TANTURA.  The Jewish settlers had experienced some serious trauma.  But does it justify this?  

Tantura 1:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czn6Vx4I0yP/?igsh=b2Fubmt0N2R1azFp

Tantura 2:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAqbWXXOpsA/?igsh=bGl4aWltb2p6NGJx

Gaza

The attack.  The response.

Let’s be perfectly clear.  This attack was cruel.  Evil.  Disgusting.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants from the Gaza Strip launched a surprise, large-scale attack on southern Israel, resulting in approximately 1,200 deaths and the taking of over 250 hostages. This event triggered a major ongoing war, with Israel launching a severe retaliatory offensive in Gaza, causing immense casualties and destruction. 

Key Aspects of the October 7 Attack & Impact:

- Casualties: More than 1,200 people (including foreign nationals) were killed in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

- Hostages: Approximately 251 individuals were taken from Israel into Gaza, with many still held or missing.

- Atrocities: Reports indicate the attacks involved widespread violence, including brutal violence against civilians.

- Conflict Context: Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, initiated the surprise attack, leading to an immediate declaration of war by Israel.

- The Conflict in Gaza: In the months and years following, the conflict has resulted in significant destruction of infrastructure and tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza, leading to humanitarian crises and long-term consequences for the region.

The response was just as cruel.  Evil.  And disgusting.

Violence begets more violence.  “He who draws the sword will die by the sword.” - Jesus.  

Current statistics on the incursion into Gaza  

A survey of the current Israeli citizens:

1.  Should you kill every person in the city (should they act just in a manner similar to the instructions by God when the Israelites entered Jericho under Joshua)?  47% said YES.

2.  Are there ANY INNOCENTS in Gaza age 0 on up (even babies are not innocent)?  62% said NO.

(Statistically 20% of the respondents were non-Jews meaning the opinion of Jews is even higher.)

Should all Gazans be killed?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWLJDtxiF3I/?igsh=MTZwcXlmanowcTQ2Yw%3D%3D

Celebrating a law that allows the killing of Palestinian prisoners:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWjo4rGCC6S/?igsh=MTY5bDZoMHRmZXpzYw==

Last year Bibi Netanyahu gave a speech in which he identified Palestinians as “Amalek.”   Yes.  That story.  Wipe them all out.  Eliminate their bloodline.

Killing children: Tucker Carlson:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSG2p-vjPXG/?igsh=MWc1cXJzeTNkcm15Ng==

Killing/maiming children:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQZZTDGAHhT/?igsh=MWtxNDE3aTE0aTR4bg==

Additionally, confiscating homes, land, and businesses:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWqYLRuEX0E/?igsh=bGo5dnVucW9xaXA5

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVIaXfbDxrP/?igsh=ZzV5MDdsNWoxZGk3

The wars in Iran and Lebanon

Cerainly the war in Iran and Lebanon are no different.  Except in Iran we are a participant.  The reason is still unclear.  Was it a threat to the United States or did Bibi Netanyahu drag us into it?  Regardless, we are fighting in one country and supplying plenty of bombs and miltary hardware to the other areas.  What is going on there”

Mass murder:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV_wF2Wket6/?igsh=cThiazNlYjg3Zm90

Certainly not all Jews think the response on Gaza is appropriate - including those with a line to the holocaust:  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_Fk4VtIYVp/?igsh=aGkzaHBsMXZjc293

What do Iranian Jews think?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWqaAwSgAS7/?igsh=ZzBpcHRlNHo1eGFv

God will punish those who punish Israel…

Better stated: God will bless those who bless Israel; God will curse those who curse Israel.  Genesis 12.  Except it doesn’t really say that.  

Genesis 12:1-4   The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.  “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

It’s a big leap to assume this “people” means Israel.  It could easily mean Christian.  It could easily mean Muslim.  Do people really need to die over 4 verses in a 2000+ year old story of old?  

And the answer is YES according to our Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRiEUQNkUgW/?igsh=MTdieG1rZXIxbGJkNA%3D%3D

Another example is Numbers 24:5-14  “How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel!  “Like valleys they spread out, like gardens beside a river,

like aloes planted by the Lord, like cedars beside the waters.   Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water.  “Their king will be greater than Agag;  their kingdom will be exalted.

“God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox.  They devour hostile nations and break their bones in pieces; with their arrows they pierce them.  Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse them?  “May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed!”

Yep, another book from 2000+ years ago saying support for modern day Israel is to be the determining factor over the blessing or the curse from God (widow and orphan be damned, evidently).

Matthew 25:31-46  The story of the sheep and the goats.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.  All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,  I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?  When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,  I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

The “bothers and sisters is very narrowly interpreted to mean Jesus’ JEWISH brothers and sisters only.  Your judgement for eternity will be on HOW YOU TREAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ONLY!  (seriously.  I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anything more NOT-Jesus in my life.)

