I usually eschew political postings (the last was about the Dobbs ruling in 2022), because they always lead to overwhelming Leftist outrage, including death threats from “Christians”, but I feel that I should be unambiguous about such an important issue. So, allow me take a few moments to adress the 7 October 2023 Muslim Arab terror attacks against the Jewish people of Israel, acts of such profound wickedness and horror, and the astonishing outspoken support of “mainline” Western Christianity for Hamas and the eradication of the Jewish state of Israel under the pretext that Israel is an apartheid state.
To keep this from becoming a book, I will not provide sources for all of my comments. If you disagree with something, ask me and I will provide sources for you that undergird my statements.
First, let me speak to my faith community. On the one hand, Christian silence about this atrocity, and on the other hand showing outright support for Hamas in the face of this evil, is itself evil. The Church has not always had a good relationship with our fraternal twins, the Jewish people. Over the last two millennia, we have gone from being a primarily Jewish sect following the Jewish messiah Yeshua (Jesus in modern English) to an almost completely Gentile religious community. In the European Middle Ages, Western Christianity failed utterly to obey the command of Jesus to “love one another as I have loved you” when it came to our Jewish cousins. We committed atrocities against them for centuries. It was only in the aftermath of the Holocaust that Western Christianity began to do some serious soul searching. Speaking for the Catholic Churches, comprising some 1.3 billion people worldwide, Pope John Paul II made the historic step of acknowledging the terrible history of the Church regarding the Jewish people, and asking for forgiveness from the Jewish people. He became the first Pope to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, and at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem placed his prayer note in the wall, saying,
“God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations. We are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those who, in the course of history, have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking for your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the covenant.”
Protestants are still a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to the Jewish people and Israel. Over the last few decades, the “mainline churches” have increasingly taken anti-Israel stances, calling for boycotts, disinvestment, and sanctions against Israel, labeling Israel an apartheid state, and some, including the Episcopal Church in 2018, have even sought to remove any mention of Israel from their religious liturgies. All of these are based on the growing acceptance of Leftist propaganda by Western people, including Christians, which has been steadily replacing orthodox Christian theology over the last century with Leftist ideology. Orthodox Christianity has been slowly replaced, leaving the mainline ecclesial communities as little more than social justice organizations using the names “Christian” and “Jesus” to sanctify the ever widening departure of Western Christianity from the actual Gospel of Jesus. This can be seen see clearly in the growing anti-Jewish ideology, which comes with a deep revulsion of Israel, the kind that we are seeing in campus protests across the nation, and an unimaginable sympathy among Christian’s for Muslim terror states and organizations, validating their atrocities, because of non-stop Leftist propaganda that Arabs are experiencing oppression and apartheid by Jews.
Let’s define some terms here that may help with this.
First, “Palestine”. Palestine was first used to describe the region by the Roman Empire after they had destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70, killing over 100,00 Jews, taking 50,000 to Rome to be sold as slaves, and forcing some 40,000 children, women, the elderly, and injured Jews into the wilderness to die. But by God’s grace many persevered and thrived. Rome sought to commit the genocide of the Jewish people, but by the grace of God they endured because they had been living as a diaspora throughout the region for over 600 years, both in Israel and beyond the reach of Rome. In the aftermath of the Jewish Wars, Rome renamed the region Syria Palaestina in AD 132 in an attempt to erase Israel and the Jewish people from history, a history that begins with the migration of the patriarch Abraham from Mesopotamia to what was then Canaan, c. 2000 BC. Over the last 4000 years, the historic homeland of the Jewish people, Israel, has been claimed by empire after empire, yet has always had an indigenous Jewish population.
In the aftermath of WWI, between 1919 and 1922, the League of Nations created the “Mandate for Palestine”, which directed the region to be under British administration as “Mandatory Palestine”. This was the first time “Palestine” was used to describe the region since the 4th century AD. This new administrative region was comprised of modern Israel and Jordan. Gaza was part of Egypt. Mandatory Palestine was intended to be split between Jews and Arabs. The international community ultimately gave 2/3 of the region to an Arabic outsider Hashemite king who had allied with the British in WW1, leading to their expulsion by other Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula. They are, in fact, the occupying, non-indigenous government.
All that goes to point out that there has never been a “Palestinian state” prior to 1922.
Second, “Palestinian”. There has also never been a “Palestinian” ethnic group or people. Not until 1922. Prior to that, the inhabitants of the region called themselves simply Arabs, Jews, and Druze, among others. The Arabs are the non-indigenous people, who conquered the region during the violent Muslim Arab expansion out of the Arabian peninsula beginning in the 7th century AD. It is a matter of record that the Arab population of Mandatory Palestine refused to be called “Palestinians”. It was the Jews who adopted the name. The Jewish English paper of the time was the Palestine Post, later renamed the Jerusalem Post. The creation of an Arab “Palestinian” identity was only later crafted by the Muslim Arab States during the 1960’s, during their wars of invasion, and especially utilized by the terror organization the PLO, to drive a political propaganda machine to create international outrage of the treatment of a supposed indigenous “minority group”, when statistically the Arabs, non-indigenous to Israel, are an overwhelming majority, and to delegitimize the re-founding of the Jewish homeland, Israel. The so-called “Palestinians” are not an oppressed indigenous minority. They are Arabs, part of an Arab population of 475 million people in 22 countries.
