I am curious, while surely Israel didn't deserve civilians killed, what is the actual situation on the ground? I hear so many people saying Israel had it coming because they are an apartheid state. I am skeptical of the claim. What are your thoughts?
Hi Trent, the state of Israel is not God's people, as in righteous and holy in their Messiah, denying Him as they do. So they are a nation of sinners as other secular nations are. Defining the word: "Apartheid is a policy that is founded on the idea of separating people based on racial or ethnic criteria." Well, it is a state made as a refuge for the Jewish people, a place of safety from the hostility of the surrounding world, which had recently seen 6 million of them exterminated under the Nazis.
They have been very gracious to Arabs living among them, integrating them into their society and their political system. True, they have been hostile to "Messianic Jews" – converts to Messiah Jesus – which threatens to undermine the rabbinic hold on the religious sentiment in the nation, and are rightly intolerant of Islam which threatens to fully destroy them. Can they be blamed for their view of Islam? I don't think so.
Yes, there are extremists among them, especially among some of the religious, with a loathing of ALL non-Jews, but this is not the general sentiment in Israel, which is more liberal and accepting of others. Still, it is known as a "Jewish state", a place of refuge from the anti-Jewish world. Can they be blamed for that? Humanly speaking, no. But their hatred of their God as He is revealed by their Messiah (and even as revealed by Moses!) is an ancient hatred, and God is still dealing with them.
It will not go well for them if they persist so. Judgment is coming upon all the nations, and the Jewish secular state will have its own nuanced judgment, as will America.
Steve,
I am curious, while surely Israel didn't deserve civilians killed, what is the actual situation on the ground? I hear so many people saying Israel had it coming because they are an apartheid state. I am skeptical of the claim. What are your thoughts?
Hi Trent, the state of Israel is not God's people, as in righteous and holy in their Messiah, denying Him as they do. So they are a nation of sinners as other secular nations are. Defining the word: "Apartheid is a policy that is founded on the idea of separating people based on racial or ethnic criteria." Well, it is a state made as a refuge for the Jewish people, a place of safety from the hostility of the surrounding world, which had recently seen 6 million of them exterminated under the Nazis.
They have been very gracious to Arabs living among them, integrating them into their society and their political system. True, they have been hostile to "Messianic Jews" – converts to Messiah Jesus – which threatens to undermine the rabbinic hold on the religious sentiment in the nation, and are rightly intolerant of Islam which threatens to fully destroy them. Can they be blamed for their view of Islam? I don't think so.
Yes, there are extremists among them, especially among some of the religious, with a loathing of ALL non-Jews, but this is not the general sentiment in Israel, which is more liberal and accepting of others. Still, it is known as a "Jewish state", a place of refuge from the anti-Jewish world. Can they be blamed for that? Humanly speaking, no. But their hatred of their God as He is revealed by their Messiah (and even as revealed by Moses!) is an ancient hatred, and God is still dealing with them.
It will not go well for them if they persist so. Judgment is coming upon all the nations, and the Jewish secular state will have its own nuanced judgment, as will America.