                      A Voice from Hebron
                     by Gary M. Cooperberg
                        January 3, 1996
                    Democracy versus Judaism
                       The real challenge
                                
     Our Father Abraham was called Avraham ha Ivri.  "Ivri" comes from the Hebrew word
"ever" meaning the bank or side of a river.  The reason he was given this name, our rabbis tell
us, is the fact that Abraham stood alone on one side of the river, and the entire world stood on
the other side.  In other words, although he was all alone with his faith in the One G-d, our
father, Abraham, refused to accept the opinion of the rest of the world, much less the majority. 
The example set by the founding father of Judaism is one that we have always been called
upon to follow, in every generation, including the one in which we live today.
     Back in Egypt when Pharaoh said to Moses, (Exodus V vs. 2-3), ". . . Who is the L-rd
that I should obey His voice . . ?"  "I know not the L-rd . . ."  This was the challenge which
began all of the oppression of the Jewish people.  To this day it is this challenge which forms
the basis for which the nation of G-d's Chosen exists.
     The holocaust, as every other persecution of the Jewish People throughout the
centuries, occurred as a result of an effort at world domination by evil people.   The concept
of G-d and a set of incontrovertible, eternal,  moral rules stood in the way of those who chose
to create their own morality.  Democracy, with its assertion that the majority automatically
knows what is right, was used as a tool to enable the Nazis to gain power.  A humiliated and
impoverished nation was promised regained pride and economic recovery if they would accept
the "new morality" of the Nazis.  The reason that Jews were singled out for extermination was
because they, most graphically and physically, represent the concept of  the eternal morality of
G-d.   
     I just finished reading a book which I really didn't want to read.  Its very title, (The
Pink Swastika, a study of homosexuality in the Nazi party), was so repugnant to me that I
wanted nothing to do with it.  But its co-author, Kevin Abrams, who lives in Israel with his
family, convinced me of the importance of this very readable 200 page volume.   I am now
grateful to Kevin for his persistence.  
     While at least three quarters of the book is devoted to historical facts about how the
Nazi leadership was immersed in sexual perversion and occult customs, and how deeply
intrenched the Weimar Republic became in deviant behavior even before the emergence of the
Nazi party, what is most compelling is the last part of the book.  For one who has lived
outside of the United States for over fourteen years, I was totally stunned to read how
pervasive the "gay rights" movement has become.  What began as a seemingly innocent effort
toward "freedom of choice", is rapidly developing into a political movement employing
violence to achieve domination.   The parallel to what happened in Germany is terrifying.
     Without going into the gory details, a simple but clear generality can and must be
stated.  Overt deviant sexual behavior is the most blatant and powerful method to demonstrate
contempt for G-d.  The Nazi quest for world domination immediately recognized Biblical
morality as its enemy.  As such it flaunted and exalted the most abominable hedonist behavior
possible which eventually led to the attempted annihilation of the People of G-d.










     Today we find ourselves in a state of moral upheaval which, once again, challenges the
legitimacy of Biblical Truth.   When we permit the concept of "democracy at any price" to
override G-dly principles we open the door for a new Hitler.  Today the so called, "gay rights"
movement and all of its offshoots present a clear and present danger to, once again, exploit
democracy as a means to destroy morality and G-dliness.  
     Even in the Jewish State today we see the emergence of political efforts to legitimize
sexual deviance: Israel television bases most of its commercials upon blatantly sexual themes;  
the anti-aids campaign has found fertile ground for suggesting to our youth that defiance of
authority and sexual promiscuity are acceptable standards of behavior; in the halls of the Israeli
Knesset, Knesset Member, Yael Dayan, daughter of the famed one eyed general, unabashedly
stated her blasphemous assertion that King David was the homosexual lover of King Saul's
son Jonathan; and the supreme court in Israel has already upheld the concept of gay partners
as a legitimate familial relationship.
     While the facade of "democracy" and "freedom of expression" are held up as sacred
justification for such repugnant behavior, clearly we have come to a red line which must be
held up for all to see.  Although the United States was certainly founded upon concepts of
Biblical morality which are openly being threatened today, how much more so is the Jewish
State.  
     There was no more classic presentation of this dilemma then that portrayed by a
demand recently voiced by a leftist member of Knesset who brazenly insisted that, should there
be a conflict between a commandment of G-d and a secular law passed by majority rule, all
must submit to the will of the majority.   It is this very demand which is at the center of the
controversy which plagues us today.  It is not Arabs who pose the greatest danger to the
Jewish State today, nor is it the risk of losing American support.  The real challenge which
threatens us is whether the Jewish State can remain faithful to the Jewish G-d.  
     It is precisely on moral issues, such as recognizing homosexuality as a legitimate
"alternate life style", that our existence is threatened.  Once you throw G-d out of the picture
there is nothing left upon which to base a stable system of morality, much less a Jewish State.   
     The same atheistic leftists, Yossie Sarid and Shulamit Aloni, who insist that Jews must
be removed from parts of the Jewish State because democracy has more sanctity than either
nationalism or Judaism, a few short years ago announced that should a majority in Israel rule
that Arabs be removed from Israel they would defy the law and try to prevent it.  To them
such a move is in violation of "natural law", a concept which they most certainly cannot
honestly explain because it was based upon their own personal prejudices.
      The Pink Swastika, by Kevin Abrams and Scott Lively, is a timely historical text
which points out frightening similarities between the moral climate leading up to the Third
Reich in Germany, and that of our own time.  It has an urgent warning to all of mankind not to
make the mistake of permitting a false morality, based upon a democracy which is shaped by
manipulators of evil, to usurp the eternal morality of G-d.