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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by YorubaBiafran: 9:19am On Dec 01
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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by JASONjnr(m): 9:22am On Dec 01
Padipadi:

grin grin grin ; jealousy is injuring you.
Attack churches with sense of they erred.

Is there anything good about today's churches if money isn't involved?

To what good is church these days when sins are in multiples.....
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by femi4: 9:23am On Dec 01
Corrections:
It is often said among Christians “ that they should love their enemies and pray for them”. Many Christians do make this statement without caring to know what it actually means. Many Christians believe this statement is a call to “stupidity” or “foolishness”.

Matthew 5:54

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.


Now, before we go further, we need to understand what "LOVE" means, then also why do we love.

Using God's standard definition for the word "love". It simply can be summarized as "ensuring that people do the right things at all time". It means correcting people who are not doing the right thing to do the right thing.

Prob 3:12
12. because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Hebrew 12:5-6

5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words (corrective words) God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don't make light of the LORD 's discipline, and don't give up when he corrects you. 6 For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”

These verses point out that discipline is an evidence of the Lord's love. If He did not love us, He would not discipline us.

Now, correction or discipline is usually a though hurtful experience. Even in our society, the freedom of criminals are usually denied of them by putting them in a confined space called "prison" or "correction centre".

As a parent, when you fail to correct your children when they do wrong things, you actually "hate" and not "love" them. Even in marriage, love is far beyond SEX or KISSING. Sex or kissing does not entirely keep a marriage, but doing the right things (correct things which is the real love) COMPLETELY secures it.

Haven used God's standard of definition of what love is as pointed out in the scriptures,what then does it mean to love your enemy? Does it mean we should allow criminals have a filled day harming us without any resistance from us (Christians) NO! Why didn't Jesus show his love to criminals by allowing criminals to kill him when his time to die (as planned by heaven) as not come?

Jesus understands the true meaning of love so he wouldn't confuse stupidity with love. Jesus wouldn’t allow anyone to physically abuse him. Who dares that? Christians need to know this truth that executing justice and loving your enemies are not mutually exclusive.

1 Corinthians 13:6-7

6 It (talking about love) does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

We can see here, that justice is a form of correctional medium through which people can be corrected to do the right thing. Therefore, “loving your enemies” as a Christian is not a call to stupidity or foolishness, it is a call to correcting them so that they can depart from their evil ways.
The "kill your enemy / fall n die " doctrine is wrong. I wonder why people don't have a balanced teaching of the before before using a portion as a doctrine.

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by TenQ: 9:23am On Dec 01
Corrections:
It is often said among Christians “ that they should love their enemies and pray for them”. Many Christians do make this statement without caring to know what it actually means. Many Christians believe this statement is a call to “stupidity” or “foolishness”.

Matthew 5:54

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.


Now, before we go further, we need to understand what "LOVE" means, then also why do we love.

Using God's standard definition for the word "love". It simply can be summarized as "ensuring that people do the right things at all time". It means correcting people who are not doing the right thing to do the right thing.

Prob 3:12
12. because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Hebrew 12:5-6

5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words (corrective words) God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don't make light of the LORD 's discipline, and don't give up when he corrects you. 6 For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”

These verses point out that discipline is an evidence of the Lord's love. If He did not love us, He would not discipline us.

Now, correction or discipline is usually a though hurtful experience. Even in our society, the freedom of criminals are usually denied of them by putting them in a confined space called "prison" or "correction centre".

As a parent, when you fail to correct your children when they do wrong things, you actually "hate" and not "love" them. Even in marriage, love is far beyond SEX or KISSING. Sex or kissing does not entirely keep a marriage, but doing the right things (correct things which is the real love) COMPLETELY secures it.

Haven used God's standard of definition of what love is as pointed out in the scriptures,what then does it mean to love your enemy? Does it mean we should allow criminals have a filled day harming us without any resistance from us (Christians) NO! Why didn't Jesus show his love to criminals by allowing criminals to kill him when his time to die (as planned by heaven) as not come?

