Biden recognized systematic killings of Christian Armenians by Islamic Turkey was genocide

By Julio Severo

President Joe Biden has formally recognized that systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians by Muslim Turkey in 1915 was genocide.

Armenian Christian adolescents raped and crucified by Muslim Turks during the Armenian genocide in 1915

Yet, he did not mention directly the words “Christian” and “Muslim.”

For decades the White House has avoided saying that Islamic Turkey committed genocide against Christian Armenians over concerns that such recognition could damage relations with NATO ally Turkey.

Even former President Donald Trump never recognized the Turkish genocide against Armenian Christians, preferring to say that he was a big fan of Islamic dictator Recep Erdogan.

He wasted a golden opportunity to recognize the genocide against Christians, and Biden, even though a left-winger, did the unthinkable by recognizing it. No one expected him to do it, even though, to be consistent, he should also recognize the genocide of about 1 million babies who are killed year by year in abortion facilities in the U.S.

Biden’s historic declaration has been celebrated by Christian Armenians, but provoked an angry response in Islamic Turkey, which said that Biden’s decision “will open a deep wound that undermines our mutual trust and friendship.”

An estimated two million Christian Armenians were deported and 1.5 million were killed in the events known as Metz Yeghern.

In his statement that did not mention the word “Christian,” Biden said the American people honor “all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today.”

He added: “Over the decades Armenian immigrants have enriched the United States in countless ways, but they have never forgotten the tragic history… We honor their story. We see that pain. We affirm the history. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated.”

With his acknowledgement, Biden fulfilled a campaign promise he made in 2020 on the annual commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day to recognize that the events of 1915 to 1923 were a genocide against Armenians.

In a letter to Biden, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote that the U.S. president’s message was received with great enthusiasm by the people of Armenia and Armenians worldwide.

“The acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide is important not only as a tribute paid to the 1.5 million innocent victims, but also in terms of preventing the recurrence of similar crimes against mankind,” he added.

A statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry called on Biden to correct what it described as “a grave mistake.”

It read: “We reject and denounce in the strongest terms the statement of the President of the US regarding the events of 1915 made under the pressure of radical Armenian circles and anti-Turkey groups. It is clear that the said statement does not have a scholarly and legal basis, nor is it supported by any evidence. This statement... will open a deep wound that undermines our mutual trust and friendship.”

Essentially, Turkey used revisionism (a tool commonly used by left-wingers) to deny that what they did against Christians was genocide.

Erdogan had established a close bond with former U.S. president Donald Trump, but the Biden administration has grown more vocal about Turkey’s human rights track record.

Again, if Biden is so concerned about human rights, why is its administration giving billions of dollars to fund abortion facilities that kill 4,000 American babies a day?

Trump was right when he denounced abortion, but he was wrong by not denouncing the Turkish genocide against Christian Armenians.

Biden was right when he denounced the Turkish genocide, but he was wrong by not denouncing the genocide of abortion in America.

With information from the Daily Mail.

Portuguese version of this article: Biden reconheceu que os assassinatos sistemáticos de armênios cristãos por parte da Turquia islâmica foi genocídio

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Everyone Should Remember the Holocaust

By Julio Severo

The Holocaust, which was perpetrated by Nazi Germany against over 6,000,000 Jews, who were monstrously abused, tortured and slaughtered, is a genocidal crime that should be remembered by all nations.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day happens every 27 January as a memory that on 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army from the Soviet Union. While the Nazi Army destroyed Jews, the Red Army had many Jewish soldiers that helped liberate German Jews.

Jews are correct to point that the Nazi genocide against them should never be forgotten.

Christians — both Catholics and Protestants — should remember because the largest Holocaust against the Jews happened exactly in a Christian nation, Nazi Germany, which was about 50% Catholic and 50% Protestant, especially Lutheran. Even though a minority of courageous Catholics (including Claus von Stauffenberg) and Protestants (including Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer) opposed Hitler and even tried to kill him, most German Protestants and Catholics supported Hitler, who was nominally Catholic.

