I believe America should stand with Israel against those who threaten her right to exist, and our position should be unabashed. I believe this because I believe that God’s promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel does have relevance today (Genesis 12:1-3). This does not mean that Israel is always right, but it does mean that God chose Israel for a special purpose and that purpose has not been fully accomplished (Daniel 9:24-27; Revelation 7:4-8).
Beyond the biblical choice of God, Israel is the only genuine democracy in the Middle East, and that affords people dignity and freedom from tyranny. Israel does not desire to eliminate her enemies or neighbors in the Middle East and will only fight to keep them from annihilating Israel, known as the right to return doctrine.
Also it seems more than just to give the Jewish people back their homeland, which is really very small in comparison to surrounding countries. “As England’s chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, has put it, ‘Today there are 82 Christian nations and 56 Muslim ones, but only one Jewish one: in a country . . . one quarter of one per cent of the land mass of the Arab world.”[1] With the annihilation of one-third of the Jews on earth in WWII, it is important that the Diaspora Jewish people have a place to stand, and a place to flee from persecution around the world. In this connection, over 200,000 Russians[2] and around 100,000 Ethiopians[3] have emigrated to Israel in recent decades, the latter through special operations named Moses, Sheba, Joseph, and Solomon.”[4]
[1] Jonathan Sacks, “Israel Rightfully Belongs to the Jews,” in Israel: Opposing Viewpoints, ed. Myra Immell (Detroit: Greenhaven, 2011) 53-54.
[2] Ofira Seliktar, “The Changing Political Economy of Israel: From Agricultural Pioneers to the ‘Silicon Valley’ of the Middle East,” in Israel’s First Fifty Years, ed. Robert O Freedman (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), 211.
[3] Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud El-Alami, The Palestine-Israeli Conflict, rev. ed. (Oxford: One World, 2003), 73.
[4] Kairos Journal for Pastors, accessed 10/17/12
