Durban II

My friends, as you know I am a Watchman for the Lord. I am warning all of you that the Nazis and anti-Semites are back. Why is this important to us, our families, America and the West? I firmly believe that wherever the Jews are treated harshly and murdered that violence eventually falls back upon us. In other words, many things do not happen by accident. Hitler’s violent hatred of the Jews dragged the whole world down and today’s Nazis will do this to the world again. Today, I have written about the forthcoming anti-Semitic Durban II Conference.

A few days before 9/11, the United Nations (UN) launched an anti-Semitic crusade called the “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” in Durban, South Africa, or Durban I.

The conference had two honored guests, Yasser Arafat and the leader of the oldest dictatorship in the western hemisphere, Fidel Castro.

The eight-day conference was an eight-day hate-fest against Israel - a vicious and racist onslaught against the human rights of the Jewish people.

The UN’s Islamic nucleus led The 7,000 delegates from the nations around the world as Durban I pronounced its verdict:
· Israel is the most racist state in the world
· Jews discriminate racially more than anyone else
· Judaism is the most intolerant religion

Non Government Organizations (NGO) handed out pamphlets that included vicious caricatures of Jews. This literature was reminiscent of Nazi cartoons of Jews in World War II. Caricatures included Jews with hooked noses who had Palestinian blood on their hands as they sat on their piles of money.

The fictitious anti-Semitic book, The Protocols of Zion, was distributed and there were posters carrying slogans overlapping the Star of David with the swastika. Jewish delegates hid their accreditation badges because it identified them as Jewish delegates.

The aim of Durban I was clear: to boycott and impose sanctions against Israel and destroy Israel economically.

The now deceased Democratic Representative Tom Lantos of California who attended Durban I said, “This was the most sickening and unabashed display of hate for Jews I had seen since the Nazi period.”

A delegate from the American Jewish Committee said, this is “a well organized effort to use the human rights talk to de-legitimize not only the actions of Israel, but its very right to exist.”

The United States and Israel walked out. The Canadians remained and the Canadian representative said, “Canada is still here only because we wanted to have our voice decry the attempts at this conference to de-legitimize the State of Israel.” Canada’s official objections were mysteriously deleted from the Durban I final report and human rights commissioner, Navanethem Pillay informed the world that the report had been unanimously approved. Of course, this was an outright lie and the Canadian delegation strenuously denied it. Pillay also failed to mention that the U.S and Israel left the conference in disgust.

Durban I and the members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference concluded their deliberations and pronounced Israel the most evil power on earth.

DURBAN II

Durban II will convene from April 20-24 in Geneva, Switzerland. It will be interesting to see how the international media spins this event or if the international media will be unbiased.

Below is a summary of Islamic conclusions:
· A Jewish homeland is racist
· Israel is guilty of apartheid
· Iran and Syria question the number of Jews that the Nazis murdered
· Six provisions demonize Israel as racist

UN General Assembly, President Miguel d’Escoto Brockman (from Guatemala) said that Israeli policies amount to apartheid and “must be outlawed” and met by a “campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel.”

Israel’s enemies have repeatedly failed to defeat Israel militarily so they are seeking the political defeat of Israel in the UN. They are using the same tactic that was used successfully against apartheid in South Africa.

Columnist Melanie Phillips warned, “Durban II would be a vicious and racist onslaught against the human rights of the Jewish people. They will be accused of “apartheid, crimes against humanity and genocide.”

Durban II will be chaired by Libya. (oh, no Wacky Gadaffy again, he’s everywhere!) Iran will be the vice president of the executive committee of the drafting group. The Cubans will produce the final official draft. Other participants include Pakistan, the state repository for religious intolerance, bigotry and lack of religious freedom and historically anti-Semitic Russia. What hypocrisy, Libya has no political parties and the Iranian President has threatened to wipe Israel off the map. I wonder how Hugo Chavez was omitted; Perhaps he will be a late entry, I can’t believe he would miss an opportunity to rail against the U.S. and Israel.

Florida’s Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is a ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee warned, “Durban II has nothing to do with anti-racism and everything to do with attacking Israel and the Jewish people. Free nations should unite against violent radical Islamists and prevent the further manipulation of the UN to legitimize their extremist agenda. The U.S. and other responsible nations must stand up to the dictatorships that have hijacked much of the UN in general and Durban II in particular. Iran, Libya, Cuba, and their fellow repressive regimes at the UN continue to deny the Jewish state’s right to exist, and they aim, through Durban II and other UN efforts, to prevent Israel from defending itself.”

Let’s look at the UN. Full-fledged democracies are a minority of about 70 nations in the UN. The non-democratic radical Organization of the Islamic Conference comprises 56 nations and the Non-democratic developing nations comprise a block of 65 nations. Surprise, surprise the latter two groups generally vote together as a block. The democratic nations cannot win on votes alone.

The fact that non-democratic nations are essentially running the UN undermines the original idea of the UN and the UN cannot possibly succeed if it is comprised of non-democratic, repressive nations. The UN we see today is not the UN originally envisaged by leaders in the West after World War II.

The Islamic block begins draft meetings with harsh anti-Israel positions. The Western nations soften this harsh position and in the end an anti-Israel draft is hammered out.

Durban II draft does not mention other people hating Jews, the hatred and the murder of Israelis by the Palestinians and other Islamic terrorist groups. Over 1100 Israelis killed in terrorist attacks since the first Durban conference.

Let’s look at what Durban II does not mention:
1. No mention of Arab or Muslim denial of human rights
2. No mention of the genocide in African nations
3. No condemnation of Arab states for barring to Jews
4. No condemnation of the Iranian threat of a second Holocaust
5. No mention of human right abuses in China, Burma, Zimbabwe and North Korea
6. No mention of the current Islamic massacres in Sudan
7. No mention of the lack of religious freedom in Muslim lands and dictatorships
8. No mention of lack of freedom of press in Muslim lands and dictatorships
9. No mention of a lack of free elections in Muslim nations or in dictatorships
10. No mention of the lack of freedom of speech in dictatorships
11. No mention of human rights abuses in Iran, Pakistan & Syria, countries leading the conference
12. No mention of the arrest warrant against the leader of Sudan, Omar Hassan al Bashir (The Butcher) for genocide

However, Durban II attempts to outlaw all criticism of Islam and Islamic-bred violence. The draft would brand all discussion of Islamic terrorism as “racism” or “xenophobia.” The document declares all counter-terrorist surveillance of Islamic institutions to be “defamation of Muslims”. Whoever criticizes anything Islamic (but not any other religion) is advocating racial or religious hatred.

Ros-Lehtinen, stated, “Because of the insidious efforts of outlaw regimes and the inability or unwillingness of the UN system to prevent the enemies of freedom and human rights from hijacking the agenda, the Durban II conference is firmly on track to be an anti-America, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate-fest.”

Columnist Melanie Phillips said, “it is the UN and the architects of Durban II who are the racists and murderous bigots.” She challenges the democratic nations to stand up to Islamic agenda and “denounce this sick farce, and pull out now.” Durban II is a sick farce and nations should pull out now.”

President Barack Obama wants more diplomatic interaction with the UN and attempted to work with the Durban II committee to make the attacks against Israel palatable, but found out that the document was hopelessly irreparable. According to his official press release, “The document being negotiated has gone from bad to worse, and the current text of the draft outcome document is not salvageable.” Thank God, Obama pulled the United States out of the conference.

The United States, Israel, Canada and Italy have decided not to attend Durban II. I suspect the rest of the European will not create waves and not pull out of Durban II. The Muslim populations in European nations hold them hostage.

Without the financial support of the U.S. and a handful of other Western nations, the UN could accomplish nothing. The UN’s administrative costs are some $5 billion a year. The U.S. pays 22% of that.

The Heritage Foundation has done extensive research on U.S. aid to developing countries and the very countries that the U.S. subsidizes, usually vote against U.S. and democratic interests in the UN. It is time to cut off their foreign aid and grants. I agree with The Heritage Foundation that funding non-democratic countries does not help the cause of freedom. The Heritage Foundation reports that what is shocking, is that most of the non-democratic countries that receive regular aid from the U.S. are in worse condition than they were several decades ago.

(http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/bg2018.cfm)

In Psalm 2 the Psalmist asks, "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" My friends, in order for world events to make sense at all, we must look into the spiritual realm. Without this perspective, we can only see nations acting irrationally and incomprehensibly.

Have you ever asked yourself why is the tiny nation of Israel and the tiny population of Jews in the world the lightning rod for world rage? Why do evil regimes everywhere do as they please with no one reproving them, while Israel’s every move is condemned by the world? It is not Israel they hate; they hate God who promised Israel the land of Israel. It is the Messiah Yeshuah they hate who was born - not in Palestine, but in Bethlehem, Israel. It is the Bible they hate which promises Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the land that today is claimed by Arabs who for three short decades have given themselves the name “Palestinians”. My friends, Satan was behind Hitler, Nazism and the Holocaust. Look at all the Satanic signs the Nazis used such as the twisted cross, Swastika and the SS skull and cross bones. Historically, Satan has tried to destroy the Jews on numerous occasions including the Pharaoh of Egypt. Satan and his legions of darkness are behind today’s anti-Semitism. Satan wants all the Jewish people destroyed.

Satan knows the Messiah/Yeshuah who defeated him before eternity came from the Jewish people and that Yeshua will return to rule the world from Jerusalem! This infuriates Satan and he is determined to use whatever method possible to stop God’s prophetic plan.

Satan finds willing vessels to annihilate the Jews - whether it be the Egyptian Empire, the Philistines, the Persian Empire, the Greek Empire, Haman, the Assyrians, Herod, the Romans, the Spanish Empire, Hitler, the USSR and Ahmedine”jihad”.

So don’t bury your head in the sand like people around the world did in the 1920s and 1930s. Be aware of world events, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and keep in mind the Lord’s prophetic plan for the Jewish people. Warn others that the Jews are in mortal danger again. Remember the gift the Jewish people preserved for us over the course of history, our ability to worship the one true God. Bad events and war may be on the horizon but we will make it through with the help of the one true God.