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December 8, 2011
In Case You Haven't Noticed
This website has not been getting updated as frequently as the blogs - it is just a matter of what is the easiest for me to get done. I will still update this site when the matter is one that needs as much coverage as can be generated, but these days I'm giving my newslinks in
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and using IsraelPrayerDotCom
to distribute the weekly Arrows from Zion.
IsraelWatcher is mostly my commentary on news related to either the Body of the Lord in Israel, Israel-related news or Islamist terrorism.
The third blog, Fruit of the Fig Tree, is primarily spiritually-oriented perspectives I share from time to time.
Having said that, I do want to update those who have been following my coverage of the religious terror bombing of Amiel Ortiz in 2008.
Ami Update email from David and Leah Ortiz in Ariel dated 12/8/2011
COURT CASE
Today we received word that the panel of Judges presiding over the Jack Teitel case made their decision officially that he is mentally fit to stand trial! They said the trial will begin in the coming weeks. Teitel's lawyers tried to bring up an appeal, saying he wasn't responsible for his actions when he carried out his crimes, but the judges said that they will have to bring that up during the trial, not before. The decision was reported on widely in the news media.
The English newspapers were, as always, the most troublesome in their reporting. In Ynet news, even though our family was mentioned as victims in the Hebrew article, the English article left us out completely. We sent out an emergency plea for believers in Israel and around the world to write in to protest this omission, and within an hour the article was changed to a translation of the Hebrew article which included us. We would like to say that even if emails arrived after the fact, they are still important to reaffirm to the editors that people are concerned.
In the Jerusalem Post, our family were called "American Christian missionaries". I liked very much the prompt response posted by Donna Diorio of www.israelprayer.com, a faithful and true friend of Messianic believers in Israel who tirelessly reports on the news and prayer needs of the Body here.
Donna wrote: Jerusalem Post mentions Teitel's bombing of the Messianic Ortiz family only EIGHT paragraphs into the article! The most intense in terms of planning and device used in all of his murders and attempted murders, yet it is mentioned so low in the article. And the article misidentifies the family as "American Christian Missionaries". The reality is that the family holds dual American and Israeli citizenship. Leah, a Jew, married David, a Puerto Rican and their children are Israeli Jews. David and his sons have served in the Israeli IDF- several in elite units of the IDF. They deserve to be called what they are, Israeli Messianic Jews.
Donna also is an investigative reporter. Her reports are accurate and comprehensive. We recommend her website for all who pray for our nation and the Israeli Messianic Body.
ex po sé
The Terror Bombing of
Israeli Messianic
Teen Ami Ortiz
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Part I –Purim 2008: Haman Visits Ariel An act of religious extremism targets Israeli Jewish believers in Jesus on Purim. ‘Wicked Haman’ is finally busted in October 2009.
Part II – Threats Precede Violence Hate speech, harassment and violence lay the buildup to attempted murder against targets with the Messianic community of Israel who are stalked and spied on.
Part III – The Family Grapples with the Unthinkable That is, the Ortiz family, the family of indigenous believers in Israel, and the greater family of Israeli Jews – citizens and officials.
Part IV – Meanwhile in the Real World What must we do to safeguard innocent people from those willing to commit religious terrorism? Counter terrorism experts are telling, but is anyone listening?
Part V – Israeli Justice on Trial What is at stake in the trial of Yaakov Teitel is a hidden spiritual truth. It is one of those trials of God that we often don’t recognize as from Him until after our choices are made and the test is over. In this trial, Israel is also choosing in measure her own future – “For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged.”
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April 2011
This week we begin with a breakthrough news program report on the illegal alignment against believers in Yeshua/Jesus in Israel. The alliance, reported by the Israeli equivalent of 60 Minutes, is between anti-missionary activists, Yad L’Achim, and the Interior Ministry which has jurisdiction over citizenship issues as well as visas for those who work for church organizations in the country.
by Donna Diorio
First blogged in a FACEBOOK NOTE on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 1:03pm
Somewhere around the mid-1990's I spent a year studying why the Church failed to be a contending force against the rise and implementation of Nazi Germany. I read a broad array of resource materials, letting the main question I had lead me from book to book and subject to subject.
