Let’s not abandon her. But America must not ignore the Palestinians, either. I answer objections throughout the post.
I often like to use an outline format, for my own clarity. It is organized, as follows:
I. The first major section is based on Scripture, but only in an historical sense. Theology does not factor in.
II. The second section is about original Islam and the Jews.
III. The third section is about the USA, Islam, and Israel today
IV. Then I write an obvious conclusion.
The lettered points in the first three sections add up to twelve reasons.
Let’s begin.
I. History and the Bible
A.. The name ‘Israel’
It is built into the history of the land. Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, though he never gave up his first name. He had twelve sons. They became leaders of twelve tribes. If you go to any Bible and look in the back, you will find maps of the Holy Land (and of the ancient Near East). Many maps will depict Israel throughout its history: the patriarchs, the wanderings in the wilderness, the conquest and settlement of Canaan (later Israel), the monarchy, notably David and Solomon, the divided monarchy. and so on.
Here is one sample of the twelve tribes (note the year):
(Source)
Yes, the tribes pushed out beyond the borders today, and it is a sure thing that some Israelis today would not want this because of the current borders and the hassle the ancient borders shown above would cause. But you get the idea. Israel, regardless of the shifting borders even in ancient times, has been in the area for ages.
Note Philistia at the bottom left corner. Over the centuries, the name Philistia evolved to be pronounced Palestina or Palestine.
Objection: biblical Israel and modern Israel are not the same. Reply: true, but Israeli Jews know their history, and they believe they are home now. I just saw a short video of a new American citizen (non-Jew) who still has an accent and was carrying a little flag. She had to study American history and the Constitution. She had just been sworn in, to finalize the process of becoming one of us. She said she was so proud to be an American. She is not the same as eighteenth-century Americans, but she understands our history better than most native born Americans. Modern Israeli Jews may not be the same as biblical Israelites, but if they can lay claim to being Jewish, then they can claim their historic homeland.
But just to be clear, there is no way that I support those ancient, mapped-out tribal boundaries in the region today. Those borders would cause too much trouble.
B. Jesus was a Jew born in Israel, not an Arab born in Palestine.
In the opening verses of the New Testament, chapter 1 of the Gospel of Matthew, there is a genealogy, going from Abraham to Jesus. The list of names begins with this verse: “This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:” (Matt. 1:1). Then the genealogy ends with this verse: “Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah” (Matt. 1:17). After the Babylonian captivity, many exiles returned home to Israel, and Jesus descended from them. His ancient homeland was Israel.
C. Jesus called his homeland Israel, never Palestine.
Often in published versions of the Bible, the words of Jesus are put in red font in the four Gospels and in other parts of the New Testament when his words are being quoted or he speaks in a vision that a follower may have. Many regard his specific words as extra-special. Here they are, in the following article:
He was not a Palestinian, but a Jew living and ministering in Israel.
D. The entire Bible calls it Israel, never Palestine.
There are no references to Palestine anywhere in the entire Bible. Go to any online site that has many reputable Bible translations, and type in “Palestine.” The name never comes up. Then type in “Israel,” and there are exactly 2431 references in the NIV translation.
Check it out here:
That’s a brief overview of biblical history.
II. Early Islam and the Jews
Now let’s look at Jews in Islamic history as revealed in the Quran, hadith (traditions about Muhammad and original Islam), and Islamic law or sharia, which is built on the Quran and the hadith.
A. Jews are said to be descendants of apes and pigs.
It may be difficult for sleepy, weak, and naive Westerners to believe, but the Quran in three verses calls Jews the descendants of apes and pigs.
Just go to this post to read my exegesis of those three verses:
The Quran has many verses boasting of its hatred of Jews.
It is naive to think that those verses don’t influence Muslims today.
B. Muhammad’s atrocity against the Jews
Specifically, he committed atrocities against peaceful Jewish tribes thriving in Medina and elsewhere.
You can read about his aggression and injustice and hateful conquests, here:
Muhammad’s Atrocity against the Qurayza Jews
An overview of other unjust attacks on Jews:
And thus Jew hatred surrounds Israel today, because Muslims take the Quran authoritatively. Right now, however, and blessedly, some Islamic nations want to make peace with Israel. But we cannot depend on Muslims being ignorant of all of their religion to sustain a lasting peace. Israel must remain strong.
I see no reason why Americans or American foreign policy should hate or abandon Israel today. They are not the enemy. Certain conservatives need to reorient and re-educate themselves and oppose the real enemy: Islam.