Jesus understands the true meaning of love so he wouldn't confuse stupidity with love. Jesus wouldn’t allow anyone to physically abuse him. Who dares that? Christians need to know this truth that executing justice and loving your enemies are not mutually exclusive.

1 Corinthians 13:6-7

6 It (talking about love) does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

We can see here, that justice is a form of correctional medium through which people can be corrected to do the right thing. Therefore, “loving your enemies” as a Christian is not a call to stupidity or foolishness, it is a call to correcting them so that they can depart from their evil ways.
Love is Blessing others AND wishing others well at the expense of your self.

Jesus gave a higher command for living by saying that His followers should extend this LOVE to even those who seek our downfall and destruction (our enemies)

1Peter 3:9
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.


Jesus said:
Luke 6:32
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them"


This is so that we will be sons of our Father in Heaven by this non-intuitive command

1 John 4:8
"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love".
The Bible calls for people to love others, especially those who are weaker, and to show that love in tangible ways.


Happy Sunday and I pray for grace to live this Life of Christ

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Jomonix: 9:25am On Dec 01
Zooposki:


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When the eyes are open spiritually you realize that the gate never existed.
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by cococandy(f): 9:31am On Dec 01

Using God's standard definition for the word "love". It simply can be summarized as "ensuring that people do the right things at all time". It means correcting people who are not doing the right thing to do the right thing.


This is your interpretation , understanding and your opinion.

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by iamtoofan: 9:32am On Dec 01
It simply means some one like pocohantas would send someone like me plate of peppersoup and me tew will open my eye down n eat it

nightmare again undecided undecided BOJ
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by olabrad: 9:35am On Dec 01
Urgent1Million:
Before they wrote the Bible, they already perfected their plans of slavery, theft of treasures and imposition of their culture on the African continent.
Colonial masters would become the enemies of Africa.
The bible was just a tool of blackmail, control, hypnosis and oppression.
They knew the powers in the African gods and feared them. If they had a not convinced Africans to abandon their gods and follow the god of the bible, they wouldn't have got away with all the atrocities they committed against Africa.

Bro, keep shut. Bible isn't a book of slavery. Have you ever read the bible cover to cover ?

So, you don't know that the African gods also put their people in slavery? They must sacrifice animals and even human blood to appease these gods.

At times, these African idols demand for the blood of strangers/visitors to the community.
Show me where Christianity teaches people to kill someone to appease God.

You guys don't know what you are asking for

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Fortune109: 9:38am On Dec 01
Possible!

But only people with very high vibration who have had their "EGO DEATH" attain that...

That state of freedom and pure clarity a soul reaches after a physical death...Ego Death put you in that state with not having to physically die first...you now feel and empathize with people and love them... You are now fully grounded and at zero point where everything returns...

You will love everybody including your supposed enemies...and people will show love back to you because everything now returns to you...

To be honest...

Not all vibrate very high to this level... Only about 144,000 out of billions of people in the world are able to achieve this at a given time...

Also to add...this journey is an agonizing one...no one wishes to be on this journey...not everyone can withstand or fully understand what's happening to them when it starts...only God can make you a CHOSEN one for the path...




God is Great!

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Ugwuoke347(m): 9:38am On Dec 01
Treat them as they deserve.
Punish them when they deserve punishment.
Leave them alone when they deserve no reaction from you.
Do not be vengeful towards your enemies.
That is what it means to love your enemies.
To love your enemies is to be fair and just towards them.

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by ITbomb(m): 9:40am On Dec 01
Do everything possible to bring them into the light.
Sometimes it might be through application of justice

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by AntiChristian: 9:41am On Dec 01
When they slap you turn the other cheek!

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Padipadi: 9:42am On Dec 01
Zooposki:


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You're responding the ones that broke spiritual chains.
Receive two nukes for capping trash!

Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Zooposki(f): 9:45am On Dec 01
Padipadi:

You're responding the ones that broke spiritual chains.
Receive two nukes for capping trash!

Breast does not affect me. I’m a woman.

