The nations of Israel and India must be the most tragic legacy of 'Christian' Britain's foreign policy of going into all the world to make disciples of every nation. This was a foreign policy of colonising the most nations for itself in the history of humanity. Not for disciples of Jesus Christ.
In reality, Britain stole the most nations, stole their people for slavery and looted their possessions. Not quite what Christ meant by going into all the world! Britain controlled and captured all these lands in order to govern, to dominate and to grow rich.
In Palestine, it ended with favouritism towards the Jews with the Arabs losing out in the interwar years, despite their help in us 'winning' the 14 - 18 war. This was followed by the Jews/Zionists wholesale assimilation into the US/UK empire of W European nations as the State of Israel. Some Arabs call Israel the cuckoo in the nest.
A tragedy of tragedies when the people of Israel gave birth to Christianity and from the Arabs came Islam. Yet, all were the descendants of Abraham. And, from Abraham's descendants of Jews, Christians and Muslims all the nations of the world were to be blessed!
Not quite the blessing the Good Lord intended, methinks!
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