Showing posts with label Jerusalem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerusalem. Show all posts

Friday, June 07, 2019

Israel Celebrates Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem as Right-Wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Appoints Gay Justice Minister, the First Openly Gay Minister in Israel


Israel Celebrates Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem as Right-Wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Appoints Gay Justice Minister, the First Openly Gay Minister in Israel

U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem also sent a delegation to the gay parade to show support

By Julio Severo
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Likud lawmaker Amir Ohana as justice minister on June 5, 2019. Ohana is a right-wing homosexual.
Gay parade in Jerusalem
The appointment came just one day ahead of LGBTQ Pride Parade in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu’s spokesman Yonatan Urich said: “For the first time ever, a member of the LGBT community will be a senior member of the Israeli government.”
MK Idan Roll, who is also gay, congratulated Ohana and said he hopes the new minister will use the post to advance the demands from the LGBT community.
Netanyahu’s appointment of a homosexual as justice minister was a gift to homosexualists and their parade in Jerusalem.
Over 10,000 joined the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 6. A sea of rainbow flags flooded Jerusalem’s streets with Israelis and foreigners marching in the 18th annual Gay Pride Parade.
Amir Ohana also attended the event.
Eitan Ginzburg, who is the first openly gay Israeli to serve as a mayor in Israel, also attended it.
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem also sent a delegation to the parade to show support and solidarity. Such move follows the new direction of U.S. President Donald Trump to show support for homosexuality around the world.
The problem with Netanyahu appointing the first openly homosexual minister in Israel is that as a right-wing leader he should fight the pro-homosexuality trend clearly promoted by left-wingers. If he wants to promote homosexual cause, why not join the left?
As to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, evangelical leaders and ministers attended its inauguration last year. Certainly, they did it to pray and consecrate it for better relations with Israel, not for better relations with homosexuality. They prayed and consecrated the embassy to support Israel, not to support homosexuality.
Evangelical leaders in the U.S. and around the world enthusiastically support Netanyahu and they prayerfully supported Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Now they should tell to Netanyahu and Trump that they do not agree with government actions to support homosexuality, by Netanyahu appointing a homosexual and by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem sending a delegation to support the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem.
The big issue for conservative evangelicals is that if they made all effort to fight Obama and other left-wing leaders who showed support for homosexuality, why tolerate this same support from right-wingers?
Evangelicals knew what to do when the Obama administration supported gay parades. But they do not know what to do when they see the Trump administration doing exactly the same thing. They run the risk of seeming inconsistent or even hypocritical for tolerating in Netanyahu and Trump what they never tolerated in Obama.
The right in Israel and the U.S. is corrupting itself. Conservative evangelicals should pray and watch so that the right may not make them fall into temptation.
With information from the Jerusalem Post.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Trump’s Plan for Israel: Divided Jerusalem, with East Jerusalem as Palestine’s Capital


Trump’s Plan for Israel: Divided Jerusalem, with East Jerusalem as Palestine’s Capital

