The Israel-Palestine War:  Inconsistency In The Pro-Life Movement

by Charles E. Carlson, WHTT.org




While "pro-life Christians" responded in shock to Terri Schiavo's slow, deliberate 
starvation, it is ironic that many of those who were most distressed by her 
treatment have for years ignored the systematic deprivation and assassination 
of an entire population--the Palestinians; some medical reports suggest as high 
as 25% of Palestinian children are suffering some degree from malnutrition.


We Hold These Truths is pro-life.  We are not apologetic about being for the 
underdog, and that includes the unborn.  We also oppose assisted killing.  
We were disappointed that the academy award for best picture went to a film 
that features a contrived situation to justify a mercy killing--Million Dollar Baby, 
in which Clint Eastwood, the good guy, ends his adopted a daughter-figure by 
slipping a dose of adrenalin into her intravenous tube. 


We have already written much about why righteously pro-life evangelical church 
members set a different standard for Terry Schiavo or for an unborn black crack 
baby in the womb of an addicted mom, than for a Palestinian or Iraqi child with a 
Muslim mother.  No one who reads Pharisee Watch should be confused or 
puzzled by this strange paradox.  We Hold These Truths has called it by its right 
name -- racism, masquerading as Christianity.  


In the last four years, documented violence against Palestine has already killed 
850 children and many moms, and has left thousands of children fatherless.  
Starvation, we have learned, is a slower process.  Pro-life Christians largely 
supported Mrs. Schiavo's right to life.  But many are also members of the 
largest, most politically active bloc to support Israel's drive to turn off the feeding 
tubes on 3.5 million surviving Palestinians.  And they are the primary support
base for war against Iraq.  Pro-life Christians should ask themselves if they would 
also have supported Terri Schiavo if she had been a Muslim woman in Fallujah?  
Doctors reported that clusterbombing in Fallujah increased the atmospheric 
pressure around some expectant mothers to the point that babies were instantly 
expelled!


Unity Coalition for Israel (UCI) is asking millions of the same people who prayed for 
the deliverance of Terri Schiavo to sign a letter furnished by them to be delivered to 
our President.  Unity Coalition for Israel says their target audience is the 
Judaized-Christians in America.


In fact, UCI is very likely a front organization associated if not with the Likud 
government then certainly with the most radical racist elements in Israel, as can 
be readily confirmed by reading their posted editorial.  Its directors oppose any 
land compromise with the captive people and are committed to an inhumane and 
un-Christian agenda that includes confining the entire surviving population of
Palestinians behind a 26-foot high wall. It is an all but completed a gulag unknown 
to Americans.  


UCI is hunting for support for its agenda in the Judaized-Christian churches of 
America, where not one in ten has any idea of what its results will be.  Its actions 
grow out of a virulent separatist ghetto mentality one hears expressed in Israel from 
bitterly racist individuals.  I heard it from a soldier on duty and from a reservist
driving a cab in Elate, Israel.  It says Palestinians are animals who cannot be 
domesticated or lived with because they are by nature violent, and their religion is 
a religion of terrorism.  These Israelis tried to tell me I would be murdered by the 
Gazans.  In fact, their motive was not to help me, but to keep me from learning how
human the Palestinians are.  


In America un-Christian anti-Arab racism is most commonly found in its Judaized 
evangelical churches, and it is to them that UCI appeals for money and political 
support. Here is what Unity Coalition for Israel pretends to be in it own words:

"Founded in 1991, we are the largest worldwide coalition of Jewish and Christian organizations, with more than 200 groups representing millions of people dedicated to Israel. Though we have many different backgrounds, we have one common goal: A Safe and Secure Israel is not just a Jewish issue.

Millions of Christians resolutely endorse the principle of peace with security for the state of Israel. Because we work closely together and speak with a
united voice, our message is being heard!"

