US Jews cancel talks with Protestants over Israel

Major American Jewish organizations said Wednesday they have cancelled talks with liberal Protestant leaders after the churches sought an investigation of U.S. military aid to Israel.

The American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and Conservative and Reform Jewish movements are among those withdrawing from the national Christian-Jewish Roundtable. The dialogue group was founded in 2004 to ease tensions over escalating church protests against Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories.

The Jewish groups announced their decision in response to a request by several mainline Protestant leaders for Congress to re-evaluate U.S. military aid to the Jewish state. The church leaders said in an Oct. 5 letter to Congress that Israel was guilty of widespread human rights violations against Palestinians that violated U.S. legal standards for recipients of military aid.

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Evermyrtle

Zechariah 12:3,8-10
3. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

8.In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that id feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as GOD as the angelof the LORD beforea them.
9. GO to Your Bible and read this verse.
10. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the SPIRIT OF GRACE and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for HIM, as one mourns for HIS ONLY SON,and shall be in bitterness for HIM, as one that in bitterness of his first born.

Read the entire chapter 12
LouiseCA

Good for them. They should cancel. The National Council of Churches? They're barely even Christian. Stay away from these liberal "Christian" churches, Dear American Jews. I support your decision to cancel this meeting. Many of us out here do.
Randy131

When it comes down to 'Christians', the word 'Liberal' is an oxymoron, and the two are polar opposites of each other, and when used together, cancel out the definition of each. To bad the Jewish leaders do not understand this, mainly because they don't understand that Christianity forbades abortion, homosexuality, banning capital punishment, denying right to pray anywhere, and banning the 'Ten Commandments' for any reason, whch all are primary goals of all liberals, in order to change the USA from a Christian Nation to a secularist nation. For proof of this, just look at the Democratic Platform in any and every election held in the USA. Liberals and Democrats are synonyms of the same philosophy in today's USA, to the point of being socialistic and communistic, a far different and opposite position of my grandfathers Democratic Party, and why the Republican Party has become so popular. Knowing this, many wonder why American Jews always vote liberal and for the Democratic Party?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004047180339 John Adams

What is a "liberal christian"? I don't believe there can be such a thing. If they are liberal they are NOT Christian!
- young ram
  
  May I offer a definition: A Liberal Christian is one who enjoys the pleasures of sin while embracing with a clear conscience abominations which the Lord Jesus hates: abortion, homosexuality and cursing Israel.
  - Vladimir
    
    Very good definition of a liberal Christian. The only change I would recommend is their conscience is seared as with a hot iron. 1 Timothy 4:2.
  - John Adams
    
    I wouldn't consider such a person a Christian, and I don't believe God does either.
John J Flanagan

Although the Palestinians and their leaders do not want Israel to exist, and would do everything to destroy it, some liberal Christian churches support the Palestinians politically. When a group of people state Israel must be destroyed and have no interest in peace, how should Israel react? When rockets are fired into Israel and kill civilians, the Israeli military respond. In the process, some Palestinians are also killed. It is a vicious cycle. In my view, however, we do send too much money to Israel, as we do to Egypt and other lands. Foreign aid should be reduced. We have our own economic misery here in the US. Also, we need to learn to keep ourselves out of foreign conflicts and attend to our own house, which is burning.
Winston

It would be best if the author did not use the phrase "The church leaders" because they do NOT represent the true Church of Jesus. It would've been best if the phrase "the sect leaders" would've been used because that is what they are…a fragmented liberal sectarian group and not Biblical Christians. It is time to address this growing issue of those who have wormed their way into Christ's Church and separate ourselves from them because they are in violation of God's Word… Genesis 12:3.
Jeff Dixon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCXHPKhRCVg

Strange how it takes an Atheist to express the point
AcidRain502

Unfortunately God's word is used out of context to support the belief that the State of the Israeli is the Israel of old. Which it is not. The Nation of Israel was divorced and removed by God Himself when they were sent into Assyrian captivity in 745-722 BC by Tiglath-Pilesr(or Pul as the Bible calls him) 2 Kings 18-19, and then her sister Judah in 597-585 BC by Nebuchadnezzar 2Chron.36. Only the tribe of Judah, Benjamin and Levi ever returned as a whole(yes there were scatterings of the other 10 tribes but as a group they did not exist in any serious numbers any more) Ezra 1-10 and Neh. 1-2. Then the destruction of Judah was completed by Titus, under Vespasian, in AD 704 as per the prophecy given to us by our Savior Jesus in Matt.23:37-39;24:1-2; Mark 13.
The regathering of "Israel" is spoken by the prophets Ezekiel 36-37 and Isaiah 11 and restoration under the New Covenant spoken by Jeremiah 31. But, this regathering will be done by God at the end of the Tribulation as spoken by John in Revelation 19 at the Marriage Supper. The people that are described as "All Israel" are so far showing themselves to be nothing more than the people they are fighting against and would have been destroyed had not blinded True Israel saved their sorry butt! And they continue in their disbelief so much so that they would destroy their ONLY savior, America. Remember, God divorced Israel for unbelief and idolatry. Judah was then divorced for the very same thing a couple of centuries later. God specifically says that a divorced woman cannot be remarried to her previous husband and cannot be remarried lest her True husband DIE FIRST! Hence the Atoning Death of God on the Cross! Yes, I say God because that is who Christ was and is, God in the flesh. So those who claim they are THE Only True descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in reality are deceivers and liars. I am not saying all of them, just the group as a whole, there are always exceptions. There are literally hundreds of prophecies given about Israel and Judah(yes they are two distinct entities) and then their restoration not just as a group but as a faithful follower. And we know that ONLY the Christian West has EVER followed the Teachings of Jesus. Yes, I know, they and we do not do it perfectly, get over your self-righteousness as you are not perfect either. As the West are the only ones who have taken His teachings to "Make disciples of the world". So, I close with my rant with, Read your Bibles and LET YOUR BIBLES INTERPRET ITSELF!!!!!! And then see who is who and what is what. Here a little and there a little and Come let us reason, though your sins be as scarlet, I shall make you white as snow. Thank you lord for Isaiah and Your Word.
Peace