tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856505756595647692024-03-14T03:40:21.832-07:00Dr. Michael D. EvansDefender of Jews around the worldDr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-8254123011592072922015-01-13T11:04:00.001-08:002015-01-13T11:06:52.880-08:00Colonel John H. Patterson: Righteous Among the Nations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the reasons that the museum features the story of Colonel John
H. Patterson is that most people have never heard of him. That is
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Another reason is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, Yoni, was named after him. That is special.</div>
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The final reason is because we believe that his story should never be forgotten. That would be reprehensible.</div>
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Patterson was a staunch advocate of Zionism in a storied military
career that included commanding the Zion Mule Corps, a contingent of 750
Jewish soldiers recruited from the Diaspora to fight in the Boer War
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Two years after it was formed in 1915, the Mule Corps was expanded
and, thereafter, was known as the Jewish Legion. Its five battalions
consisted entirely of Jewish volunteers. The 38<sup>th</sup> Battalion
of the Royal Fusiliers was comprised of Jews living in Great Britain and
a number of Russian Jews who joined forces with the former Mule Corps
members. The 39<sup>th</sup> Battalion was made up of Jewish men from
the U.S. and Canada. Palestinian Jews and former Jewish POWs held
captive by the Ottomans became the 40<sup>th</sup> Battalion. The 41<sup>st</sup> and 42<sup>nd</sup> Battalions completed the Legion, but were posted in England without seeing action.</div>
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The Jewish Legion fought in the Battle of Jerusalem in 1917 and the
Battle of Megiddo in 1918. The Battle of Megiddo was the last, and
decisive, Allied offensive thrust in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign
under General Allenby. Patterson served as commander of the 38<sup>th</sup> Battalion
until his retirement in 1920. Perhaps his passion and vision for
Zionism are best exemplified, not by what he said at the end of his
career, but by what he said to his men on March 31, 1915 upon the
formation of the Zion Mule Corps.</div>
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“‘<i>Pray with me that I should not only, as Moses, behold Canaan
from afar, but be divinely permitted to lead you into the Promised Land</i>.”</div>
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His prayers were answered as he led his men in recapturing the
Promised Land in a battle that was among those with the fewest Allied
casualties in all of World War I.</div>
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Patterson served in the British military for 35 years until his
retirement. There is no doubt that leading the Jewish Legion, the
forerunner of the Israeli Defense Forces, was his greatest honor.</div>
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Following WWI, Patterson authored <i>The Story of the Jewish Legion</i>, somewhat of a companion piece for his previous books, <i>With the Zionists at Gallipoli</i> and <i>With the Judeans in Palestine</i>. Patterson successfully lobbied to raise funding for Zionist efforts after retiring to California.</div>
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He died in La Jolla on June 18, 1947, less than a year prior to the
establishment of the nation of Israel, a day for which he had worked and
prayed for an entire lifetime. According to his last wishes,
Patterson’s ashes were brought to his beloved Zion and buried in an
undisclosed location. The <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Mike Evans Museum</a></span> is planted here for the very same reason that his ashes are. Because we love Israel.</div>
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In 2004, Patrick Streeter published <i>Mad for Zion, A Biography of Colonel J.H. Patterson</i>. His inspiring story is available at <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Zion-Biography-Colonel-Patterson/dp/0951866435/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416279279&sr=1-1&keywords=Mad+for+Zion%2C+A+Biography+of+Colonel+J.H.+Patterson&pebp=1416279285847" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></span>.</div>
Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-11215560452412491552014-12-12T12:37:00.000-08:002014-12-15T15:25:09.633-08:00Not Just Another Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are already thirty-two museums in Jerusalem. Isn’t that enough already? How can another one add anything to what is already here?</div>
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The answer to that question may not come from where most people expect. While most museums are built to preserve antiquities of some form of art, culture or history, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>raison d’être</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Mike Evans museum</a>, officially named the Friends of Zion Heritage Center, is to tell a love story that has been misunderstood, and even missed entirely, by the tellers of history. It is the story of the enduring love and compassion that true Christians have, and have had, for the Jewish people and now for the nation of Israel.</div>
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Dr. Mike Evans has dedicated his entire life to telling the story and to encouraging the people of Israel. This museum is yet another way of communicating that beautiful love story that so many so-called Christians have tarnished, so much so that the Jewish people – God’s chosen – have been unable to comprehend that anyone really loves them with the passion that Dr. Evans and Bible-believers around the world really do.</div>
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It would be correct to say that the <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Mike Evans Museum</a> is unique, simply based on its use of 21st century technologies. Even calling it interactive does not suffice. It is an experience that takes visitors well beyond the ordinary and the expected.</div>
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Within these walls, visitors will become acquainted with the true stories of some of the men and women who have gone to great lengths to aid and protect the Jews, promote the cause of Zionism and preserve the nation of Israel. But, more than an education, our hope is that each person will sense the love of our staff for Israel and realize that it represents the love of multitudes among the nations who also love the special and sacred land.</div>
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Our expectation is that, within these walls every visitor will become acquainted with the stories of men and women who have gone to great lengths to aid and protect the Jews, promote the cause of Zionism and preserve the nation of Israel. But, more than the education, our hope is that each person will sense the love of our staff and realize that it represents the love of multitudes among the nations who also love them.</div>
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Politicians and men of high position throughout the ages have misappropriated the Christian label without understanding its true meaning and have often used that label to promote their personal agendas to persecute the Jewish people. Much to our mutual misfortune, this has led to misconceptions that Christians hate the Jews and cannot be trusted. The <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Mike Evans Museum</a> exists as a beacon of assurance that those misconceptions are false.</div>
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We love you, Israel. We pray for your peace, Jerusalem. We bless you, children of Abraham. We know the plans that YHWH has for you, plans for you to prosper. We are here to demonstrate and teach you how much we care, and to share with you the stories of others who have gone before who have done the same. Shalom.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-6071302542755880032014-11-26T10:34:00.001-08:002014-11-26T10:34:24.304-08:00Mike Evans Museum to Feature Heroes of Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During your visit to the <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Mike Evans Museum</a> in Jerusalem, officially called the <a href="http://fozhc.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Zion Heritage Center</a>, you will encounter the stories of military heroes like General Marie-Pierre Koenig, Col. John Henry Patterson, and Major Orde Wingate, and political leaders like President Harry Truman, who did so much to prepare for Israel’s rebirth as a nation.<br />
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The list of heroes is even longer than those people though. Oskar Schindler, Irena Sendler, <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/miep-gies-righteous-among-nations/" target="_blank">Miep and Jan Gies</a>, <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/raoul-wallenberg-righteous-among-nations/" target="_blank">Raoul Wallenberg</a>, <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/chinue-sempo-sugihara-righteous-among-nations/" target="_blank">Chiune Sugihara</a>, and, of course, the courageous Ten Boom family. These stories are largely untold in Israel to this day.<br />
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Even in the cases where the stories have been told, the Christian faith that drove these men and women to risk everything, and even give their very lives for the sake of the Jewish people, is largely unmentioned in the annals of history.<br />
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But we will also be sharing the amazing stories of the Machal—the volunteers, many of them Believers, who came from around the world to stand with the newborn Jewish state in its desperate fight for survival following the Declaration of Independence in 1948.<br />
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Of course, there were also those who hated the Jewish people and wished to do them harm. We will address the Holocaust head on—including the role of many who claimed to be Christians during this awful atrocity, but showed that they do not represent true Christian belief or practice.<br />
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When you get the opportunity to visit Jerusalem, please don’t pass up a trip to the Friends of Zion Heritage Center!Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-37168232008955682812014-11-06T11:58:00.001-08:002014-11-06T14:18:21.573-08:00Museum to Feature Heroes of Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During your visit to the <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Mike Evans Museum</a> in Jerusalem, officially called the <a href="http://fozhc.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Zion Heritage Center</a>, you will encounter the stories of military heroes like General Marie-Pierre Koenig, Col. John Henry Patterson, and Major Orde Wingate, and political leaders like President Harry Truman, who did so much to prepare for Israel’s rebirth as a nation.<br />
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The list of heroes is even longer than those people though. Oskar Schindler, Irena Sendler, <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/miep-gies-righteous-among-nations/" target="_blank">Miep and Jan Gies</a>, <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/raoul-wallenberg-righteous-among-nations/" target="_blank">Raoul Wallenberg</a>, <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/chinue-sempo-sugihara-righteous-among-nations/" target="_blank">Chinue Sempo Sugihara</a>, and, of course, the courageous Ten Boom family. These stories are largely untold in Israel to this day.<br />
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Even in the cases where the stories have been told, the Christian faith that drove these men and women to risk everything, and even give their very lives for the sake of the Jewish people, is largely unmentioned in the annals of history.<br />
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But we will also be sharing the amazing stories of the Machal—the volunteers, many of them Believers, who came from around the world to stand with the newborn Jewish state in its desperate fight for survival following the Declaration of Independence in 1948.<br />
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Of course, there were also those who hated the Jewish people and wished to do them harm. We will address the Holocaust head on—including the role of many who claimed to be Christians during this awful atrocity, but showed that they do not represent true Christian belief or practice.<br />
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It was this inspiration that gave me the vision of creating a museum in Jerusalem. I wanted to tell the story of Corrie’s family, which is virtually unknown to the Jewish people in Israel. Then I realized there were hundreds of other amazing stories that also needed to be told. And my vision of a <a href="http://mikeevansmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Mike Evans Museum</a> in Jerusalem, later became a reality, and officially is now called the Friends of Zion Heritage Center.Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-25475801758847838472014-07-21T05:00:00.000-07:002014-07-22T18:03:17.725-07:00Hamastan<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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America received a wake-up call from hell on 9/11 and in response waged a war against radical Islam in Afghanistan and Iraq for more than a decade. America’s wars are near conclusion, but fanatical Islamists’ hundred years’ wars have just begun. The media in America is feeding and fueling terror by providing free coverage to Hamas. Terrorism is the only enterprise worldwide that does not have to pay for commercials. The truth is: Terror would dry up if it did not have free publicity.</div>
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The wars of the twenty-first century are mostly conducted by proxies and the media, and are controlled by economics. Hamas, a proxy of a Persian Gulf oil-rich Sunni fundamentalist state, would be out of business without the media and money. In essence, Hamas is in the blockbuster business. Its objective is to place children in harm’s way by positioning its missile launchers in schools, hospitals, and homes hoping that Israel will inadvertently kill children. When that happens, those videos are used to raise money for its cause.</div>
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Hamas, a radical Islamist terror organization, is an acronym for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmiyah<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>(Islamic resistance movement.) The overall leader is Khalid Meshaal who is based in Qatar. Not only is his base far removed from the war in Gaza, virtually the entire leadership of Hamas and its command and control center is there as well. No, Hamas’ leaders are not fighting in Gaza; they are hiding behind the safety of a rich Gulf Oil state that boasts the world’s third largest natural gas and oil reserves—in excess of 25 billion barrels.</div>
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The videos shown on nightly television news programs are designed to appeal to Muslims allowing Hamas to raise billions of dollars from Islam-based charities in Canada, Western Europe, the United States, and throughout the Gulf Oil states. This does not include $20 to $30 million yearly from Iran. All told the annual donations to Hamas total nearly $500 million dollars.</div>
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Hamas’ unapologetic goal is to liberate Jerusalem and annihilate Israel. Lest you forget, Qatar is also the home base for Al Jazeera. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani not only founded the news organization, which is now a member of the US media market, but has also personally pledged $500 million to Hamas. The best friend Hamastan could hope for is the Liberal Left media in the United States.</div>
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In 2013, former Vice President Al Gore opted to sell his Current TV network to Al Jazeera despite an offer from Glenn Beck to purchase Gore’s network. This might have raised some red flags as to Gore’s decision, but the Liberal Left media opted to ignore the transaction. Mr. Gore’s move should have, at the very least, raise questions concerning his moral clarity and subjugation to an organization that publicizes terrorist activities.</div>
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Donations made to Hamas include a Qatar charitable society also controlled by the Al Thani family. Osama bin Laden touted Qatar’s charity in 1993 as an important fundraising source for al Qaeda, underscoring its long history of funding terrorism. Qatar now has the world’s largest natural gas and oil reserves—in excess of 25 billion barrels.</div>
