A PLACE TO PLAY

MAR
APR
2007
A PLACE TO PLAY
ICEJ & THE CHILDREN OF THE DISENGAGEMENT
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much
more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
Matthew 7:11

The International
Christian Embassy
Jerusalem (ICEJ)
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
3
The International Christian
Embassy Jerusalem was founded in 1980
as an act of comfort and solidarity with
Israel and the Jewish people in their claim
to Jerusalem.
Today, the Christian Embassy stands
at the forefront of a growing mainstream
movement of Christians worldwide who
share a love and concern for Israel and an
understanding of the biblical significance
of the modern ingathering of Jews to the
land of their forefathers.
From our headquarters in Jerusalem
and through our branches and representatives
in over 80 nations, we seek to
challenge the Church to take up its scriptural
responsibilities towards the Jewish
people, to remind Israel of the wonderful
promises made to her in the Bible, and to
be a source of practical assistance to all
the people of the Land of Israel.
The ICEJ is a non-denominational
faith ministry, supported by the voluntary
contributions of our members and friends
worldwide. We invite you to join with us
as we minister to Israel and the Jewish
people worldwide.
If you wish to make a donation to the
general work of the ICEJ or to a specific
project described in this magazine, please
use the attached response envelope, use
the address below or visit our secure Web
site at www.icej.org/donate.php to send
your gift. All donations are tax deductible
according to the law of your country.
BIBLE TEACHING
Essential Truth
Pages 06-07
B I B L E T E A C H I N G
Director’s letter ........................................... 05
Essential truth: A return to biblical preaching ...............................................................................................................................06-07
I N S I D E T H E E M B A S S Y
ICEJ and Yad Vashem: Joining Forces for Holocaust Remembrance ..................................................................................................08
S E R V I N G T H E N AT I O N
A place to play: ICEJ & the children of the disengagement .................................................................................... 10-11
W O R L D W I D E
God in Africa: Embracing a bold, raw New Testament faith ...............................................................................................14-15
ICEJ USA: The Ambassador’s farewell ............... 16
Hometown Rally: Oklahoma City’s night to honor Israel ...................................................................................................................16
V I E W P O I N T
SERVING THE NATION
A Place to Play
Pages 10-11
WORLDWIDE
God in Africa
Pages 14-15
VIEWPOINT
A State of Denial
Pages 18-20
State of Denial: The dark agenda behind Iran’s Holocaust revision .............................................................................18-20
TRIBUTE
MK Yuri Shtern and
“Mayor Teddy”
Pages 22-23
international christian embassy jerusalem
20 Rachel Imeinu Street · P.O. Box 1192
Jerusalem · 91010, Israel
Tel +972 2 539 97 00
Fax +972 2 566 96 12
icej@icej.org · www.icej.org
T R I B U T E
MK Yuri Shtern: A champion of deepening Jewish-Christian ties ............................................................................................22
“Mayor Teddy”: A visionary friend of the ICEJ ........ 23
cover:
Jewish children evacuated
from the Gaza Strip in
the summer of 2005 at
a new playground in the
‘refugee city’ of Nitzan,
built with funds donated
by Christians around the
world to the ICEJ. (Photo:
Sasson Tiram)
The first almond blossoms of
the year mark the beginning
of spring in Israel.
executive director: ................................................................ Malcolm Hedding
financial director: ................................................................ Timothy King
international director: ....................................................... Jürgen Bühler
editors: ....................................................................................... Michael Hines, Kathy Rowlands, Jake King
layout & design: ....................................................................... Beverley Dwyer
administration: ....................................................................... Doron Schneider
photos: ....................................................................................... Associated Press, Sherwood Burton,
...................................................................................................................... Istock Photos, Sasson Tiram
contributors: .......................................................................... Mark Bish, James Cheatham
The ICEJ’s International
Headquarters in Jerusalem
preferred carrier of the icej

I C E J w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m 5
marched on undeterred. The result was and is carnage, terror,
violence and bloodletting. Israelis have paid a high price indeed
for the delusions of unprincipled politicians!
Even when Israel withdrew from Gaza the terror never
came to an end. Hardly had the Jewish people left the region
when Kassam rockets began to rain down on the southern
towns and villages of Israel. They continue to fall to this day!
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, with his radical
Islamic militia Hizb’Allah, attacked Israel in August of last year,
all the time being armed, equipped and rearmed by Iran via
Syria. But still the West lives in denial, twisting and turning like
a snake as it endeavours to ignore the obvious, i.e. Islamic fascism
is at war with the West!
Malcolm Hedding
Executive Director of the ICEJ
Now Hamas together with Fatah are hatching another
plan, all designed to loosen the financial pockets of the West
without really having to turn away from and dismantle their terrorist
agenda. The West will no doubt buy it – again!
The Bible all the while warns that days will come when
men will again say, “Peace, peace” but there is no peace! The
truth is, peace at any price is no peace at all!
Dear Friends,
The Middle East region is becoming more
problematic with every passing day. Part of the
problem is the inability of the West to come to terms
with the threat of radical Islam. Indeed Western
halls of government have been in self-denial in terms of the
very real threat that Islamic terrorism poses to them.
As a number of recent television programmes made
undercover in the United Kingdom have revealed, even the socalled
‘moderate’ Muslims are, behind closed doors, calling for
violent jihad against their host countries and approving of it
elsewhere.
Israel has been at the forefront of this conflict for years.
