Posted on 06/02/2010 12:05:35 PM PDT by i88schwartz
Seriously, I don't get it. I see so many anti-Israel and anti-Semitic posts on the internet. Why not love our only real ally in the middle east?
Therefore, those “of the world” hate Israel.
I agree.
Israel is no longer a country of poor farmers organized along communal principles fighting off huge Arab armies with hand me down equipment. It is now an urban and by Middle East standards wealthy country, governed more often than not by conservatives. Just the kind of place Western liberals love to hate. Plus, I think most Western establishment types really believe if Israel would just go away there would be no terrorism and no radical Islam.
For the dictators around the world, the answer is easy. Give your people someone to hate so they don't think too much about how you're raping them.
They see the Islamic people are the underdogs and want to think of themselves as “revolutionaries”. It is as simple as that. Israel is a 1st world nation that tries to be respectable. Muslims are dirty camel jockies. Between the two, Israel looks like the “establishment” and the camel jockies the underdogs.
Russia was our ally in WWII.
Maybe the better question is why people think we should “love” Israel? Allies are made out of sovereign convenience and common interests (which can change), not love. If anything, this country has suffered tremendously due to it’s “love” of Israel. I’m not saying that’s good or bad, kind or evil, just the way it is. How exactly has our “love” of Israel benefitted us?
I know the answer and you know the answer, but no one will mention the elephant in the living room.
Of course, I willbe attacccked as an anti-semite for asking pertinent, logical questions. That’s how censorship works.
Therefore, those “of the world” hate Israel.
I agree.
Followers of Marxist hate campaigns are easily herded for lack of knowledge and ethics and they are numerous. Kind of scarey, actually.
ML/NJ
Scripture say they are God’s chosen people. They have been persecuted since the beginning of time. Classic good vs evil thing. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
I think the Arabs are still jealous and pissed that they are descended from Abraham's bastard son Ishmeal and the Jews from Isaac.
It is cool when you read, in I think Ezekiel, where God brings the two Kingdoms of Israel (Judea and Israel, the northern Kingdoms) back together like a stick that was broken in half.
Just saying...
Satan.
When people across the world refuse to believe their eyes, refuse clear video proof. Impossible to explain, huh?
Satan.
exactly, only the RELEVANT nations are mentioned.
He has a four pronged analysis and an excellent look at the history involved. I couldn't do it justice in a brief explanation, but his explanation includes (but is not limited to) a misunderstanding of the Jews as God's chosen people among the general population, and a contempt for the tight-night family and sense of community common among Jewish folks throughout history that has elevated their collective accomplishments, wealth, etc.
There's a lot more to it than that so please, don't think his analysis is limited to those points.
-- John Adams
I think you are wrong. Some of those who love the immoral left and are anti-Israel are themselves (sort of) Jewish.
ML/NJ
Even if your point is true (and I agree that there is validity there), it is not necessarily inconsistent with my point and doesn't make my point wrong.
Let's hope Israel has enough stockpiled nuclear material to put functioning and effective warheads on said missiles.
Let's hope their warhead designs are accurate and the computer simulation tests worked.
Let's hope their guidance systems are accurate and up to date.
Because ...
Israel's nuclear weapons are the only force in the world today standing between civilization and barbarism.
Seriously, I don't get it. I see so many anti-Israel and anti-Semitic posts on the internet. Why not love our only real ally in the middle east?
It's because Israel represents the "salvation of the nations", for one thing.
And then, the One who is salvation for all individuals, is a Jew (namely Jesus, the Messiah of Israel).
And then, Israel will be the head nation, over all the other nations in the world, all other nations being "under" Israel, in the coming one-world government that will be set up on earth, with the Messiah at the head of it.
Lastly, the very existence of Israel represents the truth of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in that all things and all nations will be put under His feet and His control, and that Satan will be destroyed as a result.
SO ... antisemitism has been "Satanically inspired" from the beginning of Israel, down to the present time. There has been no other people and no other nation which has so consistently been persecuted and reviled and has had so many trying to destroy the nation.
It was thought that the destruction of Israel was completed in 70 A.D. (and shortly thereafter, too...) -- so much so that even many Christians who know that the Bible is true (back in the 1800s) -- actually could not believe what the Bible said -- in that the nation of Israel would come to be in existence again.
And yet, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did brig it back into existence again, just like He said He would.
Futhermore, even though it came back in existence again, many thought that the nation of Israel could not survive the onslaught of all the armies of its Muslim enemies, when it had no army/military at all (having not been a nation before that and not being allowed to have an army before that).
Yet, it survived, because the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was, once again, carrying out what He said He would do.
AND..., to "some Christians" the very existence of Israel is an embarrassment to their false theology that they teach in some of the churches. So, they work on behalf of the Palestinians, hoping that Israel will simply go away and/or wither away eventually.
To the Muslims, Israel represents a "slap in the face" to their false god of Allah -- and it says that the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- is the true God, because He protects and preserves Israel, as opposed to the false and evil idealogy of Islam.
To the rest of the unbelieving world (unbelieving of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), Israel represents the "coming judgement" upon all who refuse to listen to what the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob says.
AND SO..., it will be exactly like what the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob says -- in that "all nations of the world" will come against Israel -- and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will fight against all the nations of the world, on behalf of Israel -- and then set up Israel as the head and ruling nation over all those other nations of the world who have been against Israel.
That's why Israel and the Jews are so hated and have been so hated throughout history, from the time that there was only the 12 sons of Israel.
Since God has chosen Israel to make His will known to the world and for Him to rule the world through Israel -- all those people hate Israel, because they hate what God is and what God has said He will do through Israel.
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