Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Anti-Semitism is a Global Matter

Another day...another article in the Wall Street Journal about Israel and/or Jews.

Today on the front page is a chart with the poll results of Religious Intolerance.  It turns out that Muslims are viewed favorably by 47% of those polled...while Jews come in at 38% of those polled.

Hmmm....so even though every day another Muslim group kills, maims, kidnaps or blows up something while yelling "Allah Akbar!"...they are seen as more favorable than the Jews?

Wow!  That simply isn't logical.  And as we have said in the past, when something lacks logic you may want to look at the spiritual ramifications.  In the case of the Jew, God chose them so Satan hates them!  It really is that simple.

Also, Satan wants to try his best to disrupt and disprove prophecy.  He wants God's Word to have a lie in it....so he has attempted to kill all the Jews so that NO JEWS will be allowed to come trembling to Christ for salvation.

"For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol.  Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king.  They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessing in the last days."  Hosea 3:4-5

And of course Satan would LOVE to wipe the Jews from their promised land in these last days...and he is currently using Islam to work on that goal.

"I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in theme.  They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.  I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the Lord your God.  Amos 9:13-15

Now, back to the article in the WSJ;

About a quarter of the world's population agrees that a number of negative statements about Jews are "probably true," according to a poll aimed at providing a statistical underpinning to the question of how widespread anti-Semitism is globally.

In the survey to be released Tuesday, which covered 101 countries plus the Palestinian territories, 26% of respondents agreed with at least six of 11 negative statements—what its sponsor called stereotypes—about Jews. The questions included "Jews are more loyal to Israel than [their home] country," and "Jews have too much power in the business world."

The poll was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, a leading organization for fighting anti-Semitism and other prejudice, and funded by New York business leader and philanthropist Leonard Stern. The pollster, First International Resources, conducted 53,100 interviews in 96 languages, and its sponsors said it was the most extensive survey ever on anti-Semitism.

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa, which generally have a contentious relationship with Israel, have by far the highest proportion of people responding with anti-Semitic views, with an average of 74%, the survey found.

Outside that region, Greece had the highest percentage, with 69% of the people surveyed affirming six or more of the anti-Semitic statements. Anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice tend to rise during times of economic hardship, and Greece has been struggling with a downturn. The extremist party Golden Dawn, which has blamed Jews and other minorities for the country's woes, has made significant inroads there.

Though some Jewish leaders argue that only anti-Semitism can explain the harshness of some attacks on Israel, many critics of Israeli policy reject the notion that criticism of the country reflects an anti-Jewish bias.

In the Netherlands, for example, the survey showed that 43% of the population had a negative attitude toward Israel but only 5% accepted six or more of the anti-Semitic statements.

In a separate conclusion, the survey found that 35% of respondents had never heard of the Holocaust. And fully 66% had either not heard of it or didn't believe the historical accounts were accurate.

Younger people were significantly less aware of the Holocaust than older people. While 61% of those over 50 years old knew about the tragedy, only 48% of people under 35 were aware of it. That trend is expected to continue with the fading of the generation that lived through the Holocaust, which ended nearly 70 years ago.

Here;  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304655304579551974194329920?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304655304579551974194329920.html

As we all know, about 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust of WWII.  That was about 1/3 of the world's Jews.

Zechariah says that 2/3 will be killed in the next Holocaust.  So it would make sense that we would see Anti-Semitism starting to rear it's ugly head again.

"In the whole land," declared the Lord, "two thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one third will be left in it.  This third I will bring into the fire;  I will refine them like silver and test them like gold.  They will call on my name and I will answer them;  I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, "The Lord is our God'"  Zechariah 13:8-9

Hat tip to Jesse D.

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