[Perseverando]

Who was the poet who wrote?

“How odd of God
to choose the Jews.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

Supposedly a Brit journalist named William Norman Ewer, for whom this is his only claim to fame. And then there are the witty repartees:

Not odd of God.
Goyim annoy ‘im.

– attributed to Leo Rosen. Or:

But not so odd
As those who choose
A Jewish God
Yet spurn the Jews.

– written by either Cecil Brown or Ogden Nash.

But I repeat: is a secular democratic Middle Eastern state populated by less than 50% religious observant Jews, really the one that's "Biblical" or chosen by God?

"Is this it, or are we to look for another?"?