Without free U.S. tax money, Israel could not afford to continue its illegal, deadly, and humiliating occupation of the Palestinians.---

 Escalating Grain Prices, Corn Burning, and News Blackout.

On January 12, a New York Times story quoted the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) regarding alarming commodity food price increases with no end in sight.  The Times made no effort to identify the cause of the problem.  We will explain what the Times did not, and you will find our research on our website.

 Part I: Contrived Food Shortage

On Dec 23, 2010, our Congress almost secretly and without news significant coverage, voted to continue subsidies to the ethanol and corn industry that gave the indutry a 45-cent per gallon tax credit on every gallon of ethanol-blended gasoline and a 54-cent tariff on foreign ethanol.  The subsidy would have expired a week later.  On Dec 24, The Mexican Government announced it is buying corn futures in the US markets to hedge against a rise in corn prices and to prevent a repeat of the so-called \'tortilla riots\' of 2007, when tortillas became difficult to afford for many Mexicans.

Ethanol Costs Motorists, Wastes Fossil Fuels, and Corrupts the Environment
  If you look at the gas pump, you’ll see a little sign: “Contains 10% (sometimes 15%) ethanol.”  So, if your tank holds 20 gallons, and at a cost of $3.00 per gallon, three of the 20 gallons you pump into the tank are grain alcohol made from about 75 pounds of corn.

When we force our government to stop funding the military aid to Israel the war will stop overnight. There is no need for another Oslo Accord or a Washington-initiated peace.  Stop US military aid to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority and peace will come.

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 A more detailed "Why War in Gaza?" was published March 2003

Pharisees were the most politically powerful of the false religious leaders of Jesus\' time.  We Hold These Truths focuses its feature stories on the unChristian acts of those religious celebrity leaders today who have been granted political power, much as the Roman government of Jesus\' day granted power to the Pharisees and other false leaders of the Judean people, in order to keep them misled and under Roman control. 

 Part I documented the growing realization that Arab citizens are being arrested and abused by Abbas\'s  Palestine Authority (PA) at the very time he is supposed to be representing them in peace talks, and that reliable international news sources now state that the USA and Israel are training the PA in the use of torture to control Hamas, its political competition.

We are told  Hamas is a "terrorist"organization, but if the PA is paid by the USA-Israel Axis to brutalize Hamas sympathizers, who is guilty?

Now are we learning an even more terrible truth;, the Israelis have new torture tactics worse than Guantonamo, our government is again involved, and we American consumers are paying the cost of hiring hungry, and mercenary Arabs to torture their own people.  Bright people around the world areis taking notice in horror.  

Christian and Jewish Zionists Both Deny Jesus\' Teaching.

Were it not for mega millions of misled Christian Zionists in America who support Israel\'s warmaking agenda in the Middle East there would be no occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and Philistine, and children could sleep soundly in Lebanon, Iran and Gaza confident that no american made bombs would fall on their beds tonight. 

Zionism denies most basic teaching of Jesus and the Prophets

The church-centered pro-Zionist group that influence the largest voting bloc in the U.S.A, practice the reverse of what their leaders say they believe.  Southern Baptists and most non-denominational mega-churches are led by TV celebrities, profess that the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God, preserved by His hand. They teach not from the ancient words, but from man added footnotes and commentaries inserted into several popular study bibles, which often avoid or deny Jesus words. This is the dark secret this sect can not face.  This author\'s  audio-visual presentation on this subject is called "The Tragedy and The Turning."

 

Organized student response unnerves visiting IDF officer
 Angered, Gruber blurted out, "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims," causing shouts from a stunned audience and a reprimand from his hostess. Gruber was forced to apologize.  

What does Israel’s war against the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have in common with America’s serial wars all over the globe, now centered on Afghanistan?

The common denominator is that American money and weapons are used in every such war. Israel enjoys the approval and unconditional support of the American government. That means that no act that Israel does or has done will arouse serious objection from America\'s leaders (regardless of party).

