I Stand With Israel

Although I walk in the Neocatechumenal Way, this is my blog and does not express the views of other members walking in the Way. Neocatechumenal Way, Insider's View is the view of only one person walking in the Way. My political views may be different from the others walking in the Way. Nevertheless, they are my political views and mine alone. 

God has promised the land to the Jewish people. God is truth and will always keep His promises. In addition to promising land, He also called the Jews His chosen people. It was through them that Christ was to be born. And today, they are still His chosen people for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. 

Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession. 

This truth is irrevocable. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 

CCC 839 ......To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ:, "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

The Land of Canaan was given to the Jews over 3000 years ago, but the Jewish people who inherited the land were not the Jews who were enslaved in Egypt. The Israelites who conquered the seven nations of Canaan were the descendants of those enslaved in Egypt. Even Moses never stepped on the Holy Land. He was only allowed to view it from afar.

Numbers: 14:22-23 not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice. They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated with contempt will ever see it. 

God was true to His word because He is the God of truth. None of the Israelite slaves in Egypt entered the land of milk and honey. It was their descendants who conquered the seven nations of Canaan and took the land. That land became Israel. 

Fast forward into the first century. Jesus was incarnated as a man. He was the Messiah whom God had promised to His chosen people, but many Jews did not recognize Him. Many rejected Christ as the Messiah. Many of the Jews believed in a political Messiah similar to Moses. Just as Moses rescued the Israelites from slavery and oppression in Egypt, the Jews believed that their Messiah would rescue them from Roman oppression. So, they waited for a political Messiah and did not recognize Jesus as their Messiah. 

In 70 A.D., the Romans destroyed the Jewish temple and scattered many of the Jews to Europe and other neighboring countries. The Romans renamed the land of Israel to "Palestine" because of their hatred of the Jewish people. The Romans wanted to wipe out the name of Israel out of hatred of the Jews. Yet, some believed that the Jews were driven from the Holy Land because they rejected Christ, the Messiah. In fact, some of the Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God and could only return in Messianic times. Just as the original Israelites slaves did not inherit the land for their sins against God, so the Israelis were driven out of the land for their sins in rejecting Christ. 

During World War II, Nazi Germany persecuted many Jews. Approximately 6 millions Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany. And again, the Jews cried out to  God to save them just as they cried out to God to save them from Egyptian oppression. History repeats itself. Many of the Jews who returned to the Holy Land to escape death and persecution in Europe were the descendants of the Jews who were displaced after the Romans drove them out in 70 A.D. 

As more and more Jewish descendants returned to the Holy Land, they came into conflict with the Arabs who were also living there. The United Nations intervened and tried to resolve the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews by dividing the land of Israel (known as "Palestine"). In 1948, the Jewish people accepted the UN resolution, took their part of the land that was given to them by the UN, and declared their state "Israel." The Arabs could have also done the same thing. They could have taken the part that was given to them by the UN and declare their Palestine State, and a Palestine State would have existed in 1948. Instead, seven Arab nations attacked Israel in 1948. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia (under the Egyptian command), and Yemen attacked Israel. Israel won the 1948 war. More than 3000 years ago, the descendants of the Israelites fought against the seven nations of Canaan to establish Israel, and in 1948 the descendants of the Jews fought against seven Arab nations to restore Israel. Again, history repeats itself. God has not abandoned His chosen people. 

There may be some brothers who will argue that we Christians are now God's chosen people. Both the Jews and the Christians are His chosen people. The Jews are known as Old Israel, and Christians are the New Israel. Christianity came from Judaism, and our Founder Jesus Christ was Jewish. Therefore, we are also God's chosen people. Israel is here to stay. For 75 years, seven 2-State proposals were given to the Palestinian authority so that a Palestine State would exist alongside Israel. All seven proposals were rejected by the Palestinians. You would think that a 2-State proposal would be the solution to the conflict. Indeed it is. The problem, however, is that the Palestinian Authority never wanted a 2-State solution. They want only a Palestine State WITHOUT Israel. In other words, they do not want Israel to exist. So, I stand with Israel because they are fighting for their existence against a terror organization that wants to annihilate both the State of Israel and the Jewish people.

And for those who believe that Israel is the occupier, see the video below: