Conference: 2004 Pre-Trib Study Group
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Thatvicious anti-Semitism would pursue the Jews worldwide throughout history is oneof many prophecies about Israel (Dt 28:37; Neh 1:8; 2 Ch 7:20; Jer 24:9; 25:11;29:18-19; 44:8; Amos 9:9, etc.) that God points to as proof that He is the onetrue God, that the Bible is His Word, and that the Jews are His chosen people(Is 42:8-9; 43:10; 46:9-10; 48:5, etc.). From a human point of view, there isno rational ground for such persistent, widespread anti-Semitism; yet thisprophecy has come true with a vengeance. The only explanation is found in theBible: the Jews are God's chosen people and under His judgment for theirrebellion against Him (Dt 28:15-68; 29:24-28; 30:17-20, etc.). There is a further obvious reason for this universalanti-Semitism: hatred of Jews and Israel is inspired of Satan because his onlyhope to escape eternal doom is to destroy them. This he must do to save himself from God'swrath. Had Satan been able to destroy the Jews before Christ came, he wouldhave prevented the birth of the Messiah, the salvation of mankind, and his owndefeat through the sacrifice of the Son of God for mankind's sins. Moreover,for promising a Messiah and a salvation that never came, God would have beenproved a liar and thus could not righteously have punished Satan. Ofcourse, the Messiah came and defeated Satan, "tast[ing] death for every man"(Heb 2:9) and bearing "our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Pt 2:24).Countless multitudes have been redeemed and will spend eternity in the Father'shouse of "many mansions" because of having received the Lord Jesus Christ astheir Savior. But Christ's defeat of Satan through His death and resurrectiondid not end the battle between God and Satan for the hearts, minds, and eternaldestiny of mankind. That battle continues to rage-and Israel is at its center.
The God of Ishmael? TheGod of the Bible is called "the God of Israel" 203 times. Never is He called the God of anyother people-and certainly never is He called the God of Ishmael or of theArabs. He further declares, "I AMthe God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and theGod of Jacob: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto allgenerations" (Ex 3:13-16). Twelve times this name is given to God. Christ arguedthe resurrection of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (and thus of all believers) fromthis title, declaring that "God is not the God of the dead but of the living"(Mt 22:31-32). The entire land of Canaan (which became Israel) waspromised to Abraham and to his seed for ever (Gen 12:7; 13:15, 17:19; Ex 6:8;Lev 25:23). Whocan claim to be this "seed"? Islam teaches that it was Ishmael, not Isaac, whowas the "son of promise" and was offered by Abraham upon the altar. Ishmael wasthe firstborn, and thus the Arabs, who claim descent from him, are adamant thatthey-not the Jews-are the rightful heirs to God's promise of the land ofCanaan. Of course, Ishmael was not the son God promised, but the product ofAbraham's and Sarah's unbelief. Instead of being born to Sarah, Abraham's wife,his mother was Hagar, Sarah's maid. TheBible makes it very clear in many ways that the promised son was Isaac and thathe and his descendants were the rightful heirs to God's promises to Abraham.Apparently content with Ishmael whom he loved, Abraham desired no other son(Gen 17:15-18). But God insisted that He would give Abraham a son through hiswife, Sarah, that his name would be Isaac, and that he would be the heir to thepromises and to the land (17:19-21). Furthermore, the true heirs to thepromises would be slaves in a foreign land for 400 years (Gen 15:13). Thisnever happened to the Arabs, but only to the Jews, who, during this isolation,did not intermarry with non-Jews but became an identifiable ethnic group, wereled en masseinto the Promised Land, and we know who their descendants are today. Incontrast, Ishmael's descendants intermarried at least with Midianites (Jdg 8:1,12, 22, 24) and with those of Esau (Gn 28:9) who, in turn, intermarried withHittites (26:34). Inthe beginning, the Qur'an called Jews and Christians the "people of the book"and honored much of the Bible as inspired of the true God. When Muhammad turnedagainst these people, however, the tone of the Qur'an changed. The claim ismade today that the Bible was perverted in order to make it seem that the Jewswere the heirs. Of course, we have Bible manuscripts both before and afterMuhammad, and they are identical. In fact, the Qur'an itself repeatedlydeclares that the Jews are Allah's chosen people to whom he gave the PromisedLand:
We made a covenant of old withthe Children of Israel (Surah 5:70); We brought the Children of Israel acrossthe [Red] sea, and Pharaoh with his hosts pursued themand we verily did allotunto the Children of Israel a fixed abode (10:91, 94); [Pharaoh] wished toscare them from the land, but we drowned him and those with him [in the RedSea] all together. And we said unto the Children of Israeldwell in the land"(17:103-104); we delivered the Children of Israelfrom Pharaoh. We chose them,purposely, above all creatures (44:30-32); we favored them above all peoples(45:16); Remember Allah's favor to you. Hegave you what he gave no other ofhis creatures. O my people, go into the Holy Land which Allah hath ordained foryou (95:20-21), etc.
