Saturday, April 13, 2013

A Fresh Bouquet Today For You - From The Lord

This week the Lord gloriously created new flowers for us to see His never ending love.
 
These are fresh. Each petal is one of a kind. Never seen before, growing out of His good earth.
 
You may have seen others like them, but this was a whole new bouquet for you and me this year.
 
I share this "freshly photoed bouquet" with you.
 
Receive His love, from His heart to yours.
 
Steve Martin
 

 





 

 
 
 
 
Photos by Steve Martin.
 
 
 

Friday, April 12, 2013

It's REUNIONIZE Time! - Aug.10, 2013 in NC

First Annual 

Reunionize Time!

Saturday - Aug. 10, 2013 

2-6 pm

Pineville Lake Park 

1000 Johnston Dr. 

PinevilleNC28134




John O'Leary - our faithful sound man 
at All Nations Church,
serving from 1995 to at least 2002!


Greetings to all of thee.


I will be missing my 40th high school reunion this year in Waterloo, IA this summer. (Go Columbus High Sailors!!!) We have a BIG Martin family reunion around the same time.

I am sad about not being able to participate. I enjoyed high school and the friends I had there.


So...I got to thinking. If there are any of my connected e-mailers, Bloggers, Twittervillees and/or FaceBookie friends out there, who either went to church with Laurie and I, or were on ministry staffs or worship teams, or are part of the three main ministries we are currently involved with...


We could have a BIG reunion here instead!!


Here are the lists:


1. Victory Church - LaSalle/Peru, IL (1977-1980)
2. Shiloh Fellowship/New Covenant Christian Church - East Lansing, MI (1980-1987)
3. Good News Church - Fort Lauderdale, FL. (1987-1994)
4. All Nations Church (founding members) - Charlotte, NC (1994-2001)
5. Cornerstone Fellowship Church - Pineville, NC (2001-2004)
6. St. Giles Presbyterian Church - Charlotte, NC (2004-2006)
7. Morningstar - Fort Mill, SC (2006-2010)
8. Antioch International Church - Fort Mill, SC (2010 - present)


Or was on staff with me at one (or more) of these ministries:


1. Derek Prince Ministries (Ft. Lauderdale 1987-1990) and Charlotte, NC 2001-2005)
2. Mahesh Chavda Ministries/All Nations Church - Ft. Lauderdale and Charlotte (1987-2000)
3. Vision For Israel  - Savannah, GA and Charlotte (2005-2010)
4. Samaritan's Purse - Charlotte, NC (2010, 2011)
5. Covenant Keepers - Charlotte, NC (2011-2012)
6. Charlotte Rescue Mission - Charlotte, NC (2012)
7. Antioch International Church - Fort Mill, SC (2012-present)

(L-R) Bob Sherrill, Doug Goff, Bob Smith 

All Nations Church (1995)


Gilbert Crespo (now with the Lord in heaven)

All Nations Church (1995)



Derek Prince Ministries 2004




Or you are one of our good friends with these networked ministries:


1. Beit Yeshua (2006 - present)
2. Christians For Messiah Ministries (2004-present)
3. Highway To Zion (2006 - present)
4. Love For His People (2010 - present)
5. One New Man (2012 - present)

Beit Yeshua's Curtis Loftin 2013


Cathy and Dale Hargett - Highway To Zion 2013




Then it's....

"REUNIONIZE" Time!!!


Saturday, August 10, 2013

Time will be from 2-6 pm. 

Pineville Lake Park 
1000 Johnston Dr. 
PinevilleNC28134 

Each family will bring a dish to pass and some cola or water drink. Bring the old kids, young kids, and ones still cookin'. The park provides grills, but bring your own charcoal if needed. Pretend you are going on a picnic so you bring all you would need.

Haul in the grandkids too, so the grandpas can run them down to get in some "off the couch" exercise.

All for the purpose 
of being together,
to have some good, 
old fashion bonding, 
loving, 
fellowshipping time
in His prescense.


