Israel Declares War

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Nehemiah6

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Occupations shouldn't be permanent.
That assumes that the land actually belonged to the Palestinian Arabs and Israel has illegally occupied it. What if we turn that around and say that Palestine belonged to Israel for more centuries than to any other nation, and that the Arabs were the occupiers? Going from about 1500 B.C. to 70 AD would be about 1600 years. And the one who made that possible was God. Even when other empires ruled over Israel, those emperors generally recognized who the original inhabitants were.
 

Moses_Young

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It's hilarious that once I call you out for using the Democrat's playbook for anyone who disagrees with you, every post you've made since you're calling me a Democrat. :LOL:
This is so true! In this debate, I have been so surprised to see generally based people (on many other topics) acting like Woke Commies and using plenty of the same dirty tactics ("anti-Semite" and "hatred" for Jews are two pretty common accusations, although the definition of who is a Jew is always very murky). To me, it really shows who's in the right and in the wrong. Commies wouldn't need to use dirty tricks if they weren't absolutely wrong with respect to facts. So it is with the apologists for war criminals in Israel/Palestine.

Note also they try to create a polar situation - either side with the state of Israel's war crimes against Palestinians, or take the blame for Palestinian refugees in Western nations. How about no to both? No to the support of war criminals, and no to refugees who will be incompatible with the values of Western nations.

I was particularly amused by one poster commenting that others were unhinged, when his own responses were the most emotional and utilising a number of Communist tactics.

Hopefully, in time these people will realise they've been so very wrong.
 

PennEd

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I disagree that civilians forfeit any human rights because of what other states are doing/have done.
Israel should totally annex and govern the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem. Those living there should have freedom to practice any religion they want, sell and buy property as they choose, and otherwise be members of a free, thriving community. All UNDER the nation and governance of Israel. There are presently a large number of muslim arabs that enjoy the governance and prosperity of Israel. And they are citizens with rights.

We both know that's NOT what the "Palestinians" want. Virtually all of them are opposed to any Jewish presence from the "river to the sea", and ultimately globally. Numerous times, even before May 1948, they have been offered their own state, with just a tiny Jewish state alongside. They refused every time.

Plus..... God gave it to them. Let's not leave that out of the mix!
 

HeIsHere

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That assumes that the land actually belonged to the Palestinian Arabs and Israel has illegally occupied it. What if we turn that around and say that Palestine belonged to Israel for more centuries than to any other nation, and that the Arabs were the occupiers? Going from about 1500 B.C. to 70 AD would be about 1600 years. And the one who made that possible was God. Even when other empires ruled over Israel, those emperors generally recognized who the original inhabitants were.
Sadly your wrong eschatology brings wrong conclusions.

The temple was destroyed for a reason.
 

ZNP

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I am old enough to remember when they justified censoring speech about election integrity or the laws concerning an experimental vaccine saying "you aren't allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater" (now you know why fires in theaters are so deadly) but now they don't condemn calling for the genocide of Jews unless they actually start killing them.

Just 4 Percent of American Universities Condemned Hamas Terror Attack on Israel as Anti-Semitic
Study finds vastly different university response to Hamas slaughter compared with crimes perpetrated against African Americans and Asians

https://freebeacon.com/campus/just-...amas-terror-attack-on-israel-as-anti-semitic/
 

Smoke

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Video shows Israeli soldier shooting mentally disabled Palestinian in West Bank

If only the mentally disabled man would have just shown his papers to the occupiers, he wouldn't have been shot. :rolleyes::cautious:

On a side note, CC's new favorite News source, CNN, reports:

At least 256 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops or Israeli settlers in the West Bank and east Jerusalem since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

I didn't know Hamas was in the West Bank and East Jerusalem... Why are so many being killed? Not showing their papers? Protesting? Refusing to leave their homes so illegal settlers can move into them? :unsure:

I remember in 2021, Israel's Supreme Court struck down a law/decision that would have made it unlawful for shooting unarmed civilians. I love when people remind us that THIS is "the only democracy in the middle east." Some Christians even celebrate Israel's acceptable of the LGBTQ+ community as if this is something our Heavenly Father supports. :sneaky:
 

HeIsHere

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Numerous times, even before May 1948, they have been offered their own state, with just a tiny Jewish state alongside. They refused every time.
Sorry, this is an over simplicfication of the historic events so I won't say wrong on this one.
 