Those who fight against Israel

The Bible views fighting against Israel as a direct confrontation with God, predicting that nations attacking Jerusalem will ultimately be destroyed by God himself. End-times prophecy suggests a gathering of nations against Israel, resulting in a divine intervention where God acts as a defender of his covenant people.

Prophecy from Zechariah 12:1-6   A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel.  

The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:  “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.  On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the Lord. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.  Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God.’ “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

And Zechariah 2:6-12. 6 “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the Lord.7 “Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!”  For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye—  I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.

 “Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord.  “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.  The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.

Isaiah 41:11-13. 11  “All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

Why War?   Is there any other choice?  

Jesus sure doesn’t have any answers.  - Bibi Netanyahu

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWJV-jOieQw/?igsh=MWJkNWgwYWJjbHY4bw==

Why slaughter?

Let’s move further into the Old Testament.  The Tanakh.  1 Samuel 15:2-3  The Amalekites.  This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.  Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

THis is NOT a spntaneous act of violence but a response to a long history of SIN.  The Amalekites ambushed the Israelites when  they were vulnerable during the Exodus. 

The Amalekites were a cruel, persistent enemy of Israel. 

So why shouldn’t Netanyahu not go after the Palestinians who attacked the Israelis when they were the most vulnerable?   Are the Palestinians not the persistent, cruel, enemy of Israel?  

Note:  Saul was punished because he didn’t follow through.  Who wants that judgment of God on their shoulers?  Bibi certainly wouldn’t want that.  

1 Samuel 27:8-12 Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)  Whenever David attacked an area, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but took sheep and cattle, donkeys and camels, and clothes. Then he returned to Achish.

When Achish asked, “Where did you go raiding today?” David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah” or “Against the Negev of Jerahmeel” or “Against the Negev of the Kenites.”  He did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he thought, “They might inform on us and say, ‘This is what David did.’” And such was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory.  Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He has become so obnoxious to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life.” 

This was a ruse in that David convinced Achish, the Philistine king, that he was killing all the ISRAELIS when in fact he was killing masses of Philistines.  

Were the Israelis God chosen people?  One thing is for sure, the Philistines weren’t.  

Would a loving God of EVERYONE encourage this slaughter of man, woman, and child?  Who would accept a God that smiled at David wiping out every man, woman, and CHILD.  “Thou shalt not kill.  Unless I give the OK.  Because I, as God, LOATHE these sinners.  Kill them  Every one.  Because I hate them.”  

“By the way, I love all of my creation.”    

Are you Christian?  

Well then you are nothing but an idolater, no different than the pagans.

As Explained by an Orthodox Rabbi - “the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity is idolatrous.”  Making G-d human is idolatrous BY DEFINITION.

The Jewish people are right in invading and occupying the neighboring lands, say the Jews occupy Lebanon.  When it is occupied, all churches and mosques must be destroyed.  Why because we (the Jews) now live there, and God has instructed us in the Torah that all places that we (the Jews) live must be destroyed.  

Understand this includes CHRISTIANS as well as Muslims.  For a simple reason.  

Christians worship JESUS.  Jesus was not God.  Jesus was just a man (Muslims feel the same way, by the way.)  A MAN who is worshipped is just an idol, no different than the Golden Calf.  No different than the serpent that was lifted up by Moses. 

Numbers 21:4-9  Moses lifted up a bronze serpent on a pole in the wilderness.  Israelirtes were being bitten by serpents because of their rebellion against Moses and God.  Those who looked at the serpent were healed from real serpent bites -  an act of faith.  

Later, the Israelites made the serpent on a stick an image of idolatry.  See how easy it is to turn an object into an idol?

Here is the question:  Was the snake on a stick and idol IN THE FIRST PLACE?  Why look at a stick if bitten by a snake?  Would one not turn to God?  What magic was in that bronze snake on a stick?  Why was it not an idol in the first place?  

Regardless, it not only BECAME an idol, Jesus referenced it in John 3:14 when foreshadowing his being LIFTED UP ON THE CROSS.  Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Orthodox Jews consider worship of the snake on a cross as idolatry.  They compare Jesus lifted to a cross as idolatry.  They consider worship of a “human” as idolatry.  They condemn ANY MAN WHO HUNG FROM A TREE.  Deuteronomy 21: Cursed is every man that hangs on the tree.  

Therefore all Christians are idolaters, and if you live in the land possessed by Isralites YOU MUST BE KILLED.  Therefore it is every Isralite’s (Jew’s?) responsibility to KILL avery non- Jew in Israel.  Christians as well as Muslims.  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWe_-i8CLWU/?igsh=ZTg0anJvazB3NnF6

A response by Dr. William Craig (Biola University):  Agreed, worshiping a man is idolatry.  But Jesus, being fully human, was divine.  That is why theologians always refer to Jesus as divine, never as a human person.  

