In this social media culture of mass formation psychosis, one hysteria passes and another one comes just as quickly. And no one's paying attention to what truly matters because the weapons of mass distraction keep detonating.


	In,&nbsp;The Only Dangerous Thing About Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit is Her Boss’s Cowardice, I <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/only-dangerous-thing-about-pelosis-taiwan-visit-daniel-greenfield/">wrote that</a>, "American politicians regularly visit Taiwan. Six senators have visited just this year. Neither of the major papers campaigned against the Taiwan Travel Act. Nor did they condemn the series of congressional delegations that have been visiting the Republic of China. Until now.&nbsp;But when China exercised its heckler’s veto, the Biden administration ran to duck and cover. And the media suddenly decided that visiting Taiwan was suddenly very dangerous business. Communist China is likely to invade Taiwan. It will do so irrespective of whether a daffy California congresswoman sets foot in it or not."


	This was a manufactured crisis. The grifters on all sides who are really on the side of their bank accounts began shouting that WWIII was coming, just as they began shouting that we would soon be in a nuclear war with Russia.&nbsp;


	(After 150+ days plus, how's that nuclear war going?)


	&nbsp;And China is closing up its latest <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-reaffirms-threat-military-force-annex-taiwan-88177871">theatrical production</a> of "Final Warning 3: This Time We Mean War".

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;China on Wednesday repeated military threats against&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;while appearing to wind down wargames near the self-governing island it claims as its own territory that have raised tensions between the two sides to their highest level in years.

	
		The message in a lengthy policy statement issued by the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office and its news department followed almost a week of missile firings and incursions into Taiwanese waters and airspace by Chinese warships and air force planes.
</blockquote>


	That doesn't mean China won't invade Taiwan. But it'll do so on its own timetable and the last thing we should let China or Russia do is blame us for their own actions.


	China is pulling out the big guns by <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/china-withdraws-promise-not-send-084146005.html">lying a little less</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		China has withdrawn a promise not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan if it takes control of the island, an official document showed on Wednesday, signalling a decision by President Xi Jinping to grant less autonomy than previously offered.

	
		China's white paper on its position on self-ruled Taiwan follows days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises near the island, which Beijing claims as its territory, in protest against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit last week.

	
		China had said in two previous white papers on Taiwan, in 1993 and 2000, that it "will not send troops or administrative personnel to be based in Taiwan" after achieving what Beijing terms "reunification".
</blockquote>


	Just ask Hong Kong how much those promises are worth.


	If the PRC takes Taiwan through non-violent means, it will put Communist apparatchiks backed by its secret police and military in charge, end political and religious freedom, the way that it did in Hong Kong and any other territory it controls.


	Beijing is run by murderous Communist tyrants and every word out of their mouth, whether it's to us or anyone else, is a lie. Stop believing them.&nbsp;

Can We Admit that the Pelosi Taiwan Visit Hysteria Was Over the Top?

In this social media culture of mass formation psychosis, one hysteria passes and another one comes just as quickly. And no one's paying attention to what

Can We Admit that the Pelosi Taiwan Visit Hysteria Was Over the Top?

Attorney Alan Dershowitz<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3594412-justice-department-should-have-subpoenaed-documents-not-raided-trumps-home/"> had already asked</a> why Biden's DOJ decided to raid Mar-a-Lago instead of following proper procedure.

<blockquote>
	
		The more appropriate action would have been for a grand jury to issue a subpoena for any boxes of material that were seized and for Trump’s private safe that was opened.&nbsp;That would have given Trump’s lawyers the opportunity to challenge the subpoena on various grounds — that some of the material was not classified; that previous classified material was declassified by Trump; that other documents may be covered by various privileges, such as executive or lawyer-client.&nbsp;

	
		Instead, the FBI apparently seized everything in view and will sort the documents and other material without a court deciding which ones are appropriately subject to Justice Department seizure.&nbsp;

	
		Searches and seizures should only be used when subpoenas are inappropriate because of the risk of evidence destruction
</blockquote>


	We now know that the feds had asked Trump's lawyers to secure the documents and that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-legal-team-was-talks-justice-department-spring-records-stored-m-rcna42319">they were secured</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		According to Bobb, Trump’s lawyers this year searched through two to three dozen boxes of material in a storage area, looking for possible presidential records, and they turned over “a few pages”&nbsp;that might meet the definition.

	
		Bobb said she and Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran met later with a senior Justice Department official whose name she could not recall.&nbsp;Trump appeared at the beginning of the meeting, in June, and greeted investigators, Bobb said, adding that the former president was not interviewed. Federal officials then looked through boxes of material, Bobb added.

	
		Bobb told NBC News that the Justice Department officials said they did not believe the storage unit housing the documents was properly secured. She said that Trump officials added a lock to the facility and that FBI agents broke the lock when they searched the property Monday.

	
		Bobb added that she did not know what prompted the Justice Department to escalate its investigation to a court-ordered search.

	
		A source close to Trump who is familiar with the search said there are no plans to release a copy of the warrant. The source added that Trump had personally shown the Justice Department officials the room where the materials were housed during the spring meeting, which the source said took place June 3.
</blockquote>


	The argument for a raid would be that the documents were on the verge of being destroyed. Releasing a warrant might provide backing for that claim. Or note the lack of it.


	So, as per usual, the coup gang isn't releasing anything. A warrant could be released in redacted fashion if it describes classified materials. And it is highly unlikely that actual classified materials as opposed to materials that are technically classified but would be of no use to foreign adversaries are at issue.


	The DOJ had been in talks with Trump's lawyers. They had gotten some security added. The DOJ has failed to note what if any additional safeguards it wanted, but could have pursued this through the legal system.&nbsp;


	It failed to do so.


	Most likely that's because the Biden DOJ is on a fishing expedition, as Andrew McCarthy has argued, seeking to vacuum up as many documents as possible. Keeping the warrant secret also fudges the question of whether they are seizing documents that are related to the warrant or not.


	All bets are that they're taking anything useful for the Biden administration and its political operatives.

Mar-a-Lago Documents At Center of FBI Raid Had Already Been Secured

Attorney Alan Dershowitz had already asked why Biden's DOJ decided to raid Mar-a-Lago instead of following proper procedure.


	
		The more appropriate

Mar-a-Lago Documents At Center of FBI Raid Had Already Been Secured

Before the arrest, the media tackled the story with its usual "Muslims are worried take" and&nbsp;kept quoting the usual Islamist "community leaders" expressing "fear" and "worry" while mentioning the usual fictional upsurge in "Islamophobia".&nbsp;


	Readers and viewers were left to connect A to B and then to C.&nbsp;Except that A connected to I once again.


