| Ortizin perheen pommiasia saa lisää julkisuutta Kentuckyn
liittovaltion Edustajainhuone (the House of Representatives) on tehnyt
kaksi merkittävää päätöstä, koskien mm. Israelin valtion
60-vuotisjuhlan kunnioittamista, sekä Israelissa tapahtuneita
uskonvainoja, molemmissa mainiten nimeltä Ami Ortiz. Alla molemmat
päätöslauselmat H.R.295 ja myöhempi H.R.17 englanniksi. Ensimmäinen
päätöslauselma, H.R. 295 käsittelee laajemmin Ortizin perheen traagista
pommi-iskua, viitaten asiaan liittyvään Jerusalem Post-lehden
artikkeliin 23.3.2008. Kopiot H.R. 295 päätöksestä lähetettiin
Israeliin allamainituille henkilöille, seuraaviin osoitteisiin:
PÄÄTÖS H.R. 295, KENTUCKYN EDUSTAJAINHUONEThe Clerk of the House of Representatives is directed to send copies of this Resolution to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 3 Kaplan Street, Hakirya, Jerusalem 91950; Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, Knesset, Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem 91950; Mayor Ron Nachman, Ariel Municipality, Ariel City Hall, Ariel, Israel 40700; and Ambasador Salliai Meridor, 3514 International Drive N.W., Washington, DC 20008 H.R. 17 päätös laajasti mediankin tietoisuuteen. Yllämainitut Israelista eivät ole vastanneet allaolevaan päätöslauselmaan, eikä Israelin poliisi ole pidättänyt pomminlaittajaa, vaikka valvontakameran kuvat ovat olleet sen käytössä. Kentuckyn Liittovaltiossa on asiasta tehty toinenkin Päätös, H.R. 17, (alempana englanniksi). Siinä onnitellaan Israelin valtiota sen 60-vuotisen itsenäisyyden johdosta, viitaten Israeliin demokratian mallimaana. Tämän H.R.17 päätöslauselman yhteydessä mainitaan kuitenkin vakavasti moittien Israelin Knessetin jäsenten haluttomuudesta puuttua vähemmistöjen uskonnonharjoituksen vainoihin, joista Messiaaniset Juutalaiset mainitaan nimeltä. Tällä kertaa kopio tästä H.R. 17 päätöksestä on lähetetty edellisten PM. Ehud Olmertin, Knessetin Puhemies Dalia Itzikin, Arielin kaupungin Pormestarin Ron Nachmanin ja Israelin Washingtonin Suurlähettilään, Salliai Meridorin lisäksi lukuisalle mediavaikuttajien joukolle, joka tähän liitetään: Mr. Moishe Rosen, Founder, Jews for Jesus, 60 Haight Street, San Fransisco, California 94102; Mr. Tom White, The Voice of the Martyrs, 1800 Polaris Drive, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74006; Mr. Pat Robertson, Founder, C/O Ms. Ann Quick, CBN Television Network, 977 Centerville Turnpike, SHB-110, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23463; Mr. Greg Anderson, President, Salem Radio Network, 6400 North Beltline Road, Suite 210, Irving Texas 75063; Mr. Paul Crouch, Jr., Founder and President, Trinity Television Broadcasting Network, P.O. Box A, Santa Ana, California 92711; Mr. Chris Birke, Editor, Southeast Outlook Newspaper, Mr. Jeff Taylor, CEO, Compass Direct News, Mr. Carl Moeller, President/CEO, Open Doors USA, P.O. Box 27001, Santa Ana, California 92799; Mr. Don Wildman, CEO, American Family Radio, P.O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803; Mr. Ed Cannon, Chief Operating Officer, Moody Broadcasting Network, 820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60610; Dr. Frank Wright, President/CEO, National Religious Broadcasters, 9510 Technology Drive, Manassas, Virginia 20110; Mr. Harold B. Smith, Editor, Christianity Today Magazine, 465 Gunderson Drive, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188; Mr. Steven Strange, CEO, Charisma Magazine, Mr. Nick Iker, Editor, World Magazine, P.O. Box 20002, Asheville, North Carolina 28805; Mr. Jim Wallace, CEO, Sojourners Magazine, 3333 14th Street N.W., Suite 200, Washington D.C. 20010; Mr. Joseph A. LaFluer, CEO/Publisher, The Christian Post, National Press Building, 529 14th Street N.W., Suite 420, Washington D.C. 20045; and Mr. Mark Earley, Editor, Breakpoint Magazine, 44180 Riverside Parkway, Lansdowne, Virginia 20176. A RESOLUTION adjourning the 2008 Session of the Kentucky House of Representatives in honor of Ami