This is particularly scary not just because this is being directed against Jews but the IRS exists to collect taxes not to enforce political orthodoxy.
Sure because the story is Jewish/Zionist related I am posting the article below BUT consider how much of our liberties and constitutional rights have been bulldoized since January 2009? THIS cannot continue and America as we know it, as we were taught to believe in can continue. Please look past party affiliation and look to principle
In the meantime as Chanukah approaches one wonders if lighting the Menorah will be an unwelcome declaration of Judaizing the Holy Land and the Temple Mount.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1110/IRS_to_Jewish_group_Does_your_organization_support_the_existence_of_the_land_of_Israel.html
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday, November 07, 2010
TIME TO BELIEVE
Recently synod of Catholic Clergy from the middle East asserted that Israel[i.e. Jews] cannot cite Biblical texts confirming the D-vine promise of the Land of Israel to the Jewish people. Indeed the Jews should cease their occupation of lands claimed by Arabs..
OK, maybe these men needed to make such a statement because their position in their home countries is precarious, yet, the Vatican seemed to echo the synod’s opinion.
UNESCO has called upon the State of Israel to remove the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb from the list of Jewish Heritage Sites. UNESCO endorsed the notion both sites are claimed exclusively as Mosques. UNESCO’s action was so outrageous that is prompted Israel to formally declare it was suspending its cooperation with the UN agency.
One’s initial reaction would be somewhere between “ . . . . and where do the @#$%ing Vatican and UNSECO think Jews do belong? ” Or ’ This is so outrageous !!!! To @#$% with them.!!!!” However neither reaction is useful.
Yet ignoring these developments would be a missed opportunity. Why deny the legitimacy of using Jewish sacred texts as the basis of Jewish claim to the Promised Land? Implied in the admonition is an acknowledgement however begrudging in the enduring truth of the D-vine promises. Similarly, why claim the burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs as Mosques and beyond a legitimate Jewish claim also implies a need to shout down the truth that is stated in Scripture.
An obvious conclusion can be drawn. Those who are hostile to the Jewish people particularly the presence of Jews in the Land of Israel in fulfillment of prophecy and as part of the national history and heritage feel the need to de-legitimatize that connection. If they believe why shouldn’t the Jews? Maybe this is how G-D through Jewry’s opponents compels a spiritual awakening. An awakening to embrace Jewish history and Heritage as the exclusive basis to assert Jewish values and identity.
It is time to believe in the Jewish nation and narrative.
OK, maybe these men needed to make such a statement because their position in their home countries is precarious, yet, the Vatican seemed to echo the synod’s opinion.
UNESCO has called upon the State of Israel to remove the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb from the list of Jewish Heritage Sites. UNESCO endorsed the notion both sites are claimed exclusively as Mosques. UNESCO’s action was so outrageous that is prompted Israel to formally declare it was suspending its cooperation with the UN agency.
One’s initial reaction would be somewhere between “ . . . . and where do the @#$%ing Vatican and UNSECO think Jews do belong? ” Or ’ This is so outrageous !!!! To @#$% with them.!!!!” However neither reaction is useful.
Yet ignoring these developments would be a missed opportunity. Why deny the legitimacy of using Jewish sacred texts as the basis of Jewish claim to the Promised Land? Implied in the admonition is an acknowledgement however begrudging in the enduring truth of the D-vine promises. Similarly, why claim the burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs as Mosques and beyond a legitimate Jewish claim also implies a need to shout down the truth that is stated in Scripture.
An obvious conclusion can be drawn. Those who are hostile to the Jewish people particularly the presence of Jews in the Land of Israel in fulfillment of prophecy and as part of the national history and heritage feel the need to de-legitimatize that connection. If they believe why shouldn’t the Jews? Maybe this is how G-D through Jewry’s opponents compels a spiritual awakening. An awakening to embrace Jewish history and Heritage as the exclusive basis to assert Jewish values and identity.
It is time to believe in the Jewish nation and narrative.
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