Post by Daniel on Mar 2, 2016 10:23:25 GMT -5
Jews for Jesus Missionaries Support Pro-terror Palestinian Organization
By Rachel Avraham
Mar 1, 2016
Missionaries from Jews for Jesus in Israel are allying themselves with the anti-Zionist Palestinian Christian organization Musalaha in order to attack the Aramean Christian community. After a speaker at a Musalaha conference called Aramean Christians loyal to Israel “collaborators,” the Aramean community responded robustly. JerusalemOnline reported last year that Father Gabriel Naddaf, the spiritual head of the Christian Empowerment Council which is based in Nazareth, Israel, called out the Musalaha organization after its founder Salim Munayer, who boasts his family connections to George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, praised Hamas’ terror tunnels as sources of food and drink as well as a means to “get weapons to defend because they want to change the situation.”
In response to Naddaf, missionaries from Jews for Jesus defended Munayer’s stance on the terror tunnels. Jews for Jesus activist David Minsky, who works among many Israeli soldiers and other youth in Israel, asserted that Hamas was merely “defending themselves and the mess they created” during Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. Labelling Israel’s security blockade of Gaza a “siege,” Minsky also suggested that Hamas may not have been to blame for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers on their way home from school before hostilities began – despite Hamas admitting to having kidnapped the boys. In further online comments, Minsky had suggested that Hamas was “trying to make life better” for the people of Gaza and that Father Naddaf should be sued for libel. Fellow Jews for Jesus missionary Chaim Birnbaum added that Naddaf’s post “had no foundational truths.”
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In recent years, Jews for Jesus has embraced anti-Zionist Palestinian Evangelical Christians, whom Father Naddaf accuses of “theological terrorism.” Veteran Jews for Jesus scholar Richard Harvey, who co-authored the recent pact between Jews for Jesus and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-linked Musalaha, who also supports a one-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, spoke at a recent “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference in Bethlehem and has also spoken in Stephen Sizer’s church.
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By Rachel Avraham
Mar 1, 2016
Missionaries from Jews for Jesus in Israel are allying themselves with the anti-Zionist Palestinian Christian organization Musalaha in order to attack the Aramean Christian community. After a speaker at a Musalaha conference called Aramean Christians loyal to Israel “collaborators,” the Aramean community responded robustly. JerusalemOnline reported last year that Father Gabriel Naddaf, the spiritual head of the Christian Empowerment Council which is based in Nazareth, Israel, called out the Musalaha organization after its founder Salim Munayer, who boasts his family connections to George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, praised Hamas’ terror tunnels as sources of food and drink as well as a means to “get weapons to defend because they want to change the situation.”
In response to Naddaf, missionaries from Jews for Jesus defended Munayer’s stance on the terror tunnels. Jews for Jesus activist David Minsky, who works among many Israeli soldiers and other youth in Israel, asserted that Hamas was merely “defending themselves and the mess they created” during Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. Labelling Israel’s security blockade of Gaza a “siege,” Minsky also suggested that Hamas may not have been to blame for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers on their way home from school before hostilities began – despite Hamas admitting to having kidnapped the boys. In further online comments, Minsky had suggested that Hamas was “trying to make life better” for the people of Gaza and that Father Naddaf should be sued for libel. Fellow Jews for Jesus missionary Chaim Birnbaum added that Naddaf’s post “had no foundational truths.”
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In recent years, Jews for Jesus has embraced anti-Zionist Palestinian Evangelical Christians, whom Father Naddaf accuses of “theological terrorism.” Veteran Jews for Jesus scholar Richard Harvey, who co-authored the recent pact between Jews for Jesus and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-linked Musalaha, who also supports a one-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, spoke at a recent “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference in Bethlehem and has also spoken in Stephen Sizer’s church.
read full article
thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/2016/03/01/jews-for-jesus-missionaries-support-pro-terror-palestinian-organization/