Does ‘Global March to Jerusalem’ Have Iran’s Backing?
One of the most notable aspects of the popular ferment that has swept the Arab world over the last years has been the singular absence of a Palestinian element.
Arab nationalism and its Islamist successor long presented the Palestinian cause as the great unifying focus for all Arabs and/or Muslims. Support for the Palestinians and vilification of Israel and/or Jews are indeed near ubiquitous throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Yet the demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Bahrain were all concerned with urgent local issues.
An initiative is now under way which hopes to change this, and to direct and focus the energies of Arab and Muslim popular agitation squarely at the hated Jewish state. The name of this initiative is the “Global March to Jerusalem.” It is set to take place on March 30th. Its organizers may well find, however, that popular ferment cannot simply be summoned at will.
The Global March to Jerusalem is an attempt to realize a dream often expressed in pro-Palestinian circles. This vision imagines millions of Palestinian Arabs and their supporters from across the globe simultaneously converging on the borders of the Jewish state. As Ribhi Halloum, one of the main organizers, put it: “the protest aims to move the right of return possessed by Palestinian refugees from theory to practice.”
The GMJ intends to assemble activists in all the countries surrounding Israel. They will then begin simultaneously to march in the direction of the border. This will take place to coincide with annual protest marches by Arab citizens of Israel.
One of the organizers expressed the aims of the march in the following terms: “Imagine a situation where we have more than a million people streaming in from four borders and Israel fails to stop the human tide. Once we have broken this mental barrier, then it’s all over. Next time we will have 5 million who will be marching in and it will only grow from there. This is exactly the nightmare situation for Israel.”
The hopes that the organizers are investing in the march are thus not modest. They think they are about to initiate a process that will lead to the end of Israel: the GMJ, the activist’s email continues, “will undermine the Israeli state like no other strategy and then it will all begin to unravel and the Zionist edifice, which is unraveling as we speak, will soon fall. It’s a matter of time now, as we well know.”
This initiative is the product of an international alliance that has emerged in recent years between mainly Sunni Islamists and Western leftist supporters of the destruction of Israel. Observation of the original “advisory” and “executive” committees for the march reveal a number of familiar names of individuals and organizations from within this nexus.
What sets the GMJ apart somewhat from previous initiatives of this kind, however, is the notable representation of Iranian and Iran-regime associated groups among its backers. This suggests Iranian government backing for the march. The Iranian-linked groups form a third pillar, alongside the Sunni, Muslim-Brotherhood linked groups and the less important Western leftist anti-Zionists.
I guess the arabs and the Palestinians, let alone the Iranians, never heard of rubber bullets. If these “protesters” are unarmed and try to flood a border crossing, there are still many ways to stop a mob like this, from tear gas to rubber bullets. But if these “protesters” just happen to be armed, well then real bullets will be used. Either way, a lot of people could be hurt or killed, which I don’t think will help the Palestinian cause.
However, an interesting thing IS happening. The above article did say that, “There also appears to be little enthusiasm for the GMJ in the West Bank itself, which is currently experiencing economic growth and relative stability.” Go figure, if Palestinians or arabs actually worked hard, minded their own business, and decided to co-exist with the Israelis rather than try to kill them, their economy could actually GROW and the people there could actually make a decent living. There is no profit in war for arabs, only destruction and death. And it’s about time that the Palestinians start to notice that the only people pushing for death, the Iranians, have very little skin in this deadly game and certainly have nothing to lose. Aren’t the Palestinians tired of being pawns in other people’s wars? If they just decided to live peacefully they would not only make much more money and have a better economy, but they would probably also get their own state as well. Just shows you that the people always pushing for war never seem to have the Palestinians’ best interests at heart. Never.
Well unfortunately Muslims/Arabs and the media props who have supported them have always, and continually use deaths (especially if they can hide why and when the person died) as means to attack Israel. I would point out the Gaza (Terror) Flotilla incident where the “peaceful” protestors beat, stabbed, and threw the Israeli commandos until they fought back and killed 9. Or the recent photo by a “UN aid worker” of a supposive “Palestinia” child killed in the recent conflict which was actually from a car accident 3 years ago. Or the “protestor” who died from “tear gas inhalation”, though no other person has ever died from “tear gas inhalation”. Doctored photos, coordinated photo ops, dead civilians who have their Jihad photo on the Hamas website, mass numbers of people “killed” yet no burials (Jenin), ect, ect, ect…
The only thing that has held the “Palestinians” back from their own economic growth is their inability to not attack Israel (and leaders who rob aid money and taxes from them).