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There are more than seventeen major terrorist organizations operational in the Middle East, including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which is crucifying Christians and making life an unspeakable hell for others. These organizations have two things in common: Hatred for Israel and the United States and an undying commitment to an Islamic caliphate. None of them care about the Palestinians who are simply pawns to be exploited. The last triangle of family-owned thugocracies (countries) in the region is simply a terrorist cartel much like the Mafia.</div>
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The way these thugocracies keep these fanatical organizations from turning on them is by paying them off by funding their armies. It takes the presence of an enemy to require an army, and Israel qualifies as an adversary to terrorists worldwide.</div>
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These secular humanists despise America; they believe Hamas is basically good and should not be held accountable for the wrongs it does. There is no moral clarity for they are moral relativists that reject standards of good and evil, right and wrong. They make excuses for evil and worse, deny it exists. They coddle malevolence by refusing to confront it. A desire to negotiate no matter the cost gives rise to those in the West to become willing cohorts to the jihadists.</div>
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Rather than believing that Hamas waging war is evil, they believe that Israel is evil for retaliating. In their view, self-loathing replaces righteous indignation and begets appeasement.</div>
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Now that the US has left the Middle East, there is only one ally in the crosshairs of terrorists: Israel, the “Little Satan.” If Hamas wins, then Hamastan and its jihadist brothers will not be just a threat to Israel, but an existential threat to the West—soon appearing on an Al Jazeera newscast near you.</div>
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Hamas is a Palestinian terror organization known best for its charter which calls for the total annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people. The aim of the Islamist group is to found a Hamas-controlled state extending from the banks of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. Hamas’ soulless ideology is no different than that of the Nazis; its theology can be compared to both Al Qaeda and ISIS. It is an unabashed proxy of Iran and receives its training and funding from that radical Islamic country. Israel is on the frontline of the fight against such radical Islamists whose objective is world domination.</div>
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US taxpayer money indirectly funds Hamas through the Palestinian Authority. Suffice it to say that if the Canadian or Mexican government fired missiles into the United States or were to send a wave of suicide bombers into the US to blow up American citizens, it would cease to exist. America’s first taste of such fundamental hatred came on 9/11.</div>
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In the past several days, Israel has agreed to a temporary ceasefire brokered by Egypt. At the time it was to go into effect, Hamas again began lobbing rockets into Israeli territory and sending operatives through its extensive tunnel system to attack targets inside Israel. Israel's President Shimon Peres reveals that the IDF stopped a Hamas plot to send a terrorist strike team across the border to carry out “wholesale slaughter” of the residents of Kibbutz Sufa. He announced that more than a dozen terrorists had been stopped by the IDF before they could reach their target and begin killing the innocents. Please click<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-gaza-kibbutz-tunnel-infiltration-2014-7" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-gaza-kibbutz-tunnel-infiltration-2014-7" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><b style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;">here</span></b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to see more info.</div>
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Israel quite obviously has the upper hand in the conflict; why then do the terrorists in Gaza continue their assault? The answer seems to be that Hamas believes it can win concessions through world opinion—the inundation of photographs of Gazan civilians being maimed or killed by Israeli counterattacks. Its leaders must surely feel that a rising death toll will force an end to the war it started.</div>
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While Hamas leaders have gone underground like snakes in a viper pit, they continue to use their own civilians as human shields in an attempt to shame the Israeli military. Gazans who have fled their homes after being warned by Israel of an imminent attack are being intimidated into returning to their homes. United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) shelter facilities reported that only 20,000 of the more than 100,000 advised to relocate asked for refuge. Apparently Hamas officials had threatened retribution if they left their homes following the Israeli warning. UNRWA, advised not to provide relief, has been warned to expect retaliation following the end of the current conflict. Please click<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.thetower.org/0716-idf-tells-gaza-residents-to-leave-hamas-intimidates-them-into-staying/" href="http://www.thetower.org/0716-idf-tells-gaza-residents-to-leave-hamas-intimidates-them-into-staying/" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><b style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;">here</span></b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to see more info.</div>
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UNRWA also discovered the validity of accusations against Hamas of routinely hiding its store of rockets and launchers in the midst of neighborhoods, in schools, mosques, hospitals and other civilian locations. It uses civilians of all ages as human shields. Days after the start of the latest round of rockets fired into Israel, UNRWA representatives discovered a stash of about twenty rockets in one of its schools in Gaza, a blatant breach of UNRWA policy.</div>
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In a recent Fox News interview, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succinctly summed up the great divide between the Israelis and Hamas. He told interviewer Chris Wallace:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">“The difference between us, we are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.”</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Click<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/13/Netanyahu-We-Use-Missile-Defense-to-Protect-Our-People-They-Use-People-To-Protect-Their-Missiles" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/13/Netanyahu-We-Use-Missile-Defense-to-Protect-Our-People-They-Use-People-To-Protect-Their-Missiles" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><b style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;">here</span></b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to see more info.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-84828284125885534482014-06-17T20:22:00.000-07:002014-07-02T20:23:08.255-07:00Iraq Is Falling: What the latest round of violence in Iraq means<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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The dream of an Islamic caliphate that will stretch around the globe is alive and well today. Terrorist forces have seized territory from Iraq's borders with Syria and Turkey all the way to the city of Fallujah, just 40 miles from Baghdad. The ISIL group is Sunni Muslim, and has fought in support of the bloody Assad regime in Syria. Now they are fighting against the Shia-led government of Iraq, which is being reinforced by Iranian Special Forces units.</div>
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The battle for control of Iraq is a battle for control of the future Islamic caliphate which both Sunnis and Shia believe is coming. The dream of the Muslim future is a world living under sharia law. Both sides support this goal—they are now killing each other by the tens of thousands for the sake of each controlling its common vision of the future.</div>
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The Bible has much to say about Iraq—the ancient empire of Babylon. It was the center of opposition to God from the time of the tower of Babel to the empire that destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple under Nebuchadnezzar. And Revelation tells us that the final battles of the age will be waged and inspired by demonic spirits that are bound there right now.</div>
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Our government and even many Christians do not view what is happening in the Middle East as a spiritual war. They see the military wars and the economic wars, but they miss the most important part. I blew the trumpet to sound this warning 35 years ago. In 1979 my book<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Israel: America's Key to Survival</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>had on its cover an American flag being cut in half by an Islamic sword. The hatred of radical Muslims is not just directed at Israel—they want to destroy us as well.</div>
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The destruction of Israel (the “little Satan”) and the destruction of America (the “great Satan”) are linked as steps toward the same goal. There is no doubt that we are dealing with principalities and powers in spiritual warfare. The very name Levant is linked according to some sources to an ancient demonic power. Certainly the region has long been the center of opposition to God's plan for mankind. In light of this unmistakable truth, how should we respond? The Bible gives the answer:</div>
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<em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand (Ephesians 6:10-13).</em></div>
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More than twenty years ago I was mocked when I told America's leaders that a terrorist attack would be launched against New York City and the World Trade Center towers. I was told that I was delusional—that the Islamic religion did not pose a threat. I knew better. I had been briefed by Isser Harel, the former head of Mossad, who told me that such an attack would definitely come.</div>
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Even after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, few heeded my warning. They simply did not understand the role spiritual warfare plays in world events. Only after the tragedy of 9/11 did some people begin to pay attention. Even after that demonstration of the purpose and commitment of our enemies, some still refuse to acknowledge the reality of what we face.</div>
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John the Revelator described present-day Iraq (ancient and future Babylon in the spirit realm) perfectly: <em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">He cried out in a powerful voice, "Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a prison for every evil spirit, every unclean bird, and every unclean and hated beast” (Revelation 18:2).</em></div>
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During the lead-up to the war in 2003, I wrote a book called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Beyond Iraq: The Next Move</em>. In it I said that God-fearing Americans must fall on our knees and pray, or our military victory would be short-lived. Unless the demonic forces behind terrorism are confronted and defeated, they will return again and again.</div>
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In 2007 I wrote the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">#1 New York Times</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>bestseller<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Final Move Beyond Iraq</em>. In it I pointed out that the moral relativistic views of liberals make it hard for them to see moral issues clearly. They reject absolute standards of good and evil of right and wrong. In their worldview, man is perfectible, human nature is on the path toward enlightenment and the concept of original sin is primitive.</div>
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This is a false and deadly belief. When they refuse to confront evil, evil does not cease to exist. It only becomes stronger. The jihadist terrorists strike at the body...the moral relativist strikes at the soul; both evils must be confronted. No battle can ever be won in the physical world until it is first fought and won in the spirit realm. This is our calling today—the message from Iraq that you and I must hear and to which we must respond:</div>
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<em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).</em></div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-16909756985319421782014-06-16T20:38:00.000-07:002014-07-02T20:39:42.750-07:00Israel Americas Key to Survival<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/jpt-fb-403-Israel-Americas-Key-to-Survival.jpg" href="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/jpt-fb-403-Israel-Americas-Key-to-Survival.jpg" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><img alt="Israel Americas Key to Survival" class="alignleft wp-image-16782" data-mce-src="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/jpt-fb-403-Israel-Americas-Key-to-Survival-300x300.jpg" data-mce-style="margin: 5px;" height="290" src="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/jpt-fb-403-Israel-Americas-Key-to-Survival-300x300.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; cursor: default; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 5px;" title="Israel Americas Key to Survival" width="300" /></a>Islamic terrorists rampaged through the streets of the Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this month, robbing banks of the equivalent of $429 million (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mosul-seized-jihadis-loot-429m-citys-central-bank-make-isis-worlds-richest-terror-force-1452190" href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mosul-seized-jihadis-loot-429m-citys-central-bank-make-isis-worlds-richest-terror-force-1452190" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mosul-seized-jihadis-loot-429m-citys-central-bank-make-isis-worlds-richest-terror-force-1452190</a></span>), opening the gates of prisons, executing their opponents in public squares and even crucifying some victims.</div>
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The Islamic state of Iraq has arrived and its creators are knocking on the doors of the capital city of Baghdad. Tribal militias and the Baathist party of Saddam Hussein have joined ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://time.com/2878718/isis-claims-massacre-of-1700-iraqis/" href="http://time.com/2878718/isis-claims-massacre-of-1700-iraqis/" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://time.com/2878718/isis-claims-massacre-of-1700-iraqis/</a></span>), the terrorists responsible for the newly-forged Islamic state. And now, the US is reaching out to Iran for assistance in Iraq.</div>
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Is Iran not the turn of a screwdriver away from going nuclear? Weren’t most American troops wounded in Iraq the targets of Iranian improvised explosive devices (IED)?</div>
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Did US troops not fight the Shi’ite terrorist army in Iraq led by Muqada al-Sadr—a 60,000-member Iranian funded Mahdi army?</div>
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In August 2013 President Barack Obama, the US commander-in-chief, declared he would bomb Syria for defying his call to not use chemical weapons. Two months later he instead signed an interim nuclear deal with Iran whose Revolutionary Guards were behind much of the killing in Syria. His response was that the US was doing all it could reasonably do.</div>
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When in April 2014 the Palestinian Authority and Hamas joined forces, the US decided to continue doing business as usual with President Mahmoud Abbas. The US sends $500 million per year—a half billion taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority—a sum now available to the terrorist group in Gaza.</div>
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What is Hamas? It is one of the worst terror organizations the world has seen. Founded in 1987 and dedicated by its charter to the destruction of Israel, the murder of Jews and the imposition of Islam in “every inch of Palestine,” Hamas launched wave after wave of suicide bombings in the 1990s, blowing up Israeli buses (including school buses) and restaurants, murdering hundreds of civilians, and building schools that train children to become killers. Hamas turned suicidal terror into an industry and a multigenerational tradition.</div>
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That’s why Hamas has long been classified as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department — as well as the European Union and a host of countries around the world.</div>
