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World Council of Churches again defends Palestinian jihadists over Israel

Jul 29, 2017 11:06 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A Christian organization — the European Coalition for Israel — “blasted international Christian institutions for blaming Israel for the recent Temple Mount tensions.” In a statement issued by the World Council of Churches:

Secretary-General Olav Fykse Tveit called upon the Israeli government to immediately remove the metal detectors, thereby putting the blame for the latest wave of violence on Israeli security measures and not on the Palestinian incitement to violence.

A Jewish human rights group — the Simon Wiesenthal Center — condemned the WCC, stating (as Hugh Fitzgerald details here) that the installation of metal detectors is routine at religious sites globally:

In 2015, Saudi Arabia introduced a range of new restrictions, including electronic bracelets, for Muslims performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca after capturing a suicide bomber who planned to attack the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest city. Major Christian sites, most obviously at the Vatican in Rome, have also implemented enhanced measures amid a continuing wave of Islamist terror attacks in Europe and the Middle East.

The World Council of Churches has a reputation for condemning Israel and enabling the Palestinian jihad. A few years ago, the WCC demanded that Israel release jihad terrorists, and has dedicated events to ending the so-called “illegal occupation.”

“EUROPEAN COALITION FOR ISRAEL: CHRISTIAN GROUPS BIASED AGAINST ISRAEL”, by Benjamin Glatt, Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2017:

A Christian organization promoting Israeli-European cooperation blasted international Christian institutions for blaming Israel for the recent Temple Mount tensions.

“It is simply wrong to blame the Israeli government for wanting to protect those entering the Temple Mount after the recent killings,” European Coalition for Israel Founding Director Tomas Sandell said Monday night. “Metal detectors are today a part of standard security procedures at holy sites in the world, from the Vatican to Mecca. These measures are put in place simply in order to protect people and are not meant to deny anyone access.”

Sandell’s remarks came in wake of various statements from Christian institutions around the world, including the Vatican and the World Council of Churches in Geneva, pleading for calm and asking Israel to stop inciting to violence.

In a statement from WCC on Friday, Secretary-General Olav Fykse Tveit called upon the Israeli government to immediately remove the metal detectors, thereby putting the blame for the latest wave of violence on Israeli security measures and not on the Palestinian incitement to violence.

The Geneva-based organization, which is said to represent millions of Protestant Christians, has a long history of anti-Israel bias.

Recently, WCC published on its website a statement from its member churches in the Palestinian territories in which the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was described as “unlawful” and “marking 100 years of oppression,” thus rejecting any rights for the Jewish people to live in their own state in their ancestral homeland. These rights, Sandell said, were clearly established under international law in San Remo already in 1920. The Palestinian churches further urged WCC to step up efforts to boycott Israel, which it calls “a colonial apartheid state.”

The European Coalition for Israel also noted that event though WCC has been very outspoken about the Israeli-Arab conflict in the past, the organization hasn’t issued any statements on the recent UNESCO resolutions that denied any Jewish or Christian history in the Holy Land by declaring heritage sites, such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, as exclusively Muslim holy sites.

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  1. Carolparker says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 11:16 am

    A goodly heritage, God is in control

  2. Westman says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 11:47 am

    WCC – Western Christian Cowards who deny what is written in their own Bible. As an Agnostic, even I can see these cowards are playing political games in hopes of Islamic aggression running out of energy, or, being last under Islamic conquest.

    Allah’s view of life: “..And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion.” Q 3:185

    WCC view of life: “We intend to enjoy life while deluding ourselves about Islam. Israel is dampening our enjoyment by interrupting our delusion.”