 Israel is responsible, even though it has clearly been manipulated by its American financiers to commit genocide. If the world’s only superpower gives weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli side of the war, Israel can hardly be expected not to use them. Because of the exorbitant military aid that the U.S. gives to Israel, it is able to use extremely costly weapons of mass destruction on the Palestinians every day. Israel is the aggressor this is undeniable to any fair-minded person, 

Renee, a mother of six, along with members of her family and a handful of We Hold These Truths volunteers, plan to stay until Calvary Community disavows its love affair with Zionist Israel and its support for the occupation of the Palestinian people.  Her team has passed out some 200 DVDs of documentary presentation they consider to be balanced stories of the occupation.

Asked how her Sunday vigils make her feel, she replied without hesitation:  "I am the voice for those in Gaza who have no voice... it makes me feel really good."

 

Renee, a mother of six, along with members of her family and a handful of We Hold These Truths volunteers, plan to stay until Calvary Community disavows its love affair with Zionist Israel and its support for the occupation of the Palestinian people.

Asked how her Sunday vigils make her feel, she replied without hesitation: "I am the voice for those in Gaza who have no voice... it makes me feel really good."

An event at Denver University on May 11, 2010---

Israel, not unlike the USA, uses their military, like Colonel Gruber, to sell the false idea that it is the victim, and is a humane, surgically clean eliminator of "terrorists". The response at Denver University was an encouraging surprise and another sign of a "turning" in our time that is finally beginning to happen in the minds of those who think about what they are being told, especially students.

Video: In Palestine: Two Jewish Songwriters Write a Song for Palestine"

Rich Siegel, who led a Project Strait Gate Vigil in New Jersey, is also a talented professional musician. We want to share this touching new song/video with you, links below.  If you like the song and the message, please share the links with others.

 

Youtube, in two parts, about 6 minutes long each:

Part 1, Dedication and Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x2axqjhI6g

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojv1FWFGCgw&feature=channel

 

Vimeo, high def, about 12 minutes long:

http://vimeo.com/6630724

There is no charge to watch the video on either of these web-sites. For audio download please pay Ric h whatever you want, minimum $1, and 20 percent goes to charities that help Palestinian children:

 

Christian Zionism, The Tragedy and The Turning

 Part 1: Host and Vector

 

The leaders of our war-based economy find it necessary to hide the natural deaths of both supposed heroes and manufactured villains. They  arrange for announcements of death at  convenient times to manage history. This brazen feat of propaganda and mind control fools most of the US public, and supports controlled wars from Gaza to Pakistan. The Obama administration is continuing the Bush manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, and its words suggest those who say Bin Laden has been dead for six years are probably correct. . Americans will not flinch at killing humans in Pakistan if we think Bin Laden might be one of them.

 

Jesus Christ proclaimed as evil those he called Pharisees. Today most Christian leaders fear to say that word lest they offend a Zionist and provoke his wrath. But Zionists understand that cowardliness hides behind moderation.

 

No farmer can grow corn without opposing weeds. Neither can a parent raise a child without opposing the diseased culture that surrounds him.

 

We Hold These Truths has, for six years, opposed Christian Zionism conducting demonstrations at some five dozen churches and religious groups that practice it. We have named and opposed powerful leaders who are in turn supported by Zionist Israel.

 

http://whtt.org/index.php?id=431

Those who enter with human rights and aid groups, including George Galloway\'s Viva Palestina, are rarely allowed more than a day inside Gaza. They are excluded by Israelis who surround the gulag on all sides, even at sea, and not by local Muslim Arabs, who welcome all guests as an opportunity to air their story.

You will find the series here

http://whtt.org/index.php?id=426

 

The Irish Times, in its Feb 5 story, “Obama Keeps Faith as Prayer Breakfast Criticised,”

has only scratched the surface in exposing the danger to world peace (as if we have any) from this secret elitist branch of Judeo-Christianity.

