Is the Israeli-“Palestinian” conflict a proverbial hill to die on? Well, if you happen to claim the titles Christian and patriot, the answer is a resounding yes!
It feels almost pedantic to rehash these points, but the constant flow of sludge propagating pro “Palestinian” propaganda justifies it. Surprisingly, the orchestrated Iranian psy-ops campaign seems to have taken in a handful of conservative social media personalities, to include a prominent former Green Beret. I’m at a loss to reconcile the “prepared” ethos with a noncommittal perspective on the ravages of Hamas terrorists.
The documented atrocities perpetrated on October 7th would seem to overwhelm any qualms possessed by thinking people. The equivalent of more than forty thousand Americans were slaughtered on that day. Townhall’s Spencer Brown has reported thoroughly and consistently on the litany of murders and other war crimes perpetrated by Hamas operatives on unarmed and helpless Israeli citizens. In addition, many Europeans and American citizens were caught in the murderous dragnet. Supposed humanitarians who argue for enhanced financial support of Gaza’s inhabitants conveniently exclude the damning fact of Hamas’ annual budget, totaling approximately $380 million dollars. That’s a lot of bread, butter, and fuel.
Hand wringing over the violence spilling across borders and involving Hezbollah or Iran directly are the bleatings of Iranian sycophants. This week, the Biden administration offered a token military response to attacks perpetrated by Iranian proxies. But, the timidity and appeasement strategy employed by every liberal Democrat administration only emboldens the enemies of democracy. We are witnessing the global destabilization resultant from axis of evil powers filling the voids left by Biden’s flaccidity. A steady diet of vanilla pudding doesn’t lend itself to engaging a vigorous foreign policy with lethal adversaries dedicated to the eradication of democratic republics.
We are in grave danger. Not from DOJ’s fictional “white supremacists” or school board soccer moms, but from a doddering old fool posing as president, and the foreign adversaries that have him on their payroll. The existential threats are actually from governing elites ensconced in our federal agencies who conduct campaigns of political activism from their headquarter’s ivory towers. The OPSEC mechanism of compartmentalization has been weaponized to keep investigations and prosecutions under the cover of surreptitious obscurity, and safe from the revelatory efforts of principled, conscientious whistleblowers.
For those who object to involvement with Israel over national interest notions, the response is straightforward. Israel is the Middle East’s only democracy—an island in a sand dune ocean of mohammedan militants rabid for the destruction of the Great Satan. If you don’t already know, that means America.
Ukraine, by comparison, is a conflict manufactured by the catastrophic realpolitik and self-dealing of the Biden administration. There is no political or moral equivalency between the foreign policy disaster which is Ukraine, and the very real struggle for survival currently engaged in by Israel.
To describe the occupants of the Gaza Strip as Palestinian is a bit of a misnomer. There is not and never has been a state or organized political entity called Palestine. In ancient times, the term Palestine was sometimes used to refer to the entire region which has been occupied by Israel for, oh — several millennia. The region is more accurately referred to as the Levant. The historical animosities originate with to two Biblical patriarchs—Isaac and Ishmael. Isaac was and is the “son of promise.” While Ishmael was the product of Abraham’s lack of faith. But, God, in His mercy and providence, promised Hagar (Ishmael’s mother) that her son would be the father of a great nation. However, God also foretold the endemic animosity that would exist between the two paternal lines stemming from Abraham’s failure to follow God’s plan for his life. The entire account is chronicled in Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
It’s dumbfounding to hear people equivocate on the issue of whether America should involve itself in this new conflict, which is really a very old conflict. A patriot will feel a deep sense that Israeli’s are compatriots. Every foundational principle that enables the formulation and existence of our own liberties and inalienable rights comes directly from the fount of Biblical tradition. That tradition was transmitted through the ancient patriarchs, and the principles of governance and jurisprudence established by the organization of first the theocratic, nascent nation of Israel and, to a lesser degree, its later ego-centric, monarchical construction.
Theologically, the analysis is really simple and is explicit in Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” God hasn’t changed his mind over the millennia. And, pregnant in that scripture is the promise of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who alone possesses the power to bring peace not only geo-politically, but far more importantly, peace between God and mankind. All that is required is a simple, personal act of faith; an acknowledgment of your complete insufficiency and Christ’s complete sufficiency to reconcile you to the Father. (Romas 10:13)
Rhetorically speaking, if you’re going to pick a hill on which to die, you could do no better than to perish on Mount Zion, a mountain crowned with the city of Jerusalem — “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.” (Psalms 48:2) We’ll prosper or perish as a nation based on our degree of adherence to or rejection of Biblical principle. We abandon both Israel and our shared Judeo-Christian heritage to our great national peril.