By Julio Severo
As shocking as it seems, a report published last week in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post, titled “Trump peace plan: divide Jerusalem, Palestinian state on 85-90% of W. Bank,” says,
“US President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century,’ expected to be rolled out after the [Israeli] elections on April 9, will include a Palestinian state on 85-90% of the West Bank and the division of Jerusalem.”
It is not shocking if you consider that all U.S. administrations, both left-wing and right-wing, worked hard to divide Israel.
Shocking because, in Trump’s case, it seemed that he was going to a different direction from his predecessors. It seemed that he wanted the whole Jerusalem only for Israel. But this is not so.
In my report last year, titled “Everybody Celebrated Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital But No One Read the Fine Print or Saw the Hidden Plan: Trump Wants to Give Part of Jerusalem to Palestinians,” I had informed that Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was not clear and had loopholes for the next U.S. presidents to recognize East Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital. I had thought that a future president, not Trump himself, would use such loopholes.
According to the Jerusalem Post,
“Regarding Jerusalem, the report stated that the city would be divided, with west Jerusalem and some areas of east Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and east Jerusalem — including most of the Arab neighborhoods — the capital of a Palestinian state. Israel would retain sovereignty over the Old City and its immediate environs, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, but it would be administered together with the Palestinians, Jordanians and perhaps other countries.”
Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital made evangelicals, who elected him, happy. But his current plan, which uses loopholes to keep the traditional U.S. plan of a divided Jerusalem and a divided Israel, goes against the Bible and evangelicals.
Instead of dividing Israel, just as other U.S. presidents did, Trump could propose a plan for the relocation of Palestinians, whose majority are Muslims, to Saudi Arabia, the capital of global Islam and global Islam terror. If the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia cannot give lands to Palestinian Muslims, why should Israel do it?
The traditional U.S. plan of a divided Israel is not different of the plan of the Vatican and Russia for Israel. But because the U.S. is the largest Protestant nation in the world, why cannot the U.S. follow the will of its evangelical population, who loves what God says, in the Bible, about Israel, its land and borders?
Last December, my Facebook account was blocked for 30 days (since then, it is a 60-day block) over a post by me defending Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. I expected such block if Facebook were a company in the Vatican or Russia, because of their traditional stance supporting a divided Jerusalem and Israel.
Yet, who expects such stance from a big U.S. capitalist company owned by a Jew? Facebook’s owner is Mark Zuckerberg, an American-Jewish left-wing man.
As far as Jerusalem is concerned, I pray that Trump may put the feelings of his evangelical constituents above the feelings of Saudi Arabia, Facebook, the Vatican, Russia and the traditional U.S. neocon foreign policy.
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Israel’s Netanyahu Meets Brazil’s Bolsonaro


Israel’s Netanyahu Meets Brazil’s Bolsonaro

By Julio Severo
For the first time, an Israeli Prime Minister has visited Brazil for an inauguration. Even though Brazil had several conservative Catholic presidents, no one of them was willing to get close to Israel. With Jair Bolsonaro, a nominal Catholic, was different, because his main voting base was evangelical.
Brazilian evangelicals support Israel enthusiastically — which is a phenomenon in Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the world, traditionally not known for supporting Israel and with a dark history of Inquisition against the Jews.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Brazil on December 28, 2018. He intends to remain in Brazil until the inauguration of the new Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, on January 1, 2019. Meanwhile, both are discussing agreements and partnership. It is a wonderful opportunity.
To support Israel in these wicked times is a big challenge. Recently, Facebook blocked my account for 30 days because I said that Jerusalem belongs only to Israel. Facebook, which belongs to a left-wing Jewish-American billionaire, does not like to support Israel. But I like! You can read how Facebook blocked my account over my pro-Israel stance here: Does Facebook Reject My Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital?
For years and decades, I have prayed, with many other Brazilian evangelicals, for such partnership, especially for the Brazilian government to recognize the whole Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and for Jerusalem’s peace. This is virtually a command for all those who love Jesus Christ and His living Word.
So I praise God for such new partnership as an answer to prayers.
I see also some challenges and opportunities. While Brazil has resisted the gay and abortion lobby, Israel has given up long ago. Israel has some of the most liberal abortion and homosexual laws in the world. So Brazil should support Israel and Jerusalem as its capital without following Israel’s liberal laws. Also, Brazilian evangelicals, who prayed for many years for a Brazilian-Israeli partnership, should pray for the salvation in Jesus Christ to both nations.
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?
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges is that while the father of Netanyahu is the author of a massive book against the Inquisition and its revisionism, one of Bolsonaro’s advisers, whom I call Bolsonaro’s Rasputin, is the most prominent Brazilian advocate of the Inquisition and its revisionism.
Bolsonaro’s Rasputin 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.”
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.”
Certainly, Netanyahu does not know that Bolsonaro’s Rasputin advocates the Inquisition and its revisionism. When he learns about it, he will bring, in the next trip to Brazil, some copies of “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain.”
Evangelicals who have prayed for a partnership between Israel and Brazil know that God answers prayers and now they should pray that God may remove Inquisition advocates from the Brazilian government and put leaders according to God’s purposes.
Portuguese version of this article: Netanyahu de Israel encontra-se com Bolsonaro do Brasil
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Monday, December 17, 2018

Does Facebook Reject My Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital?


Does Facebook Reject My Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital?