The Jews taking over the world? No. Let’s get real. Islam is a ticking time bomb and gradually becoming dominant in certain Western nations. Its intention is rooted in historical fact, from its first march towards a battle with 20,000 to 30,000 jihadists, in 630, in Tabuk. The battle never happened, but Muhammad learned that pagans, Jews, and Christians were weak up north. After he died in 632, the caliphs carried on the conquests nonstop (much like old expansionist communism with its own destructive laws. It imprisoned or executed anyone who criticized it).
A Brief History of War in Earliest Islam
A Brief History of War in the Earliest Caliphates
3 The Mission of Muhammad and the Sword
The West’s Struggle with Islam
III. USA, Islam, and Israel
Now let’s turn to the modern times. Should Israel exist today? Should the USA support its historic ally or break its alliance? We have to get theological, too, but only in the next point.
A. God’s sovereignty to meet desperate human needs
This point has nothing to do with dispensationalism. I am not a dispensationalist. This point does not include a discussion of what the Bible says about the Abrahamic covenant and how the ancient Israelites broke the Mosaic covenant and were exiled to Babylon as a punishment. Nor does this point get into the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem in A.D. 70. It does not include the biblical prophecies about Jews returning to their ancient homeland after WWII (but see below for this last discussion).
Instead, it is about God’s sovereignty today, which adds up to applied theology to meet human needs. God simply put it on various Jews’ hearts to find peace in their ancient homeland that they could not find throughout their sojourn in Europe (think of the pogroms) and especially after the holocaust. Survival trumps abstract and luxury beliefs by at-ease American Christian interpreters of the Scriptures, many of whom are now turning against Israel, which I see as a danger and deception.
These discussions, which I have engaged in myself, seem so irrelevant to the needs at hand.
Here are three examples:
Does the Land of Israel Belong to Jews Today by Covenant?
Replacement Theology: True or False?
Think of the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Perhaps certain American Bible interpreters represent the priest and Levite, and Truman was the good Samaritan who helped the man who had been beaten by robbers, who, let’s say, represent the Jews after WWII (Luke 10:30-37).
Jesus ends the parable with this practical insight, speaking to the expert in the law who had begun the discussion in the first place (think again of Christians who are experts in the Bible and the beaten man as the Jews):
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Presumably Truman saw the need for a safe haven for the Jews after WWII and pushed for a return. He’s the one who showed the beaten man mercy.
I was gratified to learn recently that mainline theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and MLK, Jr. favored Jews returning to their ancient homeland based on simple justice. Mark Tooley, at Juicy Ecumenism, in his post “Christian Zionism as Heresy?” (7 Nov. 2025) writes:
Instead, they [MLK, Jr. and Niebuhr] saw a suffering people, nearly exterminated, who deserved a homeland. For them it was a matter of biblical justice. And for Niebuhr at least, it was a question of “Christian Realism,” in that the Jews, as the target of centuries of irrational prejudice, could not be safe without a homeland.
I’m not liberal like Niebuhr or MLK were, but we agree on God’s simple justice and compassion that explains Israel’s right to exist.
Objection: You are treating Bible prophecy lightly. How dare you! My reply: I was not going to discuss this, but here we go. I may be rejecting popular Bible interpretations, but not Bible prophecy as such, properly interpreted. I believe in the prophecies that say Israel will return applies today because we have all seen double fulfillment in history. Example: Daniel prophesies the abomination of desolation which pollutes the temple (Dan. 9:27; especially 11:31). This was fulfilled twice: (1) by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167 B.C. and (2) the Romans in A. D. 70 (see Matt. 24:15). These are two historical facts. Jesus himself endorsed a double fulfilment, and this is decisive for me. He celebrated Hanukkah, after all (John 10:22-23), which honors the restoration of the temple by the Maccabees from Antiochus’s takeover.
I see no reason why God could not be double- or triple-fulfilling the prophecies about the Jews returning to Israel today. Jews began the return from exile in 516 B.C., as Jeremiah predicted. And then they returned in 1948. Those are historical facts.
But I don’t like to get entangled in complicated interpretations. For me, it’s the basic principle of God sovereignly and kindly meeting the desperate needs of his elect people (see Rom. 11:28, which still calls the Jews who refuse to submit to their true Messiah “beloved” and “elect”). For me, it is about biblical justice.
God raises up and deposes kings and rules over kingdoms (Deut. 32:8-9; Dan. 2:21; 4:17; Acts 17:26). Israel became a nation in 1948, so God in his mercy ordained this to happen (or so I believe). Why? So Israelis can be protected by themselves and for themselves (with a little of our help) from the world’s historic aggression against them. It’s about God’s justice and mercy for them. Also, Israeli citizens can hear the gospel in Hebrew. Jews need salvation through their true Messiah every bit as desperately as anyone else around the globe.