The West was duped by the likes of Yasser Arafat, and through
Oslo and the Road Map initiatives has pressurized Israel to
make agreements with ‘partners’ who were always bent on her
total destruction. Though organisations like ours and many
others frequently warned about this duplicity, the ‘peaceniks’
We could go on and on, referring to Iranian president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and others but the point is made, I
believe. The bottom line is that Israel needs friends. The Christians
are her true friends and in recent years have proved it over
and over again. Above all, Israel needs your constant intercession
and your visibility. That is, if you can by the grace of God,
attend this year’s Feast it would speak volumes to Israelis. God
knows our times and seasons and this could be your time to
ascend to Zion to help us blow an urgent but blessed trumpet.
We value your support, love and encouragement and trust
that, as ever, your eyes will be upon our great King Who after all
controls everything.
Yours in Jesus,
Malcolm Hedding
Executive Director
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem

B I B L E T E A C H I N G
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
7
Essential truth
By Malcolm Hedding
In today’s church it’s rare to hear powerful
preaching on sin, repentance, and the
death of Christ creating the impression
that Jesus died for our problems and not
our sins…
Scripture warns of a time
when there will be a great
falling away from the Christian
faith (2 Thessalonians
2:3). Jesus himself declared that the
“love of many would grow cold …” and
He also said, “When the Son of Man
comes will He really find faith on the
earth” (Matthew 24:12-13; Luke 18:8).
I believe that we are living in these
times. A recent edition of Newsweek
highlights the fact that churches across
Europe are being turned into discos,
restaurants, entertainment halls, offices
and even homes. The figure they give
is quite staggering in that thousands of
church buildings are suffering this fate.
Indeed Europe is post-Christian!
To make matters worse, in many
Evangelical churches today one never
hears powerful preaching on sin,
repentance and the death of Christ. On
the contrary, one often comes away with
the feeling that Jesus died for our problems
and not our sins. Failure to properly
define these biblical concepts is
producing a man–centered gospel that
fails to go to the root of the problem.
Sin is now depression, loneliness,
debt, illness and troubles, etc. whereas
it is in fact rebellion against the character
of God, deserving nothing short of
the wrath of God (John 3:36). The Ten
Commandments reflect the righteous
demands of God’s character and our
failure to meet them all the time constitutes
us as sinners and enemies of God
(Romans 3:20; Romans 5:6-11).
Repentance is godly sorrow that
confesses our rebellion against God
and genuinely asks for forgiveness on
the grounds of Jesus’ death (2 Corinthians
7:10). This death is a once-for-all
propitiation (Romans 3:23-26) for our
sins in that He endured the anger of
God on our behalf and thus fully satisfied
the demands of God’s character on
our behalf (Romans 1:18; 1 Thessalonians
5:9-11).
As regards this wrath or anger of
God, it is a manifestation of God’s holy
love! God is only love and nothing more
or less. His love is also just and righteous
and therefore it judges sin and this
righteous loving judgment gives Him
the right in the end to judge the world
by Jesus Christ. A God Who makes pro-
vision for the world’s sin in the death of
His son has the right to judge a world
that rejects this gift (Acts 17:30-31).
Sadly, the truths above are infrequently
laid out before congregations,
perhaps because the preachers think
that all of this is too negative. After all
people come to church to be blessed,
uplifted and edified! The truth is, nothing
edifies and brings comfort like the
“awful medicine” that heals. The only
thing that can truly heal the sinner is
true repentance based on a recognition
of our rebellion against God and thankfulness
for His grace extended toward
us in the death of Jesus (Titus 2:11-15).
A ‘bloodless’ Christianity is producing
a lukewarm, failure-ridden
church in the world that is far from
the heart of God. We must, once again,
rediscover the sermons of great preachers
who once changed their world dramatically
and populated heaven with
millions of blood-bought children.
Does all this sound radical, too radical?
It should.
We must return to biblical preaching
and we must, like the Apostle Paul,
make the death of Jesus the platform
upon which we stand constantly. He
said, “I determined to know nothing
among you save Christ and Him crucified”
(1 Corinthians 1:17,23; 2:2).
May God help us to know, believe
and preach essential truth.

8 i n s i d e t h e e m b a s s y
8 w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m i n t e r n a t i o n a l c h r i s t i a n e m I C E J W O R L D W I D E b a s s y j e r u s a l e w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
m
ICEJ & Yad Vashem
Joining forces for Holocaust
Remembrance
By Malcolm Hedding
Feast of
Tabernacles
27th September-3rd October
At the end of last year the International Christian
Embassy Jerusalem and Yad Vashem entered into
a partnership agreement that essentially sets up a
Christian Desk at Yad Vashem. One may well ask,
“Why such an initiative and what prompted it?” The answer is
simple and disturbing.
Simple because Yad Vashem is visited annually by hundreds
of thousands of Christians who love Israel and feel overwhelmingly
shocked by the events of the Holocaust. They want
to make a difference, and by supporting Yad Vashem and its
mission to maintain the memory of the victims of the Holocaust
they are empowered to do so.
Disturbing because in many parts of the world, as demonstrated
by the recent conference in Teheran, denying the
Holocaust is becoming more of a reality. This trend not only
dishonours the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered
by the Nazi killing machine. But it also by implication
vilifies the Jews as liars and lays again the awful and evil seeds
of anti-Semitism.
A Christian desk at Yad Vashem will reach out to the
Christian world, educate it and enable it to learn the eternal
lessons that will ensure that nothing like this will ever happen
again.
