In an effort to show support for Israel one year after the tragic Hamas terrorist attack that shocked the world, a group of Anchorage residents posted 1,200 Israeli flags on Delaney Park Strip in the heart of the city.
Led by Bethel Hispanic Church of God in Anchorage, the Oct. 7 event aimed to honor the 1,200 Israeli victims who were brutally slaughtered, raped and tortured at the hands of Palestinian militants last year. More than 250 others were taken hostage, most of whom are believed to be dead. Led by Hamas terrorists, the attack was the deadliest on Israel since its independence in 1948. Victims included young Israeli children who were brutally murdered during the surprise attack.
The Anchorage gathering included prayer for peace in Isreal and the surrounding region, as well as a public display of solidarity for the Oct. 7 victims, most of whom were civilians.
“Together, we will show our community and the Jewish people that we stand with Israel, joining our hearts in crying out to God,” a notice for the event stated. “Thank you for being a Friend of Israel and God’s chosen people.”
Similar commemorations occurred around the nation and across the world, even as Hamas marked the anniversary by launching a new round of rockets at Tel Aviv in a war that only seems to be escalating.
A smaller pro-Palestine gathering took place on Oct. 5 in Anchorage, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation Anchorage, a hard-leftist Marxist group that has repeatedly justified the Hamas-led murder of Israeli citizens as a simple “counter offensive” to an unjust “apartheid state” that should be cut off from all U.S. funding.
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It sure is strange that all of “God’s chosen” keep finding themselves in violent conflict.
Those who seek to connect directly to God usually find themselves walking a path of peace, without the need for group, organization, cult or otherwise.
Almost as if “God’s chosen” really aren’t chosen at all, but self appointed.
The fact of the matter is though, everyone and everything is the child of God. To pit one against another is like using your left hand to punch your right hand, or to slap your own face.
Any conflict one has towards another only inflicts pain upon themselves, as we are all one being. The illusion is that we are separated from each other.
Until humanity realizes this, until humanity acts out in love and reverence for one another, then they will forever be doomed to endless cycles of hatred and violence.
Good luck humanity. You have had so much time to get it right, but here we are, in the deepest conflict against self all over the globe.
Paul made it clear in Galatians and Philippians that the there is only the Church, no wall divides the people of God. The Church is the true Israel of God now, and only a remnant of the Jewish people will be saved according to Paul in Romans ch. 11. “They will look upon him who they pierced, and they will mourn.” Most modern Christians have fallen to a false theology regarding Zionism as perpetrated by Schofield in the late 1800s.
I am so glad to see these citizens support Isreal! Those who support Hamas, ISIS and Hezbolah should immediately be deported to Iran, Gaza, or “Palestine”(which does not exist) to share the REAL experience they so fervently support.
Yes, being wiped off the planet by “Israel,” a UN Project that started in 1943.
why can’t we just condemn all innocent life being lost? Why are Israeli innocents valued over Palestinians? Why is it ok for Israel to commit war crimes, or the US for that matter? It’s not, to see people defending what Isreal is doing is sickening, it’s literally no different than the nazis.
I wonder what the Middle East would look like if,2000 years ago, all tribes practiced the Golden Rule instead of hatred of the Other mandated by religious dogma.
Israel lost 1,200 citizens in the horrifying October 7th Hamas attack. In response they have killed some 46,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and now they’ve moved onto Lebanon. They say the response is reasonable because those civilians are being used as “human shields.” Their rationale apparently is, “If we have to eradicate all Palestinian civilians in order to eradicate Hamas, well, it can’t be helped.”
It is Crystal Clear some of you have never read the bible. Revelations tells us that the Jews will be attacked in the end times. The bible tells Christians as I am hated so to will you be hated! The “religion of Peace”so called by those that are clearly not grounded in reality is always at war and attacking others. Your hate for God is blinding you. Repent!
God’s chosen people are those who worship Christ the King, not the jews (or anyone else) who hate Him.
Dear “Enjoying the show”, you can only connect with GOD through our Savior Jesus Christ. If you were to truly accept Jesus Christ as your savior, you would be able to think clearly and you would see islam for what it really is, a cult of hate and death.
Kane. Your beliefs are why Americans are turning away from religion.
Genesis chapter 12 refers to Abraham and if the Palestinians are the actual descendants of Abraham that sure would explain the sudden lack of blessings America is currently experiencing… I+N+R+I
well even the socialists get some things right I guess. Is there separate flags for the Israelis killed by the IDF? Does it matter that Netanyahu made sure that Hamas maintained funding and that the IDF knew about the attack for an entire year before? How about the obvious stand down orders that left the female drone operators to b sitting ducks for 6 hours to respond to an attack previously responded to drills in 5 minutes by Israeli Blackhawks? So even with all that the Israeli government is justified in killing what will end up being 100s of thousands of people, the overwhelming majority women and children? How can any Christian support what the Israelis are doing? Make it make sense, bombing of schools, mosques, hospitals, aid workers, more journalists killed than any other war ever fought, more bombs dropped on a defenseless population than all of the bombs we dropped on Iraq in 6 years in 1? Horrifying war crimes w IDF soldiers laughing as they bomb mosques during worship and posting on social media, and you want to stand with that? That’s somehow better than whatever can be said of Hammas? I think not.