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Warren Shows Her Progressive Credentials By Bashing Israel
Oct 28th, 2019
CommentaryMELANI PHILLIPS/JNS.ORG
Categories: The Nation Of Israel

The Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the disputed territories.

"It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction then everything is on the table," she said. To ensure that no one failed to understand her threat, she repeated her final phrase.

Her comment furnished more evidence that Warren resembles British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in her far-left and Israel-bashing views. This threatens to harm not only the sole democratic U.S. ally in the Middle East, but also the interests and security of America itself.

Nevertheless, opposing Israeli settlements and taking the side of the Palestinian Arabs is unlikely to damage Warren's prospects in broader progressive circles because these are views that they generally share.

This is not merely a divisive policy stance. It also displays a fundamental misconception about the Arab war against Israel that is shared widely within the Jewish as well as non-Jewish world.

At the most obvious level, bashing the settlements is historically and legally wrong.

Israel is entitled to retain and settle these territories twice over. The 1922 Palestine Mandate, whose terms have never been abrogated, gave the Jews alone the right to settle in what is now Israel, the "West Bank" and Gaza. In addition, international law upholds Israel's right to retain land taken, as it was in 1967, in a war of defense against those who still continue to use it as a landing stage for attacks.

Moreover, the belief that the settlements prevent the creation of a Palestine state that would end the Middle East conflict is transparently false and historically illiterate.

The Palestinian Arabs think all Israel is a "settlement" of squatters with no rights to the land, and they want all of Israel gone. They make this plain in their deeds, their propaganda, and their maps and flags.

Proof that the settlements are not the issue is furnished by the simple fact that the attempt to prevent and then exterminate the Jewish homeland started decades before the 1967 Six-Day War introduced the claim of "occupation." And the Palestinian Arabs have repeatedly been offered a state of their own, to which they have responded only by terrorism and war.

Nevertheless, "progressives" insist that Israel has deprived the Palestinian Arabs of a state. They believe that the Palestinians' quarrel is with Israelis. They refuse to believe this is based in turn on a murderous hatred of Jews.

They'll probably therefore blank out from their field of vision what has happened to a 50-year-old Palestinian Arab supermarket worker from Hebron. According to a report on Ynet, this man recently converted to Judaism through an ultra-Orthodox religious court in Bnei Brak.

Before his conversion could be recognized by the Israeli rabbinate, he was arrested by Palestinian Authority forces.

On the eve of Yom Kippur, the man traveled to an area under P.A. control to meet one of his nine children, who along with their mother are all Muslim. During this reunion, he was dragged into a car by four men and dumped at a police station in Hebron. He has remained in custody ever since, and is said to have been beaten and tortured.

The official reason for his arrest is a complaint by the man's brother that several months ago, the supermarket worker had assaulted him. The man denies these allegations, claiming that his brothers had beaten him up and told him he would be disinherited following his conversion to Judaism.

According to his lawyer, who is associated with the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel pro-settler group and who specializes in assisting Palestinians who co-operate with Israel, his brothers are trying to distance themselves from him and his conversion to protect themselves from P.A. reprisals.

So a pro-settler group is assisting a Palestinian Arab who is being ill-treated by other Palestinians simply because he wants to become a Jew, while the likes of Elizabeth Warren condemn the settler movement for thwarting a solution to the Middle East conflict.

What this story shows is that beneath the ostensible conflict over rival forms of statehood lies a religiously based hatred of Jews or Judaism. The Palestinian convert was not involved in any political activity; he merely wanted to become a Jew.

And what self-styled progressives cannot bring themselves to acknowledge is that the Arab war against Israel is founded on a racist war against the Jews.

That's why any Arab who sells his house to an Israeli Jew faces punishment and, in principle at least, a sentence of execution.

The likes of Warren and other so-called "progressives" ignore such inconvenient truths. They also ignore the grotesque anti-Semitism that pours out of the P.A. in its videos, educational materials and cartoon propaganda.

The website Palestinian Media Watch has exposed many examples of this murderous incitement. In 2016, for example, the P.A. revived the medieval blood libel that the Jews were poisoning the wells, claiming that an Israeli rabbi had "issued a ruling" that permitted "settlers" to "poison the drinking water and the natural wells in the [Palestinian] villages and towns throughout the West Bank."

