Posted on 03/19/2025 12:41:26 PM PDT by Twotone
Why is Israel alone forced to justify its existence and questioned when it stands up to those who would annihilate it? Why was a worldwide campaign of hatred that reeked of anti-Semitism unleashed on Israel when it responded to the October 7, 2023, attack, while there was no criticism of Hamas? Why has the U.N. censured the Jewish state more times than any other nation...?
The answer runs deeper than geopolitics, says conservative commentator and legal scholar Josh Hammer in his debut book Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West.
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It was the People of the Book who first introduced the world to monotheism, and along with it, to ethical and legal codes that became the basis for the establishment and preservation of all civilizations. The West drew upon the Judaic idea of humankind as the pinnacle of God’s creation to give primacy to individuals, their freedom, and their rights. Many of America’s Founding Fathers admired Jewish history, culture, and its legal and moral teachings.
God made a promise to the Jews to protect them as long as they kept his covenant and followed his commandments. The Hebrew Bible speaks of the Divine Revelation of the Decalogue to Moses at Mount Sinai, the 613 mitzvot of the Torah, and the seven Noahide laws. The seventh Noahide law, as mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud — to establish courts of justice — is perhaps the first expression of the need for neutral forums and judges to deliver justice. It is by obeying these laws — divine and temporal – that Jews, often at great cost, have survived millennia of persecution.
The other big ideas that Judaism has contributed to the West, writes Hammer, are of individual dignity, self-worth, community, and collective holiness.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Anyone who goes against Israel goes against God Almighty Himself.
>> The other big ideas that Judaism has contributed to the West, writes Hammer, are of individual dignity, self-worth, community, and collective holiness.
areas where Christ clearly had no influence...
notwithstanding the embellishments, the Promise is nonetheless a reality the West must ensure
This is especially true for people who allow their mystical beliefs to dictate their political reality. Face it. There will never be peace in the Mideast as long as either Israel or Palestine remain definable political entities. Both claim dominion over the same land and neither will accept the rule of the other.They are culturally irreconcible as well. The atrocities will get worse. A majority of Americans devoutly believe that the founding and modern existence of Israel is the will of God. Therefore America will remain involved in this saga, has suffered and will continue to suffer in the future.
Everyone here knows that I support Israel 100 percent. But the US is the ONLY Nation that declares that rights come from GOD, and not the government, and has been used to spread the Gospel more than other Nation.
Western Civilization is built on Judeo-Christian values, and that is why there are satanic forces such as are found in mohammedism attempting to destroy it.
A complex dance between Judaism and Christianity.
Christianity rebukes Judaism that because Jews do not recognize Christ as fulfilling their prophecy that somehow the gentiles are now the choosen peoples.
Imagine as a Jew that a bunch of people decide that in Christ Alone they are rightful heirs to God. That the Jews did not see Jesus as the prophet does not give Christianity the right to upshure God.
A month ago I was in a service where the pastor stated the Jews’ refusal to believe as do Christians make them hell bound... that heaven and hell are the result if doctrine as now definned is non binding fir a Jew.
The poor Jews are treated as poorly as are the Masons in most Christian beliefs today.
The Jews need the Christians more than winning an argument about who God’s people truly are, today.
The death of Jesus set up a political struggle that today is evidenced by Christanity.
The Jews follow their religion and relationship with God, and the Christians follow Christ as God or follow Christ to God.
God hears the prayers....
I am against sending billions to one tiny country and we all know that most of it goes into corrupt hands,ours and theirs..
Not just to the West.
Talmud Shabbat 88a has God saying to His new Creation, “If the Jews accept the Torah, you will endure; if not, I will return you to primordial chaos.”
“Fate of the West is Tied to the Fate of the Jewish Nation”
TRUTH.
money is separate from standing with Israel.
yes, money support can be wrong/ misused, just like so many churches and ministries do.
I figures that a Misandrist also hates Israel.
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