Of course that is what the theologians say.  What did Jesus say?  Jesus referred to himself as the “Son of Man.”  Human.  

Conclusion:  Whether worship of (bowing down to) Jesus is idolatry boils down to your definition of who Jesus was:  1. God as part of the Trinity, or 2. A human, the son of man.   

Yep… people kill and die over this stuff.  Billions spent on bombs.  Is that better than feeding the poor and providing health care?  

Talmud 

The Talmud Explained

The Talmud is actually two books - the Mishnah and the Gemara.

The Mishnah is supposed to be the oral law that was given to Moses as well as the Gemra which is a series of commentaries on said oral law.  

When we say Talmud we are usually referring to the Talmud Bavli or the Babylonian Talmud, started in 70 A.D. following the collapse of the Second Temple and ending in 500 A.D.  

Basically they needed a way to solidify and continue to teach the teachings of the Temple while there was no Temple.  

This is also the time in which the Ashkanazim become fiercely insular and fiercely xenophobic towards their Gentile counterparts.

You have to understand, Judaism isn’t a religion like Christianity or Islam.  It's a very unique and novel thing.  From the rabbinic perspective they don’t really view God as a loving, all dominant, all present entity, but more like a sentient energy that exists, that the rabbis can wield.  

And you can see this across the Talmud.  There are several verses wherein rabbis harness the power of God to create Golems (      ) or communicate with demons.

There are several times in which the rabbis come together and win in an argument against God!

Basically, they believe that rabbis have this kind of central authority role and that God isn’t really “above the Israelites” but kind of “behind them.”

A bulk of the writing was written after the Christianization of Rome which was a marriage between their two worst enemies.  The Christians of Jerusalem and the Roman Empire that destroyed their Temple.  A lot of the writings are very negative towards Christians, towards Jesus, towards the Virgin Mary.

There’s a lot of stuff in there that’s deeply, deeply offensive.  

Was it justified for them to write it?  The author does not personally think so, but that is the argument, that they were dealing with persecution.  That is an issue for study and discussion.  

3 Basic issues arise in the Talmud

1.  Blasphemeous comments against the Virgin Mary and against Jesus.

2.  Child molestation in the Talmud.

3.  Racist hatred towards the Gentiles.

1.  Blasphemeous comments against the Virgin Mary and against Jesus.

Toledot Yeshu:  (In all likelihood this is a compilation of tales concocted by Jews persecuted by Christians in ancient Roman times.  It was circulated in the Middle Ages.)  Jesus is an illegitimate child of Mary, raped by a Roman soldier named Joseph ben Pantera on a Sabbath Eve whild menstruating.  Mary’s betrothed, John, flees to save his reputation.  Jesus is born a bastard (mamzer) son of a menstruating woman (ben niddah, niddah = “dirty”).  In this book, Jesus is a genius, rebellious of his rabbis, and flaunts Jewish customs.  He is exposed as a bastard, sentenced to death, but escapes to Jerusalem.  Much of Jesus’ childhood stories mimic the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas and the Quran (breathing life into clay birds).   

Toledot Yeshu:  Mary (Miriam) was a hairdresser who had illicit affairs.  Is it Mary, mother of Jesus or Mary Magdelene?  Some versions say Jesus’ mother, Mary.  Some say her affair with Joseph ben Pantera was consensual, some say it was rape.  

The explanation from Rabbi:

 First, I told you the first accusation is that the Talmud contains passages that are blasphemous against Mary and Jesus, that are blasphemous against Christianity. Now although I am going to demonstrate to you that this argument is false. It’s a completely ridiculous argument. It’s just very clear that Judaism doesn’t believe in Christianity. It’s very clear that in a Christian fundamentalist view, any other religion is blasphemy. If you are not a Christian, that means that you don’t believe in Jesus is the Messiah, you don’t believe he’s a Prophet. You don’t believe he was born of a virgin, you don’t believe he rose 3 days later, then you are a blasphemy. Why would Judaism be judged by a Christian world view? I mean Christianity would be, I mean we’re big boys and girls here, we can talk. Judaism, I mean in Judaism, Christianity is blasphemous. I mean let’s be frank here, it just needs to be said upfront that if Christians are looking for advocates for their religion they’re not going to find it in Jewish literature. It’s just a simple matter.

(Of course the Talmud is blasphemous of Jesus and Mary. Virgin birth?  Son of GOD?  Give me a break. It’s rediculous.  He’s a bastard.  She’s a whore, rape victim, or both.  Regardless, the Talmud says it like the Jews see it.  No self respecting Jew would or could ever accept Jesus as a Messiah, let alone the Son of God.)

