Europe, from the walls of Jerusalem – Thoughts

And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord. (Psalm 79:12)

Europe – as a conglomeration of nations – is in a mess and has only herself to blame. The direction she is moving in has long, long been her choice.

For centuries, the Continent (including Britain) abused and mistreated the Jews that came to live among them.

‘Christian’ Europe persecuted the Jews, forced them to assimilate, expelled them from country after country, ghettoised them and eventually tried to kill them all.

The remnant are beginning to leave in droves. Thousands are departing, and from the way those still in France and England and elsewhere are talking, many more will soon be gone. Meanwhile, millions of Muslim migrants are pouring into a Europe softened up by abandonment of individual national characters and cultures, and made defenseless by its championing of political correctness and multiculturalism.

The newcomers have already irreversibly changed the face of Europe and have exposed the fatal flaws on which the EU dream was built.

No – Europe didn’t want its Jews. Now Europe has to deal with its Muslims.

We’ve seen where this is going. The tragedy is already immense.

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Terror tore again into the heart of Europe on March 22 as bombers sent by the ‘Islamic State’ blew themselves up in Brussels, killing at least 31 and wounding more than 250.

The attack dealt a body blow to EU member states still reeling from the November 13, 2015 ISIS-perpetuated Paris massacre.

Associated Press reported – right after the Brussels’ bombings – that upwards of 400 Islamic State killers have entered Europe on the back of recent waves of migrants, and stand poised to unleash a bloody wave of killings across the Continent.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Birkat – who was being interviewed on CNBC TV as news about Brussels broke – was grilled about what Europe could possibly do to bring these acts to an end.

Go here to hear his advice which, tragically, Europe’s governments – ensnared as they are by political correctness and terrified of being seen as Islamophobic (the bitter irony after decades of endorsing Muslim migration into ageing European populations) – are simply unable to heed, even though it is the only counsel that could turn the table on terror.

Birkat’s answers:

– Develop international cooperation against terrorism, which the world can learn so much from Israel about how to fight.

– Identify and go hard after the funders and supporters that enable terrorism – beginning with Iran.

– Educate the younger generations in a way that will sever the chains of political correctness and enable them to clearly identify terrorism and its source.

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When the enemy speaks, there are clear patterns of lying he resorts to (I have found that one of the easiest ways to identify what the Palestinian Arabs are up to, for instance, is to pay attention to the very things they accuse Israel of. Word for word, they paint their own guilt). He often embeds, in plain sight, a truth in his lies. He will invert truth to hide it, turning it right on its head in a frequently successful attempt to reinvent it.

With this in mind, consider the response of the spokesman for the Palestinian Authority’s security services, General Adnan Damiri, right after the attacks in Brussels.

His embedded truth (I’m sorry to say):

“Today,” he said, “Europe’s airports and squares are burning in their own fire…The one who prepares the poison will eventually taste it. Europe is now tasting what its hands made.”

His fragment of revisionist history, in which the identity of the Jew has been replaced by the Arab as the victim of persecution, and the Jew rather than the Muslim depicted as the ‘terrorist’:

“While we condemn acts of terror everywhere in the world, we the Arabs are the ones who have been burned worst in the fire of terror that was made and exported by Europe and America,” he wrote on Facebook, referring to “the exportation of Jewish terrorism to Palestine, which they supported and justified,” and suggesting that Islamist terrorism was a product of European colonialism.

What his twisted logic refuses to say is that the evil of Islam is igniting the fumes given off in once Judeo-Christian Europe not by its forays into colonialism, nor by its supposed support of Israel, but by the anti-Semitic moral rot which has been eating into it for centuries.

And this unspoken truth: that those who curse the seed of Abraham – all of them – will be accursed of God.

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A message to Europe:

You have tried to force Israel to relinquish its ancestral lands.

Now you are losing your own national histories and are witnessing the rapid erosion of the cultures and societies established by your ancestors.

You have sought to coerce Israel into accepting Arab ‘refugees’ whose leaders are dedicated to the genocidal annihilation of Israel and whose children are raised to believe Israel’s destruction the will of Allah and the most noble of all goals.

Now you are being flooded with millions of Arab ‘refugees’ whose leaders are dedicated to the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization and whose children are raised to believe that Europe’s (and America’s) fate is to be brought into the House of Islam through the acts of jihad waged by Allah’s most faithful mujahidin.

You have rejected the Jews in your midst who have enriched you immeasurably with untold contributions to academia, science, technology, culture and commerce.

Now you are being overrun with undereducated, unemployable, non-working Muslim ‘refugees’ who have internalized the tenet that the infidel (that’s you) works and hands over his earnings to the keepers of Islam. They are arriving in their millions with their overinflated sense of entitlement, to feed on your health and welfare systems, which are already buckling under the weight.

You are driving the effort to label products made in Israel’s ancestral lands to enable economic pressure to be brought on a little country of six million people so that economically you can bring Israel to her knees (like you did South Africa).

Now your economies are imploding and your great vision of a unified Europe is blowing up in your faces.

Israel’s economy, by contrast, is growing. Israel is growing stronger. Israel is led by a man not intimidated by the ‘most powerful man on earth’ and wide awake to the anti-Semitism that runs so deeply through the fabric of what was once the Christian world.

Your position is that Israel must make peace with those who carry out suicide attacks…

Let’s see you try to make peace with those who sent their bombers and shooters into your midst.

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From Jerusalem, it looks chillingly as if Europe just might be about to get the full measure of what has been coming to it for a very long time.

As I wrote above, Europeans never knew how to treat their Jews. For centuries, instead of welcoming in their midst people from a nation who carry around in their very DNA the capacity to exceedingly bless the Gentiles among whom they dwell, the countries of Europe persecuted and mistreated the people of God.

Israel’s Jews are not vindictive. This nation has demonstrated its empathy and support for the victims of terrorism in the very countries where they have been persona non grata. Terrorists are treated in Israeli hospitals by Jewish doctors alongside the victims of their acts of terror. Avowed enemies of Israel have been brought into the Jewish state from Syria to receive free and high quality medical care. Untold numbers of Arab children from states at war with Israel have been brought into the country and given desperately needed heart and other organ transplants – free.

Israel’s generosity of spirit and largeness of heart is legendary everywhere except where the Israel-hating media focuses its attention.

So when the Psalmist Asaph calls on God to repay Israel’s enemies sevenfold what they have done and sought to do to the Jews and to Israel, it is not vindictiveness that drives him. His words are not laced with the bitterness of the vengeance seeker who cannot be quietened unless those who have killed are killed themselves.

Asaph’s primary concern is for God’s name.

The thing is that God has warned that He will indeed repay the nations many times over for what they have done to Israel.

I was a little angry with the people of Israel, He says in Zechariah 1:15, but the Gentiles went far beyond what God would have had them do in response, and their intent and purpose was evil.

The Lord is furious with the way they have scattered His people and divided up His land. (Joel 3)

He has a day of vengeance for the controversy of Zion. (Isaiah 34:8)

From Jerusalem’s walls it looks ominously as if that vengeance has begun to fall.