Netanyahu: “We have no better friends in the world than the Evangelical community, and the Evangelical community has no better friend in the world than the State of Israel.”
By
Julio
Severo
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a gathering of Brazilian Evangelical
Christians on Sunday that they are the Jewish state’s best friends. Netanyahu
is in a six-day visit to Brazil to attend the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro as
president.
“We
have no better friends in the world than the Evangelical community, and the
Evangelical community has no better friend in the world than the State of
Israel,” Netanyahu said at the event in Rio de Janeiro. According to the
Israeli newspaper World Israel News, “The large Brazilian Evangelical
population country is credited with leading the way to President-elect Jair
Bolsonaro’s rise to power earlier this year.”
Netanyahu
expects Israel’s relations with Brazil to improve because of the influence
evangelicals have on Bolsonaro. Netanyahu told the Evangelical event:
“President Bolsonaro says, ‘We are brothers.’ We are brothers, and we are going
to seize the future together.
“You
know that President Bolsonaro’s first name in Hebrew is Yair, which is also the
name of our son. But Yair means something in Hebrew: He who brings light. And I
think that we have now an opportunity together to bring a lot of light to the
people of Brazil and the people of Israel. This is an alliance of
brothers. So I want to invite all of you next year in Jerusalem.”
Earlier
on Sunday, Netanyahu told Brazilian Jewish leaders that Bolsonaro had informed
him that he wants to move the Brazilian Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. He said Bolsonaro had pledged that “it is not a question of if, just
a question of when.”
Bolsonaro’s
promise to move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem was a promise to please
evangelical voters. It is not known if he is going to fulfill his promise as
soon as possible or if he will keep endlessly postponing not to displease his
evangelical voters.
Even
though World Israel News and other Israeli news outlets credit Brazilian
evangelicals with Bolsonaro’s victory, after his election Bolsonaro stopped
from giving evangelicals the main credit, which he now gives to revisionists of
the Inquisition.
The Inquisition had its dark hand in
Brazil, which is today the largest Catholic nation in the world. In the last
years, Brazilian Jewish authors have published several books on the suffering
and death of Brazilian Jews caught in the dragnet of the Inquisition.
Brazilian
Jews were able to establish a holiday in remembrance to the Jews
who suffered persecution and death under the Inquisition in Brazil. There is also the
Brazilian Museum of the Inquisition, created by Jews.
The Inquisition, which has a history
of persecution and execution of Jews, including in Brazil, has
been a flagship of several radical Catholic “conservative” groups in Brazil
that advocate its revisionism. The most
prominent Brazilian advocate of the revisionism of the Inquisition, Olavo
de Carvalho, has had on Bolsonaro
the same bad influence Steve
Bannon had on U.S. President Donald Trump
in the past. In fact, both Carvalho and Bannon are adherents of the Islamic
occultist René Guénon.
Eventually,
Trump saw Bannon as an opportunist and expelled him from the White House. The
hope and prayer of many evangelicals who voted for Bolsonaro is for him to see
also that Carvalho is an opportunist and expel his influence from his
administration.
In
contrast with the father of Netanyahu, who is the author of a massive book
against the Inquisition and its revisionism Carvalho has downplayed the horrors
of the Inquisition, including in this public comment:
“Even in the popular image of the
Inquisition fires, lies are predominant. Everybody believe that condemned
individuals ‘died burned,’ amid horrible suffering. The flames were high, more
than 16 feet high, to hinder suffering. The condemned individuals (less than
ten a year in two dozen nations) died suffocated in a few minutes, before the
flames could touch them.”
It
is more than natural that the most prominent Brazilian advocate of the
Inquisition sees the best friends of Israel as worse than Marxists.
Antagonizing (something that the self-proclaimed “strategist” in the case of
Trump never tried to do) evangelicals, the self-proclaimed “strategist” in the
case of Bolsonaro has said, “Evangelical churches have done more harm to Brazil
than the entire left has done.” Does it mean that he wants Bolsonaro to fight
more now evangelical churches than the fight he had against the left?