2.  Child molestation in the Talmud.

Child molestation is in the Talmud. And any one of these websites unfortunately in some Messianic websites and Arab websites they quote a Gemara in Tractate Yevamos 11b, and they quote the Talmud as saying that sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is 3 years of age. Up till 3 years of age you can have intercourse with a girl. It’s hard to imagine a charge that is more serious than that. I want to quote now the Talmud and what it says: Rabbi Yehuda said in the name of Rav. I’m not going to go through the whole text. A male child who has relations with a female adult, a male child here is referring to a male who is under the age of 9 years old, causes her to be like one who is injured with a stick. Rav said this is what is meant, an adult male who has relations with a female child, which means a child who is under the age of 3, has done nothing at all, because when a girl is less than 3 years old it’s like sticking your finger in an eyeball. Imagine what that kind of lesson does to someone in Paris reading that, that’s what it says in Talmud, most revered text.

Basically what this is saying is children regenerate body parts.  Cut off a finger, it grows back.  Puncture the hymen of a 3 year old, no big deal. It grows back.

In our world this subject is bizarre, the thought process is bizarre, and the wording is bizarre.  Evidently 2000+ years ago someone thought it was important to address.  It does NOT mean molesting a 3 year old is no big deal.  It is totally used out of context to think that child abuse or sexual exploitation can be normalized IN ANY WAY.  But it happened then - and it happens now.  It isn’t right now, it wasn’t right then.  Some misguided soul tried - and failed - to come up with a way to address it.  (it sure wasn’t “God-breathed.”)

3.  Racist hatred towards the Gentiles.

Taking the “chosen people” label seriously.  There are Jews, and there are Goyim.  Goyim in Hebrew means non-Jew.

Here are some thoughts on goyim taken from the Talmud (main and tractate).  Taken out of context?  I’m sure.  What is the context?  I don’t know.  Used as propaganda.  Absolutely.  

Soferim 15 even the best of Goyim should all be killed.  

Yebamoth 98a All children of goyim are animals…

Baba Mazia 114b. Gentiles (Goys) are not humans, they are beasts.

Gad Shas 2:2 a Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jew girl. 

Sanhedrin 58b A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old.

Tospoth Jebamoth 84b if you eat with a Goy it is the same as eating with a dog. 

Baba Mezia 24a If a Jew finds an object lost by a Gentile Goy it does not have to be returned. 

Gitten  57a "Jesus is being boiled in hot excrement"

Kethuboth 11b "a man who engaged in intercourse with a girl less than 3 years of age has done NOTHING wrong"

Sanhedrin 58b "if a non jew hits a jew he MUST be killed"

Here are 4 examples where there is some context:

*Yebamoth 98a: “all non-Jew children are animals”– this section actually deals with defining appropriate family lineages such as half-sisters, and does not declare gentiles to be animals.

*Sanhedrin 57a: “When a Jew murders a non-Jew there will be no death penalty” – this section only says that no punishment will come from a Jewish court where a gentile one has superior jurisdiction.

*Yalkut 245c: “Extermination of Christians is a necessary sacrifice” – This part of the Talmud doesn’t even exist as cited. There are some references related to this sentiment, but they are the statements of an extreme Rabbi who had witnessed atrocities committed by the Romans being quoted, not an actual teaching or ruling.

In ancient Rome power changed like the wind.  Christians were persecuted.  When in power, Christians had no problem persecuting others as well.  When Jews were in power, they persecuted others while they had the chance.  Is it any surprise a Jewish rabbi said “all Christians should die” when they were killing all the Jews?  Do we not have those who think all Muslims should die because or Muslim terrorists?  Do not Muslims think all Jews should die because of Gaza?  Extreme statements aren’t rare.  It’s human nature.  This was just a case where a rabbi wrote it down in a fit of passion and someone is quoting it.  

In Summation:  Talmudic treatment of Gentiles is complex, featuring both EXCLUSIONARY and ETHNOCENTRIC legal rulings and ethical imperatives for PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE.  While some passages establish strict separations and unequal legal standing regarding injury or property, others command honesty, charity, and fair dealings to maintain peace (darchei shalom).   

History is littered with legal standing being skewed AGAINST the Jewish people.  Is it any surprise that somewhere along the line some rabbi said: “Enough.  We don’t have to take this crap from these “Goyim.”  They cheated us for years.  If one of these “cheaters” pulls a fast one, steal it back.  If you have been robbed of something, if they don’t think the laws apply to them, well then we’re gonna make some laws that don’t apply to them either!

Were these laws written out of frustration now used against the Jews as being a sign of arrogance?   

Expelling Jews

Why the animosity that may fuel the writings of the Talmud and other rabbinical statements over the years?  Here is a sampling:

Jews have been expelled from 109 countries over the years.  Here is a map and chart with some data: