Stephen Sizer and the Biblical record of Jerusalem

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According to the Hebrew Bible/  Old Testament, King David makes Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish nation, Israel.

According to Stephen Sizer’s blog, this is not so.

Here he posts an uncritical interview with the Assistant General Secretary of the Arab League in Cairo, Mohammed Sobaih.

Watch from 6:07:

Sobieh says:

“70% of West Jerusalem, it was built by the Palestinians, [Sizer: mmhmm] my family is one of them. East Jerusalem, during ages, every stone of this, it was built by the Palestinians, from the Canaanites until now. Without any aid from outside, without contribution, without donors, without anything. People they work on the land, as any people from the world, from until now [Sizer: yes]. We have to tell bravely the Israeli leadership, religious war is not for your sake.”

According to Sobieh – and Sizer who loudly agrees with him – 70% of West Jerusalem and 100% of East Jerusalem built by Canaanites and Palestinians, but not by Jews.

Sizer’s view of the Hebrew Bible is such that he no longer trusts its account of Jerusalem’s history.

Have Samuel Rodriguez and Daniel Bourdanne pulled out of CATC 2012?

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Rodriguez represents US Hispanic Christians, and Bourdanne represents the global body of evangelical students, IFES.

Neither man is listed on the Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 website, as they were originally.

Rodriguez has previously written of Hamas and Hezbollah that they are 21st century fascists. I can’t imagine Rodriguez has much in common then, with people who cosy up with Hezbollah leaders.

Jewish Israel in denial over terrorist Jack Teitel

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The scandalous image that JewishIsrael use on all their Ami Ortiz bombing posts

Despite the arrest, trial, confession, evidence and now the admission of guilt of Jack Teitel, anti-missionary organization Jewish Israel still maintain in numerous posts on their website that suspicions the attempted murder of Israeli teenager Ami Ortiz in 2008 was committed by an Orthodox Jewish man is a Blood Libel.

But Jewish Israel feels compelled to respond because numerous evangelical and messianic Christian leaders, lawyers, law makers, and organizations, have taken gross advantage of a gagged police investigation in order to speculate, weave fiction, and finger the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel in a manner which has been unethical, immoral and unjust. It simply reeks of a blood libel. One almost gets the feeling that a discovery of Arab terror in this case would greatly disappoint the evangelical and messianic community, as it would throw a wrench into the evangelizing enterprise, and expose a very real and dangerous by-product of the Israel-evangelical relationship.

What reeks is the blood that Jack Teitel spilt in murder and attempted murder, blood that cries out for justice. In the various posts Jewish Israel have about the bombing of Ami Ortiz they carry an image of a blood stain with the text “Libel?”

Jewish Israel cannot bring themselves to admit that Messianic Jews were the target of a man who had volunteered for the Yad L’Achim anti-Messianic organisation. Jewish Israel got it spectacularly wrong and cannot face the facts that a Messianic Jewish family were the target of a religious hate crime by an Orthodox Jewish man with an extreme nationalistic ideology and hysterical anti-missionary sentiment.

Jewish Israel’s Content and Research Director Ellen Horowitz, who advocates burning New Testaments, did issue an agenda loaded statement saying she was distressed by the incident but stopped short of issuing unequivocal condemnation of violence against Messianic Jews. However Horowitz should check her own very obvious prejudice as she researches the content for Jewish Israel.

Influential British theologian praises Messianic statement on Christ at the Checkpoint

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Calvin Smith writes:

Towards the end of last week four leading Messianic organisations in the US issued a joint statement in response to the forthcoming Christ at the Checkpoint 2 conference (hat tip RPP). The full statement is available here. This represents a significant statement for several reasons. First, it is measured and statesman-like, yet raises a number of valid concerns about CatC2. Secondly as a joint statement by several leading Messianic organisations, it represents an important expression of the views of Jewish believers in Jesus towards the conference. Third, the statement has been picked up by various major news outlets, as well as being supported by the wider Church.

One would hope and pray that the CatC organisers will at the very least engage seriously with and respond to such an important statement (as they have on their blog to other criticisms which they clearly do not take seriously). After all, this joint statement marks a significant expression of genuine Messianic concern about the CatC event, Neither can it simply be dismissed by  drawing attention to how several Messianic individuals will be attending the conference. Somehow much of the Messianic movement remains unconvinced of the aims and purpose of the conference, and if CatC indeed really is about seeking reconciliation, then surely the organisers must respond to the joint statement by the UMJC, MJAA, IMJA and IAMC.

The growing case against Christ at the Checkpoint

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No surprises as to why Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salim Fayyad attended and addressed Christ at the Checkpoint 2010, see photos here. One key organiser is serial Israel-hater Rev Stephen Sizer, whose attempt to portray Obama as being in Netanyahu’s Zionist pocket at a Viva Palestina meeting in Malaysia looks somewhat ridiculous after Sarkosy’s-open mike-gate. Brother Andrew and Stephen Sizer at Christ at the Checkpoint2010: Violent jihad has “every right” to attack the West ‘Christ at …

Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 and Abdul Fattah Hamayel

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Arabic news agency Abouna reported in 2010, that Bethlehem governor Abdul Fattah Hamayel was present at the original Christ at the Checkpoint conference.

What do we know about Hamayel? According to Passia.org:

Born in Kufr Malik in 1950; attended Military College in Baghdad; Fateh member and activist, for which he was imprisoned for 17 years in Israeli jails; released in a prisoner exchange in 1985 but re-imprisoned in 1990 and deported to Jordan in 1992; has published Lullabies Behind Bars, a collection of Arabic poetry written while in prison; was allowed to return to Palestine in 1994; served as Fateh Sec.-Gen. in the Ramallah district; was elected PLC member (Fateh) for the Ramallah constituency in the Jan. 1996 elections; member of the PLC Interior and the Budget and Financial Affairs Committees; became a Minister of State without portfolio in the cabinet of PM Mahmoud Abbas on 30 April 2003 (until Oct. 2003).

During this time, Fatah was responsible for multiple terror attacks in Israel.

Hamayel hit the headlines in the UK in 2003, when he admitted to the BBC that the PA funded the terror group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.

As govenor of Bethlehem, Hamayel has since put a man on trial for “slander and defamation”, just for criticising PA medical facilities.

Here is Hamayel praising the murderer of 3 Israelis, Amer Abu Sarhan:

Will Haayel be at Christ at the Checkpoint 2012?

If so, then I wonder if Wayne Hilsden or Evan Thomas will still consider this delightful conference to be about peace and reconciliation.