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Mike Adams' statements on the Jews and Israel (primer) Adams has a lot to say about Israel as a crusader for what he thinks is righteous by his wrong interpretations of Scripture. He speaks up on behalf of the Palestinians and Hamas terrorists, as if they are the victims, which is just demagoguery.’ First, a question: Was it wrong for Israel to fight their enemies as they traveled into the promised land? Was it wrong to fight for their safety when they were in the promised land? It was God who told them to do so. No one wants to see war, but if they do not fight, they will be annihilated. I hear no protest from Adams on this. In fact, he apparently approves of this. Before we go into his sordid teachings, I want to lay a historical factual basis on the subject of Israel, the Jews, and the land. In 70 AD, the Jews lost their temple to Roman armies and began to be scattered from the land. In 135 A.D., the Romans killed up to 500,000 Jews and enslaved thousands. They then renamed what had been known as the land of Israel (Judea) for more than 1,500 years prior, calling it Provincia Palestina, as an insult. It was named after the Philistines, Israel's ancient enemies. Those living there became known as Palestinians. Ironically, Jews lived there too; they were known as the first "Palestinians," along with anyone else in the land. “On July 15, 1889, the Pittsburgh Dispatch reported that of Jerusalem's 40,000 residents, 30,000 were Jews and most of the others were Christians. In 1948, when Israel declared its independence, only 3 percent of Palestine was owned by Arabs.” (newsletter, Dave Hunt ‘King of the Jew’s) After the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of Jewish holocaust survivors had nowhere to live, and countries would not take them. The UN voted to partition Palestine (giving 18 percent to the Jews) to create a small Jewish state as a place for the resettlement of the survivors of Hitler's annihilation campaign. UN Resolution 181 was passed, called "the partition of the land. They divided what was ancient Israel, giving 82 percent to the Arabs and 18 percent to the Jews. (although the League of Nations' 1922 Declaration of Principles had said that all of "Palestine" belonged to the Jews.) The Palestinian Arabs were given over ¾ of Palestine as a state of their own to run as they wanted. This is what Mike Adams has to say on this, showing total ignorance on the subject. “This is what Israel did to Palestine in 1948. The UN said, We're going to recognize Israel. We're going to tell Israel you can go to Palestine and just take all their land. The UN did not tell the world that there were already people there. People with farms, people with families, people with a thousand years of history already living there. But they just said, yeah, Israel, you can just go there and kill everybody, move everybody, displace them, take their land. Did those people have a right to fight back against the Israeli occupation and invasion? Absolutely they did. In fact, who was wrong in the eyes of God in 1948? It was Israel and it was the UN because Israel was the invading force. Israel, they were the occupiers supported by the British army, by the way. So the British were evil in the eyes of the Lord. The Israelis were evil in the eyes of the Lord.” (087 - Old Testament Jews, New Testament Christians and Quran Muslims) What he is saying is not at all historical of what actually happened. It is reversed because of his personal prejudice. There were always Jews living in the land. This land was given to them in 1948, which fulfills Bible prophecy of the Jews being scattered worldwide for 1,900 years and being brought into their original land, speaking their own ancient language of Hebrew. It is God who did this. Israel did not invade anyone! And the quality of land they were given was mostly desert compared to what the Palestinians got. Israel was admitted as the 59th member state of the United Nations. On May 14, 1948, the Jewish people formed the sovereign State of Israel. About 800,000 + Jews (nearly double the number of original “Palestinian” refugees) fled to Israel from the oppression they were under in Muslim countries. From Syria, Transjordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. These would be considered immigrants. Israel’s Proclamation of Independence on May 14, 1948 stated: “We extend our hand to all neighboring States and their peoples in an offer of peace...and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land...placing our trust in the Almighty...” As the British withdrew, on May 14, 1948, six Arab nations, along with those given a portion of the land, attacked Israel. Egypt's King Farouk declared, "I cannot and will not tolerate a Zionist state in the Middle East." Israel did not initiate this war. Adams is insolent to God’s Word and truculent to Israel, some of his sermons are filled with animosity and hatred, “Israel, they are the occupiers of Palestine. They are the occupiers who invaded in 1948 and have been carrying out ethnic cleansing, displacement, and genocide ever since.” (066 - Ezekiel Ch 39 - God DESTROYS ISRAEL after thousands of years of Israeli wickedness, evil and deception) Adams' view of Israel in the land is no different than Islam's. He says,“Israel has proven over the last year that it is a satanic evil, wicked, terrorist nation that abides by no law, not God's law either, not international law, not any rules of war, not any treaties, not the Nuremberg guidelines or anything. Israel is proving itself to be the most evil nation on the earth…. carrying out its own new Holocaust.” (079 - Daniel Ch. 7 - Is the BEAST a symbol of Zionism?) Notice the title, which he insinuates Israel is. Adams' accusations of genocide are a canard, a false representation of what is taking place. If this were genocide, Israel would have wiped everyone out already. However, that is not their intent at all; yet, this is war. And wars can get very ugly. Does he not know Israel often drops papers to the people, warning ahead of time for people to leave before they send their soldiers in, or drop bombs? Does Adams not understand that Hamas is known to keep their