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Padipadi: 9:47am On Dec 01
Zooposki:


Breast does not affect me. I’m a woman.
Fake female handle giving homo vibes!
Receive sense, it's an outdated nl trick.
Take this prick, you go enjoy am!
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Padipadi: 9:49am On Dec 01
JASONjnr:


Is there anything good about today's churches if money isn't involved?

To what good is church these days when sins are in multiples.....

Mumû na you dey jam wrong churches naa!
When uoubnondey wear wisdom
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Memyselfu2009(m): 9:50am On Dec 01
SIMPLE LOVE YOUR ENEMY

LOVE IS THE GREATEST COMMENMENT GIVEN TO HUMAN

IF YOU LOVE YOUR ENEMY OR YOUR NEIGBHOR YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO HURT THEM.

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Heavensake1: 9:51am On Dec 01
Urgent1Million:
Before they wrote the Bible, they already perfected their plans of slavery, theft of treasures and imposition of their culture on the African continent.
Colonial masters would become the enemies of Africa.
The bible was just a tool of blackmail, control, hypnosis and oppression.
They knew the powers in the African gods and feared them. If they had a not convinced Africans to abandon their gods and follow the god of the bible, they wouldn't have got away with all the atrocities they committed against Africa.
Yes,they have committed so much atrocities. So what is the gain in paying them back? Have they not committed atrocities against one another,tribes against tribes before the arrival of white?Forgiveness shouldn't be termed a religion thing,it should be part of human. If you don't have it that means you are not human.
For your information bible only tell you to live right. It should be a thing of concern for you only when it commends evil, not when it condemn evil.
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by jaxxy(m): 9:52am On Dec 01
Hmmm maybe we should start be defining who is ur enemy?

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by JASONjnr(m): 9:55am On Dec 01
Padipadi:

Mumû na you dey jam wrong churches naa!
When uoubnondey wear wisdom

Tell me your church and let me know how good your church is....

If you're not a bastard!😁
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by bobbiiee: 9:56am On Dec 01
Deep! The message I preached to a subordinate who sent his wife packing. The day he told me that he caught her poisoning his food. He confronted her and she confessed her mum told her to, was when I kept quiet.

Love those who hurt in error, don't pardon those who plan to destroy your life on purpose. Have a soilder mentality.

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by hotseat: 9:57am On Dec 01
illicit:
We Yoruba we love Biafrans


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Action, they say, speaks louder than loudspeaker!



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Happy new month to all Nairalanders home and in the diaspora!



Cheers and compliments of the season!




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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by NamelessOGBENI(m): 9:58am On Dec 01
Natbrowny:
It means keep ur friends close and ur enemies closer

In this world we live, we have seen 'enemies' become friends and friends becoming enemies

Ur definition of enemy in this context is important to know who u keep close and closer

Some 'friends' dey disguise. So love ur 'enemies' coz dey will help u spot a fake friend easily. Love in this context also has different meaning. Anyhow u define am, thats ur beans to cook.

Ekaette, pass me one cold big stout
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Padipadi: 10:00am On Dec 01
JASONjnr:


Tell me your church and let me know how good your church is....

If you're not a bastard!😁
Dear bastard child JASONjnr, sorry ya mom cheated with Ebang & it gave ya father worries.
Name of the cherrrch is Sweet Church Nigeria Ltd.
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by JASONjnr(m): 10:02am On Dec 01
Padipadi:

Dear bastard child JASONjnr, sorry ya mom cheated with Ebang & it gave ya father worries.
Name of the cherrrch is Sweet Church Nigeria Ltd.


Nigeria limited?

No wonder you're angry.... Na enterprise you de run....😁😁😁

This one no be church.... Na local organisation weh you gather idiots like you to donate their hard earned money for you to buy data and come online to insult your useless parents.
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by Padipadi: 10:06am On Dec 01
JASONjnr:


Nigeria limited?

