“So Israel is to blame for what the muslims do?”
That’s what you got from my post? If so, bless your heart.
First - keep your condescending “bless your heart” crap to yourself. Saying something you don’t mean is tantamount to lying.
“...Middle East Christians are being slaughtered. It might not be the best time to demand that they support Israel. The United States has done a great deal to aid in the survival of Israel, and virtually nothing to stop the persecution of these Christians...my initial reaction would have been ‘F you, Ted, what have they ever done for us?’. That was not the time, not the place, to lecture about Israel.”
So - since you didn’t intend to imply that it was Israel’s fault that “Middle East Christians are being slaughtered” - what, pray tell, was the reason for using that statement in a defense of their antisemitism? Why am I justified in hating Joe just because Fred gave me a black eye? Why are you wrong to ask me to support Joe when Fred is threatening me?
So the US has given aid to Israel while not doing much to help the plight of these Christians....so that is a good reason for them to hate Israel? I understand that certain wealthy people have been very generous to some people in need. I have a very great financial need at the moment - is it logical for me to hate these needy folks who received help because I didn’t get help?
“...my initial reaction would have been ‘F you, Ted, what have they ever done for us?’” Really? You are that shallow? That venal? You refuse to support anybody who has not done something for you? and you support such an attitude from these so-called Christians? SHAME ON YOU! I see nowhere in the Bible where Christ calls us to love and be kind and pray for those people who have done stuff for us...but nobody else.
Besides, by being a beacon of civilization in that nasty brutish part of the world, Israel has helped Christians in the area immeasurably just by existing. Were it not for Israel, the entire Middle East would be a slaughterhouse filled with Christian blood, with no mediating influence at all.
How many Coptic Christians (and others)have fled barbaric prosecution and slaughter from backward Islamic countries to or through Israel? And you claim Israel has done nothing for those Christians?
Anyone who hates the Jews to the degree that these people expressed - and you seem to support - cannot honestly call themselves Christians.
It would have been easier, more logical, and more honest to admit that you did intend to imply that Israel is responsible for the actions of the muslims...because to deny it makes your original statement even more ludicrous.