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Israel is reconsidering its decision to break off contacts with Pat Robertson over the construction of a Christian heritage park

The site of the Christian Heritage Park is in the occupied territories. If Israel pulls out of the occupied territories, the land will be returned to Syria and there will be no Christian Heritage Park.
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I sent a friend the borders of Israel as outlined in Numbers 34. (Actually, Israel's biblical claim to the Gaza Strip is weak to non-existent -- hmm...wouldn't PFAW and ADL have gone haywire if Robertson had said THAT!)

Israel's claim to the West Bank is solid -- and I have heard Muslims on TV say that they accept the Old Testament.

My friend responded that Jesus rendered most of the Old Testament void.

I said that was one interpretation.

Of course the other objection is that the modern-day Israel is a totally different entity from the Israel of Biblical times.