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Hamas is also, it is important to note, a vital component of Iran’s ongoing war against the United States and the West. Although it started as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas quickly came under Tehran’s wing and became the Palestinian version of Lebanon’s Hezbollah: The two groups were the first of the major jihadist terror outfits, funded and trained by the Iranians to intimidate the West by butchering its children.</div>
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On September 23, 1980, Reuven Hecht, senior advisor to Prime Minister Menachem Begin and I had dinner at the home of Isser Harel, the head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence organization. During the meal I asked the question: Will terrorism ever come to America?</div>
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Harel replied that America had the power but not the will; terrorists had the will but not the power. “All that can change with time,” he said. “Arab oil buys more than tents. You kill a fly and rejoice; we kill one, and 100 come to the funeral. Yes, I fear it will come. I believe the first terror attack will be New York City’s tallest building.” He smiled. “Phallic is not a cat,” he said, referring to what is sometimes called a fertility symbol.</div>
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On a lighter note, I asked, “Who do you think will be the next US president?” (Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were opponents vying for the presidency.) He answered, “The word on the street is that the Iranians will have something to say about that. When Ronald Reagan places his hand on the Bible, the hostages will be released.”</div>
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To my amazement, as Ronald Reagan was sworn in as 40th President of the United States, a news flash came across the screen: The hostages in Iran had been released! What Harel knew that I didn’t was that the Iranians were holding up the hostage release in order to humiliate Jimmy Carter. They believed Ronald Reagan would be better for their cause than was Carter.</div>
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It was 4:31 a.m. on the morning of the inauguration that Jimmy Carter wire transferred $7.9 billion dollars through the Federal Reserve to the Bank of England. The funds to buy the hostages back were from money that had been controlled by the Shah of Iran. At the same time, Carter signed the Algerian Accord, committing the US to respect Iran’s territorial integrity and not to attack.</div>
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The great destabilizer at the time was communism. Harel confirmed that the US really did not want to fight wars in the Middle East, and chose Israel as its proxy. This was later confirmed to me by Prime Minister Begin.</div>
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Harel’s words and the death of Yoni Netanyahu inspired me in 1981 to write<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Israel: America’s Key to Survival</em>, which Mr. Begin endorsed. On the front cover of the book were US and Israeli flags sliced in half by an Islamic sword. The premise of the book was that Israel was the only democracy and firewall between radical Islam and the West. On the back cover was a quote from Benjamin Netanyahu:</div>
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“Their goal is to destroy America … destroy it … reduce it to nothing, and they feel they can effectively do it through terrorism.”</div>
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Etched on the wall in the lobby of the CIA building in Langley, Virginia is the agency motto, “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, (John 8:32.) It characterizes the intelligence mission of a free society.</div>
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The US is withdrawing from the Middle East and leaving behind a much more dangerous neighborhood. Tiny Israel will have the responsibility of confronting and containing terrorism in order to protect US national security interests with the blood of Israeli citizens.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-8454419449828142622014-06-04T21:00:00.000-07:002014-07-02T21:01:08.564-07:00Taxes for Terror<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Mike Evans</div>
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<em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter (Isaiah 5:20, NLT).</em></div>
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Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon expressed his contempt for the recently formed and highly provocative “unity government” which included Hamas and Fatah. It establishes an unprecedented union between the Palestine Authority and the terrorist organization. The hatred for Israel expressed by both entities is obvious and brazen.</div>
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Danon warned taxpayers in the US of something that I have espoused for decades: your tax dollars are being used to fund and feed the terror tiger that has been unleashed in the Middle East. He said:</div>
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The replacement of ministers in the Palestinian government is just a pretty wrapping for the terrorist attacks that were conducted and will be conducted under their protection. Now, all aid given to the Palestinians by the US and other countries directly aids terror attacks against the state of Israel.</div>
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Uri Ariel, Israeli Housing Minister added, “Abbas signed on the establishment of a terror government today together with lowly murderers, who murdered dozens and hundreds of Israelis."</div>
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Let me remind you that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (now serving his tenth year of a four-year term) is the man who provided the money to the Black September PLO terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He claims he had no knowledge of the purpose of the funds. This is the man the US says is a moderate, and can be trusted to make a viable peace deal with Israel.</div>
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His predecessor was Yasser Arafat whom I boldly confronted at the UN General Assembly in December of 1988. He has been asked by the US government to denounce terrorism. I stood before him, held up a copy of the PLO covenant and challenged him, “If you really are going to denounce terrorism, then begin with this covenant that calls for the destruction of Israel.” He responded by vehemently screaming for me to shut up! I didn’t shut up then; I won’t shut up now.</div>
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While a façade of cooperation surrounds the newly formed government, there is great speculation that the accord will dissolve when the current euphoria is replaced with a contentious rivalry and arguments over who is actually in power. As Naftali Bennett, Economics Minister opined, “The newly-inaugurated joint Hamas-Fatah Palestinian Authority government is nothing more than a gang of terrorists in suits.” Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar has been staunch in commitment that any treaty between Israel and the PA will lead to certain war.</div>
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As Abbas executed the oath of office, US Secretary of State John Kerry was busily informing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Obama Administration was determined to work with the new “unity” government, a position that is deeply disappointing to the Israelis. The fig leaf being used to cover the naked justification of Kerry’s support is that the new government includes no Hamas leaders. The Secretary of State was joined by government leaders in Europe, all prepared to work with terrorists with only one agenda: Overrunning the State of Israel and annihilating the Jewish people.</div>
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Jen Psaki, Kerry’s State Department spokesperson went on record as saying the administration refused to halt aid to the PA in the sum of some $500 million per year—a half billion taxpayer dollars. She added, “Based on what we know now, we intend to work with this government. We will continue to evaluate the policies of the new government, and if needed, we will recalibrate our approach.”</div>
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That position nullifies the demand that Israel be recognized as a legitimate state by the Palestinians. Both PA and Hamas leaders are resolute in their untiring efforts to circumvent any mandates that would require an admission that Israel had a God-given and UN-sanctioned right to their land. Israel has stressed that it would not negotiate with a PA coalition that included a recognized terrorist organization such as Hamas. According to Netanyahu, “The US has supported that position until now.” Kerry and the Obama Administration are busily sending signals that seem to deny any such commitment—a sign that such a pledge did, indeed, exist; one that will not be kept.</div>
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Prime Minister Netanyahu was critical of the EU’s move to support the new alliance after having called for just such reconciliation. He addressed this latest move:</div>
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“Islamic terror is raising its head in Europe, and the latest horrible manifestation of this was the abominable murder in the Jewish museum in Brussels. And I find it strange that governments in Europe that harshly condemn this murder, also speak in friendly tones about a unity government with Hamas, a terror group that carries out and praises such crimes. I think the policy must be against terror, against the partnership of terror groups in the diplomatic process.”</div>
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Of added interest to the Israelis is that arms production in Gaza has been ramped up to maximum speed even as foreign nationals from other terrorist organizations have flowed into the country to provide training. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Jerusalem Post</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>indicates that groups such as Islamic Jihad and other smaller terror cells have added their manpower to the 16,000-strong Hamas fighters—each having its own battery of missiles.</div>
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John Bolton, former UN Envoy under the George W. Bush administration, reiterated that “the laws of the United States prohibit assistance to terrorist organizations,” a point which the Obama administration seems intent on overlooking. Bolton was adamant that the US should not negotiate with terrorists “under any circumstances.”</div>
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Now, leaders in Washington, DC, have joined the global cacophony of those who embrace the ideology that terrorists are good, and those who oppose them are evil. The US government should be supporting its friends and trusted allies, not funding the radical Islamic terrorists who threaten both Israel and America.</div>
Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-28757783820346642122014-04-28T20:58:00.000-07:002014-07-02T20:59:16.073-07:00John Kerry warns Israel against Apartheid<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state” (<a data-mce-href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/report-kerry-says-israel-risks-becoming-apartheid-state-060425281.html#IP21cCS" href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/report-kerry-says-israel-risks-becoming-apartheid-state-060425281.html#IP21cCS" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;">https://uk.news.yahoo.com/report-kerry-says-israel-risks-becoming-apartheid-state-060425281.html#IP21cCS</span></a>).</div>
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This is outrageous! How dare Mr. Kerry accuse Israel of embracing segregation if it does not capitulate to a terror state? Not only is the Palestinian Authority a terrorist organization and the world’s most infamous, but now it has united with Hamas, an even more evil group.</div>
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Hamas is on the international terrorist lists of the US, the EU, the UK and Canada, as well as other countries globally. When Osama bin Laden was killed, Hamas condemned the US action. In January 2011, Hamas enlisted Jaish-al-Islam (Army of Islam), its al-Qaeda affiliate in Egypt to murder twenty-four Coptic Christians. In 2013, Hamas executed sixteen Egyptians and wounded 130 in the Nile Delta.</div>
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The Hamas Charter calls for the annihilation of every Jew in the State of Israel. On March 13, 2008, Hamas called for a mahraqa (Holocaust) of the Jews. Its leaders have declared that Allah punished the Jews by means of the Germans, and now it is the turn for Islamic nations to punish them once again. It would not be possible in one article to name the number of suicide bombings that have been launched in Israel by Hamas, i.e., bombings that took place at Dimona, Kerem Shalom, the Eilat bakery, Kedumim, Rosh Ha’ir restaurant, Ha’Sharon mall, Hadera market, Beersheba central bus station, Stage Club, Carmel market, French Hill Junction, and more (<a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks</span></a>).</div>
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Rather than John Kerry attacking Hamas and the PA over the demonic unification of two terrorist organizations, he attacked Israel. Most of the Middle East Arab states consider themselves Muslim countries. Does Secretary of State Kerry call them apartheid states? No! He reserved that term for Israel. In Saudi Arabia, Christians are not allowed to wear a necklace with a cross or carry a Bible openly. Has he called it an apartheid state?</div>
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Six million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II. This is Holocaust Remembrance week in which we remember the dead, and Kerry dares to refer to the Jewish state of Israel as an “apartheid state.” Had Israel been a state during World War II, there would have been fewer Holocaust victims.</div>
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Arabs living in Israel are afforded more rights than those living in any Islamic state. Israeli Arabs have the right to vote in elections and to hold office. Women have the same rights as men. This “apartheid” slur against Israel because its leaders have sanctioned a wall of protection separating the country and a terror state is insanity. Tell this to the people of Sderot in southern Israel where thousands of rockets have been lobbed at them from Gaza.</div>
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Aparthied was a state-sanctioned system of racial discrimination between 1948 and 1994 dominating every aspect of daily life in South Africa. This is not even remotely the case in Israel.</div>
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Several years ago, I debated Al Sharpton regarding this very issue on MSNBC’s Hardball. I said to him, “For a moment I would like you to imagine you are the mayor of Harlem. The Ku Klux Klan has just fired thousands of missiles into your city. Hundreds of Black people have been killed and wounded. And, by the way, that the people of Harlem cannot live in any area occupied by the Klan. Now, I would like you to defend the KKK. That’s precisely what you are doing by defending Hamas and the PA.”</div>
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It appears that John Kerry needs to study his genealogy. Surely, he is related to British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain who served from 1937 to 1940. He conceded the Sudentenland region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler all in the name of appeasement. He sent a signal to the West that it did not have the moral courage to confront evil (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.biography.com/people/neville-chamberlain-9243721#awesm=~oCKEJuuAVNoNjj" href="http://www.biography.com/people/neville-chamberlain-9243721#awesm=~oCKEJuuAVNoNjj" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://www.biography.com/people/neville-chamberlain-9243721#awesm=~oCKEJuuAVNoNjj</a></span>).</div>
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What a pathetic signal Secretary of State John Kerry has just sent to the evildoers of the world—from Putin in Russia, to Kim Jong-un in North Korea, to Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-82533742878083386082014-04-24T20:56:00.000-07:002014-07-02T20:57:32.382-07:00Hamas, Terrorists with an Agenda<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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The fallacy in the proposal is that Hamas leaders have no intention of changing its fundamental policy as stated in its charter: The annihilation of Israel. Like its cousin, the Palestinian Authority, it wants all of the land on which the Jewish people reside. Nor are its chiefs willing to disarm, to stop the flow of tens of thousands of rockets and mortars from Iran into Gaza in order to achieve its goals. In other words, Hamas wants all the perks of removal from the terrorist list without paying the price.</div>
