Far too many people do not accept what the Palestinian “resistance” for what it is: an endeavor to advance the jihad against the State of Israel. The chant is well known — “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” It should be more widely known, however, that this chant means that “Palestine” will only be free once the Jewish state is completely obliterated, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
The World Council of Churches has fallen into the trap of victimhood propaganda. According to Dexter Van Zile, Christian Media Analyst for CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis):
The PA relies on the WCC to promote hostility and agitation towards Israel. The Palestinians believe the WCC has access to the international media to further their agenda of incitement to hate and terrorism.
In information presented by Israel News Talk Radio:
The WCC views the Peace plan as the equivalent of an act of war against the Palestinians. Thus, providing cover to corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to avoid engaging in bi-lateral negotiations persisting in holding out to occupy the space between the “river and the sea” by espousing incitement to hatred and funding terrorism.
Why would any Church organization keep company with, let alone support, Islamic supremacists and their documented vision, which includes jihad against Christians? Instead, churches should be advocating for truth and justice, which includes the truth about Christians facing genocide in the Middle East and Africa. But the WCC has sunk into dhimmitude:
The WCC also operates in a dhimmi-like pose to Islamic supremacism in the Middle East because of threats to dwindling Christian minorities in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. The WCC is fearful of sectarian riots and pogroms against minority Christians.
Cowardice now reigns so supreme that the WCC also reportedly “supports the blood libel actions of clerics like Archbishop Attallah Hanna, the Head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem condemned by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the International Committee for Interreligious Consultations.”
The horror of the World Council of Churches enabling the jihad was highlighted by educator and author Richard Rubenstein, who noted in his book “Jihad and Genocide” (p.109) the longtime efforts made by Muslim Arabs to win over Churches. Rubenstein states that the Muslims initiated “a major effort to gain Christian support for their cause, stressing the theme of the Palestinians as innocent victims and Israel as their oppressors. On November 25-27, 1980, speakers at an Arab Summit meeting in Amman, Jordan, stressed the need for contacts with the Vatican and other Christian organizations such as the World Council of Churches, to ensure support for ‘the recovery of full Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem.’ Even as the mainstream churches, both Catholic and Protestant, continued interfaith dialogue with Jews in the Diaspora, all too often they favored the Palestinians in the ongoing conflict.”
“The Anti-Zionism Hypocrisy of the World Council of Churches – Beyond the Matrix,” Israel News Talk Radio, February 21, 2020:
Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Dexter Van Zile, Christian Media Analyst of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) to address why anti- Zionism is the only unifying factor for the World Council of Churches (WCC). The umbrella world body was founded in 1948 with the mission of unifying Christian witness. However, with conflicting theologies, the only thing that it shares is political defamation of the Jewish state of Israel thus providing cover for the Palestinian Authority opposing efforts at normalization.
Instead, the WCC supports the blood libel actions of clerics like Archbishop Attallah Hanna, the Head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem condemned by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the International Committee for Interreligious Consultations. Then there is South African theologian Jerry Pillay who is running for election as the WCC leader who accuses Israel of being an apartheid state. General Secretary Fykse Tveit of the WCC has joined forces with anti-Israel Churches for Middle East Peace condemning the Trump “Peace through Prosperity Plan”. The WCC views the Peace plan as the equivalent of an act of war against the Palestinians. Thus, providing cover to corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to avoid engaging in bi-lateral negotiations persisting in holding out to occupy the space between the “river and the sea” by espousing incitement to hatred and funding terrorism. According to Van Zile, the PA relies on the WCC to promote hostility and agitation towards Israel. The Palestinians believe the WCC has access to the international media to further their agenda of incitement to hate and terrorism.
The WCC also operates in a dhimmi-like pose to Islamic supremacism in the Middle East because of threats to dwindling Christian minorities in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. The WCC is fearful of sectarian riots and pogroms against minority Christians. This comes as normalization of relations with Israel is being promoted by the Gulf Arab States, and by both Palestinian and Israeli Arabs who increasingly identify with the benefits of living under Israeli law and commerce.
Van Zile contrasts the WCC anti-Israel agenda with the pro-Zionism of evangelical groups like the 8 million strong members of Christians United for Israel. He attributes that to the founding fathers of the US who were Old Testament Scripture Protestants who recognized the contributions of the Jewish People for self-government and as America as a “chosen nation”. The vast majority of American evangelicals support and love the Jewish people and the Jewish nation of Israel. Van Zile believes that Evangelical pastors do not follow the lead of the WCC and the UN.
When the subject of the peculiar role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the WCC was brought up, Van Zile noted that during the Cold War era that it was infiltrated by the KGB and deployed Christians in international groups. The Russian Orthodox Church does whatever the current Putin regime says is policy. That includes oppressing minority Christian churches that oppose the Orthodox hierarchy….
Walter Sieruk says
This exposes that the World Council of Churches is just as demonically infested and controlled as the Palestinian Authority .