	Who was going to stalk and kill specific Muslims in New Mexico? Much like the acid attacks on Muslim women in America, which the media also keeps spinning the same way, the answer<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-mexico-police-detain-suspect-probe-slayings-muslim-men-2022-08-09/"> is all too obvious</a>. In bringing Afghan Muslims to America, we also bring along the culture and the various murderous feuds that come with it.

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;A Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan has been arrested as the prime suspect in the serial killings of four Muslim men that rattled the Islamic community of New Mexico's largest city, police said on Tuesday.

	
		After days bolstering security around Albuquerque-area mosques, seeking to allay fears of a shooter driven by anti-Muslim hate, police said on Tuesday they had arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, one among the city's Islamic immigrant community.
</blockquote>


	In a surprise twist, the man bites dog story turned out to be another dog bites man story.

<blockquote>
	
		Authorities said the killings may have been rooted in a personal grudge, possibly with intra-Muslim sectarian overtones. All four victims were of Afghan or Pakistani descent. One was killed in November, and the other three in the last two weeks.
</blockquote>


	That wouldn't be shocking in a region and a culture where this sort of thing is the norm.

<blockquote>
	
		A search of the suspect's Albuquerque home uncovered "evidence that shows the offender knew the victims to some extent, and an inter-personal conflict may have led to the shootings," police said in a statement announcing the arrest.

	
		Investigators are still piecing together motives for the killings of the four men, Deputy Commander Kyle Hartsock of the Albuquerque Police Department said at a news conference.

	
		In response to reporters' questions, Hartsock said sectarian animus by the suspect toward his fellow Muslim victims may have played a role in the violence.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Just don't say the "I" word.


	What was the wonderful contribution to our diversity doing when he wasn't killing other Muslims?

<blockquote>
	
		Syed has a record of criminal misdemeanors in the United States, including a case of domestic violence, over the last three or four years, Hartsock said.
</blockquote>


	Let's bring 150,000 more.

Afghan Muslim Refugee Was Serial Killer in New Mexico Case Blamed on "Islamophobia"

Before the arrest, the media tackled the story with its usual "Muslims are worried take" and&nbsp;kept quoting the usual Islamist "community leaders"

Afghan Muslim Refugee Was Serial Killer in New Mexico Case Blamed on "Islamophobia"

New York is suffering from a massive crime wave and Gov. Hochul's answer is more&nbsp;politically correct Newspeak. These renaming efforts had already been tried, including changing criminals to "justice-involved individuals". The awkward Newspeak terminology never works or sticks for the most obvious reasons.


	But <a href="https://13wham.com/amp/news/local/legislation-to-change-the-term-inmate-for-those-in-the-prison-system">there's more here </a>than that.


	Even in the face of escalating crime and voter fears, Hochul is doubling down on pro-crime policies, after her and Cuomo's administration helped unleash that crime wave by eliminating bail. Hochul has refused to apologize or back down from it. She's up against Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is taking an anti-crime message in his campaign, and she's still ahead.&nbsp;


	Hochul is afraid of the Left, she's not afraid of a popular voter backlash and for now, New York voters are not disappointing her. The question is whether Zeldin and Republicans can break through and tell the truth about the Cuomo crime wave and the human costs of criminal justice reform.

<blockquote>
	
		A top political analyst told me Tuesday that Governor Hochul's decision to substitute the term "incarcerated individuals" for inmates in state law is her way of trying to reconcile issues of justice with issues of safety. But Dr. Lee Miringoff says it's a delicate balancing act when her opponent Lee Zeldin is accusing her of not being tough enough on crime. Hochul's critics say she is once again putting the needs of the criminal ahead of the needs of the victim, while those who approve of the change say it gives the prison population a better chance at reintegrating into society.
</blockquote>


	There's been zero safety here.&nbsp;


	And Hochul, like Cuomo, is keeping prisons and morgues open.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		Dr. Miringoff of Marist College says the Governor has already chosen a clear path on the issue of crime by not bringing the legislature back to deal with bail reform, and he believes she's banking on this language change helping her with her base in November.
</blockquote>


	That's who her base is, wokes and criminals.

NY Gov. Hochul Continues Pro-Crime Push, Renames "Inmate" to "Incarcerated Individual"

New York is suffering from a massive crime wave and Gov. Hochul's answer is more&nbsp;politically correct Newspeak. These renaming efforts had already been

NY Gov. Hochul Continues Pro-Crime Push, Renames "Inmate" to "Incarcerated Individual"

There have been plenty of signs that Rep. Ilhan Omar is politically vulnerable.


	Despite being a standard-bearer for the 'Squad' and for a lot of lefty Dems, moderates hate her and so does her own community. If you're an Islamist or even a traditional Somali Muslim, you see an adulteress who married a white guy. About the only people, Omar is going to be popular with is wokes. And the Democrat establishment which backed her.


	Her <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/the-omar-omen.php">narrow primary win </a>against a moderate black pro-police candidate shows what a missed opportunity just passed for moderate Dems to clean up their party.

<blockquote>
	
		"With every advantage in the race, Ilhan Omar narrowly emerged as the winner of Minnesota’s Fifth District (Minneapolis and inner ring suburbs) DFL primary yesterday. She defeated challenger Don Samuels by 2,500 votes out of nearly 113,000 votes cast (2.1 percent). "
</blockquote>


	Scott&nbsp; Johnson of Powerline, who's been covering Omar forever, paraphrases Orwell <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/the-omar-omen.php">and notes that</a>, "Covering the special endorsing convention that Sunday, I saw that the party activists who endorsed Omar were among the woke left successors of “every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist” identified by Orwell as the fans of Socialism and Communism in England. They make up Omar’s base, and it is substantial base, but she is not invulnerable."


	What does this mean for Republicans? Probably nothing considering the makeup of the district. But there's going to be a marked lack of enthusiasm for Democrats who will vote Omar not because she's popular, but because she's on the ballot. An effective Republican could make use of that.


	That overturns the whole premise of the Squad, that they represent a populist insurgency not another establishment rubber stamp for a terrible candidate.

Ilhan Omar Wins Primary By Only 2,500 Votes or 2%

There have been plenty of signs that Rep. Ilhan Omar is politically vulnerable.


