5 Reasons Why Israel Should Matter to Christians

Last updated on: June 26, 2017 at 7:29 am By Gerald McDermott

Israel should matter to Christians because Israel mattered to Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John. Read more

How far back do Palestinians go?

Last updated on: June 1, 2017 at 8:20 am By Gerald McDermott

As Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi writes, it is “a relatively recent tradition which argues that Palestinian nationalism has deep historical roots. . . . [This] anachronistically read[s] back in to the history of Palestine over the past few centuries and even millennia, a nationalist consciousness and identity that are in fact relatively modern.” Read more

Were Jews absent from the land before the late 19th century?

Last updated on: May 31, 2017 at 7:06 am By Gerald McDermott

Zionism is merely the latest--and the most successful--of the long list of Jewish efforts to return to their homeland over the last 2000 years. Read more

Fact-checking Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Last updated on: May 27, 2017 at 7:17 am By Gerald McDermott

Abbas manipulated the facts. "The Arab states did not invade Israel to help the Palestinian refugees. It was the Arab invasion that produced the Palestinian refugees" (Brog, 11). If the Arabs had accepted the UN Partition Plan, they would have had a Palestinian state back in 1948, and there would not have been one Palestinian refugee. Read more

Is there a Palestinian refugee crisis?

Last updated on: May 26, 2017 at 6:10 am By Gerald McDermott

If you use the UN method of counting for all other countries, the number comes to approximately 30,000 refugees. Sad for those number, but minuscule compared to the number of refugees today from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Read more

Palestinians: a nation without a state

Last updated on: May 25, 2017 at 5:33 am By Gerald McDermott

David Brog begins his Reclaiming Israel’s History with a quotation from Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist: “Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction–out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East–is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.” Then Brog is disarming. (more…) Read more