Ministry of Truth Daily Update - 02 Oct 2024 - Electronic Warfare

 

Electronic Warfare

War crimes were recently committed against the holy warriors of the resistance, when evil saboteurs detonated communication networks and devices remotely, killing and wounding many officers, leaders, fighters, and innocent human shields.  The survivors have vowed revenge against these unprecedented attacks, cleaning house of all who could be collaborators with extreme prejudice.  Retaliatory fireworks launched by the rebels have exploded over the land of the occupiers, demonstrating their fury over the "new era of war".  The barbaric strategy of targeting combatants instead of more broadly impacting attacks on the Great and Little Satans, such as suicide bombings, kidnappings, and rapes, was widely criticized by the supreme puppet masters of the jihad. 

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• https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-explode-hezbollah-israel-09-18-24-intl-hnk/index.html

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Who is a Jew?

 

Who is a Jew?

People have disputed aspects of this for centuries, so this is not an attempt to give a definitive answer.  However, these are my observations and thoughts on this from a historical, religious, and political perspective.  My hope is to clarify some claims where possible and to think somewhat objectively about this.  I've previously discussed this general subject here and here.

History

• Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, and re-affirmed by the Mandate of the League of Nations, gave explicit international recognition to the historic connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and their right to reconstitute their National Home. 
  In 1917, the Balfour Declaration transferred rule of the middle-eastern region known as Palestine to the British Empire as a temporary national home for Jewish people. Between 1917 and 1948, Palestine was inhabited by Jewish immigrants who supported the idea of Zionism (the right of the Jewish people to return to the Holy Land)

• UN General Assembly November 29, 1947 Declaration adopted a Resolution for the establishment of an independent Jewish State in Palestine:
  ACCORDINGLY, WE, the members of the National Council, representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the Zionist movement of the world, met together in solemn assembly today, the day of the termination of the British mandate for Palestine, by virtue of the natural and historic right of the Jewish and of the Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 

• A Jewish state, to be called Israel, was established in Palestine on 14 May 1948 by proclamation of the United Nations.   https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/truman-israel/

• It should be noted that an Arab state was also set up around this time (the land was partitioned).  Like the founding of all nations and states, there was inevitable conflict and bloodshed.

• The State of Israel will be open to the immigration of Jews from all countries of their dispersion; will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew Prophets; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex; will guarantee full freedom of conscience, worship, education and culture; will safeguard the sanctity and inviolability of the shrines and Holy Places of all religions; and will dedicate itself to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.   

• Some Jews have likely lived in this land continuously from the time of its original conquest by Joshua more than 3200 years ago until the present day, though Jews were not always in political control of the land, and Jews were not always the majority of the land's population and were at times a small minority.

• While Zionism was primarily a secular movement to create a Jewish state, it still pushed this to be a homeland for the scattered Jewish people, regardless of religious status

• Today, almost seven million Jews, more than a third of the world's Jewish population, live in the land of Israel. This is more than the number of Jews living in any other country, including the United States. https://www.jewfaq.org/land_of_israel 

• About half of all Israelis are Mizrachim, descended from Jews who have been in the land since ancient times or who were forced out of Arab countries after Israel was founded. Most of the rest are Ashkenazic, descended from Jews who fled persecution in Eastern Europe starting in the late 1800s, from Holocaust survivors, or from other immigrants who came at various times. About 1% of the Israeli population are the black Ethiopian Jews who fled during the brutal Ethiopian famine in the late 1980s and early 1990s and continue to emigrate from Ethiopia to Israel to this day.

What do we know

• There are living individuals, families, and regional groups who claim to be Jewish.  Some are faithful followers of Judaism, some believe in liberal Reform Judaism, some are culturally Jewish, and some are unbelievers, even atheists, who grew up within Jewish families but reject the religion. 
• The Bible calls the children of Israel (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) God's Chosen People.  We know that they were still called that through NT times.  It records that they lived in the Promised Land, with notable displacements at times due to war, exile, and persecutions.   After the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple around 70 A.D., most were scattered but some stayed.  Of those who stayed, some converted to Christianity or Islam, others remained "quiet" Jews, and others may have intermarried and silently assimilated.
• The Bible records that this land was given to them (Abraham and his promised offspring) forever.

