The Power of Israel In the United States

Excerpts from the book by James Petras

Clarity Press, Inc. Atlanta, GA, 2006

A review by Robert Sungenis, Ph.D.

In the Old Testament, the nation of Israel became so bad that the great El Shaddai himself could not stand them any longer. After he sent the northern ten tribes off to oblivion in Assyria in 722, he sent the remaining two tribes to Babylon in 587. They returned in 515, but things didn’t get any better. So bad was Israel that God, even the epitome of love and patience that He is, simply could not tolerate them any longer. They were cut off from being his chosen people and to this day only a remnant of Jews have been saved.

Because the Jews were so evil, the name of the Lord God was continually blasphemed among the Gentiles (Isaiah 52:5). St. Paul saw the same problem in his day. The Jews would lie, cheat, steal, murder and adulterate. As it was in the Old Testament, so Paul said in the New: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you” (Romans 2:17-24). Today God’s name is blasphemed among the Palestinians because of the atrocities Israel has perpetrated on them, and James Petras gives us the full blown story that you won’t hear on ABC News, CNN or in the Washington Post, dominated as they are by the Jewish-owned media conglomerates.

The Jews are godless and getting more ungodly with each passing day. God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles once again, in this case it is the poor Palestinian refugees that Israel is slaughtering on a daily basis. If I had to re-title this book it would be: “The U.S. and Israel: Murder Incorporated.” It is absolutely heart-wrenching to read the horror of assassination, genocide, goon squads, murder and mayhem in which the United States and Israel are engaging in many parts of the world, but particularly in Palestine. The underlying goal through it all is that the nation state of Israel intends on expanding its already undeclared borders to what is commonly known as “Greater Israel.” They intend on forcing the Palestinians out by making their lives a living hell. They will resort to any breaking of God commandments in order to do so, and while they are doing it they will believe they are being righteous, blinded as they are by sin. It is Phariseeism all over again.

The same pattern of behavior was true when Israel was just beginning as a nation. Genesis 34 tells us about the time that Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob’s children, was kidnapped in Shechem. Instead of just rescuing Dinah, the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, killed all the men, women, children, and livestock and ravaged the city. In response, Jacob their father said:

Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house (Genesis 34:30).

We had a similar situation in Israel not too long ago. One of Israel’s soldiers was taken hostage by a Palestinian resistance group. Petras shows us that in retaliation, Israel waged a full-scale assault, killing men, women and children in their path. This has been the pattern of Israel’s treatment of her neighbors since 1946 when it first entered Palestine from Europe. There was such unbridled destruction of people and property that, like Jacob saw in his day, we have all the signs that the nation of Israel has made itself “stink” among the nations. As Jacob predicted, it may not be too long before their neighbors “shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.” St. John may have predicted the same when he stated that the “Whore of Babylon” would one day be hated and burned by the Beast and the Ten Horns (the nations).

One can only get a picture of the full horror of what is happening while we sleep at night by reading Petras’ book. It is an easy read and not too long. I have photocopied chapters 6 and 7 to give you an idea of the information that is packed in this book. I guarantee you will have a completely different outlook on Israel and her place in the world after you read it.

Peace in the Middle East can only come if Israel learns her place and ceases trying to resurrect her glory days of the past. Those days are over and they will never return again, for God is not on Israel’s side any longer. He is on the side of Christianity, and what Israel is doing today in Palestine is not Christian by any stretch of the proverbial imagination, no matter what the Protestant evangelicals try to sell the world to fill their coffers. Israel is as ungodly today as they were in St. Paul’s day, and the world, especially the United States, must stop condoning and encouraging its sin. It is the very reason we have been dragged into the war in Iraq and may soon be drawn into a war with Iran or Syria. It is your sons and daughters who will pay the price for this hubris and ungodly imperialism. If the United States does not stop, it will also soon come under God’s judgment and it will be severely punished. For God, it only takes a slight tipping of the scales before death and destruction will come our way. Our sins, even now, are crying out to high heaven for vengeance and this will only be exacerbated if we continue to support the sins of Israel.

Read Petras book and find out how to stop the hemorrhaging.

Robert Sungenis, Ph.D.

July 2007

Click here to read Chapters 6 and 7 of Petras’ book in PDF