Living Armstrongism: HWA, Yasser Arafat and the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

HWA, Yasser Arafat and the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

On September 17, 1982 HWA began writing one of his co-worker letters for WCG members and co-workers (non-members who donated to WCG).

He begins with these words.

I call on you to AWAKEN! We seem numb to the frightening SIGNIFICANCE of events in Europe and the Middle East! Today — just hours ago — the West German government FELL! It happened suddenly. Yesterday the Israelis moved swiftly into West Beirut, after the assassination of the President Elect of Lebanon. Just a couple days ago the Pope received terrorist leader Yasser Arafat and was photographed with him. Although my aides told me Arafat had invited me to a meeting with him, I refused to see him or to allow one of my aides to see him in my stead. Tomorrow the funeral will be held for Princess Grace of the kingdom of Monaco. Probably the November issue of The PLAIN TRUTH will carry a picture of Princess Grace and me dining side by side at a formal banquet.

Let's break this down a bit.

I call on you to AWAKEN! We seem numb to the frightening SIGNIFICANCE of events in Europe and the Middle East!

HWA always says this.

Today — just hours ago — the West German government FELL! It happened suddenly.

And today such an event seems quite distant and remote today.

Yesterday the Israelis moved swiftly into West Beirut, after the assassination of the President Elect of Lebanon.

Indeed the President Elect of Lebanon was assassinated. A man connected with a pro-Syrian party was arrested for it. After that the Israelis advanced into West Beirut. It was particularly easy since the PLO fighters had withdrawn as part of an earlier ceasefire agreement. Part of the deal was that the Israelis would not advance into West Beirut. This was ignored.

Just a couple days ago the Pope received terrorist leader Yasser Arafat and was photographed with him. Although my aides told me Arafat had invited me to a meeting with him, I refused to see him or to allow one of my aides to see him in my stead.

So although HWA was quite comfortable meeting with authoritarian leaders like Nicolae Ceaușescu he chose to draw the line at Yasser Arafat.

Tomorrow the funeral will be held for Princess Grace of the kingdom of Monaco. Probably the November issue of The PLAIN TRUTH will carry a picture of Princess Grace and me dining side by side at a formal banquet.

Was HWA exploiting the tragic death of Princess Grace to insist that the end is near? Over thirty years later we are still waiting for HWA's words to be fulfilled.

In any event it was later decided to have a photo of President Reagan and Chancellor Schmidt on that cover.

HWA then talked about other stuff and near the end he alludes to the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

I began this letter Friday, September 17. Because of interruptions, and the Sabbath day, I have been interrupted until now, Monday afternoon, the 20th. Just this afternoon President Reagan went on the air announcing that due to the horrifying massacre in Lebanon late Friday after I started this letter, he is sending the U.S. Marines back into Lebanon to restore order. The Israelis are being condemned around the world, though they did not directly or intentionally cause it. TERRORIST AND TERRIFYING WORLD EVENTS ARE ACCELERATING BY THE HOUR!

The massacre lasted thirty-six hours. Those who committed the massacre, right wing Falangists, were let in by Israeli orders. The whole time the massacre raged for thirty-six hours Israeli personnel were stationed around the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon was later forced to resign after an Israeli investigation judged him to be indirectly responsible for the massacre.

But it is clear with this letter that HWA had already reached his conclusion that Israeli personnel were not to blame.

It is so strange to see the terrible timing with HWA deciding to condemn Yasser Arafat and boast that he would not meet with him at about the same time that thousands of Palestinian civilians were being massacred and murdered en masse by the Falangists over thirty-six hours while Israeli personnel were stationed outside Sabra and Shatila.

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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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HWA, Yasser Arafat and the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

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