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    The so called “Christian” men who compose the leadership of the World Council of Churches must be one of two things .Either of which means that they aren’t actually real Christians but “Christian only in their own deluded and warped minds. First ,they might be totally ignorant of what the Bible teaches. Or second they know what the Bible teaches but couldn’t care less
    After all, Jesus had taught “Not every one who says to me,’ Lord, Lord’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven , but he who does the will of my father in heaven.” Matthew 7:21. [N.K.J.V.]
    If those men who make up the WCC really did the will of God the Father t,they would not take the position that have taken. Instead the would preach and teach and truth about the Jewish State of Israel and expose the the man Muslim are very wrong on this subject..
    known that the Muslim terror organizations, Hamas ,Hezbollah ,P.I.J. etc. are all fated to fail in their Islamic agenda of destroying the State of Israel and replacing with Islamic “state.” The reason that they will lose in the end and lose hard is because the members of those jihad terror entities are striving against the Will of God. The members who compose those Islamic terror groups might be too ignorant to know this, nevertheless the truth is the God had given all this land that now composes the State of Israel, including all of the West Bank, to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4. In other words the Jews have tall this land by Divine Right. Furthermore, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56. Still, in all fairness, there is one way for the Muslim members who make up Hezbollah, Hamas and the P.I.J. to convince God to change His Mind about being so much for Israel and then cause Him to turn His back on Israel and then have that nation be no more. That way is for the members of the jihad origination to gather together and then change the laws of astrophysics, including those laws of astrophysics the control the sun, the moon and the stars. For God had declared in His Word, the Bible, in Jeremiah 31:35,36. “Thus saith the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night…The Lord of host is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.”

    • carpediadem says

      Jul 29, 2017 at 1:09 pm

      The WCC was set up as a Marxist front.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    Even of idea of the leaders of the World Council of Churches of dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel ,.Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. So those “peace talks” are a hoax. For the “Palestinian”leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.” This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocked attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel . For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]

  5. stan lee says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    For a moment….Substitute Israel’s security effort concerning the Temple Mount and instead place a Christian organization in charge of maintaining security. What would an operation such as World Council of Churches do about security at Temple Mount? Would that group appease Muslims by inviting them to stock the Temple Mount with whatever they want to bring in? I submit that if any security operation allowed any dangerous weapons, even cutlery, at Temple Mount, that would instantly be a signal to Islam of appeasement and weakness on the part of the Christian organization. There is adequate experience to draw from that reflects the fact that even a minimal amount of weakness in the presence of Muslims empowers them to do what the q’uran directs regarding its dealing with “non-believers.” Islam sees the universe as Islam and “them.”
    The only satisfaction Islam derives from the World Council of Churches’ decisions is the possibility that Islam is progressing in dividing Judeo-Christian faiths

  6. topposter says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    Any readers in Geneva who can zip down to their HQ and see if they have metal detectors at the front door?

  7. Tom says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 12:49 pm

    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, Hoping it will eat him last” Winston Churchill.

    That is exactly what the WCC is doing …. cowards all.

  8. carpediadem says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 1:17 pm

    A letter from Christian organisations in “Palestine” to the WCC:
    https://israelpalestinenews.org/open-letter-world-council-churches-ecumenical-movement/
    Jerusalem

     Arab Catholic Scouts Group

     Arab Orthodox Society, Jerusalem

    Caritas, Jerusalem

    Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees- Middle East Council of Churches

     Greek Catholic Sayedat AlBishara Association

     International Christian Committee

     Laity Committee in the Holy Land

     National Christian Association

     Pontifical Mission Palestine

     SABEEL – Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center

     Seeds of Better life

     Union of Arab Orthodox Club, Jerusalem

     Young Men’s Christian Association –YMCA

     Young Women’s Christian Association –YWCA

    Gaza

    NECC office

    Bethlehem (NCOB) Network of Christian Organizations in Bethlehem

     The East Jerusalem YMCA /Beit Sahour Branch

     The Arab Educational Institute

     Holy Land Trust, Bethlehem

     Wi’am Center, Bethlehem

     Saint Afram Assyrian Society

     Holy Land Christians Ecumenical Foundation, Bethlehem

     Joint Advocacy Initiative (JAI)

     Arab Orthodox Club, Beit Sahour

     Arab Orthodox Club, Beit Jala

     Arab Orthodox Club, Bethlehem

     The Arab Orthodox Charitable Society, Beit Sahour

     Bethlehem Bible College

     Siraj Center for Holy Land Studies

     Alternative Tourism Group, ATG, Beit Sahour

     Senior Citizen Charitable Society

     Environmental educational Center, Beit Jala

     Saint Vincent Charitable Society, Beit Jala

     Shepherds’ Children Society, Beit Sahour

    KAIROS PALESTINE

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 30, 2017 at 10:24 am

      I’m a Christian and I don’t trust ‘Sabeel’ as far as I can kick them.

      They and a lot of these other ‘organisations’ are obedient Dhimmis busily carrying water for the Jihad.

      *My* prayer for the Christians in and around Israel is that a/ they will be liberated from Jewhatred and b/ liberated from Dhimmitude.

