The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible REALLY Says About the End Times... and Why It Matters Today by Hank Hanegraaff

Author:Hank Hanegraaff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Zionism

For cultural Zionists such as Benny Morris, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is a defensible cruelty. In his words, “The overall final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.” The compulsory expulsion of Palestinians is defensible on the basis of pragmatic considerations. “We must expel the Arabs and take their places” said David Ben-Gurion, “and if we have to use force—not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places—then we have force at our disposal.”11 No one summed up the ramifications of ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people from the land better than did Moshe Dayan, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces from 1955 to 1958. In eulogizing an Israeli killed by Arabs, he pleaded for understanding. “What do we know of their fierce hatred for us? For eight years they have been living in refugee camps in Gaza while right before their eyes we have been turning the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers lived into our own land. We should demand Roi’i’s blood not from the Arabs in Gaza but from ourselves, for closing our eyes to our cruel fate and the role of our generation.”12

In stark contrast to cultural Zionists who deem ethnic cleansing as a defensible cruelty, Christian Zionists defend ethnic cleansing as a divine command. From Darby in the past to LaHaye in the present, they militantly forward the notion that God has covenanted to give Eretz Israel—from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates—exclusively to Jews. “The Lord will purify His land of all the wicked,” wrote Darby, “from the Nile to the Euphrates.”13 John Hagee is equally explicit. “God has given Jerusalem,” he says, “only to the Jews.”14 Supporting the displacement of Arabs in order to make room for Jews is rationalized as fulfillment of the purposes of God.

Those like Bethlehem Pastor Mitri Raheb who support a two-state solution and pray that one day Jews and Palestinians will live together in peace, are said to be poking their finger into the very eye of God. In fact, when Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon began dismantling Israeli settlements in Gaza as a step toward peace, he was savagely denounced by Christian Zionists. Pat Robertson went as far as to suggest that the establishment of a Palestinian state was a direct violation of “God’s plan.” His immediate reaction was to attribute the stroke Sharon suffered on January 4, 2006, as divine retribution for dividing God’s land. “Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the United Nations or the United States of America,”15 he warned. Robertson went on to link Sharon’s stroke to the 1995 assassination of Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin who similarly suffered the wrath of God Almighty for signing the Oslo Peace Accords granting limited self-rule to Palestinians.16

Leading Christian Zionist Michael Evans, who considers Palestinians “a tainted and brainwashed people”17 is equally

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