The fellow in the video below is an Independent Baptist pastor in Jacksonville, Florida. I think he is mostly correct on this issue.
It would be tragic if we got involved in a war with Iran to serve Israel’s interests:
Constitutional Conservatism and Biblical Christianity in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina
In 1946, Arabs owned and occupied 94% of Palestine. Now that the US taxpayer paid for the destruction of the homes of the 2 million Gazans and the murder of 70-100,000 Gazans, it’s about 10%. There has been nothing Christian about the manner of Jews acquisition of Israel. Does the fact that a distantly related ethnicity lived in an area 2000 years earlier give (mostly European) Jews the right to conquer and take from the innocent modern residents their land? Giving the Jews a province of Germany in 1948 would have been more justifiable.
The Epstein files just released manifested (along with Epstein’s continual interest in the furtherance of Israeli aims) his strong disdain for Goyim (which included Christians)
The relationships with the Arabs and Muslims and Persians in the Middle East already were difficult without introducing the issue of Israel nationhood. It was a marriage of necessity because we needed their oil. But continuing to slash and burn to further Israel’s interests does not serve our national interest. It merely feeds the impulse of revenge on the part of the jihadis, that will become manifest later. Large parts of the GOP and evangelical Christianity are wrong about this one.
Can you imagine the hate engendered in the 1.9 million surviving Gazans for every Israeli and their funders, Americans? Especially orphans and widows and widowers. If I put myself in their shoes, a suicide-bomber sort of hate doesn’t seem so unnatural.
We have to assume, J. Sobran, that this is what has happened in the past. They were engaging in violence as retribution against perceived offenses, at least in part. Yes, I know about the jihad angle, but I think that only explains part of what we have seen over the last 50-60 years with Islamic terrorism. We might have thought we were engaging in righteous international measures; but in fact might have caused enduring grudges to be held against us.
Undecided…We shall find out eventually.
Fair enough, Fred…