gael matheson http://www.jta.org/user/profile/65415 A former Minister of The Presbyterian Church In Canada ( May 17, 1983 - May 6 , 2008 ); B.A., M.A. (Hist.); M. Div.; Dipl. Ministry. Also Complainant vs.same institution re.systemic gender ( female ) discrimination; upheld by Human Rights Commission Decision August 23, 2006. Life-long supporter of Jewish People and State of Israel. Zionist. Of Jewish descent on distaff side: David. en-us zsilberman@washingtonjewishweek.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Qom: "the marriage between religious fanaticism and weapons of mass destruction" - Israeli PM to UN, September 24, 2009 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 A powerful, Biblical-historical indictment of the radical, moral inversion so symptomatic of what, thereby, has become an invalid Institution ...yes, circa 1975....... 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 DRE:"So why the walkout?" Since what went on in word in Geneva /Durban II, then in unspeakable deeds in Tehran in June, and continues, did not stay in either, but had the unprecedented audacity to come to that one international body both whose raison d'etre and attending International Declaration of Human Rights DID arise, and that directly, out of the very Holocaust whose historical fact this 'sounding brass' denies, why walk in to begin with? Commendations to Israel and Canada! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 To be called "The Whitewashed Hotel"? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Mahdi, NOT The Mashiach, is the problem: with all the "fierce urgency of NOW". 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Balfour, San Remo and the Mandate - Torah; the rest has been 'commentary' - bad commentary. See:"Justice Now4Israel" Shana Tovah! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It is going to take a massively enforced shift of the historical, and higher still, scales of justice to find the Allies more wanting in the balance of the biggest Blood Libel of all time than those Pacelli-inspired, priestly quills that, on April 25, 1933, ushered it in: by providing the vital details of the "blood purity" of German Jewry from nothing less than the parish registries -these vital details in turn enabling full implementation of the Nuremberg Laws. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 There are TWO elephants in this room! The one marches to the BDS beat of Durban I,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,; the other dances to the Liberation Theology that first presented under the aegis of the World Council of Churches just in wake of Israel's 1967, G-D-given victory in the Six Day War. Until the source of this latter font of poisoned ideology ( as opposed to pure theology) is addressed and exposed, attempted death to Israel by a thousand 'Church' cuts will continue...the UCC but would follow, of late, the PCC............ 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tishah B' Av 5769 Your thesis has an antithesis: also a "cultural" one; but it is NOT a Christian.one, "monomaniacal" or otherwise. The cultural context for the speech clearly demonstrates that "internal validation" is not, nor ever has been, the problem; rather, "external validation" - as close as next door on all three, inimical sides! - continues to be so, and the speech did nothing to counter it in specifically unique,as in BIBLICAL, terms. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Typo: line 3 should read 'local Nazi crimes' 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This! In concert with a decade long campaign of historical revision: now issuing in the EP(08) and OSCE (09) approving the marking of August 23 (Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact ) as a day of symmetrical commemoration of local Holocaust crimes with crimes under Communist occupation. In light of the more accurate Baltic 'history', one not only of grotesque collaboration, but post-War failure of prosecution, restitution, documentation, revisionist history textbooks and museums, and for long years, the proper, most elementary humane commemorative marking of numerous sites of mass killing, this marks nothing more than ongoing insult by "the Ministry of Truth" to that original and UNIQUE injury called the Holocaust. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Eu Wei Choi - your 6/11/09 post never to "forget the role of the Palestinian Arab leader...in the Holocaust" also calls to mind never to forget that in the Reich's political negotiations with their Arab allies no specific political promises were offered because: the mutual understanding and hopeful expectation was, that in due course, with the right powers in place, not only "Palestine", but even more so, the world at large was to become "Judenrein". 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Since Dr.Billy Graham's circa 1970 observation of a general antisemitism "deep down in this country", it has emerged, but not generally; rather specifically: in a transmogrified and most virulent form possible -in the proposed and stated policies of mainline Protestant denominations, who, along with their North American & European cohorts and umbrella organizations, continue (as recently as June 9, 2009 ) to seek to de-legitimize and demonize that unique religio-historical, Torah-based reality of People=Land, Israel. This dark, new "Christian" antisemitic reality, but less than sixty years after the Holocaust, behooves the Church universal (yet again!), the TRUE Church , to monitor, report on, expose and denounce it for what it is. Otherwise, silence will be construed as consent. Yet again! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 'This year...in Jerusalem!' Amen! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 'Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon ZION.... But thou, BETHLEHEM Ephrathah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be Ruler in ISRAEL, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.' Micah 4:11;5:2 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Fullest commendation to the utterly necessary presence and voice of protest on erev Yom Hashoah on behalf of all those who will NEVER be silenced AGAIN: at a 'conference' that has marked itself for history as the most egregious inversion of the very rights and values it professes to represent and advance. In Geneva! Once the true city of refuge for Europe's persecuted, but now, oh now, but covert banker to blood-stained mammon, and smiling, "neutral" handmaid to smiling, intended genocide! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Screen name 'darshan' Now if they just pull out of Jerusalem! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 A fresh filing of a petition in British moral bankruptcy that in the wake of the odious White Paper of May 17, 1939, the THEN Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, a veritable voice in the wilderness of an unfolding mass betrayal, adjured the House of Lords that in matters pertaining to the sacred association of "Palestine" and the Jews, Britain stood at the bar of G-D. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The "rock" (petros) upon which Yeshua built His "Church" (ekklesian) was not Peter or any other mortal,and certainly not of any hierarchical caste: but rather upon the profession of FAITH in Yeshua as the "rock" ( petra - 'massive rock' ) as found recorded in Matthew 16:18. If the Roman Church truly loved the Bible, there would be no "Pope", and correlatively, no "tradition" to shore up its all too fallible human fabrications (i.e. the confessional; mariolatry; clerical celibacy;and most pernicious of all, papal infallibility )inimical at best, idolatrous at worst. This, after all, was the essence of the Reformation - grace alone, faith alone, and Scripture alone. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 In addition to the exclusive insult of the omission of a faith representative of the People of The Book is the fact that both the United Methodist Church as well as the Disciples of Christ Church as recently as last year had adopted a policy of divesting in Israel. Most offensive of all: Bishop Robinson's inclusive jettisoning of The Book - the same Book that Lincoln read daily! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00