Blow A Trumpet
In Zion!
Jack Hayford
Jane Hansen
The nominated Director of the Christian Desk at Yad
Vashem is Rev. Sam Clarke. Sam is an Evangelical Episcopalian
Minister from the United States of America. He has served
in Florida and Washington DC and has always had a deep and
abiding love for Israel. He and his family actually come from
Tennessee where, in the town of Franklin, they have a family
home.
Malcolm Hedding
Sam will not only seek to involve Christians in the lessons
to be gleaned from the Holocaust but he will also raise money
for Yad Vashem. By undergirding the future of Yad Vashem
we can protect generations to come from the scourge of anti-
Semitism and thereby create a safer world.
See Also: Viewpoint - “A State of Denial” pp 18-20
ICEJ Feast Registration Office
PO Box 1192 • Jerusalem, Israel • 91010
Tel +972 2 539 9700 • Fax +972 2 566 9612
Email: feastreg@icej.org
Web: www.icej.org
Robert Stearns
Mosy Madugba

10
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
S E R V I N G T H E N A T I O N
I C E J W O R L D W I D E
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
11
I N S I D E T H E E M B A S S Y
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
11
Eighteen months after the
Israeli security forces began
the traumatic process of evicting
thousands of Jewish residents
of Gaza and northern Samaria from
their homes in August 2005, the wounds
have yet to heal.
Men and women who dedicated
their lives to farm the barren sand dunes
of the southern Gaza Strip – known as the
‘accursed land’ by their Arab neighbors
when they built the first settlements there a
generation ago – turned them into some of
the most prosperous farming communities
in the Middle East.
A place to play
ICEJ & the children of the disengagement
By Jake King
Today, many of those same farmers
who used to send their high quality fruit,
and vegetable produce for export across
Europe are unemployed and living in temporary
housing, with no land to work.
In the year and a half since the
pullout took place, the ICEJ has continued
to seek ways to assist these families
and their children to adjust to life after
‘disengagement’.
Almost 1,700 Jewish families
were uprooted from the Gaza Strip,
with massive social consequences for
all those forcibly removed from their
homes. Many of the families that were
pulled out of the area before it was
handed over to Palestinian Authority
control had been there for more than
two decades, having originally been
sent by the government to settle the
land in the late 1970’s.
Even as the emotionally-charged
disengagement was taking place, the ICEJ
launched a campaign to aid the evicted
Israeli families, focusing specifically on
helping the displaced and traumatized
children adjust to their new surroundings.
More than $200,000 in donations
has been collected from Christians worldwide
for this purpose.
“These courageous children
have already experienced
much trauma in their young
lives and the ICEJ wants to
bring them joy, and a place
to just be kids again.”
Rev. Malcolm Hedding
In early February, ICEJ Executive
Director Malcolm Hedding was invited
to dedicate a playground in the Israeli
refugee city of Nitzan, just one of several
projects that have been funded by the
Embassy’s Social Assistance Program as
a result of that campaign.
“ICEJ Executive Director Malcolm Hedding (center) and Financial Director Tim King at the Nitzan
playground dedication in February.” (Photo: Sasson Tiram)
According to Dror Vanunu, International
Coordinator for the Friends of
Gush Katif Committee, there are currently
about 500 evacuated families crowded
into Nitzan’s temporary housing, which
is located just a short distance from the
Mediterranean Sea between the coastal
cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon.
The Israeli government estimates
that permanent homes will not be ready
for at least another two years-more than
two years behind schedule-and in the
meantime, the children have been left
without basic recreational outlets.
Made possible by a $30,000 donation
from the ICEJ together with $20,000 from
the Jewish Federation of Houston, Texas,
“this playground is bringing a lot of joy and
happiness to the 1,200 children in Nitzan,”
Vanunu said.
“Unfortunately, many families are
still suffering, and many parents are still
unemployed. This place will bring relief
to both children and parents, and we are
thankful for the ICEJ’s many contributions
to rehabilitating their lives.”
The playground at Nitzan was
designed to be portable, so that when
the families move to their permanent
homes, the equipment can be transferred
with them
In addition the ICEJ has also
provided funding for the local cultural
center in Nitzan, which gives music,
art, and language lessons to children
and adults, and is continuing to support
the communities’ efforts to rebuild
their once expansive library. Before the
February 1st ribbon cutting ceremony
at the Nitzan playground Malcolm Hedding
was able to present a cheque for
almost $3,500 to the library.
“These courageous children have
already experienced much trauma in
their young lives and the ICEJ wants to
bring them joy, and a place to just be
kids again,” Rev. Hedding told the residents
of Nitzan at the dedication.
“We are thankful for this opportunity
to invest in the most important
thing in life – our children – and proud
to stand with this community. Your children
are the real treasure of Israel.”

Spring 2007
North American
Tour
With an international touring cast and crew of 30,
the compelling ICEJ-sponsored musical drama, The
Covenant, is returning to North America this spring for
four weeks of performances across the southern USA
and Canada.
Recounting the miraculous story of the People of
Israel from the call of Abraham to the re-birth of the
modern State, The Covenant offers a powerful glimpse
of the faithfulness of God to His people and promises
throughout history.
Following shows in seven US cities from Miami, FL to
Tulsa, OK the 2007 Spring Tour is poised to take The
Covenant to Canada for the first time, where it will
be broadcast nationwide to participating theatres,
churches and synagogues from the main stage of
the prestigious Toronto Center for the Arts on the
evening of May 13.
