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A La Carte {02 June 2008}

June 2, 2008 in Christianity by Isaiah | 8 comments

Nazira Rafei -- Another Female Sex PredatorWhat is it with female teachers nowadays? — a female teacher in Australia, Nazira Rafei, has been charged in court for allegedly telling her 15-year-old male student to treat her like a “sex slave”.

Is it me or has there been an escalation in the number of such cases involving female sexual predators?

Handing out Gospel tracts in a Muslim area is a “hate crime” — according to WorldNetDaily, two American pastors were told that it was a “hate crime” to hand out Gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area in Birmingham, England.

I wonder if the same rule applies if a Muslim evangelist hands out Islamic tracts in a predominantly Christian area.

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Bush Mentions the Big ‘O’ Word

January 11, 2008 in Israel by Isaiah | 8 comments

I have this much intelligence!George Bush bows to his god ‘oil’ and calls legitimate Israeli ownership of ‘Palestinian territories’ the big ‘O’ word — occupation1.

I wonder which Bible George Bush reads because the one that I read, and which many other Christians around the world also do, says that Israel belongs to the Jews, including the land which he now calls ‘occupied Palestinian territories‘.

And what in the world is a Palestinian state anyhow? There’s never been in history any record of a Palestinian state, or a Palestinian people. If there were, we’d see archaeological records of such a people, their culture captured in relics, writings, paintings, etc.

Yet there’s none.

What we do see from archaeological digs and know from recorded history even outside of the Bible is that there was a Jewish state in that strip of land, and in the ‘occupied territories’.

So, where is the legitimacy for the claim of these ‘Palestinians’ who now demand a state on the world stage, and which countless world leaders are scrambling to help create at the expense of Israel’s security and at the cost of billions of dollars.

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Sign the Petition to Stop the Destruction

September 5, 2007 in Christianity by Isaiah | 8 comments

The Muslim Religious Authority (Waqf) in Israel, citing permission from the Israeli government, is tearing up the earth around the Temple Mount and in the process potentially destroying priceless artifacts from the Second Temple and possibly even from the First Temple era.

The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism.

According to Gideon Charlap, a top Jerusalem architect and an expert on the Temple Mount, the 1-meter deep trench, running north to south, is obliterating artifacts that might reside in the Ezrat Nashim (or Women’s Courtyard) of the Temple as well as rooms that served as the Temple’s offices and other functions.

Even if you aren’t pro-Israel, I hope you see that, as with any civilization, the wilful destruction of its artifacts by another is a sensitive issue — one pertaining to a people’s heritage and history.

One Jerusalem is trying to gather together enough voices through the petition to beseech Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to actually take action and stop the madness that is continuing to destroy Jewish history daily.

I strongly urge and hope that you will join me in helping to sign the Temple Mount petition and circulate it.

Shalom!

Photos of the destruction taken from Boker Tov, Boulder!

Indignation, Acceptance, Elation

August 30, 2007 in Israel by Isaiah | 7 comments

Phase 1: Indignation

I just read this piece of news saying that as part of the ‘peace’ deal between Israel and the Palestinian people, Ehud Olmert’s government has turned over control of the Temple Mount to the enemy.

According to top Palestinian sources, the proposal is for Jerusalem’s Old City holy sites near the Mount to be governed by a Jewish, Christian and Muslim task force; and the Western Wall plaza below the Mount to be controlled by Israel.

In addition, Israel will evacuate from most of the West Bank and cede the eastern sections of Jerusalem.

The Temple Mount is Israel’s holiest site, for crying out loud, and people who have no claim whatsoever to land either historically, religiously or otherwise are demanding that the Jews give up their holiest site within their own state to foreign control?!

That made my blood boil with indignation.

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