Can America Survive? by John Hagee

Author:John Hagee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

THE CONNECTION

“I will bless those who bless you.”

—Genesis 12:3 NKJV

Within the shadows of the sad portrait painted by the SS St. Louis lie two illustrations regarding the fate of those who persecute the Jewish people and the promise of those who do not. Gustav Schroeder, the captain of the St. Louis, did not reject the children of Israel in their time of need. He could have returned his passengers to Germany as soon as they were rejected in Cuba, and arguably rebelled from his obligation to do so. Had he done this, there is little doubt that the majority, if not all of those aboard, would have perished at the hands of the Nazis. Yet, despite his allegiance to Nazi Germany, Captain Schroeder acted bravely and in the best interests of his passengers as opposed to his country. In a twist of fate, by the war’s end, Schroeder’s ship had sustained heavy damage and was sold for scrap. 106

After this, the captain had no way to make ends meet, as the St. Louis was the last ship in his command. 107 Despite his misfortune, survivors of the St. Louis ensured that Schroder, in addition to his family, were taken care of. 108 In addition to this, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Israel, posthumously recognized the captain as “Righteous Among the Nations.” 109 Gustav Schroeder survived because he did not reject Israel.

The Lord said, “And I will curse him who curses you” (Genesis 12:3 NKJV).

Unlike the actions of Captain Schroeder in 1939, Cuba blatantly turned its back on the Jewish people in their time of need. Two decades later, Colonel Batista, the military powerhouse who betrayed the Jewish people during the St. Louis affair—despite his having the ability to save them—was overthrown by Fidel Castro.

With his rise to power, Castro ushered in a new regime of socialism and dictatorship that isolated the nation and caused its citizens to live in poverty, to live without freedom, and to flee its borders in sinking ships for another country.

We have all seen the images. Makeshift rafts and dilapidated boats overloaded with Cuban political refugees seeking a better life just ninety miles north of their island home. Sometimes the stories end well for those who risk their lives, braving the elements of sun and sea in search of freedom and the American Dream. Yet the nameless and faceless majority who never make that short journey from Cuba to Florida’s shore remain captives of communism.

Perhaps they never made it because the vessel carrying them to freedom was not as strong as their will to escape Castro’s tyranny at home. Regardless of the outcome, we are all familiar with the story—Cuban political refugees leaving all that they have ever known behind, in search of a life free from the Communist chains that bound them.

In 1939, the Jews sailed to Cuba in a hopeful effort to escape a country that persecuted them, only to be rebuffed by an unwilling host. Is it ironic that less than twenty

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