By Roger L Simon
In an interview with Jesse Watters, RFK Jr spoke an obvious truth that few American or European politicians dare utter:
“The only genocide in the Middle East is the one being committed against Jews and Christians. In 1948, there were a million Jews in Arab states. Today there are fewer than 15,000.”
In an interview with Jesse Watters, RFK Jr spoke an obvious truth that few American or European politicians dare utter:
“The only genocide in the Middle East is the one being committed against Jews and Christians. In 1948, there were a million Jews in Arab states. Today there are fewer than 15,000.”
He also pointed out that there are two million Muslim Arabs, a number that has long been growing, living in Israel, and another two million or so in Gaza. The Gaza population has basically doubled since Israel gave the entire Strip to the Palestinian Authority in 2005 in the hopes that there would be peace.
Apparently, the Israelis stink at genocide.
In fact, they were the country whose army and air force literally invented the tradition of warning civilians before an attack (“knocking on the roof”), not exactly genocidal behavior.
Many Americans don’t know or choose to ignore this, not just that percentage of New Yorkers that elected Mamdani and, subsequently, his minions.
What’s more amazing is that since the USA is a Christian nation (roughly 65% define themselves as Christians), how few of our Christian citizens are paying attention to the oppression of fellow Christians in the Middle East, not to mention Nigeria, almost always at the hands of Islamic terrorists or their acolytes.
The old saw of the Jews being the canary in the coal mines is yet more true in a society rife with antisemitism, as it is today. First comes the Jews, then the Christians.
The Free Press gave a warning Tuesday with its exclusive: “Iran Plans to Seize Protestant Church”. Its Maya Sulkin writes:
“For years, the Iranian regime held back from seizing Tehran’s St. Peter Evangelical Church, the oldest Protestant church in Iran. The regime was afraid of what America might do in retaliation, according to three Western Christian leaders with ties to Tehran’s Christian community as well as Sargez Benyamin, executive secretary of the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Iran in Diaspora and former pastor of St. Peter. That fear, these sources say, is now gone, with Iranian officials recently threatening the church’s leaders.”
(Hear that, President Trump.)
Life for Christians has never been terrific in Iran, but it’s no better, arguably worse, in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where non-Islamic religious services are not allowed outside highly-regulated enclaves for foreigners. No public churches exist in those countries, and certainly no synagogues. Compare that to just the state of Texas, which now has well over 300 mosques, or to the UK, where the number is closer to 2000.
Freedom of religion, you say. That’s part of our makeup. Indeed, it is. But is it freedom when one religious group takes over public places, blocks streets with their prayer rugs? Is that freedom of religion or religious imperialism?
Or is it an attempt to take over the world through religious means?
Obviously, this is being attempted by a significant portion of the Islamic world. It must be stopped.
An important element in preventing this is for Jews and Christians to unite. It won’t be the first time if you read George Washington’s Touro Synagogue Letter (1790). But we have to renew it now.
This is easy for me to say because I see the Judaeo-Christian tradition as one long and beautiful journey, have nothing but admiration for all the stops along the way, and am not bothered by our differences.
(That’s part of the reason I wrote EMET and will have more to say about it in the sequel.)
The current rise in antisemitism is, at base, an attempt to exploit those differences and push us apart, thus bringing about the end of Western Civilization.
Is this a plea for help from my Christian friends? Yes, in a way it is. But this is your fight too. If you don’t think it is, you’re deluded. And none of us wants to wait until it gets worse than it is now.
I applaud Bobby Kennedy for speaking up, just as he has on many other things. We should follow his lead.
ONE OTHER TRUTH-TELLER
… bringing the tradition together: Ambassador/Governor Mike Huckabee. What a guy!
First published in American Refugees