(See "Who We Are" under http://www.israelunitycoalition.com/)

The reality about the choices for the Philistines: “Philistine" is the ancient name 
for the people whose descendents live behind a wall in a land that is denied even 
a name of its own. They have almost no say in their future. This is why there are 
human bombers among the Philistines.  It is a prison with walls higher than the 
one around Alcatraz or Leavenworth, with guards posted on guard towers all along 
them. The Philistines have seen their land stolen, and even their name has been 
trashed.  We Hold These Truths recently mailed some books to a student in 
"Ramallah, Palestine" and it came back marked "no such place."  We had to 
resend it to "Ramallah, Israel," even though it is inside the West Bank "security 
fence."


There are three possible outcomes for the Philistines.  Most people who have 
thought about it believe in one of the first two solutions. Unity Coalition and certain 
other radical Jewish and Israeli pressure groups endorse the third solution, a 
prison state, and they want the so-called "Christian right"--the  "Judaized Christians
--to help them in placing all of the 3 million plus people behind walls. The staunchly 
pro-life Judaized Christians have more political power thanall the others combined, 
but we believe they have not seriously  thought about what they are supporting-
deportations, starvation, and death. Consider the three political choices:



Choice 1

Two separate states for Israel and Palestine, with independent citizenship, 
governments and commerce for each. This was the dictate of the UN when it 
designated the partitioning of "Palestine" in 1948.  It is the "Road Map" the Bush 
administration claims to favor, though this is suspect.  It can work only if Israel 
will take down its wall and remove its squatters from the Philistines' territory and 
allow them access to its US-subsidized jobs in Israel. There is no indication that 
Israel's government will do this, therefore, the conflict will not end even if there 
is "statehood."



Choice 2

One state, in which everyone has citizenship and political rights.  Some practical- 
minded Jews, Israelis, and Arabs think this is the only possible solution for a lasting 
peace, but no one I know thinks the Israelis will accept it, because it denies racism 
as a way of governing people, and Israeli citizenship is based on ahyah, a racist 
concept.



Choice 3. 

One state, in which Israelis have citizen's rights based on professed Judaism, 
and Palestinians have no rights.  Arabs who are Christian or Muslim would have 
no rights except what is given to them. This is the way it works under Alyah.  
This is the choice UCI is asking American church leaders to endorse--a one-state 
Israel with two huge prisons containing three million people.  These gulags would, in
effect, be forced labor camps for US-subsidized businessmen and socialist 
government enterprises, including the military.




Conclusion


With this in mind, please read the racist letter UCI has prepared for signature, 
which will no doubt be signed by tens of thousands of well-meaning Judaized 
Christians.  

“Dear President Bush and Prime Minister Sharon, We Oppose the Disengagement Plan! We Americans do not want our taxes to be spent on expelling 8,500 Israelis from their homes in Gaza.”

“Who will pay for the eviction of thousands more Israelis who will soon be
dispossessed in Judea and Samaria? Gaza is only the beginning of the disengagement. Arabs are free to work in Israel, live as citizens in Israel - vote in Israel - and serve in the Israeli< Knesset. Why can't Jews living in Gaza have the same rights as Arabs living in Israel?

The Two State Solution is NO SOLUTION!

Signed, (Your name)”

In the Book of Revelations it is written: "Come out of her, oh my people."   We 
can find a different "her" for every generation, but in today's culture it means come 
out of the Judaized Christian church, as Gordon Ginn tells us in his splendid little 
book, THE FINAL APOSTASY.


Our bloody, warring society needs you, the truly pro-life followers of Christ, to 
come out of the churches that fail to stand for peace and justice for all races.  
"Pro-life" is a failing travesty because those who claim it most dearly have not 
seen that when they apply it selectively it is an empty shell with no meaning.  
If your church is not truly pro-all-life, you should not only come out, but you should
picket it, as Project Strait Gate does.


The Pro-life movement lacks what has been called by one of our friends "heroic 
sincerity."  It is so obviously inconsistent it lacks integrity.  Life for those they 
love; no life for the Muslim. How can God honor such a course; how can it help 
but fail?


Our appeal is to well-meaning Christians who are being misled into ignoring a 
senseless, un-Christlike agenda of systematic deprivation of Arab people based 
on their race and religion.  Come out of today's apostate church.

Further Reading: 

THE FINAL APOSTASY  by Gordon Ginn PHD

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