One of the hardest parts of having to make the same points repeatedly is writing anything original.
To wit, it is very difficult to keep writing about the one man freak show who masquerades as “Pope Francis” given the fact that he caricatures himself and his revolutionary cronies more and more with each passing day. He will do this again today, Saturday, March 21, 2015, the Feast of Saint Benedict and the Commemoration of Saturday in the Sixth Week of Lent, as has lunch with prisoners who are incarcerated in a prison in Naples, Italy, among whom will be ten mutants who have violated the binding precepts of the Fifth Commandment to surgically “change” their gender. A private meeting that Mr. Bergoglio in the Casa Santa Marta inside the walls of the Occupied Vatican on the West Bank of the Tiber River on Saturday, January 24, 2015, the Feast of Saint Timothy, with a mutilated woman and her “fiancée,” a non-mutilated woman, was only the “set up” to this more public show of support for those on the “peripheries.” Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an agent of Antichrist, and there are only so many ways that this can be said as he reaffirms sinners in their sins and as he reaffirms non-Catholics in their false religions.
Similarly, it is also very difficult to new and “creative” ways to write about the farce that is American electoral politics, which provides us with entertaining side shows to divert us from the simple truth that the world is a mess because of Original Sin and our own Actual Sins at a time when the sacramentally barren liturgical rites of conciliarism have produced a paucity of a superabundance of Sanctifying and Actual Grace. The world situation keeps deteriorating on a daily basis as even traditionally-minded Catholics refuse to see this farce for what it is as competing groups of statists put on a show for public consumption that is as staged as the contests sponsored by professional wrestling organizations. No, I have never watched professional wrestling. I have, however, read about its farcical nature. It is all a stage-managed and carefully choreographed entertainment to maximize profits from spectators and advertisers.
Well, American electoral politics is all stage-managed by well-paid political consultants, lobbyists and career politicians. The gladiatorial combat that takes place gives citizens the illusion of “conflict” even though the gladiators to a person do not believe that it is necessary for a civil state to recognize the true religion or to pursue the common temporal good in light of man’s Last End: the possession of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost in Heaven for all eternity. American electoral politics is all about the money, the money, and the money, which is why the illusion of an “improving” economy will help elect the amoral former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, over whichever naturalist of the false opposite of the naturalist “right” winds up with the Republican Party’s presidential nomination next year.
Consider the fact the leadership of the hapless Republicans in both houses of the Congress of the United States of America has settled on an abdication of their responsibility to force a constitutional crisis over the continued lawlessness of President Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and his band of Eurosocialists, intent as they are on continue to make laws and to impose new without any Congressional authorization whatsoever while simply disregarding or “rewriting” laws that are already part of the United States Code. Congressional Republicans have shown “courage” principally on one issue: complete and total subservience to the Zionist State of Israel. Congressional Republicans, ever the war mongers save for a small number among them, will ape Obama/Soetoro himself by violating authentic presidential prerogatives over the shaping of foreign policy in order to sponsor an address given by an Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is at odds with the lawless caesar. Yes, the Congressional Republicans find their “chutzpah" to stand up to Obama/Soetoro in order to curry favor with the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee and with Talmudic moneybags such as Sheldon Adelson, who is a casino operator in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A majority of Congressional Republicans (57.2%) are Protestants, among whom Baptists (14.8%) make up a plurality, something that is very significant given the fact that Protestant support for the Talmudic invasion and occupation of Palestine was carefully planned by the very founder of Zionism itself, Theodore Herzl, and orchestrated by the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. The Scofield Reference Bible’s insertion of what passed for Scriptural “commentary” in support of the Talmudic resettlement in the Holy Land from which their Abrahamic predecessors were expelled by the Romans in 70 A.D. as Our Lord Himself punished them for their refusing the preaching of the Apostles during the time of grace that was extended to them after the events of His own Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension has made the very existence of the State of Israel appear to the fulfillment of “Biblical prophecy.” It is not.
