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On the penultimate and last day of the Munich Euro-Atlantic security conference there was a special flash "Highlite": The US-Senator Joseph "Joe" Lieberman received by Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and Wolfgang Ischinger equal awarded two prizes: 1.The large Federal Cross of Merit with star and the second Ewald von Kleist-medal (named after the founder of the Conference in 1962, then still "Wehrkundetagung"). Why the choice fell precisely on Lieberman?

Wolfgang Ischinger cited the grounds that he was a "model transatlantic figure". He was a "true friend" of the Munich Security Conference and have led the U.S. delegation for years and used for a long period for the German-American relations significantly. Is there more?

The Obama mentor Lieberman is formally a US-Democrat, but a real neo-conservative politicians with hawkish foreign policy views. In the annals of the Munich Conference Lieberman was a 2010, since it then with his appearance einhandelte a complaint for Auftstachelung to a war of aggression. Lieberman had on the security conference two years ago threatened Tehran with a military strike (" The default "from 6.2.2010):

"We have to decide: Either hard economic sanctions so that diplomacy works, or we are faced with military action, 'Lieberman said on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference. [...] The U.S. leaders pointed out that the military leadership of the USA have already confirmed such plans in the event that it does not come to a political solution. , No one wants that to happen. But if we do not act together and strong and if we do not do more than just talk, then that is what is going to happen. '"

The blogger Martin Pausch filed a complaint display:
"This ad has today entered into evening by mail to the prosecutor Dortmund:

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I hereby would like to make a complaint against Senator Jo Lieberman, as never declared a war on our soil or prepared, or started a war and should not be threatened. This threatened U.S. Senator Jo Lieberman in Munich on Iran.

I can understand in what predicament I bring the prosecution with this ad, but that violates Mr. Senator Jo Lieberman, even against the requirements, the United States has asked after the second world war in Germany.

I ask to you a case against Senator Jo Lieberman to consider.

Sincerely, Martin Pausch "

Pausch reasoned as follows: If the territorial scope of this Act, publicly, in a meeting or through dissemination of writings (. § 11 para 3) for aggressive war (§ 80) incites, shall be punished with imprisonment from three months to five years.

Lieberman is bellicist was louder Warcaller against Iraq is like a presence in TV channel Fox News, had the large financial stake in his election campaign in 2006, belongs to the US-Israel lobby. He is known for his advocacy of public camera surveillance and the surveillance of cyberspace: In 2010, he brought a legislative proposal: "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010" - the most rather than the "Kill Switch" law known. If it was approved, the American president full powers, the Internet would have the "emergency" to disable. Furthermore, Lieberman introduced a bill that should pursue activities such as the Wikileaks as illegal espionage.

Against Liebeman suspected of electoral irregularities, careful words, for his election in the State of Connecticut in 2000 and 2006 was boiling the rumor mill, as his rival candidates in two years with the exact same number of votes against him lost namely: "Exactly 448.077 votes" Statistically this was considered impossible and calls for an investigation of the elections were heard.

Lieberman and his wife Hadassah are Orthodox Jews and visit the Kesher Israel in Washington. The couple is a special faith close: the sect of the Lubavitcher Hasidim. This was originally set up in Belarus, its most prominent representative was the died in 1994 in New York Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

A particular problem is that the Chabad sect has a strong messianic, ie they actively seeks then to bring about a middle eastern scenario "Gog versus Magog" are where introduced into an apocalyptic battle "Armageddon" the birth pangs of the coming of the Messiah (Moshiach).

Is it a private person, so do not continue to fall into the weight of these personal religious background. If you, however, leaders such as Joseph Lieberman, the fact of his commitment to Chabad should already play a role in the public debate:

The picture shows Senator Joe Lieberman Lubavitcher Rebbe Schneerson with the few years before his death.

Joseph Liebermann's second wife Hadassah is also active in Chabad: " In her speech on the closing ceremony of the 22nd Annual International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch urged Hadassah Lieberman - wife of U.S. Senator from Connecticut continue the thousands of leaders of Jewish communities to strong proponent of strengthening their faith to be [...] The world needs leaders, a each in his own unique way, "she said to the crowd in a huge ballroom at the New York Hilton Hotel. (Chabad org. v. 11.2.2010).