	Despite being a standard-bearer for the 'Squad' and for a lot of lefty

Ilhan Omar Wins Primary By Only 2,500 Votes or 2%

<div class="caption"><a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/01/hybels.png"><img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/01/hybels.png" alt="hybels" width="318" height="209" /></a> Lynne Hybels discussing Israel security barrier.</div>
The tentacles of anti-Jewish fervor are seemingly everywhere. Not even the American Church is immune from the sickness of anti-Semitism, and tracing the networks can be a fascinating exercise. They are so diverse, and so unequally yoked in various ways. But they are all linked by a dislike of Jews and Israel.
I live in a small town in the American South. A few years ago, I stopped at a convenience store and noticed on the counter a tabloid newspaper. I picked up a copy and when I got home, realized it was a white-supremacist rag, liberally sprinkled with anti-Jewish propaganda. In fact, it felt a lot like classic, medieval anti-Semitism, which never really went out of style.
So it is that I spend much of my time now researching the decline of Israel support, specifically within American Evangelicalism, once a stronghold of support for the Jewish state.
From visits to captured Palestinian weaponry and propaganda literature displayed in Israel, to sitting in on evangelical leadership conferences that feature anti-Israel speakers, watching the erosion of support for Israel is jarring.
A friend sent me a link recently to a blog, “Mondoweiss,” which claims to be
“a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.”
This particular link featured an essay by Marc Ellis, the retired professor (Baylor University) who now is able to devote more time to his anti-Israel obsession, including routine comparisons between Israel and the Third Reich.
Leading was an endorsement from none other than Dr. Cornel West:
“Anytime I think of my brother Marc Ellis, I think of quiet dignity, spiritual integrity, moral consistency, fierce fortitude, and an unstoppable determination to tell the truth, expose lies, and bear witness.”
The title of this particular piece, “Burning Children: A Jewish View of the War in Gaza,” tells you all you need to know about Ellis’s view of Israelis. What I find especially notable is the similar tone to that of pieces penned by “evangelical” leaders like Donald Miller and Lynne Hybels.
Therein lies a most interesting link.
Miller, an author of some fame (“Blue Like Jazz”), and Hybels, co-founder of the powerful Willow Creek Association, have both spoken at Catalyst conferences. Catalyst staff and organizers work hard to present the organization as the evangelical leadership conduit. The powerful networking features three large conferences each year (in southern California, Dallas, and Atlanta, thus blanketing the country), where an eclectic bunch of center-left speakers engage 50,000 senior pastors and other church staff. The Catalyst database features many thousands more pastors who receive resources.
At Catalyst Atlanta, in 2012, Hybels spoke, and the title of her talk, “We Belong to Each Other: Americans, Israelis and Palestinians for Peace,” implied a non-violent form of protest of the “occupation,” yet she decried the presence of the IDF in the territories, spoke of the negative impact of the security fence, and alleged that Palestinians lack water sources. Her slide titled “1967 Six-Day War” stated: “Israeli Military Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza begins.”
All standard PLO fare.
Hybels isn’t the only Palestinian advocate to address church audiences. At the 2011 meeting of the Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding (EMEU) in California, Anglican vicar Stephen Sizer spoke; Sizer is perhaps the biggest critic of Israel and its friends — notably, Christian Zionists — in the world.
The entire conference was devoid of any context: no mention of the Arab invasion of Israel in 1948, or the context of the Six-Day War or ’73 War. Additionally, several anti-Semitic undertones were evident. Near the conclusion of the conference, Don Wagner (formerly a professor at Chicago’s Northpark Seminary) told what some described as a joke:
“Several of the Christian Zionist Republican candidates were told by the media just before a debate that Gaddafi had been shot through the temple.” “Oh, my God,” said one, “I didn’t know he was Jewish!”
Such talk is becoming standard at Christian conferences around the country.
In 2011, Catalyst invited Cornel West, the radical Princeton professor, to address its Atlanta gathering, via video link.
How odd, I thought. Why would ostensibly evangelical leaders invite a man who describes himself as a “non-Marxist socialist”?
(You know what that means, don’t you? He’s a Marxist.)
So I asked Catalyst director Brad Lomenick. Four times.
No answer.
Finally, I asked him in person at Catalyst Dallas in May 2014. He passed me along to the new director, Tyler Reagin, who, as it turns out, also didn’t have the time to answer my question.
Catalyst doesn’t want rank-and-file evangelicals figuring out what some of us who have attended conferences already know: they are left-wing.
Consider the intro to West’s bio from 2011, posted on the Catalyst site:
“Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual.”
In David Horowitz’s book, “Radicals,” he discusses the vapid nature of West’s resume. Would that the evangelical Christian leaders mainstreaming West knew this.
Instructive for these evangelical leaders is Horowitz’s observation of West cloaking himself in religious language:
<blockquote>A tireless self-promoter, West habitually refers to himself and his work as "prophetic" (e.g., "I am a prophetic Christian freedom fighter"), and has put the words "prophetic" or "prophesy" in the titles of four of his books, including a collection of casual pieces and book reviews he called Prophetic Fragments, as though Ezekiel was his soul mate and the parchments containing his wisdom had been eaten by the sands of time.</blockquote>
This is an important point because Cornel West is at best a radical socialist, yet Christian leaders are embracing him. It has been announced that West will speak at the “Justice Conference” in Chicago in June, along with mainstream evangelicals Lynne Hybels, Bob Goff, and Louie Giglio. This is shocking, given the alleged ideological divide between evangelicals and leftists.
It is the empty nature of West’s accolades that rankles true evangelicals, who recognize the left’s infiltration of the community. As Horowitz notes:
<blockquote>Who is this man who has been elevated to such prominence by cultural arbiters high and low? His newly published autobiography, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud (and don’t even attempt to parse that title), answers the question with an epigraph, which is a citation from himself:
"I’m a bluesman in the life of the mind, and a 
jazzman in the world of ideas."—Cornel West
Like many sentences West writes, this catchy phrase is a substitute for thought that does not make any sense. "But what does it mean to be a bluesman in the life of the mind?”</blockquote>
Good question, but it doesn’t matter to Christian leaders determined to expose young leaders and laypersons to leftist ideology. Further, West’s anti-Semitic ties are deeply disturbing.
“Radicals” clues us in on West’s view of Jews:
<blockquote>He was a celebrity sponsor of the 2012 "Global March to Jerusalem," an attack organized by Islamist Iran on the Jewish state. He has been a frequent speaker at the black liberation church of another sponsor of  the Global March, Jeremiah Wright, the notorious anti-Semite and race-hater whom West regards as "my dear brother" and "a prophetic Christian preacher."</blockquote>
What conservatives need to understand is that these demonstrations of hate mongering are no longer confined to the academic community. They are now being mainstreamed even to the Bible Belt. Consider that Donald Miller has written about Israel, even accusing the IDF of war crimes (murdering Palestinian women and children), and Hybels traverses the country speaking up for the Palestinian narrative.
Truly, the research presented in Paul Kengor’s important book, “Dupes,” rings true. For 80 years, totalitarians (mostly the Soviets) worked long and hard to undermine American from within. While we were watching our shores, we didn’t realize that the corrosive effects of Marxism were permeating our universities and even seminaries. They have now reached full flower, which bodes ill for freedom-loving Americans and their close friend and ally, Israel.
The biggest under-reported story in America today is the co-opting of the evangelical Christian community by the Palestinian propagandists. It will get worse.
In this brave new world, we find ourselves oppressed by the views of West targeting the West.
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Creeping Anti-Israelism in the Evangelical Movement

Lynne Hybels discussing Israel security barrier.

