Methodists Restarting BDS War With Israel

According to this article, it seems that the Methodists in America are continuing down a road of cursing Israel and buying into all the lies thrown out by the PLO.

The United Methodist Church is following in the footsteps of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ and the United Church of Canada, who all passed resolutions boycotting and divesting from the State of Israel.

In a sort of blundering naiveté, the United Methodist Church is ignoring what is surely inevitable: the very divestment they ostensibly imagine will stop the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may actually serve to exacerbate it.

"Not all is lost. Many of the delegates to the General Conference come from Africa. They have witnessed jihad up close and personal and will likely have a much more sympathetic view of Israel's predicament than many of the delegates who live in the relative safety of the United States." — Dexter Van Zile, Christian media analyst.

"The BDS Movement has already fulfilled part of its potential – as a stalking horse for those seeking to destroy Israel by other means. ... It's committed not to peace but to a piecemeal elimination of Israel." — Dr. Harold Brackman, Simon Wiesenthal Center.

On May 10, 2016, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) will gather at the Oregon Convention Center, hosting thousands of Methodist leaders, delegates and visitors.

This leading policy-making event meets once every four years to revise church law and adopt resolutions on current moral, social, public policy and economic issues. The conference also approves plans and budgets for church-wide programs.

This year, four new proposals in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement are being prepared for consideration of the general assembly during the 10-day event.

UMC is following in the footsteps of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ and the United Church of Canada, who all passed resolutions boycotting and divesting from the State of Israel. The Methodists, however, are not waiting for their General Conference to get the ball rolling. In January, the UMC pension fund, last valued in 2014 at $20.9 billion, voted in favor of divesting from five Israeli banks.

According to US News and World Report,

"The pension board's decision came at a time when divestment is gaining momentum among liberal Protestants as a tool to pressure Israel over its policies toward Palestinians. Last year, the United Church of Christ voted to divest from companies with business in the 'Israeli-occupied' territories. The Presbyterian Church (USA) took a similar vote in 2014."

UMC, which represents 13 million members worldwide, is marching to the tune of the BDS drummer, banging away at the same tired anti-Israel melodies that falsely target Israel as an "evil, colonialist, imperialist" empire whose "illegal occupation of Palestinian lands" and its "apartheid" discriminatory behavior is unjustly directed against the civil rights of the "suffering Palestinians."

Here;  http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7563/methodist-church-bds-israel

How sad.  How misguided?

On the one hand you have the nation of Israel who has been a beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East and on the other hand you have group of Arab-Muslims who are controlled by Hamas (violence is their name) on the Gaza Strip and Fatah of the West Bank whose President is a confirmed terrorist named Abu Mazen.   And yet the bleeding liberals of the world refuse to see the significance and danger of their support of Muslim extremists that rule these lands.

We all know that God clearly said He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse her....so I'm going to suggest that if the Methodists continue down this path of cursing Israel....things will not go well for them.

We can expect the world to continue to turn against Israel.  The Bible says that one day they will be standing all alone.  It should be in all our prayers that the USA continues to stand alongside Israel at least until Jesus returns for His bride, the Church.