"Palestine"? Inspite of such Qur'anic passages, Islam claims that "Palestine" belongs to theArab descendants of Ishmael. This is the basis of the hatred Muslims havetoward Israel and of their determination to exterminate its people and topossess all of Israel for themselves. In fact, "Palestine" is not mentioned once in the Qur'an-very strange,considering the importance Muslims attach to it today. Thatspurious claim is further "legitimized" through a people who today call themselves"Palestinians." They claim descent from the "original Palestinians" and that,therefore, the entire land of "Palestine" is theirs, but is being unlawfullyoccupied by Jews. They demand all of this land as their possession. Such a claim isfraudulent for many well-established reasons. Theland to which God brought Abraham (at this time called Abram), and which Hegave to him and to his heirs, was called "Canaan" (Gen 12:5, 6-8; 13:7-17,etc.). There was no such land as Palestine and no such people as Palestinians.Its early inhabitants were Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizites,Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites (Gen 15:19-21). Godnever promised anything called "Palestine" to Abraham and to his heirs. The onlyland He promised was Canaan: "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed aftertheeall the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be theirGod (Gen 17:8); Be ye mindful alwaysthe covenant which he made with Abraham,and of his oath unto Isaac; And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, andto Israel for an everlasting covenant, Saying, Unto thee will I give the landof Canaan, the lot of your inheritance" (1 Chr 16:15-19). Even had there been a land of Palestine and"Palestinians," the Arabs could not possibly be descended from them. They claimdescent from Ishmael, who was certainly not a "Palestinian." His father,Abraham, was from Ur of the Chaldees, and his mother, Hagar, was an Egyptian.Neither of them was one of the "original inhabitants of Canaan," nor evenremotely related to such a people. The land was already settled when Abrahamwith his wife, Sarah, and her maid, Hagar, arrived there. Furthermore, as late as the 1950s Arabs refused to becalled Palestinians. To the British Peel Commission in 1937, a local Arableader testified, "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a termthe Zionists invented." Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, testified toan Anglo-American Committee of inquiry in 1946, "There is no such thing asPalestine in history-absolutely not!" To the UN Security Council in 1956, AhmedShukairy declared, "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing butsouthern Syria." Eight years later, in 1964, Shukairy became the foundingchairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. No "Palestinian," likeArafat, he was born in Cairo. Abraham settled in Hebron in the land of Canaan (Gen13:18; 23:2, 19; 35:27; 37:14, etc.). Everyone knows where Hebron and Canaanwere located then and now-nowhere near Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Yet the Qur'anand Islam claim that Abraham and Ishmael together built the Ka'aba. This ispure fabrication-as is the claim in the Qur'an that a Samaritan built thegolden calf in the wilderness, 700 years before Samaritans even existed. Ishmael was born after Abraham had lived in Hebron forten years. Fourteen years later, Isaac was born in Hebron to Abraham and hiswife, Sarah. Ishmael mocked Isaac, and Sarah banished him and his mother, Hagar(Gen 21:10-20). From that time onward, Ishmael was no longer part of Abraham'shousehold but lived far away "in the wilderness of Paran" (21:21). Indeed, Goddid not consider him to be Abraham's son! God told Abraham: "Take now thy son,thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovestand offer him [as] a burnt-offering "(Gen 22:1-2). Thirty-sevenyears after giving birth to Isaac, at the age of 127, Sarah died (23:1).Abraham was still in Hebron of Canaan, where he had lived more than 70 years.He purchased the cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite (23:1-20) and therehe buried Sarah. Thirty-eight years later, at the age of 175, Abraham died andwas buried in Machpelah next to Sarah. After Abraham's death, Isaac continuedto live in Hebron in the land of Canaan another 110 years. One by one, Isaac,Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah all died and were buried in the family tomb, the caveof Machpelah-but not Ishmael. No Arab or Muslim was ever buried there. David was first crowned king in Hebron and ruled thereover Judah 7½ years before moving his throne to Jerusalem. Hebron is ofgreat significance to the Jews. Yet Muslims built a mosque at Machpelah, claimthe burial place of Jewish patriarchs as their own, forbid access to Jews, haveperiodically slaughtered and expelled Jews from Hebron, and desire to make itJew-free today. They also claim that Jerusalem and the entire land of Israelhave always belonged to them, that no Jews ever lived there, and that theIsraelis are occupying Arab land! Incredibly, the world accepts this lie as thebasis for forcing upon Israel a fraudulent "peace" in the Middle East. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their families lived formore than 300 years in the land of Canaan, which God had promised to them andto their descendants. (Arabs never lived there in any numbers until after theseventh-century A.D. Muslim invasion of Israel.) Jacob and his familytemporarily moved to Egypt because of a famine in Canaan, but remained there400 years and became the slaves of the Egyptians, then were brought back toconquer Canaan as God had foretold, establishing them as the heirs of God'spromises to Abraham (Gen 15:13-14). Thereafter Canaan was known as the land of Israel, whichit is called 31 times in Scripture. Its kings ruled from Jerusalem over a vastempire stretching from the Sinai to the Euphrates, until they were conquered bythe Babylonians around 600 B.C. and scattered to many nations, as God hadwarned. Thus, for 300 years before Egypt and about 1,000 years thereafter-atotal of 1,300 years-the Jews dwelled in their own land, the land of Israel. Itis an insult to the God of Israel and to His chosen people to call Israel"Palestine"! Please don't encourage this lie! Ishmael's descendants never lived in Canaan. Most ofthem settled in the Arabian Peninsula. It would not be until the seventhcentury, through the Islamic invasions, that Arabs would come in anysignificant numbers into the land of Israel, which in A.D. 135 the Romanconquerors (after rebuilding Jerusalem as a pagan city dedicated to Jupiter)had angrily renamed Provincia Syria-Palestina after Israel's ancient enemies,the Philistines.