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It is incongruous that the ploy by Hamas to shed its terrorist label corresponds with Egyptian reports that the organization is now dabbling in terrorist attacks in that country. Those reports have been refuted, but the suggestion coincides with the infiltration of the Sinai by other terrorist groups—including al-Qaeda.</div>
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One Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad, indicated that the pressure to bring about a change of attitude among EU countries has had positive results in both the West and other Arab countries. It appears that on Wednesday, April 24, Hamas and Fatah, at least, buried the hatchet and announced plans for a joint government. US State Department head John Kerry seemed stunned by the announcement. Those who follow terrorist activities in the Middle East know that it would be easier for a leopard to change its spots than for Hamas and Fatah to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and suspend attacks against her. This is confirmed by the near-daily rocket attacks aimed at some area inside Israel.</div>
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According to a Washington Post report: Abbas made a revealing choice – rather than choosing peace with a democratic neighbor he decided to align with murderous, terrorist, Jihadist Islamists. Abbas celebrates the release of terrorists and luxuriates in the alliance with them.</div>
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Those who believe Mahmoud Abbas is a viable peace partner in negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government are sorely mistaken. Like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, Abbas has had ample opportunities to come to an agreement with his Israeli counterpart—opportunities which had been squandered by his refusal to disarm the terrorist factions within his territory and to recognize Israel’s right to exist.</div>
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Several arguments abound as to why the Palestinian Authority continues to reject any and all offers of a Palestinian State as did Yasser Arafat in 2000 and as Mahmoud Abbas has continued to do. Formal statehood would limit the ability of the PLO and Hamas in Gaza to commit acts of terrorism. This was a lesson learned when Gaza achieved pseudo-statehood. It became easier for Israel to retaliate when attacked. For the PA to achieve statehood would be a catastrophic move: It would lose the “victim” status which it has enjoyed for decades, and would lose sizeable donations from US, EU, and Arab backers. Would that those organizations, including the UN and Russia come to understand that the Palestinians do not want a state. It would rob them of the cover they now enjoy when it comes to terroristic acts against the Jewish people in Israel.</div>
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The question begs to be asked: How could any right-thinking EU leader, or for that matter the US Secretary of State, believe for a moment that Abbas and Hamas are willing to forgo the Jew-hatred that drives the terrorist organizations?</div>
Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-75202439813727591312014-04-18T21:01:00.000-07:002014-07-02T21:02:34.646-07:00The Demon of Jew-hatred<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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The one responsible for this heinous ruse is the Prince of the Power of the Air. It is not the first time Jews have been targeted, nor will it be the last. As Christians around the world celebrate Easter and Jews celebrate Passover, I am reminded of the forced registration/taxation of all Jews which was cleverly implemented by Herod. It would provide the information necessary so that he could eventually kill a Jew from the lineage of David—Yeshua ben Jospeh, the Lord our Salvation, or Jesus.</div>
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King Herod’s obsession to kill the firstborn because of his demonic fear meant this Child would fulfill prophecies that go all the way back to Mount Moriah where Abraham made a covenant with God over Isaac and where King David chose to build the first Temple. This hatred for the Jews has not diminished, nor has the fiendish virus of anti-Semitism been stamped out.</div>
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Over sixty years ago, my mother shook her finger in my face and shouted, “Christians kill Jews; Christians hate Jews. Jesus died. Don’t dig him up. The Pope, Adolf Hitler, and Billy Graham are all Christians.” She said that because she caught me watching a Billy Graham program after Saturday morning cartoons. My mother then told me a horror story about her grandfather, a rabbi. He and his congregation in the Ukraine were burned to death in his synagogue on the Shabbat. She said, “Russian Orthodox Christians boarded up the windows and lit fires while screaming ‘Christ killers’!”</div>
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Regretfully, my father, who attended an Assembly of God Church and called himself a born-again Christian, hated Jews. It’s hard to believe he could have married a Jewish woman, but he did. He went to church on Sunday and was called, “Brother Bob,” by the congregation, yet the Jew he hated the most was me. He believed I was the product of an affair between my mother and a Jewish man. From the age of four to the age of eleven, I suffered unspeakable abuse—beaten with extension cords and coat hangers, locked in a canning cellar beneath the house, and ultimately strangled and left for dead—simply because I was a Jew. Over the forty-plus years I’ve defended the nation of Israel and worked with its leaders, there is one thing I clearly recognize: Jews are not killed in Israel over land; they are killed because they are Jewish.</div>
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During the time of Jesus, a quarter million Jews were crucified by the Romans for only one reason: They were Jewish. I related this to Mel Gibson when he invited me to a preview of “The Passion of the Christ” after he said Jews were fighting the movie. As I watched the story unfold on the screen, I identified twenty-two scenes in the movie that were not biblical. I recalled the book from which those scenes were selected. At the end of the movie, I said to Mr. Gibson, “There are scenes from your movie that I believe are from the book,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ</em>, by Sister Ann Emmerich. She was anti-Semitic, and believed the Jews strangled Christian children and used their blood to make matzo during the Passover.”</div>
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In response to my comments, Mel Gibson said that my observation was correct; it had been taken from the book. He admitted to being a follower of hers. I inquired of him, “At the conclusion of the movie, why not put these words on the screen: During the Roman occupation, a quarter-million Jews were crucified by the Romans, but only one rose from the dead.” He was quite impressed with that recommendation, but would not comply because he is anti-Semitic, and he did want to bait the Jews.</div>
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God’s prophetic clock is still on the Jews. It all began with them, and will all end with them according to Psalm 102: 16, “When the Lord shall build up Zion, then shall He appear in His glory.” He is a covenant God and every promise He made to the Jewish people will be kept, as will every promise He has made to those who have been washed in the blood of the Passover Lamb and redeemed.</div>
Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-29652000698191923522014-04-14T21:05:00.000-07:002014-07-02T21:06:21.166-07:00The Price of Hatred<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Mike Evans</div>
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According to FBI Special Agent Michael Kaste, “In the last 22 hours, we learned the acts this person committed were the result of beliefs that he had and that he was trying to hurt somebody based on their ethnicity, race, and religion.” It is likely that Miller will eventually be charged with a hate crime.</div>
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The 73-year old white supremacist founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and served as Grand Dragon in the 1980s before being removed from his post. He later organized another group, the White Patriot Party. Miller was the subject of a manhunt following violation of a bond posted while appealing a conviction in North Carolina for operating a paramilitary site. When arrested, Miller and three compatriots were found in possession of grenades, automatic firearms and numerous rounds of ammunition.</div>
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It was not the first time a hate-filled white supremacist had attacked the innocent. As I read the accounts, I was instantly reminded of two other instances of murderous attacks generated by the desire to murder and maim those who disagreed with their particular philosophy.</div>
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It has been fifteen years since the horrific events of April 19, 1995. On that day, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set off a devastating explosion that rocked Oklahoma City’s Murrah Federal Building killing 168 and injuring more than 800. It was the worst domestic terror attack in our nations’ history until that fateful day in September 2001.</div>
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Both McVeigh and Nichols were members of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (better known as the CSA) organized in Elijah, Arkansas in 1971 by polygamist James Ellison. The CSA was not simply one of the more quirky religious cults; its stated purpose was to start a war that would ultimately lead to the second coming of Christ. The members of the group believed they were literally God’s chosen people, and as such, could dominate all others.</div>
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Another CSA member was Richard Wayne Snell. On my birthday in 1984, I was informed by the ATF that I had been targeted by the white supremacist. Snell, too, was a disciple of the CSA. A conference in 1983 had brought together Jim Ellison, the group’s founder, and Snell. The two men discussed how they could bring down the Murrah Federal Building. It was not Snell’s destiny, however, to be the one to accomplish that feat. His plans were sidetracked by his anti-Semitism—his desire to kill Jews and Blacks.</div>
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On November 3, 1983, Snell gunned down the owner of a small pawn shop in Texarkana, Arkansas, thinking his victim was a Jew; he was not. The case confounded the authorities for over eight months, but Snell’s rage would prove to be his downfall. On June 30, 1984, Snell was stopped on a lonely western Arkansas highway by State Trooper Louis Bryant. As Bryant approached the vehicle, Snell opened fire with a modified Colt .45, fatally wounding the trooper.</div>
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A truck driver who saw the shooting followed Snell across the Oklahoma border and contacted the Broken Bow police. Snell soon ran headlong into a roadblock set up by the police. In the ensuing gun battle, he was wounded and then captured.</div>
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Following his arrest, investigators combed through Snell’s vehicle. On the front seat, they found a single piece of paper on which was written my name, address, and unlisted telephone number. A phone call from the ATF would let me know beyond a doubt that that anti-Semitism was alive and flourishing.</div>
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Although Snell went to death row for the murders in Arkansas, the CSA continued to thrive and to plan an attack on the Murrah Building. Snell, who was to have led the charge, was instead executed on the same day as the devastating attack in Oklahoma City. His last words were directed at Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Snell warned that the governor should “look over your shoulder; justice is coming.”</div>
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Whatever you wish to call it – bigotry, anti-Semitism, Jew-hatred – it is vile. It fueled and fed the pogroms in Russia, the Holocaust in Europe, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s movement in Iran, among others. Jew-hating, Protocols of Zion-loving, Holocaust deniers must be taken seriously.</div>
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Bigotry is an equal opportunity employer. The Jews learned that in Europe during World War II. The war on terror cannot be won unless America declares war on bigotry wherever and whenever it raises it ugly head.</div>
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Michael D. Evans is the founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team and the Corrie ten Boom Holocaust Center in Haarlem, Holland. He is a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">#1 New York Times</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>bestselling author, and is the author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Ten Boom</em>: a novel that details the life of Betsie ten Boom who, along with her family, saved the lives of 800 Jews during the Holocaust. It is available at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.timeworthybooks.com" href="http://www.timeworthybooks.com/" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">www.timeworthybooks.com</a></span>.</div>
Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-49241563337816916392014-03-17T20:46:00.000-07:002014-07-02T20:46:56.400-07:00Christ at the Wall<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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This annual conference attempting to mobilize the support of the Evangelical world heard representatives from various organizations. These included the World Council of Churches, Willowcreek church, a US church with over 25,000 members and 9,000 associated churches, another mega-church Pastor Joel Hunter, and a member of the National Association of Evangelicals, Terry Berg, a professor from Wheaton College in Illinois (a school founded by Dr. Billy Graham), and Bobby Wilson, president of Oral Roberts University. All lent their support. Speakers, mostly evangelical, were ostensibly attending in the name of social justice.</div>
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From this conference have come movies such as “The Little Town of Bethlehem” and “With God on our Side.” This group proffers in the name of social justice that most, if not all, of the blame for the Middle East Conflict lies with Israel. The attendees seem to completely ignore the issue of Muslim anti-Semitism that portrays Jews as pigs and apes. The conference promotes conspiracy theories concerning the Jewish people controlling the media and banks worldwide. These deluded prophets buy into the myth that the land of Israel belongs largely to the Palestinian people.</div>
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Christ at the Checkpoint is an organized, ideological machine to educate and dissuade American Evangelicals from holding a pro-Israel view. The Evangelical Zionists are condemned as well as is the biblical worldview held by Evangelicals. The security wall which has become the target of their movement was built in the early 2000’s after hundreds of terrorist attacks which killed or maimed thousands of Jews—only because they were Jews. The demand is basically that Israel tear down their wall. In reality what they call a wall is basically a fence.</div>
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This is a convenient marriage between two groups who embrace Replacement Theology. In this belief, the Old Testament is completely rejected, and the New Testament is used to delegitimize Israel under the banner that the Church has replaced the Jews and made null and void promises to them because they are charged with having crucified Christ. It’s a revisionist theology used to support an ideological war.</div>
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I dealt with that theology head-on at the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991 when I debated Dr. Hanan Ashwari, a Christian Palestinian, on the topic of Bethlehem. She declared, “Bethlehem is a Muslim town where the first Palestinian Christian, Jesus Christ, was born. My response to her was, “Bethlehem is the Jewish town where the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ, was born.”</div>
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Those rallying behind Christ at the Checkpoint hold to a core belief that since the Church has replaced the Jews, everything historically and biblically tied to the Jewish people now belongs to the Church. Replacement theology has gone viral throughout Europe. It has been embraced by the Church of England, as well as the Presbyterian Church in the United States, as well as other denominations.</div>