The tentacles of anti-Jewish fervor are seemingly everywhere. Not even the American Church is immune from the

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/05/GrowingCrops.jpg"><img alt="GrowingCrops" src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/05/GrowingCrops.jpg" width="292" height="197" /></a>Marcella Rosen knew what she had to do. Standing on the sidelines while the state of Israel was being denigrated just wouldn’t work for the marketing professional from New York. If the news about Israel is almost always negative, she’d do something about it.
She’d share untold news. And that’s how Untold News (<a href="http://untoldnews.org/">www.untoldnews.org</a>) was born.
Untold News gathers and disseminates positive stories about the myriad ways Israeli innovation brings help, hope, and healing to the world. Rosen is passionate about sharing all this and more:
<blockquote>“While everyone has been focused on the country’s decades of military conflicts, Israel has quietly become the most energetic, ambitious, go-go incubator of entrepreneurialism and invention the planet has ever seen.
It’s true: Israel is a barrier-breaking dynamo of a kind never before witnessed in history. Acre-for-acre, citizen-for-citizen, no place is churning out more ideas, more products, more procedures and devices and technologies than this tiny strip of land along the Mediterranean. And the work that Israel is turning out is saving and improving lives around the world, every day.”</blockquote>
Anyone who’s visited an Israeli hospital, or seen the way the nation is reclaiming the desert (prepare to gasp if you get the chance to visit the Dead Sea region, and gaze upon acre-after-acre of palm groves, rising from what was once the moonscape of southern Israel) knows that Rosen is correct in making the case that Israel is no brutal occupier and oppressor of human rights. In fact, the tiny dynamo is all about virtue and compassion and startling innovation.
In fact, Rosen’s book, Tiny Dynamo, is a quick read crammed-full of fascinating facts. Consider the fact that in the U.S. alone, a staggering 90,000 people die each year from hospital infections. Worldwide, the figure climbs to one million.
Part of the problem is not so easily fixed: unwashed hands, door handles, or airborne germs. Aharon Gedanken chose to focus on those problem areas that can be remedied. He realized that fabrics used in hospitals—pajamas, sheets, gowns—could be redone in such a way that infections didn’t spread that way anymore.
A chemist at the Bar-Ilan University Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Gedanken created an anti-bacterial “coating” that soaks into the very fabric of a gown, sheet, etc.
Or consider the stunning achievements Israelis have made with drip irrigation. In a region where water is a prized and rare commodity, Israeli agriculturalists have been able to grow vast crops, using a fraction of the water supply other countries use.
It’s no secret that Jewish immigrants to Palestine and later, Israel, took a bleak plot of ground and turned it into a country where now, more tulips are exported from Israel than from Holland! A drip irrigation system developed by a company called Netafim has produced a world-class system for more efficiently irrigating crops.
For example, in 1965, a standard drip irrigation system used from two to four liters of water per hour—a revolutionary improvement. Yet today, a Netafim system uses only a half-liter per hour!
For Rosen, this kind of brilliance must be shouted from the rooftops:
<blockquote>“Unfortunately, the media doesn’t really give you a chance to develop an informed opinion about Israel — or many other countries, for that matter — because, in the press, ‘If it bleeds it leads’ — and the Middle East certainly does bleed. So that’s all you hear.
But the truth is this: while the world’s attention has for decades been focused on one single dimension of Israeli life, something entirely different has been taking place away from the cameras: Israel has quietly become the little country that changed the world — and your life — for the better . . . without you even knowing it.”</blockquote>
At a time when terrorism is cresting, Israel rises to meet the challenge. It was just announced that the Israeli Air Force has increased its overall effectiveness by 400 percent. An impressive achievement to be sure. Yet Rosen dreams of a reality beyond war:
<blockquote>“If tiny, beleaguered Israel can generate these kinds of results under its current circumstances, imagine what would happen — imagine what it could achieve — if it were released from the shackles of warfare. If this little country of fewer than eight million souls could focus the entirety of its energy and resources and resilience on the problems and puzzles facing us all, how much better a place would this world be?”</blockquote>
It’s an important question, and one that perhaps should be asked among the “land-for-peace” activists, who have been courting failure for more than two decades.
Why not join a winning team and strive for actually improving our beleaguered world? That’s what the good folks at Untold News are doing every day.
Jim Fletcher is a writer and researcher, and long-time pro Israel activist. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:jim1fletcher@yahoo.com">jim1fletcher@yahoo.com</a>.
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Untold Stories of Israeli Innovation

Marcella Rosen knew what she had to do. Standing on the sidelines while the state of Israel was being denigrated just wouldn’t work for the marketing

