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Family of Christian soldier who fell in Gaza asked to remove cross from his headstone
Jerusalem Post ^ | 10/22/24 | Eve Young

Posted on 10/24/2024 5:58:38 AM PDT by hardspunned

Bogdanovski's family immigrated to Israel from Ukraine in 2014, and David enlisted in the IDF and served in the engineering corps.

The Defense Ministry is attempting to reach an agreement with the family of St.-Sgt. David Bogdanovsky, who fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip in December, to remove a cross from his headstone. “By law, it is not permissible to place a cross or any other religious marker on a military headstone,” the Ministry said.

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To: hardspunned

One would think that the Israeli government would want to celebrate the fact that it’s not just Jews who are fighting and dying.


2 posted on 10/24/2024 6:00:52 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: hardspunned
It's not Zionist wokeness, it's just regular old wokeness.

Israel is a secular state. "Chosen people" does not enter into it.

3 posted on 10/24/2024 6:02:38 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: hardspunned

The scriptures say that the Jews hated Jesus and asked Pilate to crucify (i.e. execute) him.

The scriptures also say that Jesus himself was a Jew and that Jews are God’s chosen people.

2,000 years later, the Jew hierarchy in Israel won’t let a christian family put a cross on there son’s grave.

Lol.......”Jews” are confusing.


4 posted on 10/24/2024 6:06:16 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: hardspunned

God decides who is the chosen people, not you or me.


5 posted on 10/24/2024 6:07:33 AM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: hardspunned
the cross hurts their feelings and their ability to pray

It's on one grave marker. It seems a bit of a stretch it could do this. Regardless if the family removes it I wouldn't want to be them when they face the guy that cross represents. He said something about denying him here on earth.

6 posted on 10/24/2024 6:13:45 AM PDT by xp38
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To: hardspunned
After using several different search engines and looking for images of Haifa's military cemetery and other related cemeteries, I suspect this Jerusalem Post article is meant to incite political issues and differences.

Among the many images I found in less than a couple of minutes, one found graves with crosses and some with no symbols at all, but only texts.

Additionally, in southern California decades ago, a small Jewish congregation was allowed to worship at a Presbyterian church (long before this stupid LGBT stuff), in which the Presbyterian vestry and the church's minister allowed the cross affixed to the wall to be covered only temporarily. No problem for any there then, on any "side."

The media today needs eyes and clicks and "heat" to generate revenue, and JP -- with its clear political stance -- is no different.

7 posted on 10/24/2024 6:14:38 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: hardspunned
“By law, it is not permissible to place a cross or any other religious marker on a military headstone,” the Ministry said.
8 posted on 10/24/2024 6:21:26 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: Cen-Tejas

“The scriptures also say that Jesus himself was a Jew and that Jews are God’s chosen people.”

Up until 2,000 years ago. Now, it is the church, according to Paul in Gal 3:28.

Now, if you want to go back to promises of national greatness, you have to involve the twelve tribes, and the Jews were only one tribe.

After Solomon died, the united tribes broke up into two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah (Jews).


9 posted on 10/24/2024 6:30:35 AM PDT by odawg
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To: hardspunned

The Jews were the people chosen to bring the Christ into the world. One that happened “there is no Jew, there is no Greek.”


10 posted on 10/24/2024 6:33:18 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Cen-Tejas
Israel is at least consistent here — except insofar as this “secular” country even has a chief Rabbi in the first place.

For me, the baffling part of the story is why a Ukrainian Christian would even join the Israeli military in the first place.

11 posted on 10/24/2024 6:38:40 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Only Christians make it to Heaven.


12 posted on 10/24/2024 6:38:48 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: hardspunned

Over there it seems Jews hate Christians almost as much as Muslims.


13 posted on 10/24/2024 6:40:51 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: hardspunned
Chosen People, my a$$. This is strait Zionist wokeness.

Israel was created to be a Jewish state - not a pluralistic republic. The idea that non-Jews are treated equally on a societal or legal level is a myth. When Jews, who generally have an anti-Christian bias, run everything in a nation, don't expect equal treatment under the law. This incident proves the point. IDF soldiers commonly have the Star of David on their headstone, which is a symbol of Judaism. To refuse a parent the right to place a symbol of their son's faith on his tombstone shows Jewish hypocrisy and bigotry. The cross being an offense simply says the quiet part out loud. Jews (non-Christian) in Israel and around the world have a built-in bias and dislike of Christians. Their Talmud reflects hatred toward Christ. They have been taught that Christians have persecuted them throughout history. What do you expect?

14 posted on 10/24/2024 6:50:18 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: hardspunned

God is a Zionist. A Zionist is simply someone who believes Israel has a right to exist, and God gave the land to the Jews.

As an anti-Zionist, you are also anti-Christian and anti-God.


15 posted on 10/24/2024 6:51:15 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: hardspunned

They hate Jesus and his followers.


16 posted on 10/24/2024 7:01:05 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: TalBlack

Yes. He has decided the Christian Church, the bride of Christ are his chosen people.

2 Thessalonians 1:6 says to the Christians God will trouble those that trouble you.

Looks like the self-proclaimed LGBT capital of the Middle East might have judgment coming someday.


17 posted on 10/24/2024 7:04:59 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: hardspunned

This is an example of a secular state... Their military is united... Jews, Christians, Muslims and Atheist fighting together against evil.


18 posted on 10/24/2024 7:50:32 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

, I suspect this Jerusalem Post article is meant to incite political issues and differences.


Folks,

every article has an agenda. Learn to make that the first thing you look for.


19 posted on 10/24/2024 7:53:19 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: hardspunned

If it’s a rule that no religious symbols be put on the grave markers, so be it. But if Jewish symbols are allowed, then the Christian soldier should be allowed to have a Christian symbol. It’s a shame that the prayers and devotions of Christians towards Jews are not recognized by Jews, and not just in Israel.


20 posted on 10/24/2024 8:13:43 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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