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New York Monthly Herald. June 2006 Issue P. 120           CONTINUES ON P121                                                                  

 POLITICAL ANALYSIS

EDITORIAL by Robert Novak: "WILL BUSH HELP ISRAELI CHRISTIANS?"

COMMENTS by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator

I just finished reading one of Robert Novak's screeds against the Jews. This was on the Editorial Page of the Chicago Sun-Times of May 25, 2006 but you may find it in your local newspapers. The title or I should say 'angle of attack' was "Will Bush Help Israeli Christians?" Novak continues in his foam-at-the-mouth rationale that somehow the Arab Christians in Israel have been oppressed by the Jewish State.  Whoa! I happen to know something about what is happening to the Arab Christians in
Israel at the hands of the Muslim Arabs.  While Novak twists the story to meet his ever-present goals of pillorying the Jews, the facts speak otherwise. The Arab Muslims have virtually emptied the Arab Christians out of every town over which they gained control - especially since the Oslo Accords signed September 13, 1993 gave them power over the seven major Arab cities in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. That includes Bethlehem, Jericho, Gaza, Ram'Allah, Qalqilya, Jenin and Schem(Nablus), plus countless smaller towns and villages. Today neither Bethlehem nor any other formerly comfortable Arab Christian city, town or village is a place that is safe for Arab Christians to live lest they be assaulted by Muslims who believe that anyone who leaves the faith of Islam is worthy of killing.

Ask the Coptic Christians in Egypt why they are leaving that nation in droves. Strangely, the only place in the Middle East where Christians, be they European, American or Arab are safe is in Israel.  Why else do you think they are desperately trying to get on the West side of a stupid wall being built to try to keep Arab Muslim Terrorists from killing Jews?

Why do the Arab Christians wish to avoid being under the control of Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), the Hamas or any of the other Muslim 'Jihadist' (warriors for Islam) Terror organizations? The true angle of Novak's attack has little to do with Arab Christians and more to do with the Jewish settlers whom he clearly hates with a passion. When I say 'passion', consider how a Jew must hate himself and his religion to adopt another religion and then scream his arrogance. I am reminded of the now dead Casper Weinberger (Defense Secretary under Ronald Reagan) who often at a first meeting apologized for the drop of Jewishness in him. It's almost laughable for these anti-Semites to take up any cause except when it provides them with an opportunity to attack the Jews while rejecting their own Jewishness.

Robert Novak is an embarrassment to the Jewish people and we are well rid of him. He does not have to prove that he hates the Jews as if the gentile world will hold him in higher esteem. We don't want him; you can have him if have a "hate-the-Jews" chorus in yourself or whatever group you belong to. In his article, Novak rants about Messianic Jews on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Strange, Novak has nothing to say about the Messianic Islamists who wish to hold onto the Temple Mount which is the holiest site in the world because it was where the Jews First Temple was built by King Solomon, son of King David.

Had you, as an apostate Jew bothered to read the 'Tanach' (Bible), you would have seen the precise instructions given to King Solomon by G-d of how to build the Holy of Holies up to the last cubit.

Novak also artfully avoided the fact that, until the Jews returned to their patrimony (the Land G-d gave to the Jews 3000 years ago), the Christians were not acceptable to the Muslims.

Now, ask any Christian visitor if he is accorded free access to his Christian shrines and holy places - even to the point that it has been put into the Laws of the State of Israel to give the right for all religion to have free access to all their holy sites - including Christians, Muslims, Bahai, etc. Novak , please tell us, what Arab, be he Christian or Muslim has been denied access to his Church, Mosque or Shrine? The Arabs live better in the Jewish State under Jewish laws than they do anywhere else in the Middle East or the world. They have access to the courts to adjudicate their claims, a right which does not exist in most Arab countries or among the Muslim Palestinians. So tell us, Robert Novak, is your open hostility to Judaism from being beaten up because you were a shrimpy Jew as a kid? That you could not fight back and blamed the Jews for your having to run away from the gentile kids attacks? Did you adopt the philosophy, like Cap Weinberger: "If you can't beat them, join them."? Is that why you became a go-to-Church Christian? As you know, it didn't bring honor to the forced Jewish Conversos of Spain. They were called Marronos (which mean Pig in Spanish) and never liked or trusted by the Christians of Spain. Is that what you are, Robert, merely a Marrano/Pig - desperate for honor? Be assured, whatever you call yourself, to us your are still the 'pintele Yid' (the small Jew) running away from himself. If it helps you to foam at the mouth and curse at the Jews in Israel, go ahead. No one pays much attention - other than perhaps others like yourself. When you are ready, we Jews always take care of family - even when they are aberrant personalities who must be looked after.
 

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