Beck on Israel: ‘Never’ Ever Call Judea and Samaria the ‘West Bank’
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- Glenn Beck responds to an interview given by Huffington Post contributor Frank Schaeffer to MSNBC’s Martin Bashir in which Schaeffer laments “faith-based politics” citing Israel perpetuates such politics.
- Schaeffer asserts Israeli “settlers” in West Bank are “jeopardizing world peace”
- Israel National News covers Glenn’s explanation as to why Judea and Samaria must never be referred to as “West Bank”
- Glenn asserts the term “West Bank” is an attempt by the Arab world to link Judea and Samaria to Jordan
- Glenn says the term “West Bank” erases the Jewish historical link to Judea and Samaria and is an attempt to wash away its “Jewishness”
- Glenn points out there is no such thing as “indigenous Palestinians”
Arutz Sheva reports:
American talk show host Glenn Beck explained to his audience on Friday why Judea and Samaria should not be referred to as the West Bank, as the Arabs and mainstream media customarily do.
Beck made his comments in response to an interview given by Huffington Post contributor Frank Schaeffer to MSNBC’s Martin Bashir.
The interview dealt with the influence of religion on politics, and Schaeffer said that he believes such an influence exists, saying, “I think that the faith based politics is an immensely destructive thing. What do you think Iran, Saudi Arabia, or the settlers in the West Bank of Israel, who refuse to move and are jeopardizing world peace, are about? This is faith-based politics. We want reason-based politics.”
The staunchly pro-Israel Beck, who played the clip on his show, said: “Does anybody know why they call it the West Bank? Technically, what is the West Bank? I don’t think anybody in America knows.
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The term West Bank dates from the establishment of the kingdom of Jordan on the east bank of the Jordan in 1922. It refers to Judea and Samaria by their location on the west bank of the Jordan River and is an attempt by the Arab world to link them to Jordan, although they were originally slated to be part of the state of Israel. Jordan has given up all demands for Judea and Samaria, which it occupied from 1949-1967, when they were united with Israel after Jordan attacked the Jewish state in the Six Day War.
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“They [the Arabs] are really really brilliant,” added Beck. “This is really being played very well…There’s no history of Palestinians [in that area]. You know what Palestine is named after? The Philistines. There were the Philistines. That’s why they came up with the name Palestine later.”
The Philistines were a warlike, sea people whose origins may have been Minoa, an island off Greece, and who lived on the southern coast of Israel, far from Judea and Samaria, during the time of the Bible after their attack on Egypt failed. They were the Jews’ worst enemy during the time of the Judges and Kings, but were absorbed into conquering empires and disappeared as a distinct people by the 5th century B.C.E.
Listen to Glenn slam Schaeffer’s comments and deliver his own thought-provoking comments about the history Judea and Samaria below:
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symbolsofa
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:52amThe History of Palestine
Palestine; The land of the Prophets. Rich in history – the history of generations of believers who
lived and worshipped, and fought and died there, praising their Lord and defending their faith.
Nearly 4,000 years ago the Prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, stopped in the land of
Cannan. He was a true believer, one pure of faith. He surrendered his will to God alone, with no
associates.
From his sons Ishmael and Isaac came two great nations of believers. The descendants of
Abraham – two rivers from a single sea. But the nearest to Abraham were those who most closely
followed his way.
Six centuries later the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, revived his teachings and led his
people, descendants of Isaac, out of Egypt. Their destination? Palestine, the Land of Canaan.
Two more centuries and the Prophet David, peace be upon him, united the scattered tribes of
Israel. He took Jerusalem for his capital. It is said that he brought with him the ark of the
coveneant.
The Prophet Solomon, peace be upon him, inherited the Kingdom from David, and built
fortifications, and a place of worship; a place of worship on a site revered since ancient times, a
hill known as Moriah.
The Kingdom split into two in the struggle for power following Solomons death; Israel to the North
and tiny Judah, including Jerusalem to the South.
After two hundred years of bitter rivalry between these two kingdoms, Israel was conquered by
the Syrians and Judah
Gypsy123
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:14amIf God gave it to Abraham and Ishmael was not part of that promised land it belongs to the Jews. Why don’t the Phillistines live with their other Arab brothers. Could it be the true purpose of the Palestian group is to comletely destroy Israel. I think you will find that this is the truth not the lets live together but lets us destroy Israel just read the Muslim Holy books and you will learn.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:35amThe whole intent of Islam is to overtake the world . They are doing it through muslim demographics. While having infiltrated our government/educational/environmental system. They are gaining control over our populace Most of the world has said that they simply will be Islamic in a few more decades because their birth rates cannot sustain their culture. God actually did give the Jews a lot more land that what they now have . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gzyeo1Z1I4 Here is the one for muslim demographics.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:50pmIt is all crap! Who give a crap about anything having to do with the ancient Middle East?
You people are drowning in ignorance and religion.