14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. (Genesis 13:14–15)

• God has not rejected His people, even after Jesus came. Nowhere in the Bible does it even hint that the Jewish people are no more, or that they will disappear forever at some point. In context, this scripture refers to the people of Israel, and cannot mean that Christians have replaced them. Paul continues to explain in the rest of the chapter that even though they have rejected Him, they are still loved by Him. The whole chapter is extremely important in understanding a Christian perspective on the Jews.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,[a] a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew…  (Romans 11:1)

28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, (Romans 11:28)

• God promises that in the end times He will again gather His Chosen People from the 12 tribes of Israel, scattered among the nations.  If they no longer exist, does it make sense that a non-existent people will be returned to their own land, i.e. the Promised Land?  This includes various OT prophecies of Daniel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Zechariah, possibly Ezekiel, and NT ones too.  

• A Jewish state has existed since 1948 in the Promised Land (post WWII).  Whether this was due to politics, sympathy, hidden agendas, just to punish the losers of war, or some combination of reasons, it now exists.  It is open for all who claim to be Jewish, whether through claimed ancestry or by conversion to Judaism.  God often used other nations to bring about His will, but this side of heaven, it is really not possible to know if this is part of the promised restoration of Israel by God.  
• Historically, conflict between Israel and other nations has been a reality whenever Israel has existed as a nation.  So today is not really that exceptional.

What do we not know

• We can't produce strict genealogical lineages for individuals, even if we want it.  Too much time has passed.  Even in Biblical times, genealogies that were kept were not of the type we think of today, as they often had many gaps, including only representative or exceptional individuals.  This was all based on oral and written traditions and records, with varying accuracy among families.  Given all the intermarriages, from their beginning, and converts to Judaism, it is doubtful that there can be any claim to a "race" of Jews.  A people – yes, an unambiguous racial distinction – probably not for the majority.  

• We don't know the timing, from a biblical prophetic perspective, of the return of God's People to the Promised Land, as mentioned in Revelation.  Eschatology is a notoriously hard subject that biblical scholars have debated widely.  But unless you take the view that it is completely metaphorical, with no connection to actual future events, then it seems that Jewish spiritual and genetic offspring still exist in some form or another until the end.  Both the OT and NT affirm an eventual return to the land.

• We do not, and cannot, know the timing of God's end-time prophecies, or whether or not the current return of Jews to the state of Israel is part of that timing.  As they say, "Time will tell".

• We really cannot know how many of the inhabitants of modern Israel truly believe in God, and/or His messiah, but surely there is at least a remnant.  

What makes a person a Jew

• A person can be called a Jew in at least three ways: Biblically, by religious practice and belief (including conversion), and cultural or ethnicity identity.  Are we in a position to make a fair judgment of this?  Who gets to decide?  I'd suggest that we at least start with people within the religion and culture, since that is their self identification.  Without proof to the contrary, we probably need to give the benefit of the doubt to their claims.

• Direct lineage from the patriarchs, but what about converts and intermarriage?  Would Ruth or Rahab be considered Jews? Isaac or Jacob's wives?  Mose's wife?  Of course, converts to Judaism and children of intermarriage were all considered Jewish if they chose to be on God's side.

• The NT references God fearing Gentiles, how do they fit in?

• Is the demand for strict genetic linkage a valid excuse or reason to reject modern Jews as God's people?  This seems to be an impossible standard that all are bound to fail.

• According to Scripture, Christians have been grafted in, so how does that impact this? It also says that some have been pruned out, but could also be grafted back in (so don't boast).

• How many true Jews with ancestral lineage and orthodox belief in God reside in Israel is enough of a remnant?  1 million, 144,000, a single family?

