[papabrody]

Looks like RJR is just an anti-semite and racist to me. And his words arent worth the paper or ink used to write them.

Not that I would expect anything less from him. Like Hamas, he just lobs bombs at Jews to make them squirm.

[topcat54]

[I’ve already pointed out to our FRiend blasater1960 that RJR’s words were taken out of context. No response yet.]

“Looks like RJR is just an anti-semite and racist to me.”

Easy enough to claim, esp. when the discussion turns to the matter of national Israel during the time of Christ. And most people tend to project their feelings/views for modern Israel back to those days and vice versa, only complicating matters. And projecting views of the nation vs. feeling towards individual Jews (most of whom today are not directly associated with the nation of Israel).

There is nothing inherently anti-semitic about the notion that God’s judged ancient Israel for their sin against God’s prophets and “the son of the landowner.” That what Jesus told them would happen if they did not repent (like Jonah and Nineveh).

33 "Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
38 But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'
40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?"
41 They said to Him, "He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons."
42 Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes'?
43 "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. (Matt. 21)

Like the prophets of the OT, Jesus’ words were primarily directed against the leadership of Israel who had turned the people away from God, and God’s divine Messenger. In the new covenant there would be new leadership among the new Israel.

The route of escape for faithful Jews was to follow after their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Many did, by the thousands, and were spared from the “days of vengeance” that came upon Jerusalem (Luke 21:20ff).

Pointing this out is hardly anti-semitism is any rational sense.