Israel Refuses to Recognize Genocide of Armenian Christians

By Julio Severo

A very important news about acknowledgment of persecution and genocide of Christians went virtually unnoticed in the mainstream media: The Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) rejected on February a bill that would have recognized the Armenian Genocide.

Protesters in Jerusalem demand Israel’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide

“There is no reason that the Knesset, which represents a nation that went through the Holocaust, shouldn’t recognize the Armenian Genocide and have a remembrance day for it,” said Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party chairman, who sponsored the bill.

“The Israeli leadership diminishes itself by so transparently treating genocide remembrance as a commodity to be bartered with [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan,” said Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian, regarding the vote.

The Knesset has discussed the Armenian Genocide several times in the past, but the Israel government has blocked all efforts to recognized it.

Even though Israel has today the most right-wing government coalition in the Israeli history under Benjamin Netanyahu, how will the Israel government be able to recognize the Armenian Genocide if it has been unable even to recognize that abortion, which is legal and fully available in Israel, is genocide?

As a Zionist evangelical Christian, I am a supporter of Israel and, in my view, every nation should recognize the Holocaust, the immense suffering and death Jewish victims went through in the hands of Nazi thugs.

So, because Jews suffered so much and know what genocide is, Israel should be the first nation to recognize the Armenian Genocide, especially because just as there is a denial of the Holocaust, there is also a denial of the Armenian Genocide.

I have been a fighter against the revisionism and denial of the Holocaust and the Inquisition, because both efforts bring dishonor to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the Inquisition.

In the same way, the revisionism and denial of the Armenian Genocide bring dishonor to the Christian Armenian victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Israel has avoided to label the mass slaughter of Christians Armenians genocide because Islamic Turkey does not like to be reminded of its crimes.

Israel is not the only nation seeking not to enrage Turkey.

Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump marked the Ottoman Turks’ century-old massacre of 1.5 million Armenians, but declined to label it a genocide.

“Today, we remember and honor the memory of those who suffered during the Meds Yeghern, one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century,” Trump said in a statement. “I join the Armenian community in America and around the world in mourning the loss of innocent lives and the suffering endured by so many.”

Such a declaration, even though avoiding the term “genocide” and refusing to mention that the killers were Muslim and the victims were Christian, angered Turkey, only NATO Islamic member and U.S. ally, whose cooperation Trump seeks against the Syrian government.

“We consider that the misinformation and false definitions contained in U.S. President Trump’s written statement of April 24, 2017 regarding the 1915 events are derived from the information pollution created over the years by some Armenian circles in the U.S. by means of propaganda methods,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Previous presidents, including former President Barack Obama, also refused to call the mass killings a genocide. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton avoided the term “genocide” even though they had pledged during their campaigns that they would recognize it as such.

In the same week Trump avoided the term “genocide,” he contacted Turkish President Recep Erdogan to discuss joint U.S.-Turkish counterterrorism efforts. This is very strange, because as an Islamic nation, Turkey does not fight terrorism, especially from ISIS. According to a 2014 WND (WorldNetDaily) report, “Turkey backs ISIS to eliminate Assad.” Israel has also backed Islamic terrorists against Assad.

ISIS has committed genocide against Christians in Syria and Iraq. According to Trump, Obama founded ISIS. And Obama worked closely with Turkey. So if Trump refuses the term “genocide” to please Turkey and has this Islamic nation as an ally against ISIS, is not he helping the ISIS genocide against Christians? To have Islamic Turkey as an ally against Islamic terror is so insane as to have the Nazi Germany as an ally against Nazism or have the Soviet Union as an ally against Soviet Marxism.

Armenia was the first officially Christian nation in the world. Armenia, as a Christian Orthodox nation, is allied with Russia, the largest Christian Orthodox nation in the world.

Because the United States is the largest Protestant nation in the world, Trump could have an alliance with Armenia and Russia against Islamic terrorism, and this was his intent in 2016, but now he is privileging an insane alliance with Islamic Turkey and Saudi Arabia to fight the Islamic terrorism created and supported by Saudi and Turkish Muslims.

If Trump and Israel cannot recognize as genocide the slaughters of Christians by Muslims 100 years ago, how can they recognize current genocides against Christians? How can they recognize that Islam was and is a genocide machine against Christians?

So far, just 23 nations have recognized the Armenian genocide, among them France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Greece, Russia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Bolivia.