Write me back to get on the Reunionize Time update list - martinlighthouse@gmail.com

Shalom y'all,

Steve

- along with my good wife Laurie


P.S. Please pass this onto those who would like to join us but don't communicate through social media or any other modern day technology. (I have to print this out for Laurie!) Or others who need to read a really good blog once in a while.

And if they can't make it, we can Skype them, like we may do with Sandi and Sue Lucas who live in San Antonio!

P.S.S. Enjoy the memory lane photos below! Can you remember who, when and where? You may be tested on these at the gathering, for they have been important, Body-connecting matters.

I may have to bring some copies of my 8,745, that I have just on my FaceBook page alone.

But here are a few...near the beginning...






 

Some of the worship teams over the years...







 

And now up to date...







 

HE IS THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER

OF OUR FAITH.

HE IS BRINGING HIS BODY

TOGETHER

FOR HIS ENDTIME PURPOSES!





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Thursday, April 11, 2013

"The Love Heart of God" -lovingly written by Steve Martin

Dear family of friends,

The love heart of God is expressed to us in many ways. Sometimes we just have to "look" and see Him there. Whether He shows us through His creation, His people, or supernatural random acts of love, He is there. Calling out to us to know and experience Him in our daily lives.

Through these photos I took, and this poem He has me sharing with you, may His love touch your heart today. In a deeper way than you have ever known. He loves YOU!


The "heart of the Lord" revealed in His creation.

This photo was taken with my Blackberry phone on April 10, 2013. It was around 4:30 pm, after I arrived home from work. It is located at the foot of our steps leading up to our front door.

The bed faces east. Towards Jerusalem.
This purple flowering heart is another way the Lord shares His with us.
This morning, while meditating and considering the Lord's ways in my big, black, cozy prayer chair, the Father gave me this simple poem. Just another small expression of His love.


"Some say He is not aware
Of life and what we really share.
Others think He doesn't know
When men and more have lost their soul.

But with His heart and by His hand
He counts the hairs and waters land.
The love of God can simply be
Revealed through grace for you and me."

Steve Martin
April 11, 2013, 3:55 a.m.



"Heart of God" shining on the wall



On Feb. 25, 2011, as I was in Antioch Internantional Church (Fort Mill, SC) preparing for that night's Shabbat service for our Beit Tikvah ("House of Hope") meeting, I saw this on the east wall. It was around 4 pm in the afternoon. There are windows only on the west and south walls.

I took two photos with my Blackberry phone. Believing at first that it was a reflection off some necklace or other jewelry, I diligently searched around the chairs. Then I checked to see if anything by the windows could have been causing the image. Nothing.

So my conclusion? Just a simple, but effective way that the Lord again shows His love for us.

Steve Martin 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Ahava Adventure to Jerusalem! Nov. 2-11, 2013


May 2, 2013


Greetings all.

Our Love For His People annual "Ahava Adventures" trip to Israel resumes this year. Three years is a long time since the last one, and I am ready to get back to walking the streets of Jerusalem and blessing His people.

It is funny. Yesterday I was walking the streets of Charlotte during my half-hour lunch. Praying and photoing (new word I just created).

I know more about the streets of Jerusalem and where things are than I do here in uptown Charlotte.

As for Jerusalem, my good boss Eleni has given me permission to take time off Nov. 2-11 (leave on a Saturday and return on a Monday) this year. That will give us time for seven days in Jerusalem, plus a day bus trip to Masada/Dead Sea, which is always fun.


Tower of David - painting by Art Levin


Believing the Lord wants to connect people like us to His Chosen people, especially those  in the Holy Land, though He calls it the Promised Land, I will always need His guidance for these individual times of adventures.

The Western Wall (The Kotel) - Jerusalem


Initially these Ahava Adventures trips were to be for two to four people, staying in friend's homes or a low cost hotel (we only need a cot or mattress, right Ben?!) The purpose of low budget accomadations is to make it as affordable for as many as possible.

And then this trip was only going to be for young men, who need to get out of themselves and touch the Lord's heart.