Be sure to listen to this episode of The Liberty Hour hosted by Mark Glenn and Phil Turney.  It includes a fascinating discussion with Chuck Carlson of www.whtt.org as he discusses the attempt on the part of Zionist interests to change the ugly face of Christian Zionism (John Hagee, Pat Robertson et al) with the ‘new and improved’ version featuring creatures such as Rick Warren and Sarah Palin.  To listen go to:  http://thelibertyhour.podbean.com/2009/12/17/the-liberty-hour-podcast-dec-17-2009/

Happy Christmas, Michelle:
I am answering: “Orthodoxy claims, as part of its doctrine, that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, in God and with God in the beginning, and therefore you say, Jesus is an ancient religion, not a new one.”  (Scripture Plucking to Justify Land Theft and Murder). 

Can followers of Christ find any hope for Pastor Rick Warren and other mega-church pastors? 

The Pew foundation’s lengthy interview with Pastor Rick Warren, The Future of Evangelicalism tells much about Warren, in his own words.*--- following Christ is a faith based on Jesus\' words.   Rick Warren, now famous pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest California, is religious, but based on his Pew Forum responses it is unclear whether he is a Christ follower or less aggressive shade of Christian Zionist.

 At Thanksgiving, a truly American holiday, we thank God for a few good men (and women) who help We Hold These Truths as volunteers and those who help pay our bills. In all of history it has been up to the few. May God bless you, and inspire you.

Pharisee Watch was named to keep an eye on those of all religions, who use religion not to honor God, but to promote an agenda, often an evil one. Prominent among today's Pharisees are the knowing leaders of Christian Zionism and Israelism. We were tired of “watching” the Pharisees destroying our society and started Project Strait Gate six years ago to challenge and expose them in a new and direct way, in front of their congregations. It works.

May God bless you.

Chuck Carlson

 

Henry Herskovitz, a man worthy of respect for founding the Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends, and for faithfully leading demonstrations for some six years in front of a synagogue in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was himself once a member, writes:

Hi Chuck,

I need it to help rebut those who bring up the quote given by the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor:

"This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I will give it to your offspring." [Deuteronomy 34:4] ---

Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends

http://a2vigil.org/

“A Night to Honor Israel” at Symphony Hall in Phoenix, Arizona, may have been our best Project Strait Gate Vigil ever.  Many of the now almost 65 efforts stand out in particular ways ... this one was special because it was the easiest vigil we ever did.  ---

View vigil at Night To Honor Israel please visit our new You Tube site to see the 2 part video at: 

http://www.youtube.com/whttdotorg#p/a/u/0/m8q0TKHbEckHYPERLINK

WHTT held its sixth Project Strait Gate Vigil at Christians United For Israel's Night To Honor Israel, this time in front of the Phoenix Symphony Hall on Oct. 18, 2009.  Participants from We Hold These Truths and friends confronted those in attendance with Biblical and moral challenges to their beliefs.

--Most Christian Zionists, including John Hagee and many attendees, believe that: the modern State of Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy; that war is a necessary part of their religion leading to a second conflict in Israel between Jesus himself and the Jewish Pharisees of today; that “born again Christians” are excused by God for bloodshed resulting from the support of Israel's occupation of Palestine and the US government's warring in the Middle East; and that it is a sin for “Christians” to fail to support Israel in every way possible.

---For an overview of this vigil please visit our new You Tube site to see the 2 part video at:  http://www.youtube.com/whttdotorg#p/a/u/0/m8q0TKHbEck

---For information about how you can start a team Vigil for Peace With Justice, go to Project Strait Gate or call our office.

CUFI (Christians United For Israel) is scheduled in over 30 towns from October to December.  Why not make a difference and organize your own vigil like the one we are doing in Phoenix.  Check CUFI's Events site:  http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events  We'll help you organize your vigil.  A new handout is available.