Dear Christian Brothers & Sisters,
The American Religious Right loves Jews but the Jews hate Christians and viciously persecute our brothers in the Holy Land. Most American Evangelicals who blindly follow the pro-Israel group are simply ignorant of these persecutions. Some simply don't care about their Christian brothers and sisters in Israel & Palestine because they are not "Baptist" or "Pentecostal." Others know of the persecution but say it is a lie. It is not a lie. It is the truth. We must support our Christian brothers!
I believe that supporting the athiestic, Christ-hating Jews today is like supporting the Temple establishment persecuting the early Church in the book of Acts! Supporting the modern Jewish state is supporting the killing, beating, fining, demeaning, segregation, and persecution of Christians! This is not a matter to be taken lightly. As Christians we must stand with God's people, the true Israel, the true sons of Abraham, our own brothers and sisters who are suffering each day.
As a Christian, I could never support the persecution of my Christian brothers and sisters. I support Christians in the Middle East moraly and financialy for their liberation and religious freedoms. I am encouraging you to do the same. Please support Christians in the Middle East.
Sincerely,
Ryan
Here is also an excerpt from an article about the plight of Christians in the Holy Land:
When the modern state of Israel was established there were about 400,000 Christians living there. Two years ago the number was down to 80,000. Now it's down to 60,000. At that rate, in a few years there will be none of us left. When this happens non-Christian groups will move into our churches and claim them forever.
Palestinian Christians within Israel fare little better. On the face of it, their number has grown by 20,000 since 1991. But this is misleading, for the census classification “Christian” includes some 20,000 recent non-Arab speaking migrants from the former Soviet Union.
So why are Palestinian Christians abandoning their homeland? We have lost hope, that's why. We are treated as non-people. Our churches are fined heavily and the utilities are not turned on. We are the victims of beatings, theft, and vandalism. Few outside the Middle East even know we exist, and those who do, conveniently forget.
I refer, of course, to the American Religious Right. They see modern Israel as a harbinger of the Second Coming, at which time Christians will go to paradise, and all others (presumably including Jews) to hell. To this end they lend military and moral support to Israel.
Even by the double-dealing standards of international diplomacy this is a breathtakingly cynical bargain. It is hard to know who is using whom more: the Christian Right for offering secular power in the expectation that the Jewish state will be destroyed by a greater spiritual one; or the Israeli Right for accepting their offer. What we do know is that both sides are abusing the Palestinians. Apparently we don't enter into anyone's calculations.
The views of the Israeli Right are well known: they want us gone.
Less well known are the views of the American Religious Right. Strangely, they find the liberation of Iraqis from a vile dictator just, but do not find it unjust for us to be under military occupation for 38 long years.