Why have Evangelicals allied themselves with Israel & Zionists?

[Brian_C]

Pro_universal, my point with that 1960’s-70’s timeline is to point out the growth and expansion of Palestinian and Arab terrorism. Our current definition of international terrorism, for better or worse, began with the PLO factions’ actions beginning in the late 60’s and early 70’s, continuing on into the late 80’s. I’m sure if we wanted to, we could trace current Islamic terrorism to some sectarian violence in Macedonia in the pre-Roman days if we want to keep making connections, but for all intents and purposes, modern terrorism was molded by the actions of the PLO.

As for the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s actions date to before 1948. I used the '48 date b/c that’s when the Muslim Brotherhood began attacking other Muslims who it felt were too secular and not fundamentalist enough…They, of course were anti-semetic and the attacks were due to inactivity by their own govt in fighting the Zionists.

Let’s not forget the “Grand Mufti of Jerusalem” and his fomenting of the arab riots in 1920-1. There was a swell guy. Good pal of Hitler and Eichmann. Also, if I am not mistaken, a relative of Arafat’s.

 

[pro_universal]

Brian_C:

Pro_universal, my point with that 1960’s-70’s timeline is to point out the growth and expansion of Palestinian and Arab terrorism. Our current definition of international terrorism, for better or worse, began with the PLO factions’ actions beginning in the late 60’s and early 70’s, continuing on into the late 80’s. I’m sure if we wanted to, we could trace current Islamic terrorism to some sectarian violence in Macedonia in the pre-Roman days if we want to keep making connections, but for all intents and purposes, modern terrorism was molded by the actions of the PLO.

As for the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s actions date to before 1948. I used the '48 date b/c that’s when the Muslim Brotherhood began attacking other Muslims who it felt were too secular and not fundamentalist enough…They, of course were anti-semetic and the attacks were due to inactivity by their own govt in fighting the Zionists.

Let’s not forget the “Grand Mufti of Jerusalem” and his fomenting of the arab riots in 1920-1. There was a swell guy. Good pal of Hitler and Eichmann. Also, if I am not mistaken, a relative of Arafat’s.

The Grand Mufti as far as we know never killed or ordered killed a single Jew. Several Middle East Regimes cooperated with Hitler, like those in North Africa, but they insisted on his troops leaving their Jews alone, so that point is really moot about the Mufti. Political alliances don’t always mean complete identification.

As for your points about terrorism, you are missing mine: The growth of Arab terrorism followed the Irgun model. Your timeline is correct, but so is mine: The Jewish terror gangs had been engaging in terrorism since the early 40’s, and when the Palestinians began to engage in terrorism 30 years later, they followed the pattern laid down for them by the first Israelis.

Do you understand this? The first terrorists in Palestine weren’t the Arabs…they were the Israelis, who because of their huge success via terrorism in driving out the British, led the Palestinians to conclude such behavior was the right means to achieve nationhood. The international community sent the wrong message on terrorism by ignoring the Israeli terror strikes on the British and Arabs, and this is the result.

 

[cestusdei]

The Arabs got there how? By terrorizing and invading. The Mufti was vicious and Muslims have never shirked from killing Jews. Their own prophet set the example.

 

[pro_universal]

cestusdei:

The Arabs got there how? By terrorizing and invading. The Mufti was vicious and Muslims have never shirked from killing Jews. Their own prophet set the example.

Typical cestus: devoid of any on point discussion, evidence, or anything other than frothing-at-the-mouth hatred of muslims.

You really need to re-think your vow.

 

[Semper_Fi_1]

JSmitty2005:

No. No politically correct liberal would tell you that that is Who those writings refer to, but it is the historical interpretation and is quite obvious.

Apparently you are unaware that Jesu in the Omissions of the Talmud refers to not one specific individual, but at least a few. Jesu was quite a popular name in Judea. These writings were subsequently removed from the Talmud anyway so your point is moot.