Untold Stories of Israeli Innovation 

<div class="caption"><a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/04/presby.jpg"><img alt="presby" src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/04/presby.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a> Members of the AIFL's Presbyterian delegation hear a lecture in February.</div>
A series of programs coordinated by the America-Israel Friendship League is making real headway in changing negative perceptions about the Jewish state.
The AIFL (<a href="http://www.aifl.org">www.aifl.org</a>), founded in 1971 by a group of influential leaders, including Hubert Humphrey and Henry “Scoop” Jackson, exists to strengthen ties between Israel and America. The organization’s deluxe “delegation” programs bring together a wide range of Israelis with Americans—of all religious, political, and socio-economic ranges.
Earlier this year, a Presbyterian delegation toured Israel, learning in great detail just why Israel is a thriving outpost of freedom in a dangerous part of the world. The group also visited the controversial SodaStream factory in Ma’ale Adumim.
The PCUSA, one of the larger mainline Protestant denominations, has been embroiled in a titanic struggle over BDS (Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions). The AIFL-sponsored trip dispelled many of the media myths surrounding Israel and in fact highlighted the enormous contributions Israel makes not only regionally, but globally.
The Presbyterian Church, some 6 million strong, has at times officially supported boycotts of Israeli businesses operating beyond the Green Line, such as SodaStream.
Members of the delegation said that the trip “strengthened their belief that the location of the factory enhances the business as well as the interpersonal relations between the Israelis and Palestinians.”
Ruby Shamir, Director of International Relations for the AIFL, said that the trip was “crucial to bring leaders and influential figures” to visit Israel, so that participants can “form a positive and supportive opinion.”
The SodaStream factory has been denounced furiously by BDS activists, yet the Presbyterian delegation learned that 1,300 employees are…Palestinian.
Rev. William “Bill” Harter is a veteran of the AIFL delegations, and has seen firsthand for years how successful they are in terms of changing perceptions. In general, pro Israel support among mainline members is not as fervent as it is in the much larger Evangelical, non-denominational community.
This makes the experience and friendship of people like Harter all the more important for the Jewish state. For Harter, the love for Israel goes back to his youth.
“As a young kid growing up in western New York, about 20 miles east of Buffalo, my community had exactly one Jewish family,” Harter remembers. “They were the Sterns, (both MDs) who had managed to escape Germany in 1938. And they had a daughter my age and a son my younger sister’s age. We grew up together from first grade on. The Sterns were the doctors who went to rural areas that didn’t have a full-time doctor; he became the classic small town doctor. Greatly beloved in the community! She was one of my mother’s best friends.”
A university education and seminary only served to solidify Harter’s love for Israel and the Jewish people, and he has been involved for decades.
“In late 1970s, the U.S. government realized that the issue of Soviet Jewry was front-and-center and I became involved in that cause.” And in 1975, the notorious “Zionism equals Racism” resolution in the U.N. led to the formation of NCLCI, which remains perhaps the key advocacy group for Israel within the mainline.
“From that point, the AIFL helped us find a home base in New York City, and with them (the AIFL), issues we worked on were support for Soviet Jewry, the refutation of Zionism is Racism, and the status of Jerusalem.” The new partnerships were quite beneficial.
<blockquote>“AIFL helped us get that message around.
“A number of our members helped with delegations to Israel that AIFL arranged. The Presbyterian group that went in 2005 had a very significant impact on the Presbyterian Church USA. A lot of our statements would run counter to mainline views, but there are times when we were in one accord.”</blockquote>
The trips to Israel have yielded practical results, especially in stemming the tide of BDS. They have also greatly influenced countless youth. The AIFL’s “Youth Ambassador Student Exchange” (YASE), begun in 1977, enables American high school students to interact with their Israeli counterparts. Many lasting friendships have been forged on these trips.
Dr. Charlotte Frank, chair of the AIFL’s executive committee and a leading educator, has been passionate advocate for the youth programs.
“From the beginning, the AIFL wanted to have a high school exchange program that would be meaningful for the students,” she recalls. “What happened subsequently is that in order to make it more widespread, it needed to have global leaders go back to parents and communities and say, ‘It’s safe to send your kids to Israel.’”
One of the first participants was Karen Wolcott, who today is a United Methodist minister. She remembers the genesis of her trip to Israel:
“I was taking a German class and heard through grapevine they were inviting kids and interviewing kids form the Cleveland School system and other parts of the U.S., to go on this exchange program to Israel,” she remembers. “I thought, well, I’ve always wanted to go to Israel and it’s always been a dream of mine. I went through the process; I was kind of a shy person and I thought oh no, I’m not fit for this program! I did very well in the interview process, though, and was chosen as one of 30 to go. It was a beautiful match for me, because it was a way for me to explore my faith. My parents…this was cutting edge for them. They felt they couldn’t say no.”
Today, students from coast-to-coast, from schools small and large, have the opportunity to visit exotic Israel. To a person, they take home a marvelous view of Israel, in effect becoming life-long ambassadors.
The students stay with Israeli families, visit Israeli schools, and even participate in classes. The well-rounded trips include plenty of Israeli culture and history.
Moshe Vidan, born in Palestine during World War II, earned degrees from Haifa University, and was an educator for many years before becoming involved with YASE early on. He recognizes the unique role the trips have in shaping opinion, when students can see and experience the country for themselves.
<blockquote>“We have Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the American group. Everything we do, we give an explanation with a tour guide…it’s a workshop, not just a tour.”</blockquote>
Crucially, Vidan includes uncommon stops on the itinerary.
<blockquote>“We take them to Arabic schools, even to Al-Aksa mosque!
“There are no barriers, it’s open.  In Israeli schools, for example, they learn of cultural differences.
“The program benefits the students, of course, but it is also a great experience, a lifetime experience, for everyone involved.”</blockquote>
Clearly, the America-Israel Friendship League is on to something. It is indeed strengthening ties between Israel and her American friends—at a most critical time in the life of both nations.
(Jim Fletcher is a pro-Israel activist, researcher and writer. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:jim1fletcher@yahoo.com">jim1fletcher@yahoo.com</a>.)
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Pro-Israel Activists Change Anti-Israel Hearts

Members of the AIFL's Presbyterian delegation hear a lecture in February.

A series of programs coordinated by the America-Israel Friendship League is making

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/08/cover.jpg"><img alt="cover" src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/08/cover.jpg" width="225" height="350" /></a>Michael Coffman and Kate Mathieson are brave people. In an era of great peril, brought upon all of us by a sinister worldview originating in ancient Arabia, they are willing to say things in print that need to be said. For example:
<blockquote>Evil is permeating America like never before. The penetration of our society by Islam is but one of the attacks on this great nation. Volumes have been written on the subject, but few Americans have read them.</blockquote>
Exactly. That’s why a new book by Coffman and Mathieson, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Islam-In-The-House/dp/1481822608">Radical Islam At the Door In the House</a>, is so compelling. A slim volume—on the lean side at that—the book can be read, for example, while one sits in a doctor’s waiting room (as I did). Indeed, only 85 pages of text are so jammed with information on America being overtaken by Islamic jihad there is no excuse for it not being read widely.
This isn’t reading for the faint-of-heart, but it is one of the most extraordinary books of 2013, and will especially be accessible and relevant for Christian audiences in America. Coffman and Mathieson have done their homework, and then some.
Of particular interest is a rhetorical question they ask repeatedly: Why is the Obama administration mainstreaming the Muslim Brotherhood? The answer is chilling, but those who choose to face reality rather than the bottom of a sand hole just might look back one day and see that a clear-headed assessment of Islam’s plans for America saved many lives.
During an election speech in Cairo, in May 2012, Brotherhood leader Muhammad Morsi stated clearly, “The Qur’an is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.”
Is this the kind of person an American government should prop-up? Of course not, but the question comes back to us again and again, like an ominous echo: Why is Barack Obama determined to support the Muslim Brotherhood and elsewhere aid jihadists?
Everywhere in Radical Islam At the Door In the House, we learn how deeply radical Islam has penetrated not only the White House, but educational institutions, interfaith religious bodies, and with the introduction of Al-Jazeera, even media. It is a grim picture that Coffman and Mathieson paint, yet there is still time to turn back this threat to liberty.
The authors note that jihadists like Morsi have learned a great deal about America. Morsi himself earned a Ph.D and taught for three years at California State University, Northridge. Shrewd in the extreme, the now-deposed president of Egypt has implemented every strategy the MB is using to overthrow the U.S., including meeting with evangelical leaders such as Bob Roberts, Jr.
Americans are trusting, and accommodating, and the jihadists exploit this to the full. As pointed out in Radical Islam At the Door In the House, our Muslim enemies in 2006 demanded:
<blockquote>Metropolitan Airport Authority, Minneapolis-St. Paul: a cab driver can refuse to service the blind because of their dogs which are seen by many Muslims as unclean.</blockquote>
It’s this kind of outrageous demand that goes to the heart of the jihadists’ strategy: turn Americans into dhimmis, a concept in Islam which demands total submission by non-Muslims to the agenda of their rulers. Although such a reality is difficult for most Americans to believe is possible, it is not only possible for Muhammad’s followers, but well within their reach.
As has been pointed out, the Muslim Brotherhood plan to compromise America’s Christian leaders is progressing nicely. A “Common Word” document, establishing  mutual cooperation between Islam and Christianity, has been signed by 300 church leaders, including kingpins Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. This type of gullibility places our country in danger, yet interfaith leaders work day and night to make it reality.
The authors point out that Obama isn’t the only U.S. president to behave strangely when it comes to confronting jihadists. In the days after 9/11, President George W. Bush allowed scores of Saudi nationals to leave the U.S., though air travel was shut down for Americans. Among those leaving was Prince Turki bin Faisal, “the widely feared head of the Saudi Intelligence Agency.” In November 2013, Faisal will be a featured speaker at Pastor Roberts’ “Global Faith Forum” at Northwood Church in Texas.
The authors also point out a whole host of facts that most Americans are not aware of, such as:
• Islamists have donated money to many American schools, including $20 million to the University of Arkansas and $5 million to Berkeley “from 2 Saudi Sheiks linked to al Qaeda.”
• A 2010 broadcast from Nile TV in Egypt reveals Barack Obama’s true nature regarding Islam.
• Muslims are taught to intentionally lie to “the enemy,” which means non-Muslims.
Radical Islam At the Door In the House outlines so much of the jihadists’ agenda for America that readers will be truly shocked. No longer will we have the excuse that other treatments of this subject are too much to digest, too scholarly, etc. This book is meant for the masses, and it is literally vital that it gains the widest readership possible.
It’s that good, and that scary.
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The American Caliphate

Michael Coffman and Kate Mathieson are brave people. In an era of great peril, brought upon all of us by a sinister worldview originating in ancient Arabia,

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/07/flet.jpg"><img alt="flet" src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/07/flet.jpg" width="280" height="210" /></a>Thousands of participants at the 8th Annual Christians United for Israel Summit waved Israeli and American flags Tuesday night, as CUFI’s “Night to Honor Israel” put a spectacular cap on a gathering that critics and friends alike call “a beast.”
Judging from the conversations, both in hallways and on the dais, where Malcolm Hoenlein—who delivered a thundering address Tuesday afternoon—rubbed elbows with evangelical leader John Hagee, the San Antonio pastor, who has mobilized more than one million people to advocate for Israel under the CUFI umbrella, seemed upbeat. In an address before the Summit participants, he reminded all of the positives:
“The Holocaust ended in statehood,” said the man who began developing close ties with Israeli and American Jewish leaders decades ago.
David Brog, a former Washington attorney (and cousin of Ehud Barak), is executive director of CUFI, and he used a breakout session to deliver a masterful response to those who say the Arab-Israeli conflict is a result of what the Left call the Occupation.
“It’s absurd on the face of it,” Brog said, delivering a clear and concise history of the region since 1948. Noting that the PLO was formed in 1964—three years before Israel took the West Bank, Golan Heights, and Sinai in a defensive war—Brog provided participants with plenty of information to answer charges they hear back home in their churches.
On Tuesday afternoon, in a ballroom session titled “Middle East Briefing,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the gathering, and noted his long friendship with Hagee:
<blockquote>“What an achievement! I salute you. You are an oasis of support for Israel, and we have no better friends than you, anywhere on the globe.”</blockquote>
In an interesting response that seemed to resonate with Christians who are becoming aware of an infiltration of the Palestinian narrative into American churches, Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau said that “Arab money and the radical Left” have fueled media attacks on Israel. The comment showed a growing awareness of the problem, as CUFI Western Regional Director Randy Neal outlined similar problems to hundreds of college students Sunday afternoon. More than ever, there was sense at this CUFI Summit that the era of unchallenged attacks from the Left is over.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor related a dual story that underscored the difference in the cultures of jihadists and those who oppose them. Cantor said that he had been part of a delegation that heard a detailed briefing on the Iron Dome project, which has saved thousands of Israeli lives during rocket attacks from Gaza.
Cantor said that the designer of the Dome, distraught when a single rocket claimed the life of an Israeli, went “back to the lab” to perfect the defense shield. Cantor noted that this stood in stark contrast to a Palestinian woman from Gaza who was treated in an Israeli hospital, but upon returning for a follow-up visit, she was stopped at a checkpoint, where her bomb belt was discovered. The woman had planned to blow up the very doctors and nurses that had saved her life.
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, relished the opportunity to inject a more aggressive response to critics of Israel, telling the participants: “The Jewish lobby is a myth; it’s our job to make it a legend!” Hoenlein also knew what type of language would resonate with the CUFI Summit participants when he said, “Don’t bet against the Jews.”
Many in attendance were brought to tears by the address delivered by Richard Kemp, commander of British forces in Afghanistan. Kemp began by revealing his own Christian faith, and invoked the name of another legend, whom he called “The greatest Christian Zionist in Britain.” He went on to say that he had, that morning, spoken to Orde Wingate. Many in the crowd smiled but were puzzled.
“I spoke to him this morning at Arlington,” Kemp said. Wingate, the British major-general who was a Christian Zionist, helped train what would become the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. Wingate was killed in a plane crash in India, in 1944, but remains a beloved figure for Israelis and their American supporters.
Kemp delivered an impassioned defense of Israel that brought many in the room to tears. He mentioned several of Israel’s major battlefield achievements, calling the 1976 Entebbe rescue, “The most breathtaking special forces operation the world has ever seen.”
Kemp also referred to the CUFI Summit as a “remarkable event,” and indeed it was. Jews and Christians alike were moved by such displays as the “Wall of Remembrance,” which profiled the 1,000 Israelis killed by jihadist terrorism since 2000.
On Wednesday, participants met with their representatives on Capitol Hill.
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Christians Unite for Israel in Washington

