Israel’s Hate Runs Deep

The politicians and media tell us Israel is a democracy, yet, Israel does not even have its own constitution, which is a violation of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181. (Remember how both Bush Presidents accused Iraq of not following UN resolutions and used that as an excuse to wage war against Iraq?) Israel doe not have a constitution because Israel is more of a theocracy than it is a democracy.

And a theocracy will not tolerate any law or constitution which supersedes religious writings or scriptures. In Israel’s case, nothing can replace or be above the Torah. The Torah consists of the first five books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. A look at these five books helps us to understand Israel’s deep rooted hatred of Gentiles and can shed some light on why the Jewish state is so warlike and belligerent.

To start with, Jews are taught that they are God’s chosen people, “above all people that are upon the face of the Earth” according to Deuteronomy 7:6. This in and of itself can only breed contempt towards those people they see as their inferiors, the non-Jews/Gentiles. Especially when the inferior Gentiles get uppity by resisting Jews who buy this Jewish superiority nonsense. This is magnified when it involves the Jewish state of Israel as can be seen by the brutality let loose against the Palestinians who dare to resist Israeli expansion onto their land. When the Palestinians resist they are labeled by Israel and by the White House and Congress they bought and paid for as terrorists. Every day more and more people are seeing the hypocrisy of this sad and deadly situation which must be brought to an end.

The American Revolutionary hero and founder Thomas Paine openly questioned the Jews’ claim to have been chosen by God above all people. He addressed this Biblical lie when he wrote in The Age of Reason about the Bible story of a king of Israel by the name of Menahem who, according to II Kings 15:16, butchered everyone in the city of Tiphsah, even ripping the unborn babies from their mothers’ wombs. After mentioning this grotesque account of the Jewish war criminals and their acts of terrorism, the Deist Paine wrote, “Could we permit ourselves to suppose that the Almighty would distinguish any nation of people by the name of His chosen people, we must suppose that people to have been an example to all the rest of the world of the purest piety and humanity, and not such a nation of ruffians and cut-throats as the ancient Jews were; a people who, corrupted by and copying after such monsters and imposters as Moses and Aaron, Joshua, Samuel and David, had distinguished themselves above all others on the face of the known earth for barbarity and wickedness.

“If we will not stubbornly shut our eyes and steel our hearts, it is impossible not to see, in spite of all that long-established superstition imposes upon the mind, that the flattering appellation of His chosen people is no other than a lie which the priests and leaders of the Jews had invented to cover the baseness of their own characters, and which Christian priests, sometimes as corrupt and often as cruel, have professed to believe.”

Looking at the first book of the Torah, Genesis, in chapters six through eight we read the disgusting tale of God killing all the people, animals and birds on planet Earth by drowning. The “reason” for this mass slaughter was because according to Genesis 6:5  “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”  One giant hole in this ridiculous myth is that babies and unborn children could not have done any evil nor could they be thinking evil thoughts. This is probably a part of the Israeli mind-set that permits them to kill Palestinian children and pregnant women. If you believe this ungodly Torah/Bible story you must believe that unborn children and infants are capable of evil. Believing God to be so unjust is wrong. We must ask ourselves what Thomas Paine asked in The Age of Reason, “Is it because ye are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that ye listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?”

In Genesis 12:10-16 the Jews teach the story of Abram, aka Abraham, pimping his wife Sarai, aka Sarah, to the Egyptians. The only lesson of this story can only be for the Hebrews to use deception against their neighbors and hosts. Verse 16 tells us that Abram was paid well by Pharaoh for the services of his wife and half-sister Sarai. It reads, “And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.” According to these ancient Hebrew writings, God did not punish Abram, he punished the Egyptians! Abram commits the same crime in Genesis 20 and also receives material as well as financial profits.

The book of Exodus 23:27 has God telling the Hebrews, “I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.” This ancient mind-set of destroying “all the people who thou shalt come” is evident by the brutal way Israel walks all over the Palestinians.

In Leviticus 14:34 the Hebrew writers put these words into God’s mouth, “When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;”. This helps to make clear the bulk of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible is concerned with the expansion of Israel and the claimed superiority of the Hebrews/Jews.

Numbers 31:14-18 really shows the bloodthirsty hate the Israelis had for their Gentile neighbors. These verses also help to discredit the Christian apologist C.S. Lewis’ claim in Mere Christianity that all people are governed by a universal knowledge of right and wrong as I made clear in An Answer to C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity (for the Amazon/Kindle version click here). The verses read: “And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” Verse 35 tells us the number of virgins the Israelis kept for themselves – 32,000. This act of superstition based mass genocide and rape, which is a part of the Torah which is what the Jewish state of Israel is based on, helps the world to better understand the violent bloody actions of Israel.

Deuteronomy continues with the barbaric instructions for Israel’s expansion through genocide. For just one example from many, Deuteronomy 7:1-2 states, “When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:.” We can see this destructive ungodly principle put into action as Israel continues it ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

The overall importance in the Hebrew Bible is the Jewish state of Israel’s well-being and expansion. In the book of Isaiah 60: 10-12 we read what God allegedly said regarding Israel: “And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.” If believed, this is a direct threat from God to Gentiles that if they do not serve Israel, they will be destroyed! It also goes a long way in explaining why the U.S. military is used to fight wars for Israel as we are now doing in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Regarding the war in Iraq, a former Israeli general made a revealing statement that was reported in the March 15, 2003 edition of the St. Petersburg Times on page 5A.  Retired Israeli General Avraham Rotem said, “A (US) war with Iraq serves Israel’s strategic interests because it wants Saddam gone. Someone says, ‘You sit back, we’ll take care of it’–what’s better than that?'”

Israel’s hatred is also turned against fellow Jews who do not blindly obey the Jewish state. Mordechai Vanunu spent 18 years in an Israeli prison for telling the world about Israel’s REAL weapons of mass destruction.  He still is not permitted to leave Israel! Israel’s hate really does run deep!

Bob Johnson

Bob Johnson is a freelance writer in the Tampa area of Florida. He was raised Roman Catholic, but after a stint in Marine Corps infantry and reading Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason he became a Deist.

In 1993 he founded the World Union of Deists, and in 1996 he launched the first website devoted to Deism. He is the author of God Gave Us Reason, Not Religion, Deism: A Revolution in Religion, A Revolution in You and An Answer to C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. He has also written the introduction to Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition and Principles of Nature by Elihu Palmer.