Report Post »Wes Hardin
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:13pmLet’s nuke the area. If God is real He will rebuild it. If He isn‘t then it’ll be too bad but we’ll finally be rid of another ancient superstition.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:45amSorry, Glenn, but Judaea and Samaria were not originally “slated to be part of the State of Israel.”
Right down to 1948, the British, the US and other “powers,” the League of Nations and its successor the UN, understood that the areas west of the Jordan would ultimately be partitioned between a Jewish and an Arab state.
The area we now call the West Bank was indeed “Judaea and Samaria” in ancient times, but in modern times it had hardly any Jewish population, except in Jerusalem, and early Zionist pioneers mostly settled in the coastal plain or in the Valley of Jezreel and Galilee.
Report Post »NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:56amSuper CONgress to attack 2nd amendment for UN small arms treaty. Elite subverting constitution.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:07amElites WROTE the Constitution.
Anyhow, what is your point vis a vis the Arab/Israeli conflict?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:49amElites? Man, you don’t like anyone, do you? Assume most other people are like you?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:10amJaycen:
The Constitution was written by a gathering of plantation owners, bankers, merchants, lawyers and others whose social and economic standing was high in their local communities, in their states and in the nation at large.
In other words, members of elites.
I didn’t say there was anything wrong with that, just that it is a fact that the Constitution was written by uncommon, not common men.
Report Post »willbedone
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:19pmThe UN partition gave Israel all the way to the Jordan River. In 1948 the Arabs (Jordan) fought Israel to a stand still at what we now call the West Bank. Jordan occupied that territory until it wanted more territory to the “West Bank” in 1967 Jordan along with other Arab invaders launched an INVASION on Israel. During this confrontation with the Arab instigated invasion, Israel gained land in military action. This gain is called the West Bank / Judea Samaria.
Arabs were not called Palestinians until King Husein kicked Arafat and his rabble rouser’s out of Jordan in early 1970s.
The Arabs made a gamble with the land of the West Bank and lost.
Report Post »Nervous Investor
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:00amLinkedIn G – You are so right. Old Muhammad didn’t stray into Jerusalem from the desert and wonder at what he saw there (the Jewish faith and the Christians) until about 600 years AFTER the crucifixion of Jesus.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:48amOK, so here’s a real historical fact – the Jews supported the Muslims against the Byzantine (Christian) forces in the 7th Century. Look up any history of Heraclius the Byzantine Emperor and the conquest of Syria and Palestine. Of course the inhabitants at that time weren’t Muslim – they were Eastern Orthodox Christians, but do you think they all suddenly disappeared to be replaced by Muslims? It’s as ridiculous as saying “well the Egyptians weren‘t Muslims so they can’t have a claim to Egypt”.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:53amLet Me Tell You Something
There is nothing in this lambast that Mr. Beck has not said before. Mr. Beck is taking unsupportable positions that will not become true by his repeating them over and over again repeating. They weren’t true the first time he said them. They will not be true if and when he repeats them in front of a small audience in a few weeks.
Stop Stop
Report Post »Glenn points out there is no such thins as “indigenous Palestinians” ?? thins??
Of course there were people living in the West Bank when Israel occupied the territory.
It belongs to them. Time to give it back.
jedi.kep
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:02am“When Israel occupied the territory…?” How dumb can you get and still breathe? What history books have you been reading? Certainly not the ones based on history and fact. Take a good hard look at who “occupied” the land before Israel and who gave them that land in the first place? The land isn’t “occupied by Israel.” That land IS Israels by right.
Report Post »Alydia
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:36amIsn’t that the way you liberals work?? Glenn is repeating the TRUTH but liberals REPEAT lies over and over again hoping someone will believe them. It appears that you have! Quit drinking the koolaid MARYBETHELIZABETH….nothing in Israel belongs to the Arabs and that is exactly what the so called “palestinians” are. Nothing more and nothing less….Arabs! The “palestinians/Arabs” need to GET OUT OF ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:48amBravo, Marybethelizabeth!
Even Netenyahu has admitted that eventually most of the West Bank will become part of a State of Palestine.
It boggles the mind that self-styled “friends of Israel” don’t see this.
Report Post »WhiteGryphon
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:14ami am guess you missed this video from Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon. He explain so well…..
Report Post »http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israel-releases-the-truth-about-the-west-bank-video-challenging-palestinian-narrative/
Bonesaw
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:46amOh for crying out loud.
The land was under BRITISH rule NOT Arab rule.
Then Britain GAVE the land to Israel, the United Nations endorsed, ratified, approved, the decision and recognized Israel as a sovereign state!
The land is LEGALLY Israel’s! By rule of international LAW in the the 20th century!
Israel has wanted a peaceful co-existence there since it’s formation, the Arabs don’t.
But people like you don’t like looking at pesky hard facts such as LAWS and history. People like you are vapid and irresponsible.