But now ladies want to go...

So, now that the vision has expanded, let me know if you are interested. I  can only give people a month or so to consider. If we get a gender mix response, we can get a hotel. Otherwise my connections will "make room in the inn" for two to three of us.

Planes and trains and such need to get booked ASAP.

Shalom y'all,

Steve

P.S. The total package for flight, food and non-hotel lodging would be around $2000. As of today, flights from Charlotte to Tel Aviv are around $1300. If hotel lodging is needed due to the number of people, we would probably have to add another $500-$700 per person.

But the tour guide is free!! Me!!

Friends from England and The Netherlands are possibly joining us for a long over due time of fellowship.

If you can't make it this year, cancel the cruise you have booked for next year and come spend time where the Lord says His name rests on Jerusalem.

Come and blow the trumpet (shofar) in Zion!


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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Israel Marks Holocaust, Warns World 'Never Forget'

Israel Marks Holocaust, Warns World 'Never Forget'

Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum

- Jerusalem, Israel

 
  
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israelis remembered the Holocaust on Monday and highlighted the Jewish resistance on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
 
Sirens wailed as Israel stood still in memory of millions of Jews who were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust.
 
For two minutes, traffic stopped and Israelis paused to reflect on the World War II horrors that came upon the Jewish people -- on those who survived and those who didn't.
 
Visiting Secretary of State John Kerry joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and laid a wreath in memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
 
Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day officially began with a state ceremony at Yad VaShem, Israel's Holocaust Museum.
 
Survivors and their relatives lit six torches -- each representing 1 million Jews who perished in the Nazi reign of terror.
 
 
 
This year marked the 70th anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first large-scale rebellion against the Nazis in Europe. It became a symbol of the struggle against impossible odds.
 
Israeli President Shimon Peres said the threat of the Holocaust against one nation is a threat against all nations.
 
Meanwhile, Netanyahu made reference to the threat from Iran.
 
"The murderous hatred against the Jews that has accompanied the history of our people has not disappeared," the prime minister warned.
 
With less than 200,000 Holocaust survivors left in Israel, there is concern that the memory and impact of the Holocaust could fade.
 
"I think we are too apart. I think there is not enough remembering, not enough time has passed for us to be so forgetful about what the Jewish people have been through," one Jerusalemite told CBN News.
 
"It's very important for us and unfortunately we were talking about the fact that in about 50-60 years it's liable to be nothing but another blip on history," said an American Jewish man who has children and grandchildren living in Israel.
 
"I do think it's just important that we remember what happened. Our Bible tells us never to forget….We have to depend on ourselves and God," his wife said.
 
 

IDF chief: No weapon formed against us shall prosper

IDF chief: No weapon formed against us shall prosper
Tuesday, April 09, 2013 | Israel Today Staff
Though he failed to reference the Bible or acknowledge God directly, Israeli army chief Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz did seem to give a nod to the biblical promises concerning Israel while marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Auschwitz death camp on Monday.

Speaking to a large number of Israeli, Jewish and non-Jewish dignitaries, Gantz echoed Isaiah 54:17 in declaring that "there is no weapon or evil intention that can stand" against Israel.

Gantz said the presence of Israeli Jewish soldiers in Auschwitz, along with their supporters, was "living proof of the victory of light, the victory of morality, [and] the triumph of Israel."

Even the most calculated and well-oiled attempts to destroy the nation of Israel have failed, and those who devised them have fallen from power, just as the prophet warned.

But knowing that such attempts will not cease, Gantz said Israel "knows better than to make light of existential threats," a likely reference to the defiant Iranian nuclear program.

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23779/Default.aspx?hp=article_title
 

50 New Jerusalem Homes to Be Built for Holocaust Survivors

50 New Jerusalem Homes to Be Built for Holocaust Survivors

Israel's Housing Minister Uri Ariel on Tuesday announced that 50 new homes would be built in east Jerusalem to house Holocaust survivors.
 