A Sad History Chasedout of their land under God's judgment in the Babylonian dispersion, and latertwice by the Romans, Jews always returned to live there. This despised peopleoccupied Israel for another 2,500 years continuously since their return fromBabylon (thus for nearly 4,000 years, beginning with Abraham and Isaac), thoughmost of that time they have suffered under the oppressive heel of variousconquerors. Since Israel was renamed by the Romans, its inhabitantshave been known as "Palestinians." Who were they? Jews, of course. Chase themout and they return to the land God gave to their forebears. In World War II,Britain had a volunteer brigade known as "The Palestinian Brigade"-all Jews.The Arabs were fighting on Hitler's side. There was the Palestinian SymphonyOrchestra, a Jewish orchestra, and the Palestinian Post, a Jewish newspaper. Arabsrefused to be known as "Palestinians" and declared that if there were such a people,they were Jews. Sadly, Israel had gone into idolatry and rebellion andthus forfeited for a time the full blessing God had promised to the patriarchs.Israel has been under God's judgment from the days of Moses to the presenttime. Her restoration, however, is assured-but only by God's grace, not by hermerits. Scripture makes that fact clear. For example: "The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be aspecial people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of theearthbecause the Lord loved youand because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers. I donot this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake,which ye have profaned among the heathenbe ashamed and confounded for your ownways, O house of Israel" (Dt 7:7-8; Ezek 36:22, 32, etc.). God's Remarkable Promise Dozens of times in His Word, Yahweh has promised that inspite of their being hated, persecuted, and killed as no other people, and inspite of their being under His severe discipline, He would preserve the Jewsfrom total destruction (Jer 30:10-1; 46:27-28, etc.). He would finallyestablish them back in their own land as an identifiable, ethnic people withthe Messiah reigning over them on the throne of His father David (Jer 31; Ezek 34,36, 37, etc.). God's integrity is tied to the ultimate restoration of Israel toher own land, never to be displaced again. Satan must destroy Israel in order to discredit God andprevent his own eternal punishment. For Satan to be defeated, it is not enough forindividual Jews to survive. Israel must exist as a nation in her own land:"Thus saith the Lord, which giveththe sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars fora light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roarif thoseordinances depart from before methen the seed of Israel also shall cease frombeing a nation before me for ever" (Jer 31:35-36). There is only one nation andone people-not Arabs or anyone else but the Jews alone-to whom God ever gave aland and specific perpetual promises. Thedelusion of "ten lost tribes," if true, would mean that God could never restoreIsrael as He promised, because most of His chosen people would have beenabsorbed into the Gentile world. That ten tribes were not lost is clear. In therevival under Josiah 100 years after the ten tribes had been carried away intoAssyria (2 Ki 15:29; 17: 4-6, 17-23, etc.), the remnants of Israel who hadreturned from Assyria kept the Passover together with Judah (2 Ch 34:1-35:19, etc.). Christ told His disciples, "Whenthe Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upontwelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Mt 19:28). Paul remindedKing Agrippa, "Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly servingGod day and night, hope to come" (Acts 26:7). Likewise, James wrote "to thetwelve tribes which are scattered abroad" (Jas 1:1). And so it is with Replacement Theology. It is just onemore form of anti-Semitism, which, if true, makes God a liar and Satanvictorious.
"If They Don't Convert, KillThem!" Concerning anti-Semitism, one thinks immediately ofHitler and the Holocaust. Centuries before he was born, however, a far worseand more persistent anti-Semitism was conceived in the form of Islam. Itsfounder, Muhammad, was born in Mecca into the Quraish tribe around A.D. 571.They were the guardians of the Ka'aba, an idol temple filled with some 360images of various gods. Allah (a contraction of Al-ilah, lit. "the chief god") wasrecognized as the chief of the idols in the Ka'aba and was the official god ofMuhammad's tribe. Through alleged revelations from the "angel Gabriel,"Muhammad claimed that Allah was the only god, and that he was Allah's onlymessenger/prophet. When his fellow Meccans would not accept his "revelations,"Muhammad fled to the town of Yathrib. There he established himself through morethan 25 murders of those who opposed him. Many of these victims were poets whowrote verse against him and were doomed by a timely revelation that all poetswere inspired of Satan (Surah 26:221-27)) With the plunder from successful attacks upon passingcaravans, Muhammad gradually built the power base that he had lacked in Mecca.From that time onward, Islam became an increasingly vicious religion thatMuhammad imposed with the sword upon expanding areas of Arabia. He murdered allwho would not submit to his authority as Prophet. Yathrib had been founded by Jews. Muhammad shared his"revelations" with them and also with the Christians living in the vicinity.When they would neither accept Allah as the only true God nor Muhammad as Hisprophet, he turned against the Christians and Jews, killing all who refused tobecome Muslims and were unable to escape. Every male Jew of fighting age inYathrib was slaughtered and their bodies buried under the marketplace. Womenand children were taken as "wives" or slaves. The name of the town was changedto Medina, which means "city of the prophet." Here Muhammad himself was buriedand his tomb remains to this day. In A.D. 628, Muhammad approached Mecca with some of hisfollowers, all new Muslims. He wanted to join the pagans in their pilgrimage tothe Ka'aba on what is known as the Hajj. Remember that the Ka'aba was at that timefilled with idols, the chief of which was Allah. Muhammad and his Muslimfollowers intended to join the pagans in the same superstitious rituals thattheir ancestors had followed for centuries!
"Peace! Peace!" Atthat time the Meccans were too strong for Muhammad and turned him back. However,they were anxious to make peace with this powerful and violent enemy andentered into one of the most important agreements in Islamic history, theTreaty of Hudaybiyah, a Ten-year Ceasefire, called a Hudna. That document set theprecedent for Islam ever since. No Muslim leader has the power to go overMuhammad's head to make real peace with non-Muslims. Only a "ceasefire" can beengaged, and that for no longer than ten years. The purpose is not genuinepeace but to gain time and advantage to eventually conquer the unsuspectingenemy. This has been Arafat's and the PLO's intent in the entire "peaceprocess." Thistreaty allowed Muhammad and his followers to join the Hajj the following year,on the condition that Muhammad acknowledge that he was not the prophet ofAllah. Muhammad swallowed his pride and signed. Thus in 629 he came with hisMuslim followers, entered Mecca and joined with the pagan Arabs in going seventimes around the Ka'aba filled with idols, kissing the dark stone in onecorner, and touching another stone in the Yamani corner each time. The newMuslims, with Muhammad at their head, joined in all of the other rituals,climbing nearby Mt as-Safa, then running back and forth seven times to thesummit of as-Marwah, supposedly commemorating Hagar's search for water. Theyclimbed Mount Arafat, hurried to Muzdalifah, a place between Mina and Arafat intime for sunset prayer. The next day, along with the pagans, the new Muslimsproceeded to Wadi Mina, where seven stones were thrown at each of three pillarsrepresenting Satan. And so it went. These ancient pagan rituals (the fulldetails are too long to recite here) were all carried over into Islam and arepracticed to this day along with Ramadan as it had been observed by Arab tribesfor centuries before Islam. The Qur'an refers to "The month of Ramadan in whichwas revealed the Qur'an..." (2:185). Muhammad's first three attacks on caravans wereunsuccessful. Then a timely "revelation" declared that Allah allowed Muslims tofight during that "holy month." Pagan Arabs had long set Ramadan apart forpeace. This "revelation" had given the Muslims the advantage of a surpriseattack and had brought Muhammad's first success, March 16, 624. Two years after signing the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, A.D.630, Muhammad had the necessary power and as noted above took over Mecca. For atime he allowed the pagans to continue to practice the Hajj, joining with thenew Muslims in its rituals, then gave them four months to convert to Islam orbe killed. Thereafter, only Muslims could approach Mecca and the Ka'aba, andthat is the case today. Surah 3:96-97 claims that the Ka'aba was "the firstSanctuary appointed to mankind...where Abraham stood up to pray;and...pilgrimage [hajj] to the House is a duty unto Allah for mankind, for himwho can find a way thither." Muhammad died in A.D. 632, poisoned by the widow of aman he had murdered. Having been forced into Islam by the sword, much of Arabiatried to defect. Muhammad, however, had said, "Whoever relinquishes his faith,kill him!" This is the law still practiced in Muslim countries today.