 

[LtTony]

Daniel Marsh:

you maqy want to read Romans 11, it is the church that was grafted into Isreal, not the other way around.

Many evangelicals hold to dispensationalist theology and as such believe that modern Isreal is a fullfullment of prophecy. Since, modern isreal is in unbelief concerning Jesus I do not see them as a fulfillment of prophecy. And, since I see Islam as teaching another Jesus and another Gospel, we as Christians have very little in common with either modern isreal or with islam.

Thank you, Daniel. For my money only you and two other posters directly answered the question, which is one I have asked about in the past. I had trouble finding info on dispensationalism that I could understand. But from what I could tell, it teaches theology that is not Catholic, and I agree with you that there is no Biblical connection with the modern secular state of Israel. But I could be wrong and would be interested in reading any thoughts on this subject.

 

[Kevan]

LtTony:

But I could be wrong and would be interested in reading any thoughts on this subject.

A fairly short book on the topic is available online (=free) and is an authoritative source: C. I. Scofield’s Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth. It’s on an anticatholic, KJVO web site, but Scofield himself wasn’t what we’d call anticatholic. He and his Catholic wife divorced early in his life and he maintained a loving relationship with his Catholic child (children?) throughout, even asking his daughter–smiling, of course–to ask the Blessed Virgin to intercede for him about one thing or another.

 

[Brian_C]

Uh, wait a second…now Catholics also have a stake in this, we can’t just blame evangelicals. JPII discusses how we “long for the day when the Jews accept Christ” per Revelations in Crossing the Threshold of Hope.

LtTony:

Thank you, Daniel. For my money only you and two other posters directly answered the question, which is one I have asked about in the past. I had trouble finding info on dispensationalism that I could understand. But from what I could tell, it teaches theology that is not Catholic, and I agree with you that there is no Biblical connection with the modern secular state of Israel. But I could be wrong and would be interested in reading any thoughts on this subject.

 

[Brian_C]

Boy, if you deny this, I think there’s nothing more to discuss.

pro_universal:

The Grand Mufti as far as we know never killed or ordered killed a single Jew. Several Middle East Regimes cooperated with Hitler, like those in North Africa, but they insisted on his troops leaving their Jews alone, so that point is really moot about the Mufti. Political alliances don’t always mean complete identification.

As for your points about terrorism, you are missing mine: The growth of Arab terrorism followed the Irgun model. Your timeline is correct, but so is mine: The Jewish terror gangs had been engaging in terrorism since the early 40’s, and when the Palestinians began to engage in terrorism 30 years later, they followed the pattern laid down for them by the first Israelis.

Do you understand this? The first terrorists in Palestine weren’t the Arabs…they were the Israelis, who because of their huge success via terrorism in driving out the British, led the Palestinians to conclude such behavior was the right means to achieve nationhood. The international community sent the wrong message on terrorism by ignoring the Israeli terror strikes on the British and Arabs, and this is the result.

I understand your points about the Zionists but you also fail to grasp mine. The profusion of modern international terroism is a direct result of anti-Israeli groups. You bring up the Irgun. Who influenced them? Surely they didn’t invent these techniques? So, should we be blaming their influences? No. Modern terrorism was defined (is that a better word?) by the actions of the PLO and other Palestinian groups in the 60’s-80’s.

 

[pro_universal]

Brian_C:

Boy, if you deny this, I think there’s nothing more to discuss.

I understand your points about the Zionists but you also fail to grasp mine. The profusion of modern international terroism is a direct result of anti-Israeli groups. You bring up the Irgun. Who influenced them? Surely they didn’t invent these techniques? So, should we be blaming their influences? No. Modern terrorism was defined (is that a better word?) by the actions of the PLO and other Palestinian groups in the 60’s-80’s.

Why shouldn’t be blaming the Irgun and Lehi? That’s where the PLO learned how to operate.

You keep repeating the mantra that it’s a direct result of anti-Israeli groups, but the problem is that the Zionist terror groups were doing all the same things 30 years before the Palestinians got going with it.

