Dear Pastors:
From Israel, the so-called Palestinians marched,
according to a video posted on Ynet in the
Dheisheh Refugee camp which is close by Jenin, carrying knives,
axes, clubs, rifles and rockets.
Jenin is the "Palestinian Hot Bed" which
our group of three vans got lost and drove into back in February of 2011 on the
"Football Trip." Colonel Guy Markizano’s 405th Artillery
Battalion had security for Jenin at the time, so he pulled "our chestnuts
out of the fire." Those young men with me seemed to be very glad for
Markizano’s presence and our escape from Jenin. Personally, I never felt we
were in any real danger, only that "the insurance" we had on three
rented vans would be null and void should anything have happened.
Back here in America, we are seeing, I think, for the
first time are "pundits hands-off treatment" of Obama allowing him to
"redefine himself as a moderate" who champions "middle-class
values" and defends "mainstream America against "right wing
extremists" like you and I.
But now, as a recalcitrant Obama threatens to push
even middle-class taxpayers over the fiscal cliff, the tenor inside the Beltway
has changed.
For the first time, commentators are openly
speculating that the president is deliberately sabotaging the economy to build
greater dependency on government. And one respected political analyst has come
right out and called him a "Marxist." That is what I called him when
he was pushed on the national political scene in 2008, "A Muslim Marxist
Socialist." Obama is finally coming out of the ideological closet to
reveal his radical stripes?
Power Line's John Hinderaker thinks so. He argues
that the president would rather punish financially successful individuals and
redistribute their hard-earned money than seriously tackle the nation's debt
crisis.
He suggests Obama is acting much like a subversive,
attacking America from within out of contempt for its free-market values.
"It is hard to find a precedent," he said in a recent blog. "When
in human history has the government of any nation consciously set out to weaken
that country."
Michael Barone, syndicated columnist and co-author of
"The Almanac of American Politics,"
"Economic growth produces things Obama doesn't like,"
Barone said. "Some people get very rich. Obama prefers a more equal income
distribution."
Barone adds that Obama, through a series of
incremental steps and complicated, painstaking rules ["think
ObamaCare"] is injecting a kind of "soft" socialism into the
economy.
Ultimately, he contends, borrowing from Alexis de
Tocqueville, the president seeks to reduce the nation to "nothing more
than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which government is the
shepherd."
Peter Ferrara, budget policy director for the Heartland
Institute, says only one thing explains Obama's obsession with soaking the
rich: "He is a Marxist, that is the only logical explanation of President
Obama's rhetoric. And it is 100% consistent with his own published
background."
Discussion of the so-called fiscal cliff has sucked
so much air out of the room that many people don't realize it's not the biggest
thing we face as a nation. Indeed, many challenges loom. Will we be up to them?
The way the talks surrounding the cliff were handled
doesn't inspire confidence. And the "deal" that avoids the cliff
[more tax hikes, higher spending, no cuts at all] is the worst possible.
This was entirely a political crisis, not an economic
or even fiscal one.
The Democrats created it in 2003 by refusing to make
President Bush's tax cuts permanent. Ever since, they have used the threat of
tax hikes on a broad swath of Americans as a political bludgeon against the
Republicans.
It's worked. Despite being an entirely Democratic
contrivance, the fiscal cliff is blamed by a majority of Americans on the GOP,
kind of like blaming the firemen who try to put out a fire for starting the
blaze in the first place.
Even after resolving the cliff issue, America can't
rest easy. Major issues remain outstanding that either must be dealt with in
the coming year or at least begin to be addressed. And all have at least one
thing in common: They are components of the sustained surge in spending at the
federal level that threatens the economic health of our nation for decades to
come.
As we take the lines above, and look back in history
to the time frame of May 1938 to March 1939, [I apologize to all my teetotaler
friends] the Czechoslovakian people made re-popular an old Czech drinking song,
"Roll Out the Barrel." World War II had not officially began yet, but
that would have been news to the Chinese, the Ethiopians and the Spaniards. THE
GREATEST SUFFERERS OF COURSE, WERE THE JEWS.