Thousands of participants at the 8th Annual Christians United for Israel Summit waved Israeli and American flags Tuesday night, as CUFI’s “Night to Honor

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/07/181255_10151716672471000_1240685885_n.jpg"><img alt="181255_10151716672471000_1240685885_n" src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/07/181255_10151716672471000_1240685885_n.jpg" width="265" height="199" /></a>With various political and religious bloggers taking potshots—or launching artillery attacks—at the tiny state of Israel, someone was bound to have a good idea and host influential writers and journalists so that they could see for themselves just what the Jewish state is really all about.
In June, the America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL) launched a “blogger tour” of Israel. By all accounts, it was a smashing success.
Writing for National Review in June, Deroy Murdock, a syndicated columnist, made it clear that seeing Israel in person has a dramatic effect on one’s perceptions:
<blockquote>I was fortunate to see Israel for the first time last week, thanks to the America-Israel Friendship League. Five of the eleven journalists on AIFL's fact-finding trip were new here. Keys and other artists likely would find Israel at least as surprising as we did.
First and foremost, Israel's omnipresence in the U.S. media makes it sound like a superpower. But as much as anything, Israel is impressively compact. At just 7,992 square miles, it is slightly larger than Clark County, Nevada (greater Las Vegas), but smaller than New Hampshire. Israel is crowded on three sides by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. It could fit 157 times within the land masses of those countries.</blockquote>
Sandy Rios, vice-president of Family-Pac Federal, recognized in the Israeli people a laundry list of character traits that separate them from their critics, particularly the barbarians committed to destroying them.
<blockquote>Mostly on this trip, I saw the value of a cohesive culture and by that I would say Israel is filled with Jews of all descriptions. Secular, religious—tons of differences, but they have a common language, a common educational system. They learn Hebrew, Jewish history, the modern history of Israel, and serve in the military. There is a common sense of purpose.</blockquote>
Rios, a leader in the Christian community in the U.S., also said with a tinge of sadness:
<blockquote>Israelis create energy and focus, and pride in their culture. Qualities I remember America used to have. I love that in Israel, I envy that.</blockquote>
With a growing number of evangelical Christian bloggers advocating for the Palestinian narrative, the AIFL-sponsored trip was even more critical because it brought Christian leaders over who can counter the propaganda. Robin Mazyck, CBN Bureau Chief in Washington, used her first trip to Israel to gain a well-rounded perspective of the Jewish state. Included in her education was the fact that Israel is far from the “apartheid state” her enemies claim.
<blockquote>There are Muslim Arabs who voluntarily serve in the IDF, and Israel issues thousands of work permits to Palestinians living in the West Bank,” she said. Obviously, I knew the situation in the Middle East was complicated, but I didn’t understand just how extremely murky the waters were until I learned those things.</blockquote>
Religious diversity in Israel is another reality Mazyck was pleasantly surprised to see:
<blockquote>I saw nuns walking next to Muslims and ultra-orthodox Jews walking past Catholic priests in Jerusalem. I certainly wasn’t expecting to see this. I knew that the Old City was important to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but I wasn’t expecting this at all. Israel is extremely diverse – there are people there from around the world. Every ethnicity you can imagine is represented in this tiny country.</blockquote>
Upon returning to the States, Mazyck sees clearly the benefits:
<blockquote>I have shared the experiences from my trip with my colleagues, my friends and my family.  The trip has given me a new perspective and insight.
CBN News has a bureau in Jerusalem, and I stopped by for a visit. Seeing their facility and learning more about their workflow allowed me to offer them assistance from my bureau in DC. My early morning videographer is now on standby to help them when they need it.</blockquote>
Guy Benson, political editor for Townhall, and a talk radio personality, was grateful to see that his hosts embody an affinity for surviving that few understand:
<blockquote>We finished our Friday by attending a Shabbat service at an orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem, followed by a traditional dinner at the local rabbi’s home.  During the meal, I watched the young rabbi carry out ancient religious rituals, surrounded by his happy, healthy and growing family.  They sang in Hebrew, the same language their ancestors spoke.  They practiced their forebears’ faith.  And they did so in a safe and thriving Jewish state, located on the same parcel of land their people have inhabited for millennia.  More than seventy years ago, a malignant ideology terrorized world Jewry.  The resulting genocide continues to shock the free world’s collective conscience.  But for all of Hitler’s vile efficiency, he and his killers ultimately failed.  And that failure is embodied by the smiling, laughing, faithful family with whom our delegation broke bread last evening.  How beautiful.  How moving.</blockquote>
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A Pro-Israel Buzz in the Blogosphere

With various political and religious bloggers taking potshots—or launching artillery attacks—at the tiny state of Israel, someone was bound to have a good idea

