Letters from signers

20 Jan Letters from signers

Many petition signers from around the world emailed us with encouragement and inspiration. Here are just a few samples of their thoughtful comments:

One of my ancestors is Yehudah Bassan was commissioned by Moses Montefiore to create the steel door with a complicated lock to protect Rachel’s Tomb. This has been documented in a website giving the history of the Monzon family, who were entrusted with the key to Rachel’s Tomb.  Leah Bassan Silver

I signed the petition with my both hands. Daughter of a rabbi, I married an Haitian writer …In 1952 my father went to bury his parents in Sanhedria and he could not approach the wall because he was a Jew.….I want a new world for my Haitian-Jewish-Canadian grand Children …..when on Friday my granddaughter asked me if the soldiers would again come after the Jews …I was shaking…Never again.
Natania Etienne-Feuerwerker, Cote saint-Luc Qc. Canada

I strongly support this cause and wish big success for it. Rita Budik, Caracas,Venezuela

…I am one-quarter Scottish, one-quarter Irish, and half German.  I was raised as a Roman Catholic, later became an Episcopalian, but now I am an Anglican Catholic.

Almighty God has never broken faith with His Jewish people.  His promises are eternal.  Every Christian who truly understands his faith must stand with Israel. Robin M. Cathcart

I am a gentile messianic believer living in Ireland. The majority of people here seem to support the “Palestinians” and I have seen posters put up advertising ‘Boycott Israel’ meetings. I attend a Christian free church where they teach nothing derogatory towards Israel. Outside the church I am active in attempting to counteract any anti-Israel sentiments I happen to hear,

God bless you,
John Dwyer, Ireland

As a Christian and a daily reader of the Bible I know how much we owe to the Jewish people. You have given us the Bible – both the Old and the New Testament – and primarily Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Messiah is a Jew.

I pray for you every day because of that and also because I know how much hardship you have a head of you before you finally will worship Him and accept Him as your King. (Read Zechariah 12:10).

Blessings from Erik Fanøe, Denmark

I‘m the typical “3-feast-Jew”, liberal but hanging on traditions which have kept our people together for thousands of years.

…I’m a historian and merely from my historian’s point of view there are enough reasons to sign the petition.

Two other (and later) world religions, Christianity and Islam, are simply based on Jewish heritage, but the youngest one – and most powerful one
nowadays – tries to usurp this heritage since we Jews came back to our historic, ancestral and Holy Land Israel. The reason is also historic and
simply the difference between Jewry and Islam: since the Islam is obliged to spread and missionize by the Quran (some surahs even say exactly
what to do with the Jews), but Jewry never missionized.

Against the background of awaking Arab nationalism, some Islamic and anti-Semitic fundamentalists in the beginning 20th century, above all
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, didn’t blush to collaborate with the Nazis to “get rid” of the Jews returning to their Holy Land…
Against the background of awaking Arab nationalism, some Islamic and anti-Semitic fundamentalists in the beginning 20th century, above all
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, didn’t blush to collaborate with the Nazis to “get rid” of the Jews returning to their Holy Land…

Husseini’s successors even invented the “Palestinian people” in the sixties of the 20th century, for political purposes, based on their own invented and faked history. Ignoring the historic fact that “Palestine” was just the name for Judaea and Samaria, given by the Romans to their captured  provinces in the 2nd century, in order to erase all the remembrances of  the expelled Jews. Or – maybe they adopted the name “Palestine” and “Palestinians” deliberately and exactly for the same reason, as a political message to the Jews that they would be expelled again or at best left as a barely tolerated minority on “dhimmi”-status in a “Palestine from the river to the sea”. Who knows.

Best and Shalom rav,
E. Ch. Muehlhofer-Gurion,Vienna, Austria