Father Louis J. Campbell, pastor of Saint Jude Shrine in Stafford, Texas, explained in the sermon that he gave on Sunday, July 27, 2014, the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of Saint Panteleon, that evangelicals have for Talmudism and Zionism, an affinity that, of course, one can see is one of the reasons that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is “united” with them:
Since the time of the Apostles, the Holy Catholic Church has preached the Gospel by the authority granted it by Jesus Christ. The Church was preaching the Gospel years before the Four Gospels were written down, and has continued to this day to fulfill Our Lord’s command to “preach the gospel to every creature” (Mk.16:15).
The Church collected the Scriptures that make up the Bible. But the heretic, Martin Luther (1483-1546), weeded out some of the books of the Bible he didn’t like, and the Protestant version of the Bible was born. The Bible itself was then touted as the sole authority subject to the “private interpretation” of the believer, thus denying the Church’s authority to preach the Gospel and interpret the Scriptures. However, it seems “the believers” are willing to believe much that is not to be found in the Bible.
No doubt many of us are puzzled by the strange phenomenon of Christian Zionism. Many Evangelical Christians, like the Baptists, the Pentecostals and the Charismatics, are enthusiastic supporters of Jewish Zionism, although not all Jews are Zionists, and many of them dispute the Zionist claims.
The Jewish Zionist Movement was founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897. Its chief aim was the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the “Land of Israel” in the Bible. The Temple would eventually be rebuilt, and the ancient religious rites resumed. Since they believe they have a right to the lands promised to Abraham by God, the Zionists have little sympathy for the Palestinians, who were squeezed into the West Bank and the Gaza strip after the creation of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948. Misusing Old Testament Scriptures, the Jewish Zionists believe they are destined to rule the world.
So what could have turned famous Protestant preachers like Billy Graham, Hal Lindsay, John Hagee and Pat Robertson, into Christian Zionists, enthusiastic supporters of the aims of Jewish Zionism? Could it have been – the Scofield Bible?
The Scofield Reference Bible is widely used in Protestant seminaries, especially among Evangelicals, such as Baptists, Pentecostals and Charismatics. Recently someone sent me an article by a Mr. C.E. Carlson about the Scofield Bible, which seems to get to the root of the problem. Much of what follows is from Mr. Carlson (http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/carlson01.htm).
One of the schemes of the Jewish Zionists was to alter the Christian view of Zionism by creating and promoting a pro-Zionist subculture within Christianity. One Cyrus I. Scofield (1843-1921) was funded by Zionist agents to re-write the King James Version of the Bible by inserting Zionist-friendly notes in the margins, between verses and chapters, and on the bottoms of the pages. It was first published in 1909 by Oxford University Press, which still holds the copyright.
Scofield produced a revolutionary book that radically changed the context of the King James Version. Oxford's promoters made the Scofield Bible, with its Christian Zionist footnotes, a standard for interpreting scripture in Christian churches, seminaries, and Bible study groups. And they all followed like sheep – even Hagee, Lindsay, Robertson, Van Impe, and the revered Billy Graham. So much for private interpretation!
After Scofield’s death, the Oxford University Press turned the Scofield Bible into a manual for the Christian worship of the State of Israel. Scofields’s un-Christian anti-Arab theology has permitted the theft of Palestine and 54 years of death and destruction against the Palestinians, with hardly a complaint from the Judeo-Christian mass media evangelists or most other American church leaders, including the so-called U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In his Epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul contradicts the claims of the Scofield Bible:
“The promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. He does not say, ‘And to his offsprings,’ as of many; but as of one, ‘And to his offspring,’ who is Christ… For you are all the children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all who have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor freeman; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are the offspring of Abraham, heirs according to promise” (Gal.3:15b,16;26-29).
This makes it clear that to be a blood relative descended from Abraham is of no advantage to those who do not have faith in Jesus Christ. And Scofield and the Oxford University Press are liars when they try to prove that those who are known today as “Jews” are the heirs to the promises of Abraham. We read this whopper on page 1136 of the 1967 edition: “All Jews are natural descendants of Abraham…”
This is absolutely false and absurd. The great majority of the so-called Jews who control Israel today are not descendants of Abraham at all. They are the Ashkenazi Jews, descendants of the Khazars of Eastern Europe. They are imposters, with no right to the lands of the Bible! Although known as “Jews” they are such neither by blood nor by religion, because the Jewish religion their ancestors adopted in the eighth century is not the true religion of the ancient Jews of the time of Christ, but the false Talmudic Judaism which blasphemes Jesus Christ and deifies the Jewish race.
And on page 19 we find this blatant lie: “God made an unconditional promise of blessings through Abram’s seed… to the Nation of Israel to inherit a specific territory forever.
What a deception! The televangelists and their huge following have accepted this abominable lie, and have led the whole country into vassalage to the Godless modern State of Israel. Jesus Christ is Abraham’s heir, not the State of Israel. The promises God made to Abraham are fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The Jewish Zionists have no true understanding of the Scriptures. And who would have thought that the “Bible believing Christians” would have stumbled after them into the darkness?
“Did you never read in the Scriptures,” said Our Lord to the Pharisees: “‘The stone which the builders rejected, has become the corner stone; by the Lord this has been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’? Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people yielding its fruits” (Mt.21:42,43).
St. Paul understood it well:
“You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the chief corner stone. In him the whole structure is closely fitted together and grows into a temple holy in the Lord, in him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit” (Eph.2:20-22). (Father Louis J. Campbell, Seventh Sunday after Pentecost.)
Father Campbell's sermon should help disabuse some of you in the readership from using any Protestant "minister" as an "authority" on anything other than how to offend the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Blessed Trinity. The American evangelical movement is a wholly-owned enterprise of Zionism. Then again, so is the counterfeit church of conciliarism.
Obviously, it is not only Protestants who have fallen prey to the lies of the Scofield Reference Bible. Most Catholics, influenced by the religious indifferentism that has characterized social life in the United States of American since its founding and by the counterfeit church of conciliarism’s celebration of false ecumenism, accept “support for Israel” and its policies as a “duty” in order render assistance to “America’s only ally” in the Middle East.
Ah, “America’s only ally” in the Middle East was founded in blood
The State of Israel was created by the shedding the blood of the innocent and by the stealing of the homes and land of the Palestinian Arabs who had been living there for centuries upon centuries as they, the Palestinian Arabs, were rounded up and sent to "detention centers" (concentration camps), all with the support of the government of the United States of America (which has its own interesting history of targeting civilians, including the members of various Indian tribes who simply wanted to retain custody of their own lands and, of course, the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, on February 13-14, 1945, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on, respectively, August 6 and 9, 1945, to say nothing of the innocent civilians killed in the past six years in Iraq and those killed in Afghanistan since October 7, 2001), which supports today the terror campaign that has been launched by the bloodthirsty killers of Tel Aviv who have no regarded for innocent civilians in their quest to the terror of brute military force to end a conflict that will be ended only when all of those involved are converted to the Catholic Faith and see in each other the impress of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and say, "Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord."
The man who addressed the United States Congress on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu, cut his political eye teeth as a faithful disciple of the murderous Ariel Sharon, who died on January 11, 2014, after being incapacitated by a massive stroke on January 4, 2006, although Netanyahu had broken with his mentor in 2005 over Sharon’s decision to withdraw Israeli forces from Gaza, which Netanyahu himself has attacked with savage and indiscriminate fury on several occasions.
While it is true that Mohammedan Palestinians have engaged in all manner of attacks on innocent civilians in Israel, this does not make all Palestinians "terrorists." There is bound to be hatred and enmity between men when their souls are steeped in the ravages of Original Sin and their own un-absolved Actual Sins. Many of the Zionists in Israel consider all Arabs, whether Christian or Mohammedan, to be subhuman, having particular hatred for the Palestinians. It is such people who are the true racialists of the Middle East as they believe in the racial and religious superiority of their own Socialist-Masonic state that treats others, including Catholics, with such contempt more often than not.
Consider the hatred of respected figures in Israel for all non-Jews, including the Palestinians:
Consider the words of one Mordecai Elihayu, former chief rabbi of the Sephardic branch of Talmudic Judaism, that were written in 2007:
All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Former Sephardi chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu.
Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.
The letter, published in Olam Katan [Small World], a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide this Friday, cited the biblical story of the Shechem massacre (Genesis 34) and Maimonides' commentary (Laws of Kings 9, 14) on the story as proof texts for his legal decision.
According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets.
The former chief rabbi also said it was forbidden to risk the lives of Jews in Sderot or the lives of IDF soldiers for fear of injuring or killing Palestinian noncombatants living in Gaza.
Eliyahu could not be reached for an interview. However, Eliyahu's son, Shmuel Eliyahu, who is chief rabbi of Safed, said his father opposed a ground troop incursion into Gaza that would endanger IDF soldiers. Rather, he advocated carpet bombing the general area from which the Kassams were launched, regardless of the price in Palestinian life.
"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand," said Shmuel Eliyahu. "And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."
In the letter, Eliyahu quoted from Psalms. "I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them and I will not desist until I have eradicated them."
Eliyahu wrote that "This is a message to all leaders of the Jewish people not to be compassionate with those who shoot [rockets] at civilians in their houses." (http://www.jpost.com.)
This was not an anomaly. The Chabad branch of Talmudic Judaism has posted on a website its rabbinical "teaching" on the belief that the "souls of the nation," meaning the Gentiles, emanate from the nether world and are thus capable of doing no good in this world:
For in the [case of the] Jew, this soul of kelipah is derived from the kelipah called “nogah”, which also contains good; and the good within this nefesh gives rise to these positive natural traits.
[This kelipah] is from the esoteric “Tree of Knowledge” [which is comprised] of good and evil
The souls of the nations of the world, however, emanate from the other, unclean kelipot which contain no good whatever, as is written in Etz Chayim, Portal 49, ch. 3, that all the good that the nations do, is done out of selfish motives.
Since their nefesh emanates from kelipot which contain no good, it follows that any good done by them is for selfish motives.
So the Gemara comments on the verse, “The kindness of the nations is sin” — that all the charity and kindness done by the nations of the world is only for their self-glorification...
When a Jew acts in a benevolent manner he is motivated mainly out of concern for the welfare of his fellow. The proof of this is that were his fellow not to need his help, this would give him greater pleasure than the gratification derived from his act of kindness.
Concerning the nations of the world, however, this is not so. Their motivation is not the welfare of their fellow; rather, it stems from a self-serving motive — the desire for self-glorification, a feeling of gratification, and the like.
It should be noted that among the nations of the world there are also to be found those whose souls are derived from kelipat nogah. Called “the pious ones of the nations of the world,” these righteous individuals are benevolent not out of selfish motives but out of a genuine concern for their fellow. ( http://www.chabad.org/library/article.)
This is not an anomaly. The Chabad branch of Talmudic Judaism has posted on a website its rabbinical "teaching" on the belief that the "souls of the nation," meaning the Gentiles, emanate from the nether world and are thus capable of doing no good in this world:
For in the [case of the] Jew, this soul of kelipah is derived from the kelipah called “nogah”, which also contains good; and the good within this nefesh gives rise to these positive natural traits.
[This kelipah] is from the esoteric “Tree of Knowledge” [which is comprised] of good and evil
The souls of the nations of the world, however, emanate from the other, unclean kelipot which contain no good whatever, as is written in Etz Chayim, Portal 49, ch. 3, that all the good that the nations do, is done out of selfish motives.
Since their nefesh emanates from kelipot which contain no good, it follows that any good done by them is for selfish motives.
So the Gemara comments on the verse, “The kindness of the nations is sin” — that all the charity and kindness done by the nations of the world is only for their self-glorification...
When a Jew acts in a benevolent manner he is motivated mainly out of concern for the welfare of his fellow. The proof of this is that were his fellow not to need his help, this would give him greater pleasure than the gratification derived from his act of kindness.
Concerning the nations of the world, however, this is not so. Their motivation is not the welfare of their fellow; rather, it stems from a self-serving motive — the desire for self-glorification, a feeling of gratification, and the like.
