ISRAEL and all that glitters

The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18. Copyright:© Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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The Dream of Turning the "Holy Land" into a gigantic theme park

Thar's gold in them thar "Holy" hills. American Jewish entrepeneurs know it, and so do the Christian Friends of Israel. Soon, if all goes as planned, Israel will morph into a giant "Christian" theme park, the above being just one of the prototypes.

• Avraham Hirschson, the Israeli tourism minister, said: "I'm not a theologian, I'm the minister of tourism, and I'm not interested in the politics of our tourists as long as they come here. They come here as tourists, and they're friends of Israel."

The "Friends of Israel" will literally walk on their forever longed-for Streets of Gold, and the Israelis won't say no to a generous cut of the profits. Both sides will secretly smile and quietly mutter "gotcha" - because no Jesus is ever coming back to a freak show like that.

"Been there, done that", He would say. "I'm not about to waste any more of my time flushing money-changers out the temple."

And the gold-diggers know this, so they've created a whole nother Jesus - one who doesn't chill their mellow and spout about the eye of the needle. Technological showbiz is the new God. Heaven is being created right here on Earth! For some folks, that is.

Just try to remind a Pentecostal about the suffering of the Palestinians, and hear him say, "So?" This alone should tell you that the God of the New Testament has been remodeled into the image of Man.

Not to mention that if the plan to bomb Iran finally gets birthed, what about the thousands of Jews living there? Do Bibi and his special Friends just shrug that off as well?

I doubt any of this fazes Bibi at all, because, although he's probably never had much respect for Jesus, and likely none at all for the fundie Christians, he and his wife are allegedly hooked on the shiny stuff as well -- though he might have to wait a bit to steal it legally.

First Trump's gotta actually move that embassy to Jerusalem, and there's no way it can happen tomorrow. His big, exciting promise comes with a rider - it will take about 3 years before the actual deed can be accomplished. For now, his promise is just a bit of Chanukah Gelt.

Canada's not talking about moving its embassy. Which suggests that Trudeau probably knows Trump is merely buying his next 3 years in office, hoping this might get the media to let up on him a bit.

Or -- is Justin miffed that Jewish votes/campaign contributions had to be wrestled back to the Liberals once neo-Con Harper and his "Friends of Israel" pals had left the scene?

Surely Trudeau knows that Joe Clark quickly became "Joe Who" and didn't last a year after choosing a business deal with the Saudis over declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel in 1979.

• Even before the budget, the government was criticized for its perceived inexperience, such as in its handling of its campaign commitment to move Canada's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

In fact, if you Google "Joe Who" you'll get a whole rash of Joe Clark links. The poor guy was born before his time. If it were now, he could have done both.

But what about the UN Resolutions, you may well ask. The answer is another question: when did Israel ever pay attention to any of the resolutions passed by the UN?

Or to the warnings of the True Torah Jews, for that matter?

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Newsflash about Newthink: Already Jesus is being downgraded. According to the Pope, Jesus made a boo boo when he wrote the Lord's Prayer. There he was - the Son of God - but clearly mistaken about his Father's little tricks! I recall that God also played a little game with Abraham.  Which makes Jesus seem very right and the Pope very wrong.

Well, since Jesus isn't here, and God is staying out of a lot of controversies these days, we have little choice but to believe the guy who wears the big, golden hat and the designer robes.

Oh, I see where this is going. Jesus had no use for "fine raiment" and said so, and the Pope is trying to get back at him. Boys will be boys.

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