In actuality, there are many Arabs who reside in the Westbank across the Green Line who resist pressures to militarize or, what’s more, to protest. These are people who gain their livlihood working directly for Jewish employers or indirectly through trade and commerce with Jews from Israel. Their voices are not loud, however, as they would be seen as provoking militant Muslims or government officials. These are things you, the Reader, would possibly know were you to be residing across the Green Line and had reason to contact, communicate or negotiate with Arabs. It doesn’t make headlines, of course.
Iran’s backing? How about Obama’s?
Iranians are incredibly open to the gospel message of Jesus’ love and forgiveness. Many are disillusioned with the oppression of Islam and are desperate for the truth.
Every day, more Iranians are hearing the hopeful message of The Way, The Truth and The Life through satellite TV broadcasts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtsAlW1v1k&feature=player_embedded
If the Iranians are really desperate for the truth, then they better keep looking, because they won’t find it by exchanging one ancient mythology for another. Absurd, irrational, illogical 1500-2000+ year old pre-enlightenment myths are either directly, or indirectly, responsible for about 95% of the problems in the world today. Most religions, at least the Abrahamic ones, encourage hatred, murder, and even genocide, against all those who don’t believe exactly as they do. History is full of such examples: The entire history of Islam; Christian atrocities such as the Witch hunts, the Inquisition, the genocide of the native populations of the new world, etc., etc.; and the root of the hate, the Israelite murder and genocide of those who didn’t believe as they did, endorsed, in fact, commanded, by Yahweh, the “loving” creator, whose atrocities include, but are not limited to (according to the Old Testament) the mass murder of the firstborn of Egypt, and the annhilation of the entire human race, except for Noah and his family. The sooner that books like the Bible, the Koran, and others, take their place on a shelf in the Fiction section, next to the Illiad, the better off we will all be. This is the 21st century, it’s high time that humanity outgrew fairy tales, especially the dangerous, bloodthirsty Judeo-Christian-Islamic ones.
Bigots like you are the reason that Israel is being threatened right now.
As a direct response – try minding your own business.
I would also point out that if you want some real mass killings just go to the enlightened communists of the 20th century.
You’re right, Buddha loves you!
The Holy Bible is not fiction. It would be worth your while and that of all readers, to check out the discovery of the late Dr. Ivan Panin (Russian scientist & leading teacher in evolution around the world.) He began exploring the Holy Bible from a mathematical view and found an amazing discovery concerning every word, phrase etc in the Bible to do with the number 7. He said it was humanly impossible for any one to devise what he found (& u can read the details of that find. He became a devout Christian as a result. To read it go to “Unleavened Bread Ministries’, and look under Teachings and Revelations. There you will see two headings: “Science proves the Bible,” and “The Holy Bible, Wholly True.”
As for the dreadful atrocities done in the name of “Christianity” they bear no resemblance to the Lord Jesus Christ, nor any of His true followers. Jesus said, “The time will come when those who kill you will think that they do God a service.” and “a tree is known by its fruit: men do not gather grapes from a thorn-bush-not every one who names my Name is of Me.” The Catholic Church is a tyrannical institution, with 100% political motives, with a “religious cloak.”
I was a devout aetheist and evolutionist-all that changed 36 years ago, I met Jesus in a very powerful encounter (no drugs!) & He has made Himself known to me many times since, He is my closest friend. He is indeed the “King of the Jews,” and loves His people the Jews, as do all true Christians. He is alive and He is coming back to judge this world and set up His Kingdom, when men have finally come to the end of themselves and all but destroyed themselves and the planet. I do not have a particular religion, I am still a student of Scripture. By the way Panin found no mathematical sequence in any of the other so-called holy books. The Bible is “designed” in sevens, it reminds me of a verse in the Bible: “The Word of the Lord is pure, as silver tried in the earth seven times.” It sure changed my life!