The Pundit Harold Nicolson wrote a piece on "an
Austrian who just got away from Vienna:"
"They rounded up the people walking in the Prater on Sunday
last, and separated the Jews from the rest. They made the Jewish gentlemen take
off all their clothes and walk on all fours on the grass. They made the old
Jewish ladies get up into the trees by ladders and sit there. They then told
them to ‘chirp like birds.’"
A seventeen year old Jewish refugee, Herschel
Grynszpan, living in Paris. His mom and dad’s home and shop had been plundered
by the Nazi Storm Troopers. So, on November 7, 1938, Grynszpan murdered Ernst
vom Rath, a third secretary at the German Embassy in Paris.
And, as the "obamicans" do today, senior
Nazis, SS officers and Gestapo agents instantly saw this as
"opportunity" for outrageous acts against the Jews, not wanting to
waste any possibility, so on November 9, Goebbels issued instructions that
"a spontaneous demonstration of the German people" [eine
spontane Reaktion des deutschen Volkes] was to be organized and
executed that night. No one knows how many acts of murder, rape, and pillage
were carried out during die Kristallnacht, as it came to be
called Crystal Night, or the Night of Broken Glass. Ruth Matar, as a little 8
year old girl, saw her mother "butt stroked" in the mouth by a German
Soldier with a rifle when Ruth’s mother wanted to go back into their house and
get coats for Ruth and her two siblings. I first heard that story personally
from Ruth in January 2005 when I was present in Jerusalem for the "Settler
Tent City" right outside the Knesset.
Kingsley Martin, then editor of the ‘liberal’ [be
sure you note that in view of above] New Statesman wrote that "things had
gone so far that to plan armed resistance to the dictators was now useless. If
there was a war we should lose it. We should, therefore, seek the most peaceful
way of letting ‘them’ [Hitler and fellow travelers] gradually get all they
wanted."
One of the most outspoken of the
"appeasers" was an Anglican bishop, the Reverend Morley Headlam.
Headlam would have fit in well with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Headlam
"defended Hitler’s suppression of religious freedom before a church
assembly, arguing that it was ‘only fair to realize that a great majority’ of
the Nazis believed that their cause "represented a strong spiritual
influence" and looked upon it as "a real representation of
Christianity."
When Chamberlain came back from Munich, where he gave
away Czechoslovakia to Adolph Hitler, the British crowds were ecstatic, and in
Downing Street that adulation peaked and Chamberlain overreached himself. In
the lore of every nation they are scenes, phrases, and deeds which live in the
popular imagination. But, an event, a speech, or a legend can never be
repeated, for part of its appeal is that it is unique. But, the explanation as
to why Chamberlain’s last public act on his day of glory, was a blunder is seen
in that regard.
Former British Prime Minister, Jewish Benjamin
Disraeli’s supreme diplomatic triumph came in 1878, at the Congress in Berlin.
Unlike Chamberlain’s Munich, however, Disraeli’s contribution in Berlin was a
genuine act towards peace. The states of Eastern Europe were at each other’s
throats. However, Disraeli’s mastery of divergent cultures permitted him to
take the map apart and rebuild it, throttling several wars before they could
break out and ending a full-fledged conflict between the Russians and the
Turks.
Chamberlain’s wife urged him, "Neville, go up to
that window and repeat history by saying ‘peace in our time’." At first he
replied ‘icily’, No, I do not like that kind of things."
But, then, blessed be the Lord, old Neville forgot
what he had just said, and, waving the piece of paper he and Hitler has signed,
called to the dense throng below, "My good friends, this is the second
time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street
peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time." Very soon, however,
Chamberlain would have reason to regret extravagant prediction. Sixty million
people would have to die first!
This morning I received an email from Dr. Wiley
Bennett’s widow, Carmen, down in Tyler, Texas. She is a historian. Her
‘departed to Glory-Land’ husband, Wiley, was a historian. Their son Paul, she
said, too was a historian. Mrs. Bennett said my emails continue to be a
blessing to her, especially the ‘history lessons.’ My prayer this Wednesday
noon is that these email will bless that dear "widow-woman’s" heart
as the previous ones have also, and that you, pastors, will see the lesson’s
contained above.
PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM. Our
"Muslim-Marxist-Socialist" President will throw Israel under the bus,
if he gets a good chance to do so!!!!!!!!!!!!
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
