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With only about 50,000 Palestinian Christians in the West Bank and Gaza, some Israeli, Messianic Jewish Christians want us to believe that Palestinian Christians are somehow a threat to the state of Israel.  What they are really worried about is that millions of Christian Zionists in the U.S. might wake up to the injustices committed against all Palestinians, both Muslims and Christians, and choose compassion toward Palestinians rather than adhere to a blind faith toward the state of Israel.  This is a fascinating report that covers the attack on the Christ At The Checkpoint conference held in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine in March, 2012.  Originally,  WHTT was invited to show our video, Christian Zionism:  The Tragedy & The Turning, Part I at the conference but was dis-invited (due to Zionist pressure) and replaced with Israeli Messianic Jewish Christians addressing the conference who came back to bad mouth it.

We cover 4 items swirling around Israel.  The U.S. House of Representatives voted 411 to 2 in favor of a "Let's Love Israel Even More" resolution (H.R. 4133 - "United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012")  with further promises of armaments and fidelity.  Then, we look into the dominance by Israel in the field of drones.  Seems that Israel is now manufacturing drones in the US and has FAA clearance to fly them.  How convenient for the U.S., since we are now seem to favor remote control killing with drones (a large number of the U.S. drones are controlled by the C.I.A. [Creating Insurgents Abroad - our suggested name change to comply with truth in advertising laws]).  We Hold These Truths' Chuck Carlson heard all about Israeli drones back in 2002 when he visited Gaza where Israel was deploying them for surveillance.

Chuck Carlson leads a very interesting study in the twenty third chapter of the book of Acts where the apostle Paul masterfully divides the Pharisees and Sadducee while the Roman guard looks on.  There are some excellent  principles in this lesson for followers of Christ today.

From Federal Reserve System's Chairman Ben Bernanke telling the American people they "are prepared to do more" to recover the economy to the election results in France and Greece,  Chuck Carlson talks about the financial crisis that is coming upon us.  Take this podcast for a test drive.  You'll find it most interesting.

This is a follow-up story to last week's program about Operation Cast Lead.  Two moving articles from the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, fly in the face of the Israeli P.R. campaign to promote the IDF as the most "moral" army in the world.

Palestinian child burned to death by the Israel Defense Force in Gaza, Jan., 2009. Chuck Carlson introduces a new word to describe the unofficial spoken language of the State of Israel.  Israel has used "Zionese" to defend its actions in Gaza in Dec., 2008.  "Zionese" is the art of telling a story that most will reject but, by repeating it so often, many will believe it.  Recently, Bob Simon of CBS 60 Minutes challenged "Zionese" in a most remarkable story, "Christians of the Holy Land."  Mr. Simon interviewed Michael Oren, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, who did not want the segment aired and demonstrated what 'Zionese"is all about.

No matter what Israel does to cover up its brutal occupation of Palestine, more people around the world are waking up to the realities of Israeli policies against the Palestinians that are ultimately damaging to Israel it self.  We discuss the release of Palestinian prisoners held without charges who went on hunger strikes to the survey of Europeans about Israel to the IDF Lt. Colonel caught on film smashing his rifle into a Danish tourist who was only sorry because the incident was caught on film.

We've had some excellent responses to Chuck Carlson's piece about how the Messianic Christian movement is smuggling  Zionism into the mainline churches.  In this program, Chuck introduces more thought provoking ideas about the move to dilute the messages of Jesus.  And, we discuss some critical responses from our readers and listeners.

Christians are being hyped on the idea that Jesus was a Jew. In that effort, some Christians have gone over the edge in promoting "Juda-ishness."  Cesar Ahron, a Jewish convert to Christianity, offers a constructive critique of the Messianic movement, which is made up largely of non-Jews acting out Judaism.  This classic and timely interview was conducted by WHTT founder Chuck Carlson in 2000. Joining Cesar in this interview is his friend and fellow Jewish convert, Benzion Melechson.

Christian Zionists are being challenged.  Maybe, not in torrents but in steady drips that are slowly waking people to the erroneous, religious concept that the modern state of Israel is entitled to a piece of land based on some people's interpretation of the Bible that God gave the land only to the Jews.   Millions of Christian pilgrims visit Israel and remain ignorant of the plight of the Palestinians.  We discuss how one pastor's eyes were opened by a Palestinian Christian pastor who was allowed to make a presentation to a group of American pastors who had just finished an eleven day tour through Israel.   Don't miss this fascinating story.

Don't miss this podcast about We Hold These Truths' vigil outside Washington, DC while the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committe) convention was going on.  We discuss the importance of the gift given to President Obama by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.  And, we look into that Jewish festival, Purim?  Also, we discuss the Occupy AIPAC event that we participated in and that served as a counter balance to the heavy handed lobby for Israel, AIPAC.

President Obama, in his speech to the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) convention on March 4, 2012, in addition to all the groveling he did at the feet of AIPAC and Israel, made a curious statement that "...we will always reject the notion that Zionism is racism."  Orthodox Jew, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss does not agree.  Rabbi Weiss and members of Neturei Karta were participating in the Occupy AIPAC counter-demonstration to the annual AIPAC' convention and gave this interview to WHTT.  Occupy AIPAC is a coalition of over 350 organizations who oppose the drive by Israel to make war on Iran with the US backing it.

We Hold These Truths founders Chuck Carlson and Tom Compton talk about the Occupy AIPAC protest in Washington, D.C. and a WHTT vigil to be held at a large Christian Zionist church in the D.C. area.  Challenging Christian Zionists, who support wars in the Middle East to protect Israel, is just as important as challenging the very powerful, Israeli lobby, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who is pressing the US to go to war against Iran.

It looks like war against Iran may have to wait until after a war against Syria is started.  Join Charles E. Carlson for our behind the headlines analysis of the events unfolding for another US war to spread "freedom" and "democracy."  Yes, Martha, we do need to keep our military/industrial complex firing on all eight cylinders.  After all, aren't wars good for the economy?  Never mind what General Smedley Butler said,  "War Is A Racket!"

We Hold These Truths' founder, Charles Carlson was interviewed by Tom Sunic on the Voice of Reason radio show, The Sunic Journal.  This interview gives a history of We Hold These Truths and our mission to challenge and change Christian Zionists.

As Israel and the US beat the drums for war, we pause to discuss the detention of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel.  Also, we stop and visit the good life being enjoyed by Federal Reserve System executives.

We review a comment about our YouTube video, "John Hagee with Benny Hinn:  Praying for War In The Name of Jesus" that we received from a viewer in the Palestinian Territory.  The piece includes some important points that show the Palestinian viewer understands what's going on.  Also, this podcast includes an update on the ethanol saga and a look at the current rage to indoctrinate our police with anti-Muslim "training" videos.   We discuss a New York Times article that reveals how some died-in-the-wool supporters of Israel did it with the New York City police department.

In this podcast we are joined by poet, Jonathan Azaziah, who understands what's going on with the bid for Palestinian statehood.  He reads his powerful poem.  To understand the full meaning of Jonathan's poem be sure to look at the written version that has many hypertext links embedded in the poem that provide documentation.  For background on the Palestinian statehood issue be sure to listen to Chuck Carlson's podcast, "Abbas & Palestine Statehood - A Scheme for the Status Quo."  "To smile when confronted with the most severe oppression, is an act of Resistance rooted in uparalleded beauty." ~ Jonathan Azaziah

Our YouTube video, "John Hagee with Benny Hinn:  Praying For War In The Name of Jesus" has had over 15,000 views during the first week.  On this podcast we talked about the video and the waves it has caused.  We also revisit the ethanol subsidy and its demise, for now.

The United States has a war based economy that appears to any honest observer to favor war over negotiations.  We think there is a better way.