• If there are no true Jews, then who were the 6 million+ killed in the Holocaust.  On what basis were they identified as Jews?  Who then do antisemitic racists hate?  

• The Muslims have been identifying and killing Jews and Christians (i.e. "people of the Book") for centuries.  Didn't they know that the Jews no longer exist, according to some today?

• By UN mandate and in their charter, Israel has the right to determine who they allow to immigrate based on their claim to be Jews

• Under Israel's Law of Return, any Jew who has not renounced the Jewish faith (by converting to another religion) can automatically become an Israeli citizen, somewhat similar to the way Ireland gives automatic citizenship to second or third generation descendants of Irish citizens. Gentiles may also become citizens of Israel after undergoing a standard naturalization process, much like the one required to become a United States citizen. https://www.jewfaq.org/land_of_israel 

• Orthodox and Conservative Judaism considers people Jewish if their mothers are Jewish or if they undergo a halakhic conversion. Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism accept both matrilineal and patrilineal descent, as well as conversion.

• Most present Jews do trace a considerable or even majority (usually not an overwhelming majority, but surely at least 50–60%) ancestral component clearly identified with the populations from Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Southern Levant, where Judah and Israel were located among other Canaanite-derived groups, e.g. Moabites, Edomites and Phoenicians.  Anything more specific than that is totally speculative and inevitably wishful thinking. Unless two populations came from very different homelands and historic backgrounds, it is very difficult to genetically differentiate closely related populations living in the same region and mostly divided by religion and tribal/ethnic allegiance (culture and politics), not by starkly separate and isolated origins.  Not sure of the source of this genetic map, but if accurate, it is interesting.

• So on what basis can skeptics make any solid claims that an individual or group are not Jews, in contradiction to their own historic and religious criteria?  It really seems to be begging the question by assuming that since no one can prove their Jewishness (to their satisfaction) then there are no true Jews around.  It is unfair (circular) logic to assume that they can't be true Jews who are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they can't unquestionably be connected to the patriarchs by blood.

Anti-semitism

• Some definitions

• Hostility to, discrimination toward, or prejudice against Jewish people. This can also be a form of racism.

• While technically semites refer to a larger ethnic group, that is not how anti-semitism is almost universally used.  Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who incorrectly assert the broader definition (by using the etymological fallacy).  First use was in German meaning "Jew-hatred".

• “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”  https://www.state.gov/defining-antisemitism/ 

• Antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews, including violence, persecutions, and genocide.

• Cultural, racial, ethnic, and religious antisemitism types exist.

• Hate crimes committed based on anti-semitism ("Hate crime" is a bad term, since crime is crime and that is separate from proving actual motivation or belief.)

• It still exists today, both here in America and abroad.

• Examples, objections, and "reasons"

• I don't hate Jews, just Israel, Zionists, members of "the synagogue of Satan", and fake Jews.

• The Jews killed Jesus (So what?  Besides it is not really accurate, since Jewish leaders got the Romans to actually do it.  Biblically, we are all guilty of it.)

• The Bible says there are Jews who belong to the "synagogue of Satan" and that they are not Jews. (?!?)

• They are passover murderers, make blood sacrifices, are pedophiles, and have created a haven for immorality.

• They are not real Jews and have no real connection to God's Chosen people.

• The term anti-Semetic is just another way to control the thoughts of people

• The definition is too broad and could be applied to all the people in that region (see etymological fallacy).

• It is not illegal to hate people.  Signs and free speech expressing our feelings that are taken as threats by Zionists, Jews, or Israelis should be allowed.

• Slogans which support resistance/terrorist groups (like Hamas), or calls for the elimination of the nation of Israel ("from the river to the sea"), are justified by the occupation of "our land"

• The remnant of the 12 tribes is not represented by the inhabitants of Israel, and we can't know who are real or not, so modern Israel cannot be a nation of Jews

• The Jews control or are heavily invested in banking and hollywood, 2 of the most ungodly things in our world today

• Satan wants us to believe that the fake Jews are real and bring souls to him by mimicking God

• If you don't see all the obvious red flags, then you are not using discernment if you believe them

• They are committing genocide, so they can't be God's people

• God's word is eternal and there is no room for interpretation, as long as you see it my way by "just reading it".  I don't need other people's opinions or knowledge.

