Israel Matzav

Monday, July 13, 2015

Jews killed by 'Palestinian' terrorists

Truly moving display of all the Jews killed in cold blood by Palestinian terror since 2000, @CUFI conference pic.twitter.com/E83zYFMvmA
— Rabbi Shmuley (@RabbiShmuley) July 13, 2015

I guess they couldn't fit the earlier ones in the room.

Labels: Christians United for Israel, Palestinian terrorism, Palestinian terrorists

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Joint ECI-CUFI statement on Democratic boycott of Israeli PM's speech

Received this by email:

Today William Kristol, Chairman, Emergency Committee for Israel, and Gary L. Bauer, Chairman, Christians United for Israel Action Fund, released the following statement on the emerging Democratic boycott of the Israeli Prime Minister's speech to Congress:

"In mid-January, the Speaker of the House of Representatives invited the Prime Minister of Israel to address Congress. The Prime Minister accepted the invitation. He will deliver remarks to a joint session of Congress on March 3rd.

"Some Senators and Congressmen are now threatening to boycott the speech. Whatever their intentions and reasons, their action will be construed, at home and abroad, as a victory for the enemies of Israel and the enemies of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.

"Some members of Congress claim to be upset that the Speaker may have violated protocol or blindsided the Administration by inviting the Prime Minister. But then why take their anger out on the Prime Minister, and thereby on the State of Israel? Others claim that this speech will somehow help the Prime Minister in his reelection campaign -- as if Israeli voters are going to base their choice on one speech to the U.S. Congress, a speech in which the Prime Minister will reiterate arguments about Iran's nuclear program with which the major opposition parties agree and on which there is national unity.

"The bottom line is simple: The enemies of Israel benefit most from this campaign against the Israeli Prime Minister's speech. Whatever their views on Israeli politics or the Iranian nuclear negotiations, members of Congress who are friends of Israel should not play into the hands of Israel's enemies -- and America's -- by boycotting this speech. Boycotting Israel is high on the agenda of the enemies of Israel. Welcoming Israel's Prime Minister to the halls of Congress is the least that those who claim to be friends of the Jewish state should do.

"As representatives of two proudly pro-Israel organizations, we urge members of Congress to do the right thing for the U.S. and Israel. And for those who would turn their backs on Israel and boycott its leader -- they are no friends of Israel, and we pledge to do our best to educate voters about their undermining of Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship at this crucial hour."

The statement is available online here: www.committeeforisrael.com/boycott

I could not agree more.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Christians United for Israel, Emergency Committee for Israel, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, joint session of Congress, P 5+1

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Christians to lobby against Hagel

A Christian group is bringing over 200 Christian leaders to Washington to lobby every single Senator to stop Chuck Hagel from being confirmed as Secretary of Defense of the United States.

[Christians United For Israel] CUFI, which is organizing the effort through its 501(c)4 offshoot, is arranging meetings with every one of the one hundred Senate offices.

"We're concerned not only that Hagel is a poor choice when it comes to Israel--frankly, we believe he's a poor choice when it comes to America and American security," CUFI executive director David Brog told Breitbart News.

"The number one security threat to America today is an ascendant and potentially nuclear Iran. And Hagel has demonstrated a consistent pattern of opposing economic sanctions on Iran, opposing diplomatic pressure on Iran, opposing the further isolation of Hizbollah, opposing recognizing Iran's Revolutionary Guard as the terrorists they are. As much as he's trying to walk away from his record in recent days, we believe his consistent record of action is far more important than his recent words," Brog said.

"And as far as we are concerned, if you don't recognize the number one security threat to America, how can you defend agains it?"

CUFI's aggressive approach stands in stark contrast to that of other pro-Israel groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which has remained silent and inactive on the Hagel nomination. Jewish groups in particular, aside from the Republican Jewish Coalition, have been reluctant to oppose Hagel actively, though some have voiced criticisms and concerns. Hagel met with AIPAC and several Jewish groups last week.

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The diversity of the pro-Israel community is relevant to the controversy over Hagel's 2006 remark that the "Jewish lobby" was responsible for "intimidating people." CUFI is, by far, the largest pro-Israel organization in the country, with more than 1.2 million members across fifty states, according to officials. AIPAC, by contrast, has 100,000 members, according to its website. Hagel has since expressed regret for his choice of words.

Hmmm.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Christians United for Israel, Chuck Hagel

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Michele Bachmann to CUFI: Obama abetting Muslim Brotherhood against Israel and US

Here's a speech by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Mn) in which she demolishes the Obama administration for its support of the Muslim Brotherhood against Israel and the United States.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: MFS - The Other News).

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Christians United for Israel, Gush Katif Museum, Michele Bachmann, Muslim Brotherhood

Friday, June 08, 2012

Obama reps met four times with extreme anti-Israel preacher

No, this post is not about Jeremiah Wright. Serge Duss, an extreme preacher who believes that Israelis are not descended from Jews, has visited the White House at least four times since President Obama took office according to the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo.

