"I discovered that even
2000 years later, many Jews are not willing to forgive
Jesus and still relating rather gleefully and vengefully to his 'execution."
Israeli ambassador to the United State Michael Oren recently tried to
bully CBS to kill a story exposing Israeli persecution, harassment and
mistreatment of Palestinian Christians, forcing many of them to emigrate.
Oren, a Jewish supremacist, reportedly described the '60 Minutes'
broadcast of 12+ minute story on Israel's mistreatment of Palestinian
Christians as "a strategic threat" to Israel. He didn't explain
how a short documentary would be a threat to a nuclear power that is
armed to the teeth and which also happens to tightly control the government
and Congress of the only superpower on the planet, namely the United
States.
The story was prepared by veteran CBS reporter, Bob Simon who is expert
on the Arab Israeli conflict. It began with a segment about the disappearance
of Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land, with emphasis on a family
whose Bethlehem home, once on the busiest street in town, is now surrounded
on three sides by Israeli military walls.
Eventually, the story gained special attention as Oren approached CBS
before the story was even completed and demanded that the network not
air the story because it would do such a "hatchet job" on Israel.
I watched the story and honestly it never raised my eyebrows. I knew
too well and all along that Israel had been persecuting and tormenting
Christians since time immemorial, even before Oren and Simon were born.
Israel is not only a harsh and insidious occupier and persecutor, but
is also a deceitful, pernicious liar. It knowingly and deliberately
torments its victims, and then tries to turn the black into white and
the big lie into a "truth" glorified by millions.
Does anyone still remember the fate of the depopulated Christian villages
of Iqrit and Bir'im in the Galilee, which Israeli forces expelled their
Christian inhabitants in 1948? Four 64 years, the banished inhabitants
who had been dispersed all over the region and beyond pleaded to successive
Israeli governments to allow them to return to their ancestral homes
and land, but to no avail.
Israeli courts ruled on several occasions in favor of the villagers,
but the Zionist establishment stubbornly refused to heed the rulings
as Zionist leaders argued that carrying out the rulings would open up
a Pandora's box for Israel, an allusion to millions of Palestinians
uprooted from their homes and villages when Israel was created in 1948.
But the special hatred (and contempt) of Christians by Jews, especially
Orthodox Jews, goes deep in history and certainly precedes modern Zionism
by numerous centuries.
According to Yisrael Shahak, author of Jewish History, Jewish Religion:
The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Judaism is imbued with a very deep
hatred toward Christianity, combined with ignorance about it. He argues
that Jewish hatred of Christianity, though partly aggravated by Christian
persecution of Jews, was mainly religious and theological in nature.
According to the Talmud, Jesus was executed by a proper rabbinical court
for idolatry, inciting other Jews to idolatry, and contempt of rabbinical
authority.
Shahak, who died at the age of 68 in 2001, clarified that all classical
Jewish sources which mentioned Jesus' execution were quite happy to
take responsibility for it. Jesus is also accused in the Talmud of witchcraft,
a charge the punishment for which is death.
"The very name Jesus was for Jews a symbol of all that is abominable,
and this popular tradition still persists. The Gospels are equally detested,
and they are not allowed to be quoted, let alone taught, even in modern
Israeli Jewish schools."
Christianity is classified as a pagan, idolatrous religion by most if
not all Orthodox rabbis. Israel firsters will not intimate this fact
to their naïve but hysterical Christian Zionist evangelical allies.
Nor will they tell them that whenever an orthodox Jew mentions the name
Jesus, he or she must recite the following curse: "May his name is damned,
and memory erased." Would people like Pat Robertson and John Hagee,
who pretend to be the spiritual guardians of Christianity, or even the
Holy See, approach their Jewish friends and plead to them to see to
it that this vulgar literature is expurgated from the Talmud or at least
not taught in hundreds of Yishivot or Talmudic schools throughout Israel.
Or perhaps these Zionist or Zionized "Christian" leaders are too pusillanimous
to raise such "divisive issues."
Some of the most vulgar anti-Christian passages in the Talmud are called
"Chesronot Shas," literally the "Omissions of Shas." The omissions were
originally omitted from the Talmud in the middle ages for fear of upsetting
Christians, especially in Europe.
However, when Israel was created in 1948, Chesronot Shas were reincorporated
into the Talmud. The Hebrew translation of the originally Aramaic passages
can now be purchased in any large bookstore in Israel.
Rabbis try hard to avoid as much as possible any public discussion of
Chesronot Shas, also spelled Hesronot Shas, for fear of drawing stringent
Christian reactions. However, it has been established that the omissions
use the most vulgar and abusive epithets to describe Jesus and his mother,
such as calling him "the son of a prostitute and a Roman soldier, who
learned witchcraft in Egypt and who beguiled Jews to worship him as
an idol." Jesus, who is called Balaam the son of Beor the soothsayer,
is also boiling in a huge cauldron in hell, full of excrement and human
semen.
Hence, one can safely claim that Jewish and Judaic hostility to Christianity
is inherent and intrinsic and transcends all Christian pogroms, including
the holocaust.
A few years ago, I was discussing religion with a prominent rabbi in
the southern West Bank. I was dumbfounded when the otherwise bland rabbi
referred to Jesus as "Hitler of Bethlehem." I had to terminate the conversation
because as a Muslim, I was not supposed to tolerate any bad mouthing
about Jesus and other prophets of God, including also Noah, Abraham,
Moses, Muhammed, and others.
But I discovered that even 2000 years later, many Jews are not willing
to forgive Jesus and still relating rather gleefully And vengefully
to his "execution." (to be honest, we Muslims don't believe in the crucifixion
story altogether).
A few years ago, settler youngsters near Hebron chased a number of totally
innocuous Christian Peace activists, hurling stones at them and telling
them "we killed your God, you Nazis"!!
Some of the rabbis tried to restraint the youngsters, telling them that
what they were saying would find its way to TV Screens in Christian
countries such as the United States and would seriously damage Israel's
image.
But the insolent youngsters, who routinely assaulted unprotected Palestinian
civilians, wouldn't give a damn about hasbara and PR because "Jews control
these nations anyway!!"
There is no doubt that Jewish hostility, dormant or otherwise, to Christianity
is being deliberately kept secret as much as possible by much of the
media in the West. This per se constitutes a conspiracy. After all,
why of all themes and subject, Talmudic perceptions of Christianity
and Christians remain more or less a taboo in western scholarship?
Indeed, the CBS story, a merely 12-minutes of understated facts, represents
an exceptional anomaly in the western media treatment of the systematic
Israeli persecution of Palestinian Christians. It is also clear, that
the more religious and nationalist Israel becomes, the more aggressive
and hostile toward Christians it will be.
Many Christians around the world may not be in the mood to listen to
this "strange warning." However, the drought of Christians from the
Holy Land, which many fear will reach a terminal stage in the foreseeable
future, should awaken concerned Christians and others from their self-imposed
dormancy.
I am saying this because, without the Christians of Palestine, an original
part of Palestine would be missing. And Palestine wouldn't be the same
without its Christian component.
For Further Research
CBS 60 Minutes: Christians of the Holy Land
http://www.alresalah.ps/en/index.php?act=post&id=529
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