Get it through your thick skulls that arabs, muslims, do NOT want to peacefully co-exist with ANYBODY! They want to put EVERYONE on the entire freakin EARTH under Islamic control. Islamic law and Islamic faith. Islamic Jihadists just attacked CHINA!!! Why would they attack China? Because they want to fight EVERYONE! They want to destroy EVERYONE who does not agree with them, or assimilate with them. They are a cancer on the earth and need to be treated as such.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:49amMarybethelizabeth, read Samuel Clemens’ (Mark Twain’s) account of the area during his travels: a desolate place full of rocks. Yes, there were some people there during the past 2000 years… a Jewish remnant and a roughly equal number of others (Turks and Arab governors); the rest were largely nomadic. The land began to “bloom” when the nationalists began to return over the past 100 years or so, and as it started to become prosperous by the 1920′s, Arabs from neighboring countries arrived to find jobs. The “indigenous Palestinians” mostly can trace their claim to the land for less than 100 years – for 60 of that, Israel was a nation. I‘m afraid you are another casualty of America’s lacking educational system.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:36amTHe problem here is the the Christians and Beckerheads, believe a collection of myths and fairy tales gives people rights to land.
Report Post »marjorie faye
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:17amEncinom,
Report Post »Your knowledge of history is terribly lacking. It is not a myth that the Jews inhabited Israel way, way back before the time of Jesus. It is one thing to disagree with Christian doctrine or belief in God, but quite another to distort or be ignorant of historical reality regarding who lived in that land. No credible historian agrees with you. Of course, all jihadist Muslims such as the leader of Iran agree with you. He also denies the Jewish Holocaust in Germany actually happened. But as to who gave the Jews that land in the 20th century, it was the Brits. If you are unaware, the reason was because Hitler killed millions of Jews and because prior to that for centuries, Jews had been harrassed, persecuted, and tormented throughout Europe. Seems only right that they should be given a place where that would not longer occur, but of course the Muslim nations are continuing those actions against the Jews to the present time. And stupid, uninformed liberal Americans and Western Europeans go along with them.
pulpiteer
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:58amThe Jews were nice enough to GIVE almost ALL the land they took after they were attacked by almost all thier neighboring arabs…they can choose to give it back or keep it…the beat back a horde of ignorant muslims…their choice not your decision…
Report Post »CCRYDER
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:13pm@Bonesaw – right on, you’ve got it nailed.
Report Post »Timbotim
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:28pmThere are NO such people as “Palestinians!” They simply don’t exist! After TransJordan lost the ‘67 war, it ceded its “West Bank” territory to Israel in order to wash its hands of the rabble who lived there. These “desert rat” Arabs were a thorn in Jordan‘s side for decades and Jordan used the ’67 war as cover for getting rid of their problem.
The only “Palestinian problem” is that Muslims are using this trumped-up argument to attack Israel, physically and politically.
Think about it: when was the last time that you heard Israel say that it wanted to destroy its Muslim neighbors? EVER? The answer, of course, is “never.” If the Moozies would lay down their arms, there would be peace. If Israel did the same there would be no Israel. Need proof? Every single time Israel has ceded land in a “peace” deal, it has been rewarded with rocket attacks from the land it just gave up. Gaza anyone?
Report Post »cykoaudio
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:55pmwhy is everyone arguing,redundantly,whose land Israel was in THE LAST COUPLE CENTURIES??the POINT IS,LONG BEFORE THAT,since Abraham,the Israelites were given,owned,& cultivated/civilized Israel,built THE temple there,were always at war,not to colonize OTHER civilizations,but just to KEEP their land-THE JEWS,not Palestinians,not Philistines,not arabs,have had &always will the rights to that land since Abraham-& even,after being subjected to slavery in Egypt by Africans,JEWS WERE MADE SLAVES BY AFRICANS,got it? Moses leads them out,they went HOME,to Israel.further civilized the land w/schools,temples,shops-not tribal backward nuts,like surrounding cultures (Philistines) -and you would figure since Obama(via his father)& those against imperialism /colonization would empathize with the Jews since they have NEVER SOUGHT OTHERS land,but constantly had to fight for their own,just to live in peace-where are all the anti-colonialists defending JEWS always being run over in THEIR OWN LAND in Israel,i.e diaspora ok for Jews,kick em out of home country since 2000 b.c,AND THEN COMPLAIN WHEN THEY WANT TO GO BACK HOME..but kick Native Americans,Mexicans(out of illegally entering),black Africans,Muslims(out of Europe),thats evil white imperialism-that is definition of hypcrisy-it’s like if I let my brother move in to part of my house-I go away for month-I get home & brother says,you were gone for too long,its mine now(no,Abraham/Isaac have title)
Report Post »closetotheedge
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:52amShalom to all from a christian patriot. God told Abraham while in Canaan as far as he could see,NSEW were given by God to the heirs of Abraham,Issac and Jacob/Israel in a everylasting covenent to His people which after Jesus the Christ was murdered by the Jews who were screaming”Crucify Him,and His blood be upon us and our children” Since than, as in 70AD the Jewish people were scattered around the world and persecuted by the leaders that blamed everrything on them and tried over the centuries to annialate(genecide)them from the Earth. But Jehovah God has always loved them.And Jesus,the Lamb of God,our Savior and Lord as well,died on the cross and Reserected,seen by over 500 alive and His aposles then rose into the cloud and sits on the Throne in Heaven and soon the Trumpet of the angel will sound,calling all His bride home for the Supper of the Lamb.The Hebrew prophets of God are batting 1,000% and the whole world wants to destoy Israel,all Jews and all true christians,except Canada and few others. Oba‘n Co’ are anti-christ pro-Islam, divide Israel and kill any who stand with Jesus as our Lord.GB, thanks for educating us on our U.S.A and all who heard and you tell the truth. Keep on my friend and see you soon at the trumpet sound.Thanks Bro…. A Christian Patriot. dr house Ps.check out the Band Genesis and the song”Supper’s Ready“ on ”Foxtrot”.Listen close,It’s Prophetic and right on time.
