It Takes a Morally Confused World to Be Anti-Israel

Almost 3,000 years ago, the Prophet Isaiah lamented, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."

But at the start of the 20th century, a new form of moral confusion was introduced. While there were always those who called good evil and evil good, shortly after Einstein discovered relativity in the natural order, Western civilization applied relativity to the moral order. As the late historian Paul Johnson wrote in "Modern Times": "At the beginning of the 1920s the belief began to circulate, for the first time at a popular level, that there were no longer any absolutes: of time and space, of good and evil, of knowledge, above all of value" (italics added).

Until then, though often poorly applied or simply ignored, there was the belief in the West that moral truths exist. Then, as Johnson writes, "Mistakenly but perhaps inevitably, relativity became confused with relativism."

Everything became relative -- you have your values, I have mine; what I think (or more accurately, what I feel) is good is good, and what I think/feel is bad is bad. This is even true with regard to truth: As the increasingly popular saying goes, I have "my truth" and you have "your truth."

Instead of good and evil, we now have a set of other "moral" categories: rich and poor, white and black, colonizers and colonized, strong and weak, oppressors and oppressed. Those in the latter groups -- the poor, people of color, the colonized, the weak and the oppressed (real or alleged) -- are, by definition, good, while those in the former categories are, by definition, bad. To cite one widely held example, blacks cannot be racist. I was taught that nonsense in graduate school in the 1970s, and it has become a truism among the well-educated.

This explains the widespread sympathy for the Palestinians and antipathy toward Israel.

In a morality-based world, Israel would be universally supported. But we don't live in such a world; we live in the world of substitute-categories, and Israel falls into every one of the "bad" categories. Israel is perceived as rich, strong, white, a colonizer and an oppressor.

Israel is a modern liberal democracy. It has a robust free press, vibrant opposition and an independent judiciary. Two million Israelis -- a fifth of the country's population -- are Arabs, who, in the words of the Council on Foreign Relations, "have the same legal rights as Jewish Israelis have." They have their own political parties, with 10 seats in Israel's parliament. Arabic, as any tourist to Israel sees, is, alongside Hebrew, Israel's official language. There have even been Arab supreme court justices.

In fact, Arabs in Israel are, even now, considerably more pro-Israel than The New York Times, most Democrats and, of course, the United Nations. Reuters, which leans left, reported in November that "The Gaza war has dramatically increased the sense of solidarity with Israel among its 21% Arab minority." And The Economist reported in mid-January, "Even as war rages in Gaza, Israel's Arabs are feeling more Israeli ... Two-thirds of Israeli Palestinians say they identified with their state, up from half before the war."

Israel treats a vast number of Palestinians in its hospitals. During 2005 alone, approximately 123,000 Palestinians were treated at just one institution, Hadassah Hospital, in Jerusalem. Israel treated more than 4,000 victims of the Syrian Civil War in civilian hospitals at Israeli government expense.

Two weeks ago, the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point, John Spencer, wrote in Newsweek that, during Israel's war on Hamas, the country "has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history. ... As someone who has served two tours in Iraq and studied urban warfare for over a decade, Israel has taken precautionary measures even the United States did not do during its recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Israel provided days and then weeks of warnings, as well as time for civilians to evacuate multiple cities in northern Gaza before starting the main air-ground attack of urban areas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) employed their practice of calling and texting ahead of an air strike as well as roof-knocking, where they drop small munitions on the roof of a building notifying everyone to evacuate the building before a strike.

"No military has ever implemented any of these practices in war before," Spencer concluded.

In contrast to decent, humane, democratic and moral Israel, Hamas, which is supported by the majority of Palestinians, is the moral equivalent of the Nazis. It routinely tortures Palestinian opponents of its tyrannical regime and is dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and its Jews. It takes pride in burning Jewish families alive and the sexual torture, rape and mutilation of Jewish women.

Regarding Hamas' cruelty, Amnesty International reported in 2015 the case of Atta Najjar, a former police officer under the Palestinian Authority:

"[Najjar] was serving a 15-year prison term imposed by a military court after he was arrested in 2009 and subsequently convicted of 'collaborating' with Israel. On 22 August 2014, he was taken out from the prison and executed.

"There were marks of torture and bullet shots on his body. His arms and legs were broken ... his body was as if you'd put it in a bag and smashed it. ... His body was riddled with about 30 bullets. He had slaughter marks around his neck, marks of knives. ... And from behind the head, there was no brain. Empty ... It was difficult for us to carry him. ... He was heavy, like when you put meat in a bag; no bones. His bones were smashed. They broke him in the prison,' said his brother, who retrieved the body from al-Shifa hospital morgue on 22 August 2014."

But Israel's decency and Hamas' cruelty mean nothing to much of the world, especially the Left, the universities and the media. Because who is good and who is evil doesn't matter. Only who's rich and who's poor, who's white and who's black, who's strong and who's weak, who colonizes and who's colonized, and who oppresses and who is oppressed.

It’s not mere moral confusion that leads to people being against Israel, it is utterly stupid denial and/or blind ignorance of the immutable declarations of YHVH:

“Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest [Hebrew, shalom]and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. For his name will be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. He shall build a House for My name, and he shall be My son and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever” (1 Chronicles 22:9-10)

Then I heard Him speaking to me from the House, while a man was standing beside me. And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever” (Ezekiel 43:6-7a)

“And it shall be in those days when you become numerous and are fruitful in the land, declares YHVH, they will no longer say, ‘The Ark of the Covenant of YHVH’! And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor miss it, nor will it be made again. At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of YHVH,’ and all the nations will assemble at it, at Jerusalem, for the name of YHVH. And they will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil heart. In those days the House of Judah will walk with the House of Israel. And they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance” (Jeremiah 3:16-18)

“And behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you shall name Him ‘Yeshua.’ He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the House of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end” (Luke 1:31-33)

“And just as My Father has granted Me a kingdom, I grant you that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel” (Luke 22:29-30)

Then Peter responded and said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You. What then will there be for us?” And Yeshua said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me – in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne – you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel” (Matthew 19:27-28)

YHVH of armies says this: “It will yet turn out that peoples will come, that is, the inhabitants of many cities. The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go at once to plead for the favor of YHVH, and to seek YHVH of armies; I also will go.’ So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek YHVH of armies in Jerusalem, and to plead for the favor of YHVH.” YHVH of armies says this: “In those days ten people from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you’” (Zechariah 8:20-23)

Israel WAS established by God.
Israel IS BEING established by God.
Israel WILL BE established by God.

These truths are NOT “on the table” for negotiation.
The nations can pound sand.

https://davidstent.org/the-grooms-still-waiting-at-the-altar/

Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail? The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the Lord and his anointed king. They say, “Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us. Let’s free ourselves from their ropes.” The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.

Then he angrily speaks to them and terrifies them in his rage, saying, “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.”

The king says, “I will announce the Lord’s decree. He said to me: ‘You are my son. This very day I have become your father. Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property. (Psalm 2:1-8)

IT WILL NOT GO WELL for those who live in denial of this!

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