Objection: Can Jews who surrender to their true Messiah remain Jewish? Reply: of course! They do not cease being Jews. They can keep their festivals. They can still wear their kippahs and prayer cloths or tallit and teffelin or phylacteries. They can circumcise their sons on the eighth day. They can keep kosher and the Sabbath. They can study Jewish sources, like the Talmudic writings (broadly defined). But they must practice them only in the name of the Messiah, not because of empty legalism or punishments if they do not keep them. All those biblical customs and commands are voluntary. In the Messiah Jews are free to perform all, some, or none of them.
Israel must remain Jewish and never become Islamic. That’s my main point here.
Objection: But a book by Alison Weir (says Truman’s advisors told him to stay away from the founding of Israel. Silly Truman was manipulated. Reply: But Truman did push for its founding. And here we are, a fait accompli, a done deal. Let’s deal with reality right now. Israel is not going anywhere. Its strong military says no.
B. Gradual migration
Palestinians on the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) are actually Jordanian Arabs who slowly migrated into Israel over the centuries. Palestine was never a distinct nation with prime ministers or a parliament or its own currency (money). The area known as Palestine always lived under the domination of more powerful empires: e. g. the Byzantines, Muslim Arab conquerors and colonizers (they built the golden mosque, on the Jewish temple mount), the Ottomans, and then the British after WWI (1918) because Turkey lost the war.
Migrations happened there and they still happen around the world between nations to this day. That’s a fact. The main message here, however, is that Jordanian Arabs, now called Palestinians, do not have a historic claim to Israel, as we saw in section I.
Objection: The Palestinian Nakba or the displacement of Arabs living in Israel was an injustice. In reply, this event caused disruption, which can produce unhappy times. But don’t forget that a million Jews were displaced from Arab lands.
So yes, Israel should exist as a Jewish state, but the borders of neighboring peoples are to be determined.
Objection: Israel is a colonial power. Reply: the gold-dome mosque on the temple mount and hundreds of years of jihad and conquests of large territories prove that Islam is the “king” of colonialism and imperialism. And it is not really imperialism if Jews from Europe and America return to their historic land, though the displacement caused hurt feelings.
The Truth about Islamic Jihad and Imperialism: A Timeline
C. Israel is surrounded.
Who surrounds them? Arab Muslim nations who support the Quran and sharia.
As we saw in a previous point, we cannot depend on Muslim ignorance of their original documents to sustain a lasting peace. If many more Muslims were to get to know what the Quran really says about Jews and intended to implement the hatred, the peace would be broken.
The best solution is for everyone in the Western world and around the globe to get educated about this religion and counter it whenever it becomes aggressive, as is now happening in the UK and Dearborn, Michigan, and now in New York. And Israel must remain strong militarily and psychologically. Never surrender.
It is an upside-down, topsy-turvy world to believe Israel is the enemy and Islam is the poor, weak victim. If Islam ever got to be strong, Muslims would be merciless in imposing their total dominance and sharia. It is a ticking time bomb.
D. Israel fights against jihadism.
We have learned from Israel’s recent military dominance of Iran, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Hamas in the Gaze Strip, terrorists in the West bank, and Houthis in Yemen and all the other prior wars that Israel is a strong nation. One might say they are miraculously strong, since they won all the wars against all odds. We need to be on Israel’s side.
Objection: But look at all the rubble in the Gaze Strip. Think of all the dead noncombatants, the children. It’s a genocide! Reply: no, it is not a genocide. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned civilians to flee an area that the IDF was about to attack. The warnings cannot be a sign of genocidal intentions. Let’s not abuse this term. Hamas also cowardly hid behind civilians, violating the rules of conventional warfare. This organization is really just a criminal gang who needs to be wiped out or captured and prosecuted for its war crimes.
(The new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, needs to threaten Hamas leaders with arrest, not Benjamin Netanyahu. But Mamdani’s threats are overblown puffery in the first place.)
And I don’t trust the numbers of civilians killed when the totals come from Hamas or “independent” organizations monitoring the Gaza Strip. Islam allows its leaders to engage in taqiyya, which means “deceit” or “deception” against non-Muslim nations. Those numbers could be a deception to persuade the world to turn against Israel. In some quarters, this lying strategy seems to be working.
Objection: But Israel’s response has not been proportionate to the attack on 10/7/23. Reply: true, but the disproportion has a purpose: to uproot Hamas, which had been launching thousands of rockets into Israel over many years and hiding behind civilians. And consider this. Our bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was disproportionate to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor (but not Japan’s attack on Manchuria, China, and other places in the Pacific). But our disproportionate bombings served a purpose: to bring the war to an end with fewer casualties and deaths, which would have been many times higher than the results of the two bombs. It’s a grim calculation, but Japan’s surrender ensued, and now we have a lasting peace with Japan.