Third, “apartheid state”. The propaganda that Israel is an apartheid state continues to work, sadly, despite the facts. In 1900, there were roughly 94,000 Jews, 70,000 Arab Christians, and 600,000 Arab Muslims living in Israel. The population of Israel today is 9.7 million people, with over 2 million being Arabs, Muslim and Christian (though the Christian Arabs have dwindled over the last 60+ years due to Muslim violence) who are full citizens, who vote, and have political representation in the Israeli government and military. In fact, 20% of students, doctors, nurses, and professors in Israel are Arab citizens, proportional to their population. 45% of new medical students in Israeli medical schools are now Arab. The “refugee camps” that still exist in Israel are under UN jurisdiction, not Israeli jurisdiction. They still exist because it serves to validate the anti-Israel propaganda machine. Tell me again how Israel is an apartheid state?
If the 7 October 2023 terror attacks and continued holding of hostages, including children and infants, had happened to any other nation, everyone on Facebook would have their profile picture changed to the flag of that country, just like everyone did with Ukraine. And not just changed their profile pictures, but threw 100% support to Ukraine to fight off Russia. Where is the same outrage, the same showing of support for Israel? Where is the same absolute and total condemnation of Gaza, Hamas, and Iran, the chief supporter and financier of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Muslim terrorist organizations? Where is American outrage that the administration of Mr. Biden so recklessly tried to endorse the international terror state Iran with $6 billion, and to whom Mr. Obama gave $1.7 billion in 2016?
America is being led down a dangerous path by Leftist ideologues who are seemingly intent on strengthening the enemies of freedom around the world and here in America. American “mainline” Christianity has been lead down the same dangerous path.
Israel has done nothing since the refounding of their state but protect itself in two wars of invasion by Muslim Arab nations, decades of ongoing Muslim Arab terrorism, and yield to pressure from the West to give away territory in hopes of creating peace. Israel has even agreed to a “two state solution”, but the Muslims Arabs have rejected it. Twice. There is, in fact, already a “Palestinian” Arab state, Jordan; but Jordan refuses to patriate the Arabs in Israel in order to keep international outrage going. For that matter, there are multiple Muslim Arab states that could, and should, patriate their Arab Muslim brethren, but they refuse in order to strike the flames of anti-Jewish outrage. No one on the Left is willing to answer the question, “How can you have peace with Muslim states and terror organizations who constantly reiterate that they will not rest until all Jews are dead?” Hamas leaders have repeatedly said that they love death more than the Jews love life. This is pure evil. This is Satanic. What Hamas has done, the gleeful murdering of babies, pregnant women, and children is the very definition of evil. Hamas gave cameras to their troops to film their horrific acts of evil, which Western media groups have shown, acting as second hand terrorists. How can you make peace with evil? You cannot. We cannot. We must name it without hesitation and confront it in every way possible. We must not bow to the pressure from Leftist and Muslim ideologues in our own country or internationally who understand how desperately Westerners want to be liked and to be thought of as virtuous. But it is not virtuous to believe and repeat a lie, or to validate evil. A recent poll of average Arabs in Israel (including the “West Bank”) and Gaza showed that Fifty-two percent of Gazans and 85% of West Bank respondents - or 72% of Muslim Arabs respondents overall - voiced satisfaction with the role of Hamas in the war. This is not about a few radicals. It is the overwhelming majority of Muslims who desire the extermination of the Jews and the state of Israel. That’s what “from the river to the sea” means, chanted so vigorously by propagandized Western students, Muslim terror groups, and average Muslims around the world.
It is long overdue that Westerners and Christians wake up and acknowledge our own growing anti-Semitism and support of terrorist organizations who desire the genocide of the Jewish people. And do not play the game of saying you are only anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish. Such a splitting of hairs is factually unsupportable, and is contrary to the Gospel of Jesus. It is long overdue that “mainline” Christians joined the overwhelming majority of worldwide Christians fully to embrace orthodox, catholic, Biblical Christianity. We must embrace our Jewish cousins without hesitation and defend their right to be free from constant attack and terrorism, and to have a secure and prosperous homeland. It is time for all freedom loving peoples around the world to throw off wicked Leftist ideology, recognize the utter incompatibility of fundamentalist Islam with freedom and with orthodox Christianity (FYI, Christians are the single most persecuted group in the planet. On average, 15 Christians are murdered simply for being a Christian every day, mostly in Muslim dominated countries. Fundamental Islam commands not just the death of the Jews, but also Christians and any who will not convert to Islam), and to stand resolutely with the Jewish people and all people who are actually being oppressed and murdered by Leftist/socialist/communist regimes and Islamic terror states.