So, I will ask you: Do you think it’s just a coincidence that the Palestinians ended up using the exact same tactics that the Irgun and Lehi groups used against both themselves and the British?

I see no reason why you insist on cutting off the chain of causality at the Palestinians in the 1970’s. There was terrorism in Israel before that, and it was mainly the Zionist groups doing it…so why shouldn’t we locate the origin of middle eastern terrorism with them?

 

[murtad]

pro_universal:

The evangelicals have allied themselves with Israel for apocalyptic reasons and also because the Palestinian Christians who have been divested of homes, rights, and in many cases lives by the Israeli military forces are mostly Catholic.

Now, Pro_Universal you are speaking yet another great lie. The largest Church in Palestine is the Greek Orthodox Church, and not the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore, we Catholics should not be interested to protect the Greek Orthodox Church, when their sister Russian Orthodox Church persecutes Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses as well as Atheists in Russia?

pro_universal:

If the Palestinians had all become members of American Protestant Churches in 1947, It is a virtual certainty that the Evangelicals would not be reacting the same way to Israeli policy towards Arab Palestinians.

If the above comment of yours is true, then how come when the Russian Orthodox Church persecutes Protestants, Catholics and Jehovah’s Witnesses, these American Protestants and Catholics remain silent? Why are you, Pro_Universal, so silent on the Russian Orthodox Church illegal move to turn Russia into a theocracy? Remember, their government refusal to allow Pope John Paul II and his successor Pope Benedict XVI to visit Russia as this is offending to the Russian Orthodox Church. Also, do you remember the illegal ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses and refusal to allow Catholics to built houses of worship?

pro_universal:

The condition today of all Palestinians, Muslim and Catholic, is a stain on the record of the United Nations and especially the United States for their turning a blind eye towards gross human rights absuses and aggression by the Israeli state.

There is a big difference between Palestine Muslim and Palestine Catholic. Muslims are Arabs as they worship in Arabic, while Catholic worship in Hebrew, the native language of our Lord Jesus. Thus, Muslims and Christians are lingustically difference, so, I support outlawing Arabic and making Hebrew the national language of Palestine to further make a clash between Jews and Muslims. Islam should be banned.

 

[murtad]

Muslim:

well one thing is… Jews have the money…

Another thing is Muslims have much more money from oil and according to Dr Jochen Katz of Answering-Islam Islamist missionaries use this oil wealth to bribe those non-Muslims who love money to convert to Islam. The reknown Palestinian activist Edward W. Said embraced Islam as he was bribed. Edward W. Said has always opposed Christian evangelism of Muslims.

Muslim:

second… Islam is an enemy to the evangelicals and therefore they must side with someone else who does not hold favorable view towards Muslims (ie the Israelis)

Actually, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Hinduism are all enemies to us, evangelical Catholics. Our love for our enemies is to convert them because we wish to save them from darkness. You may be aware I am a former Muslim who is an evangelical within the Catholic Church

I ask my patron saint Urban II (who is the chief architect of the crusades), to pray to our Lord Jesus to bless the Hindu Fundamentalists in India for they did the right thing by destroying the Babri Masjid that stood on the site of the Temple of Rama.

Muslim:

There are tons of Palestinian Christians as well and I know couple of them and they want their land back just as much as any other Palestinian…

As you are a Muslim, you surely do not know “Christians” as your own Quran does not even have the word “Christian”. As I am a former Muslim living in Malaysia, I studied Arabic in the subject Islamic Studies (aka Pendidikan Islam) during my school days. I scored distinction in my O Levels (aka SPM) - yes, A1. Yet, I am an apostate from Islam, in Arabic, we say murtad. Your own Quran says “Nasrani” and FYI, the Ecumenical Council of Nicea condemned Father Arius, the founder of the Nasrani. The COPTIC, SYRIAC, and GREEK people in the middle east are not Arabs, and they do not support Arabs Islam. Palestine before Islam was Greek-speaking! Even Palestine means “land of Greeks”. Egypt before Islam has Greeks and Copts, while Assyria (Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria) had Greeks and Syriacs. Turkey was Greek-speaking and birth place of founder of the Greek nation, Yavan.

