Subject: PA FEATURES ATTACK ON JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VIEW ON HISTORICAL
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PA FEATURES ATTACK ON JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VIEW ON HISTORICAL ZIONISM

By:  Aaron Lerner Date:  20 January, 1998

The following is an excerpt from the official web site of the
Palestine Ministry of Information  [http://www.pna.org/mininfo/] as
it appeared on the site on 20 January, 1998.  R. Garoudy, the
author of the article, is currently on trial in France for denying
the Holocaust.

Biblical and Historical Myths - by R. Garoudy

Palestine Ministry of Information -  October 1997

...The history of Palestine that is taught in the schools of the
State of Israel is the work of forgers. But the  "sacred history"
taught in the Catholic catechism or in Protestant Sunday schools,
by sticking to the Bible and ignoring the actual history of the
Ancient East, unintentionally supports the propaganda of political
Zionism and prepares millions of Christians throughout the world to
accept as true a mythology that is deadly
to the Palestinian people and to world peace. For this mythology
serves to provide political Zionism with grounds for territorial
demands, annexations and aggressions.

...After destroying the historical continuity of the land of
Palestine, Zionism (like the antisemites) creates a racial and
racist continuity of the "Jewish people", by means of fictitious
genealogies and rejection of assimilation, so as to justify a
return" to the land of this people's ancestors" - as though the
"Jews" of today were the descendants and natural heirs of the
Israelites of Biblical times and were accomplishing at last the
ancient and permanent desire of all the "Jewish" communities in the
world.

...In reality, no "Jewish race" has ever existed, except in the
ravings of Hitler and the Zionists.

...Historically-speaking, the propagandists of political Zionism
have no more "historic rights" over Palestine than the Crusaders
had.

...Why should the writings of one people alone be taken at their
word?

The idea of a chosen people is politically criminal, for it has
always sanctified aggression, expansion and domination.

The idea of a chosen people is theologically intolerable, for if
some are "chosen" that means that others are "rejected".

... Political Zionism has betrayed Judaism and perverted
Christianity. For is it not a basic perversion of Christianity to
let oneself be swayed from what was the most prodigious heritage of
Judaism, namely, the faith of Abraham, that faith which does not
seek to enjoy the promises of God but to submit to his demands?

...And what can be said of the document entitled: Pastoral Guide on
the Attitude of Christians towards Judaism,published by the
Committee of the Bishops of France on 16 April 1975, when it
affirms (point 5): "We cannot forget, as Christians, the gift made
by God in former times to the people of Israel, of a land whereon
it was summoned to reunite . . . "? Only that this is a tragic
muddle, identifying Judaism with the State of Israel and Zionism,
and a strange Christian theology which no longer sees in Jesus
Christ and the annunciation of the Kingdom to the whole world the
complete fulfilment of the Promise.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

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