Friday, May 21, 2021

Palestinian's Israel Problem

So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River - the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites." (Genesis 15:18-21 NLT)

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him. God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel." So he named him Israel. God also said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you. I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. And I will give the land to your future descendants." (Genesis 35:9-12 CSB)

The problem with Palestinians is their perception, as quoted from this article in "Hamas's forever war against Israel has a glitch, and it isn't Iron Dome By HAVIV RETTIG GUR 22 May 2021, 5:38 pm | The Times of Israel"

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The interview is one of countless expressions of what amounts to Hamas's most fundamental belief about its enemy: that the Jews of Israel are an illegitimate usurper polity, the last vestige of European colonialism, and therefore doomed to failure like all other European colonial projects from the last century. Israel in Hamas's telling is not a people competing with the Palestinians for a single uncomfortably narrow strip of land. It is, like the Soviet Union, East Germany, or the South African apartheid regime before it, a thin patina of political institutions and concepts that will burn away in the harsh light of sustained resistance.
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The Palestinians thought that driving the Jews out of Israel is like driving the British out of India or the French out of Vietnam. But they did not know that it may be easier to drive the Chinese out of China or the Indians out of India than to drive the Jews out of Israel. Israel's rights to the land of Canaan is guaranteed by God Himself.

Then the Lord's word came to Jeremiah: Aren't you aware of what people are saying: "The Lord has rejected the two families that he had chosen"? They are insulting my people as if they no longer belong to me. The Lord proclaims: I would no sooner break my covenant with day and night or the laws of heaven and earth than I would reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and his descendants as rulers for the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will restore the captives and have compassion on them. (Jeremiah 33:23-26 CEB)

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