Muslim:

I believe there are some hasidic Jews who does not favor zionism and infact oppose Israel. If you go to Israel, which is supposed to be a holy land, it has turned into a land full of immoral people with drinking, drugs, sex, clubs, homosexuals, etc. everywhere.

The Catholic faith is clear that the land of Palestine or even the land of Saudi Arabia is not holy land - there is only one holy land, it is the New Jerusalem, Vatican City.

Christians are allowed to engage in moderate drinking. During holy communion, I drink alcohol and I notice the Malaysian government imposes high taxes on alcohol - this is an attack on the Catholic faith. Also, Israeli Arabs are the largest number of Palestinian homosexuals. I think this is because of Islam. So, should we ban Islam?

Muslim:

Remember, Palestinian is an ethnicity not a religion.

The word “Palestinian” as used by Muslims is not an ethnicity, its just like American, we call it “State”. A State can have many ethnicities. In Palestine, we have five faiths :

1. Greek Orthodox Church
2. Coptic Orthodox Church
3. Syriac Orthodox Church
4. Arabic Islamic Ummah
5. Hebrew Orthodox Jews

Israel has 6 official languages, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Coptic and Syriac. Israel is Palestine, Palestine is Israel. We, Christians say no to Arabic, the language of the murderers of our Lord.

 

[murtad]

lorrainerich:

But you forgot, Muslims even have more common with Judaism than with the Christianity of Paul.

Judaism worships in Hebrew and Islam worships in Arabic, and moreover considers Arabic a pagan language, so you have nothing in common.

lorrainerich:

From belief in ONE TRUE GOD (monotheism) to many dietry laws. And especially Arabs being the descendents of ONE father (Prophet) Abraham. Then Islam has a special place for general Jews as among the People of the Book.

Dietary laws of Islam differ from Judaism. Halal food is not necessarily Kosher food and vice versa. Kosher means abstention from swine and camel, while Halal is abstention from swine. Also, Judaism considers alcohol kosher for sacramental purpose, while Islam forbids alcohol totally forbidden.

Arabs are not descendants of Abraham, no more than Greeks are descendants of Yavan. Arab, Greek, Copt, Syriac, Chinese and English are languages. Anyone who prays in English becomes English, just as anyone who prays in Arabic is an Arab.

lorrainerich:

The real culprits are the political Zionists who are not even true Jews in the eyes of those Jews who disagree with them theologically and still waiting for their Messiah.

When you say “political Zionist” you forget that every religion is political Zionism is political Judaism, just as Islamism is political Islam. Also, 98% of the Jewish people are Zionists with a mere 2% non-Zionists.

lorrainerich:

Intelligent Jews like Einstien have opposed Zionists’ agenda because they knew it is not coming out of their scriptures but from politically motivated conspiracy and to keep Jews away from Europe after the mass massacre of Jews in Adolf Hitlers’ civilised Germany.

Have you not read the Old Testament (aka Torah)? God commands the Jews to conquer Palestine from the Muslims. The Israeli military commander, Moses and his successors right from Joshua up until David and Solomon conquered every inch of the land of Palestine from the River Nile to the River Euphrates and then outlawed Islam.

lorrainerich:

Evangelicals are more political and less religious. Their main agenda is to be friend of enemy’s enemy.

The Catholic faith teaches to be religious is to be political, for Lord Jesus said: “faith without works is dead”. Its true Christians take to be our friends the enemies of Islam (both Hinduism and Judaism) because India and Israel have great toleration for evangelism of non-Christians. Do you expect us to support Islam when it murders Christians? Remember, Afganistan issue concerning a Muslim who converted to the Catholic faith posted here by Cestusdei?

lorrainerich:

And their Biblical interpretation is simply to grab common Christians who never get chance/or have no time at all to read their Bible critically and objectively.