Ortiz, a world-class example of how one teen and his family have demonstrated God's love and forgiveness in the face of murderous religious persecution. Päätöslauselma H.R. 295 , Kentucky 2008 A RESOLUTION adjourning the 2008 Session of the Kentucky House of Representatives in honor of Ami Ortiz, a world-class example of how one teen and his family have demonstrated God's love and forgiveness in the face of murderous religious persecution. WHEREAS, at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 20, 2008, 15 year-old Ami Ortiz, the son of a well-known pastor in Ariel, Israel, miraculously escaped death when he opened a traditional "Happy Purim" gift that had been loaded with explosives and delivered to his home by terrorists intending to frighten members of the tiny Messianic community into fleeing their homes, city, and nation; and WHEREAS, a March 23 Jerusalem Post article reported that Ami's "neck had an eight-inch gash like someone slit his throat. He has a ruptured lung. Doctors had to operate on his tongue. He has second-degree burns to his chest and arms, and there is no flesh on the thighs." The article further disclosed that doctors amputated two of Ami's toes and are working to prevent the loss of his arms and legs and to remove fragments of nails, bolts, screws, and metal shards from his entire body, including his right eye; and WHEREAS, prior to the murderous bombing of his home, Ami Ortiz, the youngest of David and Leah Ortiz's six children, had also endured, along with other family members, years of harassment and intimidation associated with anti-missionary efforts to frighten the family by throwing a Molotov cocktail at the family's car, vandalizing their property, demonstrations, threats, and distribution of hurtful flyers and "wanted" posters plastered around their town with the personal information about the Ortiz family; and WHEREAS, Pastor Ortiz's ministry to both Arab and Jewish believers resulted in death threats from the Hamas terrorist organization in the mid-1990's for preaching the Gospel to Palestinian Muslims; and WHEREAS, the Ortiz family has also received similar threats from certain ultra-Orthodox Jews, some of whom have been involved in anti-missionary efforts to outlaw the free expression of Messianic faith in Israel; and WHEREAS, the latest attempt to murder the Ortiz family marks an escalation of physical attacks on Messianic Jews in Israel, following the fire-bombing of a Messianic house of prayer in Jerusalem several months ago, and the ongoing attacks in Arad; and WHEREAS, prior to the bombing of the Ortiz home, the Messianic community complained that Israel's media have often under-reported, downplayed, or reframed the significance of deadly attacks on Jewish believers; and WHEREAS, the evening following the attack on the Ortiz family, Israel's Channel 10 news unwittingly justified such attacks with the statement, "Where there are missionaries there will be anti-missionaries;" and WHEREAS, a recent article on Ami Ortiz in the March 25 issue of The Jerusalem Post quotes Howard Bass, head of a Messianic congregation in Beersheba as saying there has been "very little sympathy for our plight. We get the feeling that nobody in Israel is willing to take a strong stand against violent, anti-missionary activity;" and WHEREAS, just before Christmas in 2005, Bass' congregation was attacked by hundreds of demonstrators who received the backing of the local rabbinic leadership, the Post said. Another Messianic believer, Edwin Beckford, is under house arrest. Last fall, arsonists set fire to Jerusalem's Narkis Street Baptist Church, which sustained minor damage; and WHEREAS, the government of Israel's history of reluctance to aggressively prosecute anti-missionary terrorists who have attacked Messianic Jews and their congregations in Beersheba and Arad with the same zeal that Israel prosecutes other terrorists dehumanizes a religious minority and emboldens terrorists to believe that