Israel is to Jews what BLM is to black people. So much naivety on FR. If you actually have Jewish friends like I do, you will learn that many are not very fond of Israel as a political state. These are very observant Jewish people, not secular ones. I’d say over half their synagogue in Atlanta doesn’t condone much of what Israel does. I guess they simply hate Jews. How dumb that argument sounds.
Israel has been extremely successful into duping Christians into conflating the political state of Israel with biblical Israel. They are not the same thing.
Oh, I hear there are conservative Jews. I hear about them. But, every Jew I know and I know a lot of Jews are liberal demorats. They host fundraisers, they contribute obscene amount to liberal candidates and causes and they involve themselves in every manner of left wing malarkey, from “innocence projects” to Faith and Justice marches and all the rest. I’m sick of them. They don’t deserve Israel.
“ If you actually have Jewish friends like I do”
You should pay more attention.
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I’ve attended about 5 different synagogues as a congregant over 25 years.
What with you being so terribly knowledgeable, how many years have you spent in synagogues and how many weeks serving in the IDF?
Or, are you really a comparative know-nothing lecturing people who really know what the hell?
More:
Just returned from my 6th and 7th weeks of volunteering in the IDF since 10/7/23.
From my About page:
I’m a Jew to non-Jews. I practiced hard for 25 years, kept kosher, attended 5 synagogues ending with Chabad, read Torah cover to cover, celebrated the holidays and Shabbat every week, raised a very Jewish daughter who married a Jewish gentleman and have a Jewish granddaughter, assisted the IDF 5 weeks this year in Israel on base, believe and think like a Jew. When I was explaining to my second wife after 12 years how Judaism requires a specific thorough conversion process that I haven’t done, and that I was therefore not Jew to Jews, she said, “Wait! So you’re not actually Jewish?” Had her fooled, I guess.
So to a goy, I’m Jewish. To me, I’m Jewish. To a Jew and the Israeli government, I’m not Jewish. To a jihadi, I’m Jewish enough to murder. I know all this and I’m very comfortable with where I stand.
Israel has been extremely successful into duping Christians into conflating the political state of Israel with biblical Israel. They are not the same thing.
Sure they are. The Old Testament plainly shows over and over how disobedient and disregarding the Israelites were to the LORD. Just because Israel is not walking in strict obedience to the LORD, it does not make them any less His people. He did not make Abraham’s descendants to be His people because they were good; He wanted to have a people for Himself, and He found in Abraham a faithful servant. He chose them because of Abraham’s faithfulness. You think He didn’t know how often they would mess up? He made a covenant with Abraham, and God keeps His covenants. How blessed we Christians are that He has allowed us to be grafted into that covenant relationship!