Report Post »Butterbean74
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:03amMurdered by the Jews? He was crucified by the Romans. He was brought up to trial by the Kenites (Sons of Cain) Jesus (Yeshua) called them out in John:
John 8:44
King James Version (KJV)
44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Who was the first murderer. They claim to be Jews but are of the synogogue of Satan.
Read Revelation 2:9 and 3:9. Find the Key of David and come out of Babylon (Confusion)
Report Post »Zay Gezunt
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:15amIt has been the true Christians throughout the ages that were determined to destroy the jews….and now you love us? Yours is the only true religion..”There is no way to the Father but through me.” Jesus said.
Report Post »You crusaded us, expelled us, inquisitioned us, moved us into ghettos.
You gave us quotas to enter institutions of higher learning.You Progrommed us.You denied us entry visas before and after you Holocausted us….and now you LOVE us.
Why? Because you want us to be full actors in your Armageddon/Rapture plays. We have the role of a people who must return to Zion prior to the Second Coming. Once we are all in Israel the good lord will have us either killed or converted. Tough love, you might call it.
Thanks a lot.
Jack of Hearts
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:36amAlthough the terms Philistine and Palestine are related, the idea that Palestine is a new invention is ludicrous. It has been known as such for over 2,500 years. In the 5th century BC, Herodotus wrote in Ancient Greek of a ‘district of Syria, called Palaistinê”. There are many other mentions up to and including the 2 divisions of Palestine under the Byzantine Empire and of course it was resurrected as a name when the British defeated the Turkish Empire in the First World War. The “West Bank” is a geographic description. This is just another desperate attempt by Beck to get some attention. Hopefully the Israelis will ignore him and his tour. I do tend to agree with Shaman World – there is no evidence for a King David or King Solomon (anymore than there is for King Arthur).
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:59amAh, another lie based on ignorance. Evidence of a King David is indeed available for those who simply are honest enough to look for it.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:24am@Jedi Interested to look at the evidence. Please provide (non-biblical) confirmation of his existence.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:31amAre we now going to be the “word police”? Without “palestinians” there would be other “victims” created to cause strife!!
Remember George Orwell 1984!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:31am.
Report Post »Israel is going to have to Fight soon. Will Obama Help Her?………….
DAYWATCHER
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:59amSpankdamonkey wrote: Israel is going to have to Fight soon. Will Obama Help Her?………….
The short answer is, no. Obummers non-action will be deafening.
Report Post »ShamanWorld
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:57amThere never was a real Israel in history(before 1948). I had a Jewish anthropology teacher in college and he said the “Israelites” made the whole story up to get recognition. There is no historical record of King David(fake) or most of the “history” of the ancient Hebrews. They were nothing more than wannabe Pharoahs(children of God). Any of the real history in the bible is thanks to the record-keeping of the ancient Egyptians who were meticulous scribes. You people who really believe the Bible is non-fiction(besides the message) are looney, but have a right to be. Do some research.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:16amEven your so called Jewish Teacher can’t rewrite history. If this self hating Jew you supposedly had as a teacher told you this it must be true. If this story is true Italians should give back Italy to the Etruscans. Or Greece should be broken up and Athens and Sparta should be reestablished. How about Mexico being carved up so the Aztecs and Maya can claim their lands. Most of you history revisionists are just Anti-Semetic haters. And those Sand Rat Arab nomads have progressed not a wink for 2000 years.
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:16am@shamanworld, You are truely a dumb human being. It’s a little scary that someone with such low intellegence even has access to the internet.