HeIsHere

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That assumes that the land actually belonged to the Palestinian Arabs and Israel has illegally occupied it. What if we turn that around and say that Palestine belonged to Israel for more centuries than to any other nation, and that the Arabs were the occupiers? Going from about 1500 B.C. to 70 AD would be about 1600 years. And the one who made that possible was God. Even when other empires ruled over Israel, those emperors generally recognized who the original inhabitants were.
Being the 'original inhabitants" then needs to be extended to all tribes and ethnicites, you cannot have it both ways.

Where are the modern day prophets guiding modern day Israel and God making all this possible, no one yet has revealed them to me.
 

ZNP

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Being the 'original inhabitants" then needs to be extended to all tribes and ethnicites, you cannot have it both ways.

Where are the modern day prophets guiding modern day Israel and God making all this possible, no one yet has revealed them to me.
Ridiculous. The land belongs to God, He gave it to Abraham and his descendants through promise (Isaac) and this is a legally binding document (The Old Testament). He displaced the inhabitants of the land because of their child sacrifice of both their seed (abortion) and infants (child sacrifice).


Jonathan Cahn: Modern Day Events Connect to Biblical Prophecy | FULL TEACHING | Praise on TBN
 

cv5

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Being the 'original inhabitants" then needs to be extended to all tribes and ethnicites, you cannot have it both ways.
Really? So in your infinite holy wisdom and impeccable sense of justice, the Amorite and Canaanite should move back on in and kick out the Israelis? Maybe use the international court to air their grievances?

What you do NOT understand is that God owns everything. Literally everything. Souls and dirt. All of it. And He gives it to whom He wills.

And He gave it to Abraham/Jacob/Israel. And they had to go to war to complete the transaction.
And He gave it as an ETERNAL EVERLASTING possession. The centuries of wandering due to disobedience is nothing more than a hiccup in this vast eternity. And since God will intervene and BRING ISRAEL TO OBEDIENCE in the very near future as per infallible prophecy, the LAND will once again be their possession and abode. Israel will finally be USING their land, RIGHTLY purposing it as God intended as ground zero to do what they were always meant to do: SAVE GENTILE SOULS and be witnesses and priests.

Abraham:
Gen 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I ***WILL BE*** their God (INEVITABLE YET FUTURE!!!!!).

Jacob: (the confirmation of the covenant....see Gal 3:17)
Gen 48:4
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Oh and BTW, your horrendously errant (if not utterly clueless) views on eschatology are to blame for your twisted views on geopolitics.
And good luck thinking you will obtain justice in the worldly courts regarding the goings-on in Israel. Or Afghanistan or Syria or Russia or China or Ukraine or anywhere else for that matter.

NOBODY gets true peace and justice UNTIL Messiah comes. I often wonder if you even believe in the SC and all that this event entails.
Including the vast devastating judgements that precede Him.
 

cv5

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Really? So in your infinite holy wisdom and impeccable sense of justice, the Amorite and Canaanite should move back on in and kick out the Israelis? Maybe use the international court to air their grievances?

What you do NOT understand is that God owns everything. Literally everything. Souls and dirt. All of it. And He gives it to whom He wills.

And He gave it to Abraham/Jacob/Israel. And they had to go to war to complete the transaction.
And He gave it as an ETERNAL EVERLASTING possession. The centuries of wandering due to disobedience is nothing more than a hiccup in this vast eternity. And since God will intervene and BRING ISRAEL TO OBEDIENCE in the very near future as per infallible prophecy, the LAND will once again be their possession and abode. Israel will finally be USING their land, RIGHTLY purposing it as God intended as ground zero to do what they were always meant to do: SAVE GENTILE SOULS and be witnesses and priests.

Abraham:
Gen 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I ***WILL BE*** their God (INEVITABLE YET FUTURE!!!!!).

Jacob: (the confirmation of the covenant....see Gal 3:17)
Gen 48:4
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Oh and BTW, your horrendously errant (if not utterly clueless) views on eschatology are to blame for your twisted views on geopolitics.
And good luck thinking you will obtain justice in the worldly courts regarding the goings-on in Israel. Or Afghanistan or Syria or Russia or China or Ukraine or anywhere else for that matter.

NOBODY gets true peace and justice UNTIL Messiah comes. I often wonder if you even believe in the SC and all that this event entails.
Including the vast devastating judgements that precede Him.
Emphasis:

Gen 17:8
And I WILL GIVE unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Gen 48:4
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
 
There are a lot of people here who think they understand the Hamas/Israel war. But most do not understand the history behind it all.
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) have used their military sniper teams to murder Palestinians for no apparent reason unless the father of this child has more than one child and wants to save the rest, so he capitulates & bows to the Israelis with open arms.
But this will do him no good, the IDF will murder them all over time.
 
