{"id":5986,"date":"2014-06-23T01:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T01:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2014-06-23T01:42:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T01:42:19","slug":"come-to-israel-and-see-for-yourself-pcusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5986","title":{"rendered":"Come to Israel and see for yourself, PCUSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a classic response this morning to a question about a mainline Protestant denomination&#8217;s decision to divest itself of economic ties to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by Presbyterian Church USA involves its divestment in companies that do business in the Middle East&#8217;s lone democratic state.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu, appearing this morning on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; news talk show, was asked by host David Gregory what he thought of that decision, which PCUSA based on Israel&#8217;s building of settlements in the West Bank region and Israel&#8217;s continued contentious relationships with its Arab neighbors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"k9h9RfG4lL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2014\/06\/22\/presbyterian-church-approves-israel-divestment-but-does-its-boycott-even-matter\/\">Presbyterian Church Approves Israel Divestment, But Does its Boycott Even Matter?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Presbyterian Church Approves Israel Divestment, But Does its Boycott Even Matter?&#8221; &#8212; Algemeiner.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2014\/06\/22\/presbyterian-church-approves-israel-divestment-but-does-its-boycott-even-matter\/embed\/#?secret=LQjg4ykGY5#?secret=k9h9RfG4lL\" data-secret=\"k9h9RfG4lL\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the life of me, this one is baffling.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Netanyahu took the question from Gregory.<\/p>\n<p>He responded magnificently. He noted that Israel grants full freedom in its country for Christians to worship their faith. He noted that many Arab nations persecute Christians, even kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu invited any Protestant denomination to tour the Middle East, encouraging them to look first-hand at the Arab nations &#8212; he mentioned Libya, Syria and Iraq by name &#8212; and then visit Israel. They will see up close the difference in the way they are treated in the Arab world as opposed to how they are received in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He offered two words of advice to anyone who takes him up on his invitation. &#8220;Be sure to travel in an armored vehicle&#8221; while touring any of those Arab nations, Netanyahu said. &#8220;And don&#8217;t tell anyone in any of those countries that you are a Christian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amen, Mr. Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a classic response this morning to a question about a mainline Protestant denomination&#8217;s decision to divest itself of economic ties to Israel. The decision by Presbyterian Church USA involves its divestment in companies that do business in the Middle East&#8217;s lone democratic state. Netanyahu, appearing this morning on NBC&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Come to Israel and see for yourself, PCUSA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[592,2330,2369,2784,2991,3534,4489],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-libya","tag-meet-the-press","tag-pcusa","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}