Posted on 05/10/2020 9:12:57 AM PDT by FewsOrange
Israel is reportedly threatening to remove GOD TV channel just one week after its launch, claiming it is proselytizing.
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GOD TV began airing the 24/7 Hebrew-language "Shelanu TV" channel last week on Israel's HOT cable network ...
“Today we made history! For the first time ever, a Messianic television channel is broadcasting the Gospel across Israel in the Hebrew language,” GOD-TV said in a statement April 29. “Shelanu translates to ‘Ours’ in Hebrew. We want every person in Israel to know, not a foreign Messiah, but a Jewish one! His name is Yeshua and He has not forgotten His people," it continued.
But on Tuesday, Israeli Communications Minister David Ansalem said in a statement he was not aware that a license was granted to GOD TV, adding he "will not allow any missionary channel to operate in Israel, at no time and under no circumstances.”
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"If indeed this channel does missionary work, it be removed immediately," the statement said.
Proselytizing to anyone under 18 years old without parental consent is against the law in Israel, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and the terms of the license issued to Shelanu, prohibit missionary programming. ...
Shelanu's station manager said it's "been a challenging process" and asked for financial support on GOD TV's website "to produce relevant and dynamic content that will grab the attention of the Israeli people and open their eyes to the truth of their Messiah, Yeshua."
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Michael Brown, a Messianic Jewish radio host, announced in a video on Tikkun International's website that the new channel will "preach the gospel of Jesus the Messiah in Hebrew on cable TV for the first time in history."
Israeli outlets report Christian channels Daystar and Middle East Television both broadcast on Israel's YES satellite TV and do not proselytize.
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Stealing the souls of their tragically-uneducated Jewish citizens. (No sarcasm)
I agree. I’m watching hixtory of The Spanish Inquisition right now. And what about Hitler? Today we are “modern”, but are we? Look at some of the governors,
At my age, I am still learning about how terrible people can be.
I think it is also important to note that this is an Israeli matter, with both sides being Israeli citizens, being litigated under Israeli laws and (if it comes to that) in Israeli courts. Whatever my personal opinions, I recognize their sovereignty over their own land.
Israel is swamped with Christians who claim to be “Jews.” They go on and on offending others by saying the name of the Lord and talking about “Yeshuah.” Every sad SOB from Tennessee somehow finds their way to Israel and starts talking as if they are sabras. “We’re grafted in...” All silly inventions, and highly irritating.See Free Republic for more of this nonsense.
True.
Please remember that 20% of Israelis are Arab / muslim Israelis. There are even Arab members of the knesset.
“Proselytizing to anyone under 18 years old without parental consent is against the law in Israel”
What about promoting homosexuality? Are networks which air Ellen Degenerate banned?
“Stealing the souls of their tragically-uneducated Jewish citizens. (No sarcasm)”
No one can “steal” the soul of a free person. And you’re saying Christianity has been successful because people are uneducated? You would have been better off claiming your comment was sarcasm.
Not really.
after you watch that- look up how some of the crusades went and protected the Jews and fought alongside them against Muslim aggression
I’m so sorry. I was insensitive. Instead of “tragically-uneducated” I meant as-of-yet-secular and wide-open to missionary tactics.
Amen to that. Christians used to carry out "pogroms" against Jews, murdering dozens, hundreds, at a time for nearly any perceived slight or provocation. There were thousands of Jews murdered during the Black Death, all because Jews in ghettos were blamed for it since they didn't die at the same high rate (it spread via swine that Jews do not eat, and Jews "social distanced" normally, for fear of violence).
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Except, of course, Evangelical Christians --- upon whom Jews rely for near 100% political support for all things of and by the State of Israel.
The San Remo Conference of 1920 that is the legal basis of ‘Palestine’ as a Jewish homeland recognized its Jewish nature the same way that conference recognized the the ethnic nature of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
There was no imposition of a requirement that those nations be open to proselytization they saw as against their best interest.
People peacefully practicing their own religion, the religion of their fathers going back 5,000 years, do not need to be told that it lacks anything and that the remedy is to follow the dictates of ANOTHER religion. What nerve!
It’s almost like both of your groups treated the other like crap at various points in history.
But hey, as long as all you clowns can agree that the third Abrahamic religion is beneath contempt.
“A different opinion! I’m offended, make it go away!” Would have gotten your point across in a lot fewer words.
They don’t have to watch.
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