How does one read the Bible critically and objectively? Let me tell you that I am a former Muslim who embraced Catholic faith, I accept Cathecism of Catholic Church (CCC) and Sacred Tradtion of the Church as authoratative way to critically and objectively interpret the Bible. I am not Sola Scriptura.

 

[randel]

murtad:

We, Christians say no to Arabic, the language of the murderers of our Lord.

Hi Murtad,

After reading some of your posts, my advice to you is:
Please learn atleast basics and fundamentals of Islam, Judaism and all Christian denominations/sects.
You certainly have no basic info. Your posts, that I read, are full of ignorance and misinformation; and reading them was a waste of time.

Don’t make fool out of yourself by making statement like “We, Christians say no to Arabic, the language of the murderers of our Lord”.

You mean the people who “murdered” your Lord (God) were Arabs or used to speak Arabic? Do you really believe that your God was murdered by Arabic speaking people? Or it was the power of Arabic langauge that made Arabs to “kill” your God?

 

[valient_Lucy]

murtad:

Christians say no to Arabic, the language of the murderers of our Lord.

Hate to burst your bubble, but the Jews (and other Judean settlers of Jesus’ time) spoke Aramaic, NOT Arabic. Different languages.

 

[eaglehawk]

jsmitty

im sure you agree with me that just because we are catholic doesnt mean that we should automatically side with the palestinians, rfcnet.org does charities and apparently supports palestinian christians by selling soap, they report that the christians are leaving bethlehem in droves not only because of the israeli occupation but because of persecution by muslims and the former pa, is this true or is this propaganda?

you ask “Why have Evangelicals allied themselves with Israel & Zionists?”

i think ur question has already been answered so need for me to add on but
let me get this out… im sick of the “jews good zionists bad” cliche. didnt Pope JPII say anti-zionism is equated with anti-semitism? israel has every right to exist as much as palestine and whether the evangelical protestant dispensationallist doctrine supports israel or not it doesnt matter. just like usa or france, israel is far from perfect but i support a country’s right to exist and measures to defend themselves especially from those who choose to make a point by blowing themselves up killing woman and children. as a catholic, apart from the doctrinal issues and anti-catholic legends, not that i wanted to but i have more in common with evangelical christians than most mainline protestant churches. some of these protestant churches like some anglicans bishops and lutherans have compromised core christian beliefs and adopted the liberal leftist line, allowing contraception, becoming “pro-choice”, blessing same sex marriages and openly criticizing israel for everything that happens to palestinians.

there should be another topic heading why do some mainline protestant churches ally themselves with terrorists?

 

[Alfie]

JSmitty2005:

Why have Evangelicals allied themselves so closely with the Zionist Jews? I don’t understand this. Christians in the Holy Land have more favorable views of Muslims than they do Jews, so why do these American Christians feel so drawn to them?

Someday Jesus will return and rule the world for a thousand years from Jerusalem. God promised the Jews that someday they would return to their God given land.

What I learned about Israel from church is that during WWl the British went to the Rothchild family to ask for economic support from them because Britain was at war with Germany and the Rothchilds were the leading bankers in Europe. The British were bankrupt and needed more money for armaments. The Rothchilds were Jewish Zionists. One of the Rothchilds (Edmund) was also a member of the British Parliment. Before the Balfour Declaration was even agreed to… the League of Nations had agreed to the Mandate for Palestine that permitted the immigration of the Jews to the Holy Land. After the Jews began returning to Palestine (among them Golda Meir) they began to prosper the land and the Arabs living outside of Palestine began to immigrate to Palestine to get jobs. Prior to that there were not that many Arabs living in Palestine. They lived all around it but not directly in Palestine because the land was so poor.

