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Israel Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (pictured) on Tuesday toured the biblical city of Hebron and decried the restrictions placed on Jews living there.
Referring to upcoming inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, and the departure from the White House of Barack Obama, Shaked said there would very soon be no more excuses for failing to strengthen the Jewish presence in this cradle of Jewish civilization.
“It is unthinkable that construction in Hebron has been stuck for so many years,” Shaked told reporters. Hebron is one of the cities claimed by the Palestinian Arabs, and so the world says any Jews living there are “occupiers.”
Shaked said that position blatantly disregards historical and biblical facts.
“This place is ours both by legal and historic right,” she insisted. “Our forefather Abraham walked here and began to build a nation which taught the world what true morality means. Afterwards, David, King of Israel, established his monarchy here.”
Like many in the Israeli government, Shaked hopes that after the January 20 inauguration of Donald Trump, she won’t have to continue explaining the obvious.
“I wish to say from this place that in ten days time all the excuses will be gone. We must build and build, develop Jerusalem as well as Judea and Samaria since it is our home. This is our right,” she concluded.
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Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker compare the times we’re living in now with the era of the Reagan Presidency. With special guests Doctor William and Robin Forstchen.
Quotes
Do not assume because we have a leader we feel is going to lead effectively, that we can all go to sleep. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. – Doctor William Forstchen
Close your eyes for a moment, and evil can march forth yet again. – Doctor William Forstchen
Disenthrall yourself from the dogmas of the past, embrace the Word of God, lead America to a better future for our children and grandchildren. – Doctor William Forstchen
We are the last best hope, because we followed God. We followed God’s will. – Doctor William Forstchen
Netanytahu: “All Signs Indicate Jerusalem Terrorist Inspired By ISIS”
The terrorist who carried out the deadly truck ramming attack in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon was apparently a supporter of Islamic State, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu made his comments at the scene of the attack, where he received a briefing along with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. Soon after visiting the site, he was [...]
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Radical leftists are planning to make January 20th the most chaotic Inauguration Day in American history. Their stated goal is to “disrupt” the Inauguration festivities as much as possible, and they are planning a wide range of “actions” to achieve that stated goal.
Some of the more moderate groups are using terms such as “civil resistance” and “civil disobedience”, but others are openly talking about “blockades”, jumping barricades, throwing projectiles and “citywide paralysis”.
My hope is that all of their efforts will turn out to be a big flop, but it is important to understand that these groups are well funded, highly organized and extremely motivated. The election of Donald Trump has been perhaps the single most galvanizing moment for the radical left in modern American history, and they are working very hard to turn January 20th into a major political statement.
Thousands of activists, journalists, scientists, entertainers, and other prominent voices took out a full-page call to action in the New York Timeson Wednesday making clear their rejection of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence with the simple message: “No!”
“Stop the Trump/Pence regime before it starts! In the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America!” the ad states, followed by a list of signatories that includes scholar Cornel West; author Alice Walker; Chase Iron Eyes of the Standing Rock Sioux; educator Bill Ayers; poet Saul Williams; CNN‘s Marc Lamont Hill; Carl Dix of the Communist Party USA; and numerous others.
Trump promises to inflict repression and suffering on people in this country, to deport millions, to increase violence up to the use of nuclear weapons on people across the globe, and to inflict catastrophes upon the planet itself. He has assembled a cabinet of Christian fundamentalist fanatics, war mongers, racists, science deniers. NO! His regime must not be allowed to consolidate. We REFUSE to accept a Fascist America!
If you go to refusefascism.org, you will discover that the protests that they are organizing in Washington D.C. will begin on January 14th. They say that they want to “stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts”, and they hope to have protests going “every day and every night” without interruption through at least January 20th.
Another group that plans to kick things off on January 14th is DisruptJ20. Of course that is short for “Disrupt January 20th”. If you go to their official website, you will find a long slate of events that have already been scheduled.
According to Legba Carrefour, a spokesperson for DisruptJ20, one of the goals of the group is to block major transportation routes into and throughout our nation’s capital. And he is not shy about the fact that they literally want to “shut down the Inauguration”…
“We are planning to shut down the inauguration, that’s the short of it,” he says. “We’re pretty literal about that, we are trying to create citywide paralysis on a level that I don’t think has been seen in D.C. before. We’re trying to shut down pretty much every ingress into the city as well as every checkpoint around the actual inauguration parade route.”