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Seventy-three years ago, J. Oswald Chambers, an early twentieth century evangelist and teacher, visited the Evangelical Church in Germany whose members were among the most highly-educated in the world. It was the nation that gave birth to the Protestant Reformation. Chambers declared concerning Hitler, “They love him, from the largest churches to the smallest, they love him. They believe God sent him. They tell me the trains run on time; national pride has been restored; the economy is wonderful.” Not surprisingly, Oswald was right; they did love Hitler. Not only were they blinded, but they bought in to the ideology of Replacement Theology.</div>
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That damnable doctrine taught in the churches and in the schools fueled and fed the Third Reich.</div>
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In Bethlehem at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference not a word was said as sixty rockets were fired at Israel by Palestinians from Gaza during the meetings. Examples from the actual manifesto of the meeting should be closely scrutinized:</div>
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Another point to be considered when studying the inequity of conference speakers is: Thirty-two of the thirty-four speakers are advocates of Replacement Theology, vocal critics of Israel’s right to exist. The PLO supported the enterprise using Evangelical language and imagery to blame Israel, and Israel alone, for Palestine suffering.</div>
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While peaceful, law-abiding Palestinians live in Israel unmolested and prosperous, Jews are unable to live in Bethlehem for fear of death—or for that matter in any biblical city controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Several years ago, two schoolboys skipped class to go hiking, Yakob (Kobie) Mandell, 13, formerly of Maryland, and Yosef Ishran, 14, were brutally murdered. Their heads were crushed when they were stoned to death. They had climbed into a cave at the Wadi Haritun, fifteen minutes’ walk from their home. Their blood was used to smear anti-Semitic slurs on the walls of the cave.</div>
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Two young Israeli reservists, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Abrahami, accidentally took a wrong turn in the direction of Ramallah and were taken into custody by the police. Those two young men were beaten, stabbed, had their eyes gouged out and their bodies dismembered as Palestinians held aloft their blood-stained hands as the crowds jumped and cheered in celebration. The soldiers’ bodies were tossed out a window of the police station and stomped by the frenzied mob. One of the bodies was set afire. Soon after, the mob dragged the mutilated bodies through al Manara Square in the city as a victory celebration took place. I attended the funerals of these four young men whose only crime was being Jewish.</div>
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A number of years ago, I debated Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC during a segment of Chris Matthews’ “Hardball.” Rev. Sharpton held the same position as those who support Christ at the Checkpoint. I said to him, “Imagine if you will that you were the mayor of Harlem and the Ku Klux Klan launched hundreds of missiles into your city, killing thousands of black residents. Are you telling me you would defend the KKK? That’s precisely what you are doing on this show all in the name of Christ and social justice.”</div>
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When the disciples asked Jesus what would be a sign of the end of the age, He said that many false prophets would arise and deceive many. It appears that we are nearing the end of the age.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-85687710348264759562014-02-10T20:42:00.000-08:002014-07-02T20:43:20.561-07:00Birth of a Revolution<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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When Carter entered the political fray in 1976, America was still riding the liberal wave of anti-Vietnam War emotion. Carter was persuaded that the Shah was not fit to rule Iran. In his anti-war pacifism, Carter never got it that Khomeini, a cleric exiled to Iraq, was preparing Iran for revolution. His weapon of choice was not the sword but the media. Using tape cassettes smuggled by Iranian pilgrims returning from the holy city of Najaf, he fueled disdain for what he called “gharbzadegi” (the plague of Western culture).</div>
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Carter pressured the Shah to make what he termed human rights concessions by releasing political prisoners and relaxing press censorship. Khomeini could never have succeeded without Carter. The Islamic Revolution would have been stillborn.</div>
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Under Carter’s predecessor, Richard Nixon, the U.S. had enacted what became known as the “Twin Pillar Doctrine.” His approach was to establish American military substitutes in various regions, especially in Iran and Saudi Arabia, to deter the Soviet Union and provide protection for U.S. interests. Iran received such a designation and was thus guaranteed access to U.S. arms in abundance.</div>
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Carter perceived Khomeini as a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than the founding father of modern terrorism. Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said, "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure" (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2011/02/04/avoiding_a_jimmy_carter_moment" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2011/02/04/avoiding_a_jimmy_carter_moment" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2011/02/04/avoiding_a_jimmy_carter_moment</a></span>). Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed on February 12, 1979, that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty" (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_iran0626_08_06.asp" href="http://worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_iran0626_08_06.asp" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_iran0626_08_06.asp</a></span>).</div>
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Just as Carter administration officials pursued a relationship with Khomeini, so did Barack Obama state during his first election campaign that he wanted to sit down without preconditions for talks with Iran’s president and leaders from other rogue states.</div>
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Farah Pahlavi, wife of the former Shah, told me during an interview in her home, “My husband said to me that if Jimmy Carter keeps this up, ultimately Khomeini will come back and with him will come an Islamic revolution. The Russians will invade Afghanistan, Iraq will go to war against Iran, and who knows what horror will come upon the world.”</div>
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During the same interview, the empress talked about Carter’s human rights issue:</div>
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“What happened to those who cared so much for human rights? How come when the Shah left, the Iranian people didn't have any rights anymore? What happened to the women?…There is oppression which exists in the name of religion in Iran. What happened to those who cared?</div>
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Asadollah Alam, appointed prime minister by the Shah in July 1962, was Pahlavi’s personal confidant. Alam and the Shah had been classmates at the exclusive Swiss boarding school, Institut Le Rosey. He remained in office through major industrial and social reforms implemented by the Shah, sometimes referred to as the “White Revolution.” Alam wrote of the Shah’s concerns over Carter’s election in his diary: “Who knows what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?”</div>
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In an interview with President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France during the time of America’s first crisis with Iran, I was told that in 1979 he met with Carter in Guadalupe for a summit, as did Helmut Schmidt of Germany and James Callahan of Great Britain. Carter told this group of men that the US was going to support Khomeini instead of the Shah of Iran. In essence, Mr. d’Estaing said he realized the US was trading its strongest pro-Western Persian Gulf ally in favor of a terrorist Muslim cleric. “I was horrified,” said d’Estaing. “The only way I can describe Jimmy Carter is that he was a ‘bastard of conscience.’”</div>
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Congress took on the task of human rights in 1961 as a direct result of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. and the Nixon administration’s foreign policy debacles. A law was passed that established official prerequisites for the limitation or rejection of assistance for a nation or nations that repeatedly deny basic civil liberties for people. The law was an attempt to dissociate the U.S. from the unethical and abusive actions of beneficiaries of foreign assistance. Aid would no longer be dependent on a seeming pro-American stance; it would be given to those nations which valued human rights and self-determination.</div>
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What made pursuing a human rights agenda even more attractive to Carter’s foreign policy team was a congressional amendment to the Act in 1976 that made the president responsible for the determination of which countries were guilty of abusing the human rights of its citizens.</div>
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The escape clause giving the president more decision-making latitude lay in the words “extraordinary circumstances exist which necessitate a continuation of security assistance for such country” (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/security.html" href="http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/security.html" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/security.html</a></span>). This allowed a sitting president leeway to determine what aid to which countries was in the national interest of the U.S. Such wording made it possible for Carter to launch his campaign against the Shah of Iran while simply ignoring other abusive regimes such as the one in Indonesia and ultimately being instrumental in the Shah’s ouster.</div>
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With the election of Jimmy Carter and his stance against the Shah, the U.S. was suddenly deprived of level heads that would have provided access to Persian Gulf oil. A relationship that for decades had been friendly had become adversarial. A deviously clever, manipulative fanatic was suddenly in control of all decision-making in Iran, an old man who had no desire to negotiate with his sworn enemy—the “Great Satan”.</div>
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As the Iranians relentlessly pursued the Shah’s assets, purported to be stashed in American banks, Khomeini’s negotiators demanded a total of $24 billion dollars be transferred to a bank in Algeria. Just days before Carter was to leave office, Iran capitulated and agreed to Carter’s demands to pay off loans owned to U.S. banks. In marathon sessions new drafts were produced, new documents drawn, and the Bank of England was approved as the repository of escrow funds. Shortly after 4:00 A.M. on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1981, the Carter administration relinquished $7.977 billion to the Iranians. According to one source, the transfer required fourteen banks and the participation of five nations acting concurrently.</div>
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Since the talk of lessening sanctions on the Islamic republic, former President Carter has been surprisingly silent. Could it be that even he realizes the danger of a nuclear Iran?</div>
Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-20703531374495614912014-02-07T20:50:00.000-08:002014-07-02T20:51:32.745-07:00Cut Israel in Half<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jpt-fb-403-Cut-Israel-in-Half.jpg" href="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jpt-fb-403-Cut-Israel-in-Half.jpg" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><img alt="Cut Israel in Half" class="alignleft wp-image-16743" data-mce-src="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jpt-fb-403-Cut-Israel-in-Half-300x300.jpg" data-mce-style="margin: 5px;" height="290" src="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jpt-fb-403-Cut-Israel-in-Half-300x300.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; cursor: default; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 5px;" title="Cut Israel in Half" width="300" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry is on an all-out sprint to force Israel into accepting the US “framework proposal,” a document that would outline a preliminary agreement on key issues and could receive at least a partial Israeli and Palestinian approval by April 29. My long-time friend, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, described Kerry as “obsessive and messianic” in his efforts to coax Israel into a peace agreement (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Yaalon-criticized-for-reportedly-calling-Kerry-obsessive-messianic-338109" href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Yaalon-criticized-for-reportedly-calling-Kerry-obsessive-messianic-338109" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Yaalon-criticized-for-reportedly-calling-Kerry-obsessive-messianic-338109</a></span>).</div>
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This is fundamentally the Bill Clinton roadmap for peace which he proposed in 2000. It gave the Palestinians a state with East Jerusalem as its capital, as well as a large portion of the West Bank. The nine-month gestation goal is very similar to the story of two women who claimed the same child. King Solomon, in his wisdom, declared, “Give me a sword. I will divide the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.” Mercy prevailed because of Solomon’s judgment.</div>
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In John Kerry’s case, it appears the opposite has happened. He has stated, “If these talks fail, we will be faced with intense boycott pressure.” Without question, his statement was diplomatic blackmail. A nice Jewish—state—you—got—there—I—hate—to—see—anything—happen—to—it. Kerry his repeated his threat worldwide thus building a campaign to delegitimize that nation of Israel. People are very sensitive to this, especially as there are talks of boycotts and other dire consequences.</div>
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The Secretary of State is holding a “boycott” gun to the head of Israel. His acidic words are eating away at the foundation of Israel’s economy. The largest Dutch bank divested itself from Israel’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="https://www.bankhapoalim.co.il/" href="https://www.bankhapoalim.co.il/" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;">Bank Hapoalim</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>because the latter funds the presence of “squatters” on Palestine territory in contravention of international law (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-pension-manager-divests-israeli-banks-124314868--finance.html" href="http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-pension-manager-divests-israeli-banks-124314868--finance.html" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-pension-manager-divests-israeli-banks-124314868--finance.html</a></span>). This move is the latest step in a rash of European efforts to divest from Israeli economic enterprises located on what is perceived to be Palestinian land.</div>
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Response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s appeal that Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians accept a Jewish state, the opposite has been done—Abbas stated clearly that he would not recognize Israel. The Obama/Kerry plan calls for a NATO force to be assigned indefinitely to any future Palestinian state. In addition, the PA has no tolerance for a single Jew living in any territory it controls.</div>
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Prime Minister Menachem Begin was confronted by then-President Jimmy Carter over this same issue. At Camp David, Carter told Mr. Begin that the United States did not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Begin responded, “The State of Israel does not recognize your non-recognition. It was and is our capital long before Washington, DC was yours.” He went on to say, “Mr. President, if the governor of Pennsylvania (which has many towns named after Israeli towns, i.e., Bethlehem) stated that only whites could reside in his state, would you have supported this?”</div>
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Carter responded, “Adamantly not! If he did that, he would be a racist.”</div>
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“Then you are asking me, as Prime Minister of Israel, to support a policy that is equally racist—one which would only allow Arabs, but not Jews, to live in our Bible Land.”</div>