people in harm's way to make Israel look bad, they are willing to sacrifice their own women and children for their cause, as they know the media will carry the stories. Genocide, according to the dictionary, means to bring about the extermination of a racial, political, or cultural group, which is exactly what the Hamas charter states, not Israel. Not only is it in their charter, but it is what Islamists practice throughout the world. Hamas runs Gaza, he Hamas Charter Article 7, reiterates the apocalyptic Hadith in the Qur’an: “The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews, and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree, and a stone or a tree would say: ‘Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.” Genocide is being committed against the Jews in Israel. GAZA Gaza became the pilot project for a separate Palestinian state. First, it came under the control of the PLO, which was bad. Terrorism escalated even more when Hamas took over, as they governed militarily. There is no two-state solution, not because Israel does not want it but the Palestinians in Gaza do not, they want Israel eliminated. Calls for annihilation of Jews continue to be broadcast throughout the Muslim world, such as the Friday sermon in Gaza’s Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan mosque, October 14, 2000, by Ahmad Abu-Halabia: “The Jews...must be butchered....Have no mercy...kill them...and those Americans who...established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab world...” The people in Gaza voted for Hamas in and accepted their false promises. Now out of control they are unable to stop them. The Muslim brotherhood is considered a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Syria, and Bahrain. Hamas was formed in 1987 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization by the EU, the United States, and Israel. What do you expect to happen when you allow terrorists to be the head of your government? The Gaza Strip has been given billions of dollars in humanitarian aid over the last several years, over $400 million from the U.S. and $1 billion from Qatar. Hamas has diverted much of that humanitarian aid that was intended for the Palestinian people for its own purposes, for missiles and weapons for war. You can’t expect to have friendly neighbors, nor can you expect to live a long or safe life with this type of governing! Some ignore Oct 7 as if it never happened. But it will happen again and again with Hamas leading them to continue to act inhumanely. Israel is doing what it can to keep people safe. Is it wrong to keep your people safe in their own country, to not allow missiles and threats to continue? Israel often reacts; they are rarely the instigators (unless they have advanced information on an attack). They live ready to go to bomb shelters at any given moment from missiles from their unneighborly neighbors. Imagine living like this day to day? Or maybe a bus you get on will get blown up by a suicide bomber. They must constantly be on alert. Reuters news, which is no friend of Israel, reported on Dec. 14, 2023 Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct. According to a survey, 71% of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank approve the October 7 attacks, in which terrorists killed approximately 1,200 people and kidnapped 253 others. Additionally, 75% of respondents agreed with the October 7 attack and 74.7% supported a single Palestinian state "from the river to the sea" Why would this have such support? Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ in Arabic remains a continual bestseller in Muslim countries, especially among “Palestinians.” No one wants to see war, innocent people die when it occurs, not just soldiers. This can only be halted by an agreement which is not forthcoming The Facts are the facts Today there are 7.2 million Jews in Israel, approximately 46% of the world's Jewish population. The Muslim/ Arab Population in Israel today is 21.3%. Jerusalem has the largest number of Muslim residents ( 380,000), comprising 38.1% of the city’s residents. At the end of 2023, the Muslim population in Israel was estimated at 1.782 million. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , the Israeli Arab population stood at 2.1 million people in 2023, accounting for 21% of Israel's total population. Israeli Arabs serve in parliament, as Supreme Court judges, as foreign envoys. Arabs have had 100 past and present members of Israel’s knesset. 41% of Israeli Arabs recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state (though recently it has gone down from 65.6%.) Arabs in Israel represent one-fifth of the population . There are three mainstream Arab parties in Israel: Hadash, Balad, and the United Arab List. By some measures, Arab citizens of Israel have greater political and civil freedom than most Arabs living elsewhere in the Middle East. So the claims of apartheid do not hold up to the facts. Adams and his colleagues may be good manipulators of facts but they are not masters of them and cannot argue the true facts when they are brought out. The facts are there are Arabs in Israel’s government, are citizens of Israel, over 20% of Jerusalem is Arab. Zionism IS ... When the subject of evil comes up, Zionism, Israel are often used as proof. Accusations such as Genocide, Satanism, synagogue of satan and a litany of other offensive descriptions are used. His accusations are endless and vociferous. Anyone who sides with Israel (Zionism meaning Israel having a homeland) is described as evil, demonic, murderous, and deceptive. Regardless of what Zionism has been politicized, a Zionist, according to the Bible, is one who yearns for Jerusalem to be at peace, to be under the Messiah's rule. That is why it says in the Scripture to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. He says,“… Zionism is a philosophy of ethnic supremacy that says that Jews are the chosen race, chosen by God, to be superior to all other races. Well, that would mean that Jews are superior to Christ as well, and that Jews are superior to all Christians, and that Jews are superior to all”(085 John ch14- is Christ the only pathway to heaven) Isn't Christ a Jew also? The Bible does indeed say God chose them (numerous times, as it also says of being chosen, elected as the church). He formed Israel into a nation (the only theocracy) to exalt his ways, not to exalt themselves. They succeeded at times and they failed at times. Adams focuses on their failures and portrays them as evil all the time. That Israel is genocidal for protecting their citizens. "Israel is carrying out is all new holocaust and its become evident to anyone paying attention that Israel is evil.” He then quotes and agrees with someone who says “zionism is the beast in Revelation 13”(another terrible Bible interpreter.) 