Performances
Miami, FL: April 17-18
Melbourne, FL: April 21-22
Charlotte, NC: April 26
Murfreesboro, TN: April 29
Austin, TX: May 2-3
Houston, TX: May 6-7
Tulsa, OK: May 9
Performances and
Simulcast*
Toronto, Canada:
May 13
*Live broadcast to
Cineplex Theatres,
Churches and
Synagogues across
Canada
FOR LATEST SCHEDULE UPDATES, VENUE
AND TICKETING INFORMATION GO TO:
www.icejusa.org
1-615- 895-9830
www.icejcanada.org
1-866-324-9133

14 w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m I C E J W O R L D W I D E
I C E J W O R L D W I D E
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
15
God is moving in Africa today!
This is evident in the work
of evangelists like Reinhard
Bonnke, whose rallies attract
unprecedented numbers and in places
like Lagos, Nigeria, where Africa’s largest
church building hosts more than 50,000
worshippers every Sunday. Not long ago,
one local denomination set a goal of planting
a church on every street corner in
Nigeria, and each major city is now graced
every few hundred meters with a church,
mission center or bible college.
God in Africa
No longer the prime target of world missions - Africans are setting the world alight
with their zeal for God, His church… and Israel
By Jürgen Bühler
God’s Fire in the Oilfields
This January we found ourselves in
the middle of southern Nigeria’s oilfields,
experiencing the powerful move of God that
is spreading across the entire country. It
was our great privilege to attend the Global
Prayerquake Conference in Port Harcourt
along with more than 10,000 other pastors
and leaders from all around Africa,
as organized by the ICEJ’s Nigerian
National Director, Rev. Mosy Madugba.
The challenging messages delivered
in Port Harcourt and the intensive
times of prayer were characterized by
an overwhelming sense of dedication
and expectancy that God would move
mightily among His people.
This dedication and expectancy is
not just the Sunday sermon being preached
in Africa today, but the very real experience
of the church. Many are being healed of illness
and delivered from demons. The dead
are being raised. The theological argument
over whether signs and wonders can still
be expected today is virtually nonexistent in
Africa. Signs and wonders are happening
and many are being saved.
Love for Zion
Setting apart Africa’s new and
dynamic church movement is their distinctive
love for Israel. In Nigeria alone several
large prayer networks have been founded to
intercede for Israel and pray for the peace
of Jerusalem. At the 6-day ministers’ conference
in Port Harcourt an entire day was
dedicated “to honor Israel”. This not only
greatly impacted the Israeli Ambassador
to Nigeria, but demonstrated as well that
Israel has good and warm friends in Africa.
The relationship to Israel is very natural for
most African Christians, as they recognize
that Israel is where their spiritual roots lie,”
said Rev. Madugba.
The connection that Rev. Madugba
spoke of is also sacrificial in nature. After
offerings had already been collected for
different projects, the Prayerquake conference
delegates decided to bless Israel with
their finances. Although the annual Gross
Domestic Product in Nigeria is only US
$450 per capita, (compared to $42,000 in
the US), almost $3,000 was raised for Israel
in one offering.
Advancing Africa
While only a few decades ago Africa
was considered the primary and even quintessential
target for missions work, things
have changed dramatically in recent years.
While the number of Western missionaries
is constantly decreasing, Nigeria is well
on the way to implementing its own vibrant
missions strategy. When ICEJ Executive
Director Rev. Malcolm Hedding and I visited
the Prayerquake conference last year,
the theme was “Missions Now as Never!”
More than 100 missionaries were sent
out from Nigeria at that conference alone,
with many heading to Europe and others
to the widely unreached and often dangerous
Islamic world. Malcolm and I will
never forget how those men and women
were told not to depend on and wait for the
financial support of a missions organization,
but to trust fully in the Lord to provide.
It is no coincidence that the largest church
in Europe is pastored by a Nigerian whose
Kiev congregation numbers some 10,000
members. The largest church in Brussels
- the symbolic capital city of the European
Union - is a black African church with
2,000 members.
Hunger for God’s Presence
The image of poverty and disorder on
the streets of Nigeria seems a contradiction
to the order and the sense of God’s presence
in our meetings there. While widespread
government corruption and the Western oil
and mining barons are taking their toll on
Nigeria, it seems that the social and political
insecurity is driving people towards
God. Many have realized that only the Lord
can give them hope and salvation.
Simultaneously - and more importantly
- is the tremendous and unbridled
hunger for God and the powerful move
of His hand over this country. Okona
Ontly is a former Muslim Imam and was
born into an influential Islamic family
in Nigeria. After finding Jesus, the Lord
called Ontly to evangelism, and through
his ministry countless numbers of people
have been miraculously touched by
the power of God. “It’s not about signs
and wonders, but the presence of God
which is the most important,” Ontly
said. “But, if you live a holy life in the
presence of God, signs and wonders will
follow as your travel companions.”
What Does This Mean for Us?
If we in the western world want
to experience more of the power of the
Holy Spirit, we must learn from our
brothers and sisters in Africa. The rapid
secularization of Europe is calling for a
new manifestation of God’s Spirit, and
we need the spiritual gifts that God
has deposited in Africa. It’s time to
stop looking at them as a mission field
and recognize that the Holy Spirit has
uniquely equipped them to instruct
us. It is time for partnership. For that
reason, the ICEJ decided last year to
include our Nigerian National Director
Mosy Madugba as a part of our international
leadership association.