His Legacy Lives On In obedience to Muhammad, successor and father-in-law,Abu Bakr, and loyal Muslim warriors killed about 70,000 Arabs, former Muslims,in the "Wars of Apostasy." Thus Arabia was forced back into Islam once again. Thereafter, under Abu Bakr and succeeding caliphs, Islamspread swiftly by the sword from France all the way to China-"defensive" wars,of course. Millions were killed by the conquering Muslim armies. There is noway to "explain" away today's suicide bombers and other Muslim terrorists as ahandful of extremists. This is Islam as Muhammad and his successors established and practicedit from the beginning and down through the centuries. Historians describe the conquestof India as "the bloodiest story in history." There Muslims killed more Hindus,Buddhists, and Sikhs than Hitler killed Jews. The Taj Mahal was built by aMuslim mogul with 20,000 slave laborers. Foundationalto Islam is the declaration Muhammad made: "Allah has commanded me to fightagainst all people until all people confess that Allah is the true god andMuhammad is his prophet." The entire world is divided by Islam into Daral-Islam (the house of peace) and Dar al-Harb (the house of war). There isperpetual Jihad by Islam against Dar al-Harb. There can never be "peace" untilIslam has subjected the entire world to Allah. Verses advocating fighting totake over the world for Islam (of which there are more than 100) include thefollowing: 2:190-193, 210, 224; 4:74-76, 89, 101; 5:36, 54; 8:12, 17, 59-60,65; 9:5, 14, 29, 41, 123; 47:4, etc. Muhammadalso declared, as recorded in the Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith, "The last day willnot come until the Muslims confront the Jews and the Muslims destroy them. Inthat day Allah will give a voice to the rocks and the trees and they will cryout, 'Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!'" As a result, ever since the Muslim conquest of theMiddle East, Jews have suffered in Muslim countries from inhumane treatment andperiodic bursts of violence that left many of them dead or seriously wounded.Take only one country, Morocco, as an example of what occurred everywhere underIslam. Jews were forced to live in ghettos called mellahs. One historian writes that rape,looting, burning of synagogues, destruction of Torah scrolls and murder were"so frequent that it is impossible to list them." As only one instance of many,in Fez, in A.D.1032, about 6,000 Jews were murdered and many more "robbed oftheir women and property."[2] In 1066, after Islam tookover Spain, the Jews of Granada were massacred-and that fate periodicallyovertook those who would not bow to Islam. The fierce persecution of 1640, in which even women andchildren were murdered, was called the "al-Khada." Under Muslims, Jews suffered"such repression, restriction and humiliation as to exceed anything in Europe."
Home, Not-so-sweet Home On May 14, 1948, Israel declared itself an independentnation once again. Israel's Proclamation of Independence stated: "We extend ourhand to all neighboring States and their peoples in an offer of peace...andappeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with thesovereign Jewish people settled in its own land...placing our trust in theAlmighty...." That olive branch was trampled by the regular armies of at leastfive Arab nations attacking Israeli settlers in what they described as a war ofextermination. That to exterminate Israel is required by Islam (no Arab mapshows Israel's existence) makes real peace in the Middle East impossible-butpolitical correctness won't admit it. More than 800,000 Jews fled from Muslim lands to Israelfor refuge, leaving behind virtually everything they had possessed. This wasalmost double the number of Arab refugees who fled from Israel during the warof independence. Yet these Jewish refugees who fled persecution and slaughterare ignored in the media. For example, in 1948 there were about 265,000 Jews inMorocco, today there are about 5,000. There were about 140,000 Jews in Algeria,while today there are none. There were about 135,000 in Iraq, 75,000 in Egypt,and 30,000 in Syria, with only about 100 remaining in each of these countries. The Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 (in spite of Israel'surgent invitation to remain to build a new country together) did so at theinsistence of the Arab military. They were warned that those who remained wouldbe considered traitors to the Arab cause. Most of those who fled never saw anIsraeli soldier. They are the only "refugees" in the Middle East as far as theworld is concerned and to whom all the sympathy is given. Jewish refugees countfor nothing. The families of those who did not flee comprise about 25 percentof Israel's citizens today and have full voting rights. Some are even membersof the Knesset, in spite of their opposition to Israel's existence. In starkcontrast, no Jew can be a citizen of any Muslim country, where the fewremaining have almost no rights. One would expect that the Jewish refugees, numberingabout twice as many at the time and having fled indescribable persecution inMuslim lands, would be more than a fair exchange for the Arab refugees. Jewswould never want to go back to these Muslim lands, and have been well absorbedinto normal Israeli life. But the Arab "refugees" (in spite of the Arabspossessing 700 times the land given to Israel, and with vast sums of oil moneyavailable for assistance) have been deliberately kept in squalid camps as afestering sore to support Islam's controversy with Israel. They have multipliedinto millions and would literally destroy Israel if the world could ever forceIsrael to receive them back. On October 11, 1949, Egyptian Minister of ForeignAffairs, Saleh el-Din, declared that in demanding the return of the refugees toPalestine [i.e., Israel], "the Arabs intend that they shall return asmasters.... More explicitly: they intend to annihilate the state of Israel."
