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Jews and Arabs have lived together for thousands of years with, it seems, very many more years of peace than war. For much of that time, Jews have lived outside the Holy Land, after their initial conquest of Canaan, when Yahweh gave them the Promised Land and, then exile to Babylon.
Perhaps, the greatest explosion of mutual killing between Jews and Muslims has taken place since 1948 with the founding of the State of Israel. That might never have taken place if it had not been for the 1939-45 war that brought the holocaust caused by the West. Germany was directly responsible but the other Christian Western nations knew what was going on, almost from the outset, in Germany from 1933.
It seems that the State of Israel came about for three reasons:
- The 'Christian' Western nations responsible for the 39-45 war and the persecution of the Jews, wanted to salve their conscience and to do something in restitution.
- Jews were fleeing persecution in war torn Europe to the land that they had first conquered and occupied 2,500 years, or more, ago.
- Because of the terrorism by the Jewish terrorist gangs, the West with the UN, designated a homeland for the Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine. Now known as the State of Israel.
That 39-45 war might never have taken place if only the British Empire had kept aloof from the 1914 war on the mainland of Europe. British entry on 4 August 1914 when we were ill equipped, was grossly premature and unnecessary when Britain was never in danger of being invaded between 1914 and 1918.
How many times do God's promises have to be fulfilled before we accept that they have been? The one I am thinking of was first fulfilled using fear, terror and the death of men, women and children on a grand scale during the fulfillment - and in its maintenance to this day. Therefore, was /is this really God's doing or the Devil's doing?
About 2,500 years ago it was the land of Canaan that became the Promised Land for the people of Israel. In 1948, it was the British Mandate of Palestine that became the Promised Land - a homeland for the Jews who had been dispersed to all corners of the earth.
OPEN LETTER TO RUTH JACOB, who showed the film on Israel at our church in September.
So say both the Palestinians and the Israelis. Both are wrong and both are right. Both can't compromise. "The Israeli/Palestinian congflict is not black and white. "Both are the good guys and the bad guys ... (this is) a clash between wrong and wrong ... a tragic clash between right and right ... (neither) pro Palestine nor pro Isarel but pro peace." said Amos Oz on 'Start the Week' on 5 November 2012. Both will not share with the other, so both suffer and have less than the best - especially the Palestinians who are under the cosh, dominated and controlled.
Do you believe that the greater boundary of the Promised Land (Joshua 1 v 4) is a legitimate ambition for Israel once all of Judea and Samaria falls into its hands?
Why do you think Israel is surrounded by enemies? Is this really something to be seen as a badge of honour, as the film seemed to think? For many evangelical Christians, Israel is likened to God. Israel is hated by the surrounding countries because as Jesus said, "As they hated me, so they will hate you." The very hatred for Israel by all its surrounding countries shows how Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled and is proof that God is slowly but surely working His purposes out in the Middle East for His greater glory.
Self defence against intermittent/interminable rockets coming over the border turns out, from time to time, to be an all out, large-scale military attack, invasion and re-occupation of Gaza, as we saw in Dec 2008 to January 2009. Is that fair enough?
Do you want a state for Palestine, provided it is Gaza and it is Judea and Samaria that officially become part of Israel, along with East Jerusalem?
It seems to me, that evangelical Christians, like those who saw the film on Israel at Hasbury Christian Fellowship in September, back Israel every step of the way. They do so as part of their work to help God give all the land, promised to only Israel and not to the Arabs, from the cedars of Lebanon in the north to the deserts of Sinai in the south and, from the great river Euphrates in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west (Joshua 1 v 4). Evangelical Christians do so to make sure that Bible prophecy is fulfilled. Only in this way is Armageddon (the end of the world) and the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus hastened.
In other words, the solid Christian support for Jews and Israel, come what may, has an ulterior motive - to boost their own cause, to hasten the end of the world and, to turn Jews and Israelis into born again Christians, like themselves!