Many Nigerian Christians have recognized
that God has visited their nation
and entrusted them with a responsibility
to evangelize the world. They carry
with them a sense of urgency that I have
rarely seen in Western churches, even in
Israel. “When I get close to the Africans
my faith grows more aggressive, my
prayers become more militant and my
spiritual passion grows hotter,” said Lee
Grady of Charisma Magazine, who also
attended the Prayerquake conference.
This zeal has nothing to do with
skin color or nationality. It has to do
with embracing a bold, raw, New Testament
faith. When this African zeal
reaches Western shores, we can expect
great things for our own nations
and beyond.

16
16 w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m I C E J W O R L D W I D E
S E R V I N G T H E N A T I O N
16
I N S I D E T H E E M B A S S Y
ICEJ co-hosts Ambassador’s farewell
In the ‘classiest’ Jewish-Christian
event that any in Washington can
remember, the ICEJ’s American
branch joined the Israeli Embassy
and a handful of other Christian and
Jewish groups in January and threw a gala
farewell dinner for former Israeli ambassador
to the US Danny Ayalon.
HOMETOWN RALLY
ICEJ Music Director Chuck King performs in
front of a hometown crowd at the Oklahoma
City ‘Night to Honor Israel’ in January, one of
36 similar events being held across the United
States this year by Pastor John Hagee’s
new umbrella group, Christians United for
Israel.
“Tonight, Christians and Jewish people alike
are joined together in oneness, and we’re
going to send a message,” the 2,500 capacity
crowd was told by event host Gary Bachman,
a local attorney, municipal judge and member
of the ICEJ’s governing Association. “Together
we are going to stand for Israel.”
The prestigious black-tie event
brought together some 700 Christian
and Jewish leaders alongside prominent
congressmen and diplomats to
voice common cause for Israel and to
build on Ambassador Ayalon’s impressive
legacy of reaching out to her Christian
friends.
In a keynote address, Rep. Tom
Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever
elected to the US Congress, compared the
Christians present to the righteous gentiles
who saved Jews during the Holocaust. “We
cannot tell you how precious you are to us,”
Lantos stated.
“We deeply love and respect you
more than you’ll ever know because you
represent the finest of civilization.”
Before the dinner, ICEJ USA Director
Susan Michael and Executive Director
Malcolm Hedding were able to join the
Ayalons in their hotel suite to thank them
for the warmth of their friendship during
their time in Washington and to present
a petition containing 11,489 signatures
declaring Christian support of Jerusalem
as the eternal and undivided capital of the
State of Israel.
The petition was prompted by the
withdrawal of the last two remaining foreign
embassies in the Israeli capital - El Salvador
and Costa Rica, during last summer’s
Lebanon border war.
“We are proud that the International
Christian Embassy Jerusalem is located
in Jerusalem, representing the millions
of Christians from all over the world who
stand with Israel,” the petition declared.
Summer
Hands On
Tour
July 5th – 16th 2007
Land Price US $ 850.00
18-30 yrs old
OUR GENERATION IS:
• Answering the call of Isaiah
40 to be a voice of hope, love
and restoration to the people of
Israel.
• Choosing to be representatives
of God’s truth to the nations
in these unique and turbulent
days.
• Joining together as one, to
move with God’s purposes for
our lives and for the Nation of
Israel.
ACCEPT THE INVITATION AND
JOIN GRAFTED AS WE SEEK TO
SERVE, STRENGTHEN, HEAL
AND LEARN ON THE SUMMER
HANDS ON TOUR 2007!
Price includes 11 nights accommodation,
touring, entrance fees, half board (full
breakfast and dinner), all outreach
activities and lecture material. Price
does not include airfare to and from
Israel, lunches, travel insurance, and
tips for guides and bus drivers.
For more information and online registration go to: www.grafted.org
or contact the Grafted staff at: grafted@icej.org

18
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
V I E W P O I N T
19
18 I N S I D E T H E E M B A S S Y
I N S I D E T H E E M B A S S Y
A State of Denial
The dark agenda behind Iran’s
Holocaust revision
By David Parsons
The genesis of Holocaust revisionism
As the horrors of the Holocaust
began to emerge in the waning days of
World War II, many found it difficult to
truly believe that an advanced society like
Germany could have committed such
atrocities. But the proof was there, not
only in the meticulous records kept by
German authorities, but also in the form
of survivors and other eyewitnesses who
could testify first-hand to the stark brutality
of the Nazi death camps.
Ma n y w o r l d l e a d e r s
expressed dismay at the
recent Holocaust denial
conference in Tehran.
Yet the nature and extent of Iran’s hostile
campaign to undermine Israel’s legitimacy,
taken together with its relentless drive
to acquire nuclear capabilities, should
be setting off much greater alarm bells
worldwide. The Islamic regime clearly
has ventured beyond traditional forms
of Holocaust denial and distortion into
what some consider outright ‘Holocaust
promotion’ – deliberately preparing the
groundwork for yet another genocidal
attempt against the Jewish people.
Behind the rhetoric
Shortly after his election as Iran’s
president in June 2005, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad began signalling his apocalyptic
intentions, echoing the words of
Ayatollah Khomeini that Israel must be
“wiped off the map”. Before long, he also
started issuing repeated denials that the
Holocaust ever happened.
The Iranian regime’s official campaign
to denigrate the Jewish state and
people gathered steam in 2006, with
a Holocaust cartoon competition that
culminated in August with over 1,100
entries from more than 60 nations.
