I support you in your desire to follow Christ. That does not mean I support the many fallacies you have presented as your “facts” in this paen to Pallestine.
“We are not ashamed that we are Palestinian, even as some of our brethren try to deny our history, our identity or our ‘nakba;’ the trauma that we collectively experienced in 1948 and continue to experience to this day.…Some “Evangelical Christian” who pushes the sick Satanic lie against Israel and refuses to believe the words of God.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
— Revelation 21:8
AS a pre-millennial dispensationalist myself, I can definitely state that there are a lot of strawmen in his argument.
There are different sorts of Palestinians these days, but a “Palestinian Jew” is, by definition, nonexistent. Those who you might think fit the description are instead referred to as “settlers”, “occupiers”, or “dead”.
I have heard that there were few people, and that many of those people who were there were Jews living in effective slavery under Islam.
I have also heard that the people who lived there under the Ottoman Turks welcomed the change when Britain took over during the first world war.
I have heard that the Muslims had become upset that the Brits tried to restrict the more violent aspects of Sharia Law that in the 1930s the Muslim population aligned itself with the NAZIs and that the Palestinian Mufti himself spent the war in Berlin collaborating with the Germans. Particularly on matters pertaining to the Jews.
I have heard that when it appeared that Jews (fleeing extermination flooded into Jerusalem and the land of ancient Israel in the late forties appeared likely to be granted their own state by the government against whom the Muslim populace had rebelled during the second world war) were possibly going to be granted their own state a great ragtag jihadi multitude of rabble flooded into the area from all over the Muslim world. A population that vastly exceeded the native Muslim numbers.
In short, I have heard that most Palestinians are not, in fact, descendants of people who lived in the area for centuries. They are descendants of a jihadi army who came to kill Jews.
Don't lecture people on history Jack Sara. You don't seem to know much of it.
Instead, tell people of God's plan to remove the punishment for their sins by taking that burden on himself and dying in their place. If you really are an evangelical.
What was the disaster in 1948? That you were unable to kill the Jews?
The UN proposed partition in 1948. A two state solution. The Jews accepted, the Arabs declared war, a war that continues to this day. The Jews have always been ready to make peace. Bill Clinton was shocked at the huge concessions that Israel was willing to make to Yasser Arafat. Arafat said no.
Cool! My wife and I went to a Sunday service at this fellow’s church in the old City of Jerusalem in November. Services in Arabic, with very interesting music and sermon translated to English. And to get there, we had to go through the Muslim Quarter via a bunch of unmarked alleys and stairs. A highlight of our trip.