No wonder you're angry.... Na enterprise you de run....😁😁😁
grin grin grin grin Church biz is serious biz. Start ya own & don't kpain inside jealousy. It's painful if you go inside jealousy.
JASONjnr:

This one no be church.... Na local organisation weh you gather idiots like you to donate their hard earned money for you to buy data and come online to insult your useless parents.
Aren't ya pipu contributing money to buy you data?
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by jubrilELsudan: 10:08am On Dec 01
IT MEANS EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE THEM ...YOU SHOULD STILL FVCK THEM

Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by IfyAwazie(f): 10:08am On Dec 01
It means do good to ur enemies. Don't pay back evil with evil, rather pay back evil with good smiley

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Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by saintkel(m): 10:11am On Dec 01
JASONjnr:
The tithes you'd taken to dash a man who's on suit and had fed properly, give it to your neighbour that is hungry and yet to eat.

Has anyone noticed the reason behind the constant reminder of tithing is because the 1/10th of the salary is really a thing to rely on?

Notice that lately, people pay 50naira to 100naira as offerings? That amount of offerings won't go along way to service the church needs and fueling the gen and so on.

Imagine a member of the church earning 1million bucks and others earning 100k monthly, by the time these people collect the tithes, they might be closing the Sunday with thousands of naira.

That's why they place no interest on the offerings but on the tithe because that's where the money is ...
u guys will always find a way to bring in titthe here....d church that I know of is always preaching salvation n running away from sin....as usual, ur type won't be interested in such message....it is all about money for u folks
Re: What Does It Really Mean When The Bible Says “love Your Enemies”? by MetaMatrix: 10:38am On Dec 01
A HISTORY OF ZIONIST ATROCITIES (PART 1)
I am not anti-semitic & I have many Jewish friends who I hold in high esteem.

I recognise the fact that there are millions of Jews all over the world who have publicly renounced the excesses & atrocities of the Zionists & who seek nothing but peace, fellowship, love, fraternity & mutual respect with their non-Jewish neighbours.

Having said this I must also put on record my utter disgust & disdain for the Zionists & for Zionism itself which is a political construct & philosophy that I consider to be akin to apartheid & therefore evil.

It is a philosophy that is espoused by those that can best be described as intellectual barbarians & cultural hegemons.

To add to this I feel nothing but repugnance, contempt & revulsion for the racism & fanaticism of the Ashkenazi Jews, the progenitors & primary promoters of Zionism, who the Allied powers of World War 11, at the behest & with the money of the stupendously wealthy Rothschild family, established Israel for & handed her over to in 1948.

The Ashkenazi were essentially proxies of the Rothschilds & the Western powers, the enforcers of their purpose in the Middle East & the protectors of their interests in that region.

From inception they constituted themselves into the rich & all-powerful ruling political elite of the Jewish State despite the fact that they were nothing but a bunch of non-semitic white primarily Eastern European colonial settlers & immigrants, who were not even originally Jewish but only converted to Judaism in the 18th century & who saw & still see every other true Jew including the Sephardic Jews & the real Semites (including the Palestinians) as being inferior to them & unfit to lead their nation.

In a clumsy attempt to cover their non-semitic origins & obscure the fact that they have no genetic link with the people of the Middle East from the outset they banned all DNA testing in Israel & that remains the case till today.

This is because the Askenazi cannot legitimately trace their ancestry back to Israel for more than two generations! That is how crafty they are!

To get a clear picture of precisely what the world is up against this contribution will focus on not just the atrocities of the Zionists & the Zionist state of Israel but will also offer a small glimpse into the dark & frightful history of Jewry generally.

It is not designed or intended to offend or to be an attack on the Jews but rather a historical analysis of some of the unspeakable crimes & injustices they have committed and indulged in over the years that have shaken the foundations of humanity & brought pain & sorrow to millions all over the world.

Let us begin with the most significant event of all which took place 2000 years ago in Jerusalem when the Jews murdered the Son of God, our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ by insisting on his crucifiction.

He was hanged on a cross & crucified like a common criminal, inflicting more pain on Him than the human mind can possibly comprehend.