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In March 2013, President Barack Obama visited Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust (<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2013/03/22/president-obama-speaks-yad-vashem#transcript" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2013/03/22/president-obama-speaks-yad-vashem#transcript" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2013/03/22/president-obama-speaks-yad-vashem#transcript</a></span>). While there, he declared, “Here on your ancient land, let it be said for all the world to hear, the State of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust, but with the survival of a strong Jewish State of Israel, such a Holocaust will never happen again.” Mr. Obama was right then, but his present “framework” plan led by Secretary of State John Kerry undermines everything the president said.</div>
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It would be a tough sell to convince the Jewish people that its greatest enemy—Iran—a country that wants to wipe Israel off the map, and is but the turn of a screwdriver away from going nuclear, should have uncompromising US support to stand down the nations that wish to boycott it. At the same time, it would be equally difficult to convince Israel, the United States’ greatest ally in the world that it should surrender half its capital and a large portion of its land to a destabilized terrorist state that weekly launches rockets into Israel. The threat is that if Israel does not acquiesce to pressure from Secretary of State Kerry, the US would lead a boycott against Israel—one that would decimate its economy and make the Jewish state even more vulnerable.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-75799375678935116792014-02-05T21:03:00.000-08:002014-07-02T21:04:35.577-07:00The Elephant in the Room<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jpt-fb-403-The-Elephant-in-the-Room.jpg" href="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jpt-fb-403-The-Elephant-in-the-Room.jpg" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Elephant in the Room" class="alignleft wp-image-16766" data-mce-src="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jpt-fb-403-The-Elephant-in-the-Room-300x300.jpg" data-mce-style="margin: 5px;" height="290" src="http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jpt-fb-403-The-Elephant-in-the-Room-300x300.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; cursor: default; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 5px;" title="The Elephant in the Room" width="300" /></a>Benjamin Netanyahu has again challenged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for his failure to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. During a Likud meeting earlier this week, the prime minister said: "The chairman of the PA was quoted today as saying he is not prepared to recognize the Jewish state. And this comes with him knowing there will not be an agreement without recognition of the nation state of the Jews." Netanyahu also called “absurd” the idea that Israel would acquiesce to a Palestinian state without the reciprocity of the PA recognizing the Jewish state. Abbas’ failure to acknowledge the Jewish state has become the proverbial elephant in the room during peace negotiations.</div>
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Netanyahu further warned, “Now we will see if those same international actors, who until now have solely put pressure on Israel, will make clear to the Palestinian Authority what exactly will happen to the Palestinians if there will not be an agreement. Because, unless the Palestinians understand they will pay a price for the failure of peace talks, they will prefer not to continue the talks."</div>
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The prime minister’s comments followed a warning from US Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel faces the risk of losing its legal status and of additional embargoes should the current situation continue without a breakthrough in the so-called peace process. Netanyahu pledged that outside pressures will not force him to take chances with the safety and security of the citizens of the nation of Israel.</div>
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Minister of Economics Naftali Bennett took exception to Kerry’s threat of boycotts against Israel. He responded, "The Jewish people are stronger than the threats. We won't give in to scare tactics. They're trying to crush our spirit, but we'll win. How? By telling the truth over and over again.”</div>
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Bennett scorned statements by Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat who declared that the Palestinians had resided in the region longer than the Jews. Said Bennett, “The Land of Israel has been the inheritance of the Jewish People for 3,800 years. In the same Bible that all Muslims and Christians – and of course Jews – believe, it says G-d gave the Land to the Jewish Nation. This is written in Hebrew and addressed to the Jews. Israel was the Jewish homeland thousands of years before there were Palestinians.”</div>
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In 2005, a movement of divestment, sanctions and boycotts against the Jewish state was launched. The BDS group had called for international economic pressure against Israel. The targets included such widely known brands as Pampers, Victoria's Secret, Volvo, Intel, Israeli hummus, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Starbucks, McDonald's, and SodaStream, among others.</div>
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SodaStream spokesperson and actress Scarlett Johansson revealed in a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scarlett-johansson/sodastream_b_4661895.html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scarlett-johansson/sodastream_b_4661895.html" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;">Huffington Post blog interview</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that she is "proud of the...quality of their product and work environment." She touted the West Bank factory where Palestinians and Israelis work side-by-side.</div>
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While Johansson’s comments were ridiculed by some, they were supported by an unsolicited and comparable reaction from some of the Palestinians employed at the plant.</div>
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One young man from the Palestinian village of Jaba confirmed: "I'm happy. We're like family. We have fun. We are Jews and Muslims here. We are here peacefully. We have no problems. Everyone is complaining about settlements here and everywhere, but SodaStream is different.''</div>
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Those employed related that their take-home pay is approximately $1,200 per month. This is a princely sum compared to what they would take home in wages from comparable jobs within the Palestinian Authority territory. SodaStream also provides benefits to its workers in the form of medical insurance and a pension plan. Although pressured to resign from her representation of SodaStream, Ms. Johansson resigned from the organization applying that pressure—Oxfam, the non-profit and anti-poverty human rights organization that has operated in the West Bank for years on behalf of the Palestinians.</div>
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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat backed Mr. Netanyahu while speaking at the 11th Jerusalem Conference. He reiterated that “for more than four billion people in the world, [Jerusalem] is the center of the world, for all the tribes and all the sectors." According to the mayor, he appreciates the prime minister’s desire to stand firm against attempts to divide the Holy City.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-45613662236154024742014-02-04T20:48:00.000-08:002014-07-02T20:48:53.798-07:00Conspiracy to Divide Jerusalem<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
by: Michael D. Evans</div>
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The peace plan calls for East Jerusalem, part of the capital city of the State of Israel and the home of Christianity, to become the Islamic capital for a Palestinian state. The payment for this is the promise that the Palestinian Authority will acknowledge Israel’s right of survival as a Jewish state. This is without question the theater of the absurd and a festival of hypocrisy.</div>
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On December 11, 1988, I confronted Yasser Arafat when he promised to denounce terrorism. I held up a copy of the PLO Covenant during a meeting of his executive committee and said, “If you denounce terrorism, denounce this document that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.”</div>
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Arafat began to scream, “Shut up, shut up, shut up. What must I do to make you shut up?” I didn't shut up for him, and I will not do so for President Barach Obama. Through the years, I’ve confronted U.S. leaders over Jerusalem—from Ronald Reagan’s National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane to George H. W. Bush’s Secretary of State James Baker at the Madrid Peace Conference.</div>
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In Zechariah 12, the prophet declared, “I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” The battle for Jerusalem has gone on for more than 6,000 years—since the day Abraham pitched his tent on Mount Zion and made a covenant with God. Islamic dictators control over 13 million square kilometers in the Middle East and Israel controls a little over 20,000. The Islamic world wants Palestine as its twenty-second state, with East Jerusalem as its capital.</div>
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Prime Minister Menachem Begin to whom I served as an advisor told me that when he went to Camp David in 1978 to make peace with Egypt, President Carter advised him that the United States did not recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Begin answered, “Whether you recognize Jerusalem or don’t recognize Jerusalem, it is the capital of the State of Israel.”</div>
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The spiritual attachment of the Jewish people to Jerusalem goes back to the beginning of time. Throughout history, when the Jews were driven from the land, wherever they found themselves in exile, they faced toward Jerusalem when praying. They proclaimed, “Next year in Jerusalem.”</div>
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Jerusalem is a small city. It does not stand along a great river as does London, Paris or Rome. It boasts of no port, no major industry, and no known mineral wealth. The city doesn’t stand on a major thoroughfare connected to the rest of the world. Why, then, is Jerusalem the navel of the earth—the shaft that propels the world ever forward? No other city in the world has been ravished and destroyed and invaded as has the city of Jerusalem.</div>
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Indeed, Jerusalem belongs to God. The prophets declared that Jerusalem is the only city on earth where God wrote His name. It is the city where heaven and earth met, and will meet again. It is the only city for which we are commanded to pray. Six empires have conquered and occupied Jerusalem. God told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless thee, and curse him who curses thee.”</div>
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One prediction has held true throughout history for all nations that have come against the Jewish people: Empires such as the British and Roman Empire are no more. The greatest curse of all will come upon the nation that comes against Jerusalem.</div>
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The Holy City is the home of the Temple site—ground zero for spiritual warfare. Like the Great Whore of Babylon, principalities and powers roar across the earth attempting to seduce the nations. Jerusalem is still the apple of God’s eye, His diadem, His firstborn, His chosen, His beloved, the jewel in His crown.</div>
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In Joel 3:16, God declares: ‘The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.”</div>
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Senior officials from the United States and five other major powers are meeting in Geneva on a new bid to reach an agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, despite opposition from Israel and conservative members of Congress.</div>
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Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made it clear in a speech in Tehran that Iran will not compromise on its nuclear policies: “We will not step back one iota from our rights.”</div>
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During the last set of talks, liberal France was the spoiler in objecting that the proposed deal did not curb enough of Iran’s enriched uranium. Khamenei countered that Iran would not consider giving up the ability to make nuclear fuel, and that they would stand up to what they call, “an untouchable, rabid dog—Israel.” Khamenei has also said that Iran’s relations with the West could never be “normal.” He said, “We must continue to disappoint our enemies.”</div>
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Why in heaven’s name should the United States obsess with providing sanction relief for Iran? It is a Fascist state and Ground Zero for world terror. It funds and fuels the revolution in Syria, the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Mahdi Army in Iraq, and Shi’a extremists worldwide.</div>
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When was the last time you heard of a murderer appealing to the Supreme Court for more comforts in his prison cell? Perhaps the pillow is too hard and the food is inedible; the air conditioning is not sufficient, and the television is broken. Iran does not deserve sanction relief.</div>
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While on a state invitation to Kurdistan in 2007, I was told by President Barzani that the vast majority of Americans killed in Iraq were blown up by Iranian improvised explosive devices. In The Hague during the Afghanistan summit arranged by Hillary Clinton, I was told the same thing by Afghanistan diplomats who were working with President Mohammad Karzai.</div>
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More than 11,861 soldiers had been killed by IEDs in Iraq, most of them from Iran. Seventy percent of all casualties in the Iraq war were caused by IEDs. The same can be said of wounded US soldiers in Afghanistan. Just last month, four soldiers were killed in Kabul, southern Afghanistan, by IEDs. Some 2,146 US troops have died in Afghanistan.</div>
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It is almost impossible to go one week without meeting an American soldier who has lost an arm or leg because of an Iranian IED. If all the reports of Iranian IEDs are exaggerated and only 10 percent of those US soldiers who have suffered severe injuries were the result of Iranian IEDs, would it justify sanction relief for a murderous country that has killed and wounded American soldiers?</div>
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The answer is: Absolutely not! It is insanity to even consider such a thing. Any relief given to a terrorist state is morally wrong, and will only embolden Iran. The greatest gift we can give freedom-loving, innocent Iranian people is to do everything humanly possible to increase sanctions with only one objective: bankrupting the Islamic dictatorship in Iran. This is what happened when the Shah of Iran was overthrown; it was through an economic boycott. I know the story well as I’ve interviewed virtually every living member of the Shah’s Cabinet, including Farah Pahlavi, the former empress of Iran, and the Shah’s last ambassador to the United States, Ardeshir Zahedi.</div>