I don’t need to discuss the bombing of cities in Germany (and German bombing of English cities), where civilians got the brunt of it.
As Gen. Sherman said during the Civil War (1861-65), “War is hell.” Don’t start a war, if you don’t want hell.
E. Israel and Western values
Since 9/11 it has been clear that Islam is different. Sharia is incompatible with Western values. Israel shares in those Western values. Therefore, sharia is incompatible with Israel’s values, too.
Ten Sharia Laws that Oppress Women
3 Mosque and State in Early Islam (no separation)
6 No Freedom of Religion in Early Islam
7 No Free Speech in the Quran, Traditions, and Sharia Law
This next post comes at the end of the long series on sharia. Use it as a summary:
18 Why Sharia Is Incompatible with American Values
Israel has many Arab Muslims living within its borders, and they are Israeli citizens. If any of them turned radical, suicide bombings could happen again. Israeli Jews must therefore be vigilant about a ticking time bomb–possibly many ticking time bombs.
F. The West, including Israel, and biblical values
They are built on biblical values; Islamic civilizations are not.
Yes, the modern West is built on the Enlightenment too. If you’re a reasonable atheist, would you rather live in a nation that has its roots in biblical values or Islamic ones? (And it’s too late to wish for no religious values, because Christianity and Islam have already claimed their regions.) Reasonable people of all backgrounds and philosophies would have to conclude the biblical ones. They do not lead to jihad and oppressive sharia today, regardless of what the church had done in its past long ago. Islamic values have jihad and oppressive laws built in.
Yes, I acknowledge that the church was responding to four centuries of Islamic jihad before the pope called the first crusade, and I have written about it, here:
The Truth about Islamic Jihad and Imperialism: A Timeline
Islamic Jihad v. European Crusades
IV. Conclusion
A. Blessing Abraham and his descendants?
Please note that this post has not included Genesis 12:2-3 and our blessing Abraham and his descendants. I did not want to get entangled in complicated biblical interpretations. Instead, there are twelve other reasons to support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.
B. Zionism?
Further, please note that I did not use the word. It is legitimate, if it is defined properly. All I believe is that Israel should exist as a Jewish state. If that’s Zionism, defined so narrowly, then so be it. But I cannot claim to be one.
I have observed that anti-Zionism tends to lead to antisemitism. As usual, the left does not know where the boundaries are and fail to distinguish the terms and concepts.
And I do not have to agree with everything that the Israeli government does, either. That issue goes beyond my mere and streamlined belief that Israel should exist as a Jewish state.
C. Salvation for all Arabs and the people of Gaze Strip.
I laid out the evidence as I see it, and this means Arabs and Arab Muslims come out of the analysis losing their claims to the land. But the answer for them is to be saved and yes to leave Islam, immediately. Millions of Muslims are doing this now, thank God. They need salvation that is found only in Christ Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God, and the Lord.
D. Continue to support Israel.
For twelve reasons, the USA should continue to support Israel, which must remain a Jewish state, not an Islamic one. Conservatives who have turned or are turning against Israel must think twice. They must get educated about Islam. Israel is not the enemy. It is an effective ally to fight jihad thousands of miles (kilometers) away from our shores. So yes, send some billions of dollars to Israel (I am unable to say how many billions in specific terms) to help them out in their fight for survival in a hostile region. Then we won’t have to fight jihadists here.
E. American isolationists
No, I don’t want interventionist wars as we witnessed during the Bush administration. But Isolationists need to show gratitude towards and support Israel. Why? Isolationists, much like pacifists, can now relax, put their feet up, and bask in the sunshine of Israel’s mighty military. These are the same ones who predicted with panic in their voices that bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to WWIII. It did not. They were wrong and need to switch their opinions about Israel and Islam, if they prefer Islam over Israel. Wrongheaded. No insight into current events right now.
F. Israel’s strong military
We learned since 10/7/23 that Israel’s strong military will not allow Muslim nations to dislodge it from its historic homeland. Saudi and now dead terrorist Osama bin Ladin once said that people prefer a strong horse over a weak one. Okay, granted. So if we follow his logic, then we should support Israel. And the other reasons tell us that Israel’s strength is not the only reason to side with it.
G. How our Israel policies are actually formed, briefly and fundamentally speaking.
And no, our foreign policies are not dictated by Israel or AIPAC or unseen nefarious Jewish organizations. Our policies are instead built on history, opposition to aggressive Islam, and Western and biblical values, which are far superior to Islamic ones.
Thus our Israel policies are founded on common sense, our rational self-interest, and our safety.
H. Gratitude
Thank you, Israel, for fighting for us, we the sleepy, confused, weak, partly antisemitic, and ungrateful West.
I for one appreciate your hard-won victories.
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