The morality of the American people now resides, insecurely, in the Presbyterian Church. Every other institution of American society–the evangelical churches, the bought-and-paid-for American media, both houses of Congress, the executive branch, both political parties, the corporations, the financial sector, the universities–all support Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. Only the Presbyterians dissent.
The genocide is cloaked behind the propaganda that no Palestinians lived in Palestine until after the Israelis arrived, that all Palestinians are terrorists who want to murder innocent peace-loving Israelis, and that the terrorist Palestinians are armed by the few remaining Muslim governments that so far have escaped becoming American puppet states.
The solution, of course, is for the few remaining independent countries in the Middle East to be brought by force under US and Israeli hegemony.
The Presbyterian Church, as it is the only US organization that is not under the Israel Lobby’s suzerainty, is included among the independent institutions that must be brought to heel.
The Presbyterian Church, which alone in America has a moral conscience, has been disturbed for some time by the Israeli/American policy of Palestinian extermination. In violation of international law and under the protection of US diplomacy and America’s UN veto, Israel has evicted Palestinians from their homes and villages since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in 1967 and even before. The remaining small parts of the West Bank in which Palestinians still reside have been turned by Israel into ghettos cut off from the rest of Palestine.
The Presbyterians, being meek Christians, have only mild criticisms of Israel which are packaged together in the church’s Middle East Study Committee’s report with the Presbyterians’ commitment to Israel’s continued existence and to “our American Jewish Friends.” The Presbyterian report even disavows divestment from Caterpillar, the US company that supplies Israel with the machines that destroy Palestinian homes, thus driving Palestinians from their lands so that Zionist settlers can confiscate their properties. It was a Caterpillar bulldozer that killed the American Rachel Corrie who was protesting Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes.
The Presbyterian report expresses concern that “the window of opportunity for an end to the occupation and the viability of a two-state solution is rapidly closing.” The Presbyterians fear that violence begets violence, and that the two sides are sliding into wanton willful murder of one another in violation of God’s commandments.
The Presbyterian document states: “We do affirm the legitimacy of Israel as a state, but consider the continuing occupation of Palestine (West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem) to be illegitimate, illegal under international law, and an enduring threat to peace in the region. Furthermore, we recognize that any support for that occupation weakens the moral standing of our nation internationally and our security.”
For Israel and the vast media and American political apparatus that Israel controls, this was too much. Israel is never guilty of anything. Only Palestinians are guilty. Anyone who criticizes Israel is anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists who want a second Holocaust.
The extreme Zionist Jerusalem Post, the moderate American Jewish newspaper, the Forward, and even a Mormon blog declared war on the Presbyterian Christians.
Israel, of course, denies that there is any illegal occupation of Palestine despite this being the finding of every country, the UN, and even Israel’s American protector, the US government. The Jerusalem Post accuses the Presbyterians of expressing “contempt for Israel” attempting “to delegitimize Israel” and justifying “Palestinian terror against the Jewish state.”
And there you have it. Any person or organization that is not all apologies for Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians from their homes, villages, and lands, any person or organization that does not accept that 5-year old Palestinian children shot down in the streets by Israeli soldiers or Zionist settlers were terrorists about to bring down the Israeli state, anyone who does not genuflect before the Israeli line on everything is an anti-Semite who wants to renew the Holocaust and exterminate the Jewish people.
The Rabbis in every American community will buttonhole the Presbyterian ministers and ask them to explain why they are anti-Semites and beat their wives. The Presbyterian General Assembly, which meets in July, will again be intimidated, as it was previously, and vote down the recommendations in the church’s report on the Israeli/Palestinian issue.
The weak forces of morality will again be defeated by the Israelis, and the extermination of the Palestinians will continue.
The last bastion of American morality or the last officially anti-semitic Protestant institution. The bought-and-paid-for American media? By whom, the JEWS??? who are plotting to take over the world? The “genocide” of the “Palestinians” is much more the fault of the Arabs who refused to grant them refuge and citizenship than it is of the Israelis. Perhaps if the Presbyterian Church would tell Hamas to stop hurling bombs at civilians, to open up a Palestinian state where human rights, such as the rights of women, of gays, freedom of religion, press, speech, etc etc etc rather than constantly blaming “the Jews” (of course you call them the “Israelis”), more constructive progress could be made.
