{"id":287551,"date":"2016-12-28T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-israel-misuses-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:12:54","slug":"how-israel-misuses-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-israel-misuses-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel Misuses the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By fuming over a U.N. resolution against Israel\u2019s settlements on Palestinian land, Israeli leaders reveal their final solution for the Palestinians \u2013 to deny them property rights and displace them, says moral theologian Daniel C. Maguire.<\/p>\n<p>By Daniel C. Maguire<\/p>\n<p>Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, let the theological cat out of the bag.\u00a0\u00a0 When the Security Council rebuked Israel for their land thefts (euphemized as \u201csettlements,\u201d) Mr. Danon replied with pious indignation: \u201cWould you ban the French from building in Paris?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There, in all of it effrontery, is the imperial theology that birthed Zionism. David Ben Gurion said of Palestine \u201cGod promised it to us.\u201d Yitzhak Baer wrote in 1947: \u201cGod gave to every nation its place, and to the Jews he gave Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14102\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron-dermer--300x225.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14102\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer-.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--193x145.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14102\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron-dermer--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer-.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ron-dermer--193x145.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So in this hallucinatory theology, just as God gave Paris to France the Zionist deity gave Palestine to Jews including the right to build whatever they want wherever they want it. If the Zionist god posted a \u201cJews only\u201d sign on Palestine, the presence of non-Jews is a sacrilege and their land claims are specious. If nothing is intelligible outside its history, as the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin put it, Ambassador Danon\u2019s French allusion can only be understood against this theological backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Yigal Allon, a commander of the Palmach, the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the paramilitary force that fought to drive the British from Palestine, did not eschew the language of \u201ccleansing,\u201d a term now used to describe a \u201ccrime against humanity.\u201d He boasted that the Zionists were \u201ccleansing\u201d Palestine of Arabs.<\/p>\n<p>The religious goal of Zionism Ben Gurion said is to \u201csecure \u2026 that the whole of Palestine will be Jewish, and not only a part of it.\u201d Joseph Weitz, the administrator responsible for the colonization of Palestine, stated the creed bluntly: \u201cBetween ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both people together in this country. \u2026 The only solution is a Palestine \u2026 without Arabs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1919, a fact-finding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/12\/27\/how-israel-misuses-the-bible\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By fuming over a U.N. resolution against Israel\u2019s settlements on Palestinian land, Israeli leaders reveal their final solution for the Palestinians \u2013 to deny them property rights and displace them, says moral theologian Daniel C. Maguire. By Daniel C. Maguire Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, let the theological cat out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}