Report Post »hawkwatcher65
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:29amYou will take the word of who, Oh yea your Jewish anthropology teacher over the Bible the most studied book in history. Wow. Have a good day
Report Post »Coralchristie
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:43amSorry guy, you’re in the same boat as the holocaust deniers. The history is there and the record of the Bible is verified in historical writings. That your professor found something contrary and based his teaching on it is not unusual for academia and that you swallowed the lie whole is not unusual for a mushy brained student. What is unusual is that you haven’t found the intellectual curiosity to research the subject and find the truth. By the way…what’s with the uniform?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:52amAnd that’s why historical digs in the area are constantly proving the Bible right. The media doesn‘t always report on it because they don’t want the Bible proved right. Josephus was a historian who wrote everything down, and I believe most of it agrees with the Bible, I haven’t read his book. It’s on my list.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:54amYou are nothing but a liar Shamanworld. Or at best, you swallowed the Koolaid your teacher was serving. I had a religion class in college as well and learned the history of the Jews is legit and they didn’t “make it up.” What a simply bogus claim made by a liberal troll.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:26amYeah, like college professors don’t have an agenda.
Good grief?!?!?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:05amThe beginning of wisdom in this area would be to rule out any and all arguments based on religious sources, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
It’s interesting, but really does it matter, how “Palestine” got its name, or whether David was a real man or a half-legendary hero-king like Arthur, whether the Jews or the Romans killed Jesus, or whether Muhammad actually ascended to heaven where the Dome of the Rock now stands?
Really, you “stand by Israel no matter what” fools and you “Israel is a genocidal terrorist apartheid state” fanatics. does it matter?
Deal with the facts on the ground now: Jews who have known no home but the State of Israel, Palestinians kept too long in a state of limbo.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:59pmLet me know where your teacher got his/her degree so I can write to the school this idiot got its degree and tell that school to revoke it. No one this moronic deserves to teach. :)
Report Post »ShamanWorld
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 5:56pmI meant to say, the professor said the story of Jesus was made up.
Report Post »mendolover
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:58amWell thank God Almighty that He has sent GB to save Israel! Maybe he should be spending more time correcting that new age piece of crap he wrote with Ablow.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:45amSorry, Glenn. I’m still going to call it the West Bank because it’s only two syllables and people will know what the hell I’m talking about. And I’m going to call the people who live there Palestinians because that’s what they call themselves, just like I call anyone from France French even if they’re not Frankish and anyone from England English whether or not they’re Angles.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:15amYou can do better than this! Sooner or later, you can call it “Palestine.”
Report Post »MikeToo
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:43amJust remember that per Scripture, the West Bank boundary would of course be referring to the west bank of the Euphrates River….. Thus when someone refers to the West Bank just say something like, “You mean the west bank of the Euphrates of course.”
Report Post »Butterbean74
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:50amI thought it was the Jordan
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:06am“Jew, duhhhh!!!”
Hahahaha
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:07amWhen little David killed big fat slobby Philistine Goliath, who do you think God was favoring that day??
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:50amwe are loosing America and I don’t care what happens in Israel
doesn’t the anti Christ help Israel at first ? then later betrays them.
Report Post »Butterbean74
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:33amHelp Israel? He is going to help the whole world.
He is the healer of the deadly wound the the one world system that he set up.
Sound familiar. People putting the mechanisms in place to fail, and then come riding in saying they are the only ones that can fix it. Sound like economic failure and t.a.r.p.
Look at who is in control of things. Take the blinders off.
Anti-Christ (Satan) comes in peacably and prosperously. Every one will worship him thinking that he is their Messiah in what ever form they worship. He is supernatural. Except those that have the Seal Of God in their foreheads. Their brains. Truth. All others will have the mark of the beast in their foreheads and in their hands. Deception and doing his bidding. Babylon.
Report Post »Butterbean74
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:42amOk I won’t call it the west bank.
But you stop calling Abraham the first Jew.
The term did not exist during his time. Jew simply means someone of the tribe of Judah or a resident of the land of Judea. You can be a Jew and have no Israelite heritage.
Second. Stop trying to fit Israel (the true seed) all 13 tribes into that little country called Israel. It does not work. The Abrahamic covenent and blessings fall to the people who are true Israelites. Though they lost their identity, God knows who they are.
Third, stop with the multi-cultural multi-faith stuff. Christ is the only way period. True Christianity, not a corrupted version of it.
Fourth, know the key of David. If you don’t know it, you will be decieved. Read Revelations chapters 2 and 3. About the 7 churches. Those are Christian Churches. Only 2 made it. Only 2 God did not have fault with. Smyrna and Philadelphia. Mainly Rev. 2:9 and 3:9. They had the truth.
Fifth, learn the parable of the fig tree. The good and bad figs were planted in 1948. The final generation. Planted in the place where Glenn is focusing on.
Sixth, It is good to focus on Jerusalem, it is where the Anti-Christ will show up. Mainly the temple mount. Watch.