Britain had taken the Holy Land away from the Turks prior to WWl. The Turks had ruled over the Arabs and the Arabs hated the Turks. During the Second World War Britain did not want the Arabs to support the Germans because they were afraid the Turks might try to regain the Holy Land. Britain then made an agreement to hand over most of the land that was originally promised to the Jews to the Arabs for their support. After the war, the Jews were stripped of 75% of the land that they were promised. The Arabs decided that they also wanted the other 25% of the land that the Jews were living on. What is amazing is that the Jews were willing to give up that 75% of the land they were promised in order to be able to have their own nation. The Arabs would not agree to that. Today the Arabs are still trying to take that 25% of land from the Jews.

When the British reneged on the Balfour Declaration, they attempted to keep the Jews out of Palestine. After the war, the British took arms away from the Jews that were living in Palestine and let the Arabs slaughter the Jews. The Jews than declared themselves to be a nation from the little land that was allotted to them. The Arabs than attacked Israel in 1948 and the Americans sent arms to Israel. The Jews then took back most of the land that they lost from the British.

Truman also recognized Israel as a nation three hours after they declared their independence.

The land belongs entirely to the Jews. I will never support a Palestinian state for the Arabs. They can always go back to Jordan from where they originally came from. The problem is that the Jordanian government will not let them come back to Jordan and the other Arab countries will not take them in either. Why is that? Because the Moslems want to keep a conflict going on in the Middle-East. They do not want peace. They want Israel because it is a prosperous country.

Until several years ago the Vatican believed that the Holy Land belonged to the Catholic Church. What audacity…it belongs to God.

 

[pro_universal]

Alfie, there are some things missing from your history.

Alfie:

Prior to that there were not that many Arabs living in Palestine. They lived all around it but not directly in Palestine because the land was so poor.

There weren’t as many Arabs there as in Iraq, but there were certainly many more Arabs than Israelis.

Alfie:

The Arabs decided that they also wanted the other 25% of the land that the Jews were living on. What is amazing is that the Jews were willing to give up that 75% of the land they were promised in order to be able to have their own nation. The Arabs would not agree to that. Today the Arabs are still trying to take that 25% of land from the Jews.

This is not true. The Arabs wanted independence from England, and to be able to draw their own borders under UN negotiations with the Zionists.

Alfie:

When the British reneged on the Balfour Declaration, they attempted to keep the Jews out of Palestine. After the war, the British took arms away from the Jews that were living in Palestine and let the Arabs slaughter the Jews. The Jews than declared themselves to be a nation from the little land that was allotted to them. The Arabs than attacked Israel in 1948 and the Americans sent arms to Israel. The Jews then took back most of the land that they lost from the British.

The Arabs had lived there in those towns for centuries. Most of the Jews at that time were immigrants from Europe, Russia, or North Africa. Your history of the British after the war is completely wrong.

The British were going to demand that the Israelis have a small state, that did not include Jerusalem. Because the Zionists did not like this, they used terrorism to chase the British out of Palestine. They assassinated British administrators, bombed the King David Hotel, and even bombed the British embassy in Rome. The British rewarded their terrorism by leaving Palestine.

In 1967, Israel doubled its size in a surprise attack again. That’s the source of most of the problems today, since before that, Old Jerusalem was not under Israeli control.

Alfie:

The land belongs entirely to the Jews. I will never support a Palestinian state for the Arabs. They can always go back to Jordan from where they originally came from.

They didn’t come from Jordan.

Let me ask you a question: Do you support democracy? If so, why not let the residents of Palestine all vote as equals on what kind of government they will have?

The condition of the Palestinians today is the fruit of injustice. If you refuse to sympathize with them because they are muslims, take a look at the condition of the Christian Palestinians under Israeli occupation. It’s deplorable that we look the other way while this goes on.

 

[Alfie]

Senator James Inhofe made a speech to the senate about why America should support Israel.