In 2015 Russian President Putin was the only president of a major power to attend commemorations of 100 years of Armenian Genocide in 1915. The commemorations were held at the Armenian Genocide Memorial on Tsitsernakaberd Hill, in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, to pay tribute to the genocide victims.

In the occasion, Erdogan was angered at Putin for calling the mass killing of Christian Armenians by Turkish Muslims a genocide. He said, “It’s not the first time Russia used the word genocide on this issue. I’m personally sad that Putin took such a step.”

In the Armenian Genocide 100 years ago, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in 66 towns and 2,500 villages were massacred; 2,350 churches and monasteries were looted, and 1,500 schools and colleges were destroyed.

Yet, Muslims in Turkey and in other nations understate and deny that Armenian Christians suffered a genocide, just as neo-Nazi groups understate and deny the Holocaust against the Jews and ultra-radical Catholics understate and deny the Inquisition against the Jews and Protestants.

Israel knows what denial and revisionism have done to minimize the Holocaust and the Inquisition and their victims. So why has Israel refused to recognize the Armenian Genocide?

Why does Israel seek to please the perpetrator (Islamic Turkey) and does not side with its victim (Armenian Christians)?

The answer comes from Armenians themselves. The Armenian newspaper Asbarez, in a report titled “Israeli Politicians Must Stop Using the Armenian Genocide Card,” said,

“Every time the Turkish regime does something to anger Israel, the Jewish state’s politicians and members of parliament threaten Ankara with the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, furthering their cowardice as a nation that rose from the ashes of the Holocaust.

“For a state that never misses an opportunity to remind the world of the horrors of the Holocaust, Israel has had a hard time reconciling its respect for human rights and the losses suffered by Jews with the fact of the Armenian Genocide.

“Israel must recognize the Armenian Genocide not because it’s politically expedient, but because it is a historic fact. By not recognizing it, Israel continues to amplify its own hypocrisy by becoming complicit in its denial.”

With information from Jerusalem Post, WND (WorldNetDaily), Armenian Weekly, Asbarez and Armen Press.

Portuguese version of this article: Israel recusa reconhecer genocídio de cristãos armênios

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Right-Wing Jews and the Gay Agenda in Israel

By Julio Severo

Jerusalem, the Holy City, has been a stage for one of the unholiest act on the Earth according to the holiest Jewish traditions: celebration of homosexuality.

Gay parade in Jerusalem

Not only left-wing Jews have celebrated this unholy act. Right-wing Jews have also taken part.

The Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, officially designated February 23, 2016, as the State of Israel’s LGBT Rights Day. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely appears in the Knesset on Tuesdays, but he arrived especially to participate in the “first designated LGBT Rights Day.”

He spoke to homosexual activists who were gathered at the Knesset.

“I came here in the middle of my schedule, which was no less busy, to say one sentence to the members of the LGBT community: ‘Every man was created in the image of God,’” he said, according to the Jerusalem Post. “That is the idea brought by our nation to mankind thousands of years ago, and it is the principle that must guide our national lives today.”

Everybody was created in God’s image, but their behavior is not always reflective of God’s image.

The ancient principle, engraved in the Holy Jewish Scriptures (known as the Old Testament among Christians), is that people created in God’s image should not engage in behaviors contrary to God’s image. Among these behaviors is homosexuality, which the Jewish Scriptures call “abhorrence.”

“Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence.” (Leviticus 18:22 The Jewish Study Bible: Second Edition. Oxford University Press. 2014)

To use “God’s image” in people to glorify their homosexual behavior was not God’s original intent for Israel and the world. Homosexuality affronts God’s image.

Reinforcing Netanyahu’s words praising people for their homosexual behavior, his Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a public international video that it is proud that Israel is the homosexual capital of the Middle East.

MK Amir Ohana said at the Knesset that the LGBT community is 10 percent of the Israeli population and is discriminated against under law.

In 2015 Netanyahu noted that Ohana, who was Israel’s new Interior Minister, was the first openly gay representative to be elected to the Knesset from Netanyahu’s Likud Party, which is a right-wing party. He predicted that Ohana would be an excellent MK.

In his inaugural speech, Ohana, who lives with his homosexual partner, mentioned the different components of his identity: “Jewish, Israeli, Mizrahi [Sephardic], gay, a Likudnik, security-minded, liberal, a supporter of the free market, and a father.”

Ohana, who is also a veteran of the Shin Bet security agency, has promoted the homosexual agenda as the founder and chairman of the Likud Pride Group, which is the largest right-wing homosexual group in Israel.

