The problems that I have with Israel are these:
As last night's film showed, it is a mirror copy of the West, in particular the USA from whom it gets so much funding and enthusiastic support from the powerful Israeli lobby in the corridors of power. There are many US companies in tiny Israel. I feel the UK is the 51st state of the US and Israel is the 52nd. Both countries are swift to carry out the wishes of
the USA in the Middle East. As a result, both the UK and Israel incur the wrath of the vast majority of the populations of the Middle East who are horrified by the West's and Israel's attack, invasion and occupation of first Afghanistan from 7 October 2001 and then Iraq from the 19 March 2003. I include Israel with the West and NATO because, as I say, it looks and feels like a very powerful Western nation. They even speak the most impeccable English, too!
While Israel continues, by its own tragic admission in last night's film, to be "surrounded by enemies", it is a failed state. It can make the desert bloom but it cannot turn enemies into friends. It cannot turn the victim mentality of the Palestinians into bosom buddies. "It is more blessed to give than to receive" is beyond its comprehension. It simply takes yet more land in the West Bank for itself, feeling that is fair enough when it gave up Gaza. But that was without the agreement of any Palestinian. And what was left behind was razed to the ground to prevent the hated Palestinians from benefiting in any way!
In addition, the abysmal track record of who does the most killings puts Israel at the top of the league. Its might is right, shoot first ask questions later tactic means it simply ratchets up the loathing. The occasional extra-judicial killings by Mosad don't exactly help, either. Those of us who want to be proud of Israel, continue to observe their answer of aggression to every problem, in utter amazement at such a foolish and counter-productive policy. For them, it is always war, war and never jaw, jaw. Lots of military aggression against the Lebanese and Palestinians but not lots of talking or acts of sacrificial giving or sharing of the land. Now, threats against Iran to wipe their nuclear installations off the face of the earth. No balance of terror is allowed by Israel; only they are allowed to place Iran and Syria under the threat of nuclear annihilation, with the blessing of the USA. All their wars have got them absolutely nowhere. It has not given them the peace and security that other Western nations enjoy. Israel and the West are not respected by so many in the Arab world.
Yet, knowing all of this, many evangelical Christians look upon Israel as the apple of God's eye. It doesn't say much for God!
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