It should be noted that among the nations of the world there are also to be found those whose souls are derived from kelipat nogah. Called “the pious ones of the nations of the world,” these righteous individuals are benevolent not out of selfish motives but out of a genuine concern for their fellow. ( http://www.chabad.org/library/article.)
As noted earlier in this commentary, the late Ariel Sharon treated Arabs as sub-humans and was personally responsible for many cold-blooded killings of thousands of unarmed civilians, something a report written in
AS ARIEL SHARON'S career comes to an end, the whitewashing is already underway. Literally overnight he was being hailed as "a man of courage and peace" who had generated "hopes for a far-reaching accord" with an electoral campaign promising "to end conflict with the Palestinians."
But even if end-of-career assessments often stretch the truth, and even if far too many people fall for the old saw about the gruff old warrior miraculously turning into a man of peace, the reality is that miracles don't happen, and only rarely have words and realities been separated by such a yawning abyss.
From the beginning to the end of his career, Sharon was a man of ruthless and often gratuitous violence. The waypoints of his career are all drenched in blood, from the massacre he directed at the village of Qibya in 1953, in which his men destroyed whole houses with their occupants — men, women and children — still inside, to the ruinous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, in which his army laid siege to Beirut, cut off water, electricity and food supplies and subjected the city's hapless residents to weeks of indiscriminate bombardment by land, sea and air.
As a purely gratuitous bonus, Sharon and his army later facilitated the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, and in all about 20,000 people — almost all innocent civilians — were killed during his Lebanon adventure.
Sharon's approach to peacemaking in recent years wasn't very different from his approach to war. Extrajudicial assassinations, mass home demolitions, the construction of hideous barriers and walls, population transfers and illegal annexations — these were his stock in trade as "a man of courage and peace."
Some may take comfort in the myth that Sharon was transformed into a peacemaker, but in fact he never deviated from his own 1998 call to "run and grab as many hilltops" in the occupied territories as possible. His plan for peace with the Palestinians involved grabbing large portions of the West Bank, ultimately annexing them to Israel, and turning over the shattered, encircled, isolated, disconnected and barren fragments of territory left behind to what only a fool would call a Palestinian state.
SHARON'S "painful sacrifices" for peace may have involved Israel keeping less, rather than more, of the territory that it captured violently and has clung to illegally for four decades, but few seem to have noticed that it's not really a sacrifice to return something that wasn't yours to begin with.
His much-ballyhooed withdrawal from Gaza left 1.4 million Palestinians in what is essentially the world's largest prison, cut off from the rest of the world and as subject to Israeli power as before. It also terminated the possibility of a two-state solution to the conflict by condemning Palestinians to whiling away their lives in a series of disconnected Bantustans, ghettos, reservations and strategic hamlets, entirely at the mercy of Israel.
That's not peace. As Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull would have recognized at a glance, it's an attempt to pacify an entire people by bludgeoning them into a subhuman irrelevance. Nothing short of actual genocide — for which Sharon's formula was merely a kind of substitute — would persuade the Palestinian people to quietly accept such an arrangement, or negate themselves in some other way. And no matter which Israeli politician now assumes Sharon's bloody mantle, such an approach to peace will always fail. (The Whitewashing of Ariel Sharon, UCLA International Institute; see also Who is Ariel Sharon? and Israeli Massacre of Palestinians--which contains some graphic photographs of injuries to Palestinians caused by the Israeli military, for an assessment of the Israeli treatment of Palestinians.)
The only calculus used by the Zionists of the State of Israel and by their Mohammedan antagonists in such organizations as Hamas and Hezbollah is realpolitik: will a particular military strategy achieve its goals even if civilians must die in the process. Trying to assess military operations in light of the Just War Theory, for example, is anathema to men who reject the Sacred Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, He Who is the Prince of Peace Incarnate. Fueled by their captivity to the devil by means of Original Sin, Mohammedans and adherents of the Talmud are content to target the innocent and condemn them to death to achieve "goals" that lead only to more violence and more killing in the future.