The W.C C has thus shown its true colors ,which are the “colors “of wickedness and darkness , Isaiah 8:20.So no good Christian should be a member of the W.C.C but if anything a real Christian should exposes the evil and darkness of the W.C.C, as seen in Ephesians 5:11. Second Timothy 3:16.
Likewise Islamic agenda of many Islamic terror organizations as Hezbollah, Hamas, P.I.J. etc. of destroying the State of Israel and replacing it with an Islamic “state” is already as lost cause. This is because those Islamic groups with that goal are all fated to lose in the end. For that agenda of those Jihad terror entities are greatly overruled by the God of the Bible. For the Jewish people have every right to all of that land, including the West Bank, by Divine Right. As seen, for example, in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:48, 49. Psalms 105:7-11. 135:4. Furthermore, the Jewish people should also have that land by historic rights. As found in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56.
Therefore , the W.C.C along with the PA and their jihadists friends who are members of Hezbollah, Hamas, P.I.J. have embraced as lost cause and a bad cause.
It may even rightfully be said that the jihadists of such Islamic entities have taken up a stand for a bad cause. This is a bad cause to the extreme. The Bible instructs in much wisdom, as in “Do not stand up for a bad cause.” Ecclesiastes 8:3. [N.I.V.]
ToBeFrank says
The WCC prefers fiction over facts when it comes to their support for the invented Palestinian people. In keeping with their fiction, they also subscribed to replacement theology; believing that they are the new Jews.
mortimer says
Agree: ‘invented Palestinian people’.
The first example of ‘Palestinian’ referring to Arab Peasants was in 1898 by Ukrainian theology professor, Akim (Ioakim) Alekseyevitch Olesnitskiy; it was translated into Arabic by Lebanese writer Khalil Beidas (born 1874 in Nazareth, Sanjak of Akka, Ottoman Villayet (Province) of Syria).
Khalil Beidas was Russian Orthodox in religion and was educated at an Orthodox secondary school in the Sanjak of Akka.
The idea of ‘Palestinian’ did not originate with Arabs, but came from the Russians and Ukrainian teachers of Beidas.
mortimer says
DHIMMI THEOLOGY … submission to Islam through bogus theology.
Boromir's Horn says
“The World Council of Churches has fallen into the trap”
No, they jumped in with eyes wide open. This organization has nothing to do with Christianity and everything to do with progressive Socialism and world disarmament. They should be stripped of their title.
Renfield Taylor says
The World Council of Churches thinks that the creation of modern Israel robbed the indigenous Arab population of Palestine of their chance to become a modern nation, and they think that Israel has compounded that injustice by using force to prevent the Palestinian national cause from making any headway, so that the theft of their native territory can be maintained. There are probably a variety of opinions among them, ranging from the “two state solution” (a Palestinian country on the West Bank) to the “one state solution” (meaning that one country for Jews and Arabs be established “from the river to the sea”) to the “liberation” of the entire region by forcefully putting an end to the Jewish state. The latter they see as a racist, as well as a colonizing, entity, which must be replaced by a multi-ethnic political body.
Are they wrong? Is their mistake a noble one? They think they are in support of the national rights of a people, of national self-determination. People of their mindset tend to brush aside the evidences of both racism (Mein Kampf is a popular read among Palestinians) and of the belief that justice will only be done when Israel has been eradicated by whatever means will do the job, on the Palestinian side. That many Palestinians see the creation of a state on the West Bank as a first step toward the goal of completely destroying Israel, is lost on them, or they just deny it.
It’s hard to know what to think of them. They are sure they are standing on very high moral ground.
Peter Dale says
These are despicable people. At no time did this body respond to calls from Christians in Eastern Europe during the Communist hegemony for help. At no time has this assembly of filth raised its collective voice against destruction of Jewish religious sites in the Middle East or the persecution and murder of Christians by Moslems not only in the Middle East, but also in Pakistan and in Africa. They are not simply spiritual frauds; they are frauds pure and simple.
James Lincoln says
Peter Dale,
I think that you have accurately nailed it.
Congratulations.
gravenimage says
Anti-Zionism and “providing cover” for Palestinian Authority the only unifying factor for World Council of Churches
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How depressing is this?
somehistory says
The word “church” also means “congregation.” So this organization is just a body of “congregations”…doesn’t have anything to do with Christianity or what Jesus Christ commanded and taught.
Just because they call themselves the World Council of Churches, doesn’t mean that they are a group of people who have morals or integrity…or even a thinking brain. Obviously, they have none of these.
This “world council” has supported and praised the U.N. in the past. And now this promoting of evil in the form of islam, fake “owners” of the land of Israel, moslims and their rabid desire to destroy Israel, is not surprising. Just because they have the word “church’ in the title of their organization, doesn’t mean they are on the side of Truth and Justice. Or Christianity.
Battle says
Boromir’s Horn correctly says the World Council of Churches is “progressive Socialism.”
janwog says
World Council of Churches is am Chrislamist organization.
F Middleton says
It’s been common knowledge for a long time that the WCC is a Communist front, who fund terrorism, even to groups that murder Christians.
Franklin P. Uroda says
I shudder whenever I see a Roman collar on a man that advocates intolerance.