Ohad Attya, a gay activist in Likud, said, “The idea that if you are gay you have to be a leftist is false.”

The absurd figure of 10 percent of homosexuals in the general population defended by Ohana was invented by Alfred Kinsey, but it was scientifically debunked by the Jewish-American researcher Dr. Judith Reisman.

Homosexuals are no more than 2 or 3 percent of the general population. If this number rises someday, it is because the massive homosexual propaganda in the social media and schools has been successful. But without propaganda, their numbers are insignificant.

Yet, is not the Torah, the Jewish Scriptures, enough to debunk lies about homosexuality? In fact, the Torah has been exposing and condemning homosexuality for thousands of years.

Even so, modern Israel is in direction contrary to its most sacred traditions.

More than 200,000 people packed Tel Aviv’s streets on 2017 for the annual LGBT Pride Parade, making it the largest-ever gay parade in the Middle East and Asia, according to the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality.

“Tel Aviv Pride Parade is not just a celebration, but also an important declaration of support. Tel Aviv, which has already been acknowledged as the world’s ‘most gay-friendly city,’ will continue to be a light-house city, spreading the values of freedom, tolerance and democracy to the world,” said Mayor Ron Huldai.

Gay parade in Jerusalem

Even Jerusalem has not been left untouched by homosexual advances. In 2016 and 2017 over forty-five thousand homosexual Israelis packed the streets of the Holy City with rainbow flags, marching proudly and resolutely for what was billed as the “Jerusalem March For Pride and Tolerance.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed homosexual activists and participants in Jerusalem’s 2016 gay pride parade in a video message, saying that they are an inseparable part of Israeli society.

“The march today in Jerusalem isn’t only a march of the LGBT community,” said Netanyahu in the video posted to his Facebook page. “It’s not a march exclusive for a specific group. It’s a march for us. It’s a march for unity. Our brothers and sisters in the community are part and parcel of us, of Israeli society. We are all one family. We respect one another and accept one another with respect and equality. We all have the right and obligation to accept one another without exceptions, regardless of religion, race or sexual preference. We are all created in the image of God. We are all Israelis, we are all citizens of the state, we are one people.”

In two versions of a video posted to Facebook, one in English and the other in Hebrew, Netanyahu clearly positioned himself as a vocal supporter, endorsing the sentiment of the marchers and slamming critics who painted their efforts in a negative light.

“Sadly, some elements of our society are still not yet ready to accept the LGBT community,” he said. “My solemn promise to you today is to continue fostering respect for all of Israel’s citizens, without exception.”

Netanyahu’s public addresses on the subject are fascinating because he is the leader of the most right-wing coalition government in Israel’s history.

A right-wing administration in Israel not only has not saved Israel from the gay ideology, but has actually joined the Left to support it.

One of the best barometers of the homosexual activists’ rising influence is that right-wing politicians are shifting their perception of the gay agenda. In the United States, leaders of the Republican Party have been attempting to convince their base of Christian conservative constituents that a pro-homosexuality realignment is needed.

In the Republican National Committee’s now infamous “autopsy report,” compiled by party elders after Mitt Romney’s loss in 2012, they said: “We need to campaign among… gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too.” Senator Marco Rubio, who is a Catholic neocon, warned his party of the costs of non-adherence to the gay agenda.

Following this neocon stance, the Trump administration has been marked not only by non-opposition to the homosexual agenda but also by efforts to pressure other nations to accept it.

Put another way, the LGBT activism and its demands have become too important and financially too seductive for right-wing politicians to ignore.

Israel, as no other nation, knows that the homosexual behavior brings total destruction, because it has the valuable testimony of the Jewish Scriptures, which are not legend, but a faithful and divine reminder. Even so, Israel and its left-wing and right-wing leaders seek alliances with homosexual activists who celebrate their immoral lifestyles.

The Israeli economy gained at least 100 million shekels (around $28 million) from the influx of foreign homosexuals who traveled to Israel to take part in Tel Aviv Pride Parade in 2017.

Nadav Peretz — owner of OUTstanding Travel — told that these homosexual tourists “become ambassadors for the liberal and progressive Israel.”

“It might sound weird,” he said, “but they are the ‘new evangelicals.’ They speak well about Israel and can’t wait to return.”