He
also said:
“Whoever has studied the Soviet
cultural offensive and the posterior Gramscian strategy understands something
that seems still totally ignored by 100 percent of liberals and conservatives
in this nation: to remove from the popular conscience myths as the
‘Inquisition’… is infinitely more important than removing socialist President
Dilma Rousseff from the Brazilian government.’”
Dilma
is the former Brazilian socialist president, impeached by an evangelical effort.
Then, out of pure envy, for Carvalho to remove the “myth” of the Inquisition is
infinitely more important than eliminating the left.
He
also said:
“I repeat: there was never an entity
called ‘the Inquisition’ and much less ‘Holy Inquisition.’”
If
the Inquisition never existed, then does the multitude of Jewish books against
the Inquisition spread lies? Or is the great liar Olavo de Carvalho, adherent
and propagandist of another liar, the Islamic occultist Guénon?
In 2013, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu met Pope Francis at the Vatican, and gave the leader of the
Catholic Church “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain,” a
book that largely revolves about Spanish Catholics questioning, torturing, and
punishing the Jews, exposing how thousands of them were expelled from Spain or
burned at the stake.
The Jewish Journal said that “The
Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain,” a scholarly magnum opus
and in-depth tome on the Spanish Inquisition, describes how the Catholic Church
persecuted, and often executed, masses of Jews.
Business Insider noted that “it is
important to think of the context of the book, which is written by Netanyahu’s
father Ben-Zion Netanyahu, a well-regarded historian who worked at both Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and Cornell University.”
CBS News said, “Netanyahu’s father,
Ben-Zion Netanyahu, was an Israeli historian… best known in academic circles
for his research into the Catholic Church’s medieval inquisition against the
Jews of Spain.”
Evangelicals
are a solid hope for the Bolsonaro administration, but the revisionists of the
Inquisition and their opportunism represent a real challenge and threat.
Yet,
with evangelicals and their prayers, Brazil is having an excellent new
beginning: With Israel at their side. With Netanyahu officially saying that
Brazilian evangelicals are the best friends of Israel, Brazil is getting a
great new chance to advance as a nation finding God’s blessings.
I
wonder if God will open the doors to Brazil in an extraordinary way. In 2008 I
met American prophet Chuck Pierce, who told that if Brazil got closer to
Israel, God was going to give to Brazil the anointing that the U.S. has lost.
You can read about his vision in this article: Brazil, the Next (Regional or Global)
Threat to the U.S. Economic Supremacy?
As
a Brazilian conservative evangelical, I welcome Netanyahu’s words: “We have no
better friends in the world than the Evangelical community.”
Yet,
I have a doubt about his other comment, “Evangelical community has no better
friend in the world than the State of Israel.” Considering that the Israeli
government, even under the right-wing coalition of Netanyahu, has advocated the
homosexual agenda, would Netanyahu and his administration treat conservative
evangelicals opposed to the gay agenda as friends or enemies?
Only
God can help the nominal Catholic Bolsonaro have a real encounter with Jesus
Christ and protect himself and his administration from opportunists, especially
the revisionists of the Inquisition.
Only
God can help Netanyahu also have a real encounter with Jesus Christ and become
a real friend of conservative evangelicals who oppose abortion and the
homosexual agenda, because there are no greater supporters of Israel than
conservative evangelicals, and I am gladly one of them.
My
hope is the we conservative evangelicals, in our friendship with Israel, may
have more and more influence on the Bolsonaro administration and that
right-wing Catholics, who love the Inquisition and its revisionism (which is an
obvious sign of clear or covert enmity toward Jews), may lose their influence
on the Bolsonaro administration.
The
fight in Brazil now is more than socialism versus capitalism. It is the best
friends of Israel versus the best friends of the Inquisition.
Portuguese
version of this article: Netanyahu: “Não temos melhores amigos no mundo do que
a comunidade evangélica, e a comunidade evangélica não tem melhor amigo no
mundo do que o Estado de Israel.”
Recommended Reading about the
Inquisition:
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Reading about Israel:
Recommended
Reading about Bolsonaro:
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