The artificial, invented State of Israel that is home to a truly invented people with an invented history and invented claims to possess the land that they stole from the Palestinians before they brutalized them is fully capable of defending itself in the event of some kind of attack. After all, former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates let it slip at his Senate confirmation hearings in 2006 that Israel had over two hundred nuclear weapons. The State of Israel does not need a dime of American foreign aid. Not a dime of it.
It is truly amazing how just 1.7% of the population of the United States of America is able to control most of American foreign policy, but control it they do, which is why Benjamin Netanyahu was invited to speak before an extraordinary joint session of Congress by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner (R- West Chester, Ohio, on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, as he, Netanyahu, talked “tough” against the Islamic Republic of Iran so as to reinforce American support for the Israeli approach to “stopping” Iran from joining the nuclear club of nations. This was all to the delight of the “conservative” babblers who make gazillions of dollars on “talk radio” and to those bought-and-paid-for members of Congress who can never say “no” to Israel at any time for any reason no matter how monstrous and bloodthirsty its crimes against innocent human beings continue to be.
Yawn.
Same old, same old.
It is interesting, however, that Netanyahu attempted to explain the Islamic Republic of Iran’s decades-long support for various terrorist groups, including the Iranian directed financed attack on American barracks in the Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday, October 22, 1983, that killed two hundred forty-one Americans who were in the service of the armed forces of the United States of America. Another fifty-eight Frenchmen who were in the service of the armed forces of the French Republic also were killed.
Here is what Netanyahu said in his address to Congress on March 3, 2015:
Iran took dozens of Americans hostage in Tehran, murdered hundreds of American soldiers, Marines, in Beirut, and was responsible for killing and maiming thousands of American service men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Netanyahu Address to Congress.)
What Netanyahu “forgot” to mention, however, was that then President Ronald Wilson Reagan had unwisely placed American troops in Beirut as part of an international peacekeeping force that secured Israeli withdrawal on May 17, 1983, from the “Paris on the Mediterranean” following that country’s unjust and immoral invasion of Lebanon on June 6, 1982, as then Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon personally supervised the merciless shelling of West Beirut in a failed effort to get rid of the Palestine Liberation Organization once and for all.
Benjamin Netanyahu is as much a fear-mongering demagogue as the man, former President George Walker Bush, who authorized the unjust, immoral, and unconstitutional United States of America-led invasion and occupation of Iraq on March 20, 2003, in order to make the Middle East “safe for Israel” by ousting a former ally who became a “leader of an axis of evil,” Saddam Hussein. Far from “securing” Israel, Bush’s effort at nation-building resulted in the recrudescence of Iraqi tribalism that had Hussein kept in check by the use of brute force.
Iran, formerly Iraq’s enemy, is now seeking to prop up the tottering American-backed government in Iraq against the onslaught of the faithful, believing Mohammedans of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (also known as the Islamic State and the Islamic State of the Levant). Thousands of American military personnel were needlessly sent to die or to be wounded in a war that had no defined goal and that was started even though there was not just cause to do so.
Yet it is that most Congressional Republicans continue to believe that war is the answer to a stable world, a view that they share completely with the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu and his immediate predecessors, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, who authorized a savage, take-no-prisoners attack on December 27, 2008, the Feast of Saint John the Beloved within the Octave of Christmas, on Gaza following attacks on various Israeli population centers by members of the Mohammedan Hamas’s paramilitary force.
The Zionists are filled with the same anger, hatred and rage as Herod the Great, who, unlike them, was a Jew by blood and not as a result of the conversion of the Khazars to the Talmud at the end of the First Millennium A.D. Their souls are steeped in Original Sin and are thus captive to the devil, predisposing them to strike out immoderately and disproportionately when provoked by their arch-enemies in the ranks of Mohammedanism, fiends who souls are also steeped in the ravages of Original Sin. The mutual hatreds and animosities fueled by what are, objectively speaking, so many unforgiven Mortal Sins committed by the Zionists and their Mohammedan foes provide the devil with a veritable field day as innocent human beings are slaughtered and future generations of "fighters" are taught to hate and to exact revenge for today's crimes.