• Scripture never says the Jew, Hebrew, and Israelites are synonymous (well actually…)

• God's word has been translated and or manipulated by man over time, so I don't believe other's opinions and interpretations.  I can do that myself (without knowing the original languages, culture, or biblical history?!)

Most rational people find many of these claims to be repugnant, ignorant, or ill-founded ideas.

In Summary (TLDR)

• The state of Israel is now a homeland for those who claim to be Jewish.  Its location is within the boundaries of the Promised Land that Yahweh gave to the descendents of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

• Jewish identification can be derived from a variety of aspects, which include religious, historical, cultural, and ethnic.  There may be no universally accepted standard that proves or disproves someone's Jewishness.

• Hate for Jews, Israelis, and Zionists is evident today, as it has been in the past to varying degrees. It should be universally condemned, but let them expose their bad ideas instead of trying to silence them.

• Just like any country, Israel can be run well or run poorly, and its leaders may or may not follow God.  

• We should support Israel when they are defending themselves or seeking peace.  We should be good allies, praising them when they make good decisions, and rebuking them when they are wrong.  We should not simply abandon them.

 

What About Israel?

TLDR

• God's Chosen People were given the Promised Land by YHWH, the great I Am.  

• They have had historical and verifiable occupation in the Promised Land for thousands of years.

• God revealed Himself through Moses and established a covenant religious system (Yahwism or Judaism), promising a Messiah.  

• Many times God's people rebelled, were punished and scattered, and then eventually returned. 

• Wars have consequences, and the land today called Israel was set aside by the victorious Allies of WWII as a Jewish state in their ancestral lands. 

• Even from a secular perspective, doesn't a people or a nation have the right to exist and defend itself from threats?  

God's Chosen People were given the Promised Land by YHWH, the great I Am.  

These people were the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (aka Israel), and have been variously known as children of Abraham, Hebrews, Jews, Israelites, "Jacob", "Israel", and Judeans in scripture and historical references.  

14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.  (Genesis 13:14–15)

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,[a] a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew…  (Romans 11:1)

Then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. (Ezekiel 37:21-22)

While these are a few good examples, this is far from an exhaustive list!

The people of God (aka YHWH, Yahweh, Jehovah) were also called "Israel", as descendants of Jacob (Israel), as well as both the land and the kingdom bearing this name.  So historically Israel is a people, but also a nation, and also known as the land of the people of God.  Note: For a while, the northern kingdom was called Israel (southern Judah) after Solomon.  Even in Jesus' time these people were called by a variety of names, including Israelites and Jews.  

They have had historical and verifiable occupation in the Promised Land for thousands of years

YHWH's people have had historical and documented occupation in the Promised Land for thousands of years, but not always continuous due to exile and diaspora, invasions, religious wars, and persecutions.  This land has been called by many names: Judah, Israel, Judea, Palestine, but "a rose by any other name" … it is still the Promised Land given to His Chosen People.  Archeology verifies this, the Bible testifies to this, and history includes this reality.

God revealed Himself through Moses and established a covenant religious system (Yahwism or Judaism), promising a Messiah.  

From the very moment that Moses brought the 10 Commandments down for his people, some believed and followed, and some rebelled.  God revealed to Moses a system of belief and practice to follow; one where they could have their sins forgiven and look forward to a Savior.  As time went along, these followers were not just people of blood descent, but were also included by being grafted in through faith, inter-marriage, and conversion.  Sadly, there are also many who have been pruned out because of their unfaithfulness.  (See Romans ch. 11)

Many times God's people rebelled, were punished and scattered, and then eventually returned.  

