Part One

Israel-Palestinian Conflict

From a biblical viewpoint, the Israel-Palestinian conflict started when Abraham sinned with Hagar, who bore Ishmael.  Ishmael fathers the Arab people and Isaac the Jewish.  Complicating this further, 93% of Arabs are Muslim of some kind.  Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook in “Kill a Jew – Go to Heaven: The Perception of the Jew in Palestinian Society,” published in Jewish Political Studies Review 17:3-4 (Fall 2005), write:

The Palestinian religious, academic, and political elites teach an ideology of virulent hatred of Jews. The killing of Jews is presented both as a religious obligation and as necessary self-defense for all humankind.

This assessment of the Jews among Arabs or Muslims goes back centuries before the Zionist movement ever began.

No Jews live in Gaza.  Two sides dispute Jewish settlement in the West Bank.  There are 144 Jewish settlements in the West Bank.  Neither a majority of Palestinians or Jews back a two state solution with the addition of the creation of a separate Palestinian state.  Half of Jews desire complete expelling of Palestinians from Israel — that doesn’t include Gaza or the West Bank.  75% of Palestinians want the annihilation of Israel.  A large majority of all Palestinians support Hamas.

Having traveled to Israel and in the Jewish and Palestinian territories, it’s very tense there.  It cannot work like it is.  The Jews need a place of their own.  A two state solution will never succeed for obvious reasons.  Very good arguments say that Israel should have all the land and the Palestinians find someplace else to live with Arab people.  Jews should have their own, safe country.

Israel and the Land

Americans would never tolerate what the Jews do in Israel.  A certain psychology for the Jews not only allows them to concede to their conditions, but also causes many Jews to advocate for the Palestinians.  Many Jews lay a lot of blame on their own people for their problems.  I do feel for Israel because of the deep hatred from so many across the world for the Jews.

God still has a plan for Israel.  Even if Israel does not own the whole Holy Land, they continue possessing a right to it, based upon scripture.  God gave Israel the land, which is why it is called, “the Promised Land.”  This supports Israel’s statehood, its formal establishment, and perpetuation.  Palestine never had statehood.  It didn’t announce it’s own statehood until 1988.  The Palestinian territories are not recognized by the US, France, or the UK as a state.  At least four Palestinian organizations are designated as terrorist on the United States list, including Hamas.

My assessment of Israel is not some carte blanch acceptance of the policies of Israel.  I still pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States with its rampant ungodliness.  Support for Israel acknowledges God and the truth of scripture.

Two Wars

Because of world politics, the war in Israel associates with the one in Ukraine.  Some of the same characters appear in different roles in both conflicts.  I attribute both wars to the Biden administration in the United States.  Neither would have occurred with Trump as president of the United States.  Many would agree with that, less that would say it in public, but I also want to explain why I think it’s true.

More to Come