Why the Jews? In the last century there were more than 100 milliondisplaced refugees (about 15 million in the creation of India and Pakistan).None ever go back nor does the United Nations concern itself in any attempt tosend them back. This is the rule and practice. Ah, but there is one exception-the "Palestinians"must be received back to Israel in order to destroy her. Nothing aroused Satan's hatred and the wrath of Islamlike the birth of the nation of Israel. It must be annihilated. And here Islamitself is the driving force, not a few "extremists." Islam promises Muslimsvictory against the Jews as well as against the entire world. Instead, theytaste only humiliation in every attack they launch. Israel, on the other hand,in spite of being under God's judgment, enjoys His protection in many ways, asforetold: "In that day will I make the governors of Judah likea torch of firein a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about" (Zech 12:6). Thewars of 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 have borne eloquent testimony to the truthof Scripture: "If it had not been the Lordwho was on our side, now may Israel say; If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men roseup against us: Then they have swallowed us up quick, when their wrath iskindled against usBlessed be the Lord,who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.Our help is in the name of theLord who made heaven and earth"(Ps 124:1-8). The Arabs' repeated defeat at the hands of Israel is forthem both embarrassing and maddening. The Imams blame this shame upon thedeparture from true Islam by the masses of Muslims. They are whipping up aworldwide revival of fundamentalist Islam as the way to regain Allah's blessingand thereby defeat Israel. There is a law in Islam thatonce Muslims have possessed a territory in their conquest of the world (ascommanded by Allah through his prophet Muhammad), that land can never berelinquished. Islam cannot tolerate having territory which it once controlledregain its independence. Nor can non-Muslims reign over Muslims. Having takenJerusalem in 641, Muslims controlled all of what had once been Israel forcenturies. The Turkish Ottoman Empire held the entire Middle East for 400 yearsuntil 1917. It is therefore an unacceptable reversal of Islamic history forJews now to be in control of any of their Promised Land. Thus, as soon as the UNpartitioned "Palestine" in 1947, the Arabs rioted in protest. So long as Israel retains autonomy over one square yardof land in the Middle East, it is an affront to Islam and declares to the worldthat Islam is a false religion, Allah a false god, Muhammad a false prophet,and the Qur'an a false revelation. This is the issue-and all the talk of "peace"without recognizing and changing this teaching of Islam is both a fool's dreamand a fraud.
God, Ever Faithful to HisPromise Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948,brought an immediate attack against the poorly armed Israeli settlers by theregular armies of five Arab nations, with tanks and planes. In a BBC interviewMay 15, 1948, the Arab League declared, "The Arabs intend to conduct a war ofextermination ." The entire world expected that massacre to occur. Instead,exactly as God had promised, the poorly armed Israeli settlers routed the Arabarmies. That the Arab Muslims have suffered humiliating defeat in every warthey have launched against Israel has only made their determination to destroyIsrael to the glory of Allah grow ever stronger. In the 1948 war of independence, Jordan (which Englandhad created out of land that the 1922 Declaration of Principles of the Leagueof Nations had recognized belonged to the Jewish people) took what is now knownas the "West Bank." Egypt took the Gaza Strip. All Jews were expelled and allJewish property was destroyed or confiscated. These territories, so much in the news today, were heldby Jordan and Egypt for 19 years and used as terrorist launching pads againstIsrael until the latter was forced to take them in the Six-day War in 1967.During those 19 years, not one word was ever heard from the Arab world about a"Palestinian state." It was the Arabs, not Israel, who put the "refugees" inthe camps and have kept them there ever since.
What About the PLO? Oneoften hears the complaint, "Just move the borders back to 1967 and that willbring peace." It was in 1964, however, during those 19 years when Jordan andEgypt held the West Bank and Gaza, that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed. What was "liberation" intended toaccomplish at that time? The PLO charter declared that the very existence ofIsrael was illegitimate, that the Jews were merely citizens of the countrieswhere they happened to live all over the world, not entitled to a land of theirown, and that the intention of the Arabs was to take all of "Palestine" forthemselves and literally "exterminate" the Jews. The logo of the PLO shows"Palestine" as comprising the entire territory from the Mediterranean to the RiverJordan. For Muslims, Israel does not exist. To Egypt's National Assembly, March 26, 1964, GamalAbd-Al Nasser, who founded the PLO in Cairo ("Palestinians" in the camps hadnothing to do with it), declared that the problem was "the very existence of Israel."On March 8, 1965, he boasted, "We shall enter [Palestine] with its soilsaturated in blood." Shortly thereafter he declared, "We aim at...theeradication of Israel." The Arab world had spent 19 years for this war, andthey were supremely confident that they would destroy Israel. On May 16, 1967, Nasser ordered UN peace-keeping forcesto leave the Sinai. By May 18, Egyptian troops were massed in the Sinai onIsrael's border and Syrian troops had done the same on the Golan. The "Voice ofthe Arabs" broadcast, "The sole method we shall apply against Israel is totalwar, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence." On May 20,the Syrian Defense Minister declared, "Our forces are now entirely ready...toexplode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland...to enter into a battle ofannihilation." On May 22, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israelishipping. It was an act of war. On May 27, Nasser threatened, "Our basicobjective will be the destruction of Israel.... We will not accept anycoexistence with Israel...." On May 30, Nasser announced, "The armies of Egypt,Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel...while standingbehind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arabnation...the critical hour has arrived." Iraq's president thundered, "Theexistence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is ouropportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Ourgoal is clear-to wipe Israel off the map." Such is still their intent. In fact,no Arab map then or now shows Israel's existence, as already noted. My wife, Ruth, and I together with our four children,ages 8-15, were in Egypt at that time, as eyewitnesses to Arab intentions. Onan Egyptian freighter from Alexandria to Beruit, I sat in the lounge withwild-eyed, shouting Arabs around me, watching the Arab arms buildup underNasser. We saw the complete confidence with which the Arab world, momentarilyunited behind Nasser in this common goal, prepared to exterminate the Jews. Wewere heading for Jordan in our VW micro-bus when the Lord graciously redirectedus north through Syria. We crossed into Turkey safely just hours before warbroke out. Israel had no choice but to make a preemptive strike inself-defense. The destruction of the Egyptian and Syrian air forces on theground and the conquest of the Arab armies in what became known as the "Six-dayWar" is history, another fulfillment of Zechariah 12:6: "In that day will Imake the governors of Judah likea torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shalldevour all the people round aboutand Jerusalem shall be inhabited again." Nasser never recovered from the blow to his ego, anddied of a heart attack in 1970. He was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. The latter isremembered for making "peace" with Israel, for which he was murdered by theMuslim Brotherhood The real Sadat is revealed in an open letter he wrote toHitler after the latter's death, expressing the hope that the Fuhrer was stillalive, and sympathizing with his just cause against the Jews. Similarly,Egyptian columnist, Ahmad Rajab (Al-Akbar, 4/18/01), wrote: "Thanks to Hitler,blessed memory, who on behalf of the Palestinians, revenged in advance, againstthe most vile criminals on the face of the earth. But we do have a complaintagainst him-his revenge was not enough." Hitler's Mein Kampf is still a bestseller in Muslim countries. ThePalestinian Peace Prize for Culture was awarded to Abu Daoud for his booktelling how he planned and carried out the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the1972 Munich Olympics.
