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.
I think the promised land includes Iraq and Maybe Syria
I like the thin mutton-chops. Really pegs the retro-fishmonger look.
http://bibleatlas.org/full/sodom_and_gomorrah.htm
Gen 13:15 gives Abram all the land North, South, East and West of the 5 cities of the plains (Sodom and Gomorrah) West of the Dead Sea. see map link. had to check after making that statement.
The meeting was about middle eastern CHRISTIANS facing extinction in the BIRTHPLACE of Christianity,,,NOT Israel. But your precious Teddy said the hell with that and tried to make it all about Israel. I don’t blame them for being pissed off. Apparently he was stupid enough to believe this will make Jews in America suddenly love him and vote for him. It won’t. They will still vote donk. The only thing he did was turn his back on Christians.
Learn your history!
Well this writer’s country did actually take in the largest number of Iraqi Christians. They have earned the right to speak to the issue. God I hate the French though.
Right. But Christians can BE anti emo. It think it’s somewhere in St. Paul’s letters, where he advises them to grow up, get a life, and fasten their seatbelts
He looks like Boy George’s buttplug. I think I saw him in a Culture Club video about ‘84.
No, no ... you’re right. Retro-fishmonger all the way.
No Comment Yet on Why Obama Held Meeting on 9/11 With Terrorist-Supporting Cleric ijreview ^ | September 13, 2014 | Victoria Taft
Posted on 9/12/2014, 10:14:33 PM by Hojczyk
President Obama held an Oval Office meeting with Middle Eastern-based Arab Christians on 9/11, one member of whom is a loud and proud supporter of the terrorist group Hezbollah.
The day before, members of the same group, holding a conference under the name In Defense of Christians, booed and shouted down keynote speaker Senator Ted Cruz
”It’s surprising White House staffers allowed Maronite Patriarch Bashara Rai to meet with the President in the first place. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah supporting cleric isn’t shy about his views.
.....just taking orders from Obama...
Did he happen to mention anything about whether hipsters are actually gay or just try hard to look like it? I’m lost on that one.
I dunno how to break this to you Ches(hire), but Israel IS the birthplace of Christianity. Look up the acronym INRI for more details.
And BTW, my ‘precious Ted’ has integrity. Look that up too. Lemmie guess. You were a vocal Romney supporter too right?
BTW2: I’m a Palinista. But If ‘precious’ ted runs, I’ll be there with bells on.
Seems that happens here on FR a lot too.
TC knew exactly what he was doing to flush out the conference funders, religious leader allies, and supporters of Hezbollah at the event.
Well done, sir!.
Good point. Hadn’t considered that. I guess all the years of watching Pub after Pub since Ronaldus bend over, I had forgotten that one might go on offense. Being Cruz, it shouldn’t surprise me.
Battered wife syndrome for me I guess.
Cynical and despicable ? Of the year ? This “author” must live a very sheltered life.
BTW2: I’m a Palinista. But If ‘precious’ ted runs, I’ll be there with bells on.
Very well said, FRiend. Senator Ted Cruz and Governor Sarah Palin are both unabashed Christians, so it naturally follows that they are staunch defenders of Israel, the best friend that America has in the world.
Um, Mark Udall saying the journalists who got beheaded wouldn’t want us to be rash in Iraq strikes me as more shameless, and that’s just within the week.
Recently I decided to cut back on posting and just comment on nuclear levels of stupidity.
In the last several days it seems there is more of it than ever. It has practically become the default between the resurgent Romneybots and the PDS brigade. We can only hope for a lightning storm soon because this crap isn’t helping promote the conservative cause, nor conservative candidates.
I just posted an illuminating summary by Breitbart in response to this hit piece.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3203585/posts
Dont tell chess. He might stroke on us. ;)
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