<img title="pointintime" src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/03/pointintime.jpg" alt="" width="226" height="350" />Reprinted from <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/11/370293/">World Net Daily</a>.
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One of life’s greatest blessings is watching a leftist figure things out. When the person also elevates us all by sharing newfound wisdom, it’s even better.
That’s just one reason David Horowitz is one of my favorite writers/thinkers. His elegant-but-deadly destructions of leftist thought have now melded with thoughtfulness in later life and make him one of the most compelling commentators of our time. His new book is a true triumph.
<a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/biography/A-Point-in-Time-The-Search-for-Redemption-in-This-Life-and-the-Next-Hardcover">“A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next”</a> is simply wonderful. It represents the musings of a man looking at his own mortality, wondering just what is the meaning of our existence.
Horowitz opens by describing the progressive thinking of his parents and his father’s atheism. His father seems to have believed in a hoped-for utopia of justice, but Horowitz remembers the irony of pulling a book from the family shelf and reading the realism of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. One can see that Horowitz was influenced by this, and presumably, after his formative years spent pursuing leftist policies and dreams, he came back to that realistic look at the sad old planet we inhabit.
It seems probable that Horowitz will not leave this life as his father did, still hopeful for a world that does not exist.
Some would say that this very slim volume by Horowitz is too dark, too morose. But I say that it is exhilarating. Listen to this: “Unlike my father, I do not look down my nose at the ancients but am impressed by their understanding of our case. How they were able to put a finger on the source of our distress: that alone among creatures we know our fate, and learn sooner or later that the world has no interest in it.”
Well. Although Horowitz’s new book will not meet with approval by all, particularly some conservative Christians, I ask that you give it a try.
For Horowitz’s ideological enemies today, I challenge you to give a nod to his courage in making himself vulnerable as he contemplates our lives as individuals. This is a man of great thought and feeling, and for one who has seen so much ideological savagery, he realizes what I believe to be basically a biblical truth: One day our arguments will not matter.
We learn halfway through the book that Horowitz has been forced to reflect on the meaning of life, due to his health concerns: diabetes and prostate cancer. But I don’t want to misrepresent the book. Horowitz does not share the hope many find in faith: “I wish I could place my trust in the hands of a Creator. I wish I could look on my life and the lives of my children and all I have loved and see them as preludes to a better world. But, try as I might, I cannot. And so I am left to ponder the pointlessness of our strivings on this earth and to ask impossible questions and receive no answers.”
Horowitz, you see, shares more in common with a man who has lost a daughter – because he has – than some of history’s figures he marvels at, men of faith like Mozart and Dostoevsky. He wants to believe in something greater than himself, but he struggles with the questions asked of all men since the species first appeared on the earth.
At the end of this wonderful book, Horowitz says: “My steps have slowed and my passions are dimmed.”
I hope not, because the world could use a thinker like David Horowitz. Interestingly, the last pages of <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/biography/A-Point-in-Time-The-Search-for-Redemption-in-This-Life-and-the-Next-Hardcover">“A Point in Time,”</a> he points to a mystery that I think is a key to understanding everything, and I think the reader will pick up on what I mean. I hope Horowitz is able to pull that veil back enough to see that there is a world to come.
I dare say <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/biography/A-Point-in-Time-The-Search-for-Redemption-in-This-Life-and-the-Next-Hardcover">“A Point in Time”</a> is a modern version of the book of Ecclesiastes, with observations that are particularly relevant for us in our time. You will not be disappointed if you dare to think deeply by reading this profound little book; I honestly believe <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/biography/A-Point-in-Time-The-Search-for-Redemption-in-This-Life-and-the-Next-Hardcover">“A Point in Time”</a> will be good for you.
Let me end this review by saying something that a few of my friends might consider blasphemous: Horowitz has figured out a good bit of life, late in life – and he’s done it as well as Solomon.
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A Christian Looks At Horowitz's 'A Point in Time'

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<img title="Picture-17" src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/02/Picture-171.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="211" />Although a rising number of “New Evangelical” Christian leaders like Cameron Strang, Erwin McManus, and Scot McKnight tweet photos of themselves with President Obama, and a general leftward tilt has emerged within evangelicalism, one front in the cultural religious wars is particularly hot at the moment:
Israel and the Palestinians.
As recently as the ‘90s, evangelical leaders had to feel good about the strength of support for the Jewish state, especially in traditionally strong places like the Southern Baptist Convention and the Assemblies of God. Indeed, a packed-out gathering I attended to honor Benjamin Netanyahu in 1997 was so emotionally charged that one wondered if Ronald Reagan could have been any more beloved.
All that is changing.
In November 2012, Blue Like Jazz author Donald Miller wrote a scathing blogpost, and the object of his ire was Israel. Alleging—among other things—that Israel actually controls the calorie intake of Gazans. Miller presented a fairly typical rant that has been passed from the Palestinian Authority to evangelical leadership.
No longer are undocumented charges fired at Israel from America’s traditionally liberal mainline churches. Now, the rhetoric flows from the pens, keyboards, and mouths of rising stars like Lynne Hybels (co-founder of WillowCreek), Shane Claiborne, and Margaret Feinberg.
Even millionaire businessman Mart Green has gotten into the act, producing the 2011 film, “Little Town of Bethlehem,” which purports to give a balanced view of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but in fact tilts heavily toward the Palestinians. Green, who keeps a low profile, is firmly entrenched in the Bible Belt, both figuratively and literally. His Mardel Christian bookstore chain is headquartered in Oklahoma City, along with his family’s Hobby Lobby empire.
Among the skewed charges emanating from within the fort of Evangelicalism now is the one that portrays Bethlehem as a “prison,” in which hapless Palestinians are completely encircled by a high, thick wall and guard towers. The imagery fits well with Yasser Arafat’s old propaganda that flipped the Jews’ experience with the Nazis.
Of course, Israel’s security barrier is found on two sides of the famous little biblical town, not four. And the barrier was erected to stop the murder of Jews. Specifically, only a tiny portion of the wall is cement, with the rest being a fence. This is lost on the evangelicals being targeted by Palestinian propagandists; after all, how many Americans have actually been to Bethlehem?
This is a reality the New Evangelicals are loath to talk about much.
David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), is well aware of the inroads the Palestinian narrative has made into American churches:
<blockquote>Anti-Israel activists are making surprising inroads into the evangelical community, especially among the Millennial generation. They are telling lies about Israel.  But their lies are hitting the right moral notes and they are making progress.  We ignore them at our peril.</blockquote>
Miller, who has not brought forth documentation so far for the “starvation”  charge against Israel, is a leading light among Millennials. He and his friend, Cameron Strang (publisher of Relevant magazine) visited what they call “Israel/Palestine” last year, along with Hybels, who is acting as a mentor of sorts for young evangelicals eager to free Palestinians from the “occupation.”
Anti-Israel ideas incubated for decades within American seminaries, but have now reached full flower in the wider population.
In 2011, David Gushee (Mercer University) and Glen Stassen (Fuller Theological Seminary) penned an open letter to “Christian Zionists,” accusing those of us who identify with the movement as “sinning” due to support for the Jewish state. It is curious that they evidently don’t believe their own camp is sinning by supporting the Palestinians.
Rank-and-file evangelicals, though, are for the most part unaware of this shift that is taking place. It is easy to continue believing “70 million evangelicals” support Israel, but the spokesmen and leaders of the past (such as Jerry Falwell) are passing from the scene.
As they do, a new generation of leaders suspicious of Israel and her supporters are fomenting a growing hostility for the Jewish state…and her backers in the church.
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