Homosexual activists have even been officially invited, by Israel, to visit Israel. In January 2016, Brazilian congressman Jean Wyllys, the most prominent homosexual activist in the Brazilian Congress, gave a lecture on “homophobia” in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His lecture equaled “homophobia” with anti-Semitism. Wyllys, who openly advocates the homosexual indoctrination of Brazilian children in schools, was officially invited by Israel.

Meanwhile, an Israeli poll published by the Hiddush NGO found that 90 percent of secular Israelis support same-sex “marriage.” Among the religious, 77 percent of traditional Jews, 46 percent of national religious Jews, and 16 percent of the ultra-Orthodox Jews also support the “marriage” of same-sex couples.

During the meeting at the Knesset in the first official LGBT Rights Day, the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) Chief of Staff’s Adviser on Women’s Affairs Rachel Tevet pointed out that 18-year-olds are enlisted without regard to sexual orientation.

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Subcommittee chairman Yoav Kisch (a member of Likud) asked the IDF to hold more homosexual workshops on the subject for commanders and to improve its work to integrate transgender soldiers.

“I was glad to hear the conditions in the army are good [for members of the LGBT community], as it should be,” Kisch said. “At the same time... the improvements must continue.”

“The IDF is the army of the people and everyone must feel comfortable and certainly not have concerns based on their gender identity,” he added.

IDF is, in fact, a socialist “paradise.” It has accomplished a feat that U.S. socialists have fought for many years to impose on American women: compulsory military draft for young women. The socialist “dream” has been fulfilled in Israel: all 18-year-old young women are obliged to enlist.

If Cuba and North Korea have female soldiers, conservatives and right-wingers say that it is ugly, because this is communism. But if Israel has female soldiers, they consider it beautiful, just because it is made in Israel — regardless if it is socialist or not. There is an idolatry rampant among conservative evangelicals hindering their eyes to see socialism in Israel. They are able to see it in Cuba, but they are unable to recognize as socialist the same impositions in Israel.

Israel is the only nation where socialism has been successful. Israel, which was founded by Marxist Jews, has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world. It has also banned parents’ authority to spank their children.

Because Israel has very high taxes, which are typical in socialist nations, corruption is rampant.

Even so, the same conservative evangelicals who condemn socialism in Cuba celebrate it in Israel.

A conservative Christian should balance his necessary support of Israel, especially its inalienable, untransferable and divine right to the Promised Land, without compromising his values by supporting everything Israel does. Sometimes, Israel does horrible things, including supporting Islamic terrorists at the expense of Christian victims. A true Christian should never support such things.

Legal abortion, ban on child discipline, celebration of homosexuality and feminism, including compulsory draft for young women, are not conservative or Christian values. They are socialist values, and should not be tolerated, even for Israel’s sake.

Evangelicals talk about Israel as if they were talking about the Holy Land itself. They think Israel’s rulers and its inhabitants have the utmost respect for God and His laws.

They think that Israel’s rulers and its inhabitants practice and celebrate family, not abortion and homosexuality.

They think that Israel’s rulers and its inhabitants practice and celebrate the Bible, not socialism and feminism.

They think that Israel’s rulers and its inhabitants have close fellowship with God and that they are saved, that they are brothers and sisters for Christians, having no need to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

No. They have no such fellowship and Israel is not living according to God’s laws.

Yes. Left-wing, right-wing and religious Israelis and Jews do need to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Modern Israel courts tourists, whether evangelicals or homosexual activists, just for the sake of profits.

And right-wing Israelis, including Netanyahu, are courting homosexual activists the same way they have always courted evangelical tourists.

Of course, they do not embrace the gay ideology in the same radical way that left-wing Israelis do. But their “moderate” embrace of sodomy (the sin of Sodom: homosexuality) is a far cry from God’s commandments to the Jews:

“Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence.”

Sodomy brings death, as warned by the Jewish Scriptures. It is an abhorrence that left-wing and right-wing Jews have been celebrating this deadly sin in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and throughout the Promised Land.

Sodomy destroyed Sodom — and the ruins of Sodom are today in Israel, as a memorial to Israel and the world about the graveness of the homosexual sin. If Israel and its left-wing and right-wing politicians keep celebrating sodomy, what will Israel gain with it?

With information from Jerusalem Post, Algemeiner, Washington Blade, The Advocate, Huffington Post, CSMonitor, Breitbart and Haaretz.

Portuguese version of this article: Benjamin Netanyahu, judeus direitistas e a agenda gay em Israel

Source: Last Days Watchman

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