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Thirty-five Palestinian children were killed by Israeli soldiers

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12 yr old boy SHOT DEAD in front of your eyes

http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/sniper.html

Gaza girl said killed
By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents,
and Haaretz Service
IDF troops shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school in a Gaza Strip refugee camp

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/494672.html

Photos of a 12 year old palestinian boy being shot by Israeli soldiers and the ambulance driver who tried to save him also being shot and killed.

http://www.palestine-net.com/misc/durra/

Three-year-old Rawan Abu Zeid, who took bullets in the neck and dead while buying candy with her friends.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2785.shtml

12-year old Hoda Darwish was hit in the head by a bullet fired Two 10 year-old school children were shot in the al-Omaria school run by UNRWA in Rafah, when an Israeli tank fired into their classroom.

Bullets fired from the tank flew through the classroom window, hitting Mahmoud Hamad in the neck and Hisham al Habil in the head. The boys had not even been sitting by the windows but in the middle of the room.

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/index.html

An eight-year-old Palestinian girl shot dead by Israeli troops in the central Gaza Strip was killed while showing off her new school uniform to friends

http://tinyurl.com/99kh8zk
 
But this is not all the Israelis have done to the Palestinian people~~~~~~~~~~~
Israeli Navy Attacks Fishing Boats In Gaza
SEP 2, 2023
The Palestinian Fishermen’s Syndicate said the Israeli navy ships fired many live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets and used water cannons against the fishing boats on the Al-Waha and As-Sudaniyya shores, northwest of Gaza City.
https://tinyurl.com/3kv7fusy
June 7, 2017
Israel’s Occupation: 50 Years of Dispossession
For half a century, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip has resulted in systematic human rights violations against Palestinians living there.
https://tinyurl.com/ywmceeh7
Human Rights Council Hears that 700,000 Israeli Settlers are Living Illegally in the Occupied West Bank – Meeting Summary (Excerpts)
https://tinyurl.com/239u55sd
 

cv5

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There are a lot of people here who think they understand the Hamas/Israel war. But most do not understand the history behind it all.
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) have used their military sniper teams to murder Palestinians for no apparent reason unless the father of this child has more than one child and wants to save the rest, so he capitulates & bows to the Israelis with open arms.
But this will do him no good, the IDF will murder them all over time.
According to your theory all of this will end soon. Because according to you the Israeli birthrate is plummeting so they will soon be extinguished as a nation.

Given the fact that God has guaranteed and actively maintained their everlasting survival, I don't see how your theory is going to work out.
 
Where are the modern day prophets guiding modern day Israel and God making all this possible, no one yet has revealed them to me.
Ezekiel 21 King James Version (KJV)
21 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
25 And thou,
profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26 Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land;
thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the Lord have spoken it.
The Lord speaks & it shall be done~~~~~~~
Jewish population at lowest percentage since founding of Israel

Close to the establishment of the state, the Jewish percentage of the population stood at 82.1%, while today it stands at only 73.9%.
https://tinyurl.com/3fjduh72

Europe’s Jewish population down 60% since 1970, as low as it was 1,000 years ago
https://tinyurl.com/bdt8v2j9
Jewish Population on the Decline in America
https://tinyurl.com/2p95pr3p
World Jewish population drops by 300,000 to 12.9 million
https://tinyurl.com/n33erpbw
 

HeIsHere

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Ezekiel 21 King James Version (KJV)
21 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
25 And thou,
profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26 Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land;
thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the Lord have spoken it.
The Lord speaks & it shall be done~~~~~~~
Jewish population at lowest percentage since founding of Israel

Close to the establishment of the state, the Jewish percentage of the population stood at 82.1%, while today it stands at only 73.9%.
https://tinyurl.com/3fjduh72

Europe’s Jewish population down 60% since 1970, as low as it was 1,000 years ago
https://tinyurl.com/bdt8v2j9
Jewish Population on the Decline in America
https://tinyurl.com/2p95pr3p
World Jewish population drops by 300,000 to 12.9 million
https://tinyurl.com/n33erpbw

Is Ezekiel still roaming the earth?
 

HeIsHere

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Ridiculous. The land belongs to God, He gave it to Abraham and his descendants through promise (Isaac) and this is a legally binding document (The Old Testament). He displaced the inhabitants of the land because of their child sacrifice of both their seed (abortion) and infants (child sacrifice).


Jonathan Cahn: Modern Day Events Connect to Biblical Prophecy | FULL TEACHING | Praise on TBN

Jonathan Cahn is not a prophet.
Where are the Jewish modern day prophets?
Which person has God raised to be His leader of the Jews?