Rabbinical "congress for peace" proposed to US Ambassador genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

[MikeWB]

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-ma ... gress.html

Arutz Sheva ('Channel Seven'), an Israeli media network that runs Israel National News (INN), reported that on Dec. 30, 2009, a rabbinical "congress for peace" proposed to U.S. Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as "the Biblical approach to the dispute over the Land of Israel," in the name of "the Divine will" .[1]  --  Gil Ronen reported that "The ambassador was visibly moved."  --  "Rabbi Dov Lior, the Rabbi of Kiryat Arba-Hevron, said:  'G-d gave the U.S. the power and influence to affect the rest of the world and supporting Israel is the key to America's success.'"  --  NOTE: Why should a U.S. Ambassador listen patiently to the ravings of this fanatical group?  --  Its director, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Lewin, said in 2005 that "Katrina is a consequence of the destructionof [Gaza's] Gush Katif [slate of Jewish communities] with America's urging and encouragement."  --  COMMENT: Occasionally, the genocidal character of the God of the Bible is recognized, but for all too many believers it is a bridge too far.  --  Gerald Hiestand, pastor at Harvest Bible Chapel in the Chicago suburbs and executive director of the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology, wrote in 2005:  "I was teaching through the book of Judges a number of years ago when one of my students rightly observed that the Jewish conquest of Canaan was, in fact, nothing short of a God-ordained genocide.  So appalling was this thought to my student that he left the group and never returned.  But what was perhaps the most troubling thing to me was that none of my other students really seemed to grasp the significance of the discussion.  --  Our God is a God of genocide."  --  Today, most Israelis seem to be similarly unable to "grasp the significance of the discussion," and through a variety of factors -- the Israel lobby, Christian Zionism, and the myth of American exceptionalism among them -- the United States seems also unable to "grasp the significance of the discussion." ...