What about Today? Textbooks in Syria today lead pupils to the "inevitableconclusion...that all Jews must be annihilated." [6] Calls forannihilation of Jews still resound throughout the Muslim world, such as theFriday sermon in Gaza's Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan mosque, Oct 14, 2000: "Haveno mercy on the Jews...kill them...and those Americans who...established Israelhere, in the beating heart of the Arab world...."[7] That veryday, two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn into Ramallah and were literallytorn apart by a frenzied mob-an event that was cheered when the grizzly detailswere shown on Palestinian T.V. Hamas Leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a surgeon, expressedIslam's sentiment, "From our ideological point of view, it is not allowed torecognize that Israel controls one square meter of historic Palestine." In viewof Islam's passion to destroy Israel, "peace" plans are a macabre joke! Muhammad's command that all Jews must be killed is notan obscure teaching which one must search to find. It is in today's textbooksin Islamic schools worldwide, including, for example, the Muslim Academyoutside Washington D.C. This declaration is continually repeated in Mosques andon Muslim radio and TV. This theme is prominent in publications officiallydistributed by Ministries of Education in Muslim lands. For example, in Jordan,a book used in the first year of high school declares, "Israel was born to die.Prove it." A book for the second year of Junior High in Damascus declares: "TheJews are vile, greedy, enemies of mankind." In Syria, a 5th gradebook boasts: "We shall expel all Jews from all Arab countries." In Egypt, atextbook for the first year of junior high urges students: "The Arabs do notcease to act for the extermination of Israel." A 9th- grade textbookdeclares: "Israel shall not live if the Arabs stand fast in their hatred....Even if all the human race and the devil in hell conspire to aid her, she shallnot exist." When I present such facts to audiences, I see many eyesglaze over in unbelief. It is nearly impossible for anyone with a normalconscience to accept the fact that a religion in our day literally calls forthe extermination of an entire people. Not a few fanatics, but Islam itself is Israel'schief and most determined enemy. The Arabs were converted to Islam by the sword, and thatis how they became the battering ram in this battle for Israel's survival. Itis really a war between God and Satan that will finally come to its climax atArmageddon. How did we arrive at the present state where an enemy that isdetermined to annihilate Israel is looked upon as her "partner for peace"? Thenaivete of Western leaders in attempting to bring peace is illustrated nobetter than through former President Jimmie Carter. On March 26, 1979, hehosted at the White House the signing of a "peace treaty" by Israel's PrimeMinister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Carter wanted toquote one verse each from the Bible and the Qur'an about peace. There are some400 such verses in the Bible, but his speechwriters, after much searching,could find only one verse about peace in the Qur'an. Carter optimistically declared:"In the Koran, we read: 'But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou alsoincline towards peace, and trust in God...[Surah 8:61].' So let us now layaside war.... We pray God...that these dreams will come true." Islam's "dream," however, is notwhat Carter and Israel hoped. The verse says "Allah," not God-and Allah hatesJews! Surah eight is titled Spoils of War and it is all about fighting and plunder in theconquest of the world for Allah and Islam. Verse 65 says, "O Prophet! Exhortthe believers to fight...." Verse 67 says, "It is not for any prophet to havecaptives until he hath made slaughter in the land." The very verse Carter so naivelycited declares that the only "peace" Islam offers to anyone is to those whosurrender to its conquests and convert to Islam. As noted above, Sadat's rewardwas assassination at the hands of fellow Muslims for daring to establish"peace" on any other basis than conversion to Islam. In so doing, he hadbetrayed Islam itself. On October 14, 1988, Arafat (the worst mass murderer ofmodern times other than Hitler, Stalin and Mao) condemned all forms ofterrorism and recognized Israel-on paper. Lying to the enemies of Islam ishonorable. Arafat's re-invention as an icon of peace was childishly simple: hevowed to reform-and presto-his heinous crimes of four decades were as thoughthey had never been. Under pressure from the world, Israel made the hugemistake of believing this evil man and making him its "partner for peace." TheMadrid Peace Conference in October 1991 brought together delegates from Israel,Syria, Jordan, Lebanon along with "Palestinians." Next came secret PLO-Israelitalks in Oslo in January 1993. In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, September9, 1993, Arafat said: "The PLO recognizes the right of...Israel to exist inpeace and security...commits itself...to a peaceful resolution of the conflictbetween the two sides...renounces the use of terrorism and other acts ofviolence [and] affirms that those articles of the Palestinian Covenant whichdeny Israel's right to exist...are now inoperative and no longer valid [and] undertakesto submit to the Palestinian National Council for formal approval the necessarychanges...." As a reward for this transparent lie, President Clinton promisedto pay $500 million to the PLO and its agencies. In exchange, Arafat solemnlyswore to comply with all terms of the Oslo Accords. On September 13, 1993, Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin andArafat signed the Oslo "Declaration of Principles"-a mockery of the League ofNations' "Declaration of Principles" in 1922-and Israel recognized Arafat andthe PLO. In fact, Arafat never kept one provision of this agreement. Hecouldn't without betraying Islam and suffering the same fate as Sadat. He beganimmediately over radio and television to apologize in Arabic for Oslo, tellingMuslim audiences that he was following the Prophet's example by entering into atemporary cease fire that would lead to Israel's destruction. Muhammad's treaty of Hudaybiya-a 10-year ceasefireagreement with his own tribe, the Quraish of Mecca-set the legal precedent. Twoyears later, on a pretext, with an army of 10,000 he took over Mecca with itsKa'aba. Such a ceasefire is agreed to only when the Muslims are too weak topursue conquest, and is broken as soon as they have the power to renew theattack. Such is the law of war and peace in Islam, as established by Muhammad.No Muslim has the authority to change it.
