Israel Soon to be a 'Christian' Nation?

NewsMax ^ | 6/15/2002 | NewsMax

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Israel Soon to be a 'Christian' Nation?

The Jewish majority in Israel faces a significant demographic threat.

Israel's Minister of the Interior Eli Yeshai said this week that at the current rates of growth, Jews will not be the majority population between the Jordan and the Mediterranean within eight years.

As it stands now, Yeshai noted, there are a growing number of IDF soldiers who refuse to take the oath of allegiance on the Tanakh (Jewish Bible), but rather insist on doing so on the New Testament. Yeshai calls for an "emergency public debate on the matter before it's too late."

In order to limit the number of non-Jews who take advantage of Israeli repatriation laws, Yeshai recommends that the Law of Return be changed.

Under the current law, individuals with one Jewish grandparent may obtain automatic citizenship - even though Judaism recognizes only the offspring of a Jewish mother or a halakhic [Jewish legal] convert as Jewish.

Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, however, says that now is not the time to discuss changing the Law of Return.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Israel opened its doors to Russian Jews who sought to emigrate. Many did. Of these new immigrants to Israel, many were Christians who claimed a distant ancestor as being Jewish. Still others anxious to leave Russia falsely claimed they were Jewish.

[William Terrell]

I couldn't care less about British Israelism or Christian Idenity. I'm only interested in the accuracy of information. Do you have any hard information that refutes the prima facie evidence of covenant brotherhood of European, American, Austrailian, et cetera with Judah in the Lands of Sands?

We can start with Hosea 1:10,11. What does it say and how do you explain what it says in light that same brotherhood? Do you see any implications other than the one I drew? If so, then what, and what's your hard evidence?

How can you possibly hold against a position when you have no idea what facts support that position? Losttribe has managed to sum it up in a couple minute's reading. If it is so explicitly wrong, that ought to be easy to point out.

You obviously have deeply held beliefs. At least do them, and others that hold the same beliefs, justice with a reasonable defense.

[Bobby777]

I think maybe you have more interest in this subject than I have ... I've given you all I have on it and don't care to go any farther ... I have already told Jim Robinson I have no interest in the subject beyond what has been discussed ... good day ...