Page 29 - Why Israel?

The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.3
Supporting Israel and the Jewish people today is part of being a Christian.
Jesus commanded His disciples to love one another, even to the point of laying down their lives for each other and washing each other’s feet in an expression of humility and service (John 13:35). As Christians, we are called to care.
To care when the State of Israel is demonized in the media. To care when Jewish students are singled out on college cam- puses as unwelcome through graffiti and vandalism. To care when the BDS movement spreads across America. To care when 11 Jewish people worshipping God in their synagogue are brutally murdered. To care when four are killed and many more wounded as a result of a barrage of hundreds of deadly rockets falling in their own back yards. To care when some of our own government leaders make anti-Semitic comments.
God promised to be faithful to His covenant with Israel and He calls us to care for the Jewish nation and her people espe- cially when they are unjustly attacked.
In the book The Anguish of the Jews, Father Edward H. Flannery wrote:
Father Edward Flannery, 1965.
“The sin of anti-Semitism contains many sins, but in the end it is a denial of Christian faith, a failure of Christian hope,
and a malady of Christian love.”4
Supporting Israel and the Jewish people today is part
3. Elie Wiesel, Interview with U.S. Media, 1986
4. Edward Flannery, The Anguish of the Jews (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1999), 295.
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