By Arutz Sheva staff
First Publish: 4/9/2013
 

Homes on outskirts of Jerusalem
Homes on outskirts of Jerusalem
Flash 90
 
 
Israel's Housing Minister Uri Ariel on Tuesday announced that 50 new homes would be built in eastern Jerusalem to house Holocaust survivors.


"These 50 homes, which will be added to those existing homes for the elderly in east Talpiot, will be earmarked for Holocaust survivors," he told Voice of Israel public radio in an announcement made the day after Israel marked Holocaust Memorial Day.


Ariel, who is number two in the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party, went on to affirm that, "building will continue in accordance with what the government's policy has been thus far."


The government "will build in Judea and Samaria more or less as it has done previously. I see no reason to change it," the minister told Channel 10 television, adding that the bulk of housing construction is planned for the Negev desert and the Galilee region in the north.


The Jewish state came to a standstill on Monday morning as a siren sounded for two minutes to commemorate the over six million Jews brutally murdered at the hands of the Nazis. 



Monday, April 8, 2013

Former British PM Margaret Thatcher, ‘staunch friend of Israel,’ dies

Former British PM Margaret Thatcher,

‘staunch friend of Israel,’ dies

April 8, 2013
 

 
 

(JTA) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was considered a good friend of Israel despite a rocky relationship with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, has died.

Thatcher died Monday after suffering a stroke. She was 87. Thatcher suffered from dementia at the end of her life, which was dramatized in the 2011 movie "The Iron Lady."

The only female to serve as prime minister of Britain, she also was the longest continuously serving prime minister in the 20th century, leading the country and her Conservative Party from 1979 to 1990.

Thatcher was supportive of Israel but had a troubled relationship with Begin, who served two terms in the 1980s. She called Begin the "most difficult" man she had to deal with, according to the Chronicle. She also strongly opposed Israel's bombing of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned her passing in a statement.

"She was truly a great leader, a woman of principle, of determination, of conviction, of strength; a woman of greatness," Netanyahu said. "She was a staunch friend of Israel and the Jewish people. She inspired a generation of political leaders. I send my most sincere condolences to her family and to the government and people of Great Britain."

Thatcher had a strong relationship with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and together they fought communism, leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Her Cabinets included several Jewish members, including Nigel Lawson, Malcolm Rifkind, Keith Joseph and Leon Brittan, according to the Jewish Chronicle.

http://jvillagenetwork-jewish-israeli-news.blogspot.com/2013/04/former-british-pm-margaret-thatcher.html

  

Israel 65th Birthday - "An Evening Honoring Israel"

Israel 65th Birthday - "An Evening Honoring Israel"

April 12, 2013 - Lincolnton, NC





Beit Yeshua (Curtis Loftin & Doug Williams), Highway To Zion (Cathy Hargett), and Love For His People (Steve Martin), will host our annual AN EVENING HONORING ISRAEL on Friday, April 12th, 7:00 to 9:30 pm.


Curtis Loftin - Beit Yeshua


Cathy Hargett - Highway To Zion


Steve & Laurie Martin, Indira & Edgar Persad

Beit Yeshua (Curtis Loftin & Doug Williams), Highway To Zion (Cathy Hargett), and Love For His People (Steve Martin), will host our annual AN EVENING HONORING ISRAEL on Friday, April 12th, 7:00 to 9:30 pm.

This annual event will be in the Family Life Center at Covenant Bible Church, 2168 Gastonia Hwy, Lincolnton, NC 28092, in honor of Israel's 65th Birthday.       

Genesis 12:3And I will bless them that bless thee (Israel) and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Psalm 122:6-7Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.  Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces. Isaiah 41:1For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land: and the stranger shall be joined with them and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Zechariah 8:23Thus saith the LORD of hosts: "In those days it shall come to pass that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.' "


Chuck Anthony

Paul Miles

The evening will include: special music by Gideon Anthony, original Messianic Music by Wane Daroux, Israeli Folk Dance, numerous displays and special food.

Special Guest Speaker for the evening is Ze'ev Nevo. 