The Bible makes reference to the 12 Tribes of Israel in end-times prophecy, and there is no indication that they ceased to exist after the Church was founded by Jesus and the Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.  They were exiled and scattered (i.e. the diaspora) because they were apostate, rejecting their God (and Messiah) for others, but yet returned to the land where the temple was built and rebuilt more than once.   

Many of today's Jews follow a form of historical Judaism, including using the Torah and the Prophets.  Many of these people have family lineages that they claim are historically Jewish.  As Christians, we should realize that genetic lineage is not the only thing that makes a child of Abraham, but rather faith.  There are many cases of people being grafted into the Jewish family, including some in Jesus' own family tree.  There is also cultural Judaism, just like social Christianity, Latin American Catholicism, etc.  As far as I can tell, the modern state of Israel welcomes all who claim to be Jewish.

Note: Even in NT times, the Jews were not the real enemy, but they were lost sheep in need of their Savior. (See Romans 11:28).  It should be noted that many Jews were some of his most devoted followers from the beginning.  The political classes and temple leaders with power to lose were the actual threat.  In Christ, however, all believers are grafted into God's family.  While it may not be everyone's intent, saying that "the Jews murdered Jesus", has historically been used to demonize and persecute them.  I believe that it is very unwise and unfair to repeat that without good context.

Wars have consequences, and the land today called Israel was set aside by the victorious Allies of WWII.

All nations are creations of men, generally through conflict.  Israel was created in response to a terrible evil committed against those identifying as Jews.  This is their ancestral home.  The patriarchs, prophets, Jesus, the apostles, and the majority of his early followers (and many enemies) all lived in the Promised Land, which is the area we now call Israel.  This is faithfully recorded in the New Testament, and is supported by historical records and archeology.  The victors of WWII chose to form Israel as a sanctuary, and to right a great wrong.

So Israel was created as a Jewish state in their ancestral lands, in view of the atrocities of the Holocaust against the Jews.  Our nation was a part of this decision and our responsibility.  They are surrounded by Islamic nations who resent it and want to destroy it.  It has been under attack from its very inception, while most of the inhabitants want to live in peace at home and with their Muslim neighbors.  Historically Jews have been widely persecuted, but still held to a religious and cultural identity, based on traditions and scripture.

Even from a secular perspective, doesn't a people or a nation have the right to exist and defend itself from threats? 

Looking in the mirror, it seems like I recall other countries (like ours) that have done that from time to time.

This generation's conflict is primarily a war against radical jihadist Islam.  They want us (the Satans) eradicated.  Radical Islam is at war with Western civilization and Christianity, to the extent that Christians cannot freely or safely enter some of our most holy sites.  In this, we are practical allies with the state of Israel, one of the few democratically elected governments in that region.  While it is in many ways a decadent, secular state (like the US), it does allow the co-existence of other religions, unlike many of its neighbors. 

It should be noted that Israel has nukes.  Any uncontrolled war will result in nuclear war if the Islamists try to literally wipe them off the map.  We should all strive for a lasting peace, but that has rarely come by appeasement of evil.  There is a moral difference in war between targeted attacks on civilians, and those killed while attacking the enemy, which is not a genocide, despite claims to the contrary.  When the children are no longer taught to hate and kill their neighbors, then peace can come.  

To be clear, I don't believe that we should "blindly" support them, but should we stand by and allow them to be destroyed?  In my opinion, and that of many others, if the Islamic terrorists would lay down their arms, then there would be peace.  If Israel lays down their arms, then they will cease to exist, i.e. a real genocide.  We need to be strategic partners, who can give them honest and blunt feedback and advice, not back-stabbers.

How about a little thought (gedanken) experiment?  If we were under the same attacks here, how would we respond?  With WWII atomic bombs, bombing of whole cities in Germany, or the post 9-11 War on Terror, so it would seem.  Was everything done possible to mitigate collateral damage that we could?  Who really knows?  But I am sure that we would not tolerate daily missiles launched into Orlando from Cuba, would we?

See also Anti-Zionism and Who is a Jew?