The Anglican Church of Canada wants to tell you how to vote. In a consummately tendentious article, the ACoC informs us that Israel is responsible for the lack of peace in the Middle East because: Israelis continue to settle in Palestinian territories; Israel’s response to being bombarded by rockets is “disproportionate”; Israel denies the Palestinians’ right of return.
Arabs who inconveniently persist in firing rockets into Israel, murdering Jews whenever they get the chance, calling for Israel’s destruction and teaching their children that Jews should be hated because they are the offspring of apes and pigs are not in the least bit guilty. They are just being mildly inconsiderate.
The party that most consistently supports Israel is Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. The Anglican Church of Canada doesn’t want you to vote for them. I was going to vote Conservative anyway, but I’d like to thank the ACoC for confirming my decision.
From here:
The General Synod’s Global Relations Director, Dr. Andrea Mann, pointed to three key issues that continue to animate the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
The steady and increasing settlement of Palestinian territories by Israeli settlers with the support of the Israeli government is a major point of contention, Mann noted, pointing to ongoing claims on Palestinian villages as Israeli land through the continued bulldozing of Palestinian houses.
Counter-measures by Israel to Palestinian incursions such as rocket attacks, which Mann indicated are often disproportionate to the initial Palestinian actions, are another major issue.
“Where there is an initiative or a strike, say, from Gaza into Israeli territory, the response by Israel is in far greater measure, and has been shown to be without consideration for civilian life or hospitals or schools—the places where people gather for safety from those counter-strikes,” she said.
A third major issue is the Palestinians’ right of return, which relates to compensation to Palestinians for lands taken from them beginning in 1948 with the formation of the state of Israel, and the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who left homes behind and were never invited to return or compensated for the loss of their homes, livelihoods and communities.
I do think, David, that we need to face that in the ME the whole lot of them are thieves, liars and terrorists, and that until ALL turn to JC there will never be peace there.
Yes, both Arabs and Jews need to turn to Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Lord.
Is it possible to be pro-Israel without immediately being lumped in with hysterical loonies? I’m asking for a friend.
Vincent,
Tell your friend to be careful; it’s a slippery slope. He make think he can stop at being pro-Israel but before he knows how it happened, he will find himself believing in the hysterical loony-ism of objective reality.
It’s all downhill from there.
Here’s some hysterical loonyism for you: Palestinians demanding the right of return from a government against which they bore arms (maybe the US should dig up its war dead and return Arlington to RE Lee’s descendants); Palestinians demanding reparations without any thought of reparations they may owe for barbarism agianst Jews; Arabs conveniently forgetting that Israel’s Mizrachi Jews were driven out of their MENA countries, deprived of their property and wealth, and no talk fo reparations for them; parlor Palestinians and limousine liberals ignoring PA and Hamas calls for shariah law in the Palestinian terrritories whole ranting against the only country in MENA with any Western values and no organized oppression of Christians. I could go on…
The soldiers, Yankees and otherwise can stay, of course. Far be it for us to be inhospitable. But the Yankees have had Arlington long enough, and perhaps we should repatriate it back to the Lee family.
And a fellow David….100% ancient Anglican… agrees that it is genuinely impossible to allow any part of the camel to pass under the tent flap. It soon becomes swimming against the Tsunami.
El Gringo Viejo
(David Christian Newton)
The LORD also makes it His ‘Election policy’ – foreign policy, even, + Genesis 12:3,
as His Story faithfully has attested without fail. + Matthew 25 is the denouement. So however you vote, do not get in line with “the goats”; it already is a very long one!