Some wicked Christian traditions helped Hitler in his campaign to perpetrate the Holocaust. Catholics have a tradition, in words and actions, of anti-Semitism, especially through the Inquisition. Protestants have a tradition of anti-Semitic words of Martin Luther, even though Protestants, especially in the United States — the largest Protestant nation in the world — have a tradition of fight against anti-Semitism. In fact, the U.S. fight against anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the Inquisition is the most important fight the world ever saw.

Right-wingers and left-wingers should remember because the largest Holocaust against the Jews happened exactly in a nation, Nazi Germany, which used right-wing and left-wing imageries in its campaign against the Jews, even though the predominant imagery was right-wing and Hitler had a clearly anti-Marxist speech, which drew Catholics and Protestants.

Most Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis in the Holocaust were socialist. In fact, the founder of Marxism was a German Jew, a descendant of rabbis. The few Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were also Marxist and they founded the State of Israel.

Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews because he thought they were an inferior race and because they were Marxist. His “solution,” the Holocaust, was genocide.

Nazis hated the Jews because they thought that they were an inferior race or because most Jews were socialist. Others hate the Jews because a minority of them are capitalist tycoons.

Yet, the Holocaust is not a past threat. Its modern advocacy or revisionism or denial brings new threats. And this threat is especially today among Muslims.

Muslims should remember the Holocaust against the Jews because Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, has been a best-seller in Muslim nations. Many Muslims express admiration for Hitler and the Holocaust, but strangely they are not criticized and condemned in the Western media for their hatred of the Jews. This hatred is manifested in their unending campaign to use any situation, especially the Palestinian case, to condemn the Jews as “criminals” — as if Palestinian Muslims, who have illegally occupied the Promised Land, were innocent victims.

The effort to portray the victim as the aggressor and vice-versa is the soul of the Holocaust’s revisionism, very similar to the Inquisition’s revisionism. Muslims love the Holocaust’s revisionism, which diminishes the Jewish suffering and numbers of Jewish victims.

Even during Hitler’s time Muslims helped Nazis in their campaign to exterminate the Jews.

Today, Muslims use two dishonest revisionist methods to attack the Jews. They intentionally underestimate the Jewish suffering in the Holocaust and they intentionally overestimate the defensive actions of Jews to protect the State of Israel against Palestinian terrorists. This is a natural result: if Muslims admire Hitler and the Nazi atrocities against the Jews, they will support any Palestinian terrorist attack against the Jews.

Muslims do not only advocate the Holocaust’s revisionism. They also advocate the revisionism of the Genocide of Armenian Christians. They do to Christians the same thing they do to the Jews.

Yet, while many Christians fight against the Holocaust’s revisionism, few Jews fight against the revisionism of the Genocide of Armenian Christians. In fact, the Israeli government has resisted every effort to recognize the Genocide of Armenian Christians. It is time for Christians and Jews to recognize genocide against them. It is time also for Israel to recognize ISIS’s Holocaust of Christians in Syria and help Christians persecuted by ISIS.

The remembrance of the Holocaust is most important now that Europe has been invaded by hordes of Muslim immigrants who are threatening Christians and their culture and threatening the Jews and their survival, including by intentionally underestimating the Holocaust and its Jewish victims and reviving anti-Semitism.

It is time to remember the Holocaust before the next European generations, who will be significantly Muslim, forget that the Jews are a people victim of genocide.

Nevertheless, left-wing Jews think that the only threat of a repetition of the Holocaust is coming from conservative Christians. Osias Wurman, who is the honorary consul of Israel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said,

“Today, more than ever, it is necessary to warn the world public opinion about the dangerous change of course rightward that has been ravaging Europe and some nations in the American continent. A global poll, held in 2014, found that 46% respondents had never heard about the Holocaust!”

Mr. Wurman made an impossible comparison. He sought to equalize the conservative change of political course in Europe and probably in the United States with indifference to the Holocaust. In a worse tone, he has said that this change is “dangerous,” and he talks about the need to warn the world against the change rightward that is “ravaging” Europe and probably the United States.