Messianic Jews are fair game; and WHEREAS, the police and courts in Israel may soon face pressure by certain ultra-orthodox religious politicians in Israel's Knesset and government ministries to "go easy" on the perpetrators of this attempted murder of the Ortiz family because some of these politicians believe missionaries to be at fault for being a "severe provocation"; and WHEREAS, in the face of death, Ami Ortiz called upon the Messiah Yeshua, and has continued to set the right example for all believers by embracing the words of Yeshua: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you"; NOW, THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: âSection 1. The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hereby adjourns the 2008 Session of the Kentucky House of Representatives in honor of Ami Ortiz and his family for demonstrating the love and forgiveness of God in the face of murderous religious persecution. âSection 2. The Clerk of the House of Representatives is directed to send copies of this Resolution to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 3 Kaplan Street, Hakirya, Jerusalem 91950; Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, Knesset, Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem 91950; Mayor Ron Nachman, Ariel Municipality, Ariel City Hall, Ariel, Israel 40700; and Ambasador Salliai Meridor, 3514 International Drive N.W., Washington, DC 20008. PÄÄTÖS H.R. 17, KENTUCKYN EDUSTAJAINHUONE A RESOLUTION adjourning the House of Representatives in honor of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. Päätöslauselma H.R. 17, Kentucky 2008 A RESOLUTION adjourning the House of Representatives in honor of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. WHEREAS, the State of Israel is a fulfillment of the Lord's promise to Abraham as recorded in Genesis 12:2, "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing."; and WHEREAS, the State of Israel redeems the Biblical promise of a homeland for the Jewish people -- a land which affirms Jewish freedom and independence and underscores the extraordinary relationship between the God of Israel and the Jewish people; and WHEREAS, the God of Israel has remained the hope of the Jewish people even after hardship and 2,000 years of exile from the land of Israel; and WHEREAS, in 1948 the United Nations recognized the State of Israel as a free and independent nation; and WHEREAS, since its establishment 60 years ago in 1948, Israel has rebuilt a nation, forged a new society, created an economic, cultural, academic, and military infrastructure, and emerged as a symbol of democracy and freedom; and WHEREAS, despite the heavy costs of war, terrorism, and economic boycott, the people of Israel have never relinquished their fervent desire to live in peace with their neighbors and with all nations of the world; and WHEREAS, Israel is a model for democratic nations, freely electing a Parliament representing a politically diverse population and guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, and assembly; and WHEREAS, even though religious minorities are legally entitled to practice their religion in Israel at the present time, one such minority, Messianic believers, feel disrespected by members of the Parliament of Israel, now advocating harsh anti-missionary legislation to outlaw the free expression of Messianic faith in Israel; and WHEREAS, the full joy of Israel's 60th anniversary celebration has been dampened for Evangelical Christians worldwide who have been saddened by the Israeli government's reluctance to prosecute violent anti-missionary activity against believers professing Jesus (Yeshua) to be the Messiah; and WHEREAS, throughout its history the people of Israel have shared with the world the blessings of Israel's spiritual heritage as well as its agricultural and medical achievements, thereby helping nations to combat materialism, hunger, poverty, and underdevelopment; and WHEREAS, American Evangelicals