Fellow Christian leaders have condemned Duss for openly touting an erroneous, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that suggests modern Israelis are not descended from Biblical Jews.

Duss’ controversial comments and his associations with the radical left did not prevent the White House from arranging a series of high-level sit-downs with the Obama administration’s liaison to Arab Americans, as well as with two of the president’s most trusted foreign policy advisers, according to White House visitor logs.

Fellow religious leaders expressed shock to learn the White House is soliciting advice from Duss on highly sensitive foreign policy matters.

“If the Obama Administration is serious about supporting Israel in its quest for peace, why are they taking advice from someone who parrots the worst rhetoric of those who oppose accommodation with Israel?” asked David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel, one of the nation’s largest and most influential pro-Israel groups.

“Serge Duss is associated with the most extreme aspects of Arab rejectionism,” he added. “Duss has denied the connection between the modern Jewish people and those of the Bible.”

Much of Duss’ anti-Israel advocacy has taken place under the umbrella of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, a far-left Christian group that is partially funded by the Tides Foundation and the Open Society Institute.

Both of those organizations are financed by the controversial billionaire George Soros.

The New Evangelical Partnership has also received money from the Ploughshares Fund, a dovish non-profit that has doled out millions to influence the debate over Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

As a member of the New Evangelical Partnership’s Board of Advisors, Duss has been tasked with touting the group’s far left agenda.

During one such speech before a mostly Jewish crowd at the fringe group J Street’s 2011 conference, Duss asked attendees to help him dispel the idea that Israelis are related to ancient Jews.

JPost's Benny Weinthal discussed Duss with David Brog of Christians United for Israel.

In a telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel, commented on Duss’s form of theology. “It is troubling, in that he seems to embrace an odd race-based replacement theology; he seems to be saying that Jews are not connected to Bible.”

Brog, whose organization numbers more than one million members and is now the largest pro-Israel group in the US, said Duss’s views are “very offensive to Jews and Bible-believing Christians.”

He added that Duss slandered the “Christian faith of millions around the world.

[He is] not committed to peace and reconciliation.”

Asked about Duss’s connection with Washington, Brog said it “makes one worry” because it leads to “concerns that policy is being driven by those who have rejectionist views of Israel and are outside of the peace consensus.”

“We support the policy of the democratically elected government of Israel and are committed to a two-state solution,” he stressed. “We fear that Serge Duss does not share the goal of a safe Israel.”

As in 2008, President Obama's friends and associates have to give pause to anyone who cares about Israel. Will American Jews ignore them again? My sense is that the more liberal 'streams' of Judaism are likely more worried about CUFI - whom they accuse of trying to proselytize than they are about Duss. What could go wrong?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Christians United for Israel, New Evangelical Partnership

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

CUFI hits CBS for 60 Minutes' hatchet job

Jennifer Rubin reports that Christians United for Israel (CUFI) has urged its members to email CBS to protest the extreme bias in Sunday night's piece on 'Palestinian Christians.'

Some Christians in the United States are not sitting still for this. Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Zionist group in the country, sent out an ”action alert” asking its members to contact CBS and air their complaints. The letter to CUFI members states: “This story scapegoated Israel and ignored the greatest threats facing the Christians of the Middle East. By focusing on the wrong story and blaming the wrong party, you have squandered a precious opportunity.” It continues: “The Christians of the Middle East do face unprecedented threats. As Islamic terrorists have stepped up their attacks against Christians, we are witnessing the collapse of the ancient Christian communities of Iraq, Egypt and Syria. Yet you chose to ignore these threats and focus instead on the security measures that Israel has taken to protect its citizens — Jewish, Christian and Muslim — from the very same Islamic terror.” A CUFI spokesman tells me that 16,000 e-mails were sent to CBS in the first four hours.

I wonder if anyone at CBS will now understand how out of touch with reality they are. Nah, that would be expecting too much.

Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Christians United for Israel, Palestinian Christians

Saturday, April 21, 2012

For Media Matters, being anti-Israel only part of being anti-Christian?

Here's a report from the Christian Broadcast Network that shows that the very first paragraph of Media Matters' application for a US tax exemption set them up as an anti-Christian organization, and speculates that their Israel hatred may be tied in with that agenda.

Let's go to the videotape.

Hmmm. I think that the question of whether Media Matters main goal is to be anti-Israel or anti-Christian is really a question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. It could go both ways.

More here.

Labels: Christian Zionists, Christians United for Israel, Media Matters

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Video: Glenn Beck speaks to Christians United for Israel

Here are highlights of Glenn Beck's speech on Tuesday night to Christians United for Israel. The highlight of this video is when he says "If the world goes down the road of dehumanizing Jews again, then count me a Jew and come for me first.”

Let's go to the videotape.