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Irwin N. Graulich is a well known motivational speaker on ethics, religion and Judaism. A child of Holocaust survivors, he has been successful in showing religious and secular people the need for God-based ethics. Irwin considers himself a multi-denominational, serious Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jew.
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A Light Unto The Nations...Ha!
By Irwin N. Graulich   January 17, 2006


I am cashing in all my Israel bonds.

Jews have excelled in medicine, accounting, law (unfortunately), and business. Yet, when it comes to running a country, I am beginning to understand the incredible wisdom of my Jewish mother who always said, "Jews should never touch electricity or politics. Leave that to the goyim, who are much better at it."

Just look at what is going on in Israel today. Who the hell ever heard of "unilateral withdrawal," after winning a war decisively. "Unilateral" means that we are such good guys, we will independently decide to give you something of ours which you do not deserve, even though you continue to blow us up and not even recognize our existence.

Only idiotic Jews can get the "great old general," who lost many of his men in wars to win this land, to surrender it in exchange for nothing except Kassam rockets being fired from this territory. It sounds surreal. Imagine giving a thief a brand new Cadillac every time he is caught breaking into a car, in order to stop his criminal actions. Welcome to the Twilight Zone of the Middle East.

You think that is strange. How about this--Israel just refused to do any business with one of its greatest friends and supporters in the world--Pat Robertson. All because he quoted an actual biblical verse which implied that there was divine intervention in Sharon's recent health problems because he incorrectly gave Israeli territiory to non Jews.

Now, unless those stupid Jews in Israel have come to accept Christ, why do they even care about the Christian interpretation of that particular verse? And furthermore, why are those moronic Jews in Israel upset with a statement that says all the land belongs to the Jews? This is truly beyond belief.

To further support the "idiotic Jew concept," the spokesman for Israel's tourism ministry, Avi Hartuv, went on the record to say, "We cannot accept this kind of statement (from Robertson)...We will not do business with him." Hartuv and his foolish department are such an embarrassment, that this incident only proves the point that Jews are not smarter, but actually dumber than other groups. Osama, the president of Iran and Nazis worldwide are cheering these statements coming out of the Israeli Twilight Zone.

Wait. It gets more bizarre. Abbas al-Sayad, who headed Hamas' military wing in Tul Karem and was the chief planner, initiator and point man in the Passover suicide bombing which claimed 30 Israeli lives in Netanya, was given 35 life sentences and a 50 year prison term. This is an outright mockery of justice. Why not give him 1000 life sentences. What does that mean anyway?

Had the anti-religious socialists of Israel followed the Bible like the great Christian leaders in America, capital punishment would have been instituted. The only compassionate solution for the victims, their families and society is the death penalty. It is ironic that capital punishment for murder is the only law mentioned in each of the 5 books of Moses (the Torah).

The concept of God commanding capital punishment is absolutely brilliant because it shows such a deep understanding of the human being's psychology, 3350 years before Freud. There is a tendency for the mind and heart to be extra compassionate, especially towards evil doers, because the brain starts to believe that a thinking individual is especially decent if he can somehow understand and show compassion for a murderer, rapist, or even a terrorist. After all, an ability to show compassion for the most cruel people like a Charles Manson, must mean that this ultra compassionate individual is especially kind and good.

In truth, most decent human beings do not want capital punishment practiced at all. It is inherent in the human spirit. That is why we need religion to tell us it is ok. Thank God!

Throughout history, evil groups around the world have always crafted a strategy which successfully hid their horrendous acts. By calling the most moral, decent people bad and continuously repeating vicious lies about them, the "brilliant" propaganda machine forced masses to believe that it was the evildoers who were the nice guys. Quite simply, it was Madison Avenue marketing before television, although it continues today with even more professional expertise.

In fact, this is truly what is being done to America today when the most despicable people and nations, from al Qaeda, to Iran, to the totalitarians running Venezuela and Cuba, to socialists in France, severely criticize the United States--the most moral country by far in the history of the world. We now have an American blood libel in Iraq and we must understand its root causes.

Whether it was Nazi propaganda about the Jews, or the horrible blood libel about Jews putting Christian children's blood into Passover matzohs, there is an important lesson to be learned from these vicious lies. A group starts to believe the criticisms that others perpetrate upon them, just like some members of Congress, elite college professors, and people such as Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover, who have fallen for the big lie and think America is the bad guy.

Yet, it was the blood libel that awoke Jews from this horrible accusation because eating/drinking blood is such a forbidden act in Judaism. This unbelievable indictment gave Jews the ability to realize that the rest of the world can indeed be wrong, even an absolute majority of nations or people. Americans must remember that fact, even if every UN member votes against us. Do you hear that Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean and Barbara Boxer?

Politicians in America today are almost apologetic if they are in favor of capital punishment. Anyone who understands and upholds this biblical view supports a concept that is one of the noblest acts a human can carry out. It is without a doubt one of the reasons that America remains a moral beacon for the world.

At a debate on this issue, I was asked whether I could personally pull the switch and watch the individual die. My response was that, "I most certainly could pull the switch and watch the monster who raped and murdered an eleven year old girl (as was the case in Florida recently), as I was eating a slice of pizza!"

Banning capital punishment was Israel's first step toward becoming secular France or Germany, except that the hookers now speak Hebrew. No wonder much of western civilization does not take Israel seriously anymore. Unless biblical values remain a basis for law in society like America has practiced, the filament in this Jewish light may burn out.

It is America that has now assumed the role of "Light Unto The Nations," by making the business of America morality, as well as business. It is both a light and a dollar bill, both reasons why America is in Iraq. Of course. Israel better make up its mind if it wants to continue to partner with America in this great biblical message to the world.

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