Being a Friend of Israel

During my twenty years as a Fundamentalist, I often heard it asserted that Christians, and the United States, have a mandate from God to support Israel.

Eschatology, you know.

But most information about Israel and the Middle East is very one sided, eschatology notwithstanding.

For my part, the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, et al are evil terrorists.

A caveat, however: so are Mossad, and much of the Israeli high command.

Denouncing the terrorist acts of one side, while giving a pass to the other side...

...is no way to appraise facts.

When Menachim (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Begin's Irgun set off explosives in the King David Hotel in 1946, it was the largest terrorist bombing in history up to that time.

Then there was the massacre of men, women, and children at Deir Yassin, also carried out by Irgun:

http://www.deiryassin.org/

The attack on the USS Liberty, during the Six Day War in 1967
http://www.gtr5.com/ was not the action of a friend.

Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky wrote a book http//www.amazon.com/Way-Deception-Making-Mossad-officer/dp/0971759502 exposing the perfidy of Mossad. The Israeli government tried to block publication in the USA. The late Joe Sobran recounted Ostrovsky's story of Israeli complicity in the attack by Arab terrorists on the US Marines' barracks in Beirut:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/beirut.html

Time for Christians to be consistent in their denunciations of terrorists. Israel wasn't given a pass when they engaged in treacherous behaviour in the Old Testament, and God hasn't changed.

No scripture proscribes honest criticism of the nation of Israel.

Shalom