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Arab Christian Soldier: IDF the Most Moral Army in the World - Israel Today
Arab Christian Soldier: IDF the Most Moral Army in the World
Monday, October 22, 2018 | Israel Today Staff
Israel is facing increased efforts to besmirch both its governmental policies and the conduct of its military, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
But that has also resulted in a growing number of minority citizens and soldiers coming forward and exposing the half-truths and outright deceptions employed by the Jewish state's detractors.
Among them is Yoseph Haddad, a 33-year-old Arab Israeli Christian from Nazareth who served proudly in the IDF during the Second Intifada and the Second Lebanon War.
In response to Harvard University's decision to host a lecture by members of the radical anti-IDF organization "Breaking the Silence," Haddad penned the following in an op-ed published by Aish.com:
"I must break my silence. I served in the IDF during the Second Intifada. It was a difficult time. I also stood at checkpoints, stood guard, arrested people and fought in the Second Lebanon War. As an Israeli Arab and IDF soldier in the Golani Brigade, I served together with other Israelis: Jews of all backgrounds, Druze and Bedouin. We were all equal, we were all brothers fighting side by side and I can testify that I served in the most humane and moral army in the world, with the highest code of ethics and human values.
"The IDF is an army that will bend over backwards to save lives and to ensure that innocent individuals are not harmed, even if it means complicating the military operation."
Two things stand out in Haddad's description of life in Israel and service in the IDF:
- The characterization of Israel as an "apartheid" state is faulty at the most basic level. Under true apartheid, such as practiced by the former regime in South Africa, minorities like Haddad wouldn't be permitted to serve in military combat roles alongside members of the dominant community;
- Accusing the IDF of engaging in a strategy of genocide, as Israel's detractors often do, is so bereft of evidence as to be laughable. As Haddad and numerous others have testified (though their testimonies are often ignored entirely by the media) very few, if any, militaries in the world take such pains to protect enemy populations as does the IDF.
PHOTO: Israeli soldiers guarding the Hebron Jewish community chat with a local Palestinian Arab man. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
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Former LGBT People Now Christians to Share Message of Jesus' Love in LA - CBN News Emily Jones
Former LGBT People Now Christians to Share Message of Jesus' Love in LA
10-22-2018
CBN News Emily JonesA group of ex-LGBTQ people are getting ready to take the streets of
Los Angeles, California to declare the transforming power and love of Jesus Christ.
The march takes place on Nov. 4 and will feature worship, praise, and testimonials from people who
call themselves former homosexual, bisexuals, and transgender individuals. Each person comes from
different parts of the country but all of them have the same message -- there is freedom from sexual
confusion and sin through Jesus.
It is the second Freedom March since the first one in May, which took place in Washington D.C. It
featured two survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, who say they left behind their LGBT lifestyles
after the attack to have a transformative relationship with Jesus.
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"Going through old pictures of the night of Pulse, I remember my struggles of perversion, heavy
The march takes place on Nov. 4 and will feature worship, praise, and testimonials from people who
call themselves former homosexual, bisexuals, and transgender individuals. Each person comes from
different parts of the country but all of them have the same message -- there is freedom from sexual
confusion and sin through Jesus.
It is the second Freedom March since the first one in May, which took place in Washington D.C. It
featured two survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, who say they left behind their LGBT lifestyles
after the attack to have a transformative relationship with Jesus.
Related
Pulse Nightclub Survivor to CBN News: ‘It wasn’t a gay to straight thing. It was a lost to saved thing'
'I Am Forgiven and Forever Set Free': Global LGBT Activist Abandons Lifestyle, Surrenders to Jesus
"Going through old pictures of the night of Pulse, I remember my struggles of perversion, heavy
drinking to drown out everything and having promiscuous sex that led to HIV," Luis Ruiz told CBN
News.
"It wasn't a gay to straight thing. It was a lost to a saved thing. Someone encountered me and told me
how much God would change me if I stopped doing it on my own strength. If I fall in love with Christ,
"It wasn't a gay to straight thing. It was a lost to a saved thing. Someone encountered me and told me
how much God would change me if I stopped doing it on my own strength. If I fall in love with Christ,
He would do everything else," he explained.
Jeffrey McCall, a former prostitute who lived as a transwoman named Scarlet, is the founder and
CEO of the Freedom March.
He told CBN News he wants former LGBTQ people to have their voice heard. He wants the world to
know that you can change your lifestyle, no matter who you are.
"I wanted to have a march where everyone who came out of homosexual or transgender lives could
"I wanted to have a march where everyone who came out of homosexual or transgender lives could
come together, to have an event to hear each other's stories and also to have an event to speak on the
freedoms we found through Jesus Christ," McCall said.
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