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To: topcat54; xzins; P-Marlowe; HarleyD; Frumanchu
How is the present condition since 1948 not an occupation of Palestine by the state of Israel?

Gee, let me count the ways:

1) The Jews had been quietly buying back the land at exhorbitant prices since the 1800s. They rightfully own all that land.
2) Israel did not kick out the Palestinians. Those in the refugee camps either went there voluntarily to get out of the way of the supposed driving of the Jews into the sea in 1948, or were driven there by the government of Jordan after their failed coup attempt.
3) Palestinian Arab Muslims who did not turn on Israel have full citizen rights, including their own representative sample in the Knesset. This is better than the deal they got with any previous administration since
4) "Palestine" has never been a free and independant state since the Diaspora.
The return of Israel to the land is prophesyed all throughout Scripture, topcat. To deny it, you have to systematically ignore--I'm sorry, "allegorize"--away whole books of the Scriptures. Further, by calling the Israelis "occupiers" you are rejecting the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and siding with Allah.

Call me funny, but that's not a position I would wish to occupy.

30 posted on 09/30/2005 11:55:57 AM PDT by Buggman (L'chaim b'Yeshua HaMashiach!)
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To: Buggman; topcat54
1) The Jews had been quietly buying back the land at exhorbitant prices since the 1800s. They rightfully own all that land.

So we're still occupying Native American lands then. Got it.

32 posted on 09/30/2005 12:03:24 PM PDT by Frumanchu (Inveterate Pelagian by birth, Calvinist by grace.)
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To: Buggman; xzins; P-Marlowe; HarleyD; Frumanchu
The return of Israel to the land is prophesyed all throughout Scripture, topcat.

You mean this present occupation of Palestine by Israel is a fulfillment of prophecy? Please be specific.

Further, by calling the Israelis "occupiers" you are rejecting the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and siding with Allah.

Actually, I side with neither the Israelis nor the Moslems in this fracas since neither party is demonstrably the religion of God. Both deny the triune God of Scripture therefore both are opposed to the religion of Abraham, Issac and Jacob who were all trinitarians. Both are false religions.

True religion is the Christian religion. We are the true inheritors of the promises to Abraham through Jesus Christ. Israeli and Moslems should be in debt to Christians that we allow them to live in our land.

"For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, " (Rom. 4:13,14)

But as a Christian I'm sure you already knew that.

40 posted on 09/30/2005 12:32:15 PM PDT by topcat54
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