If Carrefour and his fellow conspirators are able to actually accomplish that, it truly would be unprecedented.
And while DisruptJ20 is not publicly advocating violence, they are not exactly discouraging it either…
Carrefour says DisruptJ20 has no publicly announced plans to jump barricades along the inauguration parade route or throw projectiles at the new president, but that autonomous direct actions are encouraged. “I can’t comment on specific stuff we’re doing like that, mostly because that would be illegal. But, yeah, it will get pretty crazy, I expect,” he says. “‘Have fun!’ I say.”
After the rioting that we have seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlotte and many other communities around the nation in recent years, I hope that authorities are taking these threats quite seriously.
Once Donald Trump won the election, many conservatives seemed to think that the war was won. But the truth of the matter is that many on the left were completely blindsided by Trump’s surprise victory, and now that they are fully awake they are gearing up for battle like never before.
And these protests are not going to end on January 20th. In fact, abortion advocates are hoping to get close to a million women into Washington D.C. on the day following the Inauguration to protest for abortion rights. Filmmaker Michael Moore is hoping that this march will be the beginning of “100 days of resistance” against Trump’s presidency…
Filmmaker and liberal icon Michael Moore has announced his plans to attend the Women’s March on Washington to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month and has called for sore loser liberals to go further — by staging protests acts of resistance through the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency.
In an appearance, this weekend on MSNBC’s The Last Word, the 62-year-old Trumpland and Fahrenheit 9/11 director made a “call to arms” to those opposed to Trump’s presidency to join the Women’s March on Washington scheduled for January 21, the day after the presidential inauguration.
“It’s important that everybody go there,” Moore told MSNBC’s Ari Melber.
Of course it is easy to imagine how all of this could spiral wildly out of control. If Trump cracks down on these protests really hard in an attempt to restore law and order, that could end up sparking a dramatic backlash against his “police state tactics”. And if the protests become even bigger and more violent, Trump could respond by cracking down even more harshly.
Let us hope for some really cold weather in D.C. at the end of January so that as many troublemakers as possible get discouraged and stay home. Violent protests, blockades and riots aren’t going to solve anything, and they could easily open fresh wounds in a nation that is becoming more divided with each passing day.
During our morning prayer calls for my devotionals—Mornings With the Holy Spirit and now the brand-new Evenings With the Holy Spirit—the Lord often speaks prophetically to the hundreds of people on the call. The following prophetic word helped a lot of people, and I wanted to share it with you.
God has need of your voice, but you're waiting in the wings, you're standing in the shadows, you're sleeping in the cave. And God would say to you, Come out of the cave, in Jesus' name. Come out of that cave Obadiah put you in, surviving on bread and water and hiding from Jezebel. Come out of the cave (says the Lord) and be strong and courageous. Just as I told Joshua to be strong and courageous as he began to enter into a new season of his life, I would say to you today, be strong and courageous.
Don't look upon their faces, but look to Me. Look upon My face because I will give you an anointing that breaks the yoke. I will give you the strength to battle through. I will give you the strategy to conquer every enemy that stands in your way. But you must emerge from the cave.
Praying for the Cave-Dwellers
Thank you, Lord, that the cave-dwellers will become presence-dwellers; that the cave-dwellers will become kingdom-seekers; that the cave-dwellers would shake off the dust and the mold from the past season of the cave and come out into the brightness of your glory, in the name of Jesus; come out with the confidence of Jesus Christ on the inside of them and speak forth what says the Spirit of God, what is the will of God, what is the mind of God with great conviction in the name of Jesus because they stood in the counsel of the Lord, and they've heard your voice.
I thank you, Lord, that You call Your prophetic voices out of the cave in this season to whatever measure and whatever metron and whatever realm of authority and influence you've given them. I'm asking you, Lord, to call those ones out who have stayed too long in the cave. It's like a library book that's past due. It's time to turn in that book of hesitancy. It's time to turn in that book of fear. It's time to turn in that book of the enemy's lies, and it's time to embrace the book of life and truth and come forth with a new anointing and a new confidence, a new mission and a new assignment. It's time, in Jesus' name.
I thank You, Lord, that those who are pressing and pressing and pressing will break through in this season.
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Following my article taking to task President Obama and John Kerry and their stabbing Israel in the back, I received many replies. The vast majority were supportive and expressed embarrassment at the Obama-Kerry tag-teaming.
