Betraying Israel Again

So many Christians forget exactly what you have stated; that we are grafted onto the tree of Israel. We are the sdopted sons and daughters. No Christian who actually studies the scriptures and understands them can be anti-semitic. Just as God spoke to Peter, "do not call un-clean which I have called clean" when telling him he could go to and baptize gentiles, we cannot now consider ourselves to be better than or different from Jews.

Even if it were not a Christian imperative, the fact that Israel is a free and democratic
country, should be enough to garner Christian support.
How Christian can someone be, if they prefer the murderous Muslims over the Israelis.

Max

I appreciate your point of not calling 'unclean' what God has called 'clean.'
I've worked with a number of Holocaust survivor-speakers over the years. I love being around them, spending time with them. Their commitment to teach tolerance in the wake of experiencing such radical hate is inspiring. On the other hand, when I've taught classes or workshops on the Holocaust to Christian students and adults, it's disturbing to realize how many individuals who call themselves "Christians" have no knowledge of, feel no connection to, the Jewish people. It's frightening, really. This is the point of my writing... to raise awareness and point out the Christian community's sibling relationship with the Jewish people. We get to choose our friends, but we do not get to choose our family.
In this particular time in history, I see this as the watershed issue for western Christianity. The time has come to choose, as Moses writes, "between life and death." The choice of "life" for the body of Christ today is synonymous with Israel and the Jewish people. In a sense, as the great Jewish sage Hillel once said, "The rest is commentary."
I hope you'll "tune in" often to this blog... if you're interested in this subject, that's my schtick, so to speak.
L'chaim and shalom to you and yours.

Dan

I agree. A political basis for supporting Israel is certainly sufficient, based upon democratic as well as free market commonalities.
Discussing this issue in the conference room of the US Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C., during a seminar on the Holocaust, I made the comment that were it possible for someone to simultaneously be a Christian and an antisemite,one would essentially be existing in a state of self-hatred. Everyone looked at me like I had three heads. I share that in agreement, however, with your rhetorical question, "How Christian can someone be, if they prefer the murderous Muslims over the Israelis." Good point. Well taken. Thanks.

Dan