Just replying to familyop...but I’ve stated my piece. But you gotta know any posting about Israel is going to invite religious comments. Israel is where it all starts and ends in terms of peace finally coming to the world.
Israel exists in the Mideast Muzzies as a deep seated form of cognitive dissonance. If Israel’s claim to be the nation that God has blessed forever is true then that means that Islam is a false religion and Muzzies just don’t know how to deal with that internal contradiction. Religion lies at the heart of the conflict in the Mideast....there is no getting away from that fact.
By the way did you ask the same of familyop?
I don’t begrudge anyone their religious beliefs. But there are many interpretations of scripture, and if we’re going to argue interpretations, this forum is ill equipped for it. For one, the only language everyone understands is English, and the Bible is written in Hebrew and Aramaic, and has important translations in Latin and Greek, and even if we all understood Hebrew, we don’t have fonts that account for vowels and cantilation. So how do we discuss texts? There is the Christian interpretation, and the Jewish, and that is the context under which religion gets involved in a political discussion. All well and good if you want to discuss who is the rightful owner of the land. But if you want to start discussing who’s the Messiah, that’s entirely removed from any political discussion. Render unto Freep that which is Freep’s. This topic is not of this board.