If a crime is committed by Israel, how is it more the Arab’s fault for not coming to the need of those whom said crime is committed against than it is Israel’s fault for committing the crime?
What kind of asinine logic is that?
“What kind of asinine logic is that?”
One bought and paid for by the army of Isael’s bloggers, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Why have Palestinian groups launched these rockets? Has Israel incited them? Is the launching of these primitive rockets the only way they know to let the world know that their parents, grandparents and children are being oppressed from birth to death? What about Palestinian children, whose lives are at the mercy of the Israeli military? Many of these kids have seen their father’s beaten by Israeli soldiers, their mothers humiliated and called “whores,” have seen violence committed by Israeli soldiers or settlers on a regular basis, yearn for a glass of uncontaminated drinking water, are malnourished, maimed, deaf, blind, paraplegic, amputees, have endured Israeli sonic booms that cause all kinds of trauma including bedwetting, nausea, miscarriages, nosebleeds, anxiety, muscle spasms, temporary loss of hearing, heart and breathing problems. These Palestinian children are the lucky ones because they are not dead, the victims of rockets, bullets, white phosphorus and Israel’s common refusal to allow medical supplies into Gaza. Also, you should know that Israel fortified public buildings and constructed shelters to protect its Jewish population in the line of rocket attacks. You should also know that Israel did nothing to protect its Palestinian-Israeli citizens in their villages in the line of these same attacks.
Thanks to the Presbyterian Church for being the only mainstream Church to have the decency to stand up to the criminal Jewish Lobby. All other church groups have been silenced by the criminal Jewish Lobby. The media will not speak out against the Jewish Lobby, becuase our media is totally controlled and owned by Jewish groups. The politicians will not speak out against Israel’s criminal conduct because they are paid by the Jewish Lobby and are afraid of the media. The injustice against the Palestinians will not end until good and decent Americans loudly speakout against the Jewish Lobby.
DItto
I think you guys missed Robert’s point, which was tongue in cheek.
As a Presbyterian, I am ashamed of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Sorry but the Presbyterians are hardly the “last bastion of morality.” The PC(USA) is sick.
Yet another “christian” apologist for Israel’s inhumanity and evil?
I think this business of the “Russian spies” – who never *did* anything – is meant to be a distraction from the issue of Israeli spies OWNING America.
Additionally, notice, the FDA has just come out with a wimpy statement about antibiotic resistance and livestock. As if…
The real issue is the Israeli Lobby blackmailing the US over the accidental release of something we were illegally doing on Plum Island. The Israelis have long been known to have been doing – quite successfully – what the US now accuses the Russians of trying to do. [See Sibel Edmonds and the fake (Israeli) Turkish Lobby]
I think the fact that my Dodgers are not in first place is directly linked to inter-governmental conspiracy that we have with Israel.
I wonder if the Presbyterians would be upset if they learned that the Israeli government did 911.
Here is the proof: http://s1.zetaboards.com/LooseChangeForums/topic/2793786/1
excellent article … yet again
The Jews have obviously implanted something poisonous in PCR’s brain, causing it to rot.
I thought he announced his retirement in March. I guess he couldn’t stay retired. He needs an outlet for his Jew hating.
In all honesty, it’s sad and more than a bit pathetic to read the barely coherent rants of someone who was once a respected Economist. Either he was able to hide the crazy for many years, or he is simply losing it as he ages, but he is now a card-carrying member of the lunatic fringe.
Re: Ronald’s post:
Ronald—you suffer from a special kind of stupid. Not matter what one’s opinion of specific IDF actions, the launching of missiles, however crude, targeting civilian populations is clearly defined as a war crime. To defend or act in any way as an apologist for such actions is evil, pure and simple.
Criticizing criminal Israeli policies = “Jew hating”.
Thanks for the enlightenment, Russ. You’re a moral and intellectual coward.
Why are Jewish organizations so intent on influencing the outcome of the Presbyterian council meeting?? Why can’t the Presbyterian church be left to deal with the matter as a part of wrestling with their own internal collective conscience?
I doubt that the people who want to influence the outcome of this council meeting are interested in the spiritual dilemmas of Presbyterians who are wrestling with their faith and their morality. Instead, it seems that the goal is to secure their own agenda and provide a public relations success for their cause.
To heck with Presbyterians faith and morality challenges and dilemmas. To heck with people’s need to try to find a way to live their faith. All that matters is what how it affects my cause.
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