Some apologized and made sure I knew their vindictive behavior did not reflect that of the American people.
One email led to a thoughtful discussion I would like to excerpt here. A friend wrote:
I read your article with much interest. However, [I'm] a bit puzzled. While I believe [in] and support the Zionist dream ..., I am deeply concerned about Israel's predicament: maintaining a Democratic Jewish state while divorcing herself from an indigenous Arab population ... divorce is rarely simple, it can be highly contested with many casualties. While I don't ... trivialize Israel's current situation with this comparison ... how (do) you feel about these concerns? ... maintaining the "status quo" is as much of a cause of a new Intifada as your opinion regarding Obama's abstention."
It was late at night in Israel when I replied. I was moved to do so right away, albeit abruptly.
I have two quick answers ... but a lot more can be said. First, it's not the place of Obama, or anyone else, to set parameters that define Israel as they want it. There's no suggestion that a Palestinian state should be democratic, or Iran or Cuba or any of the others that the U.S. has no problem dealing with. There's not even a hint that "Palestine" can't be Judenrein. Kicking all the Jews out is fine, but Israel should remain 20 percent Arab?
That holds Israel to a standard that, because we are Jews, more is to be expected. I reject that because Arabs should have the same expected of them. To do otherwise is double discrimination (against Arabs, and Jews).
As to demographics, few in any mainstream political party here today would [say] ... that we actually have a partner willing to make and uphold peace. That doesn't exist, period. So putting the cart before the horse and laying out parameters of what a resolution should look like is absurd, and biased against Israel. There's not only not a partner with which to negotiate, but the Palestinian Authority (with whom we are expected to negotiate) doesn't even control Gaza. So if Obama and Kerry had their dream, we'd give up territory today for the hope of peace, [creating] a "Palestine" in which the undemocratic government doesn't even control all the territory it's claiming as its state.
And what happens afterward when they have an internal war and Hamas takes over" This is not rhetoric, it's probability. It's very complex. Few would deny there needs to be a resolution, but you can't force peace if you don't have (a partner)... Making concessions for the hope that it will bring (the Palestinians) to the table is faulty.
I don't know if we'll ever have peace. But I'm not prepared to give up land to create a new state that will add to the list of our enemies and not make peace any more likely.
There's a lot that can be done in the interim, and more should be done. But no matter how much Obama and Kerry pontificate about what's legal and what Israel has a legitimate claim to, and saying things that can only be one (their) way, they're just wrong.
I woke up the next morning to the following reply: "Thank you for taking the time to respond. I get it and understand the situation and the dilemma. However, maintaining the status quo and not attempting to change the conditions on the ground only adds to the frustration and then anger which leads to intifada and armed conflict. Where are today's Sadats, Begins, Rabins?"
So before I had my second cup of coffee, I wrote back:
I really mean to answer sincerely, but I'm at my limit, and Obama and Kerry have crossed all boundaries. I'm not holding back. [As for changing the status quo] I would love to see major economic investments in "settlement blocks" which benefit Jews and Arabs here. SodaStream was a good example, but they got slammed by Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) and moved to the Negev. Who got hurt? Palestinian Arabs!
But I'd do more. I'd build economic facts, all kinds of industry. I'd look to investments from Arabs and Jews. Maybe one could connect private schools and day care for the employees attached to the industrial centers where Arabs could bring their kids for top education (that promotes coexistence).
It'll take someone with audacity to stand up to BDS and the deceitful notion that building and doing business here is illegal. But even if such a plan were to be wildly successful and Arabs got good jobs with benefits, taking home a respectable salary, that would not mitigate the reality that incitement, hate and violence are encouraged, nurtured, even celebrated. Unless and until that changes, we won't have peace. And unless the Islamists are defeated, Palestinian Arabs will fear saying or encouraging things that are pro-peace and will be killed by their own.
We have no Begins or Sadats today. Netanyahu is the best of what's available, but he's crippled by many internal and external factors. But even another Begin won't make sacrifices if peace is not a real possibility. Today, and for the foreseeable future, it's not. So we need to make the best of what there is, build infrastructure that makes Israel continue to succeed, that benefits Palestinian Arabs and offers hope.
