

When a Jew in Israel slips up it becomes headline news. This is called latent Anti-Semitism and we see many in the West, unfortunately championing the PLO/HAMAS/Islamic Jihad/Hezbollah narrative even though it was Israel that was savagely attacked on October 7th 2023.

People prefer to concentrate on stupid acts carried out by stupid soldiers...as long as they are Jews.


8 posted on 04/28/2026 10:25:43 PM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Theophilus
He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son

So you recognize Islam is the original Antiochrist religion when it says, “God has NO Son”?
9 posted on 04/28/2026 10:33:07 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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” Israel has something called “Purity of Arms” where morality, self-consciousness and Jewish values are integrated into the mindset training of each IDF soldier. It does not exist anywhere else.

The IDF historically has not been known for rape, looting, wonton destruction of property or killing without cause or justice.”


There is widespread looting going on in Lebanon, which the IDF officers ignore.

Sexual abuse of palestinian prisoners is a topic of huge debate in Israel.

(if they are terrorists they should be executed. Not raped, unless Israel is 3rd World savages, as well)

Rape and looting systematic and ignored by Commanders. “Purity of Arms”, huh ?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-04-23/ty-article/.premium/israeli-soldiers-testify-to-looting-in-lebanon-commanders-know-and-do-nothing/0000019d-b999-d2d7-af9f-bbb986480000


10 posted on 04/28/2026 10:51:47 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Anschluss now !)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

islam is certainly an evil, demonic, antichrist cult, but how could it be the “original” one? 1st John was written more than 500 years before the moon cult of Islam was concocted.


11 posted on 04/28/2026 11:30:24 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The original antichrist cult was started in the Garden of Eden by Satan: “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”


12 posted on 04/28/2026 11:34:15 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Reverend Wright

Think about all of the wars FORCED upon Israel since 1948. Over time, Israel has proven that it is a moral Army. Yes, Purity of Arms still exists but the crucible of war and battles without end have taken their toll on the population in Israel and in the Army.

How many times has Israel been forced to invade Lebanon?
Since 1978: Six major military incursions or invasions.
1978 (Operation Litani)
1982, “Peace for the Galilee
1993
1996
2006
2024

Lebanon needs to get its act together and SERIOUSLY take control of their country, kick out the Iranian-backed Hezbollah who cause nothing but grief for them.

So, yes war is hell, innocents die, perfect behavior by the IDF can go awry but to paint the IDF has an “Arab” style Army with all the looting, murder and mutilation that the PALEOstinians carry out is unfair.

Those that violate this IDF ethos WILL be punished and as you can see, it is public knowledge and the IDF is in the process of reigning it in.

So, go judge the Persian/Arab/Islamic fighters in the entire region. Israel, compared to them is an angel.


13 posted on 04/29/2026 12:44:00 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Christian Arabs in Israel fought for a law to be DRAFTED into the IDF. They could already volunteer.

That pretty much sums it up.


14 posted on 04/29/2026 4:17:21 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Theophilus

So we should be at war with all non Christians?


15 posted on 04/29/2026 4:19:05 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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As I repeat from time to time, the singularly most motivated guy I met while volunteering in the IDF for seven weeks was a Christian Arab named Najib. He was working already when we arrived at 8, and kept working after we left around 5. He never stopped moving; he was a dynamo. He was in charge of let’s say $100,000,000 in IDF assets (a guess).

I asked Najib, “Why are you so motivated ?”

“There is no better place in the world for a guy like me to raise his family than Israel,” he replied.


16 posted on 04/29/2026 4:34:45 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (RandFan: An Obvious Plant, though whether Leftist or Vegetal, I can’t be sure.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Yours doesn’t analyze military discipline problems (which every military faces). You weaponize them— Jews as inherently immoral, deceitful, “3rd World savages” despite their democracy and self-scrutiny. Real critique addresses evidence, proportionality, and context. Instead, your post skips that for emotional hatred, hoping readers nod along without noticing the leap from “bad incidents” to “the Jews are rotten.” Anyone thinking critically sees your agenda and filth.


17 posted on 04/29/2026 4:37:31 AM PDT by HockeyPop
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The looting is not a discipline problem. It is a deliberate LACK of descipline problem from the command hierarchy.

And the abuse of prisoners is video documented, is not prosecuted or disciplined, is defended by radical politicians in Israel , and excused or just denied by the misguided in the West who have somehow talked themselves into the position that they are never allowed to criticize Israel or jews, even if they deserve it.

https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-officially-reinstates-soldiers-caught-on-tape-raping-palestinian-prisoner#google_vignette


18 posted on 04/29/2026 4:49:56 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Anschluss now !)
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To: HockeyPop
It usually goes like this.

”I’m not antisemitic, I’m just against Israel.”

”Why are you against Israel?”

”Because Jooos!”

19 posted on 04/29/2026 4:53:03 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Psalm 2

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.


20 posted on 04/29/2026 5:59:29 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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