      I find Jewhatred, among Christians, to be spiritually crippling. To put it figuratively: any Christian, or church, that so to speak, sticks a knife into the back of a Jew, will find in the instant that they do it, that the point of the knife is sticking out of the centre of their own chest. Another way of putting it is the old proverb about the chap who saws off the branch on which he is sitting.

  9. somehistory says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 1:28 pm

    “t is simply wrong to blame the Israeli government ”

    He’s ‘simply wrong”….He should have said, “It’s simply EVIL.”

    gog of magog is gathering his large crowd to ‘go up against Israel” to destroy her.

    Those claiming to be Christian while pandering to the evil from satan the devil…known as islum, moslums…are a part of that large crowd.
    They won’t be safe…they will be sorry…when Judgment comes knocking at their door.

  10. Dwayne Austin says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    The Gospel according to Marx. The WCC followed the KGB’s script during much of the Cold War. The question is, as the WCC continues his far-left advocacy, whose script does it follow now?

  11. R Russell says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    The end time apostate church is alive and well and practising replacement theology. They have no understanding of YHWH’s everlasting covenant made with Abram (Abraham) though his promised son Isaac, nor have they read Romans ch 9 – 11. YHWH will not be mocked, but is rich in mercy if they will see the error of their ways and repent.

  12. saralouisewilmott says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 4:06 pm

    What can anyone expect? The World Council of Churches has always been anti-Semitic since the re-inception of Israel in 1948, just like the United Nations has been despite the fact the UN voted for the Jewish State to come into being in the spring of that same year. It is THE NEW WORLD ORDER, an ORDER BENT UPON FOLLOWING THROUGH WITH THE NAZI AGENDA, which agenda really began with Woodrow Wilson’s FOURTEEN POINTS, believe-it-or-not. God will not bless these Churches for their evil stance; and that includes the current Pope of Rome who is very much against the Jewish State of Israel, having accepted the Palestinian Authority as a de facto state May 13, 2015, the Day of Our Lady of Fatima. Note that that Lady told the three shepherd children that in the last days the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church would negate the teachings of the Church––and that Church also includes those in the World Council of Churches––and apostasy would reign instead. WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS!

  13. mortimer says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 4:59 pm

    Did the WCC ask the Vatican to remove metal detectors?

  14. Lydia says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    The WCC is totally apostate. Exactly as the comment above, did they ask the Vatican or other such sites to remove their security measures? Should the US also remove its defense system for anyone who asks us to? There is a word for those who would acquiesce to such a request, but I won’t use the word here.

    It’s just another classic case of blame the victim instead of the criminal!

    They are as backwards as can be.

  15. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Jul 29, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    Look at this guy! He’s a friggin moron! Feed him to the demonstrators!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Fykse_Tveit#/media/File:Olav_Fykse_Tveit.jpg

  16. IQ al Rassooli says

    Jul 30, 2017 at 4:32 am

    Jew hatred by Muslims is easily understood since it is mandated both in Muhammad’s Quran and Sunna

    What is beyond comprehension and beneath contempt is the totally IRRATIONAL support given by most ‘Christian institutions’ in the world to Muslims AGAINST Israel (Jews) while in this 21st century, the most PERSECUTED people on Earth are Christians by Muslims while Christians are safest in Israel

    Conclusion: Most Christian Jew hatred has not changed much since the holocaust as the WCC and others have been proving for the last 70 years

    After all, 1700 years of Jew hatred for their alleged role in the death of Jesus is very difficult to change

    So far, only Evangelical Christians believe in and support the unity of Jerusalem and the safety of Israel

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

  17. James Stamulis says

    Jul 30, 2017 at 7:15 am

    Just like the left who today blames the real victims and calls Islam the victim. These so called Christians who blame Israel will be sorry when they meet Jesus up close and personal.

  18. Shirley says

    Aug 1, 2017 at 4:06 am

    I have been perusing a very long list of opinions on religion and would like to add my opinion to shut the door on this topic once and for all!! In the first place religion is a waste of time. No one has seen or heard of “God” because there are too many claims of “knowing God” since everyone appears to have a “god” of his/her own! I would prefer to speak of an all powerful unknown entity best known as the Creator of heaven and earth and all things in it! Who or what this Entity is NO ONE KNOWS!!! so shut your ignorance away PLEASE! This topic has gone as far as it possibly can therefore it is a waste of time time so END THE TOPIC. TOO MANY LIVES HAVE HAVE BEEN WASTED ON IT the killing and contention that continues MUST END!!!

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