Then in December, Iran’s foreign ministry
co-sponsored an international
conference to “review” the Holocaust
and its historical basis.
For those unclear about its purpose,
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr
Mottaki opened the gathering by stating:
“If the official version of the Holocaust
is thrown into doubt, then the identity
and nature of Israel will be thrown into
doubt.”
Mottaki added, “And if, during this
review, it is proved that the Holocaust was
a historical reality, then what is the reason
for the Muslim people of the region and
the Palestinians having to pay the cost of
the Nazis’ crimes?”
These comments mirrored
Ahmadinejad’s remarks one year earlier
at a gathering in Mecca of the Organisation
of the Islamic Conference:
“Certain European countries insist on
saying that Hitler has killed millions of Jews
in gas chambers… We do not believe this
assertion, but even if it were true, we ask the
Europeans: Is the murder of innocent Jews
by Hitler the reason for the support of the
occupiers of Jerusalem? … The Europeans
should offer part of their territory, from Germany,
Austria or other countries, so that the
Jews can install their state there.”
According to a new study on Iran’s
intentions released by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld,
an expert on anti-Semitism in
the post-Holocaust era, Ahmadinejad
believes the Shoah is the sole moral justification
for Israel’s existence, despite the
fact that the Zionist movement pre-dates
the Nazi genocide by decades. Thus, the
Iranian president thinks if he can undermine
the veracity of the Holocaust, he can
cultivate a popular mindset that would
acquiesce in the elimination of the Jewish
state. Gerstenfeld contends that this
has gone beyond Holocaust denial and
lapsed over into “Holocaust promotion”.
Dissecting denial
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Holocaust revisionism has become an integral part of the foreign policy of Tehran. (Photo: AP)
In essence, Holocaust denial is an
anti-Semitic conspiracy theory which
holds that, for self-serving reasons, the
Jewish people have deceived the entire
world into believing a colossal tale about
their own destruction.
Scholars have broken down the
phenomenon into several categories:
1) Holocaust denial – outright assertions
that there were no gas chambers
and no mass killings of Jews;
2) Holocaust minimisation – claims,
for instance, that less than one
million Jews died, or that other
recent genocides have been just
as bad;
3) Holocaust distortion – allegations,
for example, that the Jews brought
the Shoah down upon themselves;
4) Holocaust manipulation – charges
that Zionist leaders actually conspired
with the Nazis to begin exterminating
European Jewry in order
to draw sympathy for establishing a
Jewish state in Palestine, and finally
5) Holocaust inversion – accusations
that Israelis are today’s Nazis and
the Palestinians are victims of a
new and even worse genocide.
After touring an internment camp
near Gotha in western Germany, Allied
commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
wrote on 15 April 1945 about his own
encounter with a room where thirty dead,
emaciated Jewish bodies were found
stacked on top each other.
“The visual evidence and the verbal
testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality
were so overpowering as to leave me a
bit sick… [The notoriously macho General]
George Patton would not even enter. He said
he would get sick if he did so. I made the
visit deliberately, in order to be in a position
to give first-hand evidence of these things if
ever, in the future, there develops a tendency
to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda’.”
Eisenhower’s foresight was unfortunately
correct, as the “tendency” to cast
doubts on the Holocaust did develop, initially
in the 1950s in France. Among fascists
on the right and communists on the
left, charges arose that the gas chambers
were used only to de-lice inmates or that
the Jews were responsible for their own
suffering, since they had caused Germany’s
financial and political troubles.
But it was the Soviet Union that
mastered the genre of Holocaust denial
during the Cold War. Suppressing reams
of captured German war documents and
other hard evidence (which eventually
resurfaced after the fall of the Iron Curtain),
the Kremlin courted the Arab world
to its side by assaulting the legitimacy of
the international decision to create Israel,
which had aligned with the democratic
West.

20 w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
V I E W P O I N T
W h e r e J e w s a n d C h r i s t i a n s C o m e T o g e t h e r
A ready market
Muslim minds were already conditioned
to viewing Jews as having an
inherently evil, conspiratorial nature, due
to accounts of the Prophet Muhammad’s
own encounters with local Jewish tribes
contained in the Koran and hadiths (early
traditions). Thus, the Arabs were willing
consumers of this new Soviet propaganda.
The forged “Protocols of the Elders of
Zion” become a best seller in the Middle
East, while the “myth” of the Holocaust
was popularised.
Egyptian president Gamal Abdul
Nasser, for instance, once said he opposed
“the lie of the six million”.
Palestinian Authority president
Mahmoud Abbas completed his doctoral
dissertation at a Soviet university
in 1982 on “the secret ties between the
Nazis and the Zionist Movement leadership”.
Published in Arabic in 1984, his
study cited infamous Holocaust deniers,
raised doubts about the use of gas chambers
to exterminate Jews, and claimed
that “even less than a million” Jews were
killed. According to
MEMRI, Abbas also
charged that the
Zionists believed
in the purity of the
Jewish race as Hitler
believed in the purity
of the Aryan race.
Such ‘findings’ reflect the inability
of the Arab world to come to terms with
its repeated defeats on the battlefield
against tiny Israel. It was inconceivable
that the inferior Jews went from near
annihilation in Europe to conquering
sacred Muslim lands just three short
years later. It simply became easier to
Israelis reckon that the West is in
denial to the threat of a nuclear
Iran. They hope to wake the
world up before it’s too late.
chalk it up to the Jewish people’s mystic
ability to deceive the whole world with
the Holocaust ‘hoax’.