As far as evangelicals are concerned, conservatism, especially the U.S. conservatism, is pro-Israel and against the Holocaust, against abortion, against the Catholic revisionism of the Inquisition and against the Islamic revisionism of the Armenian Genocide. Comparing pro-Holocaust feelings with the U.S. conservative evangelicalism is nonsense. Jews would only face problems with some right-wing Catholics who have been defending the revisionism of the Inquisition, which tortured and slaughtered Jews. Sooner or later, they may also defend the revisionism of the Holocaust.

Just as Christians need be informed to remember the Holocaust, Jews also need to be informed that before the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews there was the Islamic Turkish Genocide of Armenian Christians. Regardless if Israel does not recognize such genocide against Christians, it makes no sense for the Jews to encourage nations about the importance of remembering the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews if the Jews refuse to recognize the Islamic Turkish Genocide of Armenian Christians.

Besides, there is a modern Holocaust that should be remembered by all of us who remember the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews: The Holocaust of abortion, where millions of innocent unborn babies are medically exterminated under insane laws. Even Israel has such insane laws allowing the slaughter of innocents. In fact, Israel has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world. It makes no sense. The Jewish people, who were innocent victims in the Nazi Holocaust, should be prominent voices against the Holocaust of abortion.

On this January 27, while we remember the past suffering of millions of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, let us remember also the present suffering of millions of innocents through legal abortion. Let us remember to fight the Holocaust of abortion, because the goal of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is to hinder new holocausts from happening. While we are remembering the Holocaust against the Jews, babies are being tortured and murdered right now by legal abortion in the United States, in China, in Israel, in North Korea, etc.

If Holocaust is criminal, why is the Holocaust of abortion allowed to continue?

Portuguese version of this article: Todos precisam lembrar o Holocausto

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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.

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Trump refuses to call genocide the mass killings of Christian Armenians by Muslim Turks during World War One

By Julio Severo

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday 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, 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.

“We expect from the new U.S. Administration not to accredit the one-sided historical narrative of these circles which are known for their tendency to violence and hate speech and to adopt an approach which will take into consideration the sufferings of all sides,” the statement read.

In contrast, many Armenian-Americans, including Kim Kardashian, have protested the U.S. government’s omission. Kardashian has called for the use of the word “genocide” and compared a refusal to use it to Holocaust denial.

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” after pledging during their campaigns to recognize it as such.

On April 10, in a bipartisan letter calling upon the President to “appropriately mark April 24th as a day of American remembrance of the Armenian Genocide,” more than eighty U.S. congressmen said that “by commemorating the Armenian Genocide, we renew our commitment to prevent future atrocities.”

“We join with Members of Congress in calling upon President Trump to reject Turkey’s gag rule and embrace an honest American remembrance of the Armenian Genocide,” said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the Armenian National Committee of America. “It’s long past time for America to stop outsourcing our national policy on the Armenian Genocide to Recep Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian and anti-American regime.”

In calling upon President Trump to properly mark April 24th, the signatories highlighted the U.S. record of past recognition, including “President Reagan, who recognized the Armenian Genocide in 1981.”

The letter specifically cites Christian populations targeted by the Ottoman Empire’s genocidal campaign, including “Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Pontians, Syriacs, and other persecuted peoples.” 

The Turkish government has resisted the genocide label for the actions of the Muslim forces of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, but Armenian-American groups have long urged U.S. presidents to change course.

“The president’s statement fails to stand up for human rights and is inconsistent with American values, and represents the same kind of capitulation to Turkish authoritarianism which will cost more lives,” said Anthony Barsamian and Van Krikorian, co-chairs of the Armenian Assembly of America, on Trump’s statement.

The group called for an investigation into “surreptitious Turkish influence on the U.S. government.”

Christian group are not happy about Trump’s behavior.

“Sadly, he ended his first 100 days in office on the most shameful of notes, and has cemented his position as the ultimate Washington politician,” Steve Oshana, executive director of the Middle East Christian advocacy group A Demand for Action, wrote on Facebook after seeing Trump’s statement.