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Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-86957895101018298452013-10-03T10:23:00.000-07:002013-10-04T10:24:22.348-07:00The Iranian Cult<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Iranian government threatening to wipe Israel off the map with a nuclear bomb is not governed by President Hassan Rouhani, the recent visitor to New York City. It is governed by the Ayatollah Khamenei, who is the head of the Twelvers, a cult.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an exclusive interview with my long-time friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I asked about this cult. He explained: </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a cult that guides Iran and it’s a particular brand of Shi’ism. It has a mystical leader, the Mahdi, who disappeared about 1,000 years ago. The followers believe the Mahdi will return in a great apocalyptic war that will claim the lives of millions. It almost mandates this kind of conflagration. The goal is to inspire 300 million Shi’a to join them in a religious war—first against us [Israel], then against you [the United States.] They don’t hate you because of us; they hate us because of you. They say we are the “small Satan,” and you are the “big Satan.” </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I posed the same question to Israel’s minister of defense, another dear friend, General Moishe Ya’alon. He responded:</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Western, like-minded people should understand the Iranian ideology to impose a new caliphate all over the world. They call it the “Nation of Islam.” They believe they can defeat Israel and the West. The Iranian strategy is to dominate the Gulf. It’s a combination of religious ideology and political strategy. Their strategic goal is to defeat the Western culture, Western values, and to impose the new caliphate and a new nation of Islam on the world. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This cult in Iran, the Twlevers, is the largest branch in Shi’a Islam. This cult name is derived from twelve supposedly divinely ordained leaders known as the twelve imams. All believe that the Mahdi, the twelfth imam, will return. Iran boasts the largest number of followers, but there are large groups in Iraq, Bahrain, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and even in Europe and the United States.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I arranged the Fox News Network interview in New York with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I discussed this subject with his spiritual advisor who accompanied him. He related to me that Ahmadinejad travels to a well in Jamkaran and talks to the Mahdi. He assured me that the Mahdi would come soon, and would be the Islamic messiah. The mullah said that when Ahmadinejad spoke at the UN the power of the Mahdi came upon him and a green light filled the UN hall. He said no one blinked for twenty-eight minutes. He assured me that he was not exaggerating, that it actually happened. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4a6918bb-847e-dabd-a01f-c2e1dd99119a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Michael Evans is a #1 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bestselling author. His latest novel, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Locket</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, based on the pursuit, arrest, trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann debuted at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in June. His latest non-fiction book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Persia: The Final Jihad</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is available at </span><a href="http://www.timeworthybooks.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.TimeWorthyBooks.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></b></div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-51097553428679442942013-10-01T17:47:00.000-07:002013-10-02T17:47:34.545-07:00A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was it happenstance or design that placed President Barack Obama in a press conference, and at the forefront of media attention as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday? Timing, like location, is everything—and the US media is much more interested in the US government shutdown than it is in the security of America’s most staunch ally in the Middle East. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his speech, Mr. Netanyahu called former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a “wolf in wolf’s clothing”, and made it clear that newly-elected Hassan Rouhani is unlike his predecessor. Instead, he is the more conventional wolf in sheep’s clothing who thinks he can hoodwink the world at large. Said the prime minister, “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wish we could believe Rouhani’s words, but we must focus on Iran’s actions. And it’s the brazen contrast, this extraordinary contradiction, between Rouhani’s words and Iran’s actions that is so startling. Rouhani stood at this very podium last week and praised Iranian democracy…But the regime that he represents executes political dissidents by the hundreds and jails them by the thousands.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The prime minister went on to state what so many seem to overlook, and that’s Iran’s participation in the Syrian civil war during which so many innocent civilians have died. That in the past 36 months terrorist attacks have been launched by Iranian leaders 25 cities on five continents, and that Iran is actively backing its proxies that are intent on destabilizing Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, Gaza and other Middle Eastern countries.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Netanyahu then enumerated all the reasons why Iran and its controlling clerics should not be believed: One, all Iranian nuclear facilities are hidden deep underground to forestall attacks; two, facilities for uranium enrichment have been cloaked in secrecy; three, intercontinental ballistic missiles have been developed with the specific purpose of delivering nuclear warheads that would most certainly reach Israel, and could within years reach cities on the eastern seaboard of the United States; and four, Iran’s leaders are prepared to subject its populace to crippling economic sanctions in order to keep International Atomic Energy Agency officials from scrutinizing the country’s atomic operations. The prime minister had one answer: Iran’s facilities are not for peaceful nuclear pursuits. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rouhani apparently believes the trite, but effective, the hale-fellow-well-met strategy. The success of his falsely friendly approach was touted in his 2011 book when he wrote: “While we [the Iranians] were talking to the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in Isfahan.” Mr. Netanyahu summed up that theory quite succinctly with “Rouhani thinks he can have his yellowcake and eat it too.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadly, it just might work: Barack Obama is a lame duck president desperate and perhaps willing to do anything to create a legacy for which he will be long remembered. Israel, on the other hand, needs no reminder of what can happen when past lessons are buried under a barrage of bluster. Its people know the price that will be extracted if the fanatical regime in Tehran is allowed to arm itself with atomic weapons. Netanyahu reminded us, “We in Israel, we know all too well the cost of war. But history has taught us that to prevent war tomorrow, we must be firm today.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The prime minister called on Iran to do four things to prove its sincerity before sanctions are revoked: Halt uranium enrichment; eliminate stores of enriched uranium; disassemble the infrastructure for nuclear potential; and cease all efforts to produce plutonium. These moves, he said, would be solid proof that the actions of the leaders in Iran were “transparent, meaningful, and verifiable.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barring lack of compliance, the prime minister reiterated Israel’s stance on the subject: “Israel will never acquiesce to nuclear arms in the hands of a rogue regime that repeatedly promises to wipe us off the map. Against such a threat, Israel will have no choice but to defend itself. I want there to be no confusion on this point. Israel will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Netanyahu reaffirmed to the listeners in the hall that Israel is not and has no desire to be an enemy to its neighbors in the Middle East. Should Iran gain nuclear superiority, Israel will take on the role of protector of those who now wish only its destruction. He appropriately ended his speech with the promise, “The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--df658e1-7bc5-fa84-e978-683a48f47881" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Michael Evans is a #1 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bestselling author. His latest novel, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Locket</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, based on the pursuit, arrest, trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann debuted at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in June. His latest non-fiction book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Persia: The Final Jihad</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is available at </span><a href="http://www.timeworthybooks.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.TimeWorthyBooks.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></b>Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-47899818495842152552013-09-30T17:34:00.000-07:002013-10-02T17:42:30.439-07:00The Liberal Left and World Chaos<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Barack Obama and President Hassan Rouhani have held the first direct talks between US and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Exchanging pleasantries during a fifteen minute telephone call on Friday, September 27, have-a-nice-day conversation, Obama communicated his “deep respects for the Iranian people,” and congratulated Rouhani for his recent election. Mr. Obama also expressed his good wishes and hopes that he and the Iranian leader could resolve over the next few months the differences between the US and Iran. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What exact “differences” will Presidents Obama and Rouhani attempt to resolve? The differences over the Revolutionary Guards and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">al-Quds</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Force killing tens of thousands of Syrians? The differences over Iranian funded and trained Hezbollah terrorists making life a living hell for the Jewish people in Israel, as well as for the Lebanese people? The differences over Hamas, a proxy of Iran, and its missiles being fired into Israel? Or could it be over the fact that 85 percent of all US troops killed or wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq have died because of the use of Iranian improvised explosive devices? </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Obama’s desire to negotiate no matter the cost gives rise to those in the West who have become unwilling cohorts of the jihadists. These individuals rationalize the presence of evil and the attacks by terrorists based on their perception of our past sins. Self-loathing has replaced righteous indignation and begets appeasement. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seventy-two hours before the “historic” telephone conversation, I had dinner in Jerusalem with Dr. Iddo Netanyahu, the brother of the prime minister. When I asked him about Rouhani and his charm offensive, he said, “It is no different than Hitler in the 1930s. Hitler proclaimed to Germany and the world he wanted peace, peace, peace. Because of it, he was able to convince Neville Chamberlain to buy in to appeasement, which was the beginning of the end for 61 million human beings—including six million Jews—killed during World War II. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Philosopher George Santana said, “Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” President Jimmy Carter was the last Liberal Left president to attempt what Mr. Obama is attempting. Rouhani, a Shi’a cleric, has learned his lessons well from Ayatollah Khomeini, who said and did precisely the same things. He convinced Jimmy Carter that he would be another Gandhi-like figure. Farah Pahlavi, wife of the former Shah of Iran, told me during an interview in her home, “My husband said to me, if Jimmy Carter keeps this up, ultimately Khomeini will come back and with him will come an Islamic revolution. The Russians will invade Afghanistan, Iraq will go to war against Iran, and who knows what horror will come upon the world.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an interview with President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France during the time of America’s first crisis with Iran, I was told that in 1979 he met with Carter in Guadalupe for a summit. Helmut Schmidt of Germany and James Callahan of Great Britain were also present. Mr. Carter told this group of men that the US was going to support Khomeini instead of the Shah of Iran. In essence, Mr. d’Estaing said he realized the US was trading its strongest pro-Western Persian Gulf ally in favor of a terrorist Muslim cleric. “I was horrified,” said d’Estaing. “The only way I can describe Jimmy Carter is that he was a ‘bastard of conscience.’”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have interviewed virtually every living Iranian leader who has served during that period of time. Over the past four years in New York City, I have also met with and interviewed a large percentage of the present Iranian leaders while attending the UN General Assembly. This includes the former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with whom I arranged the first Fox News Network interview. I am convinced that the results of the Obama/Rouhani negotiations will be more catastrophic for the US than was those in the Jimmy Carter era.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During Rouhani’s trip, I met with many Iranian diplomats in their hotel. I asked one man from the Iranian mission in New York if he enjoyed his job as a diplomat. He responded, “Are you kidding me? I hate my job. There is nothing to like about it when your job is only to propagate lies and deception.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For thirty-five years, Hassan Rouhani has served unswervingly loyal Islamic cleric and a close aide to the Ayatollah Khamenei. Despite the fact that President Obama congratulated him on his election, Rouhani was only one of six presidential candidates. After 678 had been disqualified by the regime as ideologically unsound, with Rouhani, the final choice, Obama had an opportunity to maintain moral clarity and keep the line of sanctions drawn in the sand. He had the chance to stand by the United States’ greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel; instead, he has played the appeasement card which will only devalue America’s currency in the Middle East and embolden terror.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did Rouhani do to deserve such a reward? He never gave an inch on the Iranian atomic enrichment plan when Iran, according to Israeli intelligence, is within weeks of reaching the red line in their nuclear program. When I asked the Iranian diplomats, they smiled and winked and told me it was to begin negotiations with President Obama within three to six months. I asked another Iranian diplomat what role Iran was attempting to play in Syria. The response was, “We are communicating to your president that the key to the Syrian crisis is Iran. Its leaders need to be the mediators between the US, Syria and Russia.” </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It takes about 250 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in August that Iran already has 186 kilograms. The Iranians are on the threshold of going nuclear and are now adding about 3,000 new high-speed centrifuges. Rouhani was Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator between 2003 and 2005. He boasted in a 2004 speech to the Supreme Culture Revolution Council, “While we were talking with the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing new equipment in parts of the Iranian conversion facilities in Isfahan…in fact by creating a calm environment we were able to complete the work in Isfahan.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between 1989 and 2005, Rouhani and the National Security Council in Iran were responsible for the bombing of the Jewish Culture Center in Buenos Aries in which 85 were killed and 300 wounded and the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 and wounded 500. In two scriptures in the Bible, Satan is described in this way: “Do not marvel that Satan has transformed himself into an angel of light.” </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To think that Iran, a fascist, terrorist state run by mullahs is willing to dismantle vast portions of its multi-billion atomic infrastructure in exchange for sanction relief defines the true meaning of naivety. Even worse, to think that President Hassan Rouhani is about to lead Iran into dismantling its nuclear program now that it has 18,000 centrifuges instead of the 178 it had ten years ago, is laughable. On May 17, 1933, Adolf Hitler gave a speech declaring, “Germany will be perfectly willing to dismantle its entire military establishment and destroy the small amount of arms remaining to her if the neighboring countries will do the same with equal thoroughness.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On December 18, 1933, Hitler gave an even stronger speech on his desire for peace. He continued giving numerous speeches on peace and disarmament. On May 21, 1935, he declared that the “German government is ready to take an active part in all efforts which may lead to practical limitations of armaments.” On June 18, 1935, he negotiated a naval agreement with Great Britain which asserted that the German navy could only have the strength of 35 percent of that of the British navy. Signs of Hitler’s intentions abounded, and were ignored. After a period of lulling Europe to sleep, In September 1939, Adolf Hitler and German forces invaded Poland signaling the beginning of World War II.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was Winston Churchill who said in 1935: “The world lacks the democratic courage, intellectual honesty, and moral willingness to act to stop Hitler’s war machine.