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ELCA Calls for Policy that Would Destroy Israel

5/11/2018

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The ELCA is wrong on many things, and their continued badgering and condemnation of Israel is one of them. The ELCA has chosen to side with people who have a vile hatred for Jews.
 
A few weeks ago the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America signed a statement condemning Israel for some imagined violation against the “Palestinians.” It is almost always a fabricated, biased, or deceptive claim. The ELCA holds Israel to standards that they hold no other nation. One must question their motivations. The ELCA has a history of disgusting anti-Semitism that dates back to Martin Luther.
 
In this latest statement of demands and condemnation of Israel, the ELCA has even taken up the cause called the “Right of return” saying, “Palestinian refugees have the right to return to their homes, and to compensation for loss of property, as laid out in UN General Assembly resolution 194.” (see here) So the ELCA is calling for anyone claiming to have been in Israel, just before 1948, and all of their offspring, to be able to go and dwell in Israel. 
 
This is an outrageous demand that would destroy Israel. Advocating this position shows that the ELCA leadership does not know history and again, is an example of how the ELCA holds Israel to different standards than they do the rest of the world. For instance, the ELCA is not making these same demands for all displaced persons of war who have been allies with losing aggressors, such as the Palestinians, demanding that they be able to return to that land and be compensated. In the case of Israel, the land was won in battle 70 years ago.
 
In 1948, Israel, a brand new nation who just wanted to live in peace, was attacked by their Arab neighbors.  Around that time, “the Jews of Palestine urged Arab inhabitants to remain in the area and become part of the nascent state. Despite these pleas, however, the majority of Arabs fled, many heeding their own leaders' promises that they could return after the Jews were driven into the sea.” (see here) The 150,000 that did stay became Israeli citizens after Israel defeated the coalition of Arab countries. But now the ELCA and many others are demanding that Israel import around 5 million “Palestinian refugees,” most who hate Jews, insisting they be given land, money and housing. It would destroy Israel, a land that has a current population of just over 8 million people. 
 
Learn more about the current situation happening in Israel that inspired this latest, bias, hateful ELCA statement - ​March of Return nothing more than terrorists’ plaything

And, 

Below is a Facebook post by the ELCA's, Metropolitan Chicago Synod containing a link to the recent ELCA statement. 
​

See the documentation of the ELCA's evil anti-Israel crusade here and here)

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Didaskalos link
5/12/2018 11:39:52 am

The ELCA has a conscience-seared penchant for blessing and abetting that which God condemns (sexual sins top the world-pleasing list, with universalism, syncretism, and pagan feminism close behind) and cursing that which God blesses.

Its flouting of commands in God's Word is matched by its willful historical ignorance.

"...Palestinians — people in a national group that never existed by the name 'Palestine' until well into the 20th century — deny the existence of the oldest continuous nation in the world, dating back over 3,000 years. Now, that's real chutzpah.

"Indeed, the Palestinians deny that the Jews ever lived in Israel. That is why Yasser Arafat could not even admit that Jesus was a Jew; rather, according to Arafat, "Jesus was a Palestinian." To acknowledge that Jesus was a Jew would mean that Jews lived in Israel thousands of years ago, in a Jewish state, moreover — long before Muslims existed, long before Arabs moved there, and millennia before anyone called himself a Palestinian."

"In the Palestinian president's speech to the United Nations..., this denial of Jewish history was reaffirmed. Thus, in a speech about Israel and the Palestinians, he never once uttered the word "Jew" or "Jewish."

"Here is an example of Abbas's Jew-free view of the history of Israel/Palestine:

"I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the birthplace of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) …"
[ . . . ]
"As Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, wrote in The Washington Post [September 2011]:

"Two Israeli peace proposals, in 2000 and 2008 … met virtually all of the Palestinians' demands for a sovereign state in the areas won by Israel in the 1967 war — in the West Bank, Gaza and even East Jerusalem. But Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected the first offer and Abbas ignored the second, for the very same reason their predecessors spurned the 1947 Partition Plan.

"Each time, accepting a Palestinian State meant accepting the Jewish State, a concession the Palestinians were unwilling to make.

"That is the issue. Not settlements. Not boundaries. The Palestinians, like most of their fellow Arabs and like many Muslims elsewhere, have never acknowledged that the Jews came home to Israel because they have never acknowledged that the Jews ever had a national home there. And they don't even acknowledge that the Jews are a people."

The Palestinians Want Peace — Just Not With a Jewish State -- http://www.dennisprager.com/the-palestinians-want-peace-just-not-with-a-jewish-state/

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MN ELCA Reader
5/12/2018 12:40:36 pm

We have been to Israel a couple of times & it really makes the Bible come to life as many others have also said the same thing after being there. Israel doesn't do everything right but it seems our ELCA leadership still buys in that the Palestinians do nothing wrong & are the entitled ones! Since when do "peaceful protests" include throwing rocks, burning tires, etc.?

When you play a ball game and the results do not turn out in your favor do you then say "well it doesn't count since we didn't win??" Israel was attacked in 1948, 1967 and 1973 and the results were in Israel's favor. Why should they give land back when it will never be enough unless Israel is wiped off the map.

Should the USA be nice folks and give back some of the original states to England just because the results of the war in the 1770's did not turn out well for England??

Yes there are Palestine Christians and Lutheran's. They are good people and we have met some of them.

Perhaps it is time to take the locks off the doors at the ELCA headquarters & some synod offices to have a real open door policy as they expect Israel to do the same!!

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Dave from Minnesota
5/14/2018 03:32:07 pm

I read the letter you linked to at the bottom of your post. Sometimes I think anti-Israel people are actually well intentioned but just naive and don't know the facts.

But from reading this letter.....there are so many falsehoods in it that it can't just be ignorance. But intentional fabrications. I am familiar with what is going on right now and this letter is creating fiction.

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