Report Post »TruthDarts
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:05amAs I recall it…Abraham was chosen for his faith…and a great nation will come from him.
Issac, his son & heir with wife Sarah–as promised from GOD, in Abraham’s old age…
eventually would become the Jewish nation.
There really wasn‘t Jewish nation ’land’
Report Post »until 40 years of wandering done during the time of Moses.
JJ Coolay
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:14amWell actually it was Isaac’s son, Jacob, who was called “Israel” by God, when Israel started—thru Jacob — yes, thru Isaac, his father and Abraham, his father.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:10amthere is no jew or greek, only followers of Christ… if one is not with Him then they are lost wondering in the wildrness
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:13amIf you read the Bible carefully, I think you will find that the “Jews” (men of Judah) were a remnant of what was once a larger “Israel,” defined by its covenant with God at Sinai, and that Israel in turn was just one of several “Hebrew” nations that arose out of the wreck of the empires of the Late Bronze Age in that region, others being Ammonites, Edomites, Moabites, etc., all at least notional descendant of “Eber.”
It’s another question, of course, how much of this prior to maybe the 8th century BC corresponds to actual history.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:34amReally as long as people are ignorant of the history and
all the vague terminology thrown out to futher confuse the issue
you will have no basis to make a judgment as these problems escalate…
because once again we deal with smoke and mirrors
It seems whereever you see smoke and mirrors and
an effort to confuse the issue
you can figure they are in the wrong!
Because they have to spin and convolute the truth…
Gee sounds just like here
Report Post »sounds so very familiar! Not???
The plan aparantly comes from the father of lies…
whether Here or surrounding Israel those that participate in this behavior all act alike!
ramburner
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:09amI am just as SICK of reading B.C.E. Glenn, get corrected; it is NOT BCE (Before the Common Era) the PROPER Term is: B.C. simply “Before Christ”. Naturally; the left has even changed that, just to try and erase Christ from EVERYTHING secular if it were even possible! Please DO NOT worship at their alter and use improper terms. Thanks, I know you meant no harm.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:13amYou’re right. BC is before Christ being born, and AD means “in the year of the Lord”. That’s how important this person we all call Jesus Christ is to the World. We measure time by his birth! The majority of the World measures time from the time of his birth!
It has been 2,011 years since Jesus Christ was born. The Jews measure time differently because they don’t believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. (Strangely, there are “Jews for Jesus”, that I really don’t understand, because that would make them Christians.)
There are tons of sects of Christians. I’m a Catholic, and I believe that the Catholic Church is the only “true” Christian Church. I’m sure that Christians, who are not Catholic will disagree with me. This doesn’t bother me in the least, because I truly believe in the Church that Jesus Christ established.
Lutheranism was established by Martin Luther because he refused to believe in the infallibility of the Pope on religious matters.
The Church of the Latter Day Saints, or Mormons, was established by Joseph Smith. He claimed that an angel directed him to establish this Church (this happened in upper State New York). Originally, Mormon men were allowed to have multiple wives. This is mostly rejected in current times, but still happens . There so many different Christian sects. Holy Rollers, Baptist, Presbyterians, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Lutherans, Evangelical, Black Social Justice Theology, Catholic, and so on.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:00am@Diane TX
Jews for Jesus technically are Christians, but they are called that because they are ethnically Jewish, not religiously. One can convert to being Jewish, but you can’t change your heritage. The Bible says that the Jews are his chosen people and there will always be a remnent. The Jews for Jesus (and I believe there’s another group, but can’t remember their name) are that remnent. They will be going to heaven, while those Jews that don’t believe in Jesus, sadly, won’t. That’s why I support Jews for Jesus so they can convert more.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:18amMartin Luther DID NOT start the lutheran church. he tried to reform the Catholic Church. The church that said if one wanted a love one to get into Heaven they had to give money to church officials. catholics believe in a works based theology. Christ was about Faith.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:55amI believe they are also called Messianic Jews Loriann12. :)
Report Post »Sugabee
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:18am@ Circledwagons:
Paul tells us: “For [God] will reward every man according to his works: to those who by perseverance in working good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. There will be . . . glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality” (Rom. 2:6–11; cf. Gal. 6:6–10).
In the second century, the technical Latin term for “merit” was introduced as a synonym for the Greek word for “reward.” Thus merit and reward are two sides of the same coin.
Protestants often misunderstand the Catholic teaching on merit, thinking that Catholics believe that one must do good works to come to God and be saved. This is exactly the opposite of what the Church teaches. The Council of Trent stressed: “[N]one of those things which precede justification, whether faith or works, merit the grace of justification; for if it is by grace, it is not now by works; otherwise, as the Apostle [Paul] says, grace is no more grace” (Decree on Justification 8, citing Rom. 11:6).
