Thursday May 09, 2013
Let us continue with the Scottish Church flap, whereby Presbyterians decided that their grasp of theology is so much better than that of Judaism.
As Seth Franzman noted,
It is not for the Church of Scotland to decide where the Jews may live…no church has a right to tell the Jews where they may live… The church owes the Jewish people an apology for this incendiary text that is more fitting to the 13th...
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Thursday May 09, 2013
I heard some State Department static regarding the Temple Mount and yesterday's events.
Here is from the transcript of Patrick Ventrell, acting Deputy State Department spokesperson yesterday:
QUESTION: Okay. And finally on the same issue, do you comment on the recent violence around the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock?
MR. VENTRELL: I am aware of the...
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Monday May 06, 2013
From the series: Graphic Zionism - - -
[with apologies to Leonard Cohen, a good Jew]
P.S.
...President Obama...just hours later Sunday, said Israel is justified in preventing the provision of weapons to Hezbollah. “We coordinate very closely with the Israelis, recognizing that . . . they are very close to Syria, they’re very close to Lebanon,” Obama...
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Sunday May 05, 2013
Something odd, and even distrubing, seems to be going on up at the Temple Mount.
First, we were informed of a new agreement between the PA and Jordan awarding King Abdullah II a special custodianship for the Temple Mount (based on something from 1924).
In the past, in 2009, we had this:-
The Jordanian government on Sunday summoned Israel's envoy to Amman for rebuke over the recent tensions at...
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Friday May 03, 2013
We - and Scottish Christains - need to be delivered from an "Evil".
I read this report:-
A report by the Church of Scotland, published this week, denies any special privilege for the Jewish people in the land of Israel. The church, which in recent years has jettisoned its once philosemitic character, opened a wide rift with the Scottish Jewish community with the report. Among other controversial...
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