Truth about Israel
by Jesus, Jeremiah, Paul, Schieber, Killgore, Falwell, Robertson, and Crowley
by Dale Crowley, Box One, Washington D.C Interesting Notes and Quotations From Washington D.C
I am continually astounded, appalled,
and grieved at the misunderstanding my fellow Christians
have about Israel. Jeremiah was persecuted for telling the truth about rebellious Israel. Our Lord was connstantly taunted and tormented by the
rebellious Jewish establishment. Yet today, despite the truth
of Romans and Galatians that "there is no difference"
in this dispensation, Christian leaders are praising and supporting the same rebellious Israel. (Many of these misunderstandings can be traced to
the erroneous teachings of C.I. Scofield.)
I wonder how many of my Christian
friends who condemn anti-semitism would care for an elderly
Jew in their home for a year, recovering from two cancer surgeries, and who, because of the persecutioon of today's Jewish establishment,
has no money. Yet my wife and I, who have cared for Haviv
Schieber in this way in the name of Jesus Christ, have been
called anti-semitic!
Even pro-Israel, Christian Zionist
Jerry Falwell, at the recent National Religious Broadcasters
convention said publicly that there was no religious freedom in Israel, that the problem of the dispossessed suuffering Palestinian people must be
solved, and that the liberal Jewish dominated ACLU ought to
leave Christians alone in this country who are seeking to
live in the religious liberty guaranteed by our First Amendment. At the same meeting Pat Robertson said thaat Israel needs to abandon her
socialist economy if she wants our full support.
So it is in the interest of better understanding that I
share with you this article by a retired
ambassador about our dear Jewish friend Haviv Schieber, as well as my introduction
to it on a recent broadcast of The King's business Radio Program.
An Anti-Communist Jew By Dale Crowley Jr.
The Christian News February 24, 1986
Friends, some of you will remember that for the
past year or so I have given you news about our dear
Jewish friend Haviv Schieber. I have told you about how he was born in Poland ... how he was a friiend and associate of Menachem Begin
... how he tried to help Jews escape Germany during
World War II, despite the fact that Jewish leaders in Germany sabotaged his
efforts, cooperating with Hitler instead. I have told you how he went to Israel to buildd a new country, and how he struggled
against Communism and socialism in Israel ... how he
actually constructed the Tel Aviv Baptist Church, and how he was a member of the
Jerusalem Baptist Church ... and finally how
he came to the United states 26 years ago to warn this country about too close ties with Israel. Now Haviv Schieber is grieved,
and angry to see how the Congress of
the United States of America is nearly totally under the control of an atheist,
socialist, militaristic, bankrupt Middle east Nation —
Israel. During the past year Haviv Schieber has had two very serious major surgeries
... and we have had the privilege of caring for him many months in our
missionary home. Many of you have been praying for him and some of you have
helped him financially.
Now I have said
all this to say that in the recent issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, >Ambassador Andrew
Killgore has paid a great tribute to Haviv Schieber and I want, to sent you a copy
of that tribute. I haven't got time to tell you about Andrew Killgore ... he
has been Ambassador to Middle East nations ... he has been in charge of Middle
East affairs in the State Department ... he is an expert on Middle East affairs
... and in this article he tells us how important the ideas and work of Haviv
Schieber are.
Now I know that most of my listeners are
interested in Israel. You are praying for the peace of Jerusalem ... you bless Israel
... and want the best for the descendants of Israel. And you pride yourself, as
a Christians, that you know all about Israel ... So I say this morning that you need to
know more about our dear Jewish friend Haviv Schieber ... what he knows, how he
thinks, and what he is doing ... and there is no better way than to write me and ask
for this beautiful tribute ... this article full of facts about Haviv Schieber,
Israel, and the Middle East. Write me for it today. Box One Wash. D.C.
Personality Haviv Schieber
A Polish-born Jew and former Israeli citizen, Haviv
Schieber is an exile who has lived for the past 27 years in the United States. Head
of the Holy Land State Committee (Suite 505, 2025 I Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20006), he would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute by giving equal rights
in Palestine to Jews, Muslims and Christians.
Now in his 70s, he devotes torrents of seemingly
inexhaustible energy to his solution to the Arab-Israeli problem, to the
neglect of health, livelihood and personal considerations. An inexplicable
phenomenon, even to his closest friends, Haviv Schieber the reality may not
be susceptible of being understood. As a symbol, or series of symbols, he should
perhaps be simply appreciated.
A passionate Zionist as an idealistic young man in
Poland, Schieber immigrated in 1932 to the British Mandate of Palestine. The fierce
Palestinian revolt from 1936 to 1939 against Britain's obvious objective of turning
Palestine over to European Jews, however, soured him on the whole idea of a
Jewish state. Perceiving from the reality of actually living in Palestine that the
ideals of Judaism would be ed by forcing such a state on the Muslim and Christian
Palestinians, Schieber in 1936 returned in disillusionment to Poland.
Since then, like the Old Testament Prophet Jeremiah, he
has relentlessly berated his fellow Jews for past errors, and warned of future
disasters if they continue on their present course.
Back in Poland, Schieber suffered an even
more devastating psychological blow,
which rendered
him as relentlessly antagonistic to Communism/Marxism as he was disillusioned with Zionism.
A supporter of Vladimir Jabotinsky's right-wing Zionist youth movement, Schieber
saw mainstream Zionism selecting socialist/Marxist youth for emigration to
Palestine as those best suited to build the envisaged Jewish state. Middle aged and well-off
Jews were left behind, Schieber charges, to fall victim later to Hitler's
Holocaust. His bitterness against the liberal/left bias in Israel
burns as fiercely today as it did 50 years
ago. The idea of a Jewish state became a false God, a Moloch, before which
his fellow Jews sacrificed even their own kind, Schieber believes.
He returned to Palestine in 1939,
just escaping with his life from the Nazi onslaught against Poland.
Back in the Middle East, he married and raised a family. When he started a contracting business, it was with some
Palestinians with whom he had become personally friendly. Eventually he
became the first Jewish Mayor of Beersheba.
Schieber's disillusionment deepened as
the Arab-Israel War of 1948-49 engulfed Palestine.
Wherever he looked, Schieber saw once idealistic Jews made arrogant by the guns
they carried. He watched them rip stones from the walls of ancient Palestinian-owned houses to make roads to the new Jewish
towns. Worst of all, for a former Zionist idealist, he saw the
left-right split in Zionism become a chasm on June 8, 1948, when Israeli
soldiers killed 34 and wounded more than a hundred other Jews seeking to land
arms and men to reinforce the rightist bands of Jewish irregulars. As he
watched Jew kill Jew, he realized that the future of Zionism no longer depended
upon the power of ideals, but rather upon the power of the gun.
Since
his arrival in the United States in 1959, Haviv Schieber has been consumed by
the same sacred rage that, almost exactly 100 years earlier, propelled John
Brown and a band of devoted followers to
their foredoomed attempt at Harper's Ferry, Virginia to end the scourge
of slavery in the United States. Brown was captured by a U.S. Army detachment
and hanged. Two years later the soldiers of that same army were singing an ode
to John Brown, the stirring "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as they
marched into battle. Six years after his death, General Robert E. Lee, the
officer who delivered John Brown to the hangman, surrendered an entire
Confederate army and the Black slaves were
free.
At
the instigation of Zionists, Haviv Schieber was almost deported as an illegal
alien. He slashed his wrists to avoid being placed by force on an airplane.
Since then, he has become a source of inspiration to people who know him well.
Who
but Schieber would demonstrate personally at TV studios for weeks on end against Ted Koppel? Who else but Haviv Schieber
and his followers would hitch a huge mobile sign to a pickup truck
equipped with a loudspeaker and tow it around the national capital, sometimes denouncinng Israel for its violations of
Palestinian human rights, sometimes
denouncing the Washington Post for a tilt toward Israel, and every June
reminding Americans of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in June,
1967. Who else would drive himself to exhaustion to expose the machinations of
the Israel lobby in America?
To some Haviv Schieber might seem to be a Don Quixote, tilting
furiously against Zionist windmills. But he has attracted a caterie of devoted American
followers, Jews and Christians, who find
his spirit unconquerable — a trait he demonstrated anew when two serious
surgical operations in 1985 slowed him for only a few days each time.
His detractors might say that he has failed to gain the following,
especially among American Jews, that he needs to turn his plan for a Holy Land
State open to Christians, Muslims and Jews into the solution to the world's
most intractable political and religious
problem.
Has he failed?
Consider another question.
Did John Brown
fail?
By Andrew I.
Killgore
U.S. Ambassador
Retired Middle East Expert
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