Yesterday the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the US congress. His approx. half-hour speech amounted to a slap in the face of the people of Palestine. And each time Netanyahu verbally slapped the Palestinian people, congress rose up and applauded (Congress to Palestine: Drop Dead). It was rather sad to watch - and hard to stomach.
What struck me as particularly interesting was one of the ways that Netanyahu sought to justify the Israeli suppression of the Palestinian people and the continued theft of their land: God gave it to Abraham.
I wonder, in what other political situation would such a claim carry any weight? The Prime Minister of Israel addresses a room predominantly filled with Protestant Christians and says, "Hey, it's there in your Bible... the land belongs to Israel."
In what twisted reality do we associate the modern State of Israel with the ancient people bearing the same name? By what right can we in the West support the expulsion of one people from their ancient ancestral homeland because another people says that the land is theirs by divine right?
Christians in the West cannot support the oppression and displacement of a people in the name of God. This is absurd politics and faulty Biblical interpretation.
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