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May We Never Forget by Jan Markell April 25, 2006 In 1979 President Jimmy Carter agreed we should never forget. But the horror of it all makes many want to forget--the Holocaust, that is. April 25 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah, in Israel and America. Six million Jews (and millions more non-Jews including Christians), were put to death by a regime that wanted the world to be fair-skinned with blond hair and blue eyes. In Israel the land became still today for two minutes. At 8 AM a two-minute siren sounded throughout the land. Most everyone froze in their tracks. Rowdy teens ground to a halt. Children climbed out of sandboxes or off their toys to stand at attention beside their teachers. Vehicles stopped, forming a line of paralyzed transportation. Drivers stood by their cars and trucks in silence. But because God is a covenant keeper, the Third Reich could not exterminate every Jew. Nor could previous pharaohs, kings, generals, today's mullahs, or mad men like Iran's Achmadinejad. It will never happen because God said it wouldn't (Jeremiah 31). But that doesn't mean the angry Ayatollahs and others won't keep trying. Prof. Yehuda Bauer, head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Israel, states, "There is something unprecedented, frightening, about the Holocaust of the Jewish people that should be taught. For the first time in the bloodstained history of the human race, a decision developed, in a modern state, in the midst of a civilized continent, to track down, register, mark, isolate from their surroundings, dispossess, humiliate, concentrate, transport and murder every single person of an ethnic group. This was aimed at every one of them on earth and for purely ideological reasons." He continues, "There is no precedent for this. And it happened to a people whose legacy is an important component of human civilization, whose traditions have influenced major religious and social movements, whose culture is thousands of years old. A people, too, who have borne the brunt of enmity towards them, basically because they dared to be different, and dared to insist on their difference." To learn more about this and the war against the Jewish people, visit my Web site and the category of anti-Semitism here http://www.olivetreeviews.org/topics/anti_semitism.shtml Now along comes another enemy--radical Islam--with the same intentions, but this time also aiming at the West. They want to take the world back to the 7th Century but they will not succeed either, and they will not "wipe Israel off the map" as they keep insisting they will. It won't happen. And as long as America stands by Israel, we will not be taken off the map either. Continue to pray that our leaders perceive
the spiritual perspective of this importance. Sure, Israel is important to
America as a Middle East ally filled with nations ruled by radical leaders
with genocide on their minds, too. But standing by her goes far beyond
that. "For I will bless those that bless you, Israel, and curse those
who curse you" (Gen. 12:3). Awaiting His return,
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