Ze'ev is a Jewish Believer from Israel and founder of Israel Media Ministries.           

Bring a kosher snack and come join us.I hope to see you there.

Shalom,

Curtis Loftin
Co-Founder
Beit Yeshua

The Missionary Doctor and the Jews, Medicine in Tiberias 100 Years Ago

The Missionary Doctor and the Jews,
Medicine in Tiberias 100 Years Ago

Dr. Herbert Torrance visits Tiberias residents
The University of Dundee medical school in Scotland has posted the photos taken by two missionary doctors who established a hospital in Tiberias.  Below is the university's own description:
The Torrance collection, which includes thousands of photographs and color slides of Israel, Palestine and medical illnesses, has now been fully updated on our online catalogue. The photographs were taken by David Torrance and his son Herbert  Torrance who established a hospital in Tiberius in 1885 which lasted for over a hundred years helping the local communities.
Jewish patient in bed (circa 1930)
In recent months we posted several photo essays on the hospital, including incredible pictures dating back over 100 years.

But we were intrigued by a Christian Mission -- albeit a hospital -- in the midst of the very traditional Jewish residents of Tiberias.

We found an answer on a Hebrew Internet site by Avshalom Shachar called "נופים ותרבויות --Vistas and Cultures."
The Jews initially banned [cherem] the hospital, and rabbis prohibited their disciples from being aided in the place because of its missionary nature. However, the outbreak of cholera in the city in 1902 caused hundreds of casualties (including the doctor's wife) and led many Jews to seek out the services of the hospital and Dr. Torrance who, despite his wife's death, continued to treat patients diligently and earned great respect.
When Dr. Torrance died in 1923, the rabbi of Tiberias eulogized him: "Tiberias was blessed with three things: the Sea of Galilee, the Tiberias hot springs, and Dr. Torrance."

http://www.israeldailypicture.com/2013/04/the-missionary-doctor-and-jews-medicine.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IsraelsHistory-APictureADaybeta+%28Israel%27s+History+-+a+Picture+a+Day+%28Beta%29%29
Jewish and Arab boy, bladder stone cases (1933)


Canadian PM vows to fight anti-Semitism

Canadian PM vows to fight anti-Semitism


SAM SOKOL, Jerusalem Post
04/08/2013

On Yom Hashoah eve, Harper describes Holocaust atrocities as betrayal of human dignity which must never be forgotten; Quarter envoy Tony Blair tells 'Post' anti-Semitism in Europe must be exposed in order to combat it.

Train to Auschwitz
Train to Auschwitz Photo: REUTERS
 
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, and vowed to fight all forms of intolerance, discrimination and anti-Semitism.
 
"On Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Canadians stand together to remember the countless innocent people, including nearly six million Jewish men, women and children who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust," Harper said.

"As we mark the liberation of the first Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany, let us also pay tribute to all those brave souls who fought with the Jewish resistance during this dark period, and let us renew our own commitment to continue their fight against all forms of intolerance, discrimination and anti-Semitism," he continued.

Harper described the atrocities of the Holocaust as a betrayal of "the fundamental value of human dignity" which must never be forgotten or repeated.

Israel's official state ceremony marked the start of Remembrance day on Sunday evening.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post at Yad Vashem prior to the ceremony, former British prime minister and Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair said "We’ve got to be incredibly vigilant” in dealing with European anti-Semitism.

Blair stressed that when an incident occurs, “it should be given proper publicity.”

Asked how to handle the recent uptick in anti-Semitic attacks in Europe, Blair replied that “when it happens we’ve got to expose it and what happens, unfortunately too often,” when such incidents do not receive proper publicity.

“I know the British government takes it very seriously and we should be putting a lot of pressure on this because you should not tolerate what is intolerable,” Blair said.

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/On-Remembrance-Day-Canadian-PM-vows-to-fight-anti-Semitism-309060

'Sometimes the loudest response is silence'

'Sometimes the loudest response is silence'

Monday, April 08, 2013 |  Ryan Jones 
Israel Today 
Israel on Monday morning came to a complete standstill for two minutes as nearly every citizen solemnly marked the Nazi Holocaust and the six million Jewish lives it claimed.