The Catholic Church teaches only Christ is capable of meriting in the strict sense—mere man cannot (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2007). The most merit humans can have is condign—when, under the impetus of God’s grace, they perform acts which please him and which he has promised to reward (Rom. 2:6–11, Gal. 6:6–10). Thus God’s grace and his promise form the foundation for all human merit (CCC 2008)
Report Post »Sugabee
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:31am(Cont’d)…Virtually all of this is agreed to by Protestants, who recognize that, under the impetus of God’s grace, Christians do perform acts which are pleasing to God and which God has promised to reward, meaning that they fit the definition of merit. When faced with this, Protestants are forced to admit the truth of the Catholic position—although, contrary to Paul’s command (2 Tim. 2:14), they may still dispute the terminology.
Thus the Lutheran Book of Concord admits: “We are not putting forward an empty quibble about the term ‘reward.’ . . . We grant that eternal life is a reward because it is something that is owed—not because of our merits [in the strict sense] but because of the promise [of God]. We have shown above that justification is strictly a gift of God; it is a thing promised. To this gift the promise of eternal life has been added” (p. 162).
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:24amSuga :) i’m glad that you agree with me :) i dated a “catholic’ so i know how words and ideas are twisted. Salvation thru Faith
Report Post »Sugabee
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:42amYes, it’s really a shame how the Catholic faith is twisted. I chose to become Catholic from a Protestant denomination, and have run into many who do not understand – even Catholics who have misperceptions about their own church’s teachings!
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:35amGod will bless those who bless Israel and punish those who don’t. God bless Glenn Beck! A lion of a man.
Report Post »CamoJan
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:02amAnd that says it all right there.
I stand with Israel.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:12am…and the pyramids were built by Jewish slaves. In school I was taught no one knows who built them but assumed that the Egyptians did. Some idiots even say aliens did it. I’m sick of revisionist history.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:37amThe Pyramids were built by Egyptians way back around 2500 BC. Israel’s slavery in Egypt was a thousand years after that. The term “Jew” was not used until even later.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:15pmRead the OT. The Jews even had a “quota” of “bricks” they had to make daily, when they could no longer keep up with it pharaoh grew angry at his Jewish slaves. It even tells how many slaves there were. The timeline adds up. Just add common sense and it all comes together. The pyramids were built by JEWISH SLAVES.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 6, 2011 at 10:26amWhere in the OT does it say the bricks were for pyramids? Fact is, it doesn’t. Get your dates and your texts straight.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:01amThe Iranian government requested an international commission to investigate why the U.S. built two skyscrapers that
disrupted the flight of an aircraft with a peaceful humanitarian mission on 11th of September 2001…
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The meeting at the UN, Ambassador of Israel stands up to deliver his speech:
Report Post »- Before starting my speech, ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell
you one ancient legend. When Moses brought out our people from
Egyptian captivity, he led them through a barren desert.
People were tired, thirsty and hot. And so, passing by a big rock, the prophet struck it with his staff, and in its place
formed a large lake with crystal clear and cold water.
Moses decided to swim.
He took off his clothes and went into the lake. When he came back, his
Clothes were gone. ! He and we have every reason to believe that they were stolen by palestinians or Arabs.
Mahmoud Abbas , head of the palestinian authority, jumps up from his seat:
- It’s a lie! In those days there even were no palestinians nor arabs there !!!
Israeli Ambassador replied:
- And exactly with this, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to start my speech!.
GadsdenPatriot
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:57amWhy call it Palestine? It’s just a made up word too to give credibility to savages.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:34am“Glenn points out there is no such thing as “indigenous Palestinians””
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That’s right Glenn. The fake name was made up by Arafat. I’m not sure if this group are decedents of the ancient Philistines. I have always read that they were originally Jordanians.
The thing is, the Jews were there first, thousands of years ago.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:09am@cozmoeastman
After a war with ancient Israelites which the Philistines won, they captured the Ark and put it in the temple of their god(s) only to find that their gods were destroyed overnight. While the ark resided in the first Philistine city, many developed “tumors” (uncertain origin), and when the Ark (where the Lord’s Spirit on earth resided is Israel during this period of history), was moved to other cities these maladies repeated themselves.
The Philistines were happy to “get rid” of the Ark by returning it to the Israelites! It is said that the Israelites deserved to be taken captive, but that God allowed “Himself” to be captured for a variety of reasons directed at the Philistines and at the Israelites. (Condensed from I Samuel 5)
More info on the web. One good site: http://www.enduringword.com/commentaries/0905.htm
(Note: For those who don’t understand how or why a God would subject Himself to being housed in a wooden box, be captured, etc., remember, the God is Israel is Spirit and is not limited by space or time. He is omnipitent and omnipresent, can be whereever He wants to be or split any “porton” of Himself whenever and whereever he wants. A portion of Him could be housed in a box, yet all of who He is was present everywhere. Hence, God on Earth in His “Word,” His Son, was also possible. God didn’t come to earth “. . . that we might know the Father“ and to ”. . . save us from our Sins,“ and disappear from ”elsewhere.” He is A
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:30amIf in fact they derived from the Philstines……they haven’t changed much over the centuries…they’re still wanting to annihilate the Jews. Regarding the Ark of the convenant, weren’t the philstines the ones who gave it back, because it was killing anyone that was touching it?
