While reading that Jewish Americans, Jewish clergy, and two-thirds of Jewish politicians are solidly embracing the Iran nuclear deal:
”[T]hey strongly believe the agreement offers the best hope of keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon”;
We believe such opposition is misplaced, mired in the past, and is missing an opportunity to shape a more hopeful future”; an ancient heathen proverb came to mind, “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”
With apologies to Zeus and other Olympian gods in the ancient Greek religion, I offer a more updated, Judeo-Christian variant, “Whom God means to destroy, He first makes undiscerning.”
“For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:” Job 17:4 (KJV)
Discernment is the intellectual ability to apply a general principle or standard to evaluate a particular person, group, event, or idea correctly, i.e., the ability to distinguish good from evil, right from wrong, and truth from deceit.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)
In a nutshell, discernment is from God, and sometimes He withholds it by sending deceitful, lying spirits to confuse leaders and prevent them from making correct judgments, so that He can destroy those He means to destroy.
“I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? …
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. … I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.”—2 Chronicles 18:18-22 (KJV)
In King Lear Shakespeare wrote, “Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind” iv.1.46. American Jews are blind; their leaders are mad, despising discernment and wisdom. Their reluctance to render moral judgments to distinguish good from evil prove it. American Jews have abandoned logic and reason, and their only success is in making immoral, irrational judgments.
On Twitter, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei said that talks with the United States were a “means of infiltration and imposition of their wills.”
But American Jews could care less what the Iranian Supreme Leader has to say. They’d much rather adhere to the advice of a Yiddish proverb, “A bad peace is better than a good war,” than heed the dire warnings of a Hebrew prophet:
“For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.”—Jeremiah 8:11 (KJV)
In signing onto the Iran nuclear deal, American Jews have followed the counsel of Hushai over the advice of Ahithophel:
“And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.”—2 Samuel 17:14 (KJV)
The Iran nuclear deal will guarantee that “the Jewish state will be hounded until it is destroyed.”
Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
In Greek mythology it is said that “Those G-D wants to destroy G-D makes them crazy”!
If the Ayatollah wants the nuke he will get it. Iran at worst is far smarter than N-Korea. And without the nukes Iran is the king of international terrorism besides creating chaos in the EU. Those in Europe who pray for the creation of Eurabia (at the expense of Jews) must be delighted because it is happening much faster than expected.
Bat Ye’or foresaw all this in the 60ties. Good prophecy from her part.
on top of that there is this:
I live in the Mid Hudson Valley of New York. The local Jewish Federation is responsible for community affairs. This Federation has never sponsored any kind of open dialogue on Jewish concerns. I have repeatedly, over the years, urged them to sponsor open dialogue but they always refuse. On the Iran deal they refuse to take a position and even refused to allow a dialogue because the issue is “controversial”. But the rest of the community remains silent and inert. There is a deep malaise where they prefer to blindly follow Obama and the Democrat party. I must wonder if it will take physical attacks on Jews to wake them up. Obama is bringing in massive numbers of Muslims and we know what happened in Europe when young Muslims encounter Jews.
Let’s face it: Obama ran the table on the Jewish community and got our supposed leaders to sell us out. There are not enough negative words in the English language (or any language for that matter) to accurately describe the extent of this disaster. It will result in a lot of people getting killed and the Jewish world mostly has itself to blame.
I could put it differently:
Time defaces all things in its path
And war displays his brutal wrath
The age of innocence is gone
Before a dark mirror all is shown
In the depths of one’s inward soul
There is no truth so foul
Nor no lie before heaven so chaste
That men in all mad haste
Are taken from their judgment true
What the hour and the day will rue
Hope dies all too soon now
Perversity never did lie low
Honor in men once held so high
Along with grace is never esteemed nigh.
Men refuse to see evil in front of them; and G-d robs them of their judgment to show how the fool is taken in by the snare of the adversary and the compunction of his own self-deceit.