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has his back against the wall. A Jew-murdering, terrorist state wants an atomic bomb to wipe Israel off the map. Instead of standing up to Iran, President Obama is bowing down to its new president. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During World War II, US pilots begged their generals to allow them to bomb the railroad tracks leading into concentration camps in order to halt the cattle cars loaded with Jews bound for the ovens. President Roosevelt gave orders not to allow the tracks to be bombed; he was afraid he would offend Jew-hating US allies. Israeli Air Force jets flew over Auschwitz on September 4, 2003. A photograph hangs at every base with these words</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We the Israeli Air Force pilots in the skies over the camp of atrocities have risen from the ashes of millions of victims and we carry their solemn cry. We salute their courage and pledge to serve as the defenders of the Jewish people and their state Israel. Auschwitz, September 4, 2003.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As Mr. Obama’s plane landed in Israel on March 20, 2013, I was with Brigadier General Tomer Bar receiving a high-level briefing at the strategic Northern Command Air Force Base. I asked, “When you feel that the danger from Iran has reached the point of no return and has become an existential threat to your nation, will you depend upon President Obama and the world to support you?” He replied, “We’ve learned from the Holocaust to have faith in no one but ourselves and God.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********</span></b></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-793e46d6-7bbc-d915-b8ae-722243ffc7d6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Michael Evans is a #1 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bestselling author. His latest novel, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Locket</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, based on the pursuit, arrest, trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann debuted at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in June. His latest non-fiction book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Persia: The Final Jihad</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is available at </span><a href="http://www.timeworthybooks.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.TimeWorthyBooks.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></b>Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-28099321494308589002013-08-27T17:32:00.000-07:002013-10-02T17:33:52.577-07:00WMD Hypocrisy<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOmJFv0rIzdnertvAE8UzFZBG9V59U36XfteNIf6Tlp2JTECzDXXlFjfG1Q1Ik4DUyy1bv6TpKRUBRRIUIaUt0UECzQRQv1UtLM_SoFweClEaKNPQGo-FitlT0P6zrj7dlTfVjmoYD3bk3/s1600/img_wmd-hypocrisy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="WMD Hypocrisy - Mike Evans - Jerusalem Prayer Team" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOmJFv0rIzdnertvAE8UzFZBG9V59U36XfteNIf6Tlp2JTECzDXXlFjfG1Q1Ik4DUyy1bv6TpKRUBRRIUIaUt0UECzQRQv1UtLM_SoFweClEaKNPQGo-FitlT0P6zrj7dlTfVjmoYD3bk3/s1600/img_wmd-hypocrisy.jpg" title="WMD Hypocrisy" /></a></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the early 1990s I went to Iraq with Doctors without Borders, a humanitarian organization. We distributed blankets, food and medical assistance to the Kurdish people who had been terrorized by the WMD assault. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2006 President Barzani of Kurdistan issued a state invitation to me to visit his region. I was told then that Iranian agents were infiltrating Iraq and Iranian businesses were “on every corner.” Kurdish Secretary of State Karim Sanjari said, “While we outwardly threaten Iran for their interference in Iraq, we close our eyes to the fact that there are Iranian agents behind virtually every rock. The embassy and consulates of Iran are nothing more than war rooms to fund and plan the battles against U.S. troops in our country.” </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While in the country, not only was I given a briefing on events surrounding Iran’s role in the second Persian Gulf War, I was presented with in-depth information regarding the massacre of the Kurds by Saddam’s regime. Hussein’s first cousin, “Chemical Ali” - Ali Hassan al-Majid was largely responsible for carrying out the dictator’s horrific attacks against the Kurdish people. I heard the horror stories directly from those on the receiving end of Saddam’s vicious genocide campaign—the targets of cluster bombs and canisters of deadly chemicals. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was also told of how the Kurds appealed to the United States following the attack and received no support for United Nations sanctions against Iraq. Rather than stand with the Kurds and demand that Saddam Hussein be punished for his heinous crimes, Secretary of State George Schultz, and his British counterpart, Sir Geoffrey Howe, said there was no “conclusive proof” that Saddam had been the perpetrator. Schultz further softened US rhetoric by adding, "If conclusive evidence is obtained, then punitive measures against Iraq have not been ruled out." The bottom line was that Baghdad suffered no consequences for the assault. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Chemical Ali” Al-Majid was the poster boy for weapons of mass destruction, which liberals used as the rationale for why Americans should not be in Iraq. Yet, when I asked the families of the Kurds who were eye-witnesses to the attacks and who lost mothers and fathers, sons, daughters and husbands as a result of the WMDs, I was told, “We hear the American media asking, 'Where are Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction?' Tell them to come here; we will show them. These weapons of mass destruction are in our blood and in our souls. We will take you to the mass graves of our families." </span></b></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-485c9c84-7bb9-27f1-344c-7729c11e95cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How could the United States have opposed the demand for sanctions against the use of WMDs by a brutal dictator? It hinged on the fact that support in the form of arms and money was being poured into the region in an attempt to halt the Ayatollah Khomeini’s march toward Baghdad and the West. Yet, how could the Kurds, long-time US allies have to endure such treatment? </span></b></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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</b>Dr. Michael D. Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09145110722799291556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085650575659564769.post-71205813611044183122013-07-08T00:00:00.000-07:002013-08-27T11:16:55.433-07:00Revolution in Egypt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In my 2012 book,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">The Revolution</em>, I revealed the breadth and depth of Muslim Brotherhood involvement in various Middle East countries. Despite protests to the contrary, my assumption that the Brotherhood would gain a foothold in Egyptian politics proved to be correct as Mohamed Morsi rose to the position of president of the Islamic country.</div>
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Morsi took office with a definite political agenda—elevating the status of the Brotherhood by concentrating power in the hands of the ruling party. On Wednesday, July 3, Egyptian army leaders suspended the most recently drawn constitution. Morsi, charged with mishandling the economy and his failure to enact social justice, was placed under house arrest. Military orders were then given for the detention of an additional 300 members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The move was a result of two turbulent years of demonstrations against Muslim Brotherhood control.</div>
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The ensuing chaos in the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other Egyptian towns between pro- and anti-Morsi supporters has led to the deaths of at least 81 citizens with more than 1,500 injured in violent clashes. Warring factions battled with knives, Molotov cocktails, stones, clubs and anything else at hand. Tahrir Square, the site of Arab Spring riots in February 2012, and the bridges leading into the area were littered with debris following one rage-filled night.</div>
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In<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">The Revolution</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I outlined the past history of the Brotherhood, its rise to power and its defeat by Gamal Abdul Nasser in the 1950s. The Brotherhood was blamed for Nasser’s attempted assassination, with its followers forced underground. Thousands of its members were imprisoned and tortured, but it did not stop the movement’s growth. This clash with the authorities prompted an important shift in the ideology of the Brotherhood, evident in the writing of one prominent member, Sayyid Qutb. Qutb's work advocated the use of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">jihad</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(struggle) against<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">jahili</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(ignorant) societies.</div>
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The Egyptian government again cracked down on the Brotherhood, executing Sayyid Qutb in 1966, thereby making him a martyr. The Brotherhood was officially banned and again subjected to frequent repression. That was one of the main triggers for the mass anti-government protests by thousands of Egyptians in late January 2011, which saw the headquarters of the National Democratic Party in Cairo set afire. With the Arab Spring riots and ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the Brotherhood again rose to the forefront in Egyptian political circles.</div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">On the edge of a full-blown crisis for months, Morsi’s arrest further deepened the possibility of complete anarchy. There have been signs that the Muslim Brotherhood might retreat into two of its worst habits: conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism. Now that the group has been forced from power, this is a very real risk — not just for the group and its chances of regaining power, but for an Egyptian political system that is dangerously divided.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Western allies are concerned with the upsurge of war in the streets of the Egyptian capital. Qatar poured $7 billion in loans and grants into Morsi’s government, while Turkey and Libya offered smaller investments. Mohamed Badie, a Brotherhood official, pledged to restore his fallen comrade to power.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">In the U.S., Obama administration spokespersons have been careful not to use the “C” word—coup. Federal law denotes that financing “any assistance to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by a military coup d’etat or decree,” or a coup “in which the military plays a decisive role” is against the law. Egypt would stand to lose $1.5 billion in annual aid if a “responsible return of full authority to a democratically elected civilian government” is not achieved quickly.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">In Egypt there are essentially two groups: seekers of democracy and terrorists—no matter their affiliation—waiting patiently for favorable conditions to seize power. During the Arab Spring both joined in an effort to rid the country of Mubarak and his government. Today they may, however, be divided by a stronger and more deadly line of demarcation: believers in democracy and perpetrators of Sharia law achieved through<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">jihad</em>. Unfortunately, many of the jihadists seem to be winning. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Two other small, yet fanatical, groups are waiting in the wings in an attempt to take advantage of the upheaval—the religious Salafis, who strongly support the establishment of an Islamic caliphate under Sharia law—and the newly-formed Ansar al-Shariah, a group that is said to be gathering arms and training members for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">jihad</em>. Its leaders have condemned the democratic movement and promised to fight for Sharia law. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">If Morsi and his followers know anything, it is how to survive underground and patiently await the right moment to strike. Like the trapdoor spider with its hidden lair and powerful jaws, the Brotherhood can spin a web and then wait patiently for the victim—the Egyptian democracy movement—to again wander into its snare.</span></div>
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In Iran, the scent is in the air. Iranians go to the polls on June 14 to supposedly elect their next president. The truth is there never was a choice for the people. The election has always been rigged by the mullahs who chose Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust-denying, Zionist-hating president. The next Iranian president will be absolutely no different.</div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Putting lipstick on a pig or spraying Persian perfume on the new president will not change a thing. For years I have met with Iranian diplomats at their hotels in New York City during the UN General Assembly. I arranged the Fox News Network’s only exclusive interview with Ahmadinejad. After having had dozens of meetings with those leaders—including the foreign minister and various mullahs—the one thing of which I am certain is this: the new president will be 100 percent a Mahdi follower. He will be committed to a mad, apocalyptic vision aimed at the “Great Satan—the United States,” and the “Little Satan—Israel.” He will further expand terrorism and militancy worldwide in an attempt to usher in an Islamic messianic kingdom and caliphate.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">The second thing common to all the leaders I met, including the president, was a belief in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion</em>. They believe in a conspiracy that the economy, wars, and even diseases are greatly impacted by Zionists, and they have only one obsession: taking over the world.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">I will never forget that one Iranian diplomat told me his countrymen only lived to be 62 years old and Zionists lived to be 82. He asked me if I knew why that was. When I responded “no,” he enlightened me. He said that it was because of rats. He believes that the Zionists send rats into Iran to infect the crops and eat the food, causing the Iranians to die twenty years earlier.</span></div>
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I thought he was joking, and I replied, “That’s a really funny joke, so tell me how they teach the rats to swim across the Persian Gulf.” He looked at me with disdain and responded, “This is not a joke!”</div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">The Iranian election is about imposing a new caliphate worldwide—the nation of Islam. The mullahs see the West as a threat to their ideology and culture, and will be able to defeat the U.S. and it allies from the point of view of culture and impose this new government with terrorism tactics.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Now they are but the turn of a screwdriver away from having the capability to build an atomic bomb. They will then have a nuclear umbrella. The new president, like his predecessor, will support the view of the mullahs that Israel must be “wiped off the map,” that a world without Zionism must exist.</span></div>
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When Hitler came to power before World War II, the German people were trapped in a horrific economic situation. He had come to persuade the Germans that the Jewish people were their number one enemy, accountable for all the nation’s internal problems. Hitler strongly stressed what he saw as “An anti-Semitism based on reason leading to a systematic combatting and elimination of the privileges of the Jews. The ultimate objective must be the irrevocable removal of Jews in general.”</div>
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The mullahs in Iran feel the same. No doubt that the pathology of evil that infected Hitler and Eichmann and the Third Reich has also infected the Iranian regime. The new president will have a mandate from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his Council to uproot capitalism and Zionism and promote the discourse of pure Islam globally in support of the Mahdi obsession.</div>
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Dr. Michael Evans is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His latest novel,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">The Locket</em>, based on the pursuit, arrest, trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann will debut at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center on June 15, 2013.</div>
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