For years, concerns about angering Turkey, a U.S. ally, and strong lobbying efforts by the Turks have blocked attempts to change official U.S. government policy to acknowledge the genocide. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan did use the term in office, but George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama shied away from it, even fighting congressional efforts to endorse it.

“The statement that was put out is consistent with the statements that have been put out for at least several of the past administrations,” said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, speaking on Trump. “So I think if you look back to the language that President Obama, President Bush, etc., have used, the language that the president used is consistent with all of that.”

Trump crafted an image of himself as a gutsy outsider on the campaign trail and in doing so had raised expectations that he might challenge the taboo, Oshana said. But his statement reflected the power that neocons ― who include the “swamp” that he pledged to drain ― retain in the U.S. government. 

Trump has distanced himself from his campaign views against neocons and he has tried to forge a closer bond with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, even phoning him last week to congratulate him on a contested referendum that was criticized as an authoritarian power grab.

The White House later said the two leaders mostly discussed joint 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.”

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 the Saudi and Turkish Muslims.

If Trump cannot recognize as genocide the slaughters of Christians by Muslims 100 years ago, how can he be able to recognize current genocides against Christians? How can he be able to 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.

“Today, on the day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide victims, we note the need to remember our holy martyrs,” stated Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Monday

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, Turkish President Tayyip 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.”

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.

With information from Washington Times, The Hill, Armenian Weekly, Sputnik News, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, Huffington Post, DailyMail, Associated Press and Tert.

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Putin, the Most Powerful Man in the World

By Julio Severo

Forbes has named Vladimir Putin (Russia), Angela Merkel (Germany), Barack Obama (U.S.) and Pope Francis (the Vatican) in its latest “World’s Most Powerful People” list.

According to WND (WorldNetDaily),

“Putin was named the world’s most powerful last year, and the year before as well. To compile the list, Forbes considered four areas: whether the person had power over lots of people; the level of financial resources the person controlled; whether the person was powerful in more than one area; and whether the person actively used his or her power. A panel of editors ranked the candidates separately, and then those with the highest scores were placed on the list. ‘Putin emerged as the world’s most powerful person for the third year running,’ the news outlet wrote.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin had huge disadvantages to take the top spot on Forbes. He has been vilified in the Western world because he has gone against the homosexual tsunami promoted by Obama and his administration. In fact, the Western culture seems obsessed about promoting homosexual propaganda, especially about how to impose it on children.

Conversely, Putin has passed a ban against homosexual propaganda on children — a ban praised by Rev. Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, but condemned by Obama and other Western leaders. So it is no wonder that Putin was named “Person of the Year” in 2014 by The Advocate, the oldest homosexual magazine in the U.S. He was portrayed as the number 1 enemy of homosexual militants around the world just because he protected Russian children from homosexualists and their harmful propaganda.

The Russian opposition to the gay agenda has been a powerful motivation for Obama and his allies to fight Putin. In fact, Rev. Scott Lively has warned: “Obama Orchestrated Ukraine Coup to Re-Start Cold War and Prevent Russia from Leading Global Revolt Against LGBT Agenda.”

The Ukrainian crisis, ignited by George Soros and U.S. neocons, has been a convenient U.S. tool against Putin and his international image.

So how did Putin manage to reach the top stop on Forbes?

One reason, I suspect, is his warm relationship with Israel and the Jews. While Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s new media chief has called Obama anti-Semitic (a characterization denied by the Netanyahu administration, not because it is false, but because he does not want problems with the haughty emperor Obama and his empire), Putin’s attitude toward Israel and the Jews have been far away from anti-Semitism.

Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu

Writing in the Israel newspaper Jerusalem Post, Isi Leibler said about Putin:

There are no rational explanations for Putin’s extraordinary attitude toward Jews, which some have gone as far as to describe as being motivated by philo-Semitism. Some say he was influenced as a youngster by his Jewish German teacher, Mina Yuditskaya, now living in Israel and whom Putin invited for a social chat to the King David Hotel during his last visit.