A False Peace The whole "peace process" was an Islamic ploy by Arafat,and will be no different under his successors, whoever they may be. Oslorequired Arafat to remove from the PLO Charter the call for Israel'sannihilation. In grand style he announced that the clause had been revoked. Yetin the same speech he praised terrorists and terrorist countries. It was a bald"hoax" as London's Daily Telegraph (5/2/96) declared. The clause had not and has not beenremoved. And even if it were, that would change nothing. It is not the PLOCharter that defines Israel's extermination, but Islam itself. Blind to the obvious truth, Rabin's widow proclaimed inconfident but misplaced trust, "Tonight I can tell you that the PalestinianNational Council has revoked the clauses in its covenant that called for thedestruction of Israel." Rabin's successor, Prime Minister Shimon Peres, hailedthis "most important historical development in our region in 100 years." Peresexulted on Voice of Israel Radio, "Today we have ended the Israeli-Arab conflict-Utopiais coming!" What madness! He willfully was closing his eyes and ears to thefrequent calls for an end to Israel, repeated throughout the "peacenegotiations" many times by Arafat and other PLO leaders, such as this byArafat's deputy, Abu Iyad: "It is our right that we should have...anindependent Palestinian state that will function as a base from which toliberate Jaffa, Akko and all of Palestine."[8] Another aide, echoing Nasser and manyothers, had earlier said, "The struggle with the Zionist enemy is not astruggle about Israel's borders, but about Israel's existence." This is Islam. Oslo only brought increased violence against Israel. Inthe ten years prior to Oslo, about 200 Israelis had been killed by terrorists,while in the ten years following about 1,200 were killed and more than 5,000wounded. On May 4, 1994, in Cairo, Arafat and Rabin signed the"Jericho First" Peace Accord implementing Oslo. The afternoon of the historichandshake with Yitzak Rabin on the White House lawn, Arafat's name appearednear the top in a list of "world terrorists released by a congressionalcommittee." He is one of the most evil mass murderers in history. Yet he wasgiven the Nobel Prize for Peace, and Clinton and Gore received him repeatedlyas an honored statesman in the White House. Thankfully, President Bush refusedto deal with Arafat at all. What the world (including Bush) won't admit,however, is that Arafat's bloody, terrorist career was based on Islam! Following9/11/01, Prime Minister Tony Blair declared: "This terrorist act has nothing todo with Islam." Colin Powell, likewise, said, "Leave Islam out of this. Islamis peace." In fact, evidence gathered by the FBI shows that the Twin Towerswere brought down to the glory of Allah in pursuit of world conquest and toobtain Islam's promised Paradise for the hijackers. In a speech at the Islamic Center at Washington D.C.,President Bush reiterated: "The face of terror is not the true face of Islam.Islam is peace." He reassured a joint session of Congress and the Senate andthe people of the United States, "Terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamicextremism that has been rejected by Muslim clerics [and] perverts the peacefulteachings of Islam.... It's teachings are good and peaceful." In fact, the very morning of September 11, in a timezone six hours to the east, an editorial in Arafat's controlled newspaper, Al-Hayatal-Jadida, stated: "The suicide bombers of todayare the noble successors of the Lebanese suicide bombers who taught the U.S.Marines a tough lesson in Lebanon [243 were killed]. These suicide bombers arethe salt of the earth, the engines of historythe most honorable people amongus." Then, down came the Twin Towers! Yet President Bush insists, "The terrorists are traitorsto their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself." If that istrue, then Muhammad "hijacked" Islam 13 centuries ago at its very start. Buthow could the founder and his immediate successors practice an extreme form ofIslam? Who knew Islam better than Muhammad himself? By any standard, Muhammad was a terrorist, and so werehis followers. In the Qur'an, Allah declares that he will strike terror intothe enemies of Islam. In the Wall Street Journal, Eliot Cohen of John HopkinsSchool of Advanced International Studies reminded any world leaders who wouldlisten that "an hour spent surfing the Web will give...the kind of insights[into Islam]...found during World War II by reading Mein Kampf or the writings of Lenin,Stalin or Mao. Nobody would like to think that a major world religion has adeeply aggressive and dangerous strain in it...but uttering uncomfortable and unpleasanttruths... defines leadership." The major threat to Israel today is not from afew fanatics, as we pointed out, but from devout Muslims. Indeed, from Islamitself! A number of available videos document the blatant deceitwith footage of Arafat and his spokesmen and Islamic clerics over the last 20years stating clearly to Muslim audiences that all of the "peace" negotiationsare aimed at one thing: the ultimate destruction of Israel. Repeatedly, theyspeak of a "Palestinian state" from the Mediterranean to the Jordan with itscapital in Jerusalem. But the world, including its media and leaders, closetheir eyes and ears to the obvious truth. A number of such diatribes were put together on a videoby then Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee Ben Gilman, whooffered to show them in a press conference September 21, 1995. No one fromthe press was interested! Even more disturbing, Israel's Ambassador to the US, ItamarRabinovich, pleaded with Gilman not to air the tapes-it might hinder the "peaceprocess"! Netanyahu writes, "...my party and I were virtuallyisolated in our warning that Arafat would not keep his word.... We were widelycastigated as enemies of peace.... Our argument was that handing Gaza over toArafat would immediately create a lush terrorist haven...." Of course, he wasright. Islam exercises incredible clout through the possessionof the major oil deposits by Muslim nations. In view of that fact, the EuropeanUnion continues to remind Israel that it "does not recognize Israel'ssovereignty" over Jerusalem. The Vatican for its own reasons (numerous officialdocuments declare that the church has replaced Israel as the "people of God")has opposed Israel consistently, refusing even to recognize its existence until1994, 46 years after its declaration of independence. The PLO are in control ofTemple Mount, the very heart and soul of Jerusalem. The nations of the worldrefuse to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. We are witnessing the continuing fulfillment of Christ'sremarkable prophecy: "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until thetimes of the Gentiles are fulfilled" (Lk 21:24). While visiting Jerusalem in 1998, the Vatican's foreignminister called the Israeli presence in