" I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief of assumption that 'The stories of nazi brutality were just propaganda.' Some members of the visiting party were unable to through the ordeal. I not only did so but as soon as I returned to Patton's headquarters that evening I sent communications to both Washington and London, urging the two governments to send instantly to Germany a random group of newspaper editors and representative groups from the national legislatures. I felt the evidence should be immediately placed before the American and British publics in a fashion that would leave no room for cynical doubt."
General Dwight David Eisenhower upon viewing the German concentration camps
There has been a storm brewing in this nation recently. A storm of discontent among those who call for the immediate end to Israeli military action against the Hamas terrorists who sucker punched Israel on October 7, 2023. Chants of "Death to Israel" and "From the river to the sea" have echoed across the college campuses of the country. Of course, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that these liberal institutions for indoctrination often foment civil disobedience. We watched this play out in the 1960's and 70's as the anti Vietnam war crowd demonstrated against the war in Southeast Asia. Many a returning soldier has spoken to being harassed and spit on at various airports across the country. Now, some Ivy League educated liberal judge may see these actions as free speech, but I see them as assault on another. In my honest opinion, the Vietnam protests were just a scapegoat for a generation determined to change the moral fabric of our nation. As surely as Adolf Hitler used the Jewish population of Europe for his own political gains, so are our current batch of college educated liberal young people using the Jewish population of the nation of Israel to get whatever it is they are attempting to gain. This is nothing new. Convenient scapegoats have been used for centuries to help people establish themselves as legitimate. The Jewish people, The war in Vietnam, George Floyd, the list is a long one. Still, one of the most frequently used scapegoats in history is that of the Jewish population of the world. The Germans were not alone in their mistreatment of the Jews, for even here in America there is a history of mistreatment of the Jews. We won't get into the weeds of the claim that these Jews are the "Lords chosen people." Yes, the Father blessed the nation of Israel, but He also struggled with a stiff necked people at times. I believe that all are the Lords children, for we share the Fathers image {Genesis 1:27}. The apostle Paul spoke to our true heritage that we are all one in Christ Jesus {Paul To The Galatians 3:28}. Knowing this truth, who would you therefore demonize in order to further your cause?
In Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus.
Paul To The Galatians 3: 28, Concordant New Testament
The Scottish poet Robert Burns once penned a poem entitled "Man's inhumanity to man." In it he described the glory by which every day men did terrible things to their brethren. From a Christian standpoint, one of the toughest questions to consider is how it is that the Father would allow such treatment of His children. Yet we see this throughout our history. The Jews, the Lords so called chosen people, have a history stained by the horrors of mans inhumanity to man. The battlefields which litter the earth also testify to our own inhumanity to one another. I do not profess to know the plans of the Lord, but I know enough to trust in Him that His desires and His plans are for the best. Even in those times where we wonder how it is that a loving Father could allow such bloodshed. To truly know the Father is to trust in Him no matter the situation. In the midst of his torment, Job spoke to this as his wife called on him to "Curse God and die" {Job 2:9}. Jobs response was spot on, and could speak to any difficult situation we experience, "Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity" {Job 2:10}? So it is that placing the blame upon God for the actions of mans inhumanity towards his neighbors is to bark up the wrong tree. It's not the Jewish people who inspired your own selfish motives.
And man, whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn
Mans inhumanity to man
makes countless thousands morn
Man's Inhumanity To Man, Robert Burns
~Scott~
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