Coming to power in Iran in 1979,
Khomeini preached that Israel was also
a bridgehead for
the Western assault
on the culture and
religion of the Middle
East, and that
the Jews prevented
Islam from expanding
worldwide. He
thus set his country on a collision course
with Israel that is being zealously pursued
by Ahmadinejad today.
Enough denial to go around
Dr. Gerstenfeld, himself a survivor,
insists that, “Holocaust denial is offensive,
but few respectable people engage
in it anymore because they end up looking
ignorant. What is far more worrying
today is the ‘Holocaust promotion’
coming out of Iran and the world’s tepid
response.”
He points out, for instance, that
former Iranian president Ayatollah
Hashemi Rafsanjani is labelled by many
in the Western media as a “pragmatic
conservative”, even though he was the
first to suggest back in 2002 that acquiring
an atomic bomb to annihilate Israel
could be beneficial for Islam, since Israel’s
response would only result in “some
damage” to Arab cities.
ICEJ & Knesset Allies Caucus
Women’s Summit Tour
13th – 22nd May 2007
Land Price USD 1144*
includes 2 day registration fee to Summit
Highlights Include:
10 day tour including a 2 day Christian
Allies Caucus Women’s Summit
focusing on the hardships facing women
worldwide and the solutions that can be
found by the application of Judeo-Christian
values. The conference will focus on
lobbying governments to end:
• Abuse of women
• Female genital mutilation
• Trafficking of women
• Incest
• Honour killing
Visit shared Biblical sites common to
Jews and Christians throughout the land of
Israel.
Dialogue with women from all backgrounds
and walks of life, from Knesset
members to victims of terror.
Discuss the ideas that govern radical
Islam, take a closer look at Europe’s
response to women in a post holocaust
society and examine the Biblical
values that tie Israel to the west.
Join Christian and Jewish women from all walks of life in Jerusalem, the city of God, to become
empowered by the application of Biblical values to educate and influence your nation on issues
critical to women globally. Travel throughout the land of Israel and discover how Jewish and
Christian women can unite to impact the present and future generations.
US General Dwight D. Eisenhower surveys the horrors of the Dachau concentration camp after its
liberation by Allied forces in early 1945
Many Israelis reckon that the West
is largely still in their own state of denial
as to the seriousness of the threat posed
by a nuclear Iran and its radical brand
of Islam. It is a very human trait to react
to virtually hopeless situations by suppressing
the grim truth and believing
things are not as bad as they seem. It is
a symptom many Israelis succumbed
to with regards to the Palestinians until
the sobering collapse of the Oslo peace
process. They hope to wake up the rest
of the world about Iran as well, before it’s
too late.
contact ICEJ Women’s Summit Tour at:
P. O. Box 1192 • Jerusalem •91010 • Israel
Tel +972 (0)2 5399700 (Israel)
+1 704 283 2833 (USA)
womenssummit@icej.org
Christian Allies Caucus
Women’s Council
*Subject to change based on minimum 35 persons

22
T R I B U T E
w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
23
22 w o r d f r o m j e r u s a l e m
I N S I D E T H E E M B A S S Y
Yuri possessed a rare
combination of graciousness,
honesty, intel-
?????????????
lect and foresight that
uniquely qualified him
to be a leader in this
new era of warmer relations
between Israel and
her Christian admirers
worldwide.
MK Yuri Shtern
A champion of deepening Jewish-Christian ties
Remembering ‘Mayor Teddy’
When Jerusalem’s legendary
former mayor,
Teddy Kollek, died on
2 January 2007, it took
me back to the days of the founding of the
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
over 26 years ago.
Only a visionary like Teddy would
have responded as he did to a group of
Christians like us who wanted to express
our support for Israel. Back then, most
Israelis were still very sceptical of evangelical
Christians, but the beloved Mayor
of Jerusalem recognised early on that our
friendship was genuine and helped open
the doors of the city and the nation to us.
I stood with quiet expectation as
‘Mayor Teddy’ – as he was fondly known
By Timothy King
– arrived on September 30, 1980 to preside
over the dedication of our first Embassy
building just down the street from his
home in Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighbourhood.
International reaction to Israel’s passage
of the “Jerusalem Law” had just driven
13 foreign embassies from the capital to Tel
Aviv. But a group of Evangelicals decided
it was time to go against the tide of world
opinion and open our own “Christian
Embassy” in the city.
There were many reasons for him
to stay away that day. But Teddy realised
the enormous potential of Christian support
for Jerusalem and for the nation,
and despite his European background
forged in the shadow of the Holocaust,
he extended a welcoming hand.
In fact, Kollek later was to recall it
as “one of the most moving days of my
life.”
Looking back, we can appreciate
even more the foresight of Teddy Kollek,
who valued Christian support before it
was acceptable to do so.
Serving the city proudly from 1965
to 1993, Teddy was a mayor for ALL the
people, and we shall miss him deeply.
By Malcolm Heddiing
We were deeply saddened
by the passing
of our beloved friend
Dr. Yuri Shtern, Member
of Knesset and chairman of the
Knesset Christian Allies’ Caucus, who
died on 16 January 2007 at age 58.
In our hearts, Yuri will always be
remembered as a gentle, selfless champion
of the historic deepening of Christian-Jewish
relations in our time.
The International Christian
Embassy Jerusalem has been closely
acquainted with Dr. Shtern for over two
decades, ever since his pioneering days
as an activist for the release of Soviet
Jewry. Thus we came to appreciate his
genuine openness to Christians long
before he realised his vision of creating
a forum in the Israeli parliament to
engage with the Christian world.
