Jun 11 2009
A history lesson for the POTUS
Rabbi Dr. Morton H. Pomerantz, a chaplain for the State of New York, speaks truth to Obama’s power.
Obama’s clever construct comparing the mass genocide of six million Jews to the Palestinian struggle will not be lost on the estimated 100 million Muslims who tuned into to hear him.
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At first blush Mr. Obama’s speech seemed rosy, optimistic — one that espoused tolerance and understanding. If you scratch the surface it is a dangerous document that history will view as a turning point for America and Israel — one that will lead to dangerous times ahead for both Jews and believing Christians.The immediate danger posed by Obama’s speech is in its incredible re-writing of the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims from Medieval times to the present.
I was already tired of pop culture revisions of the Crusades (among other things), as well as the destruction of pre-Islamic antiquities by those who wish to re-write Middle Eastern history. But it’s something entirely worse when the President of the United States buys into it.
UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson doesn’t believe the Orwellian Newspeak. He fires several quotable quotes (including “Princeton – the New Guantanamo”). Here’s a sample, but check them all out:
“They” and “Some” did it, not me… (…) The President, the First Lady, and the Attorney General cannot begin a speech without “some say”, “there are those who believe,” or “I am not convinced by others who argue”—all followed by their own enlightened antitheses. We are perennially back to Michelle Obama’s “they” who raised the bar, or the nefarious “some” in the Bush-Cheney-Halliburton nexus that shredded the Constitution with military tribunals and renditions in order to steal Iraqi oil.
No one points out that almost every historical reference Obama invoked in Cairo—from the supposed Muslim role in great world discoveries to Islam fueling the Renaissance and Enlightenment to the Inquisition and Spain—was inflated, but, more importantly, always inflated from a politically-correct point of view.
Obama was born at the fringe of the ancient Assyrian empire. He is the rod of God’s anger, as we’re told in Isaiah 10:5-7:
“Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury! Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few…”
Isaiah 10:12b-14 is even more revealing in the context you outline above (i.e., the Cairo speech and BHO’s efforts at moral equivalence, the blending of true faith with lies and the removing of Israel’s boundaries):
“[God] will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. For he [the king of Assyria] says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones. My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped.’“
Ultraguy, that is entirely creepy. Even moreso is the fact that a co-worker told me over lunch TODAY that she had been drawn to read Isaiah. I looked at her and said, “Scary, isn’t it?”
“It’s like it’s written for today,” she said. She said the Lord is returning soon.
Truthfully, I don’t know whether to be excited or anxious. I keep going back to 1 Peter 5, especially verse 7: “Cast all your worries upon Him because He cares for you.”