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A Judeo-Christian Party In The Knesset?
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John Henry
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Jun 10, 2005 03:07 PDT
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A JUDEO-CHRISTIAN PARTY IN THE KNESSET?
By Avi Lipkin
Fifteen years of extensive travel in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and
Israel and countless speaking engagements in churches, synagogues and
political forums have led me to believe that Israel cannot survive the
Islamic juggernaut out to destroy it unless Jews and Christians march in
lock-step - both globally and in God's city, Jerusalem.
As a nationalist Jew, I always thought that Israel was only for the Jewish
people, which indeed many still feel today. But it's an undeniable fact
that many Jews who've come to live in Israel have brought relatives with
them who are not Jewish, including Christians from Russia, Ukraine,
Ethiopia and the West.
With the 1989 fall of Communism in the former USSR, a tidal wave of
immigrants arrived on our shores, 30 percent of whom weren't considered
Jewish by the rabbinate.
Official Israeli government statistics point to the following:
Arab Christians number about 144,000, or 2% of the population. Christians -
or those not considered Jewish under rabbinic law - total about 287,000, or
5% of the population.
Added to these citizens are Jews with non-Jewish spouses and relatives,
about 5% of the population.
Twelve to 14 members of the Knesset (MKs) isn't an unrealistic number to
represent these Israelis in the parliament. The irony is that the Muslim
MKs would like to see the Jewish state replaced with a "democratic, secular
Palestine," while Israeli Christians, who serve in the army, police force
and security service, are disenfranchised.
The party would be neither Christian nor Jewish, but rather
Judeo-Christian, with Western, democratic values. In this same ideological
framework, slaves were liberated and women received the right to vote.
Military dictatorships in Latin America were replaced by governments run
with democratic principles, and this ideology is now instilling democracy
in the former Soviet socialist republics. Democracy could liberate Muslim
countries from their totalitarian, inhumane systems of government.
Over the past two decades, Bethlehem has gone from 90 percent Christian to
90 percent Muslim. Stopping the erosion of Christianity in the Middle East,
and especially in the Holy Land, is essential. Jews can't survive the
Islamic onslaught without the help of Christians, and Christians can't
survive the Muslim's ethnic cleansing without Jewish support.
All who believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would be welcome to
join. The party platform would state that God gave Israel - which includes
Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan - to the Jews and IT IS NEVER to be
handed over to Islamic nations. The new party will be called HaGush
HaTanakhi, which means "the Bible Bloc."
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