As air raid sirens wailed across the country, motorists stopped their cars, school children ceased their studies and everyone everywhere stood in reverent silence.

Immediately after the sirens, official state ceremonies were held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, while the chief of Israel's army led a march of Israeli soldiers, Holocaust survivors and other Jewish participants through the most infamous of Nazi death camps - Auschwitz.

Israeli army spokesman Eytan Buchman posted the following to his Twitter account:
"Sometimes the loudest response is pure silence. Today a country stood still to say Never Again. Proud to be an IDF officer today."

No matter how many times one hears those sirens, the experience is never less powerful.

An entire nation blanketed in the sound of mournful sirens, an entire population halting all activity to stand in solemn silence. It is a commemorative act likely unprecedented in history.

* PHOTO: IDF Chief oF Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz visits the crematorium at the Aushwitz death camp in Poland

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23777/Default.aspx?hp=readmore

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Jewish Refugees History a Warning to the West

Jewish Refugees History a Warning to the West

 



JERUSALEM, Israel -- In the Middle East, much of the talk surrounding the Israeli-Arab conflict deals with land.
 
Israel wants the world to know about hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees expelled from Arab lands as a result of the 1948 rebirth of the state of Israel.
 
"Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent, almost 900,000 of these Jews were exiled forcibly from their homes throughout the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 1948 when the State of Israel was founded," Dan Diker, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, told CBN News.
 
Another major wave of persecution hit after the 1967 Six Day War that forced most of the remaining Jews to leave 11 Middle Eastern and North African countries.
 
 
 
 
 
Linda Menuchin became one of those refugees.
 
"Nobody would want anything with the Jews, especially with the incitement going on in the mosques, so we were labeled like the fifth column," she recalled. "And also more constraints were put -- like you couldn't take out from your own [bank] account … more than 100 dinars a month."
 
In 1970, Menuchin and her brother left Baghdad for Israel, keeping their flight secret from their father, a prominent lawyer.
 
"We didn't even kiss goodbye because I thought we will meet again one day," she said. "I had to run away through Iran."
 
They escaped into the unknown.
 
"So we had only a very small suitcase with us, both of us, and just little money," Menuchin recalled. "I was disguised like an Arab woman and my brother bought a very old coat. It was very cold winter."
 
"To our big luck, everything went smoothly because at the time Jews were not allowed to be away from home more than 80 or 100 kilometers," she said.
 
Such incidents happened all across the Middle East -- expulsions, seizure of property, and murder of the Jews.
 
 
 
"In the aftermath of the Six Day War in 1967, the mob in Libya, especially in Tripoli and Benghazi, took to the streets and started burning the homes of Jewish people and ransacking our warehouses," said American Gina Waldman, founder of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, or JIMENA.
 
"And my father's warehouse was burnt and then they came along and started pouring gasoline around my house," she continued. "And a Muslim neighbor came down from the building and convinced the mob that the Jewish family wasn't living there anymore, and of course he saved our lives."
 
"I always felt that there was a sense of injustice, that even though we really made a good life for ourselves in whichever country hosted us, nonetheless we were never recognized for the wrongs that were done to us," she said.
 
Two-thirds of the Jewish refugees resettled in Israel and the rest in other Western countries.
 
Waldman and Menuchin both say they were traumatized.
 
Menuchin said there's a message for the Western world. "Eight-hundred-fifty-thousand Jews were expelled or were forced to leave or persecuted from Arab countries," she said. "And when we try to overlook these issues they come again in a different way," "So now it's the turn of the Christians who are being killed, shot, and we cannot see really any effective action from the West," she added.
 
For Israel, sharing the saga of Jewish refugees is part of gaining international recognition for their sufferings.
 
"We say, well, there are two sets of refugees," Diker said. "There are Jewish refugees and there are Arab refugees and both sides should be compensated together."