Report Post »Butterbean74
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:45amTumors, no. They were Hemmoroids.
God is not without his sense of humor
Report Post »Butterbean74
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:22amOnly an Israelite was killed for mishandling the Ark. God’s law applied to them.
The Philitines did not know better. But as for stealing it, God gave them all hemmoroids and they begged the Israelites to take it back.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:39amTheir identity“ palestinian” is a political one used in their struggle for justice against the western imposed israeli state.The bounderies are all western imposed and yes they are all arabs[comprising chrisitan muslim and jewish arabs[prior to israel].What matters is not the moniker palestinian but the fact on the ground that these arabs lived THERE and had homes,villages,cities [jerrusalem] which via western colusion gave way to european zionist colonization and a zionist state which displaced and etnically cleansed most of them.That’s the injustive[and everything else[hisoty of arab/muslims and biblical history and what name they call themselves] is malicious and irrelievant rationalization to rationalize anti- arab pro zionist injustice and tyrany over palestinians.Yes they could have simply accepted the new state and gone somewhere else but they chose not to.They chose to struggle against what was an injustice done to them .Today they would accept a 67border israel.That is a concession and should be honored considering [that it is illigal] how unjust the creation of a european zionist state violated their rights- to not be ethnically cleaned for not being a zionist interloper but indigenous!And palestinians are also chrisitan but you american “christian”[there's nothing Christ like and spiritual about anything anti-arab genocidists believe]“conveniently leave them out of your false ,anti-arab narrative!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:36pmThe Jews were there first?
No, the Canaanites were there first, and before them there were. . . .
And so on.
Give it up, you will never settle a 21st century AD conflict with reference to what may or may not have been the case in the 13th century BC.
Report Post »Soup or Fly
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 5:30amthe name palestine was given by the Romans to the land and the arabs that were left after Rome scattered the Judeans across italy and eruope. This was done after the Jews rebelled against Rome, Rome sent Titus to conquer the jews and make them submit. and thus the siege of jerusalem started in 70 ad.
Report Post »Rome tired of the uprising burned the temple to the ground, so all thats left is the wailing wall, and scattered the Jews and salted the earth so that nothing would grow there. “Sulpicius Severus (363–420), referring in his Chronica to an earlier writing by Tacitus (56–117), claimed that Titus favored destroying the Jerusalem Temple to help uproot and demolish the Jewish people.”
oregonrr
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:53amGlenn.. one very important thing u r forgetting to teach…. the Philistines are the only people, other than Israel, to ever be in possession of the ark of the covenant.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:29am@oregonrr
#1 That is not important enough to even mention except in the Bible.
#2 They sure begged Israel and even paid them to take the Ark back quick enough didn’t they.
Misdirection is only meant to try and make people forget what the important topic is. Fair attempt at using it though.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:33amAnother thing…The Philistines weren’t muslim.
Report Post »cozmoeastman
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:43amso if the Philistines are the only other ones that held the ark of the covenant why did they want to give it back? Maybe it was because they realized that they shouldn‘t have it and everyone should realize that those descendants that want Israeli land don’t have a claim to it either.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:23am@ cosmoeastman
See my comment post in “@diane tx which was actually in reply to your question but somehow got misalligned.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:50amOregon… what’s your point in even bringing that up??
Report Post »They stole it. So their possession of it wasn’t even legimitate.
Hmm… sounds kinda like today where the Palestinians are stealing Israel’s land too.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:28amJJ Coolay:
No, it’s the Israelis who have been appropriating land from the Palestinians.
Eventually, they will probably have to give some of it back.
Report Post »Wishkah
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:50amfighting ignorance is a thankless job..
I stand with Glenn
Report Post »I stand with Israel
neverending
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:48amGood job Glenn for continuing to battle on behalf of beloved Israel and Jewish people. Love those people and pray for them constantly. So sad to hear that PM Netanyahu is considering moving their border back to 1967 borders – that just seems like a bad move but he knows what he has to do. Of course this is all due to the bastard in chief we are stuck with.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:01amI thought Netnyahu said…Returning to the ‘67 borders is “ Not Gonna Happen ”.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:43amExactly, but they won’t let the truth get in their way.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:48amThere is a prophesy … not sure who gave it or if it is even from God so grain of salt folks…. that says that if we (America) divide God’s land (Israel) God will divide ours. It says that it would take seven years to build a bridge over the gulf.
Report Post »The New Madrid fault spans top to bottom almost 50% of America.
Again not sure if it is true but interesting none the less. Will watch this closely.