Our support should go first and foremost to our Christian brothers and sisters- the palestinians- who actually happen to be the ones under attack and not making any trouble for anyone! Christian arabs do exist and siding with the jews because they are ‘the people of God’ won’t get you any brownie points with God.

Of course not, but that doesn’t mean God is sitting on the fence, either. A simple perusal of, say, the book of Joshua, for instance, reveals that circumstances are usually more complicated than the position that war is always against God’s will.

Throw out your post-enlightenment presuppositions. They will taint your results 100% of the time.

I think I mostly agree with you on this, but I do have a couple of questions:

“Nonetheless, the state of Israel is important, indeed critically important. The nation is the guardian of post-Holocaust world Judaism.”

Are you talking about Judaism as a religion? If so, why do we want to propagate that religion?

“We know that these are the kinsmen according to the flesh of our Messiah. There’s a reason, therefore, the Powers rage against them so. A Christian anti-Semite is a contradiction in terms.”

I’m wondering how this statement relates with Jesus’ words in Mark 3:31-35?

Thanks.

I was wondering if you could elaborate further on your comment that there “appear[s] to be a promise of a future conversion of Jewish people to Christ.” I agree with this in principle from the same section you mention, but I am curious in what form you think this may take. Do you see it as just a revival (or I guess an initial awakening) amongst Jewish people or do you see it as coming particularly in the form of some Jewish leader or event that brings Jews en masse to faith in Christ? Thanks.

Why should Christians care to preserve post-Holocaust world Judaism and not, say, postcolonial Indian Hinduism? Both are false religions, right?

“It does mean that we stand with Israel against every form of anti-Semitic violence.”

Sure, Christians should never support aggressive violence against anyone - certainly not by Hamas fighters against Israeli civilians.

Phrased as the article put it, though, it seems to exclude standing with Palestinian people against anti-Palestinian violence. I doubt the Prince of Peace is jumping for joy over the corpses of Palestinian children.

And, if anything, that’s the point the Church needs to make clear: we don’t support violence and the thugs, whether they’re Palestinian or Israeli according to the flesh, who inflict it.