{"id":8464,"date":"2019-03-09T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2019-03-09T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T23:54:01","slug":"im-both-pro-israel-and-pro-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2019\/03\/im-both-pro-israel-and-pro-palestinian-state\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Both Pro-State of Israel and Pro-State of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There\u2019s a lot of discussion in this country right now about what is the proper attitude toward Jews, Palestinians, and Muslims. It\u2019s partly because an intelligent, 37-year old, freshman congresswoman named Ms. Ilhan Omar (D-MI), who is Muslim and born in Somalia, recently has been making provocative statements that have been understood as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.<\/p>\n

Due to some recent posts I\u2019ve made here on blog about this and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I\u2019m getting a lot of criticism, esp. on my Facebook page where I always put these posts. Some commenters are accusing me of being anti-Semitic (should be anti-Jewish), anti-Israel, or a Democrat. I\u2019m none of these things. I try to understand what is just and right in any squabble. As for U.S. politics, I\u2019ve never been Republican or Democrat, but just an Independent. As for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Americans and esp. Evangelical Christians, with whom I count myself, have an unbalanced understanding about it. I\u2019m trying to help correct that.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>So, read my Palestine Is Coming<\/em> book. (Right now you can read over half of it online, which is the most important part, for free at my kermitzarley.com website.) Many Christians and Jews don\u2019t know the difference between \u201cancestral land\u201d and \u201cPromised Land\u201d and thus confuse the two. According to the Bible, God will not give Jews all of the Promised Land until the world-to-come. Even many Orthodox Jews believe this.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I certainly do support the existence of the State of Israel. But I also believe there should have been a Palestinian state a long time ago. If Jews are entitled to their own state, Palestinians are too. That\u2019s justice. If Israeli Jews would \u201clove their neighbors as themselves\u201d (Leviticus 19.18), they would favor the existence of a Palestinian state. Some Israeli Jews do so favor. As for the argument that Israeli Jews can\u2019t do that because of Palestinians hate them so much, that\u2019s mostly because of Israel\u2019s decades-old occupation. It is unjust, it is against international law, and it has contributed immensely the growing Palestinian hatred toward Israel. Not only that, I maintain that it continues to fuel anti-Semitism, which has been growing recently. As I say in my book\u2019s preface, \u201cI hope my viewpoint will be perceived as pro-Jewish, pro-Israel, and pro-Palestinian.\u201d That\u2019s the view I believe all people not in this conflict should have. That\u2019s the only viewpoint that is fair.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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