As He bled & suffered, offering no complaint or resistance and instead asking God the Father to "forgive them for their sins", they continued to scream in a rabid frenzy with hate & rage shouting, "let His blood be upon us & our children".

Till today, 2000 years later, they have not expressed any remorse or regret for this cruel & barbaric act against a selfless, sinless, kind, loving, compassionate & innocent soul who we Believers regard as none other than the Lamb of God, the Ancient of Days, the Lord of Hosts, the King of Kings, the long-awaited Messiah & He who came down as God incarnate in the flesh but instead they relish & celebrate it with fervour even going as far as to describe him in their "holy book" called the Talmud as "a fake, a charlatan and a fraud" who according to their twisted and irreverent minds is "now burning in hell where he is eating human faeces".
...Over the last 1000 years they spread to virtually every nation taking over the world's banking system & controlling the worlds supply of money with which they promoted & funded revolutions, counter revolutions & wars, built up & destroyed economies, brought Governments & nations to their knees & determined the political future & fate of leaders in the most powerful countries in the world.

Such was the power of the Jews that from 1917, in the persons of two of their most famous sons, Vladimer Lenin & Leon Trotsky, they banned religion & presided over the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Christian clerics & millions of Christians in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik revolution.

Yet it didn't stop there & their influence continued to permeate the entire world & kept growing.

This awesome power that they had & wielded with impunity incurred the wrath of many in the west including the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler who blamed them for the humiliation and defeat of his country in World War 1 and who, in a classic case of total & complete insanity, sought to wipe them off the face of the earth in what he described in his book 'Mein Kampf' as the "Final Solution" & what the world decribed as "the Holocaust".

He proceeded to gas to death no less than 6 million of them together with millions of Slavs, homosexuals & gypsies in horrendous concentration camps: a barbaric, condemnable & heinous act and a graphic example of man's inhumanity to man.

Thankfully Hitler & Nazi Germany lost World War 11 & partly to compensate the Jews for the suffering & persecution that they had suffered in the West generally & the genocide that they endured at the hands of Hitler in Germany specifically they were offered a new homeland in a place known as Palestine which was at the very heart of the Middle East from which they had been exiled & scattered from 2000 years earlier but where millions of Palestinians had always lived & had never left.

This was a recipe for disaster given the fact that the Jews & their concept & philosophy of Zionism regarded themselves as being "the master race" & refused to share the land with anyone else describing themselves as "God's chosen people" who had a divine mandate to forcefully & violently retake what they called "the Promise Land", ethnically cleanse it of all other races & practitioners of other religious faiths & re-establish the old Jewish Kingdom of the Holy Bible stretching from the borders of Egypt right up to Iran!

To the Zionists everything that existed in that vast space of land and everyone in it belonged to them as treasure, chattel, vassals and slaves.

Consequently with the tacit support of the West and in an attempt to establish this vision and objective, over the last 76 years they have fought, oppressed, undermined, caged, enslaved, dehumanised and subdued the Palestinian people and their Arab neighbours, killed millions of Palestinians and subjected them to genocide and for the last one year alone murdered over 100,000 innocent and defenceless Christian and Muslim Palestinian civilians (mainly women and children) by bombing them with more ordinance and more precision bombs that were dropped in the entire duration of World War 11, slaughtering them with the most sophisticated and deadly weapons and burying them under the rubble of Gaza, subjecting them to what can best be described as a second holocaust.

Such is the mindset of the Zionists that an anti-Zionist secular Israeli activist who lives in Tel Aviv, Gaia Dan, said the following:

"There are only a few hundred anti-Zionist Israelis—about .01% of the adult population—and the vast majority of our society is genocidal.”

Worst still 80% of the population in Israel are opposed to a two state solution and instead believe in totally subjugating and enslaving whatever number of the Palestinian people that are not eliminated and exterminated and occupying their land.
....Simply put they want all Palestinians who they regard as nothing but "human animals" to be nuked, to be scattered all over the world, to be driven into the sea or the Sinai desert and to simply "disappear" and a countless number of their senior Government officials and political leaders, including Minister of Finance Bezalel Smoritch, former Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant, Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of Heritage Amihayi Eliyahu and many others have expressed these sentiments publicly.

Today their leader Benjamin Netanyahu has been rightly indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court at the Hague (ICC) and instead of showing any remorse or regret he, his nation, his Zionist supporters and his American backers have threatened the court with sanctions if he is arrested in any of the 124 countries that are signatories to the relevant Treaty and have branded as being "anti-semitic" anyone or group of persons that have expressed concern or outrage about his homicidal, lawless and lunatic behaviour.

Permit me to share an example of this idiocy.

In his response to the arrest warrant issued on Netanyahu during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in November 2024, American Senator Lindsay Graham, an unhinged figure who constantly expresses his insatiable lust for war and carnage, said the following:

"You are going to have to pick either the rogue ICC or America. I am working with Senator Tom Cotton to have legislation passed as soon as we can to sanction any country that aids and abets the arrest of any politician in Israel. What they are doing in Israel is trying to prevent a second Holocaust. So, to any ally, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, if you try to help the ICC, we are going to sanction you".

When Hannity asked what the sanction and penalty would be Graham replied,

“We will crush your economy because we are next. If they can go after Netanyahu why can’t they go after Trump or any other American President under this theory?”

His words confirm the fact that this dangerous, deluded, divisive, toxic and psychotic individual who actually believes that he is still living in the old American "wild west" where lawless and gun-totting cowboys were shooting native Indians for sport and where a drunken all powerful sheriff whose word was law ruled every town with an iron fist and gunned down people at will, is afflicted with what the English common law describes as "a diseased mind".

More importantly the answer to his question can easily be answered with another, namely: why shouldn't the ICC go after Trump or any other American President if they commit war crimes and crimes against humanity?

Are Americans and Israelis above the law or have they, like Ian Flemings' famous fictitious character James Bond (007), been given a licence to kill? If this is the case, who on earth gave it to them?

In reference to the war in Ukraine Graham was also once quoted as saying "it is a good thing to kill Russians!" Is this not madness in its most graphic form?

Senator Lindsay Graham represents everything reprehensible about the American right-wing and I sincerely pray that he and those that think like him in the American Senate do not plunge the world into World War 3 or a nuclear Armageddon.

My question is this: how far do the Zionists have to go and how many more innocent people do they have to kill before we accept the fact that that they are the problem of the world and that their so-called Jewish state must be brought to heel and made accountable for its unspeakable actions?

To the Christian that says we must love them no matter what heinous crime they commit I say the following: the greatest of all commandments is to love our God with all our soul and all our might whilst the second greatest is to love our fellow men and treat them in the way we wish to be treated ourselves.
...To applaud genocide & to support the ethnic cleansing of an entire race that are Gods creation, no matter what they may or may not have done, runs contrary to both of these sacred commandments & cannot be justified by some far fetched notion that the Jew is not subject to the laws of God & man.

We want a better world: a world where the Christian, the Jew, the Muslim, the Hindu & indeed all men & women of faith are regarded as one & bound together in peace & love by their common humanity & manifest destiny.

Yet it appears that America, once described by President Ronald Reagan as "a shining city on a hill" & the "hope of humanity", is determined to deny us such a world.

Chris Hedges, the highly celebrated & deeply courageous American journalist summed up his nations malevolent disposition when he said the following on 18th June 2024:

"We do not halt Israel's genocide because we, as Americans, ARE Israel. We are infected with the same white supremacy doctrine & we are intoxicated by our domination of the globe's wealth & the power to obliterate others with our advanced weaponry. The vaunted democratic values, morality & respect for human rights claimed by Israel & the United States have always been a lie. The real credo is this: We have everything and if you try and take it away from us we will kill you people of color, especially when they are poor & vulnerable. Do not count their hopes, dignity & aspirations for freedom. The lives of those outside the empire are worthless. Global domination will be sustained through racialized violence.The lie that the American empire is predicated on democracy & liberty is what the Palestinians, those in the global south, Native Americans and Black & Brown Americans, not to mention those who live in the Middle East, have known for decades. But it is a lie that still has currency in the United States & Israel: a lie used to justify the unjustifiable."