Overall, my friend's position, while not wrong, is ignorant. I don't say that in a demeaning way or as a put-down. It's just that CNN, The New York Timesand other media get it wrong and misrepresent the facts and nuance in Israel as the rule. This is true even if they don't have a proclivity to be against Israel in a way that their bias is reflected in their news reporting. Even conservative and ideologically more pro-Israel media don't get it right all the time, supporting an undertone of anti-Israel bias which they don't intend but about which they don't know any better.
No, the status quo, leaving things as is, is not desirable. There's a lot that can and should be done short of actual peace, if that will ever come. But making concessions as a precondition to bring the Palestinians to the table; or because Obama, Kerry or others demand it, without a true hope for peace and a plan that addresses all this; is less desirable. Maybe the status quo is the best we can hope for, for now.
What do you think? Please post/write respectfully, and I'll try to do the same.
Jonathan Feldsteinwas born and educated in the U.S. and immigrated to Israel in 2004. He is married and the father of six. Throughout his life and career, he has been blessed by the calling to fellowship with Christian supporters of Israel and shares experiences of living as an Orthodox Jew in Israel. He writes a regular column for Standing With Israel at charismanews.com. He can be reached at firstpersonisrael@gmail.com.
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Pro-life activists are planning to take part in the Women's March on Washington on Saturday, Jan. 21, to ensure every woman's voice is heard. (Reuters photo)
Pro-Life Women's Groups to Take Part in 'Women's March on Washington'
An event planned for the day after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is supposed to be meant to give voice to people who were "marginalized" by his campaign, but at least two pro-life groups have pledged to join in.
Organizers of the Women's March on Washington offer the following description of their event:
On Jan. 21, 2017, we will unite in Washington, D.C., for the Women's March on Washington. We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families—recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.
The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized and threatened many of us—women, immigrants of all statuses, those with diverse religious faiths particularly Muslim, people who identify as LGBTQIA, native and indigenous people, black and brown people, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished and survivors of sexual assault. We are confronted with the question of how to move forward in the face of national and international concern and fear.
In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women's March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office and to the world that women's rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.
We support the advocacy and resistance movements that reflect our multiple and intersecting identities. We call on all defenders of human rights to join us. This march is the first step towards unifying our communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots level up. We will not rest until women have parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society. We work peacefully while recognizing there is no true peace without justice and equity for all. Hear our voice.
But if the event is going to focus on the marginalized voices of women, the leaders of Stanton Policy Center, Sound Legal Group and other pro-life groups from across the nation want to make sure it's every voice that is heard.
"As a woman who has spent most of her life standing up against injustice in the world and promoting the dignity of women and the sanctity of every human life, I am thrilled to be a part of the Women's March," Stanton Healthcare and Stanton Policy Center founder Brandi Swindell said. "We are entering into a critical time in our nation, and women deserve to be a part of the discussions and to have their voices heard."
Swindell, who is organizing the pro-life groups' participation in the march, said she stands with women across America who:
want Obamacare overturned so women can be given the power to make decisions about their own healthcare and what services they pay for,
believe that women deserve better than Planned Parenthood and that the abortion-giant should be defunded—and that those funds should be reallocated to whole women's healthcare centers and
believe that women deserve every opportunity and choice to succeed in this world and to make their lives better—none of which includes abortion.
The groups will gather at the U.S. Supreme Court building at 9 a.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 21, and then walk to the March for Women rally together. Stanton Policy Center Senior Adviser Kate Bryan, another pro-life participation organizer, said the Women's March on Washington has given women from across America a platform from which to make their voices heard in Washington, D.C., and its "inclusive approach" has opened up the opportunity for every woman—no matter her age, race, background, politics or faith—to have her voice heard in the public square.
"Women throughout all of history have been the bedrock of our society and have always been a critical part of the fight against injustice," she said. "I stand with women across our great nation who stand against injustice and follow the original ideals of the feminist movement, seeking to promote the dignity and respect of every human being—no matter their age, gestation, background, race, politics, faith or any other factor.
"Every life is precious and deserves to be protected. And women deserve better than abortion."
Catherine Glenn Foster, a civil rights attorney and founder of Sound Legal Group, said that while the Women's March on Washington claims to be about human rights, nonviolence and confronting injustice, inviting groups such as Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League as co-sponsors has failed to live up to that mission. She said the organizers have failed to confront the injustice already staring them in the face.
"Human rights and nonviolence apply to everyone, regardless of age and disability, and are most powerful and most urgent when serving those who need it most," she said. "It's time for the Women's March to speak up for all women."
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