By Julio Severo
My Facebook profile (https://www.facebook.com/julio.severo) has been blocked for 30 days (beginning Saturday, December 15, 2018) because of my following post:
Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel. The United States and Guatemala, under evangelical presidents, have already made this recognition and have moved their embassies to Jerusalem. Russia made that recognition before Trump earlier this year but has not moved its embassy so far.
However, all such acknowledgments apply only to West Jerusalem. The United States, Guatemala and Russia only recognized West Jerusalem, leaving the Eastern part of Jerusalem unrecognized and open to negotiations to become the future capital of a spurious Palestinian state.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who is Israel’s pro-abortion and pro-sodomy right-wing Prime-Minister, has not complained about partial acknowledgments perhaps thinking half is better than nothing.
If [Brazilian President Jair] Bolsonaro recognizes the entire Jerusalem (both the western part and the eastern part) as capital of Israel, Brazil will outwit the US, Guatemala and Russia.
Full recognition protects East Jerusalem from falling into the hands of Palestinian terrorists.
I published this post on my Facebook profile and on all the Facebook pages administered by me on December 15, 2018. Facebook deleted this post in my page “Blog Julio Severo,” explaining: “We removed one of your posts because it doesn’t follow the Facebook Community Standards.”
How can a post defending Jerusalem as Israel’s capital be deleted as offensive when the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is a Jewish American?
I explained to Facebook that my post had nothing wrong, and Facebook answered “We’re sorry we got this wrong. We reviewed your post again and it does follow our Community Standards.”
My post was reinstated. This is Good News. But, at the same time, my personal Facebook account was immediately blocked for 30 days. This is Bad News!
I have sent this message to Facebook:
You had removed my post where I opined that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. You removed my post in one of my pages, and blocked my account. I asked a review, and after some minutes you answered me this way: “We're sorry we got this wrong. We reviewed your post again and it does follow our Community Standards.” Thank for returning my post. Yet, you have not unblocked my account after the review. If, according to your review, my post does follow your Community Standards, there is no need to keep my account blocked. Please, unblock my account as soon as possible.
Yet, I have received no answer. My personal Facebook profile is still blocked.
Why does Facebook make such confusion to conservatives like me? Because the Facebook founder is Jewish, he should be able to understand my conservative views, which are based on the Jewish Scripture. For example, I defend Jerusalem as Israel’s capital because the Jewish Scripture does so. I oppose the homosexual agenda because the Jewish Scripture condemns the homosexual behavior.
Yes, I follow the Jewish Scripture. And I do much more: I follow a Jew called Jesus Christ. Is there something offensive to the Jew Zuckerberg when he sees me following the Jewish Scripture and the Jew Jesus Christ?
In spite of my faithfulness to the Jewish Scripture, Facebook has been relentlessly harassing me for my conservative stances. Since June 2017, Facebook punished me with its infamous 30-day blocks several times. You can find more information here: Facebook Censors Comment about Lesbians But It Does Not Censor Homosexual Comments against Jesus Christ.
Perhaps one of the most shameful acts of Facebook against me was to censor Leviticus 18:22, a famous Bible verse, among Jews and Christians, that I had posted on my profile, but Facebook did not like it and removed it. See my article: Help! Facebook Is Censoring Bible Verses
In this sacred verse God says: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.”
This censorship against a Bible verse immediately became headline on WND (WorldNetDaily), in a report titled “Famous Bible verse too sizzling for Facebook.”
Because of this scandal, Facebook contacted WND with this message:
“As soon as we were notified of the problem, we began to investigate and restored the content as soon as we were able to identify the mistake. The content has been restored since it didn’t violate our standards. We’ve informed Mr. Severo of the restoration and apologized for the error.” (See the WND report “Facebook finally responds on censoring hot Bible verse”)
Yet, the Bible post was not restored and I have never received any apology from Facebook.
The only time Facebook ever backtracked on its harassment and bullying against me was when a conservative legal group in California sent a letter to Facebook. See: Facebook Acknowledges Its Own Censorship on Julio Severo. What Happens Now?
I do not know if Facebook’s simultaneous attitude of reinstating my pro-Jerusalem post and block my account is a deliberate confusion to avoid potential lawsuits by using, in the end, its standard excuse: “We’re sorry we got this wrong.”
What I know is such confusion always hit conservatives.
Willing or not, I am a victim of Facebook’s left-wing bias.
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