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, an American economist & Professor of Columbia University went further by saying,

“The most violent country in the world in the 19th century was also the most democratic or second most democratic country in the world & that was Britain. You can be democratic at home & ruthlessly imperial abroad. The most violent country in the world since 1950 has been the United States”.

I concur.

The British journalist Owen Jones added his voice to the outrage that has trailed the American-sponsored Israeli slaughter in Gaza by saying the following on the 26th of November,

"1,410 ENTIRE Palestinian families exterminated by Israel. From babies & teenagers to parents to great grandparents. If one extended family was wiped out in Britain it would be headline news for weeks. It has happened 1,410 times in Gaza with a much smaller population".

All this yet American leaders cheer the Zionists on & continue to provide them with funding and lethal weapons as if they were doing nothing but killing mosquitos or slaughtering turkeys at Christmas.

It follows that the home truth about America is ugly & disconcerting & few venture to dare voice it.

Biden's America particularly has become a gangerous stinking sore & a formidable challenge to the peace & stability of the world & the only hope the so-called "land of the free" & "home of the brave" has left is if incoming President Donald Trump succeeds & if he truly intends to do so he must rid himself of the inexplicable obsession & fatal attraction that most American leaders have with & for the citadel of evil & enclave of genocide called Israel.

If he refuses to do so, & frankly the signs are not good given his cabinet choices of pro-Israeli hawks & warmongers, he too, like Joe Biden & the cackling, strange & empty-headed woman that he named his Vice President, Kamala Harris, will crash to an ignoble end.

This would be very sad because I am one of those that has always had a soft spot and the greatest admiration and respect for Donald Trump.
...The reason why millions in Africa, the 'global south' and indeed all over the world look to China, Russia and the newly formed BRICS economic bloc of nations for leadership and inspiration today is because America has lost its decency and has jettisoned its noble values.

Nothing confirms this more than the unending and unlimited support and blind love that they have consistently displayed for their monster child called Israel.

America is today a nation of genocide-enablers with insensitive and morally bankrupt leaders who have lost all sense of humanity and who have turned their European allies like the United Kingdom, Germany, France and indeed all the other members of the NATO alliance into pitiful puppets and fawning vassals whilst they treat the rest of the world as nothing but worthless serfs and slaves.

Only the Chinese and Russians present hope for a greater and better future for humanity and that is why so many in the global south gravitate towards them.

Permit me share the words of one of the worlds most consistent and powerful voices against oppression and injustice, Clare Daly, the former Irish MP and MEP and a lady who is known for speaking truth to power.

A few days ago she said the following on the arrest warrant that has been issued by the ICC on Netanyahu and Gallant.

She said,

"About time. It is only the start. The idea that there are only two people criminally responsible is definitely not the case at this point. It needs to go all the way to the top of the U.S. administration and to the European Union elites who have enabled and ensured that this genocide has continued. It couldn't have happened without them. It wouldn't have even started without them, to be honest. And unless it goes there, well, then, you know, the ICC has a huge credibility problem. Like, this is it—Israel is finished after this. They have nowhere else to go. And it may not seem like that because you know the EU and the US have their backs at the moment but I firmly believe that this is this generation's Vietnam. Things will never be the same after this. A whole layer of young people and people who are older who never paid attention to this issue are not gonna let it go until there is justice for Palestine and this issue is dealt with. It's absolutely tragic that it's happening at such a terrible cost and still continues but it is the harbinger of a big change as well".

Daly is absolutely right.

(END OF PART 1)

(Chief Femi Fani-Kayode who wrote this piece is the Sadauki Shinkafi, a lawyer, a former Minister of Aviation of Nigeria and a former Minister of Culture and Tourism of Nigeria).

(femifanikayode.org/a-history-of-z…)
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