My question was, if Hitler was a forerunner type of Anti-christ, what mistakes did the Church make that rendered us so impotent to stand against that evil? The one screaming fact of Nazi Germany is that Christian resistance was so rare and so minimal as to be effectively non-existent. How could it be that so many people of faith were sucked into a state of being useless in challenging and impacting the moral condition of their nation.
Of course, the answer everyone gives to the failure to stand up against the rise of Hitler's Nazis is fear. That is not what I found to be true from studying the dynamics at play during that period.
To read the full article click here
Update: July 9, 2010
Yesterday I received an email purportedly from Binyamin Klugger
about the following item.
More background after the item.
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PRAY FOR THIS MAN
Binyamin Kluger is the leader of Yad L'Achim,
the leading "anti-missionary" organization in Israel
- which means they aggressively oppose Jewish belief in Yeshua/Jesus.
It is an activist organization that employs illegal means of investigating people
and collaborating with bureaucrats to
harrass and persecute Jewish citizens
for their faith in Yeshua. They stalk, threaten, intimidate and make false accusations.
Yad L'Achim leader Binyamin Kluger is a former Christian,
xxx xxxxxxxxx xx Xxxxx, and then to Judaism.
Pray for a Damascus Road experience for Mr. Kluger
and protection for his targets in the meantime.
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I posted it sometime in the last couple of years and in its original form it read:
"Yad L'Achim leader Binyamin Kluger is a former Christian,
who converted to Islam, and then to Judaism."
Klugger, or the person with a gmail account in the name of "ducdebelfort" objected to a piece of information I picked up on the internet from a source supportive of Yad L'Achim anti-missionary activities against Jewish believers in Yeshua.
Now I don't just make stuff up and throw it on my website, folks.
I remember when I found the biographical information on Kluger having
been a Muslim after having been a Christian, I thought it odd but I went with it
ONLY because the source was one that is on the same page with Kluger
and the Yad L'Achim anti-missionary activities.
My thought was, if anyone should know Kluger's history, they would.
What I didn't consider it that it could be some kind of misinformation set-up
designed for just this purpose - being able to chip away at my credibility
because I am one of the few people out here reporting on the illegal persecution activiities of Kluger & Yad L'Achim against the Body of the Lord in Israel.
So I am officially removing the mis-information that I believe was planted as a trap.
These people consider themselves the zeneth of crafty, and maybe they are,
although I don't see that as a plus like they do.
My readers should rest assured that I am not one who runs with bad-mouthing lies as is so rampant in Christian circles these days against perceived enemies. I flatly reject this tendency to forward lies that forward my position without locating substantiation or reliable sources.
What happened to me here is not considering how devious this bunch really is, that they would publish lies about themselves as a trap to someone like me who would believe they were not lying about this. So I have learned a very valuable lesson with all this and even though I have my guard up pretty high with the tactics of these anti-missionaries, that guard just got raised higher.
I am dedicated to standing for the truth about the illegal activities and tramping of civil and religious rights of my spiritual brothers and sisters in Israel by anti-missionaries. And I can guarentee you, lying about the anti-missionaries is NOT necessary. The truth of their activities are more than enough evil.
Donna Diorio
July 9, 2010
October 19, 2009 BREAKING NEWS:
at my blog
IsraelWatcher - A Second Opinion
Jew on Jew Terrorism
An Arrest has been made in the Ariel
terrorist bombing of Ami Ortiz
Police May Have a Confession in the Ami Ortiz Case
Shame on the Arad, Israel Police
VIDEO Derfner's article: 'Watch out, missionaries!'
July 2009: Ultra-orthodox station themselves next door to Eddie and Lura Beckford in Arad
as part of a backlash from the honest article written by Jerusalem Post journalist,
Larry Derfner about the 5-year persecution of believers in Arad by the religious.
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An Israeli brother sharing with those
whom Christians would rarely get a moment to engage.
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[Pictured in red t-shirt is
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When it comes to Israel,
many Christians are still baffled by this question:
Who is my brother?
Is
it the regular looking Jewish guy worshiping in an Israeli
Messianic Jewish congregation
or is it really as so many seem to think, the "ultra-pious,"
ultra-Orthodox shown below
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(L) Arad Protest of Messianic Believers, (R) Worshiping God
in Tel Aviv, both shot in 2005
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