Yuri possessed a rare combination
of graciousness, honesty, intellect and
foresight that uniquely qualified him to
be a leader in this new era of warmer
relations between Israel and her Christian
admirers worldwide.
Despite his protracted battle with
cancer, Yuri continued to tirelessly work
on Israel’s behalf to strengthen ties
with Christians without any thought for
himself. His persistence and sacrifice
were truly inspiring, as was his ability
to identify and address the most daunting
challenges of our day.
Though we share Yuri’s trust in
Providence, we cannot help but sense
that we lost him before his time. It is
our duty and privilege to build on his
noble legacy.
Looking back, we can
appreciate even more the
foresight of Teddy Kollek,
who valued Christian
support before it was
acceptable to do so.
FUNERAL DISTRIBUTION SERVICE IN ISRAEL
Christians who love Israel can now have their cremated remains scattered in appropriate sites in the Holy Land. This
unique service is offered by Oren Real Estate and Investment Management. Should you desire further information,
please go to www.isrash.com or phone: +972 3 956 5128.

Embassy Resources Ltd
Please send orders to the Israel office ONLY!
NEW
DVD/VIDEO
2006 FEAST HIGHLIGHTS
An inside look at this year’s
Feast celebration, The Great
Hosanna offers an exclusive
taste of Israel’s largest annual
Christian gathering. (89 mins.)
DVD $20/Video $15 - PAL
and NTSC
NEW
DEVOTIONAL BOOK/CD
A Worshipper’s Guide to the
Holy Land
The ministry of Dennis Jernigan
and Chuck King is reunited on
the soil of Israel in this 280
page devotional book with a
compilation CD of original music,
including three duets with Chuck
and Dennis.
CD/DVD
In February of 2004, The
Covenant was filmed live at
the International Convention
Center Jerusalem. Now also
available on DVD with subtitles
in various languages.
DVD $20/Video $15
MUSIC CD’s BY CHUCK KING
• Psalms of Ascent
• Highways to Zion
• Water From The Rock
Making an eclectic musical journey
through the scriptures, Chuck King
utilizes original and traditional
music in these beautiful collections
of worship.
NEW
BOOK SERIES
A new series by Rev.
Malcolm Hedding about
foundational beliefs
in Zionism, support
for Israel and God’s
promises for the nation.
Individual books, the
full set and tape series
are available.
Qty Item Description Price
Book — The Basis of Christian Support for Israel (Malcolm Hedding)
Book — The Heart of Biblical Zionism (Malcolm Hedding)
Book — The Great Covenants of the Bible (Malcolm Hedding)
Book — The New Testament and Israel (Malcolm Hedding)
Book — Celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles (Malcolm Hedding)
5x Book Series — Foundational Teaching Series (Malcolm Hedding)
NEW
Music CD — Water From The Rock (Chuck King)
Music CD — Psalms of Ascent (Chuck King)
Music CD — Highways to Zion (Chuck King)
NEW
NEW
NEW
NEW
NEW
DVD — 2006 Feast Highlights, “The Great Hosanna” NTSC PAL US$20
Video — 2006 Feast Highlights, “The Great Hosanna” NTSC PAL US$15
Music CD — The Covenant (2-CD set) 2006 recording
DVD - PAL — The Forsaken Promise - 3 hour, 2 disc set
DVD - NTSC — The Forsaken Promise - 2 hour, 1 disc set
NEW DVD — 2006 Feast Ein Gedi opening night NTSC PAL US$20
DVD — The Covenant, The Story of my People (Multi-zone) NTSC PAL US$20
DVD — Replacement Theology (Teaching DVD) NTSC PAL US$20
DVD+CD — The Covenant SPECIAL: SAVE US$10!
NTSC PAL US$30
4x Tape Series — The Mystery of Israel (Lance Lambert)
4x Tape Series — Biblical Perspective on the Restoration of Israel (Malcolm Hedding)
5x Tape Series — Foundational Teaching Series (Malcolm Hedding)
NEW
Book/CD — A Worshipper’s Guide to the Holy Land
3DVDCD — Bundle: 2005 Feast Highlights DVD, Way of Life/Jerusalem March DVD, Feast 2005 Music CD NTSC PAL US$45
3VHSCD — Bundle: 2005 Feast Highlights Video, Way of Life/Jerusalem March Video, Feast 2005 Music CD NTSC PAL US$35
Important Shipping Information!
Please add US $5 for the first item! Add an extra US$ 1.50 for each additional CD and tape. Add US $4 for each additional book,
DVD, video or tape series. Please allow 4-6 weeks for shipping. The ICEJ is NOT liable for shipping damage.
SUBTOTAL
Please use the following order options (Send order to Israel office only!):
a) fill out this form and mail to: Embassy Resources Ltd., PO Box 1192, Jerusalem 91010, Israel, cheque attached b) fill out this form
and fax it to 00-972-2-5669970 *Please make your cheques payable to Embassy Resources Ltd. c) email: resources@icej.org
Name: Address: City:
State: ZIP: Country: Email:
Credit Card: Amex Diners Masters Visa
Card No:
Exp.Date:
Name on Card: Tel: Signature:
Mailing
TOTAL
US$6
US$6
US$6
US$6
US$6
US$27
US$15
US$15
US$15
US$20
US$35
US$30
US$20
US$20
US$34
US$20