In case it needs mentioning for a few: Panin was investigating the original tongues in which the Bible was written when he made his discovery. He was an accomplished linguist of many languages. He had a long-running advertisement in the New York Times for years, challenging all aetheists, evolutionists and scientists to contest his discovery and offered thousands of pounds to any who could fault it. No one could.
@ Anon., I do not dislike you or hate you for what you have said, I will say this, go to the site here listed, just a 2 minute clip that I totally accept as true….If you would say the same simple prayer you would be saved from your sins also…Jesus never tried to convince anyone that was hostile to His Word and try to convert them….You are lost, according to your own words, and these words will condemn you, Not the Lord Jesus, YOUR words will send you into eternity, and into Hell forever and forever…Remember Anom. Because they will be there as a testimony to point you straight into eternal darkness….But there is hope for you, say the same prayer that these Iranian are praying and truly mean it, repent and turn from your evil ways, and you will find eternal life in Jesus…
The imams say the exact same thing. Funny.
“Anon” did nothing evil, except profess his disbelief in religions, and noting the religious basis for countless historically documented atrocities.
Marxism is like a religion, in this way. Same “kill the non-believer” stuff that’s been a curse on humanity for thousands of years, just in newer form.
“Evil” is things like bombing crowded markets, spraying acid on school girls…
Or beheading the “infidels”. Or burning witches. Same thing, really. Simply refusing to buy into your religion, or anyone’s, is not evil.
If your god is going to punish him for it, you worship an evil god. Good people, and good gods, don’t punish anyone for apostasy.
Yes, exactly. Thank you, Swami, that was my thought, too, bvt you beat me to it. Marxism/Communism resembles a Christian heresy more than anything else. Simply substitute the trinity of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin for the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God, and you’ve pretty much got a new version of the same old thing, commiting the same old crimes, in the same old ways, for the same old reasons.
I have no doubt Hamas and its Western Far Leftist acolytes will try something to embarrass Israel. They won’t get very far. Israel is well prepared to defend its borders and its national sovereignty.
Demolish the Dome of the Rock. Build some upscale condos. Offer extra twenty virgins for martyrs. Let’s move on to the 21st century. Mo…get an I Pad.
Alongside these are both Israel-based far left groups such as the Alternative Information Center, and U.S.- and European-based leftist opponents of Israel, including the Stop the War Coalition, International Solidarity Movement, and a host of others.
International Solidarity Movement is the group that recruited Rachel Corrie to go stand on collapsing dirt in Gaza as a bulldozer was approaching, exploited a 20 something naif who, of course, was transmogrified into a heroine of America’s Left.
Code Pink is involved. The Pink Morons have been pretty chummy with Iran and Syria, I vaguely recollect the head of CP was in Iran saying nasty things about America not all that long ago.
Something is very wrong with all these kinds of people.
Code Pink went to Iraq through Syria to provide the “resistance” with money during the Iraq War. They had a letter of recommendation from a number of Democrat senators.
Will the true believers be outnumbered by journalists like the March on Wasilla?
“I have no doubt Hamas and its Western Far Leftist acolytes will try something to embarrass Israel”
Hamas is funded by Saudi Arabia. The House of Saud has been manipulating the middle east for over 350 years, long before USA even existed. PJM and western media are barred from commenting on Saudi Arabia lest they lose their privileges.
However facts are there if people take their blinders off or grow a backbone and report the truth about Saudi Arabia.
I doubt Israel will let this scumbag mobs running around rampant wherever they want, when they want.
Did you look at the list of names and orgs who support this march? (yes, I know you did)
Jayswoos titty flock! Ashton?…Atzmon?…
What’s next? Galloway? Oh, wait…
water cannons filled with green dye, pork fat and skunk smell…
spray the assholes…
Is the Egyptian border the area of most uncertainty as to crowd size?
10. what is “occupation” writes
“water cannons filled with green dye, pork fat and skunk smell…
spray the assholes…”
Ah!!! yes Jews using Pork Fat how very logical.
Gentiles live there and serve in the military.