Joe Lieberman is the author of a book about the religious meaning of the Sabbath. On 2.2.2012 Lieberman wrote about it in the "Jewish General" : "For me the observance of Shabbat rules is one of the purest and deepest joys in life. The Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson once wrote, On Shabbat we cease to wrestle with the world, not because we are on the Shabbat of our mission to perfect the world, exempted, but because on Shabbos, the world is already perfect. We enter into a relationship with what is perfect and unchangeable in her. ' And: "The Talmud contains a wonderful teaching that the Messiah would come and redeem mankind is when all people meet twice in a row, the Shabbat."

On a Chabad-blog the Senator is highly praised for his efforts to the Sabbath:
"As has already been mentioned on this blog, the messianic era dawns. Just as our Rabbis have taught us the Moishiach would arrive when we meet every two Shabbosos row. Perhaps it is a book of a high-ranking government officials is a necessary step to achieve this goal. "

The cooperation of Zionist organizations with US-fundamentalist American evangelicals and Christian Zionists is a phenomenon which can be difficult to imagine Europeans in general. In America, however, there is a widespread belief that we are living in "end times", the decisive battle in the Middle East, specifically to take place in Israel and then return the Messiah and his disciples and followers personally would lift skyward.

In July 2008, Lieberman spoke at the annual conference of the powerful organization "Christians United for Israel" (CUFI dt .: Christians for Israel combined). In July of the following year the CUFI-chairman received U.S. Senator John Hagee, the " Defender of Israel Award "(= Defender of Israel Award). Pastor Hagee, the founder and leader of the "Christians-for-Israel organization" created in the past for eyebrows with comments such as: "The Catholic Church is the great whore" and the assertion that God Adolf Hitler was sent to the Jews to bring to Israel. cf.. "Jerusalem Post" 07/23/2008

John Hagee wrote in his book "Jerusalem Countdown" (note the Armageddon oriented title) "Then God sent the hunters. The hunter is the one who pursues his goal with violence and terror. No one could imagine the horrors of the Holocaust, but violence and horrors of Hitler and the Nazis brought the Jewish people back to the only home God had intended for the Jews - Israel. I stand amazed before the precision of the Word of God and its significance for the present. I am awe-struck and admire his boundless love for Israel and the Jewish people and His divine certainty that his promise he gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob became a reality. "

Elsewhere, the messianic-evangelical pastor would be a public nuisance, which would you endure and go. In the United States, however, he receives thereby meaning that influential politicians à la Lieberman, who recognize a large sectional area with Hagee in their policy objectives, its organizational shake hands.

At the award ceremony for Lieberman in 2009 Hagee told the Israeli Premier Netanyahu via satellite circuit: "50 million Christians support Israel's sovereign right to grow and build settlements, as it sees fit and would like it not to pressure the Government of the United States prevented. "the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East is not that Israelis on the West Bank lived, but the regime in Tehran. Cause of the sharp criticism Pastor Hagee was Obama's call for a halt to the expansion of illegal settlements on Palestinian land.

One would Lieberman cordially like to wish with his religious beliefs all the best, but his latest award with the Federal Cross of Merit at the Munich Security Conference calls a great danger with all clarity renewed awareness: The problem influential messianic evangelical and Zionist groups that the end times and the final battle yearn "Gog Magog against" to experience the arrival or return of the Messiah and so unexpectedly can ignite a conflagration.

Because they meeting in Iran on an equally strong faith Mahdi, who also thinks in eschatological dimensions. Iranian President Ahmadinejad never misses an opportunity to the public to pray for the coming of the Mahdi. The Munich-based historian Wolfgang Eggert warns for quite some time before this extremely dangerous constellation. On the Internet, he has dedicated a petition Platform called "Apocalypse No" set.

The award of the Cross of Merit with Star of the messianic Chabad followers Joe Lieberman in Munich is therefore entirely the wrong signal.

It is therefore a tragic blunder, because we Germans well known because of our fatal story, so our politicians all over the country are not tired of emphasizing carry a special responsibility for Israel.

Therefore, it would have German top priority for us, to halt halt those that threaten Iran with a first strike. The predictable response of the cornered country that has never before in its history attacked another country, would probably be an act of revenge against Israel.

Eschatological Messianists would cheer - the Israeli people, however, could appear before its destruction and - horribile dictu - again would have passed to the German helping hand.

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Tags: Chabad Lubavitch , Iran , Israel , Joe Lieberman , John Hagee , Menachem Schneerson

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