recognize the United States' spiritual affinity for Israel and regard the nation as a stalwart ally and strategic asset; and WHEREAS, Genesis 12:3 records the Lord's promise to those who stand with His people: "I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."; NOW, THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: âSection 1. The House of Representatives is honored to salute Israel's historic achievements on her 60th anniversary, supports her search for freedom and peace, and joins her in celebration. âSection 2. When the House of Representatives adjourns this day, June 26, in this Year of our Lord two thousand and eight, it does so in honor of the State of Israel's 60th Anniversary. âSection 3. The Clerk of the House of Representatives is directed to send copies of this Resolution along with House Resolution 295 honoring Ami Ortiz, an Israeli victim of anti-missionary terrorism, that was cosponsored and adopted by 97 of the 100 House members during the Regular Session of the 2008 Kentucky General Assembly to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 3 Kaplan Street, Hakira, Jerusalem 91950; Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, Knesset, Kiryat Ben-Guiron, Jerusalem 91950; Mayor Ron Nachman, Ariel Municipality, Ariel City Hall, Ariel, Israel 40700; Ambassador Salliai Meridor, 3514 International Drive N.W., Washington D.C. 20008; Mr. Moishe Rosen, Founder, Jews for Jesus, 60 Haight Street, San Fransisco, California 94102; Mr. Tom White, The Voice of the Martyrs, 1800 Polaris Drive, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74006; Mr. Pat Robertson, Founder, C/O Ms. Ann Quick, CBN Television Network, 977 Centerville Turnpike, SHB-110, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23463; Mr. Greg Anderson, President, Salem Radio Network, 6400 North Beltline Road, Suite 210, Irving Texas 75063; Mr. Paul Crouch, Jr., Founder and President, Trinity Television Broadcasting Network, P.O. Box A, Santa Ana, California 92711; Mr. Chris Birke, Editor, Southeast Outlook Newspaper, Mr. Jeff Taylor, CEO, Compass Direct News, Mr. Carl Moeller, President/CEO, Open Doors USA, P.O. Box 27001, Santa Ana, California 92799; Mr. Don Wildman, CEO, American Family Radio, P.O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803; Mr. Ed Cannon, Chief Operating Officer, Moody Broadcasting Network, 820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60610; Dr. Frank Wright, President/CEO, National Religious Broadcasters, 9510 Technology Drive, Manassas, Virginia 20110; Mr. Harold B. Smith, Editor, Christianity Today Magazine, 465 Gunderson Drive, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188; Mr. Steven Strange, CEO, Charisma Magazine, Mr. Nick Iker, Editor, World Magazine, P.O. Box 20002, Asheville, North Carolina 28805; Mr. Jim Wallace, CEO, Sojourners Magazine, 3333 14th Street N.W., Suite 200, Washington D.C. 20010; Mr. Joseph A. LaFluer, CEO/Publisher, The Christian Post, National Press Building, 529 14th Street N.W., Suite 420, Washington D.C. 20045; and Mr. Mark Earley, Editor, Breakpoint Magazine, 44180 Riverside Parkway, Lansdowne, Virginia 20176. Loppukommentti:Sain äskettäin 2 e-postia Ortizilta. Niissä mainittiin mm. ylläolevat asiat, (joiden taustavaikuttajana on ilmeisesti Tom Riner-niminen Edustajainhuoneen jäsen) sekä se, että on löytymässä ilmeisesti henkilö, joka on valmis todistamaan oikeudessa, tunnistettaessa Puurim-kori-pommin laittajaa. Rukoillaan, että rikollinen jää kiinni ja että messiaanisten uskonnon harjoittamisen rauha palautuu, sekä Knessetin puuttumista asioihin, muistaen kuitenkin Jeesuksen profetia asiasta: Matt 10:23 Ja kun teitä vainotaan yhdessä kaupungissa, paetkaa toiseen; sillä totisesti minä sanon teille: te ette ehdi loppuun käydä Israelin kaupunkeja, ennenkuin Ihmisen Poika tulee. Siis, Messiaanisten Juutalaisten vainot ovat myös selkeänä merkkinä Jeesuksen pikaisesta, näkyvästä tulosta, mikä on todella mahtava toivo uskovaisille. |