P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas then repeated this calumny to the European Union, claiming that Israel had poisoned Palestinian water sources in order to "mass murder" Palestinians.

In 2015, a teacher at the Al-Aqsa mosque taught another medieval blood libel that Jews use the blood of non-Jewish children to make Passover matzah.

In July, a post on Fatah's official Facebook page said that Jews "allied with Nazi Germany to burn Jews for profit." In February, another post presented as authentic a claim that during World War II, Jews eagerly agreed to bury Russian civilians alive in order to save their own skins; and that seeing this, a Nazi soldier proclaimed to the Russians: "I just wanted you to know who the Jews are and why we are killing them."

The P.A. regularly presents the Jews as the source of all evil in the world and plotting against all humanity. Abbas has said that the Jews suffered the Holocaust because of their "social roles" connected to "usury and banks."

The Islamic basis of opposing the Jewish homeland in the land of Israel goes back to the rise of Islamic extremism during the Palestine Mandate, which was based on a theological hatred of Jews.

Today, the P.A. regularly describes the peaceful visits by Jews to Temple Mount as "violent invasions by extremist Jewish settlers into the Al-Aqsa mosque," and uses this incitement as a pretext for violence.

And, of course, by "settlers" they don't mean Israelis living in the disputed territories. They mean Jews.

Yet this obscene agenda of incendiary Jew-hatred has become the signature cause of "progressives," who tell themselves, in their moral imbecility, that targeting Israeli settlements proves their own virtue by supporting a righteous cause.

This has not just contributed to the explosion of eye-watering Jew-baiting and Israel-bashing on the left. It has also helped destroy the West's entire moral compass, and the part it has played as a result in our current civilizational turmoil is therefore immeasurable.

Let the Headlines Speak
Oct 28th, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

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How the Loneliness Epidemic is Linked to Pornography
Oct 28th, 2019
CommentaryLUKE GIBBONS/KINGDOMWORKS
Categories: Contemporary Issues

Over the past several years, there has been a surge in people who experience loneliness.  As it continues to grow, another epidemic continues to be on the rise - pornography.  Research has shown that loneliness is one of the main factors in porn addiction.

According to Sam Guzman, the co-author of Transformed by Beauty, "Research shows rates of loneliness among adults have doubled from 20% to 40% since the 1980s. And according to the General Social Survey, an annual study of societal conditions in the United States, the average American has not a single close friend to confide in or rely on in a crisis. Not one."

And the problem is not just in America. In Britain, for example, nine million people said they frequently or always feel lonely. The British government even created the position of Minister for Loneliness to begin to address the issue.

Recent research by Cigna found that:

• Nearly half of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent).

• One in four Americans (27 percent) rarely or never feel as though there are people who really understand them.

• Two in five Americans sometimes or always feel that their relationships are not meaningful (43 percent) and that they are isolated from others (43 percent).

• One in five people report they rarely or never feel close to people (20 percent) or feel like there are people they can talk to (18 percent).

• Generation Z (adults ages 18-22) is the loneliest generation.

A Link Between Loneliness And Porn Usage

Research is showing that loneliness and porn usage have a definite connection. Guzman noted,

"A recent study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy reported a strong positive association between loneliness and pornography use. Put simply, if you're chronically lonely, you're far more likely to use porn on a regular basis."

A YouGov survey found that "Millennials are more likely than older generations to report that they have no acquaintances (25% of Millennials say this is the case), no friends (22%), no close friends (27%), and no best friends (30%)."

But loneliness is not just a problem for younger men and women.

According to Tim Rollins, a research director at Stop Procrastinating, "Our survey shows that Internet pornography is now affecting every generation. Older men are either turning to pornography out of loneliness or because they have access to it through the Internet. But there is evidence that Internet pornography is fueling loneliness and depression."

Is Porn A Cause Of Loneliness For Singles?

Porn can trap a single man or woman into an ongoing cycle of loneliness.  This can keep them from developing healthy relationships with their friends, family, and people in general.

