1. I have no idea about military financing and how that works in relation to intra-national vs international politics, so I won’t even attempt to be an expert on this subject.
I'm no expert, either. A cursory internet search on American foreign aid to Israel will yield some basic facts that most people, me included, just didn't know, because it's not widely reported on. I mean, who has the Council on Foreign Relations website bookmarked?
Anyone?
Anyone?
2. Having read many of your posts, it seems that you believe that most of today’s Christians are misinterpreting Scriptures in relation to fidelity to Israel.
That is a fair assessment. Well done.
3. Let’s set aside points one and two and focus on this simple question. Does Israel, being a tiny country surrounded by larger aggressor countries, not have a moral and political right to defend itself? If you do believe this, it doesn’t seem so.
The short answer is, yes. Every nation has the natural right to self defense. But does every nation have the right to demand that America finance and fight its wars?
But Israel isn't just any nation. The Jews aren't just a race, as you found out when trying define the anti-semitism cudgel. Besides, I don't think any Jew today could be called a Hebrew any more than Elizabeth Warren can be called a Cherokee.
Israel was born in the Exodus, baptized unto Moses in the Red Sea, and was brought by God to the land of Canaan to make a house of worship for Him. But these things were a mere illustration of God's real plan, and that was to usher in the New Testament in the blood of His Son, and move into a new house. The law is fulfilled. The promises are fulfilled. The covenant through which Israel under the law found its identity is cancelled. Abolished. Rejected. It's over. It's sign, circumcision, is no longer valid...and never will be again.
Then in 70 AD, God tore His old house down.
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Interesting aside:
There was an effort to rebuild the Temple a couple of hundred years later under Julian the Apostate, which was quashed by earthquakes and fires. There's an interesting parallel,
I think, in that effort with Netanyahu's seeming enthusiasm for Trump's suggestion of American control of Gaza to displace the Palestinians and rebuild the region. Trump's motive was peace in the region. Netanyahu's was something else. Julian wasn't hiding his true motives in allowing the Jews to rebuild the Temple, but the Jews went along with it for their own purposes,
as their own historians say:
By allowing the Temple to be rebuilt, he was ensuring that Jews would resume their practice of offering animal sacrifices—to a god Julian regarded as his own! Certainly Jews themselves had different views, especially regarding the purpose of animal sacrifice. But their perspective had little to do with the emperor’s decision.
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Back to the main thought...the Jewish title to the land has expired. It was based on a covenant, not natural law. God brought them in, then God drove them out and tore up the deed.
It hasn't yet been a thousand years since the Aztecs and Myans fell, but if their descendants began to call the regions where their cities and temples were built their 'homeland,' it would be deemed ludicrous and invalid, and for good reason.
It's been two thousand years for the Jews. Why are we attempting to call Palestine the Jewish homeland? There hasn't been a Jewish progenitor there for centuries of generations. By all natural rights, it's the Palestinians' homeland.
And why the migration? Ostensibly it's so the Jews can live in peace having been so 'mistreated' everywhere they went, instead of just suffering for their troublemaking. That was the stated goal of the League of Nations and of the United Nations, but the new Jewish state would have to set up a democratic form of government.
Certainly the Zionists have different views of forms of government, but going along with this gives them control of the region. But why this region, and not the region in Uganda that Great Britain originally proposed? They certainly could have lived in peace there. And it isn't a desert.
The insistence on Palestine has to do with the Jewish temple, and the Old Covenant. But not the seeming angelic view of those things, as we all imagine...There are some Jewish sects for which this may be true...but it's still a denial of Christ. It is for the rabbinical and scribal views, which is a form of Jewish supremacy. There can be no other goal than to eventually ethnically cleanse the region and tear down the mosque and rebuild the temple, usher in their messiah and take their place as rulers of the world, and have the wealth of the nations funnelled to them. That is the whole point of Zionism. It isn't the goal of most Israelis, though, but then, it isn't the average Israeli that is educated in the Talmud, is it?
It isn't the goal of most Jews. The average Jew...well...the Jews I've known...is content to live abroad, attend Temple...or not...and assimilate into the culture. But, the average Jew isn't a rabbi.
But by whatever means, the modern state of Israel is there for now, and it can engage the international community as can any other nation. But we have to recognize how it got there, how that is exacerbating problems in the region, and understand that a Jewish state cannot long tolerate the freedom of non-jewish practices in the region, because of the nature and tenets of Talmudic Judaism, and of the letter of the Torah.
And, for heaven's sake, stop thinking that it is a Christian thing to promote Judaism, or pray for its peace and safety. Judaism is antichrist.
Israel is a foreign nation. And it's not God's nation. Stop treating it like it is.
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