No matter the repeated injustices cruel barbarities perpetrated against Palestinian Arabs by the Zionists in the past sixty years as generations of Palestinians have been displaced from their homes and rounded up into concentration camps (excuse me, detention centers) and thousands upon thousands of their innocents killed wantonly, there can no justification for the targeting of Israeli population centers by Hamas militiamen and their rockets. While one can denounce the fact of the State of Israel’s sixty-six years of injustices against the Palestinians, it is never morally licit to target civilian population centers to redress legitimate grievances militarily.
The leaders of Hamas, who have authorized the lobbing of rockets into nearby Israeli civilian population centers from the Gaza Strip from time to time, have known full well that their Zionist foes would respond with some kind of show of force, although some reports in late-2008 indicated that they were not quite prepared for the typically disproportionate Israeli response that also characterized Netanyahu’s own invasion and shelling of Gaza that began on July 8, 2014, and lasted until August 26, 2014, as the “peace loving” Netanyahu’s Israeli Defense Forces ruined schools, hospitals, power generating plants, apartment buildings and private homes, resulting in 2200 dead Palestinians:
Netanyahu's office said he instructed the army to go ahead after Hamas rejected an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week and after Hamas militants tried to infiltrate into Israel through a tunnel from Gaza earlier Thursday.
lt added Operation "Defensive Edge" would continue" until its goal is reached - to restore sustainable quiet and calm to the Israeli citizens while severely hurting and dismantling Hamas infrastructure as well as other terrorist organization in Gaza."
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, said that the operation is open-ended.
"We will be striking the infrastructure," he said. "We will be striking the operatives in order to safeguard the civilians of the state of Israel especially issues to do with tunneling, that was exemplified earlier today."
Thousands of Israeli soldiers had massed on the border with Gaza in recent days, waiting for the order to go in.
Earlier Thursday, Hamas militants and Israel exchanged rocket fire following the expiration of a brief cease-fire that allowed Gazans to stock up on supplies.
The U.N.-brokered five-hour lull in fighting gave residents of the Gaza Strip time to crowd into stores and vegetable markets after more than a week of being mostly holed up at home for fear of airstrikes. Gaza City, a virtual ghost town for the past 10 days, returned to apparent normalcy within minutes of the start of the truce. Streets were jammed, motorists honked horns and Hamas police directed traffic at busy intersections.
But the streets emptied out quickly after the cease-fire expired, with Palestinian militants firing more than 50 rockets at Israel, including a heavy salvo toward the Tel Aviv area that sent people running for cover, the Israeli military said. The military said a rocket fired from Gaza struck the city of Ashkelon at precisely 3 p.m. local time (8 a.m. ET) as the pause in military activity ended. No injuries were reported.
Israel responded with a wave of eight airstrikes, including one that killed two boys and a girl ages 8 to 10 from the same family in Gaza City, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said. (Israeli military launches ground operation in Gaza Strip against Hamas.)
The monstrous, murderous occupation of the Holy Land by the Zionists has been enabled by one American presidential administration after another ever since the Six Day War forty-seven years ago now. It is not without justification that Patrick Joseph Buchanan termed the Congress of the United States of America as the "occupied territory" of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). No one within the ranks of the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist "right" ever speaks out in opposition to the sort of amoral, disproportionate Israeli response to Hamas attacks on innocent civilians in Israel that took place last year, attacks that can in no way be justified, of course.
Netanyahu's office said he instructed the army to go ahead after Hamas rejected an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week and after Hamas militants tried to infiltrate into Israel through a tunnel from Gaza earlier Thursday.
lt added Operation "Defensive Edge" would continue" until its goal is reached - to restore sustainable quiet and calm to the Israeli citizens while severely hurting and dismantling Hamas infrastructure as well as other terrorist organization in Gaza."
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, said that the operation is open-ended.
"We will be striking the infrastructure," he said. "We will be striking the operatives in order to safeguard the civilians of the state of Israel especially issues to do with tunneling, that was exemplified earlier today."
Thousands of Israeli soldiers had massed on the border with Gaza in recent days, waiting for the order to go in.