He may also be highly sophisticated and pragmatic, and having seen the outcome of Soviet anti-Semitism, may have come to a realization that Jewish support would represent an asset at many levels.

Putin has ruthlessly suppressed violent anti-Semitism. He has gone out of his way to attend Jewish functions, such as the opening of a Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, to which he contributed $50 million of state funds and even symbolically personally donated a month’s salary.

He also attended Hanukka celebrations and conveyed warm messages of praise and goodwill to Jews on the advent of the Jewish New Year – utterly unprecedented, especially from a nationalist Russian leader.

It is also astonishing that, despite his strategic involvement and alliance with the Syrians and Iranians, Putin has determinedly kept the channels to Israel open, making a point to personally visit Israel. In fact, in June 2012, Israel was the first country he visited after his election. He frequently speaks warmly about the Jewish state, expressing pride that it contains the largest diaspora of former Russian citizens. At the Western Wall, accompanied by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, he donned a kippa, which undoubtedly made his Bolshevik predecessors turn in their graves. He also seemed quite indifferent to the rage this created among his Arab allies.

Immediately after announcing Russia’s intervention [in Syria], Putin agreed to a three-hour summit meeting with Netanyahu, who flew to Moscow where parameters were drawn up in order to minimize any possible military overlap and try to protect some of Israel’s security concerns.

Coordination has been maintained at the very highest military levels between both countries, with Russia operating a direct hotline with Yossi Cohen, Israel’s national security adviser, informing him in advance of Russia bombing targets in Syria.

Furthermore, according to Ehud Ya’ari of Channel 2, the Russians have allocated a future role for Israel in their area of influence by offering to buy a substantial chunk of Israel’s newly discovered gas fields and provide military guarantees against Hezbollah attacks on the offshore locations. It is also proposing to export this gas to Europe.

Isi Leibler also included negative expectations about Putin. Yet, even Ronald Reagan, who was considered a friend of Israel, was not spared criticism by Jews regarding his sincerity on his pro-Israel stances. Israeli journalist Chemi Shale has written about the Jewish suspicions on Reagan. Some of his negative remarks were well based, because the U.S., which has considered Israel a strategic military ally in the Middle East, has never recognized Jerusalem as Jewish. In contrast, the U.S. has never failed to recognize Riyadh, the Saudi capital, as Saudi. Saudi Arabia is also a U.S. ally in the Middle East and a major global terror sponsor.

Notwithstanding Jewish criticism over Reagan’s and Putin’s sincerity on Israel, my view is that Reagan and Putin are commendable for their pro-Israel stances and conservatism.

Putin’s positive attitudes toward Israel and the Jews, as described by Leibler, can explain his international success and top spot on Forbes, in spite of massive opposition and hostility from Obama and other Western leaders intent on fighting against Putin’s staunch effort to protect Russian children from the gay agenda.

Other Putin’s positive attitudes are toward persecuted Christians. Last April, when Armenia remembered the Armenian genocide that happened 100 years ago, where over 1.5 million Christian Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish Muslims, U.S. President Barack Obama, who represents the largest Protestant nation in the world, did not attend the ceremony. Pope Francis, who represents Catholics, did not attend it too. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who represents the largest Catholic nation in the world, did not attend it too. But Putin, representing the largest Orthodox Christian nation in the world, attended it.

In the Syrian war, where ISIS, al-Qaeda and other Muslim groups have been raping, torturing and slaughtering Christians, while America under Obama has sided with anti-Christian Muslim groups, Russia under Putin has sided with pro-Christian groups.

Pro-Christian attitudes are good for Putin and Russia.

Pro-Israel attitudes are good for Putin and Russia.

God said that he would bless those who bless Abraham’s descendants — Israel and the Jews.

God is blessing Putin. If he wants more blessings, he should bless Israel and the Jews more. He should also bless persecuted Christians and their values more. If he wants less blessings and more curses, he should imitate Obama.

Portuguese version of this article: Putin, o homem mais poderoso do mundo

Source: Last Days Watchman

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