Glenn Beck holds "Restoring Courage" rally next to Kotel Plaza, says this is where human rights were born.American broadcaster Glenn Beck held an inspirational rally to pep up the Jewish people at the Davidson Center near the Kotel Plaza Wednesday. The rally was attended by thousands and viewed by many more worldwide on Beck's web-based television station.
"Everything we know about human rights and real civilization came from this place, this land," he said. "Whether you live by 613 commandments, 10 commandments, or one sweet Golden Rule, it all started here. It all started here - in the throne of G-d.
"When the world turns its back on Israel and the Jewish people, the world turns its back on human rights. Without the Jewish people, humanity would never know that every single individual life has dignity, that every single life is sacred. That G-d names every star and knows every soul. That was G-d's message to Abraham. That was G-d's message to Moses. That is the message of the Jewish people to the world and by their very existence they teach it to us, every single day."
Beck called on the viewers not to wait for others to solve the problems that occupy them. "Who will protect your rights better?" he asked with passion. "A king? A president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter? A producer? Or you?"
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Israel is in no position to reject the friendship of Evangelical Christians, says a Land of Israel activist.
The debate on the intentions of Glenn Beck and other Christian evangelicals rages on, and Dr. Gadi Eshel, a Land of Israel activist, told Arutz 7 Tuesday that he did not believe that Beck's intentions were improper and rejecting the friendship of evangelicals could cause anti-Semitism.
Eshel was responding to comments by Jerusalem City Council member Mina Fenton Monday, who voiced vociferous opposition to Beck's appearance in Jerusalem on Wednesday, saying that his rally was designed to encourage missionary activity. Eshel told Arutz 7 that Christians like Beck supported Israel because they were strong believers in the Bible, and not out of missionary reasons.
“The basic belief of [evangelical, ed.] Christians like Beck is that the Torah [Pentateuch] and Tanach [Bible] are divine in nature and precede the Christian Gospels. This is different than the beliefs of traditional Christians, like Roman Catholics, and even Episcopalians, who participate in boycotts against Israel,” he said.
As such, Eshel said, rejecting the friendship offered unconditionally by Beck and evangelicals in general would be the ultimate in ingratitude.
“Such ingratitude would be an act of suicide,” he said. “This could cause great damage potentially. The paranoia and automatic negative reaction has the potential to cause a great wave of anti-Semitism.”
With all the concerns about the rise of radical Islam and the isolation of Israel even by the U.S., Eshel says, “spitting at and rejecting Israel's most loyal friends would truly be an act of suicide.”