Earlier Thursday, Hamas militants and Israel exchanged rocket fire following the expiration of a brief cease-fire that allowed Gazans to stock up on supplies.
The U.N.-brokered five-hour lull in fighting gave residents of the Gaza Strip time to crowd into stores and vegetable markets after more than a week of being mostly holed up at home for fear of airstrikes. Gaza City, a virtual ghost town for the past 10 days, returned to apparent normalcy within minutes of the start of the truce. Streets were jammed, motorists honked horns and Hamas police directed traffic at busy intersections.
But the streets emptied out quickly after the cease-fire expired, with Palestinian militants firing more than 50 rockets at Israel, including a heavy salvo toward the Tel Aviv area that sent people running for cover, the Israeli military said. The military said a rocket fired from Gaza struck the city of Ashkelon at precisely 3 p.m. local time (8 a.m. ET) as the pause in military activity ended. No injuries were reported.
Israel responded with a wave of eight airstrikes, including one that killed two boys and a girl ages 8 to 10 from the same family in Gaza City, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said. (Israeli military launches ground operation in Gaza Strip against Hamas.)
The atheist who is the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg, had more natural courage to denounce Israel's attacks on Gaza last year than any leader in the United States of America and than anyone associated with the conciliar Vatican, men who live in fear of offending the Jews, but not God, at all times:
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has lashed out at the Gaza military operation, urging Israel to cease its offensive.
Speaking in his weekly phone-in program on radio LBC, Clegg said that Israel had gone too far in its attacks after four Palestinian children were killed on a beach by Israeli shells.
He also accused Israel of imposing a “disproportionate form of collective punishment” on to Gaza citizens, which would lead to “truly unimaginable” and “unacceptable” humanitarian crisis.
The statements echo the guidelines set out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to define breaches of international law.
In a paper defining international conventions during war, the ICRC classifies collective punishment as a war crime, as it constitutes ‘cruel treatment’.
"Both indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks can be likened to attacks on civilians if the perpetrator was aware that this would be the effect of the attack in the ordinary course of events" the report states.
The death toll from the Israeli military operation has now climbed past 200 Palestinians, 70 percent of whom were civilians. Thirty percent were children, according to the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNCHA). Fifty-two people were killed on Saturday alone.
By contrast, One Israeli civilian died as a result of the Palestinian offensive, which included 1,200 largely ineffectual rockets.
While Clegg affirmed his belief that Israel has a right to defend itself “in the face of violence” he hoped that the five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, which began on Thursday morning, would help ease the current attacks.
"Regardless of which side you are on in this ancient bloody conflict, no one can feel indifferent to the spectacle of this overcrowded, desperate sliver of land in Gaza, where so many thousands of people are suffering” he told listeners.
The deputy PM is the first UK government official to criticize Israel’s conduct since the Gaza offensive began. It is in stark contrast with Prime Minister David Cameron, who earlier this week asserted Israel’s “right to defend itself.”
Meanwhile, Cameron signed up to a European Union statement last night, calling for both sides to "de-escalate the situation, to end the violence, to end the suffering of the civilian populations notably by allowing access to humanitarian assistance, and return to calm." (Israel attacks are collective punishment!’ Nick Clegg slams Gaza.)
The irony here is palapable. The very people who reject any idea of collective guilt for the Crufixion of Our Lord impose colllective guilt on those they hold responsible for crimes that, although unjustifiable morally, have been committed by fellow non-Christians in response to the State of Israel's bloodthirsty, oppressive policies that have been enabled by the United States of America for so very long.
There is another irony here in that it was the plan of the British Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine out of the southern part of Syria that had been under the sway of the Ottoman Empire for centuries:
Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours,
Arthur James Balfour (The Balfour Declaration.)
Ah, yes, the joys of "man" as "the king of the universe."
It matters not to the card-carrying “Christian Zionists” in the United States Congress and in the “conservative” media and blogosphere that Benjamin Netanyahu has the blood of the innocent on his hands or that he has made possible the shedding of more innocent blood even in his own country when his own hea