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Originally Posted by Rev. Jim Osborne
Brother Eliot is right in pointing out that God loves the world so much, he is willing to sacrifice some of us, so that the rest of us can have aeternal life with Jesus Christ. Radical atheists like to cry out: "If there is a God, why did he let six million Jews die?" A good Christian apologist will reply: "But that shows there is a God! He let six million unsaved Jews die instead of six million Bible-believing Baptists!"
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I couldn't agree more, Rev. Osborne!
And now Obama is
comparing the Holocaust to Israel's killing of a couple hundred Palestinian Islamofascists . . .
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In his speech, President Obama addressed the issue of the Holocaust head-on, saying "Six million Jews were killed — more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today."
But he quickly changed the subject, comparing Hitler’s genocide of the Jews to the Palestinian struggle.
"On the other hand," Obama said, as he transitioned from the Holocaust to the modern Middle East, "it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people — Muslims and Christians — have suffered in pursuit of a homeland."
That is because, "The problem really is not what Israel does, it’s that Israel is," Malcolm Hoenlein (executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) says. "And they’re not ready to accept the existence of the Jewish theocracy."
In discussing the Palestinian refugee problem, Obama failed to mention the other refugee problem involving nearly a million Jews, Hoenlein says. At the time of the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948, Jews populated all of the major Arab cities from Baghdad in the East to Casablanca in the West, much as Muslims have spread throughout Europe today.
Hoenlein notes that after modern Israel saw its rebirth, Jews "were driven out of Arab countries penniless, and some of their families had lived there for a thousand years, and yet there was no reference to them." He adds, "This is not a question of tit for tat. It’s a question of the realities that are communicated to a vast audience in the Arab Muslim world."
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Asked if he sees Obama’s perceived tilt toward the Palestinians as reflecting some of the views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Obama’s former pastor who accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "terrorism," Hoenlein says American Jews are concerned about Obama’s policies today.
"That issue has been discussed and debated, and I don’t know that it’s a relevant concern for right now," he says. "I do feel strongly about what the [current] policy will be."
Hoenlein says flatly, "People [Jews] are genuinely very concerned...about President Obama."
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