1. Among some of the reasons were that 3000 years ago King David built the temple in Jerusalem and there were many Jewish Kings after David.
2. The Arabs did not arrive in Palestine until the seventh century.
3. When, archeologists dig up artifacts on the Temple Mount they only find Jewish ones.
4. Arabs are deliberately destroying any Jewish artifacts that they find on the Mount.
5. Most of the Arab countries like Kuwait were not founded as countries until 1913 or later.
6. Today, Israel grows more food for exporting than any other dessert country in the world.
7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and is a buffer state against the Arabs and global terrorism.
8. Israel fought four justifiable wars. They were attacked in three wars and were the first to attack in the 1956 Sinai war because they had information before hand that they would be attacked.
   9 During the Gulf war, 49 Scud missiles were fired at Israel and yet they agreed not to fight back…. following US policy.
9. Six million Jews were murdered in the holocaust. Where else can they go but Israel?
10. The size of Israel today would fit into Oklahoma seven times.
11. God said it would be a witness to the world when the Jews would be brought back to the Holy Land.
    13 When Israel was forced to pull out of Gaza by Condoleezza Rice Gaza it was filled with hot houses where they grew plants. Once occupied by the Arabs they tore down all of the hot houses.
12. Genesis 13:14-17 promises the land to the Jews.
    15 Leviticus promises the land to the Jews.

Inhofe mentioned other reasons for American support of Israel. The most important one is obvious… those who curse Israel will someday be under the wrath of God.

I know one thing; Senator Inhofe will be receiving donations from me in the future for his courageous support of Israel. I will not be voting for Condoleezza Rice if she runs for the presidency because of her betrayal of God’s chosen people. As much as I dislike Hillary I will have to vote for her to prevent Rice from becoming president. This is all speculation on my part because who knows if either one of these women will run for the presidency.

 

[pro_universal]

Alfie:

Senator James Inhofe made a speech to the senate about why America should support Israel.

1. Among some of the reasons were that 3000 years ago King David built the temple in Jerusalem and there were many Jewish Kings after David.
2. The Arabs did not arrive in Palestine until the seventh century.
3. When, archeologists dig up artifacts on the Temple Mount they only find Jewish ones.
4. Arabs are deliberately destroying any Jewish artifacts that they find on the Mount.
5. Most of the Arab countries like Kuwait were not founded as countries until 1913 or later.
6. Today, Israel grows more food for exporting than any other dessert country in the world.
7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and is a buffer state against the Arabs and global terrorism.
8. Israel fought four justifiable wars. They were attacked in three wars and were the first to attack in the 1956 Sinai war because they had information before hand that they would be attacked.
   9 During the Gulf war, 49 Scud missiles were fired at Israel and yet they agreed not to fight back…. following US policy.
9. Six million Jews were murdered in the holocaust. Where else can they go but Israel?
10. The size of Israel today would fit into Oklahoma seven times.
11. God said it would be a witness to the world when the Jews would be brought back to the Holy Land.
    13 When Israel was forced to pull out of Gaza by Condoleezza Rice Gaza it was filled with hot houses where they grew plants. Once occupied by the Arabs they tore down all of the hot houses.
12. Genesis 13:14-17 promises the land to the Jews.
    15 Leviticus promises the land to the Jews.

Inhofe mentioned other reasons for American support of Israel. The most important one is obvious… those who curse Israel will someday be under the wrath of God.

I know one thing; Senator Inhofe will be receiving donations from me in the future for his courageous support of Israel. I will not be voting for Condoleezza Rice if she runs for the presidency because of her betrayal of God’s chosen people. As much as I dislike Hillary I will have to vote for her to prevent Rice from becoming president. This is all speculation on my part because who knows if either one of these women will run for the presidency.

Looking at that list, I cannot find one single justification for depriving the Palestinians of all civil rights.

Israel struck first in 1967, that’s when it took the land that’s contended, and it did so illegaly. If you think the Arabs should not have Jerusalem because they occupied it in the 7th century, how on earth can you rationalize Israel controlling a Jerusalem that it illegaly occupied in 1967???