Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Was George Soros an SS Officer or Nazi Collaborator During World War II?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/
That Soros was only nine years old (born in 1930) when the war broke out and all of 14 when Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945 hasn’t dampened his detractors’ enthusiasm for spreading these rumors, including the absurd claim, which first surfaced in November 2016, that Soros literally served as an officer of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) in Germany.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17405784/george-soros-not-a-nazi-trump
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17405784/george-soros-not-a-nazi-trump
So yes, George Soros is a billionaire with ties to
progressive causes. But he is not a Nazi. Or a Nazi sympathizer. At all.
Despite what one might see on Twitter (or Reddit or Facebook) — or even
hear from members of Congress. When one Republican Congress member suggested to Vice News
that Soros had funded the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,
VIrginia, last summer in an effort to discredit the right, he made sure
to add that Soros ”turned in his own people to the Nazis.”
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2336951905
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2336951905
CLAIM: Democratic philanthropist George Soros was a Nazi soldier
AP’S
ASSESSMENT: False. A photo said to be George Soros as a Nazi soldier is
actually a photo of Oskar Groening, a former SS sergeant at Auschwitz
Birkenau, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, operated
from 1940-1945 in Poland.
THE
FACTS: A photo circulating widely on Facebook is not Soros, but a young
Oskar Groening, a former SS sergeant who became known as the
“Accountant of Auschwitz.,” according to information provided to The
Associated Press by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in
Poland.
Soros,
who was just 9-years-old when Hitler’s army invaded Poland, was not a
member of the Nazi party, despite what the photo said. Soros, who is
Jewish and Hungarian, was 15 during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. He
would have been too young to join the Hitler Youth, an organization that
recruited and trained 16- and 17-year-old boys to fight.
According
to false information with the photo, Soros was an SS in the National
Socialist German workers party and served under Adolf Hitler and
Heinrich Himmler. The information also claimed,”He said it was the best
time of his life. The destruction and agony around him was euphoric to
him.”
Soros did
not say that the destruction and agony was “euphoric” to him. This quote
derives from Groening’s testimony in 2015, when he said his enthusiasm
for the Nazi objective had evolved into “euphoria.”
הותר לפרסום: רב שתקף 4 ילדים בבית כנסת נשלח לכלא
https://www.kikar.co.il/341435.html
שלום חזן, אב לילדים וסב לנכדים, המשמש כרב בית כנסת בירושלים, ניצל את ההערצה אליו - וביקש מכמה ילדים וילדות שיעזרו לו, תוך שהוא תוקף אותם באופן חמור • גזר דינו: ארבע שנות מאסר
Nearly 180 Evangelical Leaders, Including Billy Graham's Granddaughter, Condemn Anti-Trump Editorial in Letter to Christianity Today
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelical-leaders-letter-condemn-christianity-today-anti-trump-op-ed-1478742
"The editorial you published, without any meaningful and immediate regard for dissenting points of view, not only supported the entirely-partisan, legally-dubious, and politically-motivated impeachment," the letter read, "but went even further, calling for Donald Trump not to be elected again in 2020 when he certainly survives impeachment."
"Your editorial offensively questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations," it continued.
The group, who called themselves "Bible-believing Christians and patriotic Americans," went on to say that they are grateful that Trump has "sought our advice" to advance policies that "protect the unborn, promote religious freedom [and] reform our criminal justice system."
Rudy Giuliani: I'm more of a Jew than George Soros
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/273589
Speaking with New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi in an interview released Monday, Giuliani accused Soros of effectively orchestrating the ongoing Democratic effort to impeach President Trump.
“He put all four ambassadors there,” said Giuliani, “and he’s employing the FBI agents.”
The former mayor then accused Soros defenders of deflecting criticism of the billionaire’s influence in politics and his political positions with allegations of anti-Semitism.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” said Giuliani, saying Soros is ‘hardly’ Jewish, an ‘enemy of Israel’, and a ‘horrible’ person.
“Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”
Population Authority dismisses claim 85% of immigrants to Israel aren’t Jewish
https://www.timesofisrael.com/population-authority-dismisses-claim-85-of-immigrants-to-israel-arent-jewish
Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) on Monday rejected claims that the overwhelming majority of new immigrants to Israel are non-Jews.
The information, published earlier in a report by an Israeli group based on documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request, asserted that only one out of seven immigrants over the past eight years had moved to Israel as a Jew.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Speak Truth to Trump
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/october-web-only/speak-truth-to-trump.html
Most Christians who support Trump have done so with
reluctant strategic calculation, largely based on the president’s power
to appoint members of the Supreme Court. Important issues are indeed at
stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other
religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even
if they are in the cultural minority.
But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own
form of idolatry—an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor
of the causes we support. Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel
and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer
strength—the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome—at the expense
of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of
God’s manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the
oppressed. Strategy becomes idolatry when we betray our deepest values
in pursuit of earthly influence. And because such strategy requires
capitulating to idols and princes and denying the true God, it
ultimately always fails.
Christianity Today made a moral case that Trump needs to go. He responded by proving its point.
https://www.vox.com/2019/12/20/21031611/christianity-today-trump-removal-editorial-response-mark-galli
Trump began by falsely describing Christianity Today,
which has a mainstream audience, as “far left” and “very ‘progressive.’”
(Although it’s true the publication has been critical of Trump for years,
that’s very different from being far left.) He claimed, without
evidence, that the magazine “has been doing poorly.” He took gratuitous
shots at the Democratic presidential candidates, comparing their faith
unfavorably with his own — and ignoring the fact that if the Senate
removes him from office, Vice President Mike Pence, not a Democrat, will
take his place.
Christianity Today “knows nothing about reading a perfect
transcript of a routine phone call and would rather have a Radical Left
nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than
Donald Trump as your President,” Trump tweeted. “No President has done
more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not
get anything from those Dems on stage.”
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