East Jerusalem "illegal occupation." InMarch 1999, Israel was notified again that the European Union "does notrecognize Israel's sovereignty" over Jerusalem. In a papal bull on the year 2000 jubilee, John Paul II againrejected Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. In mid-February 2000, the Vaticansigned an agreement with the PLO calling for "international guarantees" topreserve "the proper identity and sacred character" of Jerusalem underinternational control. Wakf director Adnan Husseini, in charge of Muslim siteson the Temple Mount, declared: "Israel needs to remember that Jerusalem is notan Israeli city but it is a Palestinian city and we decide what happens here" (JerusalemPost, 11/4/04). From a religious point of view,Islam is pure paganism almost unchanged from what had been practiced by paganArab tribes for centuries before Muhammad was born. Ramadan and the hajj haveremained almost exactly the same in Islam. The only changes Muhammad made wereto promote Allah from chief god to only god-and to force submission to Allah under threatof death. Yet Christian leaders, among them some evangelicals, insist uponsaying that Allah is the God of the Bible and that Islam is not so far removedfrom Christianity as is imagined. Billy Graham has naively said,"Islam is misunderstood.... Muhammad had a great respect for Jesus, calledJesus the greatest of the prophets except himself. I think we're closer toIslam than we really think we are...." Yes, as close as the distance betweenhell and heaven! The Qur'an deniesthat Jesus is God or the Son of God or that He died on the cross for our sins.There is no salvation in Islam, and it is thoroughly anti-Christian. Graham'slong-time friend Robert Schuller recently basked in the acclaim of Muslims at aVilla Park, Illinois mosque where he declared that he had come to realize that"asking people to change their faith was utterly ridiculous." Coming to thedefense of history's most cruel and violent religion, Robert Schuller insists:"This is a time to guard against attacking religion.... It has been my honor tobecome acquainted with the power leaders of positive Islam. And there is andhas been a strong anti-Islam propaganda loose in this world." Positive Islam? Muhammad never heard ofit! "Anti-Islam propaganda"? No one could give Islam a worse name thanMuhammad, the Qur'an, and centuries of slaughter have done from the beginning! Incontrast, Jerry Falwell on 60 Minutes declared that Muhammad was a terrorist, and, asFranklin Graham has said, that Islam is "very evil and wicked." For thoseremarks Christianity Today rebuked them, saying that "Islam would not have becomethe second largest world religion if it were...as thoroughly evil as thesecomments suggest." Jesus said something about the "broad road," and Solomonabout "a way that seems right unto a man." Inan article titled "Allah Does Not Belong to Islam," the Christian ResearchJournal has declared: "Allah is the God Arab-speaking Christians worship. TheArabic Bible is replete with the word Allah, beginning with Genesis and endingwith Revelation. Jesus Christ is even called the son of Allah in the ArabicScriptures.... Allah is simply the word or term for God in another language[Arabic].... equivalent to...English God...French Dieu... Spanish Dios.. Wecan join our Arab brothers and sisters in Christ who often say, 'Allah bepraised!'" Thisis not true. There is a generic word for God and it is Ilah, found all through the Qur'ansuch as in Surah 4:171: "Allah is only one Ilah." The confession one must makeor die declares that there is "No Ilah but Allah" " (5:73): "La ilaha i' Allah,Muhammadan Rasoulu Allah." Of Allah the Qur'an says, "Far is it removed from histranscendent majesty that he should have a son (Sur 4:171); Certainly theydisbelieve who say: Allah is the third of the three. Then how can the ArabicBible call Jesus the "Son of Allah"? That Allah has a Son is denied 16 times inthe Qur'an. How absurd, then, to use Allah for God in the Arabic Bible! Whatcould, "For Allah so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,"possibly mean?
A Cup of Trembling Israel only wants to be left in peace. It makes nothreats against its neighbors. Yet Muslim nations have spent billions ofdollars since the Yom Kippur War for the latest military equipment, with toppriority for missiles carrying a variety of deadly warheads. The whole worldknows these are not defensive weapons. They exist for only one purpose: to raindeath and destruction upon Israel, bringing an end to its existence and takingpossession for the Muslim world of all of the land God promised His chosenpeople. Theworld, in taking the side of Islam, is joining this pagan and violent religionin its open defiance of the God of the Bible. He has warned that He will punishall the nations of the world for two things they have done to His chosenpeople, the Jews: "whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted myland" (Joel 3:2). This is a remarkable prophecy. Israel has been conquered bymany enemies who have occupied it, but never divided it. Not even the Muslimsdid that. Butbeginning with Britain's mandate over "Palestine," during which they gave mostof it to the Arabs, and continuing on to U.N. Resolution 181, November 29,1947, partitioning "Palestine"-and as part of every peace plan since-infulfillment of this prophecy, not just one enemy but the nations of the worldhave divided God's land (Lev 25:23). They will be punished for that defiance ofGod and His Word. Bush ought to tremble. The whole basis of the Roadmap toPeace is a further division of Israel. Behindit all is Islam, the chief enemy of Israel. The battle over Israel is a battlefor survival on Satan's part and a battle for the souls and destiny of mankind.If Islam and the nations siding with her should win, then we are all eternallylost. If God, whose integrity is tied to Israel's ultimate restoration andblessing, has not told the truth about His chosen people and their destiny,then how could we believe His promises that Christ paid the penalty for oursins and His offer of forgiveness and eternal life for those who believe inHim? Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! [1] Moshe Ma'oz,The Image of the Jew in Official Arab Literature and Communications Media (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1976), 14. [2] H.Z. Hirschberg, A History of theJews in North Africa (Leiden, Netherlands,1974), 108. [3] Andre Chouraqui, Between East andWest: A History of the Jews of North Africa(Philadelphia, 1968), 39. [4] Official British Document, ForeignOffice File No. 371/20822 E 7201/33/31. [5] Al-Misri, Oct. 11, 1949. [6] Meyrav Wurmser, The Schools ofBa'athism: a Study of Syrian Textbooks(MEMRI, 2000), xii. [7] Mitchell G. Bard, Myths and Facts: AGuide to the Arab Israeli Conflict(American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, 2001), 195. [8] Kuwaitipaper, Al-Sachrah, Jan. 6, 1987. |