9079 - Daniel Ch. 7) He demonizes the word Zionist which basically means to have a land for your people, (of which God gave to them). And he purposely ignores what the Muslims do daily by their suicide bombings in Israel and all over the world. Israel is continually being attacked, and they have a right, like any other nation to defend themselves to be safe. And what of all the Islamic lands in the area? Israel has one one-thousandth of the world’s population in a state the size of NJ, surrounded by active enemies. Written in Psalm 137:1-6: “By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept When we remembered Zion. They yearned in captivity,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”The Jewish captives then in Babylon longed for their homeland, which is an expression of Zionism. Israel is a people, a nation that has a land, promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Gn.12.) And that is what Zionism is about. It means advocating for the Jews to return, to ‘their homeland,’ to be safe in their homeland. Biblically the people have the right for a Jewish State. Instead, many learn incorrectly that Zionism means a Jewish supremacy over all, an embellishment at best, used more as a tool of hatred. Adams says of Israel, “it's an ethnic supremacy cult. It's actually a satanic death cult that we call Zionism”(079 - Daniel Ch. 7.) Zionism is used as an ethnic slur by Jihadi Muslims. They ALWAYS put the blame on Israel just for existing there. What this means is that they can have numerous Islamic countries in the Middle East, but Israel, whose people are Jews who came before them, cannot exist there. Adams says, “And the philosophy of Zionism is also satanic.”(095 God's gift of CONSCIOUSNESS) Which means he is accusing God of wrongdoing, not just people. Zion appears nearly 160 times in the Hebrew Bible as a synonym for Jerusalem which is the heart of Judaism and God's people. Zion represents the city of Jerusalem and the Promised land. God is a Zionist, 1 Kings 11:36-37 Jerusalem is “the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.”2 Chron. 6:6-7: “Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there.” Isa. 60:14: “and they shall call you The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.”Ps. 132:13-14: “ For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for His dwelling place” The Psalmist write Ps. 135:21 “Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, who dwells in Jerusalem! Isa. 60:14 “And they shall call you The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel. ” Adams teaches, “southwest part of Ered Jerusalem is also called Mount Zion. So Mount Zion refers to one of the peaks of Mount Hermon, where Armageddon takes place.” (057 - Ezekiel Ch 38-39 - The timing and location of Armageddon.) He is completely wrong on this, Zion is considered the highest point in the city of Jerusalem. And, Zion has everything to do with Israel and her people . Isa. 46:13 “And I will place salvation in Zion, For Israel My glory.” Isa. 51:16 “…say to Zion, 'You are My people.'" Zechariah the prophet Zech. 1:14 “I am zealous for Jerusalem And for Zion with great zeal.” Meggido (valley of Jezreel) is where Armageddon takes place, which is between Jerusalem and Mount Hermon, which is located on the border of Lebanon and Syria. Adam’s in his interview with his colleague of hate, Dustin Nemos, discussing Iran and Israel, which is particularly applicable to what is taking place right now. Adams: “I'd be surprised if Israel survives the next couple of years, frankly.” Dustin Nemos: “…if it were me I would unite the world against Israel and take it out and mankind would have an era of, a golden era of peace and prosperity as we, you know become human and don't have monsters ruling over us.” Adams does not disagree. They both are supporting the action of Iran taking out Israel, that Iran could save the world! What a completely ignorant, nonsensical statement! This would be like saying if Hitler wins the war the world will be at peace. Iran is an Islamic terroristic country. He is among those who abhor Israel, where he does not try to understand the predicament they are in. If you only recognize Israel's actions and not those of Islam/ Hamas, there is something seriously wrong with your ethics and judgment. Israel is constantly at risk from missiles, running to bomb shelters. Iran is far enough away not to be in this conflict, but they have actively inserted themselves because they are Islamic and hate Jews and Israel. And they oppose everyone who supports the Jews and Israel as enemies. Iran continually chants death to Israel, they also chant death to America, read o f how Iran’s Islamic government treat their people compared to how Israel treats their people. What happens to Israel’s ancient enemy (Persia) ‘Iran’ according to the Bible (Jer.29). Mike Adams goes even further saying: “The single most important achievement on planet Earth right now that could measurably improve the most lives greatly reduce the risk of war and end the most human suffering would be the complete economic military and geopolitical dismantling of Israel, coupled with the international recognition of Palestine and its people.” (Nov.2 2024) That is what Satan wants, not God, who brought them into the land to fulfill his prophetic word. Let’s continue to look at the instigation of hatred caused by Adams' numerous statements against the people of God’s covenant. p.2 Further accusations ofMike Adams' crusade against the Jews, Israel, and the Church
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