Furthermore, whether at the Ministry of the Interior here in Beer-Sheva, or the Central Post Office, or Betuach Leumi (the National Insurance Bureau), or the Auto Registration Bureau -- there are more Arabs than Jews receiving the same rights and benefits as Jewish Israelis do – from our tax money - but are exempt from serving in the IDF for security reasons. Even at Beer-Sheva’s Sorokka hospital one sees more Arabs than Jews, the maternity ward having become known as the “baby factory” because of the muiltitude of babies – Bedouin, NOT Jewish – being born there. 

All are Arabs, looking for our demise,^M most of them Muslims and increasing numbers of Beduin²⁰ flooding into Israel from Egypt and Jordan since Israel’s peace agreements with these nations. They are claiming the right to Israeli citizenship – and having it granted – on the basis of having relatives living already here. Israel is the Jewish homeland, yet Muslim Arabs are granted the right of Israeli citizenship while my Jewish friends, because of their faith in Yeshua, have this same right denied. 

Messianic Jews are not Muslims, are not members of a "cult," nor do they adhere to an alien faith; their faith is in the One G-d of the Shemah²¹, and in the Hope of Israel²², promised in our Holy Scriptures.

As a Jerusalem Post blog "Boker" (June 25th) in response to this trial so rightly says: “My neighbors are [ultra-orhtodox] Chabbadnicks. They are loud on Shabbat and believe in a false messiah. Their members are on hundreds of street corners in Israel, there is a Chabbad missionary house down the street, and I have NEVER heard anyone speak out against them.” 

And a Donna Dorio on June 22nd wrote, “…Religious convictions aside - this case is about Democracy and whether or not Israel is willing to uphold the law for all its citizens INCLUDING Jews who exercise their freedom of religious choice to follow Yeshua. If the ultra-orthodox Chabadnikim are free to consider Rabbi Schneerson the MESSIAH, and the rest of Israel are free not to believe that, why would the Messianic Jews not be free to consider Yeshua - born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth - to be the Messiah. Modern Israel has to make a choice to let religious zealots rule, or be a nation that upholds the rule of law.”

Indeed, what has become of our nation? Are we already so far removed from the awful reality²³ of the Nazi Holocaust ²⁴ that it is no more than a - horrific²⁵ - memory²⁶ laid aside until Holocaust memorial day?²⁷ Must the Shas Party not only run our Ministry of Interior but also decide who, in THEIR estimation, is Jewish enough to be granted the right of Return?

I, personaly, lost almost my entire family, and for 11 years suffered every kind of degradation, slander, theft, injustices and even beatings from my peers for no other reason than being Jewish. Yet, I did come to believe in G-d and love Jesus of Nazareth because of a kind Lutheran Pastor, who was not merely a Christian by name but with all his heart, practiced the love Yeshua had command His disciples, toward this Jewish girl, neither coercing nor forcing faith in Yeshua on anyone.

However, while I learned all the tenets of the Christian religion, I did NOT understand the Lord to be Jewish as I am, nor did I at all understand the workings of G-d’s salvation by way of His Son. When I came to realize why I had no family like others did I eventually blamed G-d for it, and turned away from Him. I became an atheist who wanted to have nothing to do with G-d nor with Jesus, in my mind considering them now Jew-haters who were terribly vindictive, merciless and cruel. That He had saved my life time and again from certain death I did not realize then.