Butler explained, "The mind fantasizes and biologically the sexual system tricks the brain into imagining it's having a relationship experience and can thus mask loneliness--but only temporarily. In this way, pornography exploits the sexual system but only tricks the brain for a while. The user can't escape the fact that when the experience is over, they're still alone in an empty room."

"So, when sexual intoxication wears off, the experience may only end up excavating a deeper emptiness--a setup for a vicious cycle. We hypothesize that this experience could create the potential for getting trapped in the short-term, feel-good escape of pornography joined with long-term loneliness."

You may be using pornography to medicate pain from your childhood.  Or maybe you have deep emotional trauma that makes you try to avoid personal interaction.  Using porn to avoid relationships that may add more pain to your life will not relieve the hurt you feel.

Michele Langmead wrote for Focus on the Family that

"We can't go back to childhood to reclaim the love we missed out on, but that doesn't mean the emptiness can't be filled and the losses restored. Even though we can't change the way we were raised, there is hope for healing.

Porn Leads To Isolation

Loneliness and pornography create an unhealthy cycle that can feel almost impossible to break free from. A guy turns to pornography to sooth his loneliness, feels worthless as a result, which makes it even less likely that he will pursue a relationship.

Paul Loosemore, MA PLPC, the author of 21 Movements Towards Life, wrote, "When pleasure, motivation and relational interest are low, isolation is a common experience. Furthermore, a porn addiction can cause people to spend countless hours searching for porn in secret. Unfortunately, the isolation that is commonly built also serves to create further despair and negative experiences."

It is vital to get connected to a small group of godly men who know first-hand about struggling with porn.  They will provide you with support and encouragement.  Furthermore, they will not judge you because they know how intense the battle is.

"Accountability will help end isolation and provide support for changing behaviors. Setting up boundaries, removing access and refraining from sex will allow the brain's reward pathway to slowly recalibrate," said Loosemore.

"Coupling relational growth and rewiring the brain is a powerful practice because relationships can become satisfying and sustaining. Then eventually sex can be enjoyed again within the realms of its intended function.

You Can Be Free

How do you begin to experience the same healing that others have found?  By boldly stepping out of your lonely comfort zone and seeking the help of other men.

Samuel James, who serves on the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said,

"You are not too far gone, no matter how addicted you may be or how many people have been hurt by your sin. The gospel invites you to come to God, not so He can congratulate you or condemn you, but that He might adopt you."

"God alone can take your loneliness and turn it into something beautiful, for His glory and your good, " said Ashley Chesnut of The Church at Brook Hills. "But this requires entrusting your loneliness to him--leaning into his character and trusting his sufficiency. So the next time loneliness hits, bring it to your Savior and Friend, confident that He cares for you."

He That Toucheth, Shall be Unclean - Leviticus 15:7
Oct 28th, 2019
Morning MeditationF. B. Meyer
Categories: Commentary;Inspirational;Book Study

There were doubtless great sanitary reasons for many of these enactments. This book is one of the greatest sanitary codes in existence. God made religious duty enforce regulations essential to the physical health and well-being of His people. But there were deeper reasons yet. The whole of these arrangements were contrived to teach profound lessons to us all of the nature and evil of sin, and of the need of being continually cleansed in the precious blood of Jesus Christ.

The unclean soul spreads uncleanness. - Whatever the ceremonially unclean touched, used, or sat on, was polluted. Even those who came into contact with him were defiled. How wary all true Israelites must have been of their associates, lest they should contract pollution! Let us adopt similar precautions, and not voluntarily associate with the unholy or unclean. And if our business calls us into their daily company, let us seek cleansing for ourselves as we return to our homes, that any adhering germs of evil may be removed.

The urgent demand for holiness. - The ordinary processes of life are not necessarily clean because they are natural. The foul heart may vitiate the most natural functions. We must bring the thought of God into the simplest, the commonest, and the most secret acts. Nothing is outside His jurisdiction. Though hid from sight, yet He is ever near the child of God. His grace, and blood, and cleansing, are always requisite, and ever ready. Amidst and after every act, incident, and episode of life, we should be quiet before God, considering if we have aught to confess, and asking to be ever kept from staining our white robes.