I will do the honors, but it will prob. be the trash from the USA, such as Cynthia Williams, and Bro Jesse JJJJJssssoooonnnnn, and their Fellow Trash, so a pork chop would just make them mad, because they find them anywhere over there…
Correction to above….Cynthia Mc. Kennnnnnnnneeeeeyyyyyy
Nothing to worry about. This is just the regular “two minutes hate” which occurs regularly throughout the Islamic world.
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.” Orwell 1984
In the book the hate was directed against one particular Jew. In our real world it is directed at all of them.
In a warmup hate rally in “Moderate Morocco” the mob managed to find the one Israeli in the country, A diplomat there for a trade meeting. He was rushed out a back door before he could be lynched.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4207903,00.html
Israeli sources indicate that this whole thing is being organized by Iran. No matter how hard they try it is not going to deflect enough attention away from the problems they have created for themselves. News today that Shell Oil cannot get them the $1 billion they owe the government. Iranians have also demanded from the Jewish hostages remaining there that they choose 10 among them to serve as human shields in rushing the border with Israel. Presumably this would occur through Syria. Of late Syrinans trying to cross the borders have taken many bullets to the back from their own army. I dont think this will amount to anything.
So disconnected is the Arab world from reality that all one has to do is put on some sort of show and make any inflated claim and the public will lap it up. Perhaps because most of them live such miserable lives that reality doesn’t matter anymore.
The three maxims of Orwell’s novel are reality on the Arab street:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
i dunno. i am jewish and the whole jew hate thing has always seemed like a psychotic hallucination shared by anti-semites with rubber stamp neural activity. or,perhaps, the lack thereof.
american blacks, even the noxious “panthers” were supported, funded and helped enormously by jews, not to mention the tsunami of young jewish lawyers who worked seven days and nights a week in the law libraries to estabish legal redress for blacks. and, of course, the young andrew goodman and mickey schwerner murdered for their civil rights activities in mississippi, as well as my own high school friends who despite lives of comfort, left their homes to register black voters in the most dangerous backwoods of the rural south.
the result, american blacks are the most virulent jew haters of all.
there is no reality to any of it. and when the arabs and these blacks, the churched-up jew hating irish and the slimy eurotrash show up at the borders, i do hope they will suffer a very uncomfortable fate. at the very least, as a friend of mine advised, who was a leather jacket juvenile delinquent in the fifties, the first thing to do, smash them in the face with a metal garbage can cover.
i like it.
No body can annihilate the Jewish nation-they have tried many times-look at one of the latest: the 6 day war-all odds were against Israel-that’s exactly how God (historically-see the Bible) likes it!
He has a covenant with the Israelite people not based on whether they deserve it or not (not to say they are particularly undeserving-but Jews and non-Jews are not worthy of Him really, for He is holy and upright in all His ways), but based on His faithfulness.
The Jews will triumph in the end after “the Time of Jacobs’ Trouble.” You may feel that time has been and gone many times over for the Jews-but this will be the “daddy” of them all. God will fight for and deliver Israel out of that time. You are blessed to have your heritage and need to read the Bible Judy-there are good things in store for your people.
The urban legend of Jack Pershing comes to mind. If he is in charge, what would he install at the borders to deter the book of hate?
Iran Forces Jews to Front Global March As Human Shields:
Iran Forces Jewish ‘Minyan’ for Global March:Iran is forcing 10 Jews to join a group headed to Lebanon for the planned Global March on Jerusalem, despite dangers of terrorist kidnappings, according to DEBKAfile. The Islamic Republic is heavily funding the march and flying people from Asian countries to Iran and then to Lebanon.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154156
This is a very serious breach of international human rights, which puts the lives of these people in danger. Demand that the United Nazions condemn the action. The Iranian use of human shields is reason for the UN Security Council to make sure that Iran will have to face the International Criminal Court in the Haag.
The prophet Zechariah (12:2) states that the nations besieging Jerusalem will also force members of the house of Judah to take part in the siege. This should be sufficient to convince anyone that the prophesies of the Hebrew Bible, are now being fulfilled to the letter, and none of the New Testament or the Quran/Hadits